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ChoiceStream is currently recruiting for the following positions:
Product Development
Professional Services
Product Manager, Site Personalization
Department: Product Development
Position Summary:
The Product Manager is a key member of the Development leadership team and is responsible for the definition and delivery of ChoiceStream’s market-leading RealRelevance® recommendation and email marketing solutions. This is a hands-on Product Manager role on ChoiceStream’s flagship product line.
Responsibilities:
Primary responsibilities for this position include but are not limited to:
• Drive feature definition, collecting input from multiple sources including customers, prospects, ChoiceStream executives, sales force, development team, and professional services.
• Create and maintain a transparent product roadmap and backlog.
• Create user stories that engineers can successfully implement and test from.
• Evangelize RealRelevance® product to customers, sales, professional services and support teams. Communicate new product features as solutions to business challenges. Leverage trust and rapport with stakeholders to collect product feedback and apply to future initiatives.
• Effectively balance short term needs and long term goals.
• Attend daily scrum meetings with development and participate in acceptance testing and regular bug triages.
• Contribute to RFP responses and consult with the Marketing team to create compelling product collateral, sales kit, trade-shows and promotions.
Requirements:
The job requires a retail-savvy, hands-on product manager with exceptional interpersonal and organizational skills as well as the ability to negotiate effectively and influence others. Qualifications include:
• 5+ years of product management experience in the software industry, including creation of product roadmap and backlogs as well as hands-on interaction with development teams to build a product
• Prior experience succeeding in an Agile development environment
• Prior experience in ecommerce, merchandising, personalization or email marketing
• Prior experience marketing software products to retail (online or brick and mortar) companies
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• BS/BA in Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, Business or related field or equivalent work experience
• Ability to travel to client sites up to 20% of time
Software Architect
Department: Product Development
Position Summary:
ChoiceStream is seeking a Software Architect with deep experience in high volume Web sites. This position owns the data management and DBMS architecture for ChoiceStream’s advertising and recommendation products.
Responsibilities:
Primary responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to:
• Software architecture with responsibility for data management and DB architecture for entire site.
• Collaborate with other SW architect on designs for high scalability, low latency, complex features etc.
• Present technical vision to internal and external customers.
• Key member of technical leadership team for engineering department.
• Collaborate with Product Management to understand product requirements and ensure product architecture will meet those requirements.
• Hands on technical role, including coding and technical leadership on projects.
Requirements:
The ideal candidate will have:
• 5+ years of SW Architecture experience using Web technologies.
• 10+ years of SW Engineering experience at multiple Web companies. Strong familiarity with Web programming languages and technologies.
• Deep experience dealing with large data sets and associated data management and DBMS issues.
• Demonstrated success with high volume, high availability Web applications / services.
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written.
• Ideally, in depth knowledge of overall advertising targeting and serving eco-systems, ad tagging, click tracking, campaign optimization, and data harvesting and analysis.
• B. Sc. or M. Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent.
Web Developer (with Flash experience)
Department: Professional Services
Position Summary:
ChoiceStream seeks an energetic Technical Advertising Operations Consultant to provide ongoing campaign management and operational support for ChoiceStream’s online advertising product and behavioral targeting solution. He/she will work closely with Professional Services colleagues as well as the Advertising Business team to ensure the success of campaigns throughout the entire advertising lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities:
Primary responsibilities for this position include but are not limited to:
• Build Flash ad templates using Flash and ActionScript
• Build DHTML ad templates using JavaScript
• Process data logs and parse information from them for ad creation and serving
• Update and maintain campaign log for ongoing reference, analysis and documentation
• Manage and migrate ads through development and staging to production
• Perform functional/technical quality assurance tests on servers and browser compatibility for ads
• Test HTTP calls to ensure successful execution with Firebug
• Test templates for integration with overall application
• Collaborate with Analytics team to review advertiser configurations and incorporate feedback
• Draft documentation for ongoing internal reference, training and support
• Work with product development to ensure future customer needs are met
• Participate in customer requirements gathering with a focus on technical aspects and articulation of how business requirements can be implemented within the product
Requirements:
The role demands a team player with strong interpersonal skills, customer facing comfort and the ability to organize and prioritize tasks for rapid delivery. Qualifications include:
• 1 to 3 years of experience in technology, online advertising operations or an online retail setting
• Strong web development skills and experience using browser web development tools
• Proficiency in ActionScript 2.0 is required, Familiarity with ActionScript 3.0 is highly desirable
• Proficiency in HTML, JavaScript and CSS
• Prior experience with Flash development and Photoshop
• Prior experience working in a Linux environment and setting up servers with Apache or Tomcat
• Prior experience writing SQL statements and working with databases is preferred
• Experience with a scripting language such as Perl or Bash is desirable
• Familiarity with Java is a plus
• Experience Extracting, Transforming and loading customer data is a plus
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Impeccable organizational skills and detail orientation
• Strong MS Office skills with an emphasis on Excel and experience using command tools
• Understanding of the product development lifecycle
• Prior experience with advertising systems, including ad serving, creative assembly of ad templates, behavioral targeting systems, and campaign management tools is preferred, but not required
• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience required
To apply for any of the above positions, please email your resume to .