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About Scribd:
Scribd is the largest social publishing company in the world. Since Scribd launched in March 2007, it has become one of the top 100 global websites on the Internet with more than 50 million readers each month and more than 60,000 new documents shared every day.
Scribd is changing the way people discover and share original writings and documents on the Web. Our innovative document reader technology, iPaper, enables anyone to easily upload PDF, Word, PowerPoint and other document types to share on Scribd.com or embed on thousands of other websites.
Scribd is a well-financed company, backed by some of the top investors in the world, including Charles River Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, the Kinsey Hills group, Paul Graham's Y Combinator, and several well-known angel investors.
Our office is a beautiful open space with abundant natural light in San Francisco’s SOMA district. Our team is talented, passionate, motivated and fun. You'll often find us holding group brainstorming sessions, eating lunch and dinner as a team, playing winner-take-all ping-pong games and celebrating our successes along the way. We offer competitive salaries, generous equity stakes, great benefits, flexible work hours, catered lunches and dinners, and a stocked break room.
The Job:
As the Lead Ad Optimization Engineer at Scribd, you'll combine your coding skills with deep analytics and business savvy to drive our monetization forward. You'll work with the key players in online monetization to implement new monetization ideas on Scribd. And you'll be constantly analyzing and understanding our monetization data to look for hidden opportunities. In the process, you'll learn how to do quantitative ad optimization at one of the web's largest and most technically sophisticated publishers.
This is an ideal opportunity for someone with an engineering background to learn the monetization ecosystem, build high-level industry contacts, and develop business experience.
The lead ad optimization engineer will have direct responsibility for a multi-million dollar revenue stream.
The Ideal Profile:
Ideally, you have several years of experience developing web applications and have a strong engineering background. You've worked in the online ad business, or you at least have strong interests in statistics, analyzing data, and the internet business. You're naturally excited by the idea of continual optimization and are a mature, responsible individual.
We’re looking for someone as excited about business as they are about engineering, someone eager to leverage their coding skills and make a visible and immediate impact on a major, ad-supported web community. The Lead Ad Optimization Engineer will be a highly influential, key player in shaping our business. They will work directly with the CTO and Executives to make Scribd excel.
Responsibilities:
· Continually optimize advertising on Scribd by A/B testing different ad optimization ideas
· Work closely with our monetization partners at big and small companies
· Understand and analyze huge amounts of traffic and monetization data
· Build and test new monetization ideas
· Work with the finance team to confirm, understand, and predict revenue
· Direct responsibility for a multi-million dollar revenue stream
Qualifications:
· Strong experience in at least one major programming language required
· Strong SQL knowledge
· 2+ years work experience as a software engineer building web applications
· Good knowledge of front-end web programming
· Computer Science degree or equivalent experience
· Previous experience in online ad industry preferred
· Good communication skills
· Responsible, organized individual able to take on a big responsibility
This position reports to the CTO.
Location: You are preferably located near San Francisco, CA. Relocation assistance is designed on a per-case basis. In short, we'll be creative to get you here.
Contact: Please send your email cover letter and resume with the subject "Your name – Lead Ad Optimization Engineer – via Stanford Daily" to jobs@scribd.com. All communication and correspondence is held in the strictest confidence to ensure that you can connect and learn more without exposure.
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