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Contact: karen@execquestgroup.com

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Job: Director Online Advertising Sales, San Francisco & Los Angeles

Director of Online Advertising Sales for the world's largest publisher of social entertainment applications. We offer people the ability to engage and have fun with one another using the relationships they've already developed on social networks like Facebook and MySpace (youth market focus, 18-34 y/o's).  Compelling opportunity for advertisers to have their brand on a social network through partnerships with their applications.  (Also seeking online advertising sales rep in NY).

 
Locations:  San Francisco and Los Angeles.

LA will initially be a work from a home office with the opportunity to build out a office as the business warrants.

Role Overview:

We're seeking Interactive sales professionals to join a highly dynamic, passionate, and results oriented Sales organization. The Director Online Advertising Sales will be responsible for existing and new revenue growth in their region. This will include acquiring, growing and retaining key relationships with advertising agencies and marketers within your region. Established relationships with key advertising agencies, CPG, Telecom, Entertainment, Beverage, selling into the youth market and social media experience are a huge plus!

Responsibilities:

  • Prospect and penetrate advertising agencies and brands to generate a book of business within your territory
  • Building and maintaining advertising agency and client relationships
  • Customize sales presentations using industry trends, case studies, and other market data
  • Writing and presenting proposals, presentations, and responding to RFPs
  • Evangelize social media and the use of applications to the advertising community
  • Negotiating advertising contracts
  • Developing a growing understanding of our technology, and keeping up with Industry developments
  • Accurately reporting, forecasting, and exceeding revenue goals
  • Serve as industry expert in social media

Requirements:

  • 5-7 years+ of online advertising sales experience
  • Track record of successfully meeting and exceeding quotas
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Demonstrated success in a goal oriented, highly accountable sales environment
  • Superior communication skills, including face-to-face presentations, phone and email
  • Strong relationships with advertising agencies and national advertising clients within the region
  • An entrepreneurial approach to business
  • Understand user behavior and how technology works with the ability to explain each in ordinary terms
  • The ability to structure, negotiate, and close advertising opportunities working within best practices guidelines
  • Desire to work in a start-up environment where there is constant change and limited resources
  • Experience in & knowledge of social media as well as selling youth products (18-34 y/o's) is highly desired
  • Diligent work ethic, dependable, and ethical
  • Significant travel within the region
  • Fortitude to attack every challenge as though there are no other options but to succeed

Educational Requirements:

  • BA/BS in a business related field. MBA a plus


10 months, 3 weeks ago

Job: UI Designer, San Francisco, CA

UI designer for the world's largest publisher of social entertainment applications. We offer people the ability to engage and have fun with one another using the relationships they've already developed on social networks like Facebook and MySpace (youth market focus,18-34 y/o's). 

 
Location: San Francisco, CA
 

You will design and implement the user interfaces for our app - an immensely popular video sharing application on social networking platform with 30+ million unique users a month.  We would like to hire a UI design rock star improve our interface, usability, and make our application even more engaging and attractive as we add features. You will also help debug and maintain web products in a variety of environments, including cross-domain and cross-browser implementation. 

Requirements:

  • You have an online portfolio to show your work
  • You want to work with smart, fun, highly ethical A players in small team fast pace environment
  • You are passionate about designing UI for high traffic consumer websites.  You have an eye for clean, elegant design. You are frenetic about usability and user experience
  • You have solid HTML/CSS/AJAX chops to implement your vision
  • You enjoy music, good food, ping pong, and a game of Guitar Hero now and then
  • You enjoy small team fast pace environment where we work hard and play harder

Bonus:

  • Know when and why to use tables, has knowledge of when an XMLHTTPRequest is useful versus when it is just cool, and can hand tune markup for efficient rendering
  • Experience with Javascript framework such as jQuery, YUI, Prototype.JS
  • Experience developing on Facebook or Opensocial

In the cover letter portion, please include examples of your work / URL of sites you have designed / developed and indicate your involvement.

 


10 months, 3 weeks ago

Job: Linux Server Engineer, San Francisco, CA

Linux Server Engineer for the world's largest publisher of social entertainment applications. We offer people the ability to engage and have fun with one another using the relationships they've already developed on social networks like Facebook and MySpace (youth market focus,18-34 y/o's). 

 
Location: San Francisco, CA
 
Job Description:
Build a large, scalable service for delivering dynamic content over the web.
  • Experience developing server software in Python or some other interpreted dynamically typed language.
  • Detailed understanding of using Unix to implement a large server application: networking, memory, storage and concurrency.
  • Knowledge of web service technologies and protocols (Linux, MySQL, Apache, REST, XML, , etc...)
  • An appreciation of how elegant algorithms and data structures are compatible with pragmatism and getting cool things done.
  • Comfortable with asynchronous network programming, server frameworks, distributed systems, fault tolerance, and scalability.
  • Thrive in a startup environment, working with a small team while creating software used by millions of people every day.
  • B.S. in Computer Science or related field.

Please answer the following question in your cover letter when you apply:

  • In your favorite programming language, write a program to read a multiple line text file and write the N longest lines to a new file. Where N and the file to be read are specified on the command line.


10 months, 3 weeks ago

Job: Python Web Developer, San Francisco, CA

Python Web Developer for the world's largest publisher of social entertainment applications. We offer people the ability to engage and have fun with one another using the relationships they've already developed on social networks like Facebook and MySpace (youth market focus,18-34 y/o's). 

 
Location: San Francisco, CA
 
Job Description:

You will work with a small, talented team in a fast-paced environment at our office in the Bay Area, building and scaling out highly entertaining, media rich Internet applications used by hundreds of millions of people. You will collaborate with really smart and fun engineers. You will solve hard problems and bend Web technologies to accomplish new, interesting and complex engineering challenges.

  • Get excited about working with wicked smart people and solving really challenging problems
  • Enjoy working in a small team, fast-paced start-up environment where engineering is king
  • Want to work on both the front-end and back-end of high transaction Web applications
  • Are very strong in designing and implementing complex object-oriented abstractions, data structures, run-time complexity, etc., but feel you can still learn from others
  • Have worked with different languages but have a strong preference for Python. You think decorators and generators are cool. You are familiar with Django, Pylons or TurboGears frameworks and understand their trade-offs
  • Can write efficient JavaScript, are knowledgeable with jQuery, and are familiar with
  • Think Actionscript/Flex/Flash are interesting and wouldn't mind learning them
  • Enjoy staying up-to-date with technologies so you can suggest new coding practices, recommend architecture changes and collaborate with our platform team to optimize scalability and network efficiency
  • Love seeing your work used by hundreds of millions of people

Contact: karen@execquestgroup.com

 

10 months, 3 weeks ago

Job engineer: Sr. Actionscript/video players, SF, CA

I'm seeking perm engineer in SF for the world's largest publisher of social apps that allow people to engage on social networks like Facebook and MySpace.
 
Sr Actionscript/Flash Engineer will be building video and audio players for high traffic internet applications (expertise in Flash/Actionscript 3, CPU/Memory optimization, JavaScript/Flash bridging, Cross-browser compatibility (not a Flash Designer)