CoNotes

Technical Customer Service Representative

CoNotes — Thu Nov 13 06:09:39 -0500 2008

Carbonite customers depend upon our Customer Service team to assist them with the installation and use of their Carbonite subscription. As Carbonite Customer Service Representatives (CSR) you will be helping our customers with one of the most important activities of their daily lives; ensuring that they have uninterrupted access to the important files and information that they value.

As a Carbonite CSRs you will be part of the Customer Support team and responsible for responding to incoming customer support requests via email, chat or telephone. You will also have the opportunity assist with marketing, sales and product design activities.

Requirements:

Strong technical orientation with a working knowledge of either Windows or Mac operating systems required
Ability to work part-time or full-time at office in Boston; close to the "T"
Days, Evenings and Weekend shifts available
Self-learner able to prioritize customer needs and respond accordingly. Self-motivated, ability to work independently with little supervision
Outstanding organizational as well as written and oral communication skills required
Prior customer service or sales experience preferred
Foreign language skills desired: Spanish, French, Japanese, Mandarin

Education:

Associates degree (A.A./A.S.) from two-year college; or two+ years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience required
Bachelor's degree (B.A./B.S.) from four-year college or university; or four+ years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience preferred

Software Engineer

CoNotes — Thu Nov 13 06:01:44 -0500 2008

Scope and Responsibilities:

Develop new site functionality according to spec
Work collaboratively with product and design team to ensure we create an exciting product
Create well-architected, maintainable code
Take ownership of your core functional area
Design database tables to support the front end
Optimize poorly performing parts of the application
Fix bugs and support QA activities

Requirements:

BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent degree
2+ years of experience in developing database driven web applications preferred
Strong software engineering skills; know when to hack and when to refactor
Ability to quickly implement a functional spec to deployable code
Experience with PHP, MySQL, CSS, AJAX
Working knowledge of Linux, development tools (vim/emacs, grep, sed, etc.)
Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing requirements

Pluses:

Knowledge of various web services/APIs
Experience building scalable web applications
Experience with Linux system administration

Reports to:

Engineering Manager

Compensation:

Competitive compensation, excellent benefits, stock options

Location:

Boston - Headquarters

Backend Engineer

CoNotes — Thu Nov 13 06:01:03 -0500 2008

Can you design entire databases? Do you explain EXPLAIN SELECT to your fellow engineers? Can you write website code that uses the backend efficiently? Do you have an overwhelming need to see the whole system working flawlessly?

Scope and Responsibilities:

Own the application database; schema changes, query performance, tuning, etc.
Build scalable application-level interfaces to the database and other system components such as caching
Profile relevant application code, identify and fix performance issues
Identify problematic queries and implement creative solutions that preserve functionality

Requirements:

BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent degree
3+ years building scalable database driven web applications
Detailed understanding of relational databases and experience with query optimization.
Proven ability to learn quickly
Working knowledge of Linux, development tools (vim/emacs, grep, sed, etc.)

Pluses:

Strong experience with MySQL, related storage engines, tools, etc.
Strength in developing and analyzing algorithms
Ability to look at performance holistically, not just at the query level

Reports to:

Engineering Manager

Compensation:

Competitive compensation, excellent benefits, stock options

Location:

Boston - Headquarters

Lead Systems Administrator

CoNotes — Thu Nov 13 05:46:59 -0500 2008

You’re an experienced, senior-level IT or Network Operations professional who’s still comfortable getting your hands dirty with hardware and server configurations, but ready to help an exciting startup company make high-level, long-term technical operations plans. Experience writing and maintaining scripts in python, perl or a similar scripting language is a must; experience handling the viral, unpredictable growth of consumer-facing websites or online services is a plus.

A cultural fit is key, so a love of startups, music, games, and wonderfully constructed interactive experiences is a big plus.

Sr Animator

CoNotes — Thu Nov 13 05:46:29 -0500 2008

You are tired of being a tiny cog in a giant machine. You enjoy animation, love to take ownership over your work, and want to be a part of the next wave of online gaming. Senior Animator needed to work with an amazing team of industry veterans on a well funded project. Multi-time entrepreneurs and game industry vets are conspiring to create a new era in online social gaming. We’re incredibly ambitious, but don’t take ourselves too seriously.

You’ll be working to create dynamic, primarily human, animations using Maya, skinning and creating rigs. You’ll need 3+ years of industry experience, the right candidate is likely a solid veteran looking to break the mold and try a new kind of project. A love of music, gaming, and the web are big plusses.

Gameplay Engineer

CoNotes — Thu Nov 13 05:46:06 -0500 2008

You’re a great engineer, with a keen eye for what a polished consumer web and gaming experience should requires. We’re looking for driven, outside-of-the-box programmers to work with the creative and game design team on implementing new forms of multiplayer web-based gameplay. This is a role as an engineer, primarily working in Actionscript, Java, and some PHP, huddling with a small team on iterative, tight deadlines, to build wonderful things.

A love of startups, music, games, and wonderfully constructed interactive experiences are a big plus. Experience with C-style languages, AS3, and experience with shipping entertainment products (interactive websites, games, etc) will be key.

VP Production

CoNotes — Thu Nov 13 05:45:38 -0500 2008

You love orchestrating a team to work tightly, collaboratively, and with high quality results on consumer web applications. We’re looking for a product and operations oriented leader to team up with our mix of web entrepreneurs and gaming veterans on a new online social entertainment network. The right fit will be a solid leader, driven as much by process as the desire to enable creatives to do their best work.

A love of the consumer web, games, and taking risks on big new ideas are a big plus. Experience with the production pace of a startup, senior management experience, and a background shipping entertainment products (interactive websites, games, etc) will be key.

Senior Software Engineer

CoNotes — Thu Nov 13 05:41:58 -0500 2008

The Opportunity

Create game changing Web applications that will affect how peole communicate online. Be a key part of developing apps that utilize ZoomInfo's new Data as a Service model. Join a smart, tigh-knit team of engineers, designers, and QA professionals. Bring your mad skills, and learn some new ones.

Basically: do interesting work. Get paid well for it. Love the people you interact with. Change the world.

The Skills

BS in Computer Science or closely related degreee
Minimum 2 years of experience - more is better, but rock stars with potential are encouraged to apply
Previous senior level role in object oriented Web application development
Preference for ASP.NET / C#, but J2EE / Java will work
Solid experience with relational databases, points for SQL server
Experience working on all tiers of applications, including front end/ UI development
Familiar with Agile development

Manager - Software Development

CoNotes — Thu Nov 13 05:41:31 -0500 2008

The Opportunity

You dream in code. You also happen to know how to get things done. When you need to raise a red flag, you do it with class. You're highly technical, but you know how to make engineering tradeoffs and recomendations. If your boss comes to you and says "I'd like this done. How much time do you think it'll take?", you're able to come up with a solid estimate. You lead by saying "let's go", as opposed to "go". You want to work with people who hold the same values.

Consider this your chance. We're looking for a solid software engineer who happens to understand business. A player-coach with the ability to cut the right corners. We'll give you a team of (dare we say it? we do! we do dare!) brilliant software engineers, that focuses on solving some of the most interesting problems in software engineering. Our Core Development team's mission is to constantly work on the technology to powers our business: scouring the Web for information about people and companies, and then automatically organizing that information into free and premium databases that are used by knowledge workers to identify business opportunities and talent, research industries, and more.

The Requirements (because you knew there had to be a catch)

BS (or higher) in Computer Science
5+ years as a software engineer
Experience leading developers - this can be as a Team Lead or Architect with no "official" direct reports
Common sense approach to development
An appreciation, and talent, for algorithms, design, and design patterns
Desire to work on inherently interesting projects
Fluency with an object oriented language (points for C++)
Demonstrated ability to deliver projects
Sense of humor and perspective

Algorithm Engineer

CoNotes — Thu Nov 13 05:40:59 -0500 2008

The Opportunity

You're interested in working on challenging projects that have real-world impact. You thrive on the hard stuff - for you, life's too short to be bored. You're full of ideas and energy, but know how to harness all that raw power to get things done. You'd like to work with and for people like that.

Welcome to ZoomInfo.

We're changing the way business information is found and handled. Our Core Development team makes it all happen: they come up with the unique solutions that allow us to continuously scrape the Web for relevant informatio0n and then automatically shape that data so that it can be used by a huge range of knowledge workers. We're the real deal, in other words. If you're interested in joining a team of brilliant engineers, and working on some incredibly interesting problems, then this is the place for you.

The Requirements

BS in Computer Science (points for MS and/ or PhD - smarty)
Good engineering sensibility
Experience working with object oriented languages (points for C++, but we know if you're a solid engineer you can learn it)
Mindset for hard-nosed engineering is essential
Sense of humor and perspective
Ideally, you have several interesting projects under your belt (not necesarily real-world experience, just interesting)
Able to talk intelligently (and, passionately) about the interesting challenges your projects presented
You should be able to tell us why you want to work here, and what kinds of challenges you're looking for

Senior Web Developer/ AJAX Guru

CoNotes — Thu Nov 13 05:40:25 -0500 2008

The Opportunity:

If you're the Web progrmming guru we need, then you'll get how big this opportunity is. Because it's huge.

ZoomInfo is inventing new search metaphors for semantic peoplesearch. We are looking to add a lot of dynamism to the user experience on our site. Your role will be to come in, figure out, and then implement the technology and framework. You'll be key in making the work sparkle. You'll work out transition effects, all the AJAX, overall design, etc, and then build it. Our site is exposed to millions and millions of people every month - and your work will be exposed to them. This is a high visibility porject, where we want to give someone a pretty free hand to implement their ideas. Annnd, unlike certain other search engines (ahem! starts with a "g"...): this work will go into production, as real finished product, and not stay in beta forever. Annnd: We are growing, profitable, and have major cash reserves - you'll be able to do your best work, freely, in a place that can afford to implement those dreams.
The Day to Day:

Take designs from wireframe to reality with the greatest of ease
Build end user applications that will be used by millions of end users
Write code that makes other developers green with envy
Love your work, be kind to animals, and generally be awesome

What You Need to Land the Job:

Technical chops (the need to haves):

AJAX
DHTML
JavaScript
CSS
UI Development

Technical chops (the nice to haves):

C#, .NET, ASP, SQL, any experience with object oriented programming
Photoshop, Flash and Illustrator experience.

BS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

Rock star level programming skills trump years of experience.

High creativity and vision

Proven ability to deliver work on time

Sense of humor and perspective

Great communicator - we want to hear your ideas. And your jokes.

Experience in (or appetite for) developing product in a fast based, Web speed environment

Collaborative, and entrepreneurial approach to work – we want to look forward to spending time with you

General Rock Stars

CoNotes — Thu Nov 13 05:39:39 -0500 2008

Rock Star looking for a band? Good deal. We're looking for you - our philosophy is pretty simple: hire people who are smarter than we are and who thrive on solving really interesting problems, provide them room to breathe and tools to build with, and then watch them go.
We're looking to round out our team of rock stars. We define a rock star as somebody who's not just smart and knows how to think around corners, but who we'd like to have a beer with - more than one, as a matter of fact. So, what gets our attention (besides shiny objects and laser pointers)? A street and book smart combo. The ability to laugh at yourself. Tinkerers. Inventors. People who have created their own business, or will one day. Internet savvy. People who know that answers invariably lead to more questions - and love the fact that the world's built that way.
Because we're looking for incredibly impactful, smart, interesting people, and because we're highly protective of the culture we've built, this can be a pretty tough place to get into. That said: if you've got the smarts, creativity, and nice-to-be-with stuff down, it's worth reaching out to us. There's a lot happening here, and this is an incredibly exciting time to join us.

Speech Technologist

CoNotes — Thu Nov 13 05:36:53 -0500 2008

We are looking for highly qualified individuals to help us improve our speech recognition technologies.
If you have a strong background in speech technology and would like to have an impact on the way that
people use mobile phones, please send us your resume.
If you join, your focus will be on improving recognition accuracy and usability across the range of
applications we are deploying.
We are looking for people with backgrounds in signal processing, statistical acoustic modeling, and
statistical language modeling.

Senior Web Applications Developer

CoNotes — Wed Nov 12 08:03:49 -0500 2008

Punchbowl Software, the developers of MyPunchbowl.com is seeking a Senior Web Applications Developer to join our growing team. MyPunchbowl is an award-winning site for event and party planning. We're a small and nimble startup, and offer a great place to work.

Who you are:

You love building web apps, and have experience in the latest and greatest web frameworks and languages (we're a Ruby on Rails shop, so ideally you have a working knowledge of Ruby on Rails)..
You have solid XHTML/CSS skill and Javascript skills.
You write concise and beautiful code that is easy to read and maintain.
You are energetic, opinionated, and creative ... all tempered with a liberal dose of pragmatism.
You don't fear the command-line, deployment, servers, etc.
You know what most of these words mean: SQL, ERB, RJS, YAML, REST, Capistrano, Memcached, Mongrel.
You have at least 6 months experience working on a consumer-facing web application.
You are looking to join a group of smart and movtivated professionals in a fun work enviornment.
You live within a 45 minute drive of Framingham, MA.

Director, Business Development

CoNotes — Wed Nov 12 08:03:14 -0500 2008

Punchbowl Software is looking for an experienced Business Development person to lead our partnership efforts.

We’re looking for a person with a proven track record in consumer internet marketing to be a key member of the management team. The Director of Business Development will report to the CEO at the company’s Framingham, MA headquarters.

Job Description

Identify and sign deals with national retailers and venues to extend the distribution and reach of our product
Close opportunities with priority sales accounts and strategic partners
Source sales leads through aggressive and pro-active approaches including face to face meeting and phone sales calls
Drive the company’s co-marketing activities with leading industry companies
Develop and report on key metrics to quantitatively gauge the impact of all business development activities
Work with the CEO to drive revenue and integration with our business development partners

Position Requirements:

5-7 years experience and successful track record with business development in a consumer setting
A strong network and reputation within the consumer package goods industry
Proven record of structuring and negotiating win/win deals
Significant experience and familiarity with partnership development, traffic acquisition, and analysis in an online business
Firm understanding of Google Analytics and other website reporting tools
Hands on experience with working with development teams to implement partnership programs
Proven project management skills with the ability to multi-task
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Enthusiasm and passion with readiness to join an early-stage startup

Flash/Flex Developer

CoNotes — Wed Nov 12 08:01:46 -0500 2008

EveryZing is seeking an experienced Flash/Flex/ActionScript developer to join our team. We are a young company changing the way people discover and interact with video online.

Responsibilities:

Design, implementation, and maintenance of our Flash-based applications and widgets
Design and implementation of our Flash developer APIs

Requirements:

2+ years software development experience
Extensive development experience with Flex / Flash
Extensive knowledge of ActionScript 3 programming
Strong skills in object oriented programming
Strong Math Abilities
B.S. Computer Science or equivalent

Desired skills:

Experience with building Adobe AIR applications.
Experience with HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, XSL and CSS
Experience with server side technologies (preferably Java).
Experience with web services

Front End Web Developer

CoNotes — Wed Nov 12 08:01:17 -0500 2008

We’re looking for a front-end Web Developer who really knows Ajax, CSS, XHTML and is willing to jump into XSL with both feet. No copy and paste coders need apply; you should know how to hand code standards compliant web pages and depend on an editor only to speed up the process. You should have a passion for the web as a platform for rich application development and the technologies that make it possible.

This role will work closely with product development to implement an innovative toolset for managing, accessing and interacting with multimedia content. You will be expected to rapidly prototype and iterate over implementations for customers as well as core products.

Candidates should be entrepreneurial, enthusiastic, technology hungry and user experience obsessed. We’re building a corner stone of the multimedia web and need someone ready to put in the work and reap the rewards.

Required Skills:

Strong web development skills
Strong web service experience – be prepared to show something you’ve done with the Google/Amazon/Ebay etc API’s
Solid understanding of SEO best practices
XSL experience a HUGE plus
Flash experience a HUGE plus
Strong CSS / CSS 2
Fierce advocate of W3C Standards – you should know W3C not just w3schools
LAMP/Java Stack
Friendly, fun, able to string together a few sentences of documentation

Online Marketing Manager

CoNotes — Wed Nov 12 05:09:09 -0500 2008

Do you get excited about delivering results? Building a multi-million dollar business? Rolling out cutting-edge technology to millions of users? Look no further. Compete is looking for an experienced Online Marketing Manager to support its emerging, high-growth Compete.com business unit. In this role, you will develop and manage effective acquisition marketing campaigns through Search, Display, Affiliate, and Email marketing programs. You should be skilled at implementing strategies to achieve ambitious growth targets: driving Web traffic, managing a registered member base, and retaining paying Compete.com customers. As the Online Marketing Manager, you will also be responsible for forecasting and overseeing the online marketing budget, designing and managing acquisition and conversion campaigns, and overseeing customer retention and loyalty programs. You should be enthusiastic, creative, have a strong entrepreneurial spirit, a sense of humor, and be able to thrive in a fast-paced team-oriented environment.

Specific responsibilities include:

Managing retention e-mail and loyalty programs including promotion plan development, creative production, analysis and reporting of results and trends
Overseeing the growth of affiliate program including developing new affiliate relations and monitoring performance of current affiliate partners to ensure profitability
Managing and optimizing Search Engine Marketing to achieve CPA objectives and improving site ranking from meta-tag listings
Forecasting and reporting online sales, monitoring sales results against projections
Achieving Compete.com company revenue and growth goals via development and maintenance of profitable online marketing campaigns
Tracking performance, web analytics, data management and analysis
Conducting an ongoing search for new and favorable acquisition advertising opportunities
Creating online promotions to generate excitement and interest for new product launches
Working with technical team to develop key marketing and e-commerce functionality on site
Keeping informed of industry and competitor activities and new online strategies and tools

Director - Telecommunications & Media Practice

CoNotes — Wed Nov 12 05:08:42 -0500 2008

Compete is seeking an outstanding individual to join its Boston-based Telecommunications & Media practice. The Telecommunications & Media practice at Compete is revolutionizing the way that the industry uses the Internet as a marketing, distribution, customer relationship and consumer research channel. This experienced team member will be responsible for managing and developing strong relationships with existing clients and will also play a key role in new business development. As a senior member of the team, the Director will manage internal work teams in the production of client deliverables and provide interpretation and insight to the findings uncovered by his/her teams.

Specific responsibilities include:

Oversee major client relationships, including primary responsibility for up-selling and renewing existing clients;
Recruit, train and manage Telecom & Media Client Services team to support client delivery capabilities;
Spearhead new client growth in collaboration with client development team;
Lead new product and service development initiatives in collaboration with analytics and development teams;
Develop and publish Compete-branded publications leveraging Compete data to promote Compete and communicate our capabilities to the market;
Creatively combine observed consumer behavior data with survey capabilities to resolve near and long term consumer demand uncertainties;
Conceive, lead and perform new analysis of consumer marketing issues and business practices using large datasets of online behavior and survey responses;
Speak to the press and present at conferences about industry trends and issues;

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or graduate degree in Business or Economics, MBA preferred;
5 + years of professional experience in the Internet, consulting, consumer marketing, or market research;
Experience making consulting-oriented presentations to executive-level audiences;
Experience performing market research and analysis using large data sets;
Strong analytical writing skills and attention to detail;
Demonstrated track record of developing and managing long-term client relationships;
High energy level, unbounded enthusiasm and strong desire to excel in any circumstance;
Outstanding professional references required.

Senior Associate - Telecom

CoNotes — Wed Nov 12 05:00:28 -0500 2008

Compete is seeking an outstanding individual to join its Boston-based telecommunications and media practice, reporting directly to the General Manager, Telecommunications & Media. This experienced team member will be responsible for managing and developing strong relationships with existing clients and will also play a key role in new business development. As a senior member of the team, the Sr. Associate will manage internal work teams in the production of client deliverables and provide interpretation and insight to the findings uncovered by his/her teams.

Specific responsibilities include:

Oversee client relationships, including responsibility for up-selling and renewing existing clients;
Spearhead new client growth in collaboration with client development team;
Contribute to new product and service development initiatives in collaboration with analytics and development teams;
Develop and publish Compete-branded publications leveraging Compete data to promote Compete and communicate our capabilities to the market;
Creatively combine observed consumer behavior data with survey capabilities to resolve near and long term consumer demand uncertainties;
Conceive, lead and perform new analysis of consumer marketing issues and business practices using large datasets of online behavior and survey responses;
Speak to the press and present at conferences about industry trends and issues;

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s or graduate degree in Business or Economics, MBA preferred;
3 + years of professional experience in the Internet, consulting, consumer marketing, or market research;
Experience making consulting-oriented presentations to executive-level audiences;
Experience performing market research and analysis using large data sets;
Strong analytical writing skills and attention to detail;
Demonstrated track record of developing and managing long-term client relationships;
High energy level, unbounded enthusiasm and strong desire to excel in any circumstance;
Outstanding professional references required.