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Outbrain was founded with the goal of developing the world’s best platform for the continual discovery of high-quality content. You’ve probably seen us before and didn’t know it was Outbrain. In fact, we bet you’ve clicked on one of our links. ‘Cause they’re pretty good.

To keep building an marketing great products, we are always looking for great people.

Not only do you need to be passionate and good at what you do, but we’re also hunting for folks who are “Outbrainy” – that is, who fit into our company culture.

What does it mean to be “Outbrainy”? You might be a match for us if you love:

  • People who love good content
  • Co-workers who are “frenetically relaxed” – fun, but focused on the work
  • A family-friendly, flexible work environment
  • Co-workers who bring their passions to the company culture (charities, social outings, interests)
  • Self-identified “refined, well-read tech nerds” who are enthusiastic about working on innovative products
  • People who are collaborative and don’t let ego into the workplace

Outbrain offers a competitive salary, equity in a well-funded start-up, full benefits, and a great working environment. We are currently hiring in the following locations:

USA Office (New York)

USA Office (San Francisco)

USA Office (Chicago)

USA Office (Boston)

Israel Office (Netanya)

United Kingdom Office (London)

If you think you can help take us to the next level, please tell us how, at jobs@outbrain.com.

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If you think you can help take us to the next level, please tell us how, at jobs@outbrain.com.

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Boston Office (US)

(Map) We are staffing the following position in our Boston office:

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Chicago Office (US)

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We are staffing the following position in our Chicago office:

Campaign Manager

Outbrain is seeking Campaign Managers in New York, San Francisco and Chicago that will play a key role helping to grow our business. The Account Manager will work closely with Sales and Business Development, as well as liaise with the R&D team, to support and engage the advertising partners.

The Account Manager will specifically focus on managing traffic acquisition campaigns for premium publisher sites. This will include managing all aspects of the advertising campaign post sale, including but not limited to kick off calls, campaign implementation, optimization & launch, providing insight and strategic direction to the client, reporting, upselling for future campaigns, as well as assisting in proposal development pre-sale. The candidate must be extremely knowledgeable and passionate about online media and the web as a marketing platform — especially conversational/social media.

Qualifications

This position is based in New York, Chicago or San Francisco. Competitive salary, equity and benefits. Estimated 10% travel.

To apply, please email us your resume & qualifications using this link

Israel Office

(Map) We are staffing the following position in our Israel office:

Back-End Developer

Outbrain is seeking a Back-End Developer for its Netanya location. Outbrain is looking to add an experienced, talented and enthusiastic Developer to join our Back-End team. If you have experience in the development of complex systems handling high volume of traffic in a distributed and scalable way using cutting edge open source technologies – this job is for you. As a developer at Outbrain you will work in an agile development environment, with continuous deployment. Our code is tested and released is short cycles several times a day to close to a dozen serves in three different data centers. You are expected to handle performance and processing issues caused by high volume of traffic and data on a distributed environment. Qualifications Bonus Points Outbrain offers full benefits, a competitive salary and equity in a rapidly growing (and well funded) start-up. To apply, please email us your resume & qualifications using this link

Technical Account Manager

Outbrain is seeking a Technical Account Manager for its Netanya location. Outbrain is hiring a Technical Account Manager ready to play a key role in expanding our business. The Technical Account Manager will optimize implementations and deployments; provide support for the overall technical aspects of all our products; work with both internal and external parties to ensure that technical issues are handled quickly and appropriately. This position entails focus on resolving complex technical problems and answering detailed customer configuration questions. The Technical Account Manager is expected to actively contribute to the ongoing success of our products while working in close partnership with our Account Managers, Product Management and Engineering and Sales teams. Responsibilities
Qualifications
  • 1 year of experience in a technical client services environment
  • 1 year of experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  • Strong knowledge of Internet technologies and a proven capacity to learn
  • Understanding of the online advertising industry
  • Ability to actively drive problems to resolution
  • Sound decision making and critical thinking skills
  • Strong interpersonal skills necessary to interact with clients, management, and peers
Bonus Points
  • 3 years of experience in a technical client services environment
  • Experience troubleshooting technical issues for external clients
  • Scripting knowledge and ability to script browsers
  • Experience using CRM products
  • Expert knowledge of XML and RSS Feeds
  • Proficiency in XPath(ing) content
Outbrain offers full benefits, a competitive salary and equity in a rapidly growing (and well funded) start-up.
To apply, please email us your resume & qualifications using this link

Senior Java Developer

Outbrain is seeking a Senior Java Web Developer for its Netanya location. Outbrain is looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Java Web Developer to become a valuable addition to our Front-end team. The successful candidate can look forward to developing a variety of applications, both client-side and server-side, using a variety of technologies and frameworks. The Senior Java Developer will be work in an agile and dynamic development environment in cooperation with product managers and other teams. Qualifications
Extra Credit
  • Experience in Linux/Unix development
Outbrain offers full benefits, a competitive salary and equity in a rapidly growing (and well funded) start-up.
To apply, please email us your resume & qualifications using this link

Web Operations Engineer

Outbrain is seeking a Web Operations Engineer for its Netanya location. Outbrain is hiring a highly capable systems administrator ready to join our Operations team in scaling out service and infrastructure. Successful candidate can look forward to working with a dynamic open source environment, cutting edge distributed systems, and state of the art hardware. Working closely with our Development team, Web Operation Engineer will concentrate on problem resolution and creation of systems capable of driving high volumes of Internet traffic. Qualifications
Outbrain offers full benefits, a competitive salary and equity in a rapidly growing (and well funded) start-up.
To apply, please email us your resume & qualifications using this link

Software and Algorithm Developer

Outbrain is seeking a Software and Algorithm Developer for its Netanya location. Outbrain is hiring a Software and Algorithm Developer who will play a key role in maintaining and expanding our business. The position entails development of software and algorithms in machine learning, search, optimization and personalization. The right candidate will pursue deeper understanding of Outbrain’s content recommendation system through independent research and demonstrate ability to move from an idea to working code. Responsibilities
Qualifications
  • B.S. in Computer Science or related field, M.S. preferred
  • Minimum 2 years of experience in Java development
  • Background in industry research and analysis
  • Aptitude for independent research
  • Ability to work in agile development environment of a fast-paced startup
Bonus Points
  • Considerable experience in algorithms development
  • Development in large scale systems / web
Outbrain offers full benefits, a competitive salary and equity in a rapidly growing (and well funded) start-up.
To apply, please email us your resume & qualifications using this link

Global IT Manager

Outbrain is seeking a Global IT Manager for its Netanya location. Outbrain is hiring a Global IT Manager who will play a key role in facilitating  the operations of our rapidly expanding business. The successful candidate must be ready to lead a team of geographically dispersed IT engineers based in our global locations (Israel, US, UK, France, and Germany). The IT group is in charge of all organizational IT needs, including desktop support, tools for sales accounting, HR, mail and documentation, telephone system, and video conferencing. Qualifications Outbrain offers full benefits, a competitive salary and equity in a rapidly growing (and well funded) start-up. Estimated 50% travel. To apply, please email us your resume & qualifications using this link

Data Warehouse Engineer

Outbrain is seeking a Data Warehouse Engineer for its Netanya location. Outbrain is hiring an experienced Data Warehouse Engineer who will play a key role in facilitating the operations of our rapidly growing business. The ideal candidate is an  experienced engineer who can develop software tools to process massive data sets for use in Outbrain systems. This position comes with the opportunity to work with some of the most engaging technologies the open source engineering community has to offer, including Hadoop, Hive, HBase and Cassandra. The successful candidate can also look forward to the challenges of delivering data to the data warehouse storage and making it available for both real-time and offline access patterns. Responsibilities Requirements
Bonus Points
  • Experience with agile, test-driven software development and continuous integration
  • Proficiency in one or more of the following technologies: RDBMS, Spring, Hibernate, Hadoop, Cassandra, HBase
Outbrain offers full benefits, a competitive salary and equity in a rapidly growing (and well funded) start-up. Estimated 10% travel.
To apply, please email us your resume & qualifications using this link

QA Engineer

Outbrain is seeking a QA Engineer for its Netanya location. Outbrain is looking for a QA Engineer to help us on our quest for perfection. Are you passionate about product quality? Do you see yourself taking testing to the max according and out of spec? Can you affect product design before it is coded? Can you throw automated tests into the mix? Want to learn new stuff and share ideas? If you are creative, innovative, a team player, QA-oriented and up for a challenge, you might be who we’re looking for! Responsibilities Requirements
Bonus Points
  • Experience with testing web applications and web-related technologies
  • Experience in working with SELENIUM
  • Knowledge of WEB APPLICATION SECURITY
  • Experience with working in startup/agile environment
Outbrain offers full benefits, a competitive salary and equity in a rapidly growing (and well funded) start-up.
To apply, please email us your resume & qualifications using this link

Group Manager, Recommendations

Outbrain is seeking a Manager for the Recommendations group in its Netanya location. Responsibilities Requirements
Outbrain offers full benefits, a competitive salary and equity in a rapidly growing (and well funded) start-up.
To apply, please email us your resume & qualifications using this link

Client Developer

Outbrain is seeking an experienced, talented and enthusiastic Client Developer for its Netanya location. As a developer at Outbrain you will work in an agile development environment, with continuous deployment. Our code is tested and released is short cycles several times a day. You will enjoy developing a cutting edge product surrounded with the newest technology and tools known to mankind. Requirements
Advantages
  • Knowledge of Action Script  (Big advantage)
  • Experience with Java development
  • Knowledge of JS testings methods
  • Knowledge of Spring
Outbrain offers full benefits, a competitive salary and equity in a rapidly growing (and well funded) start-up.
To apply, please email us your resume & qualifications using this link

DevOps Engineer

Outbrain is seeking an DevOps engineer for its Netanya office. Are you a talented, enthusiastic, quality freak, full-stack developer? Would you like to work with the hottest Open Source frameworks, and tools? Would you like to develop the hottest Open Source frameworks, and tools? Would you like to develop infrastructure to support massive traffic load and massive datasets? Would you like to be able to push your code changes to production at any given moment? Would you like to help us improve our Continuous Deployment system? This job is for you! Qualifications
Responsibilities
  • Design, implement and maintain application and infrastructure components
  • Evaluate and embed the hottest OS frameworks and tools into our codebase
  • Refactor and improve the maintainability of the codebase
  • Bridge the gap between DEV and OPS
  • Read @DEVOPS_BORAT daily
Bonus Points
  • Contributions to open source projects / tech forums (e.g. stackoverflow) / tech blogs, etc
  • Experience working in a start-up
  • Experience with agile, and continuous integration, and continuous deployment
  • Proficiency in one or more of the following technologies / frameworks / Principles: Spring, Hibernate, MogileFS, JMS, ZooKeeper, memcached, REST, DRY, SOLID
Outbrain offers full benefits, a competitive salary and equity in a rapidly growing (and well funded) start-up.
To apply, please email us your resume & qualifications using this link

New York Office (US)

(Map) We are staffing the following positions in our New York office:

Campaign Manager

Outbrain is currently hiring Campaign Managers for its NYC location. Outbrain is seeking Campaign Managers who are ready to take charge of maintaining and expanding traffic acquisition campaigns for premium publisher sites. The right candidates can look forward to assisting in pre-sale proposal development, managing all post-sale aspects of the advertising campaign, and building relationships with clients. Qualifications Responsibilities Outbrain offers full benefits, a competitive salary & bonus plan, and equity in a rapidly growing (and well funded) start-up. Estimated 10% travel. To apply, please email us your resume & qualifications using this link

Director, Business Development

Outbrain is currently hiring a Director of Business Development for its NYC location. Outbrain is seeking a motivated business development director to expand the distribution of our content recommendation platform to additional publisher and media sites. Outbrain currently powers content recommendations on premium sites like USA Today, Tribune, Slate, Newsweek, iVillage and more, along with tens of thousands of blogs. The director will be expected to generate direct revenue by selling traffic acquisition programs to key publishers, blogs and partner accounts. Qualifications
Responsibilities
  • Sell multiple products to a given customer by identifying the decision makers without confusing overall product messaging
  • Carry out pipeline management and accurately forecast new business closure rate and revenue booked
  • Work closely with the VP of Business Development to consistently achieve and exceed revenue goals
  • Liaise with Client Services/Account Managers to effectively manage client expectations and ensure successful implementation of our widgets or technology
  • Travel as needed to attend trade shows and meet prospects and clients
  • Develop solid understanding of Outbrain’s intricacies and be able to explain product benefits in detail
  • Provide input to product management teams on features that would provide partners additional value
Outbrain offers full benefits, a competitive salary & bonus plan, and equity in a rapidly growing (and well funded) start-up. Estimated 10% travel. To apply, please email us your resume & qualifications using this link

Director of IT

Outbrain is currently seeking an IT Director for its NYC location. Outbrain is hiring an experienced IT Director ready to contribute to development of solutions and workflows that facilitate our rapidly growing business operations. This position entails collaboration with the Israel-based Senior Vice President of Operations and IT and requires the successful candidate to work closely with business, sales, and account management and finance teams to evaluate their needs. Qualifications Responsibilities Outbrain offers full benefits, a competitive salary & bonus plan, and equity in a rapidly growing (and well funded) start-up. Estimated 10% travel. To apply, please email us your resume & qualifications using this link

Junior Web Operations Engineer

Outbrain is currently seeking a Junior Web Operations Engineer for its NYC location. Outbrain is hiring a highly capable systems administrator ready to join our operations team in scaling out service and infrastructure. Successful candidate should be eager to work with a dynamic open source environment, cutting edge distributed systems, and state of the art hardware while mainly focusing on physical infrastructure. This position entails daily interaction with the rest of the Operations team and exposure to new technologies and techniques in web operations. Qualifications
Bonus Point
  • Some scripting skills
Responsibilities
  • Coordinate new purchases and manage existing hardware
  • Assume responsibility for the state of the systems
  • Work closely with vendors and technical support team
  • Assist in maintenance and creation of remote data centers
Outbrain offers full benefits, a competitive salary & bonus plan, and equity in a rapidly growing (and well funded) start-up. Estimated 10% travel. To apply, please email us your resume & qualifications using this link

Web Operations Engineer

Outbrain is currently seeking a Web Operations Engineer for its NYC location. Outbrain is hiring a highly capable systems administrator ready to join our operations team in scaling out service and infrastructure. Successful candidate can look forward to working with a dynamic open source environment, cutting edge distributed systems, and state of the art hardware. Working closely with our Israel-based Development team, Web Operation Engineer will concentrate on problem resolution and creation of systems capable of driving high volumes of Internet traffic. Qualifications Outbrain offers full benefits, a competitive salary & bonus plan, and equity in a rapidly growing (and well funded) start-up. Estimated 10% travel. To apply, please email us your resume & qualifications using this link

Technical Account Manager

Outbrain is currently seeking a Technical Account Manager for its NYC location. Outbrain is hiring a Technical Account Manager ready to play a key role in expanding our business. The Technical Account Manager will optimize implementations and deployments, and oversee the technical aspects of all our products. You will work with both internal and external parties to ensure that technical issues are handled quickly and appropriately. The Technical Account Manager will form a close partnership with our Account Managers, Product Management, Engineering and Sales Teams and will actively contribute to the ongoing success of our products. You will be challenged by complex technical problems and detailed customer configuration questions. If you are interested in joining a group of accomplished, passionate people pushing the edge on blogging, widgets and online publishing; if you think content discovery is a key concept for the future of the Internet--then we want to talk to you. As with any Outbrain employee, we're looking for someone who is resourceful, bright, proactive, a go-getter, passionate about what she or he does, and works well both independently and as a part of a team. Responsibilities Minimum Qualifications
Bonus Points
  • 3 years of experience in a technical client services environment
  • Experience troubleshooting technical issues for external clients
  • Scripting knowledge or ability to script browsers
  • Experience using CRM products
  • Expert knowledge of XML and RSS Feeds
  • Proficiency in XPath(ing) content
  • Working knowledge of blogging platforms such as WordPress, Typepad and Blogger
Outbrain offers full benefits, a competitive salary and bonus plan, and equity in a rapidly growing (and well funded) start-up. To apply, please email us your resume & qualifications using this link

Director, Business Development/Hispanic Markets

Outbrain is seeking a highly motivated, passionate and organized business development director to expand the distribution of our content recommendation platform to additional publisher and media sites throughout the US Hispanic and Latin American marketplace. Outbrain currently powers content recommendations on premium sites like USATODAY, Tribune, Slate, Newsweek, iVillage and more, along with tens of thousands of blogs. The director will be expected to form similar partnerships to extend our distribution footprint in Hispanic markets. For this position we are looking for a strong deal-oriented professional who can identify, source and structure partnerships independently to further the company’s strategic initiatives. Experience working with the digital departments of large publishers such as newspapers, magazines, media companies or large blog networks is a plus, as is previous experience selling to audience development and/or marketing teams at online publishers. Candidate must be Bi-Lingual Spanish/English. International travel required. Responsibilities Qualifications Outbrain offers full benefits, a competitive salary & bonus plan, and equity in a rapidly growing (and well funded) start-up. If you think you can take Outbrain to the next level, please email us your resume using this link. Outbrain is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Sales Planner, New York

Outbrain is seeking an experienced Sales Planner to work with the Publisher Sales and Brand/Agency Sales groups to identify potential prospects and assist with the presales process. Outbrain currently powers content recommendations on premium sites like USATODAY, Tribune, Slate, Newsweek, iVillage and more, along with tens of thousands of blogs. The Sales Planner will be expected to identify as-yet unidentified publishers and brands to assist our Business Development group to form similar partnerships. The ideal candidate will be extremely organized and have a passion for digital publishing. The sales planner will conduct thorough research on the publisher landscape and identify prospects who could both benefit from and financially afford a traffic acquisition campaign. Work with brands and agencies will be similar. The deliverable will include a daily prospect list that includes contact information for the appropriate stakeholder(s), along with reasoning behind the inclusion of each prospect on the list. The Sales Planner will keep abreast of digital publishing trends and understand the potential competitive threats to Outbrain’s products (e.g. competitors, substitute products, etc). Finally, the sales planner will follow up internally with each business development person to learn the outcome of each prospect and the reasons why a deal was or was not reached. Outbrain offers full benefits, a competitive salary & bonus plan, and equity in a rapidly growing (and well funded) start-up. If you think you can take Outbrain to the next level, please email us your resume using this link. Outbrain is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

San Francisco Office (US)

(Map) We are staffing the following positions in our San Francisco office:

Account Manager, Partner Development

Outbrain is currently hiring an Account Manager of Partner Development for its San Francisco  location. Outbrain is seeking an Account Manager who will work closely with Business Development as well as liaise with the Research & Development team to support top tier publishers and partners within the Outbrain network. This position comes with the opportunity for tight collaboration with elite publishers to help implement, launch and optimize the Outbrain content recommendations widgets on their sites. The position will also focus on growing existing relationships by up-selling new initiatives to publishers and maintaining and growing the metrics on their sites. Qualifications
Bonus Points
Responsibilities
 
  • Work closely with Business Development on client integrations, on-going support and general account maintenance
  • Help implement and launch the Outbrain content recommendations widget
  • Track post launch performance and offer strategic direction to improve engagement and revenue generation
  • Take the lead on key accounts for maintenance, upgrades and overall support
  • Attend topical conferences and meet-ups as an Outbrain evangelist and community manager
Outbrain offers full benefits, a competitive salary & bonus plan, and equity in a rapidly growing (and well funded) start-up. Estimated 10% travel. To apply, please email us your resume & qualifications using this link

United Kingdom Office (US)

(Map) We are not currently staffing any positions in our London office.