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May 28, 2004

Manager, peermusic Online

This position is responsible for overseeing all day-to-day operations of peermusic Online and requires someone who is passionate about music and technology. Peermusic Online includes all of the web properties of peermusic, including the corporate site, company intranet site, and digital distribution site. The department also handles the administration of the company’s global email system.

You will manage the conceptual planning and the implementation of technical and design initiatives on all sites. In addition, you will manage the content management and production process for all information on the bi-lingual corporate website. You will also be responsible for processing the royalties of the digital distribution division, which will include reconciling royalty statements from distribution partners, managing the importing process of the royalty statement, and producing aggregated statements for our independent label partners.

Posted by Chad Dickerson at 10:33 PM

May 25, 2004

Ad Ops/Sales Account Manager

Friendster is currently looking for an Ad Ops/Sales Account Manager to lead the efforts for our advertising and marketing services account management team. This person must be extremely well-organized and attentive to detail, able to change priorities quickly, and juggle many simultaneous projects. This person will be a member of the Business Development team; and must have the presence to deal with all levels of management in a fast paced start-up environment.

Posted by Chad Dickerson at 10:50 PM

May 21, 2004

Vice President, CRM Operations

Position Summary: To serve as head of CRM Operations and platform product manager across functional areas of the CRM organization, including Technology, Marketing Optimization, and Analytics & Data Services; to support the Group's Analytics and Best Practices service offerings. Position reports directly to the SVP of CRM.

Responsibilities:

- Group Operations - Manage technology development organization led by Senior Director of Technology; oversee product development of the ARIA CRM platform, including Data Warehouse, Campaign Management and Reporting areas; manage relationship between CRM Group and CDP from a technology perspective.

- Technology Strategies - Work closely with group SVP and Senior Director of technology development to improve and execute CRM technology plan, consistently tracking development against plan and seeking strategies for increasing efficiencies and enhancing value of the platform for clients.

- Customer Relationship Strategies - Work with CRM and DSP management team to develop and execute strategies for improving marketing effectiveness, increasing marketing ROI, and identifying new business opportunities for clients through the utilization of customer intelligence.

- Customer Acquisition/ Retention - Work with Client Services team to develop effective customer acquisition and retention plans for growing customer databases, decreasing acquisition costs, increasing conversion rates and improving retention rates for DSP clients.

- Analytics - Work closely with SVP CRM Group to provide data analytics services to DSP clients, including: customer segmentations, customer value models, customer retention/ loyalty assessments & recommendations, and customer conversion strategies.

- Survey Development - Support CRM Group's customer survey capabilities, including questionnaire development, data analysis and summary recommendations.

- Brand Development - Work with SVP CRM Group to provide brand development recommendations and support to DSP clients for existing and new businesses.

Posted by Chad Dickerson at 11:38 PM

Senior Director/VP, Digital Music Operations and Strategy

Description:
-Manage the overall strategic direction and day-to-day business, product development, operations, and partnership management aspects of the MTV/VH1/CMT digital music business.
-Oversee digital music P&L, centralized operations, distribution, and partner/ vendor relationships. Coordinate centralized resources for production, programming, rights and clearances, project management, and design.
-Identify and develop new growth opportunities for MTVN in the digital music space.
-Grow strategic relationships with distribution, device, and technology partners
-Work closely with each brand s VP of Digital Music + Media to collaborate on and implement creative vision, programming, cross-platform integration, and marketing elements.
-Interface and partner with multiple MTVN departments, in particular Technology, E-Commerce, Marketing, Research, Programming, Music and Talent, Ad Sales, Affiliate Sales, Research, Business and Legal Affairs, and Finance to further MTVN digital music objectives.
-Reports to VP, Strategy and Operations, Digital Music + Media

Posted by Chad Dickerson at 11:31 PM

May 20, 2004

Director of Marketing

Shape one of the leading brands in an industry that is re-shaping the face of the Internet. Opportunity to create company- and industry-defining marketing programs from scratch.

Posted by Chad Dickerson at 02:55 PM

May 19, 2004

Head of Retail, Vertical Markets Group

Come find out what the excitement is all about... Google is looking to add to its world-class sales team. Our users love us, and our advertisers do too – we deliver results. Google offers advertisers a proven ROI-focused ad program that delivers results up to 10 times the industry average for traditional banners. The Retail Head's main responsibility is to develop and execute on a strategy for driving ad sales with large retail advertisers on a national/international level. This person will work in conjunction with the Google regional sales teams to maximize revenue opportunities with top retailers and will not carry an account list. The Retail Head already understands the needs and metrics of retail advertisers and is well-connected in the retail ad market. This person is expected, through their retail advertising experience, expert knowledge of the market/advertisers, and 100% focus, provide our clients with a true consultative sell.

The Retail Head is a proven sales professional, with extensive direct sales experience, a deep understanding of online advertising and unparalleled team player. This person will be responsible for attaining specific qualitative and quantitative objectives in the Retail vertical i.e. revenue targets for the category, sell-through percentages, initiating business with strategic accounts, etc.

Posted by Chad Dickerson at 11:24 PM

Head of Direct Marketing

The Sr Manager of Direct Marketing will lead PayPal’s transaction and marketing email strategy. This role will own PayPal’s member email marketing communication and loyalty programs. This person will be responsible for developing the customer contact, segmentation and testing strategies to maintain PayPal’s base and drive customer profitability. The Sr Manager of Direct Marketing will be responsible for the implementation and maintenance of our key ASP email vendor relationship as well as identify, negotiate and maintain other services and relationships needed to support direct marketing initiatives. The Sr Marketing manager will also be responsible for building out our transaction email marketing strategy and ISP management. This position will need to build out and manage a team of email marketing experts over time. This position reports into the Director of Marketing Services.

Posted by Chad Dickerson at 11:20 PM

May 18, 2004

Chief Architect/Software Development Manager

Company description
With nearly 15 years of experience, The People2People Group is the world's leader in providing relationships services, meaning such tools as voice and online personal ads. People2People Group is composed of 3 companies --- Tele-Publishing International, People2People.com and G8Wave Mobile. We are a division of Phoenix Media/Communications Group, a multimedia corporation founded in 1966, which consists of newspaper and magazine publishing divisions, a broadcast media division and a printing/graphic services division.

Job description
You will be the primary technical person in the organization, responsible for the development of our products across the entire division. You will be the chief architect and on-going development manager for voice, data, web, desktop and mobile software. You will lead a team of approximately 10 individuals and be responsible for meeting group goals and delivering on project schedules.

You will be a hands-on technologist as well as a leader, and will interact with senior management across People2People and the Phoenix Media/Communications Group. This position will report to the president.

Required skills
+ Deep knowledge and demonstrated skills in Internet application development for large, high-volume, data-intensive consumer web sites.
+ Experience developing with Microsoft technologies such as ASP, VBScript, ASP.NET and VB.Net.
+ Broad knowledge of Microsoft platforms and tools including SQL Server 2000, Windows Server and Exchange.
+ 3+ years experience managing teams of 10 or more.

Desired skills
+ Experience in telephony management including IVR systems development and operations, and large-scale PBX management.
+ Knowledge of emerging trends such as SMS and MMS messaging, smart phone applications, VoiceXML and web services.

To apply
Email: jobs@phx.com (include “P2P CTO� in subject line)

Posted by Chad Dickerson at 12:35 AM

Director of Sales Strategy/New Business Development

Headquartered in New York City, Undertone Networks is a leading provider of online advertising services. Through partnerships with the Internet’s most well known Web sites, Undertone has built one of the largest and most reputable online advertising networks in the industry. Undertone is a privately held and profitable company and we are aggressively growing our staff to accommodate the increased demand for our services. We are looking for talented people to help accelerate our growth.

Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who understands interactive advertising and has the ability to plan, implement and manage a sales strategy. As Director of Sales Strategy/ New Business Development you will have tremendous responsibility to help guide business development for the entire company. You will develop, propose, and implement new initiatives for clients as well as identify sales category opportunities. In addition, you will act as a liaison between the buying and sales departments to prioritize client opportunities, communicate price points, budgets, and objectives as well as identify client trends and interests. You will also be responsible for initiating, negotiating, and managing relationships with our technology and rich media partners. In this position, you will be constantly challenged and asked to manage numerous tasks concurrently.

Responsibilities
• Initiate new opportunities for sales team
• Develop category opportunities (i.e. travel, education, local, etc.)
• Implement sales strategies aimed at targeting specific groups (i.e. packaged goods companies, airlines, online universities, etc.)
• Evaluate and bring to market new ad placements and technologies (in conjunction with Operations department)
• Develop sales collateral (in conjunction with Communications department)

Qualifications
• 2+ years INTERNET advertising experience
• 2+ years sales/marketing/business development experience
• Understanding and experience with technology/rich media providers (i.e. Eyeblaster, Pointroll, etc.)
• Strategic thinker
• Understanding of media math (CPM/CPC/CPA)
• Excellent communication skills
• Well organized

To apply
Email: careers@undertone-inc.com

Posted by Chad Dickerson at 12:14 AM

May 14, 2004

Director of Development

Description
This is a hands-on, code-contributing position. You will be asked to shepherd, grow, and mentor all aspects of technology at the company. You will have a small number of direct-reporting employees and contractors to manage, as well as personal responsibility for architecting and developing client solutions. You will be the representative of the development department to other departments within the company, such as Visual Design, Usability, Business Development,
Information Architecture, and Project Management. Crises and difficult technology problems will escalate to you. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include coding, architecture, scheduling, responding to RFPs, client interaction, and IT management. You will also have the privilege and the responsibility for shaping the company's technological direction through research and evaluation.

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience both as a manager and as a senior-level developer/architect. Our current technology platform includes ASP.NET, ASP, ColdFusion and Java; Windows and Linux; Apache and IIS; MSSQL; Flash and Rich Internet Applications; XML and Web Services; and our own custom Content Management System, Mindseye Element. You will report directly to the Partners of the company.

Mindseye has a premier benefits package that includes but is not limited to
100% company paid health, dental (including orthodontia coverage), life insurance, vision, dependent care flexible spending, commuter benefits (public transportation or parking). Of course don't forget the company sponsored 401K plan.

To apply
Email resume and salary requirements to devdirect@mindseye.com.

Posted by Chad Dickerson at 05:22 AM

May 13, 2004

Director of Software QA

Description
Our client is a software, services and appliance company for personal digital content management. The company produces the first personal server which backs up data, gives remote access and ensures security in sharing documents, pictures, email over the internet for home and home office use. The company has just had a substantail infusion of cash and will rollout a major product release this quarter. We need to find them their QA Director!

The Director of Quality Assurance position is responsible for the management of the Quality Assurance team and process. This person will be responsible for the staffing of the Quality Assurance team and the testing of the products. He/she will drive the creation of test plans and the execution of the QA team against those plans. This person will be an integral member of the engineering management team. They will be the ultimate “gatekeeper� of when products go to market. They will work closely with the engineers and marketing to understand the features in the product and how they must be tested. Under their direction the QA team will inform the engineering team of their progress against the acceptance criteria and work with the engineering team to fix the problems that prevent the products from meeting those criteria.

Requirements
Experience with and demonstrable success in testing large projects, and helping to bringing them in on time. Candidate must have experience in managing the testing of projects that consist of both hardware and software components. Candidate must have the ability to communicate both verbally and written. Candidate must have the ability to set direction for the team and a mentoring ability to help the team attain its goals.

8+ years of QA experience.
Experience with a start-up and building a team
Experience with creating QA process and procedures for product release
Experience with “hands on� QA
PC Software product QA experience (Windows, XP)
Web software QA experience
Networking software QA experience.
Linux and Java experience a huge plus!

To apply
Email: resumes@trijobs.com
Call Irene at 925-361-8595

Posted by Chad Dickerson at 10:09 PM

May 11, 2004

Director of e-Strategy

United Jewish Communities is a national non-profit organization based in New York City that represents and serves 156 Jewish federations and 400 independent Jewish communities across North America.

We are looking for an expert in using the Internet to reach out to people; who knows that everyone -- young, old, male, female, single, coupled -- does at least half of their banking, much of their buying, and most of their communication online, and understands the connection between that and online giving; who sees the web as one of many tools for building a relationship with people; who is fluent in those tools and will be recognized as our system's expert in online philanthropy. That person will have the vision and the knowledge, as well as the communication skills, to help us maximize the Internet as the communications wonder it is, and help drive the organizations within the system to use it more effectively for outreach, engagement, and fundraising.

Qualifications
· Have a fluid knowledge of the technologies employed as part of an ePhilanthropy strategy
· Have online campaign and viral marketing experiences
· Have excellent strategic, conceptual and critical analysis capabilities
· Communicate well, in writing and in speaking
· Be comfortable developing and making presentations
· Be able to drive the creation of the deliverables needed to sell ePhilanthropy
· Identify and communicate new trends and best practices in the field
· Be enthusiastic
· Enjoy being part of a team
· Recognize that growing the donor base is an essential component to the future of the federation system
· Respect the essentially conservative nature of federations, while seeing that the only risk associated with ePhilanthropy is in not participating
· Have good interpersonal skills
Knowledge of the Jewish community is a plus.

Compensation
Compensation will be commensurate with the responsibilities. We are looking for someone who can take the lead in this exciting area.

To apply
Email: estrategy@ujc.org

Posted by Chad Dickerson at 05:35 PM

Executive Director

Executive Director sought to revitalize small non-profit which provides computers, tech education, and internet access to community-based organizations in Africa, Latin America, and other regions disadvantaged by the digital divide. Experience working with free software/open source, managing volunteers, cross-cultural communication, and fundraising all pluses. Salaried at 20-30 hours/week. Salary and hours based on need and experience.

Compensation
Sample salary: $1500/month

To apply
Please send resumes to job@kiteinc.org.

Posted by Chad Dickerson at 03:18 AM

Director, Creative Services

BabyCenter, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, and the leading Internet information and commerce company specifically serving the needs of expectant and new parents. BabyCenter.com, launched in 1997, is a three-time Webby-award winning Web site and the leader in its niche, providing exceptional online content, an online baby store featuring thousands of products for maternity and baby, and the largest online parents community with a loyal and enthusiastic audience of parents and parents-to-be.

Position Summary
Manage group of writers and designers who develop all BabyCenter creative including marketing creative (ads and direct marketing creative), client creative (client advertising), and BabyCenter website creative (site and online store look and feel).

Description
Manage day-to-day activities and professional development of a group of 20+ copywriters and designers (combination regular full-time employees and contractors). Responsible for planning, strategy, resource management, personnel development, quality control of creative, and cost management for Creative Services. Oversee the day-to-day implementation of the BabyCenter brand in marketing copy, design, and images created by this group. Work cross-functionally with BabyCenter business unit managers, marketing managers, and product managers to support creative needs of the online Store, Advertising, and Content teams that are required to meet their business objectives.

Qualifications
BA/BS in business or related fields. 9-12 years experience in consumer marketing (client side in Marketing Management and/or agency side in Account Management) and creative services. Experience should include working directly with and managing writers and designers, online advertising experience, strategic development and implementation of integrated marketing programs including direct marketing programs, and strong marketing and branding experience. Proven ability to work both independently and to collaborate with cross-functional teams, and has prior success in a fast-growing, fast-changing environment. Excellent communications skills are a must.

To apply
Please go to www.jnj.com/careers/expro_opp.html to apply. Once there select "Search Database of Job Opportunities" to see advanced search options and to search for BabyCenter, LLC’s Director, Creative Services.

Posted by Chad Dickerson at 03:13 AM

May 04, 2004

Director, Application Architecture

Job Description

• Manage the Infrastructure Architecture team focused on architecting and designing infrastructure frameworks, components and processes for the eBay site.
• Work with business units, product management, development and operations peers, to develop innovative technical solutions that meet market needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability, realistic implementation schedules and adherence to eBay’s architectural goals and principles.
• Drive technical designs to consensus and approval as a core member of eBay’s cross-functional architecture design group. Identify tactical issues and emerging areas of concern.
• Drive execution on architecture strategies, and define and capture appropriate success metrics.
• Review external technologies and products for their applicability to specific project requirements. Must be able to compare various solutions and select the one most appropriate for the project and company.
• Mentor team members on design and architecture guidelines and value to business.
• Proactively identify and resolve resource conflict and set priority for parallel projects. Identify project risks and make recommendations to reduce.

Required Qualities

• Strong technical leadership, problem analysis/resolution skills, presentation and documentation skills
• Strong customer/business orientation
• Excellent time management skills


Relevant Experience

• BS/BA in CS or related field.
• 10+ years experience in requirements analysis, design, coding and unit testing of scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant applications in NT and UNIX environments.
• 5+ years managing development/architecture teams; hands on manager preferred.
• Domain expertise in security, globalization, presentation technologies or business rules engines is a plus.
• Experience in defining infrastructure frameworks or system layering and componentization. Experience with OS, SDK or Kernel development a plus.
• Experience Java application servers required. Experience with WebSphere a plus.
• Good knowledge of C++, ISAPI and HTTP/HTML.
• Experience with XML, XSL, DOM, SAX, JAXP, DTD, schemas, and XML parsers and tools a plus.
• Expertise in heterogeneous transactional environments and XA transaction managers.
• Knowledge and experience with RDBMS (Oracle, DB2, Sybase or MS SQL Server).
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing large server software with particular attention to security, scalability and high performance.
• Experience with middleware messaging services and distributed objects.
• Strong business and technical vision.
• Strong presentation and leadership skills.
• Proven results oriented person with a delivery focus.

To apply for this position, please submit your resume to trly@ebay.com AND to eBay's career site at http://www.ebaycareers.com.

Posted by Chad Dickerson at 05:41 PM

Director, Market Research

This position represents an exceptional opportunity for a well seasoned manager with excellent team-leading skills and extensive research expertise. As CNET Networks grows, research is pivotal to success of the company, and this individual will play a key role in directing a team of media professionals who are innovating, implementing and scaling research solutions that take us to the next level. This individual would be responsible for research efforts supporting CNET Networks online brands, including research for business decision-making and for sales development and support. The position is responsible for overall team management and development, budget and priority setting, and the overall productivity, quality and insight derived from the projects and analysis that are undertaken. This position requires experience with primary survey research, syndicated media research, log file analytics and secondary market research. All of these tools will be used to support the sales process, prove ROI to marketers after the sale, support strategic and tactical business decisions, and satisfy marketing partner requests.

To apply, visit CNET's jobs page.

Posted by Chad Dickerson at 05:30 PM