Advertising Engineer / Program Manager (onsite), United States, CA, San Francisco

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Posted: October 30, 2006

Job title: Advertising Engineer / Program Manager

Company name: Six Apart

Location: United States, CA, San Francisco

Pay rate: Neogotiable

Travel: 0%

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
Advertising Engineer / Program Manager
Department: Core Technologies
Reports To: Executive VP of Core Technologies

Six Apart, the company behind LiveJournal, Movable Type, TypePad and Vox,
is looking for a Software Engineer to lead the technical aspects of Six
Apart’s advertising efforts across all its product lines, which include two
of the most highly trafficked sites on the internet. The Advertising
Engineer / Program Manager will create and maintain an ad serving
infrastructure, analyze the performance of various types of campaigns and
optimize revenues from advertising. They will also define the approval
processes for advertising campaigns and work cross-functionally to review
and approve campaigns. The Advertising Engineer is an interdisciplinary
individual who works closely with Marketing and Sales, from within
Engineering, to maximize advertising revenues while maintaining security
and privacy.

Responsibilities

    * Design, deploy and maintain Six Apart’s ad serving infrastructure.
    * Develop A/B testing protocols and continuously improve ad revenues.
    * Evaluate proposed ad campaigns and perform any engineering duties
necessary to roll them out.
    * Write/deploy web-based reporting tools allowing access to and
analysis of advertising campaigns.
    * Provide regular reports to company stakeholders.

Required skills:
    * 3+ years of experience in software engineering
    * BS/CS or equivalent
    * Good understanding of statistics
    * Strong programming skills with experience writing high-volume web
applications and a good working knowledge of SQL
    * Experience with Perl, data analysis, security considerations and/or
advertising server software preferred
    * Strong verbal and written communication skills
    * A love of experimentation and tweaking, and the patience to achieve
greatness one step at a time
    * An appreciation of business requirements, and the ability to work
collaboratively with non-engineers to solve business problems
    * Detail-oriented and highly attentive to commitments and schedules

URL for more information: http://www.sixapart.com/about/jobs

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/4860#contact