Comments on: Thrive http://www.onedayonejob.com/jobs/thrive/ One Day, One Job is the insider's guide to unique and exciting entry level job and career opportunities for recent college graduates. Our daily employer profiles highlight the best entry level jobs and offer innovative job search tips. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:54:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Willy Franzen http://www.onedayonejob.com/jobs/thrive/#comment-7243 Willy Franzen Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:36:07 +0000 http://www.onedayonejob.com/?p=4357#comment-7243 Great comment, Matt! Thanks for stopping by to let us know a little bit more about Thrive. Hopefully readers will take you up on your offer to answer questions. Great comment, Matt! Thanks for stopping by to let us know a little bit more about Thrive. Hopefully readers will take you up on your offer to answer questions.

]]> By: matt @ Thrive http://www.onedayonejob.com/jobs/thrive/#comment-7237 matt @ Thrive Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:17:48 +0000 http://www.onedayonejob.com/?p=4357#comment-7237 Thanks for the great post, Willy (even if you do use Mint =]). I'm the Lead Scientist here at Thrive, and I can testify about what a great place it is to work: we're in the rare position of having assembled one of those teams with a strong ninja fu, with strong skills and a sense of togetherness. They lured me out of academia with the promise of the opportunity to help end predatory and negative finance, and they have delivered, every day. Not only are we looking for junior and senior engineers, we also have a spot open for a UI designer and a design intern, to compliment Katie and Lynn. We post what we have at www.startuply.com as soon as it becomes available, and we're aggressively hiring right now. As for differentiation, we are in the enviable position of knowing what we need to do: new engineers will be coming into a team with a strong sense of direction and commitment, and an openness to new voices in the product process. We are fundamentally different from Mint and others in the space, in that we are focused on young people and building a long-term relationship with our users. Some competitors have created simply expense tracking as a way to lure people into taking sponsored product offers, and we simply have a different vision: Thrive is a comprehensive set of tools and advice specifically designed to help people build better lives. So we are absolutely looking for smart folks. Feel free to shoot me an e-mail at matt@justthrive.com if you have questions before applying: I'm happy to talk plainly about why I started and why I stay. Thanks for the great post, Willy (even if you do use Mint =]). I’m the Lead Scientist here at Thrive, and I can testify about what a great place it is to work: we’re in the rare position of having assembled one of those teams with a strong ninja fu, with strong skills and a sense of togetherness. They lured me out of academia with the promise of the opportunity to help end predatory and negative finance, and they have delivered, every day.

Not only are we looking for junior and senior engineers, we also have a spot open for a UI designer and a design intern, to compliment Katie and Lynn. We post what we have at http://www.startuply.com as soon as it becomes available, and we’re aggressively hiring right now.

As for differentiation, we are in the enviable position of knowing what we need to do: new engineers will be coming into a team with a strong sense of direction and commitment, and an openness to new voices in the product process. We are fundamentally different from Mint and others in the space, in that we are focused on young people and building a long-term relationship with our users. Some competitors have created simply expense tracking as a way to lure people into taking sponsored product offers, and we simply have a different vision: Thrive is a comprehensive set of tools and advice specifically designed to help people build better lives.

So we are absolutely looking for smart folks. Feel free to shoot me an e-mail at matt@justthrive.com if you have questions before applying: I’m happy to talk plainly about why I started and why I stay.

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