UI Design/Engineer

As a UI Designer, you will play a pivotal role in the day-to-day operations of our UI team. Your responsibilities will include planning, designing, and developing multiple UI components for our growing family of websites. This role requires a creative eye, a solid understanding of project flow, and the ability to convert your concepts into reality using the Adobe Creative Suite environment. As a startup, our work atmosphere can be described as engaging, fast paced, and socially casual. If you feel like you are the kind of person we're looking for, please get in touch. Candidates are encouraged to provide a portfolio and/or examples of prior work.

Required Experience and Skills:

• 5 or more years of experience in the web design/development field
• Technical expertise with Adobe Photoshop and/or Illustrator
• Strong working knowledge of CSS, HTML and DHTML
• Ability and willingness to balance multiple projects at once (multi-task capability)
• Detail oriented with significant emphasis on high quality work
• Strong analytical, written and verbal communications skills
• Understanding of core usability practices and site optimization methodologies, including but not limited to enhancements in site click-through, conversion, path analysis and drop off rate reduction
• Working experience with Ruby on Rails is a plus
• Experience in SEO practices is a plus

Search Engine Marketing Campaign Manager

Responsibilities:

• Design and deployment of campaigns on various search engines;
• Interfacing with account managers and sales teams at various Tier-1 search engines;
• Direct monitoring and reporting of campaign performance;
• Analyze performance data and make recommendations for campaign;
• Configure and operate Percipio’s tools;
• Help coordinate internal creative and web development activities. Discover, define, apply and share best practices;
• Design hypotheses and conduct experiments to optimize campaign performance;
• Analyze competitor sites to identify keyword expansion, creative optimization, landing page optimization, site flow improvement, or deal gaps relative to leading competitors;

Qualifications:

• Exceptional analytical and quantitative skills demonstrated through professional experience or academic study in a technical or quantitative discipline;
• An ability to communicate complex technical strategies to both technical and non-technical business audiences;
• Familiarity with introductory statistics concepts;
• Proven ability to rapidly learn new businesses and systems;
• Working knowledge of relational databases is desired;
• Interactive media industry experience or working with/for Tier-1 search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask) is highly desired;
• An ability to work, communicate, and manage multiple priorities at once;
• Entrepreneurial/Experience in a start-up environment is desired;

Business Development

Identify and pursue revenue growth opportunities. This is a dynamic role requiring a deep understanding of Internet advertising, proven sales ability with a penchant for closing deals and a broad base of industry contacts.

Requirements:

• Integrity
• Deep understanding of Internet advertising products, business models and industry players across affiliate networks, co-registration, email, search engine marketing and other Internet advertising media.
• Initiative, results-oriented drive and a solid work ethic requiring minimal direction.
• Progressive work experience in Internet media.
• Strong analytic, communications and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to prioritize and manage competing tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment.
• Proven track record of generating significant new sales or strategic business relationships.
• Proven network in Career, Education, Insurance, or Financial verticals of distinct benefit.

Search Marketing Manager

The SEM Manager will be responsible for driving extraordinary performance across one or more clients, utilizing Adverplex’s proprietary technologies and competitive intelligence to go above and beyond ordinary PPC management. The SEM manager will become intimately familiar with both Adverplex’s technologies and the client’s whole business to determine new avenues by which the client can dominate their online vertical. This demands an excellent knowledge of SEM, as well as the ability to connect that knowledge with opportunities in site design and even back-end monetization to create value beyond what is possible in a standard agency model. Creativity and a desire to solve new problems are a must.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of overall work experience with at least 2 in SEM. Thorough familiarity with Google, Yahoo and MSN PPC management.

• Strong grasp of online marketing for lead generation and e-commerce clients.

• Excellent analytical and communication skills.

Desirable Skills:

• Above average technical skills, including SQL or other forms of programming are a plus.

• Entrepreneurial/start-up experience.

• Proven ability to rapidly learn new businesses.

Senior Software Engineer

Our data-driven business requires leading-edge, proprietary reporting and data analysis tools that enable us to better manage highly-optimized SEM campaigns on behalf of our clients, delivering a level of precision and performance that our competitors can't match.

As a Senior Software Engineer, your areas of focus would include:

• Tools for managing all aspects of complex SEM campaigns, including optimization of bids in search engine advertising auctions.


• Systems for automating and monitoring internal workflow of campaign management activities.


• Support for on-line analysis of campaign performance, e.g. tools for efficiently monitoring large data flows to detect important behavior, visualization of complex data sets, etc.


• Data mining support for analysis of new markets and competitive landscape.

Requirements:

• BS or BA in Computer Science (advanced degree a big plus)


• 5+ years professional programming experience


• Coding fluency in at least two programming languages


• Experience with several (2+) of the following technical areas:
  • Python
  • Application-level network protocols, especially HTTP, SOCKS, SSL
  • Web application development environments such as PHP, Drupal, Ruby on Rails, TurboGears, etc.
  • Web services protocols such as SOAP
  • Relational databases and SQL
  • Unix/Linux software development (Mac OS X is a plus)

Desirable Experience:

• Experience working with/for tier-1 search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask)

Software Engineer

As a Software Engineer, your primary responsibility will be to work with our clients to integrate their data sources with our proprietary systems, to ensure that we can successfully manage the clients' search engine marketing campaigns. In this role, you will work closely with clients and our Client Services team to understand the unique data requirements of each campaign, develop a project plan to complete the work required, and implement the plan in a timely manner.

In addition, you will also support development and management of our web front-end reporting tools, back-end data mining operations, and campaign operation systems. These tools are the backbone of our business, enabling us to better manage highly-optimized campaigns on behalf of our clients. Your innovative ideas will be encouraged at every step of the development process.

Requirements:

• BS or BA in Computer Science (MS preferred)


• 2+ years professional programming experience


• Coding fluency in at least two programming languages (object-oriented languages a plus)


• Experience designing and programming for relational databases (query tuning is a plus)


• An ability to work effectively and independently on multiple projects in a fast-paced environment


• Strong professional communication skills, both verbal and written

Desirable Experience:

• Web 2.0 development experience (Javascript, CSS, XHTML, etc.)


• Python and Unix/Linux software development experience (Mac OS X a plus)