• Front End Software Developer
• MySQL DBA
• Social Data Engineer/Optimization Engineer
• Director of Engineering
• QA / Release Engineer
• Software Engineer
• Social Advertising Designer
• Director of Social Media Sales
• Social Advertising Account Executives (NY and LA based candidates encouraged) 
• Marketing Manager

• Palo Alto (542 Emerson Ave, Palo Alto), 1 block from the CalTrain station
• San Francisco (Pier 38, San Francisco), next to AT&T Park

Front End Software Developer
SocialMedia is developing a next generation social advertising network based on open social platforms. With our innovations in social advertising, social application developers and advertisers in our network will need new ways to see how their social advertising is doing, and we need to deliver them the best customer service with our superior front end. We are looking for a front-end software developer who can take a major role in building out socialmedia.com. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in developing and deploying large-scale, real-world applications and enjoy the thrill of rapidly having thousands of clients using our advertising products to reach out to millions of people worldwide.Responsibilities:

• Use PHP/Javascript/DHTML/CSS/AJAX front-end skills to allow advertisers and developers to control their advertising and get reporting in a user-friendly ways
• Extend our user interface to show advertising and application analytics
• Develop tools to enhance our backend customer service
• Work with backend engineers on understanding the database model and extensions to it
• Work with product management to spec out new features and functionality
• Rapidly iterate on feature releases

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
• 3+ years experience developing Internet-facing web sites in PHP on both the front and back end
• In-depth knowledge of basic and mid-level queries in any SQL dialect; MySQL strongly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of PHP, laying out web pages with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, functional in all major browsers.
• Strong understanding of the development process and best practices, database design and implementation.
• Strong intuitions on good and bad user interfaces
• Familiarity with MVC frameworks
• Excellent time management skills
• Desire to work in a fast paced environment and ability to meet deadlines
• Strong collaborative skills and ability to fulfill multiple roles
• Attention to detail and quality
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong technical support skills

SocialMedia is designing a next generation social advertising platform that is already serving billions of socially engaging ads every month in social network applications. We are processing gigs of data on social interactions about what users are doing in ads and apps in a MySQL server array. We are looking for a super Mysql DBA to take on the challenge to help us build, optimize, grow, and maintain our array of MySQL servers. The ideal candidate is has strong database architecting and management skills, has experience dealing with high volume data processing, and is ready to move mountains inventing the future of web advertising working with like-minded people.Responsibilities:

• Design, analyze, deploy, monitor, maintain and optimize MySQL 5 database servers
• Treat mysql replication, automated failover and recovery so that nothing really bad ever happens
• Perform appropriate back-up, restoration and upgrades of database servers
• Optimize performance at schema level, service level, OS level, hardware level.
• Know when we need more servers and rapidly deploy more servers before its too late
• Work with the development team on upgrades when we need to do so, successfully implement new or modify existing functionality of our ad server
• Assist development team with best practices

• Experience with high volume, large scale production environments in a rapid growth setting
• Experience with MySQL replication, sharding, and partitioning, storage engines
• Excellent knowledge of and experience with monitoring systems, memcache/PHP/PERL scripting
• Proven ability to maintain a high level of productivity in a high volume, fast-paced environment
• Proven ability to work independently with minimal direction
• Proven ability to work accurately and quickly under deadlines
• Familiarity with Internet advertising
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SocialMedia is designing a next generation advertising platform based on what people do in social networks. Publishers and advertisers in our social advertising network need analyses of the large volumes of data we accumulate, which we also use to optimize the performance of our ad network. We are looking for a social data engineer / architect to help us design, build, populate the data backend of our social advertising network, and use this data to optimize the performance of our ad network. If this is you, you should love efficient algorithms, have strong intuitions about how massive amounts of social data can be used to improve our social advertising network. As a key engineer, you will be involved in all phases of the software development life cycle as part of a collaborative team: analysis, design, development, validation and production support. Creativity and pushing the innovation curve with new forms of optimization and analysis is what motivates you, and seeing it work is a delight.Responsibilities:

• Build and extend our distributed data acquisition platform by contribute heavily to DB schema and architecture design
• Develop new algorithms to process social profile and interaction data to improve advertising performance in the network
• Write code to process performance data to feed real-time ad serving algorithms
• Profile and optimize key bottlenecks in key processes of our ad serving technology
• Communicate and interface extensively with the rest of the team
• Work with team to deploy algorithms into production
• Participate in performance optimization and capacity planning
• Document your work for others

• BS/MS/PhD degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field
• Extensive programming experience
• Proven ability to prototype products or algorithms and move from prototype to production-level code
• Experience developing against very large relational databases, and dealing with extremely large data sets
• Experience in PHP and MySQL in real-time production environments
• Excellent problem solving abilities with emphasis on performance tuning and algorithm design
• Strong sense of responsibility and ownership of your code
• Must be detail-oriented and focused on data accuracy
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SocialMedia is building a rapidly growing social advertising network and is in the process of innovating and scaling our advertising network while growing our team of engineers. We are looking for a director to join our engineering team who has worked extensively on innovating and scaling advertising systems and has a proven ability to lead a team in a rapid application development environment. If this is you, you must have the breadth of working on all engineering aspects from algorithm design to code review and QA processes, from database schema to data center to performance analyses.Responsibilities:

• Manage, and motivate a development team dedicated to innovating and scaling an advertising network
• Ensure tasks are completed on time
• Rely on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals
• Facilitate communication between team members
• Work with engineers to create a maintainable and extendible product architecture
• Design and implement architectures that satisfy requirements and provide future leverage
• Promote the sharing of common architectural constructs, standards and best practices across projects within the group
• Conduct code reviews, problem solve and trouble shoot as necessary
• Plan and execute deployment of minor and major releases in “perpetual beta” setting

• BS/MS in software engineering/computer science
• 3+ years of experience in software development in a high-volume advertising network
• 3+ years of experience as a leadership experience within an engineering team
• Extensive experience with PHP, MySQL/memcache arrays
• Extensive experience with all aspects of the software development life cycle including analysis, design, implementation, QA and deployment.
• Proven ability to meet aggressive deadlines while treasuring the climb
• Superior analytical, problem-solving, communication and leadership abilities
• Excellent time management, communications, decision making, presentation, interpersonal and organization skills.
• Proven ability to operate in a fast-growing, entrepreneurial start-up environment
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SocialMedia is developing a next generation advertising network based on open social platforms. We have grown our ad network quickly and operate in a competitive environment where rapid deployment of innovation must be balanced with appropriate QA / Release management practices to ensure smooth ad server operations. We are looking for a super QA / Release Engineer to be a key member of the engineering team to execute QA programs and participate in rapid releases that are part of continuous innovation in social advertising. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter who can own all aspects of QA / release process, be very detail oriented and passionate about keeping code management standards very high while permitting rapid innovation and experimentation.Responsibilities:

• Develop the short-term and long-term vision for quality in our advertising network
• Develop and execute on comprehensive test plans for all aspects of our ad serving technology
• Develop unit tests, smoke tests, load tests to test all aspects of our ad serving technology
• Monitor and maintain the current daily build and deploy releases in a staged environment
• Contribute to improving overall QA process, metrics, and automation tools.
• Document QA automation scripts/tools
• Support code management applications and tools.
• Maintain automation scripts or tools written by himself/herself as well as others
• Lead in requirements gathering efforts where manual test cases are lacking and requirements are insufficient to build automated scripts
• Make recommendations on test tool product and strategy

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent education/experience
• 3+ years experience as QA Engineer in high availability web startup environment where specifications change rapidly
• In-depth Experience with issues involved in large scale production website operations: networking, load-balancing, monitoring
• Experience with release management in production environment setting
• Experience with writing unit / smoke / load tests in production web sites, preferably in advertising network setting
• Thorough command of Linux, php, apache, MySQL, subversion
• Strong ability in root cause analysis of issues, resolving testing issues, and driving issues to closure
• Must have love of finding software bugs
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable in unstructured environments with ambiguous specifications
• Must be able to make decisions and solve problems with aggressive timelines
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SocialMedia is developing a next generation social advertising network based on open social platforms. With our innovations in social advertising, social application developers and advertisers in our ad network will need new ways to work with us to see how their social advertising is doing, and we need to deliver them the best customer service with our superior backoffice systems and analytical tools. We are looking for software engineers who can take a major role in building robust software systems to serve our publishers and advertisers. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in developing and deploying large-scale, real-world applications in a growing web business. You will work directly with our business groups to identify pain points and gaps in existing processes, and augment our front-end and backends accordingly.Responsibilities:

• Design and implement tools to enhance departmental productivity and streamline existing processes
• Execute ad hoc requests for data acquisition and tool development
• Support ad operations in troubleshooting campaigns
• Work closely with other team members in addressing technical issues rapidly
• Maintain accurate and timely effective systems for financial reporting and controls for a rapid growth company

• BS degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field
• 2+ years of software development experience delivering innovative applications in an iterative/early/often release cycle
• Experience with database design and working in a large scale production environment
• Functional knowledge of accounting, CRM systems and web advertising business models
• Ability to problem solve and rapidly code appropriate solutions to problems with minimal guidance and little supervision
• Proficiency in PHP/MySQL and LAMP stack, strong foundation in CSS/Ajax
• Familiarity with PHP MVC frameworks
• Sensibility for usable user interfaces
• Strong analytical and coding skills
• Highly articulate with clear speaking and writing skills
• Extreme attention to detail and ability to QA your own work quickly
• Strong logic, analytical, and organizational skills
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SocialMedia is working on next generation advertising that shows up in social networks seen by millions of people. Banners are dead, but social advertising has yet to be invented, and we are looking for innovative interactive designers who are looking to contribute to breakthroughs in social advertising. In this role, you will be responsible for conceptualizing and creating graphic solutions for engaging social advertising for brand and performance-oriented marketers by leading projects involving Flash and php-based interactive advertising. You will work closely with clients and our professional services team to create and implement never-been-done-before social advertising. The ideal candidate will take pride in beautiful work that sells clients, delight at high performance ads that engage users, and enjoy the pressures of working with an innovative performance-oriented team.Responsibilities:

• Assist sales in mock up designs for client’s “social advertising” projects
• Communicate with clients as needed
• Create art for clients, or work with the client to incorporate their graphical elements into the project
• Design and create all artwork and animation, based on project specifications.
• Implement designs in Flash or PHP using our social advertising platform
• Iterate on artwork to improve ad performance
• Creatively respond to requests to formulate and produce deliverables on time
• Work cross-functionally with others
• Strong command of design, layout and typography
• Mentor other designers as we grow

• At least 2 years of experience creating art in a client-driven setting
• High school diploma or equivalent required, College degree preferred
• Must have strong design and digital graphics background [Adobe Creative Suites, Photoshop, Flash, production software]
• Basic coding ability in PHP/CSS/AJAX [Javascript for DOM manipulation & effects]
• Ability to effectively communicate with a variety of people, such as engineers and producers.
• Work in a fast-paced, deadline driven marketing environment
• Online portfolio (or links to previous work) with a small description of your role(s)
• Excellent skills in project management and presentation
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SocialMedia is developing a social advertising network, affording advertisers new means of reaching with users. We are hiring an experienced and Director of Sales responsible for prospecting and closing new advertiser accounts for our social advertising and social advertising inventory. Our Director of Sales will be a highly self-motivated and independent individual with a sophisticated knowledge of online advertising. You will have had proven sales track records of reaching and exceeding quota and ability to evangelize new media and develop social advertising solutions with clients and our talented professional services team. You are also passionate about building a team of highly-motivated individuals to be a part of great organization.Responsibilities:

• Use your in-depth knowledge of the industry to develop sales strategies, territory planning, and sales practices and policies for social advertising
• Leverage existing advertiser/agency relationships to sell social advertising to advertisers ready for a new mode of interaction
• Collaborate with key internal stakeholders to understand and then develop product-oriented interactive solutions and proposals that maximize clients’ branding messages
• Interface between the advertiser and our technical department to set-up and maintain campaigns on our advertising network
• Keep records of calls made using CRM systems
• Manage revenue and develop programs, promotions, and sponsorships
• Recruit, train and work with a high-performance sales team to close major deals
• Develop sales goals and provide status reports on a regular basis
• Track the performance of the client’s advertising campaigns using our in-house tracking system
• Drive revenue to meet and exceed targets and goals

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Marketing or equivalent area of study.
• Minimum 4 years in online advertising sales experience, with interactive media agency contacts.
• Extensive contacts with major brand and performance-oriented advertisers and marketers, especially in verticals amenable to social advertising
• In depth knowledge of the rich media, behavioral, contextual advertising industry
• Strong cold-calling and negotiation skills to establish new client relationships
• Excellent presentation skills
• Excellent negotiation skills and ability to write contracts
• Ability to develop creative solutions on the fly as well as with our professional service team
• Ability to close Fortune 500 companies.
• Organized, thorough, and detail-oriented.
• Travel extensively
• Track record for hiring, developing and mentoring talent
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SocialMedia has the leading social advertising network, enabling advertisers to reach people with new forms of highly engaging social advertising. We’re looking for energetic and experienced Account Executives to evangelize new forms of social advertising. Responsibilities will include identifying, closing and managing key advertiser and agency accounts and working with other team members to deliver projects and optimize campaigns with top clients. The primary focus of this position is to close new Advertiser opportunities wishing to promote their products with unique social advertising. The ideal candidate uses a consultative approach to build excellent customer rapport, and can transform enthusiasm for a company that is shaping the future of online advertising into sales results.Responsibilities:

• Identify and initiate contact with advertising prospects, through cold calls and leveraging of existing contact lists
• Articulate our offerings, competitive advantages, resources and processes to clients and prospects through email and over the phone
• Effectively identify a prospect’s needs and offer quality solutions, presenting products to C-level decision makers, through Web-ex and in-person demonstrations.
• Present to and meet with new and existing clients to pitch online social advertising opportunities
• Create proposals and bundled membership packages and present them to C-level decision makers.
• Negotiate unit rates, secure IOs, and secure payment.
• Collaborate with Services teams on implementation, delivery and optimization of campaigns
• Meet quarterly and annual revenue goals according to sales plan
• Participate in industry events
• Keep records of calls made using CRM systems
• Develop sales goals and provide status reports on a regular basis

• Bachelors degree with 2+ years online ad sales experience, preferably in a start-up environment
• Experience negotiating CPM, CPC, CPA, CPL-related deals with brand and performance-oriented marketers
• Solid understanding of online advertising and marketing, behavioral and contextual targeting
• Solid rolodex of Advertiser / Agency relationships at “C-decision making level”
• Proven history of related sales experience and meeting/exceeding sales quota/forecasts
• Track record of meeting and exceeding sales targets, fire in the belly to innovate with clients and evangelize
• Significant familiarity with selling social network audience
• Driven desire to earn a strong six figures
• Superior organizational and time management skills, attention to detail and the ability to juggle multiple tasks
• Ability to work independently as a motivated team player
• Positions are available in: San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York. Exceptional candidates are welcome to contact us.

SocialMedia has the leading social advertising network, enabling advertisers to reach people with new forms of highly engaging social advertising. We’re looking for a Marketing Manager to  oversee our public relation efforts, execute marketing events we both hold as well as participate within and create/maintain content used within marketing materials and our website. Responsibilities:

• Proactively manage press efforts with advertising, technology and Valley publications/blogshere to maxmize positive exposure for socialmedia.com
•  Oversee events, soliciting our participation in events as well as creating our own events and executing all efforts to ensure success.
• Create content used within website and webinars that properly communicate our value proposition to advertisers, agencies and publishers.
• Maintain and create sales collateral such as datasheets, case studies and whitepapers.
• Manage search listings to maximize exposue for defined budgets within Google and Yahool listings.
• Complete ad hoc projects as they arise.

• 2+ years experience managing press and marketing activities, preferably within the online advertising industry.
• Excellent communication skills, both written adn verbal, with examples of work to demonstrate execution.
• Proficient in using Office, graphics management tools and web based authoriing tools such as Drupal.
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• High integrity, a drive to win and ability to contribute to a fast-moving team.
• Self-directed individual that can think independently and work well within a team envirnment.
• Bachelor's degree with a high GPA.
• Exceptional candidates are welcome to contact us.