Laffster is a Los Angeles based comedy discovery company currently in the MuckerLab accelerator program (part of the TechStars network, the #1 startup accelerator in the world). As a “Comedy Central” for the digital age, Laffster’s technology was built in collaboration with working comedians, humor neuroscientists, and big-data cloud engineers. Laffster’s algorithm leverages users’ existing social graph profile information as well as their continuously refined content ratings to power a sophisticated recommendation engine. Users seamlessly discover and consume personalized premium comedic content from well-known comedians at home or on the go, with both audio and video content.
The founding team behind Laffster have a broad base of experience including engineering positions at Google and Activision, and business strategy positions at Warner Brothers and IAC. The company’s hands-on advisors and investors include the co-founder of MP3.com, the former head of Myspace Comedy and the founder of Vault.com.
Laffster is incubated at MuckerLab in Santa Monica, an accelerator program affiliated with NYC-based TechStars that brings top-notch investors, technologists, strategists, and investors into the office on a daily basis for Q&A which everyone can take part in, providing an exciting opportunity for the entrepreneurially-minded to learn and connect with successful business innovators.
Skills
- Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (especially Photoshop, Illustrator)
- Solid understanding of navigation and GUI for maximizing usability
- Desire and willingness to work in a collaborative, innovative, flexible and team-oriented environment
- Strong sense of design, layout, typography and branding for the web
- Detail oriented and well organized
- Excited to iterate through design concepts to yield the best graphic solution
- Ability to create new assets and design concepts from scratch
- Able to join ASAP
- BONUS: Working knowledge of HTML/CSS alternatives like LESS/SASS/HAML/SLIM
- BONUS: Experience with source control like Dropbox, Subversion, Git, etc
