A 22 Year Old "Start-Up"
NewHaven Software is a seven year old company that provides software to the catalog, mail order and electronic commerce business communities. Our legacy extends back to the mid-1980's when Bruce Holmes founded a small company in Evanston, Illinois called Haven Corporation. Haven developed the Mail Order Wizard, a DOS-based software program that rapidly became the industry standard. Thousands of small to mid-sized catalog and mail-order companies chose the Wizard to successfully run - and grow - their businesses.
As the internet began to grow and create a new sales channel for direct marketers, the Wizard began to fall out of favor due to it's legacy design limitations. Despite numerous attempts by Haven to produce a Windows-based solution ("Castle") that would allow greater flexibility and increased growth potential for its customers, Haven failed to deliver. In August of 2000, Holmes sent out an e-mail to some of his customers, telling them that he was out of money and was shutting Haven down. All of Haven's loyal, patient customers were suddenly left without a software migration path and no support for their beloved Wizard - and Haven's employees were left without jobs.
Tom Danner was one of the recipients of that fateful e-mail. As one of Haven's customers for many years, he too had been waiting for the long-promised but never delivered upgrade to the Wizard. He immediately got involved with a few other Wizard users in an attempt to find a way to move forward. To make sure that the valued Haven team members didn't drift apart, he hired all of them as contractors to one of his companies in order to keep them all together until a solution could be found. The result of that effort is NewHaven Software. (For an interesting look at the NewHaven saga, take a look at the article that Inc. Magazine wrote in
February 2001 and a follow-up article
June 2002 (scroll down on the page to "Hope Floats".)
After more than six years of continuous development, NewHaven has recently released Version 4.0 of the long-awaited replacement (and significant upgrade) to the Wizard software and has been enjoying tremendous success for the past several years. To provide excellent customer service and support - and continue to develop advanced solutions for our many customers,
we are looking to grow our team. If you're looking for a "home" where your skills and experience can be put to good use and appreciated by your fellow team members and loyal customers, you may have just found it!
NewHaven is a family-oriented, animal friendly workplace that is intense, yet casual. Fun, but demanding. Challenging - and rewarding. If you work for NewHaven, you'll work hard, but you'll have fun and enjoy the rewards. We seek to provide the absolute best in software solutions and support for our customers, which means that we don't rest until we find solutions for tough problems. On the other hand, we also enjoy life! If you like working in an office where you can listen to music, have the company's mascots sleep under your desk (or mooch for handouts at lunchtime), have flexible working hours and have a lot of fun, this just might be the place for you!
We provide our employees with:
- Competitive compensation plans
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance plans
- Funded continuing education and training opportunities
- Paid holidays, personal days and vacation
- Rewards and bonuses for successful completion of goals
Sound interesting? Take a look at our current list of open positions:
(Click on any of the above for complete details on that position and a new window will open)
If NewHaven Software sounds like the kind of place that you'd like to call your work "home", please submit your resume via e-mail or fax it to (425) 861-7460. No phone calls, please!
NewHaven Software is an equal opportunity employer. We don't discriminate on the basis of age, gender, race, ethnic background, religion/spiritual beliefs, hair color, tatoos, piercings, etc. BUT - if you don't like animals, don't bother applying. Some of us bring our pets to work every day, and we only want happy campers on our team!
