Careers at LegalMatch
In 1999, LegalMatch founded the Legal Matching industry by pioneering the concept of online attorney-client matching. Our service enables consumers to find the right attorney simply by participating in a free and anonymous interview. After determining the extent of their needs, LegalMatch provides those clients with the highest level of attorney screening possible. Satisfaction is always guaranteed. For attorneys, we offer the best, most convenient way to find quality clients. LegalMatch allows each lawyer to focus their client-base and find cases that interest them, becoming, in the process, more specialized and skilled attorneys.
We are currently in the midst of an unprecedented growth phase, and right now we have the largest number of legal cases that have ever been presented on our site.
Current Open Positions:
- Inside Sales Representative (Austin, Las Vegas, and Reno)
- Sales Director (Las Vegas)
- SEO Manager (Las Vegas or Reno)
- Digital Marketing Manager (South San Francisco)
- Lead Java Web Developer (Austin or Las Vegas)
- UX/UI Front End Engineer (Austin)
Membership Department Positions
In our Austin, Las Vegas, and Reno offices, LegalMatch is looking for highly skilled individuals to assist with the lawyer recruitment process. We need effective, talented, business-savvy individuals to set appointments, conduct interviews, and secure attorneys for membership. We are currently interviewing candidates for the following positions:Inside Sales Representative (Austin, Las Vegas, and Reno)
Job Description:
LegalMatch is looking for experienced, enthusiastic Inside Sales Reps. As a member of our growing team, you will be expected to develop, build and manage your own pipeline, resulting in closed memberships. You are responsible for the entire sales process, from prospecting and appointment setting to demonstrating our service and closing. Can you do it?
Specific Responsibilities
- Developing contacts
- Prospecting on the telephone to prospective qualified attorneys
- Demonstrating the product to the attorney decision makers
- Interviewing attorneys for a possible match for LegalMatch membership
- Closing the deal with a signed Membership contract
- Accurately forecasting current and future Membership deals
- Participating in 1:1 and team meetings and training classes
Required Skills and Experience
- 1-2 Years of experience in a sales oriented environment
- Must possess excellent telephone communication skills, and be self-motivated
- The ability to "solution sell" a product or service
- The ability to identify the decision maker and be comfortable calling and dealing with decision makers
- Possess high energy, maintain a persistent mindset, enthusiasm, and be extremely goal oriented
- Possess a professional business manner
- Ability to organize and prioritize work independently, with minimal supervision.
- Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
- Basic computer and internet skills; knowledge of Salesforce a plus
- Bachelors degree preferred
Company Culture
LegalMatch offers a dynamic yet casual and fun work environment. We recognize that our employees are the key to our future, so LegalMatch offers a unique environment where your ideas are always appreciated and your contributions make an important difference. Because of this philosophy, we offer competitive compensation packages and benefits for every employee. All of our employees enjoy the ability to make an immediate impact, learn new things and partake in a high-energy, vibrant working environment with extremely accomplished people.
LegalMatch, headquartered in San Francisco, with sales offices in Austin, TX, Reno and Las Vegas is a profitable, privately-held company on the fast track. We are looking for overachievers to be part of the Reno team! Our mission is to provide the best way for people to find an attorney, and the best way for attorneys to focus and grow their practices.
LegalMatch is an Equal Opportunity employer dedicated to providing a safe and progressive workplace.
Salary is base plus commission $30,000-$65,000
Application
If you are interested in helping us with our mission and you feel up to the challenge, please submit your resume with a cover letter to with "Account Manager" as your subject line. LegalMatch will contact qualified candidates to arrange interviews.
Sales Director
LegalMatch, the nation's largest attorney/client matching service, is expanding. Headquartered in San Francisco with sales offices in Austin, TX, Reno and Las Vegas, LegalMatch is a profitable, privately-held company on the fast track, and we are looking for a strong, experienced inside sales leader for our Vegas office. Our mission is to provide the best way for people to find an attorney, and the best way for attorneys to focus and grow their practices. Do you want to be a part of our expansion?
We have a rare opportunity for an experienced individual with a proven track record to establish and lead a team of up to 15 inside sales representatives. The best candidate will have a strong sales management background, understand accountability, be detail oriented with a great deal of energy, have a sense of urgency and a very strong focus on results.
IF YOU HAVE:- Passion for developing a results-driven sales team while having fun
- Positive can do attitude
- The competitive drive to inspire your team to "close" the sale
- The understanding that leading by example is the only way
- The ability to create a positive work environment by addressing staff concerns, providing acknowledgement/recognition, being the LEADER!
- Competitive compensation package including base salary, bonus, commission and benefits The opportunity to work with an organization that truly helps people
- Managing growth, closing deals and directing the day-to-day operations for a rapidly growing out-bound sales team while in a fun and creative environment
- Assisting in the training, development and motivation of your office
- Instrumental in recruitment and dismissal of staff
- Mastering our sales process to be able to successfully train, coach and mentor staff toward the achievement of sales quotas
- Responsible for your team achieving monthly revenue goals
- Ensuring that company policies and procedures are followed
- At least 2 years of management experience in an inside sales environment
- Proven ability in leading, coaching and mentoring employees
- Excellent oral/written and interpersonal communication skills and very good administrative skills - must be proficient in Word and Excel with experience using CRM (Salesforce) preferred
- Strong process/project management skills with the ability to manage and implement strategies rapidly
Insist on quality from our employees. This has allowed us to dominate our industry. With traffic more than 10 times that of any other company in our space, and with our 98% consumer satisfaction rate, no one comes close to our success.
We offer a professional yet relaxed environment.
Marketing Department Positions
Digital Marketing Manager (South San Francisco, CA)
The LegalMatch Digital Marketing Manager is the primary voice of the company to all audiences, both external and internal.
You are an evangelist for empowering consumers to make thoughtful and reasoned choices about their legal issues. You are passionate about positioning LegalMatch as the go-to source for information about the law as well as the best option to retain an attorney.
You are the consistent point person for all company interactions on social media. You fervently believe in the total integration of content and message.
You will lead a team of dedicated legal marketers in creating, producing and publishing new content.
You will be pivotal in identifying new opportunities, for content, blog commentary and social interactions.
You (and your team) will work closely with the SEO Manager to drive additional site traffic and boost search engine results.
You will effectively engage our all our audiences across multiple devices and platforms by implementing well defined content marketing, social media and SEO strategies in concert.
As the Digital Marketing Manager, you'll understand the hot issues and new developments in the online legal space, and be a key contributor to an associated content expansion roadmap. You'll be working with the SEO Director and the Content Marketing team to optimize existing content as well as assisting in developing and refining new landing page content, link bait initiatives and discovering and nurturing under-served content niches.
Core Responsibilities- Lead the marketing content and team in alignment with both the overall business and marketing strategy and to support specific, integrated initiatives
- Collaborate with the marketing team to ensure online and offline communications are seamless
- Analyze the online conversation to guide engagement strategy and share insights with appropriate teams across the organization
- Compile a weekly metrics report of social media platforms to monitor engagement, growth and trends and share with teams across the business
- Surface and analyze metrics and deliver insightful reports that present content and community performance, social/digital listening insights and trends and optimization recommendations
- Help devise new strategies and tactics in collaboration with senior marketing department members and other marketing team members
- Stay abreast of internet marketing, search engine algorithm updates, and social media trends as well as regularly survey legal industry changes and development
- In conjunction with the SEO team, help implement SEO strategies and best practices for the website and improve natural search results.
- Daily check-ins on important KPIs from various reporting platforms, both internal and external (Hootsuite, Google Analytics, BrightEdge, Majestic, MOZ, etc.)
- Discover new relationship opportunities
- Coordinate with the SEO team to develop and implement link building campaigns
- Perform keyword research to optimize existing content and uncover new opportunities
- Direct the content team in advanced keyword research and review
- Stay current with leading edge digital marketing trends - share discoveries and insights with team members
- Manage and refine internal linking strategies.
- At least two years digital marketing experience
- Proven track record in leveraging social media to further business goals
- Strong understanding of Social Media tools and techniques
- BA/BS in Marketing, Advertising, Communications, Journalism, or a related field
- A good grasp of website analytics
- Able to work independently but also work well in a team setting, comfortable managing multiple tasks simultaneously
- Ability to turn business requirements into deliverables
- Experience using a CMS system
- Proficient in MS Office - ability to execute Excel Pivot tables to gain a deeper understanding of multiple data sets is a plus
- Good understanding of SEO for lead generation in a defined vertical
- Results-driven, organized, and very self-directed
- Basic HTML skills are an asset.
When applying, in addition to your resume, you must include a cover letter that details your knowledge and experience that is relevant to the job. Also provide links to relevant social profiles. Use "Digital Marketing Manager" as your subject line to . Please include salary requirements. LegalMatch will contact qualified candidates to arrange interviews.
SEO Manager (Las Vegas, Reno, Austin, or South San Francisco)
The SEO Manager is responsible for the day-to-day responsibilities of managing LegalMatch's search engine optimization for multiple web properties that contain hundreds of thousands of content pages. In addition to the key responsibilities bulleted below you're expected to become a LegalMatch "product expert" in our industry.
You'll understand the hot issues and new developments in the online legal space, and help create an associated content expansion roadmap, working with the SEO Director, the Digital Marketing Manager and the Content Marketing team to optimize existing content as well as well as assist in developing landing page content, link bait initiatives and discover and nurture under-served content niches.
Core Responsibilities:- Manage and execute implementation of SEO current strategies, monitor KPIs and goal funnels.
- Ongoing communication with the SEO Director on strategy and project development, timelines, and results.
- Help devise new strategies and tactics in collaboration with the SEO Director and other marketing team members - you'll refine/define requirements, tasks, and resources associated with new SEO strategies.
- Stay abreast of internet marketing, search engine algorithm updates, and social media trends as well as regularly survey legal industry changes and development.
- Daily check-ins on important KPIs from various reporting platforms, both internal and external (Google Analytics, BrightEdge, Majestic, MOZ, etc.).
- Regular monitoring of GWT (Search Console) accounts across multiple properties and views and initiating action for uncovered issues and discover new opportunities.
- Daily interaction with Google Analytics reports in order to develop, recommend and/or enhance SEO strategies and channel performance.
- Utilize the full SEO toolset at your disposal for daily, weekly and monthly administration.
- Monitor and evaluate search results and search performance across the major search channels in order to improve rankings using in-house and third party tracking tools.
- Produce SEO analysis and recommendations pertaining to elements and structure of websites and web pages.
- Routinely checking and maintaining on-page optimization for targeted keywords and page groups.
- Manage and refine internal linking strategies.
- Research link and relationship building opportunities.
- Develop and implement link building campaigns.
- Perform keyword research to optimize existing content and uncover new opportunities.
- Assist the content team with advanced keyword research and review.
- Provide recommendations, execute and manage strategies for content development in coordination with SEO goals - general and keyword specific.
- At least two years SEO experience.
- Proven track record in natural search engine marketing.
- Strong understanding of SEO tools and techniques.
- Experience managing SEO for large scale content provider.
- Experienced in using SEO for lead generation in a defined vertical.
- Thorough understanding of website analytics.
- Able to work independently but also work well in a team setting, comfortable managing several tasks simultaneously.
- Ability to turn business requirements into deliverables.
- Proficient in MS Office - ability to execute Excel Pivot tables to gain a deeper understanding of multiple data sets a plus.
- Must have basic HTML skills.
- Experience using a CMS system.
- Results-driven, organized, and very self-directed.
When applying, in addition to your resume, you must include a cover letter that details your knowledge and experience that is relevant to the job. Use "SEO Manager" as your subject line to . Please include salary requirements. LegalMatch will contact qualified candidates to arrange interviews.
Engineering Department Positions
Lead Java Web Developer (Austin or Las Vegas)
SUMMARY:We are looking for a senior java web application developer to take a lead role in the continuing development and maintenance of our applications. Company
In 1999, LegalMatch founded the Legal Matching industry by pioneering the concept of online attorney-client matching. For our consumers, our service enables them to find the right attorney through an informative and anonymous process, providing them the highest level of attorney screening possible, where their satisfaction is always guaranteed. For our attorneys, we offer the best, most convenient way to find quality clients.
Necessary technical skills:Java, MVC preferably Struts 1 and/or Struts 2, Hibernate, SQL, jQuery/AJAX, web development/HTML/JavaScript/CSS, JSP or equivalent template experience. 5+ years of web applications development.
RESPONSIBILITES:- Programming new features
- Collaborate with managers to help flesh out requirements from the technical side
- Taking the lead role in maintaining the quality of the code base
- Collaborate with other team members to plan out work on projects
- Work well in a communicative and collaborative team environment
- Learn quickly and be willing to adapt when priorities or requirements change
- Maintain, enhance, and encourage use of tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins and Gatling
- Positive, capable and adaptive attitude
- Core Java: 5+ years of experience
- Web applications: 5+ years of experience
- SQL: 5+ years
- Hibernate experience
- JSON, XML, and web services experience
- Modern CSS, HTML, and jQuery (or similar) scripting experience
- Apache Struts
- JSP, Velocity, or equivalent template experience
DOE. As a LegalMatch employee your package includes base salary, full training, health and dental benefits. Please include salary history with resume. Resumes without salary information will not be considered.
ApplicationIf you are interested in helping us with our mission and you feel up to the challenge, please email your resume and cover letter with "Lead Java Web Developer" as your subject line, to . LegalMatch will contact qualified candidates to arrange interviews.
Front End UX Designer (South San Francisco)
LegalMatch has been a pioneer in the online Legal Matching space for over 14 years helping consumers and businesses find the right attorneys for their issues. As the member of our front-end design team, you'll be a guiding force behind the LegalMatch user experience serving as the bridge between the engineering and marketing teams. You will transform ideas, brainstorms and business objectives into usable, useful and desirable solutions that deliver exceptional customer experiences. Your responsibilities include developing, testing, implementing and maintaining our company's web-based application interfaces as well as multiple websites, mobile solutions, electronic marketing, interactive advertising for all digital channels. We develop and operate the highest quality customer centric solutions and are looking for people who want to do the same in their role.
Position Responsibilities
As the UX/UI front-end engineer you'll be front-end coding in HTML5, CSS3 and PHP and maintaining the visual and functional integrity of the public facing website as well as the back-end applications across multiple platforms and devices. In this position you will work with closely with the back-end development team in Austin, Texas, and with the marketing department in South San Francisco, CA.
- Build front-end code as reusable components and codes for optimal site performance.
- Create prototypes of new features and functionality.
- Work closely with the client experience team to develop designs and functionality that meet the needs of customers both internal and external.
- Contribute ideas and expertise towards conversion optimization of the lead generation process.
- Effectively present UX designs and interfaces to internal stakeholders (the ability to communicate your design rationale and build consensus).
- Create production graphics, define styles and work closely with both developers and marketers to incorporate them into the company and affiliate website and our consumer and business applications.
- Maintain all front end appearance of existing and future websites.
- Create visual design comps for marketing driven web and mobile projects.
You will work remotely in the IT/Engineering department and report to the director of IT/Engineering in South San Francisco, reporting locally to the project manager. You will work closely with other team members in engineering and IT staff (both in office and remotely), and remotely with other departments as the company's founder.
The ideal candidate has a background and experience that includes:
- Demonstrable proficiency in XHTML, HTML 5, PHP CSS 2/3 and JavaScript. You are a hand coder along with proficiency at or near an advanced level.
- Knowledge of JQuery, AJAX, Velocity, Struts and DOM manipulation.
- The ability to design and program complex, technical applications such as responsive design sites and mobile site templates.
- A well-grounded understanding of good, modern web design principles, utilizing cutting edge interfaces, techniques and technologies.
- An appreciation for the quantum shift in media usage due to device diversification.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science - web design, art/graphic design or equivalent work experience will be considered. You have a portfolio of work that underscores your chops and experience.
- Acknowledges the importance of a constantly changing Internet landscape and synergies of informational architecture, SEM, SEO, content diversification and social media.
- Experience with client-side libraries/frameworks such as JQuery and Struts as well as experience using version control programs, (e.g. CVS, AccuRev, etc).
Extra Bonus Points for:
- Additional Degree or Certificate in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Experience using source control, (e.g. AccuRev).
- Experience with industry standard optimization testing software.
Only applications including salary requirements will be considered. Position is full time and includes benefits.
Application
When applying, in addition to your resume, you must include a cover letter that details your knowledge and experience that is relevant to the job. Use "UX Designer" as your subject line to . Please include salary requirements. LegalMatch will contact qualified candidates to arrange interviews.