I live in NYC and my wife just got an offer for her dream job in Seattle. While I love my work here she put her carrier on-hold a long time so I could pursue mine. Long story short: me+her+kid are moving in 4 weeks or so to sunny tropical Seattle.
So I'm a developer (JS, CSS, PHP, 'HTML5', various CMSs, 3rd party API (Google, Twitter, FB, Bitly, Chartbeat, etc) browser plugins, PhoneGap and so on) with 7+ years experience who recently moved more into Product (ideas, prototyping, pitching, building, launching). All this on a web site with millions of pageviews a day. I know how to look for a 'developer' job but clueless as to product/developer roles.
We both need jobs for this move to be viable (she is in the culinary world) so I'd appreciate any tips on:
- large and small companies in Seattle that deal with the web that you'd recommend
- recommendations on job sites for (other than indeed.com - more like jobs.37signals.com)
- anything else you think could help!
I'll be at SXSW Interactive in a few days so if you know of any Seattle companies that will be there please respond too.
In many ways Amazon might be a good fit since I also come from a publishing/media company but I can't filter through their job listings enough to know what's a good fit or not... anyone from Amazon care to talk?
Thank you.