Careers
Adify powers the next generation of focused, brand-driven advertising networks. We're developing exciting new products and services to help Global Media 1,000 companies leverage their brand assets in a web 2.0 world. To help us shape our vision into reality, we are looking for exceptionally talented and motivated individuals with a proven track record who are hard working, entrepreneurial, and share our passion for excellence. Our most valuable assets are our employees, and we strive to create a culture that encourages communication, creativity, hard work, and fun. We offer a competitive salaries, pre-IPO options (yes, that means something again!), ample vacation time, and comprehensive benefits in a fun, collaborative work environment. If you thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where you will be empowered to make a difference, we encourage you to review our list of open positions below and submit your resume and a cover letter to jobs@adify.com.
- Engineering & Operations
- Sales
- Marketing
- Business Development
- Media Operations
- Account Management
- Product Management
- Platform Solutions
- Finance & Administration
Engineering & Operations
Web Applications Engineer
Adify, one of the fastest growing new companies in the exciting online advertising space, is seeking superstar web application developers to expand upon our cutting edge, multi-language, multi-currency, web applications using .NET, AJAX, JavaScript, DHTML, and C#, in a dynamic, rapid-development environment. Developers will also design user interfaces and work with Product Marketing developing new features.
Responsibilities:
- Work with the Engineering team to develop the user interface portion of Adify’s product - a unique platform that enables anyone to create and manage vertical advertising networks. Adify’s customers include entrepreneurs such as Yardbarker and Matter-Mag.com to the Washington Post Blogroll and NBC.
- Develop requirements with back-end engineering team to integrate backend with user interface web pages
- Architect solutions to addressing the requirements of advertisers, publishers and network managers in a scalable fashion.
- Ensure cross-browser (IE, Firefox, Safari) functionality of implementation
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of Web application development.
- Experience using Visual Studio 2005 C# .NET.
- Development experience with .NET, ASP, PHP, XML, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX, Web Services.
- Basic understanding of SQL Server and relational database modeling.
- Experience using CVS (Tortoise), Bugzilla, and TWiki a plus.
- Have built highly scalable web applications for consumer and/or business sites.
- Ability to work effectively independently and as part of a team.
- Experience in working in a diverse, fast paced solution oriented application development environment.
- Experience with multiple-tier applications especially in service oriented architecture (SOA).
- High degree of integrity, passion and drive.
- Background in object oriented development, C++ and/or Java are a plus.
- Bachelor's degree, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering preferred.
C# Server Engineer
Adify, one of the fastest growing new companies in the exciting online advertising space, is seeking C# server engineers to develop and expand on our cutting edge, scalable, high performance architecture. Developers will use C#, SQL, and network technologies to develop high traffic, high performance systems and work with Product Marketing developing new features.
Responsibilities:
- Work with the Engineering team to develop the back end portion of Adify’s product - a unique platform that enables anyone to create and manage vertical advertising networks. Adify’s customers include entrepreneurs such as Yardbarker and Matter-Mag.com to the Washington Post Blogroll and NBC.
- Develop requirements with the user-interface engineering team to integrate backend with user interface web pages
- Architect solutions to addressing the requirements of advertisers, publishers and network managers in a scalable fashion.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of back-end systems development.
- Experience using Visual Studio 2005 C# .NET.
- In-depth understanding of C# 1.1 and 2.0.
- Development experience with .NET, Web Services.
- Strong experience with multi-threaded development.
- Knowledge of SQL Server and relational database modeling.
- Knowledge of SOAP/WSDL and Web Services.
- Extensive experience with performance tuning.
- Experience using CVS (Tortoise), Bugzilla, and TWiki a plus.
- Have built highly scalable web systems for consumer and/or business sites.
- Ability to work effectively independently and as part of a team.
- Experience in working in a diverse, fast paced solution oriented application development environment.
- Experience with multiple-tier applications especially in service oriented architecture (SOA).
- High degree of integrity, passion and drive.
- Background in object oriented development, C++ and/or Java are a plus.
- Bachelor's degree, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering preferred.
C++ Server Engineer
Adify, one of the fastest growing new companies in the exciting online advertising space, is seeking C++ server engineers to develop and expand on our cutting edge, scalable, high performance architecture. Developers will use C++, Win32, IIS, and network technologies to develop high traffic, high performance systems and work with Product Marketing developing new features.
Responsibilities:
- Work with the Engineering team to develop the back end portion of Adify’s product - a unique platform that enables anyone to create and manage vertical advertising networks. Adify’s customers include entrepreneurs such as Yardbarker and Matter-Mag.com to the Washington Post Blogroll and NBC.
- Develop software to communicate with millions of internet machines in a scalable and efficient manner
- Architect solutions to addressing the requirements of advertisers, publishers and network managers in a scalable fashion.
Qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience with C++.
- 5+ years of experience with the Win32 APIs.
- In-depth understanding of Internet standards such as HTTP, SSL, TCP/IP.
- Strong experience with multi-threaded development.
- Experience with distributed systems.
- Experience using Visual Studio 2005.
- Extensive experience with performance tuning.
- Understanding of SQL Server and relational database modeling.
- Experience using CVS (Tortoise), Bugzilla, and TWiki a plus.
- Ability to work effectively independently and as part of a team.
- Experience in working in a diverse, fast paced solution oriented application development environment.
- Experience with multiple-tier applications especially in service oriented architecture (SOA).
- High degree of integrity, passion and drive.
- Bachelor's degree, Computer Science or Electrical Engineering preferred.
Release Engineer
Adify’s Engineering Team is seeking a release engineer who will develop and maintain an advanced build system to support our engineering development efforts. This includes managing version control, and build & release of a variety of web service releases. The release engineer will be responsible for the release tools, systems and processes, configuration specification and management of development and test environments and providing new builds on a daily (sometimes hourly basis) across different web based applications. This release engineer will be responsible for day-to-day support of the builds, plus innovation to handle the growth of services, people and projects within the Engineering department. The release engineer will work closely with the development team and the QA team.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain the development source control environment (currently CVS)
- Create and maintain an automated build system.
- Manage the development server environment including server maintenance and installation.
- Work with Operations to coordinate production and test releases.
- Document configuration and deployment instructions.
- Assist with production issue diagnosis and resolution.
- Support QA efforts with on-demand builds.
- Develop automated testing scripts including build verification test scripts, and assisting QA with automated testing.
Qualifications:
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 3-5 years of Software Build/Release experience.
- Experience developing in a Microsoft .NET environment.
- Excellent understanding of release procedures.
- Knowledge of scripting languages, batch files, perl, python, etc.
- Experience with automated build systems.
- Experience managing a large source control environment, CVS preferred.
- Knowledge of Visual Studio 2005 and MSBuild.
- Understanding of SQL Server administration a plus.
- C# language experience a plus.
- Experience with automated testing systems a plus.
- Ability to work effectively independently and as part of a team.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively.
- Experience in working in a diverse, fast paced solution oriented application development environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- High degree of integrity, passion and drive.
Sales
Director- Media Sales
The Director Media Sales will be responsible for helping Adify drive our next stage of growth by selling Adify’s unique branded vertical ad networks into top agencies and advertisers. Positions exist for New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Responsibilities:
- Prospect for new sales opportunities.
- Conduct sales meetings with agencies/clients and secure advertising commitments.
- Manage ongoing agency/client relationships.
- Meet or exceed quarterly revenue goals
- Potential to sell additional offerings from Adify and our key partners
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate should have a minimum of 5 years of national media selling experience with at least 3 of those years directly in online sales. Excellent online advertising agency contacts are key, as well as an ability to demonstrate a strong and successful selling performance history. The candidate will be smart, aggressive, and creative, and have an entrepreneurial streak and an ambition to succeed.
- Ability to gain consensus within an extended team environment that includes both the company and its partners
- Strong strategy, analytical, presentation and communication skills
- Passion for online advertising.
- Extremely Knowledgeable about the online ad industry
Sales Assistant
Adify is in search of a motivated self-starter for the position of Sales Assistant. This is an ideal position for a recent college graduate seeking to gain valuable experience in the online advertising world. This entry-level position is your chance to get your foot in the door and learn the business from the ground up. The right candidate will have ample opportunity for advancement.
Responsibilities:
This position focuses on publisher acquisition and customer service for the Adify Network as well as our partner networks.
Requirements:
- Great communication skills.
- Detail orientation.
- Strong understanding of the Internet.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Power Point.
- A passion for learning and problem solving.
- The ability to multitask.
- A four-year degree.
Business Development
Director of Business Development
Our Business Development team is seeking a superstar to develop and manage strategic relationships with a wide variety of web publishers. The Director of Business Development will use his/her exceptional sales and analytical skills to identify, solicit, negotiate, consummate, manage, and optimize relationships with manifold web publishers.
Responsibilities:
The Director of Business Development will work closely with the Product, Engineering, and Sales teams to understand the technology platform, conceive new and innovative applications of the platform, and deliver strong publisher relationships to fuel growth. The Director of Business Development should be comfortable evangelizing Adify's value proposition while simultaneously listening and synthesizing client reactions, comments, and needs to help refine and expand the product platform.
Requirements:
- BS/BA, MBA preferred.
- Fearless cold caller.
- 3-5 years of online sales and/or publisher development experience.
- Strong sales and listening skills.
- Demonstrable history of delivering exceptional results.
- Positive self-starter with a "can do" attitude capable of thriving in, and enjoying, a startup environment.
- Superior communication skills, including presentation, phone, and email.
- Proven ability to aggregate, synthesize and disseminate customer feedback/suggestions/comments to cross functional teams.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience building a publisher distribution network.
- Technical understanding of online advertising processes.
- Experience working in a successful early stage company.
- Strong analytical, statistical, and Excel skills.
Media Operations
Manager/Director of Media Development
Media Development is the nexus of insights into the constantly evolving, unique inventory on Networks powered by Adify. With over 100 networks currently and expectations to grow the networks by 100% and the publishers within them by 100%, Media Development is the conduit through which Adify Media learns what is available to present to advertisers in order to deliver breakthrough campaigns.
Media Development At a Glance:
- Liaises with every Adify Network Builder to assess their inventory and develop a mutually advantageous sales strategy.
- Analyzes inventory availability, pricing and characteristics to create standard packages for Adify Media Sales.
- Creates custom, new advertising solutions derived from new assets available directly from Adify and through our Network Builders.
Responsibilities:
- Enable the Adify Media sales team to sell unique inventory and advertising solutions available through Networks powered by Adify
- Coordinate with the Adify Marketing team in the development of refined targeting products and associated sales support materials
- Optimize media sales and buys by analyzing spend and return
- Process inventory related requests
- Determine inventory levels and usage patterns
- Coordinate with media planning team in discussing allocation and pricing strategies
- Act as first alert to ad traffic team of unique or intricate ad requests and ensure those requests are formally captured in Salesforce.com and the Adify Media Sales Template.
- Solicit and secure supplemental inventory to ensure delivery and performance of Adify Media campaigns.
- Liaise between Media Planning, Account Management and Finance in the effective utilization of the ad inventory Insure adequate and equitable distribution of inventory to specific accounts
Requirements::
- Minimum 2-6 years experience working in interactive media (Prior experience at an ad network or interactive advertising agency will be strongly considered). Compensation and title commensurate with experience.
- Proven ability to compile and analyze performance data and metrics; inventory avails and pricing; and, make decisions based on analysis.
- Strong decision-making, organizational, planning and problem solving skills.
- Process oriented, with the ability to juggle many tasks at one time. Time management skills are critical.
- Knowledge of Salesforce
- Knowledge of comScore Media Metrix and/or Neilsen NetRatings
- Expertise with MS Excel. Prefer understanding of SQL.
- Ability to communicate and interact with all levels in the organization.
- Self motivation and resourcefulness
- Extensive problem solving skills.
Account Manager/AMO Trafficker
Adify Media Operations (AMO) Traffickers are the heartbeat of Adify Media with responsibility to place and optimize campaigns sold by Adify Media. AMO Traffickers liaise with Adify Media Sales, Media Planning and Media Development to create campaign delivery strategies, anticipate delivery and performance issues, and communicate with agencies. AMO Traffickers create product enhancement opportunities and beta test new solutions for Adify’s product. The position reports to the Vice President, Marketing and Media Operations and works closely with the Sales, Media Planning, Media Development, Marketing and Product teams.
AMO Trafficking At a Glance:
- Create and optimize Adify Media campaigns
- Analyze ongoing campaign performance
- Identify product enhancement opportunities
Responsibilities:
- Analyze campaigns and place them on the Adify Network Management platform
- Ensure our advertisers’ needs are met and our resources are being fully utilized
- Anticipate inventory shortfalls and performance issues and engage Media Development to address
- Identify scheduling conflicts, set priorities, and offer realistic solutions to maximize efficiency
- Ensuring all stakeholders receive timely and actionable communication regarding the campaign’s performance
- Lead efforts to ensure the company maximizes the potential of its advertising network management system
- Building strong relationships and encourage a collaborative approach across the company
Requirements::
- 1+ years of Traffic Management experience
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate, negotiate, and work as part of a dynamic and cross-functional team
- Ability to strategically prioritize, respond to changing issues, cope with the unexpected, and achieve results under with tight deadlines
- Skilled at utilizing an advertising management system to effectively maximize productivity and efficiencies of campaigns
- Detail oriented, analytical and results oriented
- Excellent problem solving and decision making skills
- Exceptional organizational and communication skills
- Experience with ad networks is highly desirable
- Comfortable with Excel and quantitative analysis
- Knowledge of Ad Serving systems helpful
Account Management
Senior Account Manager
Adify is a leading provider of online advertising platform solutions to media enterprises and advertising networks. Adify is backed by USVP, Venrock, Time Warner, and NBC. Our customers include Washington Post, Time Warner, NBC, Martha Stewart, The Guardian, Good Health Advertising, etc. We are currently looking for an all star Senior Account Manager.
The Senior Account Manager will function as an advisor, consultant, and problem solver to ensure customer success.
Responsibilities:
- Provide leadership in post-sales activities to ensure that customers’ needs and requirements are met
- Serve effectively in project management roles on small, medium, and large engagements
- Guide customers through the vertical ad network launch process
- Build strong customer relationships, acting as point person for customer questions and concerns
- Participate in regularly scheduled meetings with Adify management regarding account status, issues, and opportunities
- Supervise and manage campaign managers
- Campaign fulfillment
Requirements:
- Significant relationship management, post-sales consulting, and project management experience
- Candidate needs to have significant experience building relationships with senior executives at media companies
- Must be a leader focused on customer service with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Candidate needs to be able to quickly gain an in depth knowledge of customers’ needs, requirements, and organizational structures
- Strong business, technical, and problem-solving skills
- Prior experience in online advertising or enterprise software.
- 5+ years experience, minimum 2 years experience managing customer engagements
- College degree (BA/BS) required
The position is based in our central United Kingdom London office.
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Senior User Experience Designer
Adify is looking for a Senior User Experience Designer to join our Product Management team. The ideal candidate is a self-starter and is passionate about creating high-quality and highly usable products.
Responsibilities:
- Create innovative new designs, interfaces, flows, and features to meet user needs, improve the existing product, and solve challenging usability issues.
- Produce storyboards, wireframes, design prototypes, and design specs for new features.
- Participate in product management design discussions and idea sessions.
- Work closely with the product management team to express product features as visual flows that will be included in our product requirements documents.
- Work with software engineers to implement the UI.
- Develop design standards and style guides to ensure product design consistency.
- Coordinate feature and usability testing efforts.
Requirements:
- Excellent and demonstrable user interface design skills.
- At least 3 years of professional design experience, preferably with a focus on creating rich web applications.
- Ability to work as part of a team with product managers, software engineers, QA engineers, and others.
- Tenacious attention to detail.
- Working knowledge of HTML, Javascript, AJAX, and CSS, and familiarity with emerging web technologies and trends.
- BA/BS in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Graphic Design, Information Design, or a technical field such as Computer Science is a huge plus.
Product Manager
Adify is in search of a motivated self-starter for the position of Product Manager. If you want to join a passionate, well-funded start-up team committed to changing the online advertising industry, then check us out.
Responsibilities:
- Understand and analyze customer needs and business processes.
- Define a strategy and product roadmap for one or more business-critical product areas.
- Work with teams across the company to define, develop, launch, and support new products and features.
Requirements:
- BA/BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field. (Master’s degree is a plus).
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Strong data analysis skills. Proficiency in SQL and advanced Microsoft Excel and Access skills a huge plus.
- Prior coding experience.
- Able to learn fast, multi-task, and solve complex problems.
- Can-do attitude and a passion for learning about and developing new technologies.
- Experience in online advertising a huge plus.
We offer competitive salaries, stock options, comprehensive benefits, vacation time and the opportunity to use it, and a fun, collaborative and extremely fast-paced working environment.
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Platform Solutions
Platform Solutions Manager
The Platform Solutions Manager will be responsible for successfully deploying Adify's online advertising products and services to our enterprise customers across the globe. This is a multi-faceted role that combines working one-on-one with clients and prospects to understand their requirements, creating custom web-based solutions, and implementing those solutions into complex enterprise environments. This position is based in San Bruno, CA or New York, NY.
Responsibilities:
- Work with Adify's enterprise clients and prospects to understand their needs and requirements.
- Package and deliver online advertising solutions within large, complex enterprise organizations. Develop and implement processes to ensure the success of these deployments.
- Develop a knowledge base of "best practices" related to deploying Adify.
- Develop training and implementation materials for clients and partners for Adify's rapidly evolving product portfolio. Deliver this training to the sales and support teams.
- Collaborate with the product management and development teams to define the product vision and future functionality for Adify's tools and services.
Requirements:
- BA/BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field (Master's degree a plus).
- Ability to develop a vision for a product or solution and deliver against it.
- Ability to translate business information into technical terms.
- Creativity and flexibility in responding to customer requirements.
- Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- "Do whatever it takes to make the customer successful" attitude.
- Proficiency in HTML and Microsoft Excel, Word, and Power Point. Additional coding skills a plus.
- Passion for online advertising. Prior experience in ad serving, trafficking, or online media creation a huge plus.
Finance & Administration
Accounting Assistant
The Accounting Assistant will perform a variety of accounting activities related to the payment and receipt of money and computes, classifies, records, and reconciles transactions into the Adify's financial accounting systems. This position checks transactions to locate and resolve discrepancies and applies a working knowledge of applicable laws and regulations.
Responsibilities:
- Record, classify, and summarize accounting transactions.
- Compile various documents, verifies their accuracy, and authorizes payments in accordance with established procedures.
- Assemble documents for computer input, verifying accuracy of itemized charges, account numbers, and total costs.
- Select correct accounts; post, verify, and balance debit and credit entries.
- Reconcile accounts and assists in the compilation of reports.
- Apply a working knowledge of applicable laws and regulations; verify documents for completeness and compliance with government and private agencies.
- Know the formal and informal departmental goals, standards, policies and procedures which may include some familiarity of other departments within the company. Demonstrate sensitivity to the interrelationship of both people and functions within the department.
- Perform arithmetic calculations.
- Maintain records through filing, retrieval, retention, storage, compilation, coding, updating, and purging.
- Respond to inquiries. Check accounting transactions to locate and resolve discrepancies.
- Provide accounting services to executive staff, management, and line staff or organizations outside of the company, such as government agencies and banks.
- Use various software applications, such as spreadsheets, relational databases, statistical packages, and graphics packages to assemble, manipulate and/or format data and/or reports.
- Operate office equipment such as photocopier, fax machine, and calculator.
- Carry out duties and responsibilities with limited supervision.
- Make decisions and establishes work priorities on essentially procedure-oriented operations.
- Exchange non-routine information using tact and persuasion as appropriate requiring good oral and written communication skills.
Requirements:
- Required: High School Diploma or GED.
- Preferred: Two years college with courses in accounting, business, or equivalent experience.
Experience: Two years related work experience required. Three years experience preferred. Additional education may be substituted for experience. Experience in the use of software applications, databases, spreadsheets, and/or word processing required.
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