Job offer: Deliverability Manager
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007We recently doubled the staff at our Montreal office with the addition of a sales and account management team, and welcomed an additional programmer to our development group in Eastern Europe. This brings us to a total of 11 people in the combined family of The Code Kitchen and CakeMail.
But we’re not stopping there! We’re seeking a Deliverability Manager to build on our in-house expertise as we expand. We’re offering a year’s worth of email delivery (150,000 sends/month) and CakeMail schwag for a successful referral, by the way!
Why join CakeMail?
- Belong to a friendly, tight-knit team of talented, entrepreneurial people.
- Be part of a stimulating startup.
- Work with a truly innovative email marketing platform.
- Blaze new trails by forging relationships beyond the major ISPs worldwide.
- Telecommute from anywhere or come enjoy the great quality of life and culture that Montreal has to offer.
What you’ll do
- Build on the ISP relationships established since 2002 during our founder’s previous venture.
- Maintain feedback loop programs and white listing.
- Resolve email filtering and blocking issues.
- Monitor black lists and sender reputation.
- Augment delivery-related data analytics.
- Work with account managers to prevent, communicate and resolve deliverability issues.
- Keep abreast of industry best practices, trends and legal changes and share this knowledge with team members and resellers.
- Participate actively in the email marketing and anti-spam communities.
- Contribute to industry discussions online, such as ReputationWiki.org and the Email Marketer’s Club.
- Collaborate with in-house and third-party developers to hook various deliverability services into the CakeMail API.
- Aid resellers in adopting best practices for content, creative, timing, data and trust-building.
- Propose inventive ways to improve deliverability.
- Have fun doing what you do!
Essential ingredients
- Experience in ISP relations (2 - 5 years preferred).
- Familiarity with delivery policies and procedures at major ISPs.
- Technical knowledge of email delivery, filtering and authentication.
- Familiarity with privacy and anti-spam policies and laws.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Attention to detail and organization.
- Effective interpersonal communication skills.
Icing on the cake:
- Excellent written English, and a strong interest in blogging.
- Knowledge of other languages.
- Experience with Linux and DNS administration.
- Enthusiasm for open source and the collaborative Web.
Compensation:
- Competitive salary.
- Generous options package.
- Possibility of working remotely from anywhere in the world.
Please send your CV and any other pertinent information or links to jobs@cakemail.com and let us know your salary expectations and (re)location preferences.
New API beta release
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007Our API build 4153 in entering testing period on https://beta.api.cakemail.com.
This API being completely distinct from the live one, new accounts needs to be created to be able to test it, as well as API ID and Key if you wish to hook up to it directly (contact us at hi@cakemail.com).
This version of the API can also be accessed through our interface installed here:
http://beta.cakemail.com/.
Here are the new features in this API release:
o DKIM & DomainKey Support (configuration needed)
o Improved mailing performance
o Added information in headers
o Possibility of external MTA relay servers
Comments are welcome as we’re eager to put this release live.
(Originally posted in our forum)
CakeMail, Inc.
Monday, December 17th, 2007The Code Kitchen recently spun off CakeMail to establish it as a separate company. We did this for a number of reasons, the main ones being:
- The Code Kitchen is like a laboratory for cooking up new Web apps - once they’re served, they eventually take on a life of their own.
- Having CakeMail as a separate legal entity will facilitate operations, especially from a financial perspective.
- We wanted to offer an enticing options package to attract the best recruits to CakeMail.
What impact will this change have? For the foreseeable future, things will remain largely the same. CakeMail will continue to be based out of the same office as The Code Kitchen, and will continue to be the prime focus of both company’s efforts. François Lane is CEO of both entities.
Release 1.0.0 of the CakeMail Interface
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007We just released the version 1.0.0 of the interface. It’s available here:
http://www.cakemail.com/download/
Have fun!
(Originally posted in our forum)
