Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Senior Account Executive, New York

About Us:

LocalResponse aggregates intent data through multiple social networks and location based services. We believe social signals are the most declarative form of intent for a marketer. We define intent as someone publicly posting what they are doing on Twitter, checking into a location using a location based service like Foursquare, or publicly expressing relevant sentiment.

LocalResponse turns all of this social intent into targetable impressions and call this…. Intent Targeting.

About the Account Executive:

  • Responsible for identifying, qualifying and closing new business opportunities from top tier consumer marketers and their advertising agencies as well as from a variety of online direct response advertisers.
  • This position is accountable for generating revenue from major accounts and for developing and managing long term relationships with senior marketing, advertising and executive level contacts within client and agency organizations across industry verticals.
  • Top candidates for this position will be confident, organized, and love the thrill of closing new business. Working in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment, the AE will be comfortable in new sales situations and will enjoy face-to-face sales.
  • We are seeking goal-oriented, motivated salespeople to join our Sales Team.
Qualifications:
  • 3-5 years of digital media sales experience, network and mobile experience are a plus!
  • Demonstrated history of quota attainment; ability to evaluate sound business opportunities AND close deals.
  • Seasoned prospecting skills (relating to internet/online advertising)
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills.
  • Strong relationships with marketers and agencies in their region.
  • Propensity to adapt to changing environments.
  • Ability to work in local or remote office; travel as needed to accomplish business goals.

LocalResponse:

LocalResponse makes mobile, tablet and desktop ads more contextual by using social conversations to target the right audience. Based in Chelsea NYC, LocalResponse is co-founded by digital advertising pioneers Nihal Mehta (founder ipsh!, sold to Omnicom in 2005 and early investor in Admob), Kathy Leake (co-founder Media6Degrees), and Michael Muse; and works with over 250 advertisers including Audi, Cadbury-Adams, Coca-Cola, Dell, Estee Lauder, FedEx, General Electric, General Mills, General Motors, Hershey’s, Kmart, Loews, McDonald’s, Microsoft, NBC-Universal, Pepsi, Verizon and Walgreens.

to apply: please email resumes to jobs@localresponse.com

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Senior Engineer, Platform, New York

About this job:

We are looking for a mid to senior level engineer with solid experience in backend platform development who will:

  • Work with our product team and in-house engineers to enhance and extend our high concurrency social platform.
  • Participate in an agile development process, ensuring we work on the most important features and have continuous feedback
  • Communicate closely with the rest of the team, sharing discoveries, offering guidance, & accepting feedback
  • Have a contagious motivation to build best-of-breed products
  • Work with other team members to define, enhance and implement internal and external APIs
  • Ensure availability of the application in production
  • Be a mentor to junior team members
  • Make recommendations for best practices and supporting technologies
  • Use software engineering best practices to deliver quality software

About you:

You love this opportunity, because you:

  • Have a history of tackling interesting problems with code
  • Possess an innate technical curiosity
  • Are detail oriented, organized and thorough
  • Are calm under pressure
  • Embrace agile/scrum and the advantages it brings to communication, flexibility, and delivering working code
  • Recognize that software engineering is often about tradeoffs

Qualifications:

  • Deep experience with NodeJS or equivalent and maintaining applications in production.  
  • Experience with high concurrency/low latency systems.
  • Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB, is preferred.  
  • Experience with AWS implementation and operation management is preferred.  Ad Tech experience is a plus.
  • Have on the job experience as a platform backend engineer
  • Bachelor’s in Computer Science or a related field. Masters or more a plus.
  • Excellent communication/collaboration skills and a team-oriented mindset.
  • Please submit a code sample with your application

About LocalResponse:

LocalResponse makes mobile, tablet and desktop ads more contextual by using social conversations to target the right audience. Based in Chelsea NYC, LocalResponse is co-founded by digital advertising pioneers Nihal Mehta (founder ipsh!, sold to Omnicom in 2005 and early investor in Admob), Kathy Leake (co-founder Media6Degrees), and Michael Muse; and works with over 250 advertisers including Audi, Cadbury-Adams, Coca-Cola, Dell, Estee Lauder, FedEx, General Electric, General Mills, General Motors, Hershey’s, Kmart, Loews, McDonald’s, Microsoft, NBC-Universal, Pepsi, Verizon and Walgreens.

to apply: please email resumes to jobs@localresponse.com

Senior Engineer, Data, New York

About this job:

We are looking for a senior level engineer with solid experience in large data processing who will:

  • Work with our product team and in-house engineers to enhance and extend our data capture and analytics systems.
  • Build precise and large data sets
  • Build systems based on machine learning to predict behavior
  • Ensure availability of the systems in production
  • Leverage social messages to predict response to advertising
  • Participate in an agile development process, ensuring we work on the most important features and have continuous feedback
  • Communicate closely with the rest of the team, sharing discoveries, offering guidance, & accepting feedback
  • Have a contagious motivation to build best-of-breed product
  • Be a mentor to junior team members
  • Make recommendations for best practices and supporting technologies
  • Use software engineering best practices to deliver quality software

About you:

You love this opportunity, because you:

  • Have a history of tackling interesting problems with code
  • Possess an innate technical curiosity
  • Are detail oriented, organized and thorough
  • Are calm under pressure
  • Embrace agile/scrum and the advantages it brings to communication, flexibility, and delivering working code
  • Recognize that software engineering is often about tradeoffs

Qualifications:

  • Deep experience with Hadoop and other data analytics tools.  Experience with natural 
  • language processing is preferred.  Ad Tech experience is a plus.
  • Have on the job experience as a data engineer
  • Bachelor’s in Computer Science or a related field. Masters or more a plus.
  • Excellent communication/collaboration skills and a team-oriented mindset.
  • Please submit a code sample with your application

About LocalResponse:

LocalResponse makes mobile, tablet and desktop ads more contextual by using social conversations to target the right audience. Based in Chelsea NYC, LocalResponse is co-founded by digital advertising pioneers Nihal Mehta (founder ipsh!, sold to Omnicom in 2005 and early investor in Admob), Kathy Leake (co-founder Media6Degrees), and Michael Muse; and works with over 250 advertisers including Audi, Cadbury-Adams, Coca-Cola, Dell, Estee Lauder, FedEx, General Electric, General Mills, General Motors, Hershey’s, Kmart, Loews, McDonald’s, Microsoft, NBC-Universal, Pepsi, Verizon and Walgreens.

to apply: please email resumes to jobs@localresponse.com

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Mobile and Display Ad Trafficker, New York

LocalResponse is looking for a mobile and display Ad Trafficker responsible for all aspects of ad campaign fulfillment: ad testing and implementation, campaign set up, and delivery monitoring and optimization. S/he will support a team of Account Managers and is responsible for ensuring the accuracy & fulfillment of display, mobile and video campaigns.

Responsibilities include:

  • Learn and follow the specific procedures for campaign implementation using the company’s ad trafficking/media buying systems
  • Work directly with third party ad servers, rich media vendors, media buying and trafficking teams, as well as the Account Management team on all elements related to creative specifications, submission and ad trafficking
  • In conjunction with the Account Management team, manage and service clients to ensure accurate ad trafficking, pixel implementation, contract fulfillment and quality control
  • Test and review advertising creative for system specific requirements
  • Track, measure, and analyze the performance of multiple advertising campaigns, including creating detailed performance reports and proposing optimization strategies
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Qualifications:

  • Technical competence (basic understanding of display and/or mobile ad network functionality)
  • Extremely detail oriented and analytical
  • High level of initiative and work well in a team environment
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Handles stressful situations and deadline pressures well
  • Plans and carries out responsibilities with minimal direction
  • Proficient in Microsoft excel
  • Bachelor’s degree

LocalResponse:

LocalResponse makes mobile, tablet and desktop ads more contextual by using social conversations to target the right audience. Based in Chelsea NYC, LocalResponse is co-founded by digital advertising pioneers Nihal Mehta (founder ipsh!, sold to Omnicom in 2005 and early investor in Admob), Kathy Leake (co-founder Media6Degrees), and Michael Muse; and works with over 250 advertisers including Audi, Cadbury-Adams, Coca-Cola, Dell, Estee Lauder, FedEx, General Electric, General Mills, General Motors, Hershey’s, Kmart, Loews, McDonald’s, Microsoft, NBC-Universal, Pepsi, Verizon and Walgreens.

to apply: please email resumes to jobs@localresponse.com

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Senior Account Executive, Los Angeles

About Us:

LocalResponse aggregates intent data through multiple social networks and location based services. We believe social signals are the most declarative form of intent for a marketer. We define intent as someone publicly posting what they are doing on Twitter, checking into a location using a location based service like Foursquare, or publicly expressing relevant sentiment.

LocalResponse turns all of this social intent into targetable impressions and call this…. Intent Targeting.

About the Account Executive:

  • Responsible for identifying, qualifying and closing new business opportunities from top tier consumer marketers and their advertising agencies as well as from a variety of online direct response advertisers.
  • This position is accountable for generating revenue from major accounts and for developing and managing long term relationships with senior marketing, advertising and executive level contacts within client and agency organizations across industry verticals.
  • Top candidates for this position will be confident, organized, and love the thrill of closing new business. Working in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment, the AE will be comfortable in new sales situations and will enjoy face-to-face sales.
  • We are seeking goal-oriented, motivated salespeople to join our Sales Team.
Qualifications:
  • 3-5 years of digital media sales experience, network and mobile experience are a plus!
  • Demonstrated history of quota attainment; ability to evaluate sound business opportunities AND close deals.
  • Seasoned prospecting skills (relating to internet/online advertising)
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills.
  • Strong relationships with marketers and agencies in their region.
  • Propensity to adapt to changing environments.
  • Ability to work in local or remote office; travel as needed to accomplish business goals.

LocalResponse:

LocalResponse makes mobile, tablet and desktop ads more contextual by using social conversations to target the right audience. Based in Chelsea NYC, LocalResponse is co-founded by digital advertising pioneers Nihal Mehta (founder ipsh!, sold to Omnicom in 2005 and early investor in Admob), Kathy Leake (co-founder Media6Degrees), and Michael Muse; and works with over 250 advertisers including Audi, Cadbury-Adams, Coca-Cola, Dell, Estee Lauder, FedEx, General Electric, General Mills, General Motors, Hershey’s, Kmart, Loews, McDonald’s, Microsoft, NBC-Universal, Pepsi, Verizon and Walgreens.

to apply: please email resumes to jobs@localresponse.com