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via VentureLoop posted_at: 12 days agoschedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
What we do We connect people with well-planned, wonderful travel experiences ... About Travelstride Travelstride is an ambitious Venture-funded Seed stage company led by industry & startup veterans that is serving a large, long-term growing opportunity. Our investors include JetBlue Technology Ventures, NFX (top VC for marketplaces), New York Angels, Sand Hill Angels, and the founders of Trulia, Get There, Hipmunk, TripIt, and Google Now. We are What we do
We connect people with well-planned, wonderful travel experiences
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About Travelstride
Travelstride is an ambitious Venture-funded Seed stage company led by industry & startup veterans that is serving a large, long-term growing opportunity. Our investors include JetBlue Technology Ventures, NFX (top VC for marketplaces), New York Angels, Sand Hill Angels, and the founders of Trulia, Get There, Hipmunk, TripIt, and Google Now.

We are the top US marketplace for tours, private tailor-made vacations, & adventure trips. Our platform hosts more than 60,000 travel experiences across every continent from ~1,500 of the world’s best travel companies and local experts. With over 125,000 trusted reviews, Travelstride enables travelers of all types to explore the world with ease and confidence. And we are expanding into becoming the most useful and engaged online community for the top 10% of passionate travelers.

We are a values and mission driven company. While many say it, we live it daily, and encourage you to review our core values on our site at travelstride.com/careers to see if we are a good mutual fit.

Our PURPOSE
Bring wonder, joy, learning, and connection through better and more frequent travel.

Our MISSION
Foster a community connecting travelers with wonderful places, people and experiences.

Our MANTRA
Think big. Start Small. Move fast.
First, do it. Then do it right. Then do it better.

Our CORE VALUES
Arete, Speed, Grit, Daring, Balance, Growth mindset, Responsibility, Proactive, United, Fun, Resourceful, Trustworthy

Job Description

What you will do
You will report to Travelstride’s Partnerships Director and work closely with multiple other team members from operations and marketing. You will convert Travelstride web users into loyal customers by selling them trips they will love. As Travelstride’s “Consumer Sales Lead”, your primary goal is to sell multi-day travel products directly to travelers, while secondarily you will you will also monitor and respond to all key consumer (traveler) direct engagement channels like Chat, Email, select Social DMs, etc. You will be the primary voice speaking one on one with travelers and fulfilling both a sales and customer service role until we expand the team (shortly!).

You will master the travel brands and products of our partners and convey the value and benefits of booking through Travelstride. The ideal candidate will also enjoy laying the foundation for this new team, developing standard operating procedures and managing to target metrics, and proactively suggesting improvements to the process and our core product.

Roles & Responsibilities
• Sell multi-day trips to travelers interested in a wide variety of travel destinations.
• Brand ambassador/expert for partner brands, ensure brand & traveler are a fit.
• Share expert knowledge in global destinations, reference/convey expertise on destination highlights worldwide, world geography, culture, historical relevance.
• Advise travelers on the pros and cons of multi-day supplier travel products most suitable to meet their goals and expectations. (e.g. experience, type of travel, group size, dates, etc).
• 'Quarterback' communication to ensure traveler and travel partner are aligned, reintroduce customers to a partner brand that is a 'Perfect Match'. Follow leads.
• Answer phone, chat, & email requests for travel planning to global destinations.
• Manage and categorize leads in an organized, prioritized, consistent manner.
• Help oversee key accounts to ensure travelers and partners are connected and status’ are accurate, up to date, and bookings are reported/captured

Location and Work Hours
Travelstride’s main office is in Austin, Texas. We have team members spanning the globe. This position is flexible. The right candidate can work in the office in Austin or remote. The candidate absolutely must be comfortable with working on a US schedule, and also be willing to take client calls outside of normal working hours.

Expectations
Your success will depend on your ability to carry out responsibilities with expectations met
• Represent Travelstride to customers, be able to match and meet sales targets
• Extremely detail-oriented yet fast worker, while being highly conscientious
• Solid understanding of world geography, and it’s highlights and diverse cultures
• Be comfortable attending weekly/monthly meetings in CST time zone
• Handle stressful situations, willing to accept compensation tied to performance

Compensation
We’re looking for someone who is driven by the opportunity to succeed through persuasion, passion, and diligence. You should be excited by the upside of a commission-based reward system.

Base Salary: 25-50% of your OTE
Incentive Bonus: Up to USD $10k/mo (commissions + base salary)

Qualifications

All About You
• 2+ years of travel oriented sales experience, selling group tours ideally.
• Fluent in English, with excellent verbal and written communication.
• People say you have a 'likable' personality; you communicate clearly, concisely, and effectively, easily building trust and relationships.
• Have cultural familiarity to interact clearly w/ target source markets - US/UK/AU
• Passionately curious and well-traveled, an expert in world geography and history, capable of discussing global destinations, including their cultural nuances, unique customs, interesting facts, highlights, and landmarks.
• Flexible schedule to maximize potential for direct traveler engagement/bookings
• Experienced with Google Workspace (Gmail, GDocs, GSheets,GSlides), experience using a CRM (e.g. Hubspot, Salesforce, or the like), is preferred.
• Intrinsically motivated, values team and personal growth; Awesome team player.
• Extremely detail-oriented and well organized - always thorough and on time.
• Quick learner/resourceful and fun spirited

Additional Information

We are looking for someone who…
• Is an extrovert w/ a love for travel, who enjoys sharing that passion with others
• Is not afraid to operate with relative independence in a new venture
• Enthusiastically helps beyond the bounds of their day-to-day role
• Proactively seeks to develop and improve processes
• Embraces challenges, risks, and rewards of a commission-based sales position
• Is known as a cheerful colleague, w/ good sense of humor and positive attitude
• Is energized by the process of engaging with customers and closing sales

Let's do this!

Does this sound like your dream job?

It’s also an opportunity to advance into a managerial position as the team expands.

If you have a passion for travel, excellent communication skills, and a proven track record of success in sales, then we want to hear from you. We offer a competitive compensation package, including commissions, equity and a flexible work schedule. Join us and help us revolutionize the way travelers find and book their perfect trip. Apply today!

If you believe you’re a fit for this position, please send your CV along with a cover letter, explaining why you’re the perfect candidate to grow with Travelstride
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via VentureLoop posted_at: 12 days agoschedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
Travelstride is an ambitious Venture-funded Seed stage company led by industry & startup veterans that is serving a large, long-term growing opportunity. Our investors include JetBlue Technology Ventures, NFX (top VC for marketplaces), New York Angels, Sand Hill Angels, and the founders of Trulia, Get There, Hipmunk, TripIt, and Google Now. We are the top US marketplace for tours, private... tailor-made vacations, & adventure trips. Our platform Travelstride is an ambitious Venture-funded Seed stage company led by industry & startup veterans that is serving a large, long-term growing opportunity. Our investors include JetBlue Technology Ventures, NFX (top VC for marketplaces), New York Angels, Sand Hill Angels, and the founders of Trulia, Get There, Hipmunk, TripIt, and Google Now.

We are the top US marketplace for tours, private... tailor-made vacations, & adventure trips. Our platform hosts more than 60,000 travel experiences across every continent from ~1,500 of the world’s best travel companies and local experts. With over 125,000 trusted reviews, Travelstride enables travelers of all types to explore the world with ease and confidence. And we are expanding into becoming the most useful and engaged online community for the top 10% of passionate travelers.

We are a values and mission driven company. While many say it, we live it daily, and encourage you to review our core values on our site at travelstride.com/careers to see if we are a good mutual fit.

Our PURPOSE.
Bring wonder, joy, learning, and connection through better and more frequent travel.

Our MISSION.
Foster a community connecting travelers with wonderful places, people and experiences.

Our VISION.
Become the most useful travel community, where people of all types find, share, and book wonderful trips.

Our MANTRA.
Think big. Start Small. Move fast. First, do it. Then do it right. Then do it better.

Our CORE VALUES.
Arete, Speed, Grit, Daring, Balance, Growth mindset, Responsibility, Proactive, United, Fun, Resourceful, Trustworthy

Job Description

Job Profile

The Sales/Operations Analyst for Travelstride will be responsible for ensuring partner success by providing data analysis, reporting, and feedback to help partners grow their accounts on the travel marketplace. The successful candidate will be a data-driven and analytical individual with excellent communication skills and the ability to build and maintain strong relationships with partners. This role will also require content creation, merchandising content, conversion tracking, and customer success management.

Primary Goals and Objectives
• Provide partner success by ensuring clean data is applied into proper reporting for partners to see results, giving transparency, and more accuracy with invoicing.
• Once familiar w/ accounts and positions, meet with partners to discuss growing their accounts based on data-centric analysis of their products results on the marketplace.
• Create content such as Partner Profiles, Description, Trips, Editorial Reviews, and What we love about them, What they are known for, and Travelstride Take on the partner.
• Tweak accounts to help merchandise partner webpages, identify 'true' best seller products, and manage high-traffic pages.
• Oversee key accounts to ensure travelers and partners are connected and communicating clearly
• Ensure reports and results are clearly communicated with partners and take action on partner feedback to improve the product and ensure partners feel valued.

Roles & Responsibilities
• Collaborate with internal teams such as Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Product to ensure data accuracy, availability, and completeness.
• Managing accuracy and timely invoicing and revenue collection for all partners.
• Analyze partner data to identify trends and opportunities to grow their accounts and revenue.
• Communicate data-driven insights and recommendations to partners to help them optimize their travel products on the marketplace.
• Work with partners to create and manage content that showcases their unique travel offerings, promotes their brand, and increases exposure.
• Collaborate with partners to identify high-traffic pages, best-selling products, and other opportunities to increase exposure and drive revenue.
• Ensure partners are using best practices to maximize revenue generation and conversion of leads into bookings.
• Proactively monitor key accounts to ensure travelers and partner partners are communicating clearly, and take corrective actions when necessary.
• Provide regular reports to partners on their performance on the marketplace and ensure they are aware of their progress towards their goals.
• Collaborate with partners to identify areas where Travelstride can improve the product and ensure that partner feedback is taken into account in product development.

Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, or related field
• 4+ years of experience in data analysis, operations, or sales support
• Looker Studio, Twilio Segement, Tableau, or other data visualization software
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and draw insights
• Excellent communication skills w/ an ability to build relationships with partners
• Experience with CRM and other reporting tools for data control and visualization
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Experience in the travel industry is a plus, only if growth-centered accounts

Additional Information

Expectations.
Your success will depend on your ability to carry out responsibilities with expectations met. To ensure success in this role, the Sales/Operations Analyst should have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, experience in using productivity tools and Google Analytics, and a strong understanding of data-driven decision making. They should be able to work independently and have a strong work ethic, with a focus on providing excellent customer service and building strong relationships with partners. Time management and organization skills are also important to ensure that tasks are completed in a timely and efficient manner.
• Represent Travelstride to partners, be able to deliver data-driven growth targets
• Extremely detail-oriented, capable of time-boxing and project management
• Be comfortable attending weekly/monthly meetings in CST time zone
• Handle stressful situations, this is a startup so what you build is foundational

Location and Work Hours.
Travelstride’s main office is in Austin, Texas. We have team members spanning the globe. This position is flexible- the right candidate can work in the office in Austin or remote. The candidate absolutely must be comfortable with working on a US schedule, and also be willing to take client calls outside of normal working hours
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via VentureLoop posted_at: 5 days agoschedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
Travelstride is a Venture-funded Seed stage startup led by industry & tech veterans that is serving a large, long-term growing opportunity. Our investors include JetBlue Technology Ventures, NFX (top VC for marketplaces), New York Angels, Sand Hill Angels, and the founders of Trulia, Get There, Hipmunk, TripIt, and Google Now. We are the top US marketplace for tours, private tailor-made... vacations, & adventure trips. Our platform hosts more than Travelstride is a Venture-funded Seed stage startup led by industry & tech veterans that is serving a large, long-term growing opportunity. Our investors include JetBlue Technology Ventures, NFX (top VC for marketplaces), New York Angels, Sand Hill Angels, and the founders of Trulia, Get There, Hipmunk, TripIt, and Google Now.

We are the top US marketplace for tours, private tailor-made... vacations, & adventure trips. Our platform hosts more than 50,000 travel experiences across every continent from ~1,500 of the world’s best travel companies and local experts. With over 125,000 trusted reviews, Travelstride enables travelers of all types to explore the world with ease and confidence. And we are expanding into becoming the most useful and engaged online community for the top 10% of passionate travelers.

We are a values and mission driven company. Here's what's most important to us:

Our purpose: Bring wonder, joy, learning, and connection through better and more frequent travel.

Our mission: Foster a community connecting travelers with wonderful places, people and experiences.

Our vision: Become the most useful travel community, where people of all types find, share, and book wonderful trips.

Our mantra: Think big. Start Small. Move fast. First do it. Then do it right. Then do it better.

Our core values: Arete, Speed, Grit, Daring, Balance, Growth mindset, Responsibility, Proactive, United, Fun, Resourceful, Trustworthy

Job Description

Your mission: help the team provide accurate and useful information to travelers so they can find their perfect trip.

You are also helping our tour operator partners build their operations, help local communities around the world preserve their cultural heritage, natural resources, and provide economic opportunities.

Day to day you will do the following activities:
• Match and upload itineraries
• Add and update tour information
• Add new marketing content to the website
• Collaborate with the partnerships & content teams to ensure high data quality

Qualifications
• Must have B-2 English proficiency or higher
• Extremely detail-oriented
• Fast worker
• Highly conscientious
• Solid understanding of world geography
• Be able to meet weekly deadlines
• Be comfortable attending weekly/monthly meetings in CST time zone
• International travel experience is preferred but not required

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. This is a part-time position that can be conducted anywhere in the world, with a preference for Asian or North American time zones
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via VentureLoop posted_at: 5 days agoschedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
Travelstride is an investor-backed startup, changing the way travelers find and book their perfect trip. We are the first meta search marketplace for all organized travel including: international multi-day guided tours, adventure travel packages, and small ship cruises. Stride offers thousands of trips from leading tour companies along with reviews, easy to use search and comparison tools and... rich destination guides. Travelstride’s leadership Travelstride is an investor-backed startup, changing the way travelers find and book their perfect trip.

We are the first meta search marketplace for all organized travel including: international multi-day guided tours, adventure travel packages, and small ship cruises. Stride offers thousands of trips from leading tour companies along with reviews, easy to use search and comparison tools and... rich destination guides.

Travelstride’s leadership and advisory board consists of travel industry and e-commerce veterans and employs a talented and resourceful staff spanning the globe.

We are a values and mission driven company. Here's what's most important to us:

Our purpose: Bring wonder, joy, learning, and connection through better and more frequent travel.

Our mission: Foster a community connecting travelers with wonderful places, people and experiences.

Our vision: Become the most useful travel community, where people of all types find, share, and book wonderful trips.

Our mantra: Think big. Start Small. Move fast. First do it. Then do it right. Then do it better.

Our core values: Arete, Speed, Grit, Daring, Balance, Growth mindset, Responsibility, Proactive, United, Fun, Resourceful, Trustworthy

Job Description

We are looking for individuals who are strong writers, experienced across a wide-range of social media platforms, and passionate about travel who can make a sustained and lasting contribution to Travelstride.

Your Responsibilities:
• Create social media posts and engage with social media users.
• Grow our social media presence and our community of followers.
• Answer queries from travelers concerning Travelstride and travel in general.
• Support travelers in their coordination and collaboration with Travelstride-affiliated custom travel planners.
• Assist with keyword research to determine article topics.
• Contribute to destination guides, blog articles, and other types of content as needed.

You will gain valuable content marketing and SEO experience in the tourism space while working with a fun, energetic team.

Qualifications
• Strong written English communication skills - this is a must!
• International travel experience and/or a passion for the travel industry
• Strong familiarity with all major social media platforms
• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing-related field preferred
• Familiarity with Google docs, Google sheets, Hubspot, and Mailchimp
• 1-5 years experience in a travel-related and/or marketing role
• Quick learner, highly organized, entrepreneurial spirit, and the ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced setting
• Customer service orientation and experience
• A strong desire to provide assistance to customers
• The ability to remain friendly and calm when dealing with customers in stressful situations

Additional Information

We are looking for someone who:
• Is an evangelist at heart who loves sharing things, ideas, experiences you love with people near and far
• Enthusiastically and proactively helps beyond the bounds of their day to day role
• Loves managing multiple projects simultaneously, hitting deadlines, and prioritizing workloads effectively
• Is known as a cheerful colleague, with a good sense of humor and positive attitude
• All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Work Environment
• Full-time role with flexible work schedule
• Work from home (company offices located in Austin, Texas)
• Ability to work from abroad if located in Latin America, Europe, or Africa, but must be willing to join calls as late as 12 PM U.S. Central time on as-needed basis
• English-speaking team

Why Work With Travelstride?

We are a small but growing team in the dynamic and exciting travel tech industry. Working alongside the Co-founders, you will influence key decisions during a very pivotal time for our company and have an impact from day one. You will help grow our business while knowing that you are improving the travel planning experience for all of our customers.

We also offer:
• Compensation package with potential to earn stock options
• Flexible work schedules and an open and collaborative team environment
• Chance to be an early employee at a growing startup & work directly with Co-founders
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via VentureLoop posted_at: 12 days agoschedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
Travelstride is an investor-backed startup, changing the way travelers find and book their perfect trip. We are the first meta search marketplace for all organized travel including: international multi-day guided tours, adventure travel packages, and small ship cruises. Stride offers thousands of trips from leading tour companies along with reviews, easy to use search and comparison tools and... rich destination guides. Travelstride’s leadership Travelstride is an investor-backed startup, changing the way travelers find and book their perfect trip.

We are the first meta search marketplace for all organized travel including: international multi-day guided tours, adventure travel packages, and small ship cruises. Stride offers thousands of trips from leading tour companies along with reviews, easy to use search and comparison tools and... rich destination guides.

Travelstride’s leadership and advisory board consists of travel industry and e-commerce veterans and employs a talented and resourceful staff spanning the globe.

We are a values and mission driven company. Here's what's most important to us:

Our purpose: Bring wonder, joy, learning, and connection through better and more frequent travel.

Our mission: Foster a community connecting travelers with wonderful places, people and experiences.

Our vision: Become the most useful travel community, where people of all types find, share, and book wonderful trips.

Our mantra: Think big. Start Small. Move fast. First do it. Then do it right. Then do it better.

Our core values: Arete, Speed, Grit, Daring, Balance, Growth mindset, Responsibility, Proactive, United, Fun, Resourceful, Trustworthy

Job Description

As Travelstride’s Content Marketing Manager, your primary goal will be to drive relevant traffic to Travelstride via organic search engines with the creation of targeted, engaging content. You will do this by cultivating and growing Travelstride’s travel writing contributor community.

Your Responsibilities:
• Produce & source blog content to drive user engagement and SEO-related user growth.
• Build a writing community - recruiting, onboarding, engaging a writer community to learn, have fun, and write better content for Travelstride and elsewhere
• Manage our email marketing, including planning and writing newsletters and triggered campaigns.
• Use data analytics and current digital marketing strategies to improve KPIs and our overall user experience.
• Write strategic SEO content yourself.
• Write some strategic branding content - eg. for our homepage, blog, or select emails
• Leverage Travelstride’s data entry team to improve and create content for our tour operator partners trips and profiles.

We’re looking for someone who can balance managing a decentralized team while producing content, keeping big picture strategy and the finer points of content marketing & SEO in mind.

Qualifications
• Fluent in English
• Well-traveled, preferably with travel industry experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing-related field preferred
• Strong familiarity with Google docs, Google sheets, Hubspot, and Mailchimp
• The ability to create written content of the highest quality
• High attention to detail and accuracy
• 2 to 5 years of experience in the following areas:
• Managing an email marketing campaign
• Producing and managing blog content

Additional Information

We are looking for someone who:
• Is an evangelist at heart who loves sharing things, ideas, experiences you love with people near and far
• Enthusiastically and proactively helps beyond the bounds of their day to day role
• Loves managing multiple projects simultaneously, hitting deadlines, and prioritizing workloads effectively
• Is known as a cheerful colleague, with a good sense of humor and positive attitude
• All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Work Environment
• Full-time role with flexible work schedule
• Work from home (company offices located in Austin, Texas)
• Ability to work from abroad if located in Latin America, Europe, or Africa, but must be willing to join calls as late as 12 PM U.S. Central time on as-needed basis
• English-speaking team

Why Work With Travelstride?

We are a small but growing team in the dynamic and exciting travel tech industry. Working alongside the Co-founders, you will influence key decisions during a very pivotal time for our company and have an impact from day one. You will help grow our business while knowing that you are improving the travel planning experience for all of our customers.

We also offer:
• Compensation package with potential to earn stock options
• Flexible work schedules and an open and collaborative team environment
• Chance to be an early employee at a growing startup & work directly with Co-founders
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via VentureLoop posted_at: 12 days agoschedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
Travelstride is an ambitious Venture-funded Seed stage company led by industry & startup veterans that is serving a large, long-term growing opportunity. Our investors include JetBlue Technology Ventures, NFX (top VC for marketplaces), New York Angels, Sand Hill Angels, and the founders of Trulia, Get There, Hipmunk, TripIt, and Google Now. We are the top US marketplace for tours, private... tailor-made vacations, & adventure trips. Our platform Travelstride is an ambitious Venture-funded Seed stage company led by industry & startup veterans that is serving a large, long-term growing opportunity. Our investors include JetBlue Technology Ventures, NFX (top VC for marketplaces), New York Angels, Sand Hill Angels, and the founders of Trulia, Get There, Hipmunk, TripIt, and Google Now.

We are the top US marketplace for tours, private... tailor-made vacations, & adventure trips. Our platform hosts more than 50,000 travel experiences across every continent from ~1,500 of the world’s best travel companies and local experts. With over 125,000 trusted reviews, Travelstride enables travelers of all types to explore the world with ease and confidence. And we are expanding into becoming the most useful and engaged online community for the top 10% of passionate travelers.

We are a values and mission driven company. Here's what's most important to us:

Our purpose: Bring wonder, joy, learning, and connection through better and more frequent travel.

Our mission: Foster a community connecting travelers with wonderful places, people and experiences.

Our vision: Become the most useful travel community, where people of all types find, share, and book wonderful trips.

Our mantra: Think big. Start Small. Move fast. First do it. Then do it right. Then do it better.

Our core values: Arete, Speed, Grit, Daring, Balance, Growth mindset, Responsibility, Proactive, United, Fun, Resourceful, Trustworthy

Job Description

As Travelstride’s lead UX Designer, you will work with the founder, product manager and a team of developers to create and improve engaging and satisfying user experiences with new platform features for both travelers and travel companies. As the only full-time designer at this early-stage company, you will be responsible for the complete user experience as well as the look and feel of our products. You will help develop new ideas through research and testing.

You are both a strategic thinker and a tactical doer - eager to roll up your sleeves and do all design work as necessary for both the core product and also to support marketing and other company initiatives

To thrive in this role, you would possess a unique blend of UX, design, business, and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality with a ‘get it done’ attitude.

Does lower base salary, big challenges, bigger impact, talented colleagues, high equity and financial bonus upside, and fun team environment sound good for you? Read on!

On our team, you will:
• Create beautiful web pages and experiences that delight users and achieve business goals
• Design wireframes and pixel perfect hifi designs to meet business needs balancing UX, SEO, CRO and other business goals
• Develop UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites function and look
• Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product manager and engineers
• Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemap
• Design graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs, and widgets
• Identify and troubleshoot UX problems
• Proactively speak with users directly and via surveys and other tools to understand evolving needs and suggest future changes and opportunities

Qualifications

Requirements:
• Have 2 to 5 years of design experience
• Thrive in a fast-paced results-driven environment with varied responsibilities and challenging assignments that would strike fear into the hearts of average designers
• Rock design tools like Figma
• Communicate ideas easily verbally and in writing with engineers and marketing
• Prefer to experiment with new designs and use data to drive decisions rather than view as an art project
• Listen to customers, partners, and teammates, and respond well to feedback
• Embrace Web Usability, User-Centered Design, & Agile methodologies
• Feel passionate that ‘success is in the details as much as in the ‘big picture’
• Love managing multiple projects simultaneously and hit deadlines, using the 80/20 rule as your mantra
• Are known to friends and colleagues as cheerful, with a good sense of humor and a positive attitude
• Enthusiastically and proactively help beyond the bounds of your day to day role
• Ship quickly and adjust your process to fit the needs of an early-stage startup, valuing shipping a good solution now over a great solution several weeks from now.

In a perfect world, you would...
• Have experience in consumer marketplaces, e-commerce or other transaction-oriented consumer web apps preferred
• Know SEO and how to balance it with UX
• Have previously thrived in a true early startup experience previously (from Bootstrap to Series B)
• Understand and have helped design for online niche communities and/or gaming products

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Must work in Travelstride’s Austin office (though we are partially remote for time being due to COVID).

Why work with us? The benefits:
• Seed-funded startup comp package with generous stock options and rapid increase potential
• $4,000 annual vacation credits through our travel partners
• Fun, driven, cohesive coworkers and team spirit - Regular company lunches and happy hours plus quarterly team outings & parties
• Meaningful work - you are helping more people travel internationally, and helping our global tour operator partners thrive as sustainable ventures
• The ability to make a major impact as an early team member at a growing startup with huge market size and impressive traction
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Company Description Travelstride is an ambitious Venture-funded Seed stage company led by industry & startup veterans that is serving a large, long-term growing opportunity. Our investors include JetBlue Technology Ventures, NFX (top VC for marketplaces), New York Angels, Sand Hill Angels, and the founders of Trulia, Get There, Hipmunk, TripIt, and Google Now... We are the top US marketplace for tours, private tailor-made vacations, & adventure Company Description

Travelstride is an ambitious Venture-funded Seed stage company led by industry & startup veterans that is serving a large, long-term growing opportunity. Our investors include JetBlue Technology Ventures, NFX (top VC for marketplaces), New York Angels, Sand Hill Angels, and the founders of Trulia, Get There, Hipmunk, TripIt, and Google Now...

We are the top US marketplace for tours, private tailor-made vacations, & adventure trips. Our platform hosts more than 50,000 travel experiences across every continent from ~1,500 of the world’s best travel companies and local experts. With over 125,000 trusted reviews, Travelstride enables travelers of all types to explore the world with ease and confidence. And we are expanding into becoming the most useful and engaged online community for the top 10% of passionate travelers.

We are a values and mission driven company. Here's what's most important to us:

Our purpose: Bring wonder, joy, learning, and connection through better and more frequent travel.

Our mission: Foster a community connecting travelers with wonderful places, people and experiences.

Our vision: Become the most useful travel community, where people of all types find, share, and book wonderful trips.

Our mantra: Think big. Start Small. Move fast. First do it. Then do it right. Then do it better.

Our core values: Arete, Speed, Grit, Daring, Balance, Growth mindset, Responsibility, Proactive, United, Fun, Resourceful, Trustworthy

Job Description

This internship is ideal for someone who wants to develop a career in the e-commerce and/or the travel industry and understand how to manage supplier and partner relationships.

Your responsibilities:
• Developing/creating marketing materials to connect with tour operators and other partners
• Conducting online research to learn about new tour operators and present potential strategic partnerships to the CEO
• Generate leads by establishing initial contact with tour operators/partners through email and various social media channels
• Assist with managing new supplier/partner relationships through the onboarding process
• Prioritize and respond to inbound partnership inquiries

What you will accomplish & learn:

As our Business Development and Partnerships Intern you will be working and learning directly from the CEO (and Director of Business Development) and help influence key decisions and interact directly with prospective external business partners. You will help grow our business while knowing that you are improving the travel planning experience for all of our travelers and setting agreements with other companies for mutual benefit.

This is an all-encompassing internship in which you will learn the inner workings of an early-stage e-commerce startup with respect to developing relationships with tour operators, cruise lines, and business partners while assisting with exciting marketing campaigns.

You will work in a fun office environment with passionate startup travel veterans and accomplished motivated folks new to the industry. Excellent performers will be considered for full-time employment.

Qualifications

We are looking for an energetic go-getter who is passionate about learning the ins and outs of business, startups, and travel. Strong candidates possess excellent written and verbal communications skills. Most importantly, a successful candidate will possess an entrepreneurial spirit, and will display resourcefulness and tenacity.

Because this is a unique internship that covers multiple core skill sets in business development, operations and sales, candidates must be able to pick up complex new skills quickly, and multi-task effectively.

We are flexible on start and end dates as we realize that schools are on different schedules. Preference will be given to full-time candidates who are willing to commit to a 40-hour week.

For all internships, we require a 6-month commitment.

Full-time during summer, part-time during the school year (in office at least 2 days/week).

Travelstride works with you to attain course credit when your university supports internships for credit. This internship is unpaid.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Must work in Travelstride’s Austin office (though we are partially remote for time-being with Covid).

Why work with us? The benefits:
• An open, collaborative, and conveniently located office at an awesome, dog-friendly co-working space in downtown Austin, TX
• Regular company lunches plus quarterly team outings & parties
• The chance to be an early contributor at a growing startup & work directly with our CEO and Director of Business Development
• Exceptional performers will be offered full-time paid positions after internship completion
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Travelstride is an ambitious Venture-funded Seed stage company led by industry & startup veterans that is serving a large, long-term growing opportunity. Our investors include JetBlue Technology Ventures, NFX (top VC for marketplaces), New York Angels, Sand Hill Angels, and the founders of Trulia, Get There, Hipmunk, TripIt, and Google Now. We are the top US marketplace for tours, private... tailor-made vacations, & adventure trips. Our platform Travelstride is an ambitious Venture-funded Seed stage company led by industry & startup veterans that is serving a large, long-term growing opportunity. Our investors include JetBlue Technology Ventures, NFX (top VC for marketplaces), New York Angels, Sand Hill Angels, and the founders of Trulia, Get There, Hipmunk, TripIt, and Google Now.

We are the top US marketplace for tours, private... tailor-made vacations, & adventure trips. Our platform hosts more than 50,000 travel experiences across every continent from ~1,500 of the world’s best travel companies and local experts. With over 125,000 trusted reviews, Travelstride enables travelers of all types to explore the world with ease and confidence. And we are expanding into becoming the most useful and engaged online community for the top 10% of passionate travelers.

We are a values and mission driven company. Here's what's most important to us:

Our purpose: Bring wonder, joy, learning, and connection through better and more frequent travel.

Our mission: Foster a community connecting travelers with wonderful places, people and experiences.

Our vision: Become the most useful travel community, where people of all types find, share, and book wonderful trips.

Our mantra: Think big. Start Small. Move fast. First do it. Then do it right. Then do it better.

Our core values: Arete, Speed, Grit, Daring, Balance, Growth mindset, Responsibility, Proactive, United, Fun, Resourceful, Trustworthy

Job Description

You'll be an important part of a small team with big ambitions: delivering a delightful and engaging product that makes it possible to seamlessly find and book a traveler's perfect adventurous vacation.

The ideal candidate for this position has experience working with established, medium to large-sized codebases. You should feel comfortable building new systems, refactoring existing code, writing tests when you spot something that's lacking coverage, and implementing new features quickly.

We are still young, so there's a large opportunity here to steer the direction of the code and the product as it grows. If you think you're up for the challenge, we'd love to hear from you.

We're looking for...

An API developer who's comfortable doing a little bit of everything, from connecting to external API services to orchestrating AWS Lambda architecture and optimizing background processes. You can talk to other engineers and explain our API architecture and solve various bottlenecks.

Qualifications

Requirements:
• 2-4 years in web development
• Obsessed with clean and quality code
• Implementing API and integrating with external services
• Strong communication skills, positive attitude and empathy
• Grasp of the big picture
• Loves taking full responsibility and ownership over code/features/project
• Passion for excellence

Additional awesomeness (but not required):
• DevOps experience
• Knowledge of NodeJS and/or Ruby On Rails and/or Django frameworks
• AWS Lambda
• Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery
• Passion for Travel

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Why work with us? The benefits:
• Shape the future of a fast-growing startup in an adventurous industry
• Competitive base salary
• Generous equity
• Flexible vacation and an annual stipend for tours and vacation packages
• Spend every day with a team of world-class individuals and achieve personal growth with the company
• Regular company meals plus quarterly team outings & parties
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Company Description Travelstride is an investor-backed startup, changing the way travelers find and book their perfect trip... We are the first meta search marketplace for all organized travel including: international multi-day guided tours, adventure travel packages, and small ship cruises. Stride offers thousands of trips from leading tour companies along with reviews, easy to use search and comparison tools and rich destination guides. Travelstride’s Company Description

Travelstride is an investor-backed startup, changing the way travelers find and book their perfect trip...

We are the first meta search marketplace for all organized travel including: international multi-day guided tours, adventure travel packages, and small ship cruises. Stride offers thousands of trips from leading tour companies along with reviews, easy to use search and comparison tools and rich destination guides.

Travelstride’s leadership and advisory board consists of travel industry and e-commerce veterans and employs a talented and resourceful staff spanning the globe.

We are a values and mission driven company. Here's what's most important to us:

Our purpose: Bring wonder, joy, learning, and connection through better and more frequent travel.

Our mission: Foster a community connecting travelers with wonderful places, people and experiences.

Our vision: Become the most useful travel community, where people of all types find, share, and book wonderful trips.

Our mantra: Think big. Start Small. Move fast. First do it. Then do it right. Then do it better.

Our core values: Arete, Speed, Grit, Daring, Balance, Growth mindset, Responsibility, Proactive, United, Fun, Resourceful, Trustworthy

Job Description

As Travelstride’s Content Operations Manager, your primary goal is to maximize the quality and quantity of trip content on Travelstride by managing the data operations team and problem-solving. You will make Travelers and Tour Operators happy with their experience on the Travelstride platform and enable travelers to find their perfect trip. You’ll help Tour Operators get their travel content onto Travelstride as smoothly and quickly as possible, while building their loyalty and revenue potential over the long term.

Some of your responsibilities will include the following:
• Manage the Data Operations team and assign tasks
• Oversee the work and productivity of the Data Operations team
• Provide an overview and assessment of tour onboarding to leadership
• Problem-solve, trouble shoot, and implement solutions for onboarding challenges
• Manage Monthly Supplier Reports: Create, send, and collect responses
• Manage Travelstride’s response to help emails
• Manage Custom Trip Matching and Follow-Up on Leads

We’re looking for someone who is driven by the opportunity to succeed through persuasion, passion, and diligence. You should accept the risks of working for a Travel Start-Up and at the same time feel highly motivated by the potential rewards.

Qualifications
• Fluent in English
• Well-traveled, preferably with travel industry experience
• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Strong familiarity with Google docs, Google sheets, and Hubspot preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• High attention to detail and accuracy
• Experience managing a team

Additional Information

We are looking for someone who:
• Enjoys working with others and is able to forge strong relationships while working remotely

Is not afraid to operate with relative independence in a new venture

Enthusiastically helps beyond the bounds of their day-to-day role, and proactively seeks to develop and improve processes

Is known as a cheerful colleague, with a good sense of humor and positive attitude

Is energized by the process of managing team members

Can work European hours but is able to work outside normal working hours when necessary

Work Environment
• Full-time role with flexible work schedule

Work from home (company offices located in Austin, Texas)

Ability to work from abroad if located in North America or Latin America

English-speaking team

Why Work With Travelstride?

We are a small but growing team in the dynamic and exciting travel tech industry. Working alongside the Co-founders, you will influence key decisions during a very pivotal time for our company and have an impact from day one. You will help grow our business while knowing that you are improving the travel planning experience for all of our customers.

We also offer:
• Compensation package with potential to earn stock options
• Flexible work schedules and an open and collaborative team environment
• Chance to be an early employee at a growing startup & work directly with Co-founders
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