Jobs at Technorati

Ad Trafficker/Campaign Manager

Technorati seeks an online Ad Trafficker/Campaign Manager to assist the US Sales team and help manage online campaigns. This position will involve, but is not limited to, coordinating, trafficking and optimizing initiatives running on the Technorati.com site and network. It will also entail managing network inventory and production of campaign keyword lists. 


Responsibilities:

• Trafficking and management of online advertising campaigns
• Campaign keyword list production
• Report generation and design (internal/external)
• Proactive daily analysis and campaign optimization
• Network performance monitoring
• Interfacing with US Sales teams

Requirements:

• 1 to 3 years minimum of online ad trafficking experience, preferably including keyword campaign management
• The person seeking to fill this role should be passionate and knowledgeable about new and emerging internet-based media in a Web 2.0 world.
• Genuine interest in analytical advertising operations is also preferred.
• Attention to detail – exact precision in data input.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines
• Thorough understanding of ad-serving technologies: ZEDO, DFA, or similar Adserve technology required.
• Ability to ‘set up’ ZEDO ad serving interface to reflect needs of upcoming site redesign
• Basic knowledge of HTML, Flash, Java Script and Java.
• Quick learner – it is critical that the candidate has the ability to rapidly acquire and apply technical skills.
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Able to interact comfortably with both clients and other internal departments

Requirements:

• Supporting Sales Team with advertising campaign maintenance
• Working with sales managers and sales people supporting their sales efforts
• Perform the day-to-day ad placement, scheduling and updates for customers, including rich media ad placements
• Screen incoming creatives to uphold content restrictions and maintain specs and technical requirements documentation
• Prepare and edit HTML code used to deliver ad creatives
• Advise/consult with ad salespeople regarding advertising inventory, availability forecasting and campaign performance
• Knowledge of 3rd party advertising tags a plus
• Have a keen grasp of all the current, future and past inventory and traffic patterns across each site(s)

The full-time Ad Trafficker/Campaign Manager position will work in the Sales Department at Technorati- located in SOMA San Francisco, convenient to BART & MUNI public transportation. The position will be responsible for implementing and maintaining online advertising campaigns placed on Technorati.com as well as several major news web sites throughout the country.

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to careers@technorati.com.

Important: The subject field of your email must include "Ad Trafficker."

Corporate Communications Coordinator

This position will be responsible for supporting and coordinating the daily agenda of the marketing / sales department and the Chief Marketing Officer of Technorati, including extensive calendaring, presentation, public speaking and travel support. This person will also triage all in-bound press emails and calls, requests for proposals (both advertising and business development), and the coordination of a wide range of marketing / sales cycle collateral. This position will report to the Marketing Director.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain the calendar and daily schedule for the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO);
• Working in close collaboration with the Marketing Director, develop sales cycle collateral, draft promotional copy for use in a variety of mediums / contexts, and coordinate both in-bound press inquiries and out-bound media communications;
• Working in conjunction with sales and business development, coordinate responses to requests for proposals;
• Help to maintain and regularly update customer relationship management system (currently salesforce.com), and regularly generate pipeline reports;
• Be the administrative liaison between the CMO and the other company executives;
• Working under the direction of the CMO, develop monthly reports for presentation to the Board of Directors;
• Produce and maintain a full range of confidential correspondence;
• Coordinate extensive and constantly-changing travel arrangement, and process expense reports;
• Coordinate, aggregate and summarize weekly department staff reports;
• Coordinate a variety of confidential projects
• Coordinate and organize multi-media presentations with Apple iLife
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Our ideal candidate will be a highly motivated individual with a strong work ethic and the ability to learn and succeed in a fast-paced environment.
• A minimum of four-to-five years experience preferred;
• Must be able to multi-task, write extremely well and problem-solve;
• Candidate must possess strong organizational and interpersonal skills, with a keen attention to detail;
• The ability to communicate clearly and effectively with people of various disciplines is essential;
• Preference will be given to candidates with experience in corporate communications, public relations and / or advertising environments;
• Demonstrable proficiency in the development of multi-media PowerPoint presentations, creation and maintenance of complex Excel documents, and conduct of intricate internet searches is critically important;
• Demonstrable success in a start-up or fast-growth environment a plus
• A Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience is required.

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to careers@technorati.com.

Important: The subject field of your email must include "Corporate Communications Coordinator."

Controller

This hands-on position will oversee the finance and accounting functions of Technorati’s fast-paced, start-up environment. As part of the leadership team, you will provide timely and accurate financial analyses and insights for collaborative decision-making. You will also have responsibility for implementing and maintaining effective financial controls for the company. 


Responsibilities:

• Timely and accurate presentation and analysis of GAAP compliant financial statements
• Development, reporting and tracking of operational metrics, including budgeting, financial forecast modeling, and new product scenarios
• Financial systems integration, integrity and growth planning
• Development, implementation and maintenance of internal controls and procedures
• All tax compliance and filings
• Procurement and maintenance of equipment leases
• Administration and accounting of company stock option plan
• Hiring, managing, developing and mentoring all support staff
• Managing the annual financial audit

Requirements:

• BA in finance/accounting.
• Solid experience in on-line, pay-per-click media advertising
• Excellent communication skills
• Excel, GAAP, FASB savvy
• CPA or MBA a plus

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to careers@technorati.com.

Important: The subject field of your email must include "Controller."

Product Manager

The position will bear primary responsibility for providing product management leadership for Technorati's emerging global line of business intelligence product initiatives. The person seeking to fill this role should be passionate about finding meaning in data. This position requires the ability to interact with many different types of individuals including executives, engineers, analysts, scientists and other computer and business professionals.

Responsibilities:

• Working in close coordination with our Japanese counterparts, developing and continually refine a compelling product vision for the company's business intelligence product line, based on well-informed consumer and competitive research.
• Evangelizing the product vision throughout the organization.
• Developing compelling and detailed product requirements, final product specifications and a product roadmap for future releases in close collaboration with engineering, operations and business leaders.
• Supporting marketing and sales on the development of comprehensive go-to-market strategies.
• Day-to-day facilitation and leadership of project teams, including schedule management.
• Management of usability design and user-testing.

Requirements:

• Three-to-five years of product management experience required.
• Deep understanding of the product lifecycle (user needs, market opportunity, product vision, technical capability, product specs, schedule prioritization, successful product delivery);
• At least two years of direct experience product-managing Web user interface design / usability projects is required;
• Track record of on-time, on-budget project delivery;
• Substantial in-bound marketing (consumer market research) experience;
• Strong management skills and experience leading teams of people through influence;
• Knowledge of business intelligence products and the world of blogging highly desirable;
• Excellent written and verbal communication/presentation skills;
• Ability to build consensus, work in a dynamic environment, self-motivate, prioritize and maintain a keen sense of humor;
• Experience in software or related engineering highly desired;
• Ability to speak, and ideally read and write, Japanese is a huge plus; and
• A Bachelors Degree, with MBA preferred.

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to careers@technorati.com.

Important: The subject field of your email must include "Product Manager."

Systems Administrator

We are looking for a senior level Systems/Network Administrator to help us tend to hundreds of servers that are collecting and displaying the content of what we like to call the World Live Web. We focus our efforts on automating the administration of our ever-growing network and adapting to new and continuously changing business and development requirements. Ideal candidate will have significant operational experience with Linux, as well as high available web services. Although experience is important, the ability to quickly learn new things and a have positive attitude are both essential.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor stability and performance.
• Administer infrastructure services.
• Participate in 24x7 On-call rotation schedule.
• Help develop tools to maintain and monitor our systems.
• Write comprehensive documentation.
• Train/mentor junior System Administrators.
• Deploy new systems and services.

Requirements:

• 5+ years experience with Unix.
• 3+ years experience with Linux.
• 2+ years running large production systems (more than a 100 servers).
• Working knowledge of networking and load balancing.
• Experience administering Mysql Databases.
• Expertise with Apache setup and configuration with mod_perl, PHP, performance tuning and log file management.
• Config and Software Management (cfengine).
• Programming/shell scripting ability.

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to careers@technorati.com.

Important: The subject field of your email must include "Systems Administrator."

Analytics Engineer

The Marketing Analytics Engineer will be focused on creating software and solutions for robust reporting and tracking of Technorati's key business and site/service drivers. This position requires the ability to interact with many different types of individuals, including executives, engineers, analysts, scientists and other computer and business professionals. In this role, you will implement and maintain accepted best practices for data analysis, data extraction and report presentation. This role requires working with external client data resources, internal business units (sales/business development, marketing, finance) and internal technical resources to maintain quality data management.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare and develop custom or specific analytical reports at selected intervals during pre-sales, client integration, production cycles, and/or on an on-demand basis, inclusive of client-specific marketing list production.
• Ensure accuracy of results of data analysis and data reporting by enforcing data integrity rules with comprehensive and proper application of available business rules.
• Participate in data-related projects as assigned, including but not limited to pre-sales analysis, client integration, data maintenance, data research and trouble-shooting, data cleansing, mass data changes or updates, data standardization, data quality assurance, data aspects of systems and applications, new and/or changed business rules implementation.

Requirements:

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or equivalent (PhD a plus).
• 5+ years of software development experience. Specifically in the areas of Data analysis, Business/functional requirements analysis and Business intelligence.
• MySQL, ANSI SQL and Oracle development experience.
• XML, XHTML, XOXO development experience.
• LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python) development experience.

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to careers@technorati.com.

Important: The subject field of your email must include "Analytics Engineer."

Search Engineer

Technorati is looking for an engineer who is specifically interested and talented in the area of search. Working for Technorati enables you to work on a real-time search engine touching millions of people worldwide. We are making bleeding edge innovations in search and we are looking for a senior developer who is interested in jumping into this new and unique search space. We currently have a team of seasoned veterans coming from the search space and welcome the opportunity to discuss this role in more detail if you feel you are a fit!

Reponsibilities:

• You will be responsible for current and forthcoming feature development, and enhancement for Technorati's real-time search engine.
• In this position you will utilize your strong technical background and excellent interpersonal skills to work with the Technorati development team to implement small and large-scale projects focusing on the search functions of our site.
• Deliver and own all aspects of application components, from engineering specification to implementation, as we incorporate new services and verticals.

Requirements:

• A BSCS/MSCS or equivalent with 5+ years of software development experience several of which have been focused on search.
• Experience with various methods of information retrieval and filtering, textual analysis and classification.
• A strong understanding of OOAD, design patterns, and software engineering methodologies.
• Word stemming and synonym mapping systems such as wordnet.
• Excellent analytical, design and programming skills, with demonstrated ability to deliver high quality software under web-time pressure.
• Solid practical experience in large scale application development on Unix platforms, preferably using Java.
• Solid experience with advanced algorithms and data structures.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills and be a team player.
• The ability to thrive in a start-up environment working on a large consumer-facing web services organization.

Pluses:

Experience in the following areas will be highly regarded:

• Search engine internals, and the various ways in which a search engine can be utilized by end-users and partner verticals, and for advanced internal projects.
• Clustering.
• Lucene and/or Nutch, or any other high-performance full-text search system.
• LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python) development.

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to careers@technorati.com.

Important: The subject field of your email must include "Search Engineer."

Senior Software Engineer

Are you creative and passionate about high quality software? Do you tinker with code to try out new things in your spare time, for fun?

Requirements:

• 5+ years of commercial application development experience with LAMJ and/or LAMP technologies.
• Previous experience in object oriented analysis and design for large scale data driven web services.
• Must be able to reference previous commercial application development experience in which you used object oriented design, unit testing, refactoring, separation of presentation and markup, and agile collaborative development practices as core elements of the software lifecycle.
• Must be able to work independently and as part of a team.
• Should be able to manage projects, communicate readily and clearly and stay on top of deadlines to ensure product release and delivery.

Software Development Experience with the Following:

• Linux, Apache, MySQL, Java, and one or more of Python, Perl, or PHP 4.x.
• Object-oriented design and distributed systems.
• JMS and messaging frameworks.
• Open source Java tools and application servers.
• Java application technologies: JDBC, servlets.
• Regular expressions, XML parsing.
• Service-oriented architectures.
• CVS, ant, shell scripting, build systems.
• Test harnesses (JUnit, Canoo, etc.) and continuous integration.
• Building distributed systems and/or large scale database applications.

Pluses:

• Search and information retrieval
• J2EE, Spring, Hibernate
• REST, XML-RPC, SOAP
• Apache/mod_perl & OO Perl
• .Net/C#
• Oracle, PostgreSQL
• XOXO, Attention.XML, VoteLinks, XFN

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to careers@technorati.com.

Important: The subject field of your email must include "Senior Software Engineer."

Advertising Sales Associate

The position will be responsible for researching and contacting potential advertisers interested in purchasing online advertising for Technorati, including aggressively driving advertising sales for its primary Website (www.technorati.com) and it’s syndicated media products. The person seeking to fill this role should be passionate and knowledgeable about new and emerging internet-based media in a Web 2.0 world. The Advertising Sales Associate will report to the Vice President for Ad Sales.

Responsibilities:

• Through lead development, cold calling, and account management the Sales Associate will be responsible for building and maintaining a roster of new clients.
  • o Make sales calls on buyers at leading brands and their advertising and promotion agencies; identify, pursue, negotiate and close advertising and sponsorship deals for all available inventory.
  • o Maintain a database of all accounts and agencies focused on the Technorati audience / value proposition, and the company’s activities in front of these accounts.
• Build and sustain a service-oriented culture of account management, client support and external relations.
• Manage and maintain critical documentation including insertion orders and campaign performance metrics.

Requirements:

• Our ideal candidate will be a highly motivated individual with a strong work ethic and the ability to learn and succeed in a fast paced environment.
• A minimum of two years experience in advertising sales, with experience in internet-based media products, particularly new media / Web 2.0 media products, preferred;
• Candidate should be proficient in structuring and closing deals with multiple variables;
• Candidate must possess strong analytical, organizational and interpersonal skills;
• The ability to communicate clearly and effectively with people of various disciplines is essential;
• Preference will be given to candidates with experience in strategic planning and high-level deal negotiation;
• Demonstrable success in a start-up or fast-growth environment a plus; and
• A Bachelors Degree.

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to careers@technorati.com.

Important: The subject field of your email must include "Advertising Sales Associate."

Web Development Engineer

Technorati is looking for a Web Development Engineer to join our team. Working for Technorati enables you to work on a real-time search engine touching millions of people worldwide. The environment is fast-paced with user-centered, iterative design and development cycles. You will work primarily on the team responsible for user experience with other Web Development Engineers designers, product managers, and other engineers in a development environment that is extremely collaborative. We welcome the opportunity to discuss this role in more detail if you feel you are a fit!

Responsibilities:

• The Web Development engineer will be part of a team responsible for the development of Technorati web-service applications primarily in PHP using Apache and Linux.
• You will be responsible for developing production-level code as well as proof-of-concepts and prototypes.
• You will take a ownership of your individual projects and utilize your hands-on experience to interface and collaborate on parallel projects.
• You will work primarily with PHP, procedural and object-oriented design, dynamic content retrieval, performance optimization techniques, unit testing techniques, debugging techniques, state management, HTTP, and Apache.
• You will be working within a Linux and primarily open-source environment.
• Writing standards-compliant complex CSS, XHTML, JavaScript, within a small group in a start-up development environment.

Requirements:

• Strong command of CSS, HTML/XHTML, PHP, JavaScript.
• You are well versed in code optimization and software design principles, and have a passion and demonstrated experience in UI design and development.
• You will exercise innovation in support of UI design and heuristics through your expertise in client development to enhance the overall user experience.
• The ideal candidate will have a BSCS/MSCS or equivalent with 3+ years of relevant web programming experience, or 5+ years in CSS, JavaScript, and PHP. You must be fluent with Linux.
• Excellent analytical and programming skills.

Pluses:

• Knowledge of and experience publishing and parsing semantic XHTML and microformats.
• Excellent writing skills.
• Excellent wiki editing skills on wiki systems such as MediaWiki, MoinMoin, etc.
• Experience with CVS and the Bugzilla bug tracking tool and the Request Tracker issue tracking tool.

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to careers@technorati.com.

Important: The subject field of your email must include "Web Development Engineer."