
Blurb is a self-publishing platform that empowers people to create, publish, share and distribute their own books. It allows users to create their own books, magazines, and ebooks in a variety of sizes and formats. They can upload their own photos, illustrations, and text, or use the available templates and tools to create their own unique designs. Once created, they can share, print and sell their work on Blurb’s online marketplace. The website also provides users with helpful resources such as community forums and tutorials, and a range of services such as professional design and printing. Blurb enables anyone with a story to tell to become a published author.
Around the world in 2022, over 1646 companies have started using Blurb as E-Books And Digital Publishing Software tool. Find answers to the most often asked questions by users.slintel.comBlurb’s Top competitors in the e-books-and-digital-publishing-software category are FlipSnack, Microsoft Publisher, Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. You can view a full list of Blurb competitors here .
Blurb announced a partnership with Amazon [4] in April 2014. [8] Blurb offers seven book sizes, hardcover and softcover options, and a range of premium and professional-grade papers and end sheets.en.wikipedia.orgBlurb e-books are fixed format, enabling them to retain the same image and text placement when viewed on the Apple iPad as in the printed book version.
BookSmart can also import Flickr-hosted photos and blog content into books automatically. Blurb’s print offerings expand to include premium paper and ImageWrap hardcover binding.blurb.comBlurb’s PDF-to-Book workflow opens up new levels of creative control, allowing professional designers using Adobe InDesign to leverage the Blurb platform.
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EncryptedSite is Encrypted
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CountryHosted in United States
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Latitude\Longitude37.751 / -97.822 Google Map
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Traffic rank#3,137 Site Rank
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Site age27 yrs old
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Site Owner informationWhois info
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FoundedIncorporated 2005
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HeadquartersSan Francisco,, California, US
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Key peopleRix Kramlich,Eileen Gittins
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Number of employees120
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ProductsBookWright, Blurb plug-in for,Adobe InDesign,, Blurb iOS app, BookSmart, Blurb PDF Uploader, Blurb book module in Adobe Lightroom Classic
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TypePrivate
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IndustrySelf-publishing
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27 yrs
United States
We are expanding rapidly into new markets and tapping into new customer segments and are seeking a highly motivated, self-driven and innovative sales professional to join our team! Reporting to the VP of Business Development, this individual will drive growth by identifying and working with book publishers to help them improve title availability with RPI’s new SaaS tools. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on a business which has grown through recent acquisitions and take it to the next level as we launch a new Brand and Enterprise platform.
The ideal candidate should have experience in the book publishing, book distribution, or printing space, be a self-starter, with excellent communication and relationship building skills, strong attention to detail, and the ability to build and sell solutions to a wide range of publishers, SMBs, and corporate entities.
Key Responsibilities:
• Execute a sales prospecting plan to penetrate target accounts and capture significant market share within identified market segments
• Discover and uncover customers’ needs and offer solutions through our products and services
• Identify and build relationships with key decision makers across all accounts
• Effectively deliver product demonstrations to prospects/customers to showcase the value of our services
• Build long lasting relationships and serve as a trusted advisor to prospects/customers to achieve desired business outcomes
• Think strategically and execute tactically working with senior leaders and individuals across the organization to achieve business goals.
• Take accountability and ownership to make tough decisions. Be realistic about potential outcomes and be prepared to pivot or change your plan when necessary.
• Demonstrate a commitment to the organization, its customers, and the team. Be willing and able to learn, grow and be coached but never fail to share your successes.
• Stay in-tune with our competitors and their solutions. Push internally to continually evolve the company and leap-frog the competition.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree, preferably in business, marketing, communication or technical discipline
• 5+ years in a book publishing, commercial printing, SaaS web2print sales/solutions consultant role
• Proven success in executing outbound targeted sales/marketing programs to achieve desired results
• Excellent negotiation skills with external customers and internal cross functional teams
• Demonstrated closing skills. Must have a proven track record of closing significant new business
• Experience delivering product demonstrations that create value, develop and comfortably present business solutions to executive level audiences
• Experience using Salesforce or other CRMs, Microsoft Office Suite, Google Suite
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Detail oriented but able to see the big picture
• A team player who performs well independently
• Must be a confident, adaptable self-starter who thrives in an empowered, fast-paced environment
Benefits:
• Salary (base + commission) commensurate with experience
• 100% remote team
• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Employer-paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts for medical, dependent care, and transportation expenses
• Paid Holidays
How to Apply
Please email resume and cover letter to jobs@blurb.com
Work Environment:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Blurb is committed to equal opportunity and considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
The employer will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the American with Disabilities Act of 1990. The job description will be reviewed periodically as duties and responsibilities change with business necessity. Essential and other job functions are subject to modification. Reasonable accommodations may be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions Show more details...
(Hybrid role based in Seattle, WA or Denver, CO...
About the Role
Blurb/RPI Print is looking for an ambitious and entrepreneurial B2C Product Manager who is passionate about building products that customers love. You will own the product lifecycle of Blurb, a comprehensive indie publishing platform that helps people create, publish, and sell one-of-a-kind books.
Our Product Managers are the lynchpin of the company, working across teams to ensure our products meet the needs of the customer and the business. You will join a dynamic and fast-paced environment and work with cross-functional teams to design, build and roll-out products that deliver the company’s vision and strategy.
Team Dynamic
Product Management at RPI is challenging, high-impact, and rewarding. To be successful here, you must show personal and professional growth, professionalism, and strategic and analytical thinking. Beyond that, you should be a champion for positive impact and be ready to tackle day-to-day problems with humility and humor.
Position Duties and Responsibilities
· Follow the market; maintain awareness of change in your space and what it means for the Blurb platform and the RPI business
· Understand and make decisions based on integrated cross-departmental considerations
· Lead discovery efforts, conducting interviews, analyzing data, and gathering insights to define problems and propose solutions
· Develop and run experiments to validate new concepts
· Work with key stakeholders to shape the vision of, set the strategy for, and craft your product roadmap
· Identify and communicate the business impact, ROI, and stakeholder impact of upcoming releases
· Maintain a prioritized backlog, balancing Engineering capacity, customer needs, and business initiatives
· Evangelize the product strategy, communicating "what and why" for technical and non-technical stakeholders
· Drive Agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, planning, grooming, demos, and retrospectives
· Work closely with Engineering to deliver solutions in a timely and cost-effective manner
· Perform validation testing of production releases, bug fixes, and feature requests
· Support Product Marketing and Customer Support teams in developing user-facing content
· Define and build OKRs for your product that aligns with (and ladder up to) company goals
· Conduct demos to internal stakeholders
Required Experience, Skills, and Education
· BS/BA degree required, MBA or equivalent experience a plus
· 5+ years of experience defining, building, and launching products in a B2C space
· Strong understanding of how software is built and deployed (preferably as a former engineer)
· Experience managing the Agile process for a software product
· Strong analytical skills, able to break a problem down and work through it
· Coachable and willing to receive and apply feedback; prepared to be wrong and to learn lessons
· Ability to balance customer needs with available engineering capacity
· Open to and eager to learn new concepts and practices
· Proficient in dotted-line influence with your key stakeholders
· Confident, clear, and concise oral and written communicator
· Ability to navigate uncertainty, remain flexible in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
· Effective listener that can get to the root of customer problems / needs
· Highly organized
· Passion and enthusiasm for building amazing products that solve customer problems!
About Blurb/RPI
Blurb®, the flagship brand of RPI’s eCommerce Division, is a software driven self-publishing platform that unleashes the creative genius inside everyone. Blurb’s platform makes it easy to create, design, publish, promote, and sell professional-quality printed Photo books, Trade books, Journals, Magazines, and eBooks. Blurb authors have created millions of books using our full suite of free book-making tools and Adobe Creative Cloud integrations. Find us online at www.blurb.com Show more details...
Provide strong people leadership in line with our culture of collaboration and empowerment. We're intentional about the culture we're trying to build here, driving the company values of Passion, Commitment, Adaptability, Trust and Entrepreneurship and our vision to Make Real Connections -- with our customers, partners, and with each other! Direct and build a cohesive team both internally and externally, and mentor the professional growth of your technical staff Leverage your solid foundation in software engineering to craft and drive to an architectural vision, and build scalable, maintainable, performant and secure systems and tools Be a strong advocate... for agile methodologies and drive our continued adoption and refinement of the relevant processes and tools to improve our effectiveness in a spirit of continuous improvement Cultivate strong collaborative relationships with teams such as Product, Marketing, C.S. and the Executive team Understand and represent the inherent tradeoffs between supporting and extending legacy technologies while driving toward the future Be a passionate enabler for the creative expression that our services enable for our customers To do this, you'll bring to the table:
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years in software engineering, including leadership across a diverse set of tools and systems 7
years leading the development of large-scale, Internet-based, customer-facing applications 5
years hand-on software development 5
years in progressively responsible leadership roles 3
years as a manager or director in an eCommerce environment Experience working with geographically-distributed teams BSCS or equivalent experience Nice to have:
Expertise in our current technology stack, which includes Ruby 1.9, Rails 2, RESTful APIs, Java, HTML/JavaScript/CSS, Jenkins, Microservices, PostgreSQL, C+
Experience with upgrading legacy systems Experience with AWS and the tradeoffs between cloud and internally hosted platforms Experience with modern eCommerce platforms such as Shopify Experience with Information Security, in particular maintaining PCI compliance in an eCommerce enterprise A creative energy and passion for custom photo products!! An opinion or two on how to improve Blurb.com and BookWright.
Salary Range:
$250K -- $500K+
Minimum Qualification
Software Development, Technology ManagementEstimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications Show more details...