About Scribd:
http://www.scribd.com
Scribd is the largest social publishing company in the world, the Website where tens of millions of people publish and discover original writings and documents each month. Our innovative document reader technology, iPaper, enables you to upload nearly any file including PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel and share it with the world on Scribd.com, or embed on thousands of other websites.
Scribd is a well-financed company, backed by some of the top investors in the world, including Charles River Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, the Kinsey Hills group, Paul Graham's Y Combinator, and several well-known angel investors. Scribd recently announced the company was profitable (Q2, 2009), and coming on the heels of a recent 9M series B, the company is in an extremely strong financial position.
Our office is a beautiful open space with abundant natural light in San Franciscos SOMA district. Our team is talented, passionate, motivated and fun. You'll often find us holding group brainstorming sessions, eating together as a team, playing winner-take-all ping-pong games and celebrating our successes along the way. We offer competitive salaries, generous equity stakes, great benefits, flexible work hours, catered meals, and a stocked break room.
The Job:
As the Lead Ad Optimization Engineer at Scribd, you'll combine your coding skills with deep analytics and business savvy to drive our monetization forward. You'll work with the key players in online monetization to implement new monetization ideas on Scribd. And you'll be constantly analyzing and understanding our monetization data to look for hidden opportunities. In the process, you'll learn how to do quantitative ad optimization at one of the web's largest and most technically sophisticated publishers.
This is an ideal opportunity for someone with an engineering background to learn the monetization ecosystem, build high-level industry contacts, and develop business experience.
The lead ad optimization engineer will have direct responsibility for a multi-million dollar revenue stream.
The Ideal Profile:
Ideally, you have several years of experience developing web applications and have a strong engineering background. You've worked in the online ad business, or you at least have strong interests in statistics, analyzing data, and the internet business. You're naturally excited by the idea of continual optimization and are a mature, responsible individual.
Were looking for someone as excited about business as they are about engineering, someone eager to leverage their coding skills and make a visible and immediate impact on a major, ad-supported web community. The Lead Ad Optimization Engineer will be a highly influential, key player in shaping our business. They will work directly with the CTO and Executives to make Scribd excel.
Responsibilities:
Continually optimize advertising on Scribd by A/B testing different ad optimization ideas
Work closely with our monetization partners at big and small companies
Understand and analyze huge amounts of traffic and monetization data
Build and test new monetization ideas
Work with the finance team to confirm, understand, and predict revenue
Direct responsibility for a multi-million dollar revenue stream
Qualifications:
Strong experience in at least one major programming language required
Strong SQL knowledge
2+ years work experience as a software engineer building web applications
Good knowledge of front-end web programming
Computer Science degree or equivalent experience
Previous experience in online ad industry preferred
Good communication skills
Responsible, organized individual able to take on a big responsibility
This position reports to the CTO.
Availability: Full-time.
Location: You are preferably located near San Francisco, CA. Relocation assistance is designed on a per-case basis. In short, we'll be creative to get you here.
Contact: Please send your email cover letter and resume with the subject "Your name Lead Ad Optimization Engineer via Craigslist" to jobs@scribd.com. All communication and correspondence is held in the strictest confidence to ensure that you can connect and learn more without exposure.
- Compensation: Compensation is extremely competitive and an equity package will be designed commensurate with your desire for risk.
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