JOB DESCRIPTION

• Configure, test, and debug the back-end for GoldSpot Media’s systems
• Analyze and improve system and db performance
• Solve hardware/software issues
• Provide expertise on tuning to Engineering and IT during development, QA, and deployment
• Provide guidance on best practices and advise architects during product design

Skills and Requirements

• Oracle 11g
• Oracle Linux 6.x
• Weblogic 10.3.3.0
• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving database problems
• Experience in Performance Tuning and Optimization (PTO), using native monitoring and troubleshooting tools
• Knowledge of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) options
• Experience in implementing operational automation using scripts

Personal Attributes

• Strong believer in the growth and opportunity offered by mobile
• Entrepreneurial spirit, high energy/self starter, committed to success with strong work ethics
• Desire to bring ideas and contribute to the team
• Contributes with positive energy to a company’s environment
• Able to think quickly on your feet
• Must like beer and pizza Friday’s

The creative director is charged with leading our mobile advertising executions for our clientele and working with marketing to visually represent/communicate GoldSpot Media’s brand identity and product suite. It’s very much a creative role requiring the person to take objectives from internal and external stakeholders and translate them into unparalleled creative executions. The Creative Director should be extremely hands on, use their time efficiently and be able to manage multiple projects in tandem.

To be successful in the role, the Creative Director will need to find the right balance between executing against their creative concepts and lining up 3rd parties for additional resources.

REQUIREMENTS

• BA/BFA degree in graphic design, computer arts or related studies
• 4 years management experience working with large-scale web sites, and advertising
• Must possess a thorough understanding of interactive communications and delivery systems, processes, and user interface design as well as industry best practices
• Ability to lead projects from concept to completion. Apply best practices in user interface and interactive design
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast pace and tight deadline environment
• Ability to supervise and train employees, to include organizing, prioritizing, and scheduling work assignments
• Experience with software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign & Flash
• Experience with Adobe AfterEffects & video editing (a plus) needed for this position
• Document account activities, generate reports, and keep records of business transactions with customers and suppliers

Personal Attributes

• Strong believer in the growth and opportunity offered by mobile
• Entrepreneurial spirit, high energy/self starter, committed to success with strong work ethics
• Desire to bring ideas and contribute to the team
• Contributes with positive energy to a company’s environment
• Able to think quickly on your feet
• Must like beer and pizza Friday’s

As a Java Front-End/Flex Engineer, you will be responsible for developing the user interface for GoldSpot Media’s mobile ad creation and distribution platform. You will have the opportunity to create innovative user experiences that adhere to GoldSpot Media’s core principals of enabling efficiency and creativity throughout the ad creation process.

Essential Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Design and implement new front end user experience features based on requirements from the Business and Creative teams
• Work closely with other members of the platform development team to ensure solid design and implementation from front end to back end
• Bug fixing and maintenance
• Occasional training sessions for QA, Sales Engineering, etc.

Requirements

• 3 years experience working with Flex and Action Script
• At least 5 years of overall industry experience
• Experience working with J2EE frameworks: Struts, Spring3, Hibernate
• Good programming concept knowledge: algorithms, data structures, network protocols
• Enterprise front end development experience (JSP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Weblogic and Oracle database environments
• Experience in advertisement and content delivery technologies
• Shell scripting
• Ant build system
• IntelliJ IDEA

Personal Attributes

• Strong believer in the growth and opportunity offered by mobile
• Entrepreneurial spirit, high energy/self starter, committed to success with strong work ethics
• Desire to bring ideas and contribute to the team
• Contributes with positive energy to a company’s environment
• Able to think quickly on your feet
• Must like beer and pizza Friday’s

As a Sales Engineer, you will be the primary technical resource for the field sales force. You will be responsible for actively driving and managing the technology evaluation stage of the sales process, working in conjunction with the sales team as the key technical advisor and product advocate for our products. You must be able to articulate technology and product positioning to both business and technical users. You must be able to identify all technical issues of assigned accounts to assure complete customer satisfaction through all stages of the sales process. You must be able to establish and maintain strong relationships throughout the sales cycle.

Essential Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Responsible for development and delivery of product demonstrations. Arrange for demonstration and set up customer trials
• Collaborate with sales teams to understand customer requirements, to promote the sale of company products, and provide sales support
• Confer with customers and engineers to assess needs, and to determine system requirements and next steps to move opportunity forward
• Convey customer requirements to Product Management teams
• Develop, present, or respond to proposals for specific customer requirements, including request for proposal responses and industry-specific solutions. Able to respond to functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFPs
• Plan and modify product configurations to meet customer needs
• Prepare and deliver technical presentations that explain products or services to customers and prospective customers
• Diagnose problems with installed products & services and provide solutions overview
• Document account activities, generate reports, and keep records of business transactions with customers and suppliers
• Update in conjunction with sales team account activity into Salesforce.com

Qualifications

• Previous experience with online or mobile advertising
• Technical understanding of iOS and Android. Deeper experience in mobile technologies, a plus.
• Ideal candidate must be self-motivated with a proven track record of at least 3-5 years in technical sales engineering roles
• Comfortable in the dynamic atmosphere of a technical organization with a rapidly expanding customer base
• Must possess strong presentation skills and be able to communicate professionally in written responses to emails, RFPs, and when submitting reports
• Proactively engage in sales meetings and product demos
• Organized and analytical, nuanced in discerning sales processes and solutions, as well as able to eliminate sales obstacles through creative and adaptive approaches
• Must be prepared for extensive travel, especially to New York City
• A BS in Computer Science or a related field is strongly preferred

Personal Attributes

• Strong believer in the growth and opportunity offered by mobile
• Entrepreneurial spirit, high energy/self starter, committed to success with strong work ethics
• Desire to bring ideas and contribute to the team
• Contributes with positive energy to a company’s environment
• Able to think quickly on your feet
• Must like beer and pizza Friday’s

GoldSpot Media’s miSpot mobile advertisement platform enables agencies and platforms to create and distribute Rich Media and Video advertisements to mobile web sites and mobile apps running on smart devices. Part of our strategy focuses on utilizing JavaScript as a technology to drive innovation in the Rich Media and Video advertising space. JavaScript allows publishers and agencies to virtually do anything within an ad without much restraint.

We are looking for JavaScript engineers to develop various components of the JavaScript based advertisements, from libraries that would drive the ad selection and frameworks that would allow integration with external ad scripts to coding actual ad components for rich interaction and visual effects.

Requirements

• 5+ years recent experience with developing JavaScript code
• 3+ years recent exeprience with developing JavaScript for mobile WebKit-based browsers
• B/S in computer science or similar field
• Experience with developing pure JavaScript application or components (without relying on jQuery, YUI, etc.)
• Experience writing JavaScript code for HTML5 and CSS3 environment
• Experience developing JavaScript that has heavy communication with the server (AJAX).
• Experience with HTML5 canvas, and WebKit transformation CSS
• Experience with implementing animation or animated effects in JavaScript
• Experience with using JSON and JSONP
• Experience integrating JavaScript into JSP pages
• Good programming concept knowledge: algorithms, data structures, network protocols

Preferred

• Experience with Google Closure compiler, or other JavaScript obfuscation techniques, products and libraries
• Experience in advertisement coding
• Experience in implementing generic JavaScript library code
• Understanding the specifics of web view components on mobile platforms
• Experience in bridging JavaScript and native code on mobile platforms

Personal Attributes

• Strong believer in the growth and opportunity offered by mobile
• Entrepreneurial spirit, high energy/self starter, committed to success with strong work ethics
• Desire to bring ideas and contribute to the team
• Contributes with positive energy to a company’s environment
• Able to think quickly on your feet
• Must like beer and pizza Friday’s

Requirements

• 4+ years experience in mobile software development
• Expertise in c/c++/linux, J2SE, J2EE, J2ME, Symbian, Windows Mobile, Brew
• Strong object-oriented programming skills, multithreading and protocol skills