Join Uptake!

We proved our business model is working and we are eager to deliver a consumer experience to match - and surpass our business success. To do so, we are actively looking to build our consumer product team: a VP of Product Management; Director of Consumer Product Management; an Information Architecture and Interactive Designer; a Web Developer, a Ruby on Rails Application Engineer and a Visual Design Contractor.

We are looking for passionate, results-focused team players eager to re-shape the consumer experience for online travel. Folks who can balance consumer science with intuition. We prefer folks with sense of humor and those who aren't MFY fans.

UpTake is a great place to work. Travel is sweet subject matter to spend your time on a daily basis. We employ some crazy, smart folks. We have an intense, autonomous work environment where you can excel. We have fun working on re-shaping online travel and on all sorts of internal competitions - from sumo wrestling to Haagen-Dazs ice cream competitions and our annual cheesy sweater contest. We are backed by proven investors in Shasta Ventures and Trinity Ventures.

We have an endless supply of dark chocolate, Canadian beer, weekly tea and biscuits and we even offer free Yoga. We are based in downtown Palo Alto, just one block from Caltrain. We have a beautiful, private deck, the requisite ping pong & pool tables, and both working and napping couches.

Please email us your resume at jobs@uptake.com.

Product Team

• Director of Consumer Product Management
• Senior User Experience Designer
  
• Visual Design Contractor

Engineering Team

• Ruby on Rails Application Engineer
• Search Architect
• User Interface/Application Engineer
• Java Senior Systems Engineer

Win A Trip to The Moon!

Like most people, you probably spend a great deal of your day thinking about ways to fly to the moon. The weightlessness. The thin air. The space monsters. Pretty soon it's six o'clock and all you've done all day is construct imaginary rockets in your head, you're bloated on Tang and you can't stop reciting that "One small step for mankind..." speech. Well here's your chance to stop dreaming and actually get to the moon.

Well, Moon, Virginia that is.

UpTake will fly you to Moon if you refer someone for any of the full-time positions listed on our jobs page. Why Moon? We figure it's a little warmer than Mars (Pennsylvania), less gassy than Jupiter (Florida), more exciting than Boring (Oregon) and not obnoxiously Manly (Australia.) Just be happy we're not telling you to go to Hell (Michigan.)

Then again, if the thought of going to Moon is making you feel like Crapo (Maryland) Uptake will give you a $2000 gift card instead to spend on a trip of your choice or on a Sandwich (Massachusetts.)

Any full-time applicant hired for any of the full-time positions listed on our jobs page as a direct result of your referral earns you the "To The Moon Finder's Fee"- airfare to Moon, Virginia.

Please send your referral candidates to jobs@uptake.com. If the same candidate is received from two sources the first email received will win. Offer expires 4/30/2011.

Don't want to fly to the moon? Live the "Suite Life" at the Ritz, instead.

Reasons to join UpTake

• Travel is the largest e-commerce sector and we address a significant unmet consumer need. Our success in growing to over one million visitors a month in a crowded travel space, proves we are addressing that need.
• We have a leadership team with multiple prior entrepreneurial successes as well as deep travel and search experience. You would be joining a world-class and well-seasoned engineering team eager to both challenge you and learn from you.
• After raising over $10 million dollars from the backers of Baby Center, Photobucket, Blue Nile, Mint and Wedding Channel, we are fully funded to profitability.
• We have proven our unique technology and our complementary approach has been embraced by the online travel industry
• Our business model consumer acquisition and revenue generation is proven
• Everything is working and we are on a great trajectory, but you will be joining early enough to shape our direction and make a significant impact
• We are centrally located, 1/2 block from the Caltrain station in Palo Alto
• We are a results-driven, fun and collaborative team