Kijiji
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What is Kijiji?
The first thing people always ask is . . . "Kijiji? What does it mean? And how do you pronounce it?" Kijiji (kee-gee-gee) means "village" in Swahili. We are your online village, connecting you with neighbors who can supply whatever you need — whether it’s a car, a pet, a sofa, a flat, a baby-sitter or a tennis partner.
Kijiji is an environmentally friendly way to recycle things you no longer use without leaving your neighborhood. Because Kijiji connections are between people who live near each other, you can always see and touch an item before you buy.
With an easy-to-use format and an amazing variety of local ads, Kijiji is a unique community where everyone is committed to sharing more and wasting less.
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ZacGeneral Manager, Kijiji CanadaBuilding a high performing team, developing people, and growing the classifieds business in Canada.Conception, development and launch of eBay Classifieds in Spain.How passionate each and every member of the team is.Seeing the team grow, evolve and become a high performing team.Work with smart, highly motivated people.Great people and tremendous business potential.Great people, fun and exciting segment of the Internet. -
CraigHead of Product, CanadaI am constantly working to make the community of Kijiji users happy. My goal is to ensure that people that use Kijiji are successful in buying, selling, renting, finding a job and so on. Success stories make my day.I have worked on a really diverse mix of projects. My two favourite technical projects were building our spam and scam detection system and our automated marketing optimization application.How much fun I have here. The cool projects, the amazing people, the passionate users… You know the old adage about never working a day in your life?I have been at Kijiji a long time. In fact, I was the first full-time employee that was specifically hired for Kijiji. So to me, the most amazing experience is that in a few short years, I can now easily answer the most basic question “where do you work?” Saying “Kijiji” used to bring back a lot of blank faces; now it brings back smiles and stories.Every Friday the office has a lunch brought in. Having lunch with the team is a great way to end the work week. It’s even better when it’s followed by a few games of foosball.The first interview I did was for a programming job and it was conducted at my favourite neighbourhood bar. I remember walking home thinking “wow, this is my type of company”.Three things: the amazing people I work with, the challenges I run into each and every day, and the feeling of ownership I get from working on a site that has helped so many people out over the past four years. -
LillianBusiness and Marketing AnalystI am a regular user of the site and my goal is to make sure that we are always keeping our users happy while keeping our ears open to what they have to say. I strongly believe that an outstanding product combined with a successful and safe user experience will make us even more popular in CanadaI’ve had the chance to be involved with a variety of projects. For example, category expansion (something our users ask for all the time), setting up a focus group in our Toronto office, internet marketing, and all things data!The complexity of keeping our site clean and safe for our usersTalking to friends and even strangers about their experiences on KijijiAside from Friday lunches, having our own softball team!I sold a few things on Kijiji and I wanted to help make it an even better siteIt’s a place that gives you an opportunity to take your ideas and turn them into reality -
RichardAdvertising Sales ManagerTo continue to grow internally and further my presence in the advertising worldA variety of advertising opportunities, such as integrating advertiser’s products on our site to optimize their presence in the marketplace, or creating customized ad placements to increase overall revenueThe people…it’s an incredible work environment that I’ve never experienced beforeKijiji Canada hitting 1,000,000 ads posted on its site at one given time…it was a truly remarkable featThe ability to learn from a wide range of talented co-workersI was offered an exciting opportunity to help implement the advertising sales program in CanadaI like working with smart people that are passionate about the online classifieds business -
EricHead of Advertising Sales (The Suit)Nothing really. Just want to stay happy.The original launch of Kijiji Canada was a pretty cool experience. I love the fact that I can say that I placed the first ever classified ad on Kijiji in CanadaHow much of an impact we have on people because of the service we offerYear 1 after lots of hard work I was walking in the Montreal airport wearing a Kijiji t-shirt. From across the large ticketing hall I heard someone screaming, “Kijiji! Kijiji!” When I turned it was the ticketing agent behind her desk waving at me and asking me to come over. She was an avid Kijiji user and just loved the site. It felt great to realize that people were benefiting from our hard work. Of course I sent her a few free t-shirts and am now known on our discussion boards as the “Free Kijiji T-shirt guy.”Free feature fees on all my Kijiji adsEntrepreneurialism. I had been working in a larger company environment before Kijiji which meant responding to customers quickly was getting tougher to do. I joined Kijiji on day 1 of its existence in Canada and it was like a blank canvas with tons of opportunityIt’s incredibly fun and I care deeply for the people I work with. The way most people usually feel on Monday mornings is how I feel on Friday evenings. -
CelineCountry Manager, Kijiji TaiwanI hope the business can be truly successfulWe are going to launch a new Hong Kong site in Cantonese!I had been managed by three different managers over the last two years, all of them, surprisingly are very nice! The greatest managers I ever had in my whole careerThe Kijiji summit at Paris, having meetings the whole week at a chateau is unforgettable. The Christmas party in Amsterdam was awesome, we had fun, meals and drinks all in the beautiful Dutch canalWorking at Kijiji Taiwan makes one feel age reversal! The team members are simple and young at heartBy working at Kijiji, I can provide a good service for many small to medium business owners. They are the core of Taiwan’s vibrant economy, to be able to work with them and help their business to grow, is my mission. There are quite a lot of expensive services for big businesses; it is great to create something nice and affordable for the majority of peopleNo matter how hard and how exhausted sometimes the tasks can be, as long as I think our service is truly helping people’s life everyday, I can sleep in peace every night -
MaggieSenior marketing managerMaking Kijiji Taiwan a Top 10 website!Kijiji Taiwan is famous for its "goods swap", so we invited Kyle Macdonald , the guy who traded a house with a red paper clip, to Taiwan to promote goods swap. The press was so crazy about this PR event, and we successfully made the Kijiji brand name exposed on every TV station's prime time news, newspapers, magazines and radio shows!Compared to other companies, our office desk is 1.5 times larger! I have plenty of room to demo my collectionsTo meet users face to face at "voices", listen to their successful stories and how Kijiji inspires them to do internet marketingIt takes me only 15 minutes to get to the office, by walking of courseI used to work at an internet marketing agency where we followed clients' decisions, having little chance to listen to end-user’s voices. To work at Kijiji, I can get involved in the decision making and formulate solutions to help users have better livelihoodsOur website has an impact on end-users. We help people to get a job, get a house, get a puppy or get a nanny, etc. -
GloriaProduct ManagerTo enjoy my work and have fun here; people around me know I work at Kijiji and it’s a great, interesting job. Besides I would like to make more and more users have fun at Kijiji, too.Working with people from different countries is interesting because everyone has different viewpoints and shares their feedback so we can all learn from each other.One day my friend sent me a URL and told me “Thank you so much!” That’s because she’s found a wife for her rabbit at Kijiji! Wow, I am a matchmaker for these two rabbits! I think my part-time job could be a “Pet” matchmaker now!Having fun at Kijiji and working here is like winning the lottery. Good things happen constantlyI can meet and work with people from different countries via internet. It’s also a challenge for me to work with different ways of thinking. That’s why working at Kijiji attracts me so muchEverything here is fresh and exciting. Boring and changeless jobs can’t interest me. Especially it seems like I work with a group of best friends or a family
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