Join our Family!
Join Houzz and help revolutionize the $300B home improvement industry with a combination of mobile, local, social and visual technologies.
We've built a community of more than 14 million design-obsessed unique monthly users and over 200K registered local home improvement professionals. In addition to the core site, our mobile apps include the highest-rated lifestyle iPad app in the Apple AppStore, with over 8 million downloads and an average of five stars from over 80K reviewers. Our software development stack includes Redis, Solr, MySQL, jQuery, a custom ad server, targeting and recommendation engines, and image serving and processing at a very large scale.
We are backed by some of the top venture capital firms in the world, including Sequoia Capital, NEA, GGV and KPCB, have grown more than 5X in the last year and are generating revenue by delivering products that address the needs of homeowners, local professionals and global brands.
We have an entrepreneurial culture, a warm work environment, and a close-knit family that loves to celebrate birthdays and team accomplishments. We offer a competitive salary, generous equity, full benefits and the best team of nice and smart people that you've ever worked with.
- Front-End Software Engineer (Palo Alto)
- Back-End Software Engineer (Palo Alto)
- DevOps Software Engineer (Palo Alto)
- Operations Engineer (Palo Alto)
- Visual Designer (Palo Alto)
- Data Scientist (Palo Alto)
- Technical Recruiter (Palo Alto)
- Home Design Editor and Writer (Palo Alto)
- Marketing Director (Palo Alto)
- Senior Manager/Director, Communications (Palo Alto)
- Community Manager (Palo Alto)
We are looking for a world-class software engineer to join our family and be part of our entrepreneurial development team. You will take high level ideas and transform them to live products, used by millions of homeowners and professionals from around the world.
Desired Skills & Experience:
- Top-notch software engineering talent
- Self-directed, independent and has experience owning complete features/products
- Amazing ability to get stuff done
- Proficiency in web application programming (OOP, LAMP)
- Substantial experience developing real-world web applications using CSS, JS
- A desire to build an engaging consumer experience
- Hard working and dedicated
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent
- 5+ years experience
We are looking for a world-class software engineer to join our family and be part of our entrepreneurial development team. You will take high level ideas and transform them to live products.
Desired Skills & Experience:
- Top-notch software engineering talent
- Self-directed, independent and has experience owning complete features/products
- Amazing ability to get stuff done
- Proficiency in web application programming (OOP, Java/C++, LAMP)
- Good understanding of algorithms, network protocols and web services
- Experience developing real-world web applications
- Familiarity with NoSQL databases and Lucene/Solr a plus
- A desire to build an engaging consumer experience
- Hard working and dedicated
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent
- 5+ years experience
Houzz is looking for a talented DevOps Software Engineer to join our world-class team in downtown Palo Alto, CA. We are reinventing the $300 billion home improvement industry with the Internet’s largest home photo database, a directory of more than 1.6 million home pros, community forums, product catalog, daily editorial content and 5-star mobile apps. Our DevOps Engineer will have an opportunity to make a mark in a significant new company by developing new tools for scalability, availability, security, improve efficiency and redundancy, and monitoring for our production infrastructure and services.
Position Responsibilities:
- Develop solid, reusable code from scratch for tools to run 24/7
- Know and touch every part of the system
- Move lots of data, handle disaster recovery, improve throughput, make storage and caching really fast
- Build and maintain production infrastructure and services
- Ensure proper monitoring, alerting, security and reporting for the infrastructure
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues
- Help drive the capacity planning process
- Help develop and maintain processes, tools, and documentation in support of production
- Participate in the evaluation of new software, hardware, and infrastructure solutions
- Participate in on-call rotation
Desired Skills & Experience:
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent required, MS or PhD preferred
- 5+ years experience
- Must have a passion for operations in a web environment millions of users depend on
- Proficiency as an OO coder (Java/C++, etc)
- Know system level to API level
- Know how file systems work and integrate with Amazon API
- Tools development experience in scripting and development of systems automation tools (using shell, Perl, Python, etc.)
- Ability to solve problems quickly and automate processes
- Experience in on-call rotation, know what happens when tools / infrastructure fail
- Passion for exploring new technologies and frameworks
- Minimal tolerance to repetition and relentless in automation
- Familiarity with different cloud solutions (EC2, slicehost, backspace) is a plus
We are looking for a talented tech ops person to build and maintain systems & our infrastructure at Houzz. You would be part of our entrepreneurial, top-notch engineering team.
Position Responsibilities:
- Design and build large-scale system infrastructure
- Server configuration, installs, automation and monitoring
- Production code deployment, troubleshooting, and performance analysis
- Design and build tools to manage large number of servers and services
- Periodic on-call rotation
- 5+ years experience
We're looking for a talented designer to join our design team and help take our widely used web application to the next level. You will work closely with our founders and a small, entrepreneurial engineering team to take high level ideas and transform them to live pixels, viewed by millions of homeowners and home improvement professionals around the world.
Desired Skills & Experience:
- Diverse portfolio of web design work demonstrating a clean, modern aesthetic; attention to detail; great typography
- Solid foundation in UI design with a working understanding of latest web technologies and their limitations
- Strong opinion of what makes "good design" and a desire to simplify and streamline the world around you
- Experience working on a large scale consumer web app / site
- Availability to work at our Palo Alto office (as an employee or a contractor)
- Please submit a link to your portfolio along with your resume
We are looking for a passionate data junky who loves finding needles in haystacks of logs and data warehouses. Houzz has a user base of 14 million (and growing) monthly users, over 200K registered home improvement professionals, and the world’s largest knowledge base of home design preferences and remodeling activity. We are looking for someone to sift through the piles of data to understand key factors in the health of the business and in the performance of new product initiatives and to find compelling stories to be shared with the greater Houzz community.
Position Responsibilities:
- Define key success metrics of the business that track the engagement / growth of the user base
- Analyze and report performance of current and new product initiatives with appropriate statistical techniques
- Find interesting trends in user preferences and work with editorial teams to produce stories for Houzz
- Develop best practices for experimental design
- Work with data infrastructure / back-end peers to define the data collection needs for future data science work
Desired Skills & Experience:
- MS or PhD in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science or another quantitative discipline
- Experience with Web Analytics
- Experience writing complex SQL queries in a data warehouse environment
- Experience with statistical environments such as R or Matlab
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Ruby or PHP
- Experience with distributed frameworks such as Map Reduce, Pig, or Hive preferred
- Desire to explore data in an unstructured environment and discover meaningful trends
- Creative, curious and fascinated by data and the lifestyle trends they reveal
Houzz is looking for a technical recruiter to help shape our organization by sharing our company's story, vision, culture and technology with the people that will be building our beautiful web site and mobile apps.
We value great sourcing and communication skills, attention to detail, and critical thinking. You should be someone who embeds themselves with teams and is a strong consultative recruiter that holds the candidate experience sacred, but be a hard-nosed recruiter at the core. It's very important to Houzz that we build positive relationships since every candidate is a potential customer and we are committed to treating them respectfully. You should creatively search for qualified candidates, reach out to recruit and network, and penetrate professional, social, start-up, investor and entrepreneurial communities to find the best engineers and designers who want to be part of this industry-changing startup. This position can be full-time or contract.
Desired Skills & Experience:
- 4-10+ years of mostly technical recruiting experience, preferably with some start-up experience
- Strong software recruiting experience, preferably with web apps
- Proven experience finding the best technology talent and design in Silicon Valley and beyond
- Exceptional attention to detail and follow-through
- Friendly/outgoing personality, but able to focus and hold your opinions
- Great selling and closing skills
- Must be a good team player
- Basic coding or other technical experience is a plus
Houzz, the web's leading home design site, is looking for a highly skilled home and garden design journalist to join our editorial team. Top candidates will have a knack for spotting timely home ideas and turning them into articles that inform, engage and entertain. They have top-notch writing, editing and leadership abilities, a deep well of creative story ideas, and a strong sense of reader service. They love the entrepreneurial, fast-paced culture of the web, interaction with an engaged online community, and being part of a fun and productive editorial team.
Houzz celebrates all styles of home design, from the traditional to the modern and every eclectic style in between. Rather than foster any one type of architecture and design, Houzz brings out the best new home ideas from all styles and walks of life.
This is a full-time position in Palo Alto, CA.
Position Responsibilities:
- Help coach new writers, working with them to evaluate and edit their stories for logic, flow and reader service
- Generate ideas for engaging new content that readers will bookmark and share
- Write articles (“Featured Ideabooks”) for the Houzz homepage and newsletter
- Help support daily site management and the development of new contributors, content and projects
Desired Skills & Experience:
- Degree in Journalism, Communications or equivalent
- 5 years experience in writing and editing content for a home and garden publication or website
- At least 2 years writing and editing for the web
- A track record of writing breaking news and unique, quality features that go viral
- Exceptional attention to detail, grammar and logical story construction
- An eye for strong design photography
- Familiarity with digital media and its technical aspects
- A roll-up-your-sleeves, get-it-done attitude and friendly, outgoing personality
- Knowledge of effective online content distribution methods and social networking tools
- Ability to work at our headquarters in Palo Alto, CA
Houzz is looking for an experienced marketer with a track record of impact who embraces all aspects of building a world-class brand and business from the ground up and who thrives in an entrepreneurial, hands-on environment. Reports to the Vice President, Community & Marketing.
Desired Skills & Experience:
- A minimum of 7 years work experience in marketing
- Data-driven marketer with superior analytical skills
- Experience in consumer brand marketing, retail and or ecommerce for lifestyle categories such as home, food, or parenting a plus
- Combination of blue-chip consumer and startup company experience ideal
- Strong results and work ethic, a proven star performer over the course of your career with proven ability to scale
- Hands-on: must be willing to be an individual contributor first and a manager second
- BA and/or MBA from a top school strongly desired
- Excellent leadership, management, interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong interest in / passion for home improvement and design
Houzz is looking for an exceptional senior communications professional with deep consumer PR experience to join our team in Palo Alto, CA. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of developing and executing cut-through consumer PR strategies and tactics to complement our current business media and corporate communications efforts.
Reporting directly to the Vice President of Community & Marketing and working in partnership with our current Director of Communications, this person will be responsible for ensuring that our public relations strategy builds our brand and grows the business.
Desired Skills & Experience:
- A minimum 8 years public relations and social media experience
- Demonstrable track record of developing and executing creative plans and tactics that generate relevant consumer media coverage
- A strong network of consumer media contacts, including print, online and broadcast
- Excellent writing abilities and attention to detail
- Outstanding interpersonal skills
- A team player who can gracefully handle day-to-day public relations operations of an “always on” start-up
- Consumer technology or lifestyle background is a plus
We are looking for a community and social media specialist to join our Community team!
Position Responsibilities:
- Work with our current Community Manager to engage our community of millions of users via our web site and our mobile apps
- Be hands-on and a key player in the Houzz community of design professionals and enthusiasts
- Support the Houzz community through email, social media channels, and through Houzz discussions
Desired Skills & Experience:
- Minimum 1-2 years community management experience but more experience valued
- Love of and enthusiastic participation in online communities in general with an enormous comfort level communicating online - must be hands-on
- Crackerjack social media maven with a long history of personal involvement
- Desire to help create the richest and best experience possible for Houzz users
- Excellent writing abilities and attention to detail
- Outstanding interpersonal skills
- Comfort with fast-paced, roll-up-your-sleeves work environment
- Love of good design and home improvement a huge plus
- Sense of humor
