CoNotes

Web Application Developer - Santa Monica, CA

CoNotes — Thu Oct 23 16:33:00 -0400 2008

Demand Media is revolutionizing the Internet, and we want you to be part of the team that is defining the next generation of media. Demand Media leverages its proprietary social media platforms and groundbreaking Internet technology to connect large audiences with domain services; brandable domains and our unique network of niche vertical Web sites. Are you ready to join the revolution?

Demand Media is seeking inventive, ambitious go-getters fascinated by developing new media evolution who want to work in a fun environment with an energetic team.

Demand Media is based in Santa Monica, Ca.

Responsibilities:

Assist in building new ASP.NET 2.0 applications and drive development new applications under construction on our .NET platform
Ensure the web sites are accessible from a variety of different environments.
Build table-free layouts
Produce a consistent visual image on the web sites including maintenance of templates and image archives.
Troubleshoot and repair bugs/ problems with ASP.NET pages.
Analyze detailed client-side traffic statistics and reports.

Requirements:

2+ years experience as a senior software engineer/ senior developer/ senior programmer building front-end web pages using ASP.NET (recent ASP.NET 2.0 experience required)
Knowledge of HTML/XHTML/CSS2/Javascript/DOM/XML (not all required but preferred)
Strong command of cross-browser development techniques
Detailed knowledge of AJAX and/or ATLAS strongly preferred.
General experience using C# desired but not required
Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively.
Ability to create and proofread written materials
Must enjoy being an important member of our fun, fast paced, energetic and very agile development team
Other software engineer duties as assigned
All candidates for this position must consent to a background check

What we Offer:

Competitive Salaries
PTO
Medical, dental, vision, 401(K), and other benefits
Excellent work environment

User Interaction Designer

CoNotes — Wed Oct 22 16:49:10 -0400 2008

We have an immediate opening for a User Interaction Designer with a passion for creating great products. We have lofty goals and a myriad of user interface challenges to explore and solve. If you have a strong interest in product design, a deep passion for innovation, and a desire to make web experiences rich and compelling, we want to talk to you.

You will be responsible for creating the look and feel of the user-facing functionality of Evri's products including the concept and design of wireframes, prototypes, and documentation for end-to-end task flows and user interaction of our consumer-focused Web products. This role requires excellent communication and collaborative skills as you will be working directly with other Designers, System Engineers, and Product Managers.

You will be responsible for analysis of product requirements, rapid visual and interaction prototyping, presentation and communication of final design solutions, and successful implementation guidance across multiple features and/or products. You will use your interaction design experience during the concept, design, and implementation not only by bringing awareness to best practices, but also by applying creative thinking and problem solving skills to create design solutions that meet user expectations.

To be considered, you must demonstrate product design and/or user interaction expertise and have professional experience delivering a web-based consumer software release. Experience guiding projects with rich user interfaces through an entire software release lifecycle is preferred. Ideal candidates will also have a portfolio of their recent work history showcasing successful consumer software releases (particularly those which used iterative/agile methodologies such as scrum or feature driven development) and demonstrate a passion for user-centered design, current technology trends and best practices.

Duties:

Define usage scenarios based on goals and product requirements to guide design and inspire users.
Generate compelling designs (from concept to pixels) that will win the hearts of users.
Own feature designs from presentation to implementation.
Create proposals for feature refinements based on user feedback.

You are:

Confident creating new approaches to complex design problems.
Able to empathize and assume the perspective of customers.
Able to work collaboratively. We start by talking through design challenges in small groups to get focused on the best potential solutions.
Able to fluently express ideas verbally with wireframes, prototypes, whiteboard sketches, digital mock-ups, and documentation.
Detail oriented. You strive for consistency and simplicity in your work.
Able to create and design a consistent experience across multiple features.
Knowledgeable of current web technologies and their benefits and drawbacks on usability, accessibility, and interaction.
Experienced shipping and maintaining high-quality, intuitive, and simple user experiences used by millions of people.
Able to understand complex systems and processes, both in software and in the real world.
Decisive. You value user feedback, but don't require it to make a judgment call.

Please be:

Experienced with rich user interfaces, user-centered design and effectively working through an entire software release lifecycle. Ideal candidates will also have a portfolio of their recent work history showcasing successful consumer software releases (particularly those which used iterative/agile methodologies such as scrum or feature driven development) and demonstrate a passion for current technology trends and best practices.
An expert with hands-on knowledge of current design tools (Photoshop, Illustrator, OmniGraffle,Visio and/or Fireworks.)
Working knowledge of interactive prototyping technologies (HTML, CSS, Flash, ActionScript.)
Organized, able to act independently, solicit and respond well to feedback, and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
Extra Bonus if you have a a Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Information Design, Graphic Arts, HCI or a related field.

Software Developer, UI

CoNotes — Wed Oct 22 16:47:33 -0400 2008

Evri has an immediate opening for a Software Developer, UI with a passion for creating great products. If you have a strong interest in product design, a deep passion for technology, and a desire to make web experiences rich and compelling, we want to talk to you.

You will be responsible for building the look and feel of the user-facing functionality of Evri's products. This role requires excellent communication and collaborative skills as you will be working directly with the Interaction Designers, System Engineers, and Product Managers. You will be responsible for analysis of product requirements, rapid interactive prototyping, visual and non-visual component design, and successful implementation and/or integration of applications and services across presentation, logic, and data services. You will use your interaction design experience to provide technical guidance during the design process; not only by bringing awareness to constraints, but also by applying creative thinking and problem solving skills to create opportunities for innovation.

To be considered, you must demonstrate user interaction and/or application development expertise and have professional experience delivering a commercial software release. Experience with rich user interfaces, object-oriented design, data modeling, application development, and taking projects through an entire software release lifecycle is preferred. Ideal candidates will also have a portfolio of their recent work history showcasing successful consumer software releases and demonstrate a passion for current technology trends and best practices.

You should have experience with some or all of the following technologies:

(X)HTML, CSS, Javascript, and Actionscript
Flash/Flex/Air
Ruby on Rails
Rack
MVC
jQuery
An in-depth knowledge and understanding of Internet-based applications (including XML and SQL/relational databases)
Apache, Nginx, and/or Mongrel
Prototype-based object-oriented programming
Solid Unix/Linux Skills

Duties:

Collaborate with product stakeholders to iterate towards approved design proposals.
Collaborate with designers and other team members to evaluate technical constraints and provide realistic time estimates for product design proposals.
Engage in rapid prototyping and product testing to ensure requirements are reflected in the implementation.
Build both static and animated user-facing elements of the applications and services.
Ownership of feature areas and functionality after implementation, by responding to additional feature requests, bug fixes and refinements.

Qualifications:

5+ years of professional experience designing and developing consumer software applications with rich user interfaces on a variety of platforms.
Experience working with Product/Interaction Designers to create end product.
Experience translating requirements into object-oriented applications or dynamic websites.
Expert-level implementation skills in at least two of the technologies listed above.
Detailed design-level knowledge of at least two of the technologies listed above.
Ability to provide substantiated technology and architecture recommendations.
Ability to lead tasks throughout the project lifecycle, participate in project scoping and estimation tasks and provide architecture, solution, and/or services recommendations.
Portfolio including a web-based project.
BS degree (or higher) in Computer Science or Informatics.
Bonus points if you get just as excited about working on your side project (like web apps, libraries, open source contributions, hacking, etc.) as you do about your daily development work.

Applied Scientist

CoNotes — Wed Oct 22 16:45:59 -0400 2008

Evri is seeking extremely talented and energetic innovators to help us fundamentally change the way people find and interact with information on the web. We are tackling some of the most difficult problems in text analysis, computational linguistics, information retrieval and data mining. Our team is bringing the world a fundamentally new and more effective way of finding and navigating information by leveraging the power of our highly accurate deep natural language processing based linguistic analysis and search platform.

We are looking for Applied Scientists to join our world class team and help rewire the web. Successful candidates will have a significant track record performing novel work in the areas of text analysis, information retrieval, data mining, or another related discipline.

Specialized Knowledge and Skills:

Strong experience applying multiple algorithmic techniques to a variety of technical problems in areas like text analysis, information retrieval, machine learning and data mining
Algorithmically agile including the ability to conceive, design and implement novel solutions to difficult problems
Good programming skills. Experience with Java, C++, Ruby or Python a plus
Excellent analytical skills
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Proficiency/experience in working in a Unix/Linux environment
Good shell scripting skills
2+ years of development experience (Internet/Web related applications a plus)
Experience with large scale commercially deployed distributed systems

Education and Training:

MS/PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent.

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

CoNotes — Wed Oct 22 16:45:07 -0400 2008

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to make sure we develop, test, and build to the highest quality standards. In addition to the duties outlined below, this key contributor will explore new ways of automating natural language parsing efficacy testing. Strong candidates will have coding and testing experience well beyond GUI based.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

Report and track defects
Work closely with development to expand our automated test suites
Perform system benchmarks
Identify and relieve performance bottleneck
Set up test environments
Develop automated tests
Develop test applications
Execute and maintain automated test suites
Analyze test results

Specialized Knowledge and Skills:

Excellent understanding of good testing processes.
2+ years programming skills in either Java or C/C++
Good proficiency/experience in working on Unix/Linux
Good shell scripting skills. Perl, Ruby, SQL, and JUnit a plus
1+ years of testing experience (Internet/Web related applications a plus)
Good understanding of JSP/Servlet engines, Web servers, Web browsers, http, html and other Web technologies
Algorithmically agile including the ability to understand and test sophisticated text and data mining algorithms
Comfortable working in a highly distributed environment on many racks of machines
Excellent analytical skills
Excellent oral and written communication skills

Education:

BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Software Engineer

CoNotes — Wed Oct 22 16:42:12 -0400 2008

Do you have a passion for creating great products that have the potential to be used by millions of people? Evri is looking for a solid Software Engineer.

This position involves the creation, design, development and maintenance of one or more consumer-focused Web services. The candidate must be willing to work in a dynamic environment that relies on extensive collaboration between team members using Agile development processes. Our application has scale and precision challenges that demand innovators, people who are passionate about software design and development, who keep up evolving languages and development paradigms and apply them to their day job as well as their side projects. We need people that consume the internet as much as they work on it, so that they can provide the key insights that will make our applications best of breed. If you are looking for an opportunity to work on a focused and motivated team collaborating to solve some of the toughest problems in the Web 3.0 space today, send us your resume.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

Developing server-side and client-side components of a distributed Web and Web service-based application
Working in a collaborative team environment, co-designing and co-implementing key application components
Tackling prioritized tasks and working with the team to evolve the application in a series of iterated releases
Unit testing all written code and providing testing support to Quality Assurance engineers
Debugging/fixing problems in the application code base
Providing status updates to the Manager of Product Development

Knowledge, experience, skill, and/or ability:

Exposure to OO design concepts including implementation details in the languages mentioned below
4+ years of experience developing with Java and Java server-side application frameworks
Basic Thin client development using JavaScript, CSS, DHTML, DOM, AJAX
Experience with JPA, or a similar ORM (i.e. Hibernate)
Experience developing applications using Spring 2.0
Exposure to/experience working with Maven
Experience working with server teams and performance tools to streamline application performance in client and server components
Solid understanding of Agile development processes
Excellent planning, analysis and estimation skills
Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Education/Experience/Certifications:

Bachelor's degree (B.A. or B.S.) from accredited institution and 4+ years relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Sr. Software Engineer

CoNotes — Wed Oct 22 16:40:39 -0400 2008

We are looking for great senior software engineers to join us in rewiring the Web. Strong candidates will have extensive experience developing object oriented high performance applications in a heavily distributed environment along with a strong track record of successful commercial deployments.

Specialized Knowledge and Skills:

Excellent programming skills, enterprise Java is required. C++, Ruby or Python a plus
Excellent proficiency/experience in working in a Unix/Linux environment
Excellent shell scripting skills including experience with Perl
Algorithmically agile including the ability to understand and implement sophisticated text and data mining algorithms
Strong design and architecture experience including an understanding of UML
Solid understanding of data structures including strong understanding of SQL
5+ years of development experience (Internet/Web related applications a plus)
Strong understanding of JSP/Servlet engines, Web servers, Web browsers, http, html and other Web technologies
Excellent analytical skills
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Strong experience with large scale commercially deployed distributed systems

Education and Training:

BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

Jr Software Engineer

CoNotes — Wed Oct 22 16:39:23 -0400 2008

Do you have a passion for creating great products that have the potential to be used by millions of people? Evri is looking for expert Software Engineers.

Position summary

This position involves the development and maintenance of one or more consumer-focused Web services. The candidate must be willing to work in a dynamic environment that relies on extensive collaboration between team members using Agile development processes. Our application has scale and precision challenges that demand innovators, people who are passionate about software design and development, who keep up with evolving development paradigms and apply them to their day job as well as their side projects. We need people that live the internet in their day-to-day lives, so that they can provide the key insights that will make our applications best of breed. If you are looking for an opportunity to work on a focused and motivated team collaborating to solve some of the toughest problems in the Web 3.0 space today, send us your resume.

Essential duties and responsibilities

Developing end-to-end systems within a highly-distributed Web and Web service-based application environment.
Innovating to imagine new solutions to new problems while sustaining scaleability, performance, and robustness metrics.
Accurately scoping work, prioritizing effort, and balancing new development with maintenance a defect correction.
Working in a collaborative team environment, co-designing and co-implementing key application components.
Tackling prioritized tasks and working with the team to evolve the application in a series of iterated releases.
Unit testing all written code and providing testing support to Quality Assurance engineers.

Knowledge, experience, skill, and/or ability

Excellent understanding of OO design and implementation.
Experience developing with Java and Java server-side application frameworks.
Good understanding of web development, including client (JS, CSS, HTML), protocol, and server-side development.
Good knowledge of SQL and relational database design.
Good planning, analysis and estimation skills.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Education/experience/certification:

Bachelor's degree from accredited institution or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Software Engineer - Emips

CoNotes — Wed Oct 22 16:37:39 -0400 2008

Do you have a passion for creating great products that have the potential to be used by millions of people? Evri is looking for passionate, expert Software Engineers.

Position summary

This position involves the design, development and maintenance of one or more consumer-focused Web services. The candidate must be willing to work in a dynamic environment that relies on extensive collaboration between team members using Agile development processes. Our application has scale and precision challenges that demand innovators, people who are passionate about software design and development, who keep up with evolving development paradigms and apply them to their day job as well as their side projects. We need people that live the internet in their day-to-day lives, so that they can provide the key insights that will make our applications best of breed. If you are looking for an opportunity to work on a focused and motivated team collaborating to solve some of the toughest problems in the Web 3.0 space today, send us your resume.

Essential duties and responsibilities

Developing end-to-end systems within a highly-distributed Web and Web service-based application environment.
Innovating to imagine new solutions to new problems while sustaining scaleability, performance, and robustness metrics.
Accurately scoping work, prioritizing effort, and balancing new development with maintenance a defect correction.
Working in a collaborative team environment, co-designing and co-implementing key application components.
Tackling prioritized tasks and working with the team to evolve the application in a series of iterated releases.
Unit testing all written code and providing testing support to Quality Assurance engineers.

Knowledge, experience, skill, and/or ability

Expert-level knowledge of and experience with efficient OO design and implementation.
2+ years of experience developing with Java and Java server-side application frameworks.
2+ years of experience with distributed application development.
2+ years of experience working in a linux/unix environment.
Excellent understanding of web development, including client (JS, CSS, HTML), protocol, and server-side development.
Experience with server-side scripting languages such as RoR or PHP a plus.
Experience with os-level scripting languages such as Perl or Ruby a plus.
Experience with authoring efficient SQL and relational database design.
Experience with Agile development processes.
Excellent planning, analysis and estimation skills.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Education/experience/certifications

Bachelor's degree (B.A. or B.S.) from accredited institution and 2+ years relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Senior Software Engineer RDBMS

CoNotes — Wed Oct 22 16:36:08 -0400 2008

EVRI's content acquisition team mission is to acquire and process unstructured content for the top-down construction of the Semantic Web. This includes such diverse areas as web crawling, feed processing, parsing, natural language extraction, and statistical classification. The team is looking for a solid Senior Software Engineer with RDBMS expertise.

The candidate must be willing to work in a dynamic environment that relies on extensive collaboration between team members using agile development processes. Our application has scale and precision challenges that demand innovators, people who are passionate about software design and development, who keep up on evolving languages and development paradigms and apply them to their day job as well as their side projects. We need people that consume the internet as much as they work on it, so that they can provide the key insights that will make our applications best of breed. If you are looking for an opportunity to work on a focused and motivated team collaborating to solve some of the toughest problems in the Web 3.0 space today, send us your resume.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

Apply agile development practices in collaboration with the team: Scrum, Test Driven Development.
Develop a large-scale distributed content acquisition and processing system with a focus on RDBMS backed work flow.
Continuous system improvement against identified metrics.

Knowledge, experience, skills:

6+ years of development experience, including agile development practices.
4+ years of Java development and associated tool set experience.
4+ years RDBMS experience: data modeling, scaling and optimization. PostgreSQL experience a plus.
Solid working knowledge of Linux.
Scripting language experience. Ruby a plus.
Experience with ORM technologies such as Hibernate and ActiveRecord.

Education:

BS or MS degree in computer science or related field.

Quality Assurance Engineer

CoNotes — Wed Oct 22 16:34:55 -0400 2008

The Quality Assurance Engineer will be responsible for UI testing, regression testing, test planning, and defect reporting for our suite of web applications. The ideal candidate will have experience using grey box techniques to test web services and web application software.

Primary Responsibilities:

Work with the development team to review and verify requirements.
Design test plans.
Create and execute test cases.
Perform manual testing
Create UAT suites and organize company wide test efforts
Provide quality assessments describing the health of a release candidate

Requirements (Knowledge, Skills and Abilities):

1-3 years of experience in the QA field, testing web services and web application software
Must have experience performing manual, front-end testing including debugging techniques for issue isolation.
Experience with bug tracking tools and ability to write detailed defects
Knowledgeable in regressing applications across multiple browsers (IE6, IE7, FF2, FF3, Safari, Chrome )
Team attitude, works well with others to gather data and works independently to satisfy test plan/test case requirements for ensuring a successful deployment of our products.
Familiarity with HTML, XML, Java, Ruby, JSON
Solid understanding of client/server, web architectures and object oriented technologies
Experience with Agile methodology
Knowledge of Windows/Unix operating systems

Education / Experience:

B.S. Degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Mathematics or equivalent
1-3 yrs exp as a QA tester a must

Technical Project Manager

CoNotes — Wed Oct 22 16:33:33 -0400 2008

Evri is looking for a talented and proven TPM to join our team.

POSITION SUMMARY

As a Technical Project Manager, you will be extensively involved in participating in the design through implementation of the Evri back-end systems. This is a role where you will be responsible for completing a variety of highly visible projects, solving complex and challenging issues, facilitating the technical solution architecture, and implementing the project within a specified time and budget. This position requires strong technology background, excellent project management skills, and experience in leading technology projects and cross-functional technology teams. Successful candidates must be action oriented, self-directed, resourceful, have solid interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to successfully manage/negotiate change. You are able to come up to speed quickly and develop a broad and deep understanding of Evri's technology, services, and tools.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Leading software development projects, that will include the design, development, integration, and implementation of complex software systems with new or existing technologies.
Assist in driving development planning meetings:

Including scoping and estimating work effort and resources, putting together functional specifications, conducting technical feasibility assessments, evaluating new technologies, developing prototypes or proof concepts, etc.

Presenting technical issues, solutions, and project status to senior and executive management, both to business and technical stakeholders.
Serving as an escalation point for technical problems and maintenance and support activities.
Operating independently and collectively within a team to meet project objectives

Experience Required

4+ years experience managing custom software development project preferably in scaling web applications
MUST have Three (3) to five (5) years experience as a software engineer
Successful delivery of at least one major software development project and one maintenance release
Experience with agile/iterative development methodologies
Demonstrated experience in managing full life-cycle software development
Must be a self-starter that can drive complex projects forward with minimal management oversight
Extremely organized and capable of tracking, managing, and resolving cross-team issues
Proven ability to lead technology teams in a fast paced environment and hit deadlines according to project schedules
Demonstrated ability to synthesize and write clear technical requirements from a range of customer inputs ranging from ambiguous to very specific
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical issues to a diverse non-technical audience,
Effectively communicate status and risk
Demonstrate ability to effectively prioritize requirements and make informed project tradeoffs
Proven ability to effectively manage changes to scope on a budget-constrained and/or time-constrained project
Excellent leadership skills
Excellent technical skills, ability to challenge developers to defend technical designs
A strong sense of drive, ownership, passion and a commitment to the user experience
Strong customer focus

If you have these, you get bonus points

Understanding of NLP and Web Search technologies
PMP or Six Sigma certification

Education

B.S. degree in CS, CE, Symbolic Systems or other technology focused area

Director of Product Marketing

CoNotes — Wed Oct 22 16:31:30 -0400 2008

Want to change the web and have a great time doing it? At Evri, our goal is to help people "Search Less, Understand More." We are a well-financed Seattle-based startup that offers a casual, fun environment with competitive salary and benefits. We are seeking a superstar Director of Product Marketing.

Reporting to Evri's VP of Business Operations, the Director of Product Marketing will be responsible for developing strategy and tactics to cost-effectively drive user growth and increase awareness of our brand. The Director of Product Marketing will own all online and offline marketing initiatives and public relations for the company, and will spearhead development and refinement of Evri's unique brand identity. The ideal candidate thrives in an Internet startup environment, has a firm grasp of data analytics, and is comfortable working closely with product design.

The Director of Product Marketing will work closely with Evri's product team, VP of Business Operations, VP of New Business Development/Sales, and CEO.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Develop and implement a cost-effective marketing strategy that engages consumers and ensures appropriate balance of acquiring and retaining new users on Evri.com.
Build a brand that consumers trust and that represents our desire to change the way the world finds information on the internet.
Manage Evri's marketing budget, assuring effective spending and accountability for ROI initiatives.
Lead market research; develop in-depth understanding of Evri's users.
Create a data driven culture that produces and relies on actionable, concrete metrics.
Work closely with the Evri product and engineering teams to drive product marketing and merchandising strategies, as well as act as "voice of the user" across Evri.
Develop a communication plan defining objectives, target audiences, key messaging and tactical mix to build the company's market leadership position.
Conduct formal and informal market research and analysis and develop and maintain a competitive intelligence database.
Keep entire organization appraised of market trends.
Act as a key contributor to profitable growth.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

The ideal candidate has:

Required

A minimum 5 years of consumer marketing experience, including experience in product marketing for a leading and/or fast growing internet company.
Significant experience in all forms of Internet marketing (brand advertising, SEO and SEM, and community-based marketing specifically).
Track record of superior performance developing and executing effective integrated marketing plans that produce strong business results.
Demonstrated experience in launching new lines of business and managing brand extensions.
Strong analytical and quantitative skills.
The ideal candidate will have a keen focus on measurable and metrics-driven marketing initiatives and return on investment for marketing campaigns, and deep experience in Web analytics, including setting up a team to implement, track and interpret Web analytics.
Judgment and Maturity: Has outstanding record of decisions; shows excellent analytical process; understands consequences of actions; has good intuition.
Initiative: Is self-motivated; seeks additional assignments; manages multiple projects simultaneously. Broadens self; makes his/her expertise available to others; requires little supervision.
Team Player: Will gladly roll up their sleeves and dive in on any task, big or small, that's on the critical path to the company's goals.
Problem Solving: Conceptualizes well; asks appropriate questions; confronts problems quickly; brainstorms ideas; is realistic in thinking; displays effective follow-up.
Innovation: Recommends and champions new methods and ideas; accepts new ideas and builds on them; learns quickly; has high degree of curiosity relating to marketing; adds value to a given situation; does not accept the "status quo."
Communication Skills: Conveys ideas effectively; tests effectiveness

UI Software Developer (.Net)

CoNotes — Wed Oct 22 16:17:51 -0400 2008

Imagekind is developing one of the fastest growing online art/photo e-commerce sites. We've recently partnered with Flickr, Snapfish, Walgreens and Costco to provide innovative new products and we've got more partnerships and cool features yet to go.

We're looking for someone that is creative and thrives in a start-up environment, and has the experience to build for scale. You'll work with an experienced management team from Expedia, Microsoft and Ask.com and have the benefit of experienced investors and advisers behind the company.

Responsibilities:

Engineering customer-facing application infrastructure and user interfaces, and integrate with middle-tier and back-end systems
Develop bleeding edge new shopping and product features for the existing Imagekind Site
Develop innovative new features and consumer experiences to support third party partnerships with leading Photosharing and Art Sites
Develop and enhance web-based back-end administrative tools to better support users, customer service and order processing

Requirements

Bachelors degree, in CS or a related field
4+ years of software engineering experience in a large-scale web environment
3+ years of experience building Rich Internet Applications (RIA)
Experience building complex UI interfaces utilizing .NET framework and JavaScript
Deep knowledge of various development technologies and frameworks
Proficiency with C#, ASP.NET and the .NET Framework
Strong JavaScript, HTML, DOM development experience
Some experience with JavaScript Libraries (Prototype, YUI, etc.)
Experience in building rich web applications with AJAX, HTML, CSS, Javascript, XML and developing for high-throughput, fault-tolerant, 24x7 availability
Knowledge and high degree of comfort with development of presentation layer, and integration with other application tiers
Commitment to quality and a pragmatic approach to getting things done
Strong problem solving skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Working well with other smart, motivated people
Must be highly motivated and self-managed
Enjoy entrepreneurial, fast-paced environment where serious effort gets rewarded

Sr. Database Developer (MS SQL Server)

CoNotes — Wed Oct 22 16:16:45 -0400 2008

Imagekind is developing one of the fastest growing online art/photo e-commerce sites. We've recently partnered with Flickr.com, Snapfish, Walgreens and Costco to provide innovative new products and we've got more partnerships and cool features yet to go.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for all aspects of the data architecture including translating business requirements into conceptual data models, logical design, and physical design
Participating with the engineering team in all activities including architecture, design, software development, QA, performance benchmarking and optimization, as well as deployment
Development of Stored Procedures, UDFs and other database objects
Responsible for all aspects of the database subsystem including database development, database administration, query optimization, performance tuning, scalability, and fault tolerance
Designing performance benchmarks and leading activities related to performance benchmarking and improvement of the database subsystem

Requirements

Bachelors degree, in CS or a related field
Strong SQL Server development experience; schema design, T-SQL & stored procedures
5+ yrs experience in designing complex database models
3+ years of database engineering experience in a large-scale web environment
Experience as DBA, including maintenance plans, performance tuning and replication
Expertise with configuring, implementing, and supporting high availability strategies with SQL server systems including MS clustering and replication
Experience with data warehousing, data mining, Analysis Services
Deep understanding of integration between MS SQL Server 2005 and Asp.Net, and building a SOA
Strong knowledge of indexing, partitioning, and fragmentation strategies
Commitment to quality and a pragmatic approach to getting things done
Strong problem solving skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Working well with other smart, motivated people
Must be highly motivated and self-managed
Enjoy entrepreneurial, fast-paced environment where serious effort gets rewarded

Sr. Software Test Engineer

CoNotes — Wed Oct 22 16:15:39 -0400 2008

We're looking for someone that is creative and thrives in a start-up environment. As we continue our rapid growth in the consumer space, we remain committed to delivering our innovative solutions with the highest degree of quality, meeting or exceeding the expectations of our customers and partners.

You'll work with an experienced management team from Expedia, Microsoft and Ask.com and have the benefit of experienced investors and advisers behind the company.

Responsibilities:

Manual and automated testing of customer-facing application infrastructure and user interfaces
Testing of Web Services Interfaces (API) and databases and administrative tools
Work with peers in development and product management to ensure product requirements are met
Create test plans and optimize test matrices to reduce required testing time
Debugging and triaging bugs
Gather, analyze, and communicate test results and proactively report test cycle progress and blocking issues to project stakeholders
Review end user documentation for completeness and accuracy

Requirements

Bachelors degree (in CS or a related field preferred)
3+ years of testing/development experience, preferably more
Experience testing multi-tier, large-scale, consumer facing websites
Proficiency with C#, ASP.NET and the .NET Framework
Some SQL Server experience; ability to write queries and execute stored procedures
Experience with software configuration management and release process
Knowledge of software testing standards and methodologies, and the product development cycle
Experience testing Rich Internet Applications (RIA), including JavaScript and AJAX
Knowledge of web application security and penetration test tools/techniques is a plus
Knowledge in load and performance testing tools and methodology is a plus
Commitment to quality and a pragmatic approach to getting things done
Strong problem solving skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Working well with other smart, motivated people
Must be highly motivated and self-managed
Enjoy entrepreneurial, fast-paced environment where serious effort gets rewarded

Technical Program / Product Manager

CoNotes — Wed Oct 22 16:13:42 -0400 2008

As a program/product manager you will own and drive the entire life cycle of new features and products from high level concept design to operational delivery and beyond. We are looking for someone that is creative, passionate about technology and innovation, and thrives in a start-up environment.

You'll work with an experienced management team from Expedia, Microsoft and Ask.com and have the benefit of experienced investors and advisers behind the company.

Responsibilities:

Identify, research and define overall product strategy
Managing the product cycle end-to-end including planning, execution, and release.
Work with development, design, test, operations and executive leadership to define, develop, and deploy new product features, create custom business logic, and integrate with new systems to meet business needs
Take ownership in driving new feature development through every stage of the product lifecycle
Gather detailed functional requirements, collaborate with UI designers, software developers and software testers to identify feature details and document them in a functional specification
Effectively manage trade-offs between cost/schedule versus customer benefit.

Requirements

4+ years experience as a program or product manager, ideally in an online environment
Ability to creatively solve challenging business and technology problems
Experience gathering business requirements and turning them into detailed functional design specifications
High degree of competency with project management including: issue and risk identification and management, tracking dependencies and milestones, and communication of overall project status
Proven ability to work cross functionally to drive the implementation of new features as well as resolve operational issues
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Working well with other smart, motivated people
Enjoy entrepreneurial, fast-paced environment where serious effort gets rewarded
BS in CS or related discipline preferred

Web Engineers

CoNotes — Tue Oct 21 16:46:42 -0400 2008

We are looking for bright, motivated and experienced technologists to join our New York City team in the Union Square area. Come join us in building the next generation of something.

Critical is an attention to detail, a pride in the quality of one's work, the ability to manage one's time and meet deadlines, and devotion to delivering business requirements through great engineering.

Requirements:

Guru-level Javascript ability. Five-7 years of Javascript development.
2+ years of AJAX development experience. In-depth knowledge of available JavaScript libraries and frameworks.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
Proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language (Java, C++).
Must understand the fundamentals of software development, including best practices.
A fine understanding of cross-browser, front-end development issues.
Expert-level CSS and HTML. The ability to create complex, tableless layouts implemented using CSS and semantically correct markup is a plus.
Working knowledge of XML and XSLT. Experience implementing elegant XSL template structures to render complex designs is a plus.
Experience working in a project-driven web development environment.
Ability to manage one's time effectively to meet multiple, tight deadlines, and be highly proactive/self-directed.

Bonus:

Previous work or demonstrated knowledge in social network deployment.
Active understanding of collaborative filtering and recommendations engines, and how they translate to front-end production.

Plug-in Developer

CoNotes — Tue Oct 21 16:45:24 -0400 2008

Requirements:

Experienced engineer in developing Installation build and configuration software for Desktop, ActiveX and Netscape plugin products on multiple Windows platforms, including Vista. Experience in one or more of the following tools, NSIS, Installshield, Installaware, or a comparative installation tool and including significant experience in developing installers for shrink wrap applications distributed on the internet. Experienced working within a multi-skilled team using agile techniques.

Desired:

Experience of OSX or Linux installation and configuration would be an advantage.
Experience with scripting applications including FLASH.

This position can be a contract or full-time position.

VP / Head of Content Strategy & Acquisition

CoNotes — Tue Oct 21 16:44:33 -0400 2008

The Head of Content Strategy & Acquisition will have the core responsibilities of : (1) managing the Content Strategy & Acquisition team, and creating, executing, and delivering acquisition strategies and targets worldwide, and (2) forging and owning key significant content partnership relationships for Joost, acquiring media content for the platform and building, and maintaining deep relationships with key media suppliers (television, film, sports leagues etc.). The role?s primary focus is on leading the acquisition strategy for content, globally.

In coordination with the EVP Content, the Head Content Strategy & Acquisition leads Joost?s global content acquisition strategy, setting acquisition targets and handling and supervising the execution and delivery thereof, and managing the global Content Strategy & Acquisition Team to achieve individual targets, close content partnerships and deals, develop sales materials and presentations, cultivate long-term relationships with content suppliers. In addition, the Head of Content Strategy and Acquisition will source, maintain and own, at times in conjunction with Content Strategy & Acquisition staff, the high-level priority content partnerships for Joost.

Relationship-oriented and strategically minded, the Head of Content Strategy & Acquisition is a results-oriented individual, an excellent manager, and a deal closer with deep relationships in the media industry, in-depth knowledge of the content offering in markets worldwide, a keen understanding of the competitive landscape for an online visual entertainment platform and extensive experience in this area of the digital and entertainment industries. Strong management, communication, negotiation, presentation and relationship management skills are key as this is a high-touch, widely interfacing role with media executives.

This position reports to the Executive Vice President Content Strategy & Acquisition, Joost.

This job will be located in New York and requires extensive travel to Joost? offices the UK, international markets, and other destinations.

Responsibilities:

In coordination with EVP Content Strategy & Acquisition, and in close coordination with Content Strategy & Acquisition Team, lead, develop and execute content acquisition strategy, targets, and plans for Joost, globally.
Manage, inspire, and support Content Strategy & Acquisition Team worldwide, and supervise individual targets and deliverables.
Source and own key high level content relationships for Joost and deliver strategic content partnerships.
Develop and initiate deal models, strategies, and partnership structures that optimize content acquisition for Joost and drive viewership. Initiate, structure, and complete negotiations with high level content partners.
Build and maintain strong business relationships with traditional and non-traditional broadcast networks, studios, websites, sports leagues, pro-sumers, content creation studios, and independent production companies.
Foster and maintain an in-depth knowledge of the competitive digital and/or entertainment landscape, and brief Joost?s Management Team and EVP of Content Strategy & Acquisition on same. Feedback on a regular basis on developments in the digital and/or entertainment content world that affect Joost, its strategies, operations and targets.
Work closely with the Programming, Marketing, and Research Teams, to drive viewership and identify new acquisition targets.
Work closely and collaboratively with with the Content Operations Team and Relationship Management functions, to service, maintain, and enrich content owner relationships and secure pipeline of new content for Joost.
Work closely with Business Development Team, to identify content partnerships and in-market content strategies for new business initiatives, joint ventures and other partnerships.
Represent Joost at industry events relevant to video and online distribution and participate within industry groups.
Identify trends and articulate the implications that will have an impact on Joost?s content strategy.

Required Qualifications:

Minimum of 10+ years of relevant content acquisition experience in the media industry, including experience in the areas of entertainment and digital partnerships in the media and Internet industries and managerial experience.
Strategic thinker with who can devise and lead on content acquisition strategy. Strong and proven track record of setting goals and delivering on targets.
Strong and proven track record of sourcing, structuring, negotiating, and closing content partnerships. Superb deal maker.
In-depth knowledge of content offerings in the worldwide markets and understanding of competitive landscape for Joost.
Existing strong relationships in content area of digital and entertainment industries as well as proven ability to effectively forge strong interpersonal alliances.
Excellent communication skills, both oral and written. Ability to communicate and graphically depict key insights, strategies and targets.
Experienced and successful manager of global team, leader who can inspire individual team members and deliver on targets.
Strategic, analytical, and original and creative thinker with problem-solving abilities to deliver valuable and state-of-the art partnerships.
Strong team builder on all levels of the organization, and able to forge cross-divisional partnerships and achieve company-wide goals.
University degree is required, MBA or graduate degree preferred.
Start-up mentality a must-have.