Our core team represents a wide diversity of creative, technical, and professional disciplines, all motivated by the opportunity to invent an entirely new medium for tomorrow's mobile phones. Zumobi is a well-funded startup headquartered in downtown Seattle. Our founding team has many years of experience in product development, business strategy, software engineering, marketing, and interaction design. We are looking for brilliant, creative, passionate professionals to help us transform the mobile experience in bold and exciting ways.
Advertising Operations Manager - Posted June 19, 2009
Location: Seattle
Do you know how to optimize ad campaigns with your eyes closed? When the third-party ad server encounters a problem, do you see it as an opportunity and a challenge? Will you be able to articulate to management why the system encountered a problem and how you were able to keep the ad products serving and revenue being earned during what could have been downtime?
Zumobi is the leading developer of "branded" iPhone applications. That means we work with some of the biggest brands in the world (American Idol, MSNBC, XBox, REI) to extend their content and reach their customers on the #1 superphone platform in the world. We also pay close attention to other platforms like the Palm Pre and Google's Android. We provide advertisers with a unique opportunity to access the highly coveted mobile audience with targeted, effective, and relevant advertising, with off-the charts engagement and conversion rates. Our advertising inventory is being gobbled up by top brands including Pepsi, Adidas, LLBean and Best Buy; if you can effectively manage that for us, we want to meet you.
The Advertising Operations Manager will work with the product development and ad sales teams to develop a slate of next-generation, high-value advertising opportunities. We're looking for an experienced individual to take a hands-on role in all levels of advertising operations, including ad trafficking, campaign implementation, inventory management, creative management, campaign reporting, and sales and client support. The Advertising Operations Manager will have the ultimate responsibility for ensuring full online campaign delivery and tracking. The successful candidate will be able to thrive and grow with the job in a fast paced, high growth environment, be flexible and willing to tackle new opportunities, and have a passion for the mobile experience.
.Responsibilities:
- Define and implement ad operations processes and manage the daily operations of the department
- Be the primary point of contact for all ad related inquiries
- Support design & implementation of new ad products, network relationships and strategy
- Collaborate with internal teams to launch new and support existing ad products
- Coordinate with our ad serving vendor and any 3rd-party ad servers in the set-up, execution and reporting of our ad campaigns
- Interface with sales, marketing, and other teams to ensure campaign implementation and delivery
- Interface with accounting/finance department for AR, revenue distribution, billing and department expenses
- Optimize ad campaigns to insure complete delivery and maximum revenue
- Manage inventory allocation across direct sales, network sales and house ad campaigns
- Provide accurate inventory forecasts to the sales and finance teams
- Create and analyze reports to insure campaign performance and contract compliance
- Troubleshoot and resolve all internal and external issues associated with ad campaigns (ad related tech support)
Qualifications:
- 5+ years relevant work experience managing online ad operations
- Experience with one or more internet ad serving systems, such as Atlas, DoubleClick or OpenX
- Understanding of inventory management principles
- Familiar with online advertising, sales, and marketing concepts & metrics
- Strong quantitative and analytical abilities
- Advanced spreadsheet and database management skills
- Superior time management skills and capacity to manage multiple projects with tight deadlines
- Excellent project-management skills
- Solid HTML, JavaScript & Rich Media knowledge coupled with internet technical expertise
- Strong troubleshooting skills with the ability to "think outside of the box"
- Detail oriented, with excellent analytical, technical, and problem solving skills
- Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and in a team environment, with exceptional client service skills
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Ability to learn new skills quickly
- Solid oral and written communication skills
- Flexible and willing to go the extra mile
- Bachelor's degree
Recruitment agencies: Zumobi does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our Careers email alias or any other company location. Zumobi is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Production Operations Engineer - Posted May 28, 2009
Location: Seattle
Do you know how to administer fleets of Linux systems with your eyes closed? When a pager goes off, do you see it as an opportunity and a challenge? Does running a script that automates previously manual tasks bring a smile to your face? Will you be able to articulate to management why the pager went off and how you were able to keep the system running and profitable during what could have been downtime?
Zumobi is the leading developer of "branded" iPhone applications. That means we work with some of the biggest brands in the world (American Idol, MSNBC, XBox, REI) to extend their content and reach their customers on the #1 superphone platform in the world. We also pay close attention to other platforms like the upcoming Palm Pre and Google's Android. We're a small team of A+ players who are more interested in the best way to solve the problem than in "the new way that seems cool". If you're a systems ninja who has proven experience helping to manage high-traffic web sites, we want to meet you.
Responsibilities:
- Work directly with developers to design and deploy complex systems supporting the company's products in a 7x24 environment
- Build and enhance automation solutions that replace manual deployment and maintenance tasks
- Own the company's monitoring and alerting systems, including working with developers to specify standard manageability features of server software componentry
- Support multiple deployment environments for development, staging, and production
- Perform load analysis and trend analysis to drive capacity planning for server components
- Willingness to carry an on-call pager and manage pager rotations among qualified staff
- Document, document, document (via wiki pages or more traditional technical documentation) the inner workings of our operational environment
- Own replication and backup/disaster recovery systems for production environments
- Work with outsourced corporate IT staff to oversee areas of overlap (corporate network access, offsite backup storage, hardware procurement, documentation, etc)
Qualifications / Requirements:
- Strong Linux skills required. Experience with installations, upgrades, and maintenance required; Linux virtualization experience a plus
- Network administration skills required. Configuring network devices like switches, firewalls, and routers is part of the job.
- Experience with high-traffic, public-facing websites
- Experience with open source monitoring systems like Nagios, Zenoss, Zabbix
- Experience managing and maintaining open-source relational databases
- Ability and desire to automate systems administration tasks with shell scripts and open source tools like Puppet and Capistrano
- Strong written and verbal communications skills
- Familiarity with Linux in public cloud computing environments (EC2, Nirvanix, Mosso) and CDN solutions (Akamai, Limelight, CloudFront) is a plus
Recruitment agencies: Zumobi does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our Careers email alias or any other company location. Zumobi is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Reasons to Work at Zumobi
- Competitive Compensation, including Stock Options
- 100% Premiums for Employees’ Medical, Dental and Vision Plans
- 401K
- Paid Time-Off and Holidays
- Monthly Transportation Subsidy
- AD&D and Life Insurance
- Great Location in the Heart of Downtown Seattle
- On-site Exercise Facility
- Cool Business Cards
- Peers with a Superhuman Work Ethic
- Gratis Snacks and Beverages