31 July 2012

Job Opening: Web Editor for Playboy (Cape Town, South Africa)

Take charge of Playboy's wealth of content and work with one of the leading outsourced development teams in rapidly growing our already popular website traffic. Flat structures, self-motivated type with a passion for the Playboy brand will thrive. No day-jobbers around here. Opportunity to write for the magazine from time to time and to share in all the other fun associated with the bunny, the bunnies, the Playmates and our thousands of very passionate fans. (And one or two stalkers!).

No suits, no ties. Playboy is the ultimate non-conformist brand and we work well with the generally unemployable optimists and risk-takers of the world. We can give you a whopper of a title so that you can go and look for a proper job someday. Mmmm, well, this is a proper job and it's likely that nothing will ever come close to this anyway.

Our office has smokers, quitters, tattooed writers and foreign interns. And mothers of children. Our March Playmate dropped by today to sign some magazines and say hi. We saw five others at our Playboy party in Cape Town Saturday night. All your friends will offer to do your job. Your girlfriend will love the brand even more than what you do. Your parents will make peace with where you work and start collecting all the editions where you publish.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION: Playboy is a famous magazine. Men read it for the articles. Old ladies fear it. We publish Nobel Prize winners once in while and interview the world's most famous. We also publish naked women, which in South Africa is less acceptable than violence on TV and women in detergent ads. You should really try and read one.

REQUIREMENTS: Spelling. Wit. Personality. Girlfriend. Ideas. Prior publishing or writing success. Famous friends. Wordpress wizard. Digital nut. Able to play a few rifts on a guitar. Love of the written word and of the female form.

ADVANTAGEOUS: Web development. Photography. Animation. Indesign know-how. Experience in fast-paced content-generating factory under pressure.

PERSONAL SKILLS/ATTRIBUTES: Fun, witty and seriously A-type worker who gets the idea, is bold enough to push forward and humble and smart enough to keep learning. Massive general knowledge required and penchant for obscure trivia. The kind of person anyone who meets you on Facebook wishes they went to school with. The kind of guy you would want to have your daughter bring home one day. Under all the non-conformist veneer, a quiet sophistication and know-how of what matters in the world. We will not lead you and you will not follow. Do not believe what they tell you in those $9.99 airport kiosk self-help books.

Via: bizcommunity

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries/ submissions: contact Charl du Plessis at charl@playboy.co.za

Website: http://www.playboy.co.za/
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