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

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Posted: November  8, 2006

Job title:
Advertising Engineer and Technical Program Manager

Company name: Six Apart

Location: United States, CA, San Francisco

Pay rate: Negotiable

Travel: 0%

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
The Advertising Engineer and Program Manager leads 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.  S/he is
responsible for creating and maintaining an ad serving infrastructure,
analyzing the performance of various types of campaigns, and optimizing
revenues from advertising.  Additionally, s/he is responsible for defining
approval processes for advertising campaigns and working cross-functionally
to review and approve campaigns.  The Advertising Engineer and Program
Manager 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 for targeting algorithms and
continuously improve ad revenues.
•	Perform technical evaluation of 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:
	Professional Qualifications
•	3+ years of experience in software engineering.
•	BS/CS or equivalent; good basic understanding of statistics.
•	Strong programmer 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.
	Personal Qualifications
•	Strong verbal and written communication skills.  
•	A love of experimentation and tweaking, and the patience to achieve
greatness one step at a time.
•	A 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#advertising_engineer_program_manager

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/4927#contact