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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
- 1-2 years of online advertising experience
- Ability to work independently and execute quickly and efficiently
- Proven skills and desire to interface with clients both remotely and face-to-face
- Technical aptitude and desire to learn the intricacies of the Outbrain system and to leverage that knowledge to help clients with support issues
- Ability to monitor, identify and analyze trends in performance metrics and data
- In-depth knowledge and passion for the web as a marketing platform
Responsibilities
- Manage every aspect of advertisement campaigns
- Up-sell and develop proposals for future campaigns
- Carry out kickoff calls, campaign implementation, optimization and launch
- Provide timely, consistent and accurate support and account management
- 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
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
- BA/BS degree, MBA preferred
- Excellent in-person presentation skills
- Background in relationship building and contract negotiations
- Ability to independently build a large pipeline of outbound leads, pursue and close
- Solid understanding of digital technologies and ability to explain product benefits in detail
- Proven track record selling traffic acquisition programs to online publishers
- Contacts with interactive publishing (media, newspaper, magazine) decision makers
- Experience in structuring and negotiating deals for an Internet company or deals where an online component and revenue was central
- Strong analytical skills necessary to monitor and identify trends in data and generated reports
- 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
- Proven business and analytical leadership
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Project management experience
- Strong background in working with Open Source tools
- Ability to work with various hardware platforms (Mac, Windows, Linux)
- Track record of successfully managing remote employees
- Experience building IT infrastructure and policy in heterogeneous environments
Responsibilities
- Meet technical needs of close to 100 employees across 8 offices
- Come up with unique solutions for our specific environment
- Manage a team of geographically dispersed IT Engineers working in remote offices
- Coordinate support for employees working remotely
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
- Systems administration experience
- Familiarity with networking
- Analytical/empirical approach to problem solving and creativity in developing solutions
- Ability to rack & stack heavy servers
- Strong background in Linux (CentOS, Tomcat, Hadoop, Cassandra, MySQL, memcached, MogileFS, Chef)
- Meticulous organizational skills and fanatical dedication to documentation
- Ability to learn quickly and independently
- Some scripting skills
- 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
- Linux system administration experience
- Considerable level of networking knowledge
- Experience in web operations
- Analytical/empirical approach to problem solving and creativity in developing solutions
- Some programming/scripting skills
- Ability to learn quickly and independently
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
- Facilitate integration process by providing technical assistance both to Account Managers and to clients (first-time and repeat alike)
- Work closely with the Account Manager to implement and release code to clients
- Conduct regular meetings with the Account Managers to review immediate and long-term customer needs
- Perform ongoing QA of publisher sites to ensure quality of recommendations and module UI
- Manage and track both internal and external case tickets to ensure their timely resolution
- Apply fundamental troubleshooting skills to issues before escalating to the appropriate group
- Notify clients of any technical updates and product releases related to their account
- Diligently troubleshoot product issues
- Rally internal resources as needed to resolve client issues; escalate issues to Engineering Group when appropriate
- Provide feedback to Account Managers/Product Management, communicating technical use cases for new features and enhancements
Minimum Qualifications
- BA/BS degree
- 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 demonstrated capacity to learn
- In-depth understanding of the online advertising industry
- Ability to actively drive problems to resolution
- Sound decision-making and critical thinking skills
- Experience in training or education or desire to learn how to teach
- Exceptional organization and prioritization skills
- Ability to interact with clients, management, and peers in an appropriate, professional manner
- Effective cross-department communication
- Ability to contribute to a team environment with a high degree of professionalism and skill
- 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
- Independently build a large pipeline of outbound leads, pursue and close.
- Sell multiple products to a given customer by weaving through large organizations to find the right stakeholders for each product without confusing overall product messaging.
- Work closely with the VP of Business Development – Hispanic Markets 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.
- Pipeline management; accurately forecast new business closure rate and revenue booked.
- Provide input to product management teams on features that would provide partners additional value.
Qualifications
- Solid understanding of digital technologies/site monetization and ability to explain product benefits in detail.
- Outstanding interpersonal, presentation and sales skills. Excellent relationship building abilities and experience in contract negotiations.
- Experience selling traffic acquisition programs to online publishers a significant plus.
- Bilingual in Spanish/English.
- Experience in structuring and negotiating deals for an Internet company or deals where an online component and revenue was central.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to identify trends in data and in generated reports.
- US and international travel as needed to meet prospects and clients and to attend trade shows.
- Contacts with interactive publishing (media, newspaper, magazine) decision makers a plus.
- BA/BS degree, MBA preferred.
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.
