Business Analytics/Intelligence Manager
Adchemy is seeking a talented Business Analytics Manager to join its Sales and Business Development team. The ideal candidate will have superior expertise in transforming data into operating insights, and using these insights to formulate compelling sales, distribution, and campaign strategies and recommendations. The position requires a highly motivated individual with exceptional quantitative, analytical, problem solving, and presentation skills. Candidates should also have hands-on experience utilizing a suite of advanced BI tools for reporting and analytics. You will be part of a fast-paced environment committed to delivering results which have impact at the corporate level. Thus, the successful candidate will be excited by and motivated to provide critical operating insights and guidance to key business executives, product teams, sales and distribution managers, and other decision makers.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and manage a world-class analytics process and platform which delivers data-driven insights into campaign, placement, and publisher performance, sales network monetization, media risk management, and strategic business development opportunities
• Provide comprehensive reporting, analytical and advisory services.
• Design, develop and produce performance analysis reports providing insights across multiple domains including Campaign Operations, Campaign Testing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), CPM/CPC Performance, and Revenue Optimization.
• Establish baseline understanding and assessment of distribution, campaign, and sales network performance. Work with individual managers to define/refine performance objectives, metrics, data sources, analytics, and reports.
• Review and report on Advertising Operations. Work with Campaign Operations Management and Product Testing teams to plan, execute and measure product experiments. Analyze test results and provide conclusive guidance on steps to optimize both revenue and performance for clients.
• Collaborate with Sales Teams on measurement, reporting and analysis of sales strategies and initiatives. Work with Campaign Management and Product Marketing teams to plan, execute and measure campaigns. Analyze campaign performance, ROI, and conversion rates.
• Use BI platforms to deliver insights. Produce Dashboards, Flash Reports and Drill-Down Reports using reporting and analytical tools. Gather property-specific reporting and analysis requirements and work with engineering teams to incorporate needs into product specs and release plans.

Required Knowledge:

• BA/BS in Business, Economics, Math, Statistics, CIS, Engineering, etc.
• Solid quantitative and analytical skills combined with the ability to formulate insights, present a compelling case for action, and deliver expert advice and recommendations.
• Exceptional ability to visually present and communicate data, analysis and findings.
• Excellent organizational, program management and client management skills.
• Minimum 4+ years current experience developing and managing comprehensive Statistical Analysis, Business Intelligence or Data Insights programs.
• Exceptional ability to work in a fast-paced, quickly changing startup environment – stamina, sense of humor, and flexibility are a must.
• Six Sigma Black Belt or related TQM training and experience a plus.

Regional Sales Manager/Account Executive
The Regional Sales Manager/Account Executive will play a key role in developing and maintaining revenue producing relationships for the Adchemy Customer Acquisition Platform. This position reports to the VP of Sales and Operations.

This person will:

• Identify and build relationships with key decision makers, decision influencers, and other stakeholders within the target advertiser's organizations
• Develop and cultivate a strong sales pipeline.
• Display a thorough understanding of territory and prospect's decision making process, overall business priorities and economic value to solving those priorities
• Persuasively articulate how Adchemy's offerings, competitive advantages, resources and processes can address clients' key business requirements
• Develop creative deal structures, creatively problem solve while negotiating favorable terms, gain commitment throughout the client organization, and reliably close deals
• Marshal company resources to assist in closing deals
• Consistently meet quarterly and annual revenue goals according to sales plan
• Provide ongoing internal reporting and analysis via a sales force automation tool for accurate revenue forecasting by Management
• Assist in defining and identifying potential sales targets and opportunities for expansion in new markets
• Assist in development of marketing initiatives and participation in industry events

Qualifications:

• Candidate should be solutions-oriented in overall approach to enterprise sales
• Strong ability to listen to clients describe their problems and determine what their true underlying needs are
• Minimum of 5 years enterprise and/or SaaS sales experience
• Minimum of 2 years experience with internet advertising technology, preferably with experience selling a SaaS solution to large enterprises, where the key decision maker is the CMO or VP Marketing
• Relationships with key decision makers at companies with significant online advertising / customer acquisition budgets
• Understanding of online Internet advertising, online customer acquisition, and associated metrics
• Exceptional communication, presentation, negotiation, and closing skills
• High energy and self-motivated with experience working in a fast-paced sales environment
• Strong desire to win while being a team players
• High level of personal integrity
• BA/BS degree

Director/Senior Manager of Business Development and Media Buying
Adchemy is seeking a highly motivated Director/Manager of Business Development and Media Buying to identify, negotiate, and manage relationships with large portals, advertising networks, and targeted websites. This position reports to the VP of Business Development.

Responsibilities:

• Identify, negotiate, and manage margin-maximizing media buys with portals, web publishers and advertising networks
• Perform in-depth analysis of publisher, placement, and campaign performance and develop and execute optimization plans
• Develop analytical models to evaluate risk/reward of new publishers, media, and business models
• Continuously monitor major industry trends and assess impact and opportunity for Adchemy's growing media network, eg, social networking, user-generated content, etc.

Requirements:

• 5+ years experience in online media buying and business development
• Strong financial and analytical skills grounded by a solid understanding of media models, eg, CPM, CPC, CPA
• Proficiency with desktop productivity applications, eg, Excel, Powerpoint, Word
• Strong presentation, negotiation, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work effectively and flexibly in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment
• Team player - a willingness to roll-up your sleeves and do whatever it takes to get the job done
• BA/BS in a quantitative discipline, eg, economics, engineering, mathematics, etc.

Java Engineer
The ideal candidate is a smart, productive self-starter who has a passion for building great products and participating in great teams, someone with strong Java programming skills and experience designing and implementing high traffic web-based applications.

Experience with:

• Core Java/J2EE and high proficiency with object oriented design
• Spring and Hibernate
• Experience developing data-centric, web-based applications
• Have direct experience in one or more of the following: parallel or distributed systems, large scale databases, information retrieval, computational linguistics, searching and indexing (especially Lucene or Nutch), search engine optimization, innovative data structure and algorithm development, high performance math software, or Google Adwords API

Experience in one or more of the following areas is a plus:

• Experience in Unix/Linux and Open Source Development (patching, building, modifying, porting)
• Familiarity with Ant build environment
• Experience with JUnit framework, JMeter, or other testing frameworks and harnesses

Education:

• Bachelor's degree and 2+years experience or Master's with 1+ years experience

Research Analyst
We are looking for a motivated research analyst to join our core research team and play a critical role in maintaining and enhancing our technology platform. The ideal candidate is a smart, productive self-starter, preferably with a background in statistics or optimization. He or she has the ability to learn new systems quickly, the persistence to retrieve data from a variety of sources to inform analyses, is able to work independently with minimal supervision, and has the enthusiasm and eagerness to contribute to a positive work environment.

The Research Analyst is responsible for:

• Conducting data analyses and simulations to validate the performance of the technology platform and to identify opportunities for improvement
• Prototyping algorithmic solutions to enhance or extend the technology platform
• Working with cross-functional teams to identify and implement solutions to address business needs.

Required qualifications/education:

• MS in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Operations Research, Econometrics, or related field
• Knowledge or experience with statistical modeling techniques such as logistic regression, decision trees, neural networks or other pattern recognition, machine learning statistical/mathematical modeling algorithms or techniques
• Experience in Java programming
• Experience with statistical software packages (R, S-Plus, Matlab, SAS or similar)
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Experience in one or more of the following areas are plusses:

• Industry experience, especially in a consumer internet or online advertising related setting
• Search engines and information retrieval
• Experimental design, data mining, optimization, natural language processing, analysis of very large data sets
• Scripting languages (Perl/Python)
• Design and use of databases, familiarity with mySQL

Research Intern
Adchemy, Inc. has an immediate opening for an intern to join our Research team. The intern will be responsible for a specific project whose objective is to improve the performance of our online advertising campaigns. The project will involve a variety of tasks including:

• Identifying data sources, extracting and organizing data
• Applying statistical techniques to efficiently describe the data
• Enhancing Adchemy"s existing performance estimation models
• Improving Adchemy"s existing optimization models.

Required skills/background:

• Knowledge or experience with statistical modeling techniques such as logistic regression, decision trees, neural networks or other pattern recognition, machine learning statistical/mathematical modeling algorithms or techniques
• Experience in Java programming
• Experience with statistical software packages (R, S-Plus, Matlab, SAS or similar)
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

The project will be supervised by the VP Research and will involve interaction with many other functional groups within the company. This project will provide the intern with a great opportunity to employ statistical and optimization methodologies in a real-world setting with very immediate business impact, as well as the opportunity to experience life at a fast-paced start-up and to learn about the online advertising space.

Research Scientist
We are looking for a high-powered scientist/researcher with a background in one or more of machine learning, natural language processing, statistics and optimization to join our core research team as we take our technology platform to the next level. The ideal candidate has the ability to devise innovative solutions that have immediate business impact. He or she is a smart, productive self-starter who is capable of working effectively in a dynamic environment, both independently and as part of a team.

The Research Scientist is responsible for:

• Applying state-of-the-art methodologies to a broad range of online advertising applications
• Using sophisticated analytical techniques to automate existing processes and to enable new capabilities
• Building fully scalable prototypes to test new algorithms and formulas
• Supporting analysis efforts of cross-functional teams to address specific business issues.

Required qualifications/education:

• MS or PhD in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Operations Research, Econometrics, or related field (PhD preferred)
• Strong background in one or more of the following:
  • Machine learning, e.g., feature discovery, formula optimization, text classification
  • Natural language processing, e.g., linguistics, text analysis, information retrieval
  • Statistical modeling techniques, e.g., logistic regression, decision trees, SVMs, neural networks
• Knowledge of Java and/or C/C++
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Experience in one or more of the following areas are plusses:

• Industry experience, preferably in a consumer internet or online advertising related setting
• Search engines and web-based information extraction techniques
• Data mining, optimization, analysis of very large data sets
• Scripting languages (Perl/Python)
• Design and use of databases

Sr. BI Engineer
The Senior BI Engineer is a key hands-on position in the Business Intelligence organization responsible for designing and implementing highly scalable and extensible business intelligence functionality for Adchemy internal users and external customers. This involves the creation of analytical data models, a business intelligence semantic layer, and highly interactive web reports. These reports will need to be seamlessly integrated into our existing web based operational applications. The ideal candidate will be well versed in building data models for analytic enterprise applications (data warehouses, meta-data repositories, etc). They should have intimate knowledge of Microstrategy Project Design, Report and Dashboard Design, Customization via SDK, Platform Administration including Narrowcast and Report Services, and be adept at identifying and fixing performance bottlenecks.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with business managers to develop a good understanding of the Adchemy business model, platform and product road map.
• Take a leadership role in architecting and developing configurable and robust BI functionality using industry best practices.
• Debug and troubleshoot report performance problems and tune the Microstrategy application.
• Perform administrative tasks on Microstrategy projects and monitor performance pro-actively.
• Ability to creatively map Adchemy application requirements to out-of-the-box features in Microstrategy.

Minimum requirements:

• Understands Business Intelligence and knows how to tune for performance.
• Oracle RDBMS and SQL experience.
• 10+ years experience in developing Business Intelligence functionality.
• Expert Proficieny with MicroStrategy tool suite (I-server, Architect, Desktop, Web), in performing upgrades, installing patches, researching/resolving production issues.
• Narrowcast and Report Services experience.
• Experience with MicroStrategy 8.1.1 Dynamic dashboards.
• Familiarity with 8.x advanced features such as FLASH.
• Experience with the Java programming language for SDK integrations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent CS experience and a degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g. Science, Engineering, Mathematics).

Desired requirements:

• Web Analytics experience.
• Familiarity with ETL concepts/tool IBM/Ascential DataStage experience preferred.

Sr. Java Engineer
If you're passionate about quality, results, and innovation, we've got the job you've been waiting for. We have an opportunity for someone with experience creating massively scalable customer-facing software applications. We're developing software-as-a-service, we have a high-traffic web-site, store massive amounts of data, create innovative algorithms for analyzing the data to enhance our customer's business, and get to play with the latest and greatest tools and technologies (GWT, Spring, Hibernate, MySQL, DFS, MapReduce, and more).

The ideal candidate is a smart, productive self-starter who has a passion for building great products and participating in great teams. Prior work experience with:

• Strong software engineering skills, including high proficiency with object oriented design
• Core Java/J2EE
• Spring and Hibernate
• Experience developing data-centric, web-based applications

Experience in one or more of the following areas is a plus:

• Knowledge of the online advertising industry
• Parallel or distributed systems
• Large scale databases, information storage and retrieval, and/or data mining
• Familiarity with Ant build environment
• Experience with JUnit framework, Selenium, JMeter, or other testing frameworks and harnesses
• Machine learning, statistical modeling
• Innovative data structure and algorithm development or high performance math software
• Experience in Unix/Linux and Open Source Development (patching, building, modifying, porting)

Education:

• Bachelor's degree and 8+years experience or Master's with 4+ years experience

Senior Research Scientist
We are looking for a high-powered scientist/researcher with a background in one or more of machine learning, natural language processing, statistics and optimization to join our core research team as we take our technology platform to the next level. The ideal candidate has proven ability to conceive, plan, and lead projects from identifying the business need to solution implementation to providing metrics to measure the business impact. He or she is a smart, productive self-starter who is capable of working effectively in a dynamic environment, both independently and as part of a team.

The Senior Research Scientist is responsible for:

• Applying state-of-the-art methodologies to a broad range of online advertising applications
• Using sophisticated analytical techniques to automate existing processes and to enable new capabilities
• Building fully scalable prototypes to test new algorithms and formulas
• Supporting analysis efforts of cross-functional teams to address specific business issues.

Required qualifications/education:

1. Minimum 3 years of industry experience, ideally in a consumer internet or online advertising related setting
2. PhD in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Operations Research, Econometrics, or related field
3. Strong background in one or more of the following:
   • Machine learning, e.g., feature discovery, formula optimization, text classification
   • Natural language processing, e.g., linguistics, text analysis, information retrieval
   • Statistical modeling techniques, e.g., logistic regression, decision trees, SVMs, neural networks
4. Knowledge of Java and/or C/C++
5. Strong communication and collaboration skills

Experience in one or more of the following areas are plusses:

• Search engines and web-based information extraction techniques
• Data mining, optimization, analysis of very large data sets
• Scripting languages (Perl/Python)
• Design and use of databases

Software Engineer
Designs components (a.k.a. detailed design) and resolves defects. BS/CS, 2 - 5 years of relevant experience or MS/CS minimum.

• Strong implementation skills and good overall understanding of the Product Development Lifecycle
• Project management and organizational abilities

General Requirements:

• Prior startup experience
• Passion for building great products and participating in great teams
• Be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident, or have a valid transferable H1-B visa

Specific Skill Requirements
Must have the following Skills:

• Proficiency with object oriented design and Core Java/J2EE development.
• Experience developing data-centric, web-based applications
• Commercial experience developing XML, SOAP, .NET and/or
• Have direct experience in one or more of the following: parallel or distributed systems, large scale databases, information retrieval, computational linguistics, searching and indexing (especially Lucene or Nutch), search engine optimization, innovative data structure and algorithm development, high performance math software, or Google Adwords API.

Additional Skills:

• Experience in Unix/Linux and Open Source Development (patching, building, modifying, porting)
• Familiarity with Ant build environment
• Experience with JUnit framework, JMeter, or other testing frameworks and harnesses.

Strategic Services Manager/Senior Manager
In response to significant demand by its customers, Adchemy is commercializing its customer acquisition platform for use by any advertiser who acquires customers online.

Adchemy is seeking a Strategic Services Manager/Senior Manager to help drive the success of customers using our cutting-edge, online marketing platform.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with prior experience in online marketing to: work with world-class technology and cutting- edge online marketing techniques; see a broad spectrum of online marketing campaigns; be both highly analytic and creative; play a critical role in the satisfaction and success of our clients; and have lasting impact on our clients.

Responsibilities:

• Work directly with Adchemy clients to understand their online business and marketing campaign requirements.
• Lead the design of and recommendation of creative strategies to maximize client performance on the Adchemy platform.
• Coordinate creative and web development activities both internally and externally. Discover, define, apply, and share best practices.
• Configure, QA, and operate Adchemy tools to execute client campaigns.
• Own the monitoring, analysis, and improvement of client performance.
• Become an expert on the use and best practices for the Adchemy platform, and offer insights on how to improve campaign effectiveness through deep use of the functionality.
• Proactively identify issues related to client performance before they arise.
• Represent the needs of the customer; work with Product Management to help define future product features and enhancements.

Specific Skill Requirements:

Online Marketing

• Ability to translate business requirements into marketing/creative strategies
• 2+ years of experience with online direct-response marketing tools
• Ideally, 2+ years of experience at an online agency or online marketing services firm
• Strong understanding of Internet marketing
• Good creative intuition and ability to work with creative design team

Analytics

• Strong analytical skills and ability to draw conclusions based on data
• Ability to investigate, analyze, and solve problems thoroughly
• Capable of exploring outside the box and meaningful alternatives and translate into actionable recommendations
• Experience using statistics - experience with multivariate testing a plus
• Proficiency in Excel including pivot tables

Project Management

• Ability to manage and drive multiple projects simultaneously and work with cross-functional team
• Ability to prioritize among many conflicting needs, advocate a course of action, and pursue it consistently
• Familiarity with project/process management tools and management techniques.
• Strong organizational and planning skills

General Requirements

• Minimum of 6 years of total professional experience
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to lead cross-functional teams, develop relationships at all levels, and influence without direct authority
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills -- must be comfortable with a highly consultative, client-facing role
• Flexible and responsive to dynamic situations and changing priorities
• Good strategic and technical vision, with eagerness to get hands-on to figure out how things work
• Strong customer service mind-set; experience with client-facing professional services and working in a billable time environment a plus
• Entrepreneurial drive to build a program that will have a major impact on company bottom line; willingness to roll up sleeves and do whatever it takes to help make client successful
• Bachelor's degree