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Atlanta, Georgia

Account Manager

Overview

Inform attracts entrepreneurial-minded individuals, who are looking to boldly disrupt and relentlessly innovate in a fast-paced and rewarding digital media environment. We seek passionate and dynamic talent looking to join a collaborative team that provides a wealth of opportunities for career development and growth.

Responsibilities

Manage a diverse book of business, representing Inform and serving as partners' primary point of contact. Work closely with Business Development to smoothly transition new partners into the Inform content exchange. Effectively manage business processes, including, but not limited to: onboarding and product implementation, reporting and proactive remediation, and all aspects of billing.
Identify, develop and maintain meaningful relationships with key contacts across multiple departments within each partnership, achieve trusted advisor status, become the partner's video strategy expert, and provide advice to ensure product adoption, value, revenue generation and retention.
Continuously update and maintain CRM with relevant partner information and contacts.
Ensure exceptional quality of services and solutions, including satisfactory resolution of support requests.
Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Product Management, Engineering, AdOps, and Finance teams to deliver world-class customer service and solutions.
Communicate regularly with the Sales team to understand inventory demands, opportunities for focus/growth, and client feedback regarding publisher inventory.
Proactively communicate Inform's value proposition, educate partners on market trends and identify growth opportunities, educate partners on the Inform product suite.
Become the partner advocate at Inform: gather partner feedback, diligently relay the feedback internally, and ensure it is taken into consideration by the respective department(s); follow through with partners to ensure the communication channels remain open.

Qualifications

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Your name, address, telephone number and email address;
6+ years of overall work experience; 4-6+ years of Sales, Account Management, or Business Development experience in online digital media, or advertising industry products.
Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, marketing, or business.
Comprehensive understanding of the online media marketplace.
Willingness to travel at least 50% of the time to build and grow publisher partnerships.
High-powered math and analytics skills, ability to act quickly in a fast-pace environment.
Intelligent, outgoing individual with strong interpersonal skills and solid work ethic ("Roll up your sleeves and get it done attitude").
Excellent business writing, training, communication, organizational and presentation skills.
Negotiation, influencing skills and an ability to persuade at all levels of a partnership.

Company Overview

Inform offers a unique video content syndication and advertising solution for the online media market with a centralized platform offering sophisticated news, finance, travel, entertainment and sports content. We partner with the largest newspaper, television, magazine, radio and new media properties in the country including Hearst, The New York Times, and Tribune Publishing and Broadcasting. Inform offers content from leading premium providers including The Associated Press, Bloomberg, Fox Sports, and E!Online.

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Quality Assurance Manager

Overview

Reporting to the Director of Program Management, you are a great manager who is responsible for building and managing a growing team of QA analysts and automation engineers. You will guide the vision and roadmap for UI testing across mobile, web applications and automation testing for scalable backend systems.

Responsibilities

Lead, manage, mentor and grow manual and automation test QA teams
Build, select, and maintain QA tools. Lead, review and document initiatives for automation of test cases across all products
Work in an agile software development environment, and ensure the quality of the architecture of our Enterprise software application.
Establishes an environment where individual’s behavior exemplifies and promotes teamwork, agility, ethics, and integrity, empowerment and accountability, and fun.
Establishes and facilitates on-going communication across the organization.
Provides individuals with accurate and timely feedback and coaching for performance improvement.
Frequently utilize third party, web testing tools and responsible for the oversight of the testing.
Communicate critical issues and status updates in a timely manner to team.

Qualifications

Extensive experience leading QA initiatives in fast-paced environments
Experience providing QA for mobile, web and backend products that are design-driven and visually nuanced using multiple web browsers
Strong background with automated testing products
8-10 years experience with QA Methodologies and software testing, and 5-7 years experience in leading a team.
Smarts, humility, and equal willingness to learn and teach
Superb analytical skills, excellent communication, strong team ethic and meticulous!
Experience with Web based applications, web servers, back-end services, and data validation
Experience with Linux, PHP, Python, Java, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
BS in computer science or equivalent
Proficient in writing SQL queries to validate data inputs and outputs
Accomplished in creating standalone XML feeds for structured data testing
Experience with Selenium, Browser Stack and other automation tools
Experience with JIRA, Web Debug Proxy Tools, Confluence, Bit Bucket, etc.

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Corporate Counsel

Overview

Inform's Atlanta office is looking for a talented attorney to join the legal team as Corporate Counsel. The ideal candidate is one who is organized and detail-oriented, can multi-task and manage shifting priorities, and who can offer exceptional legal services to colleagues and senior management. The position will serve as a key member of the legal team and offers a competitive benefits package and compensation proportionate to experience.

This position will provide legal support to all business units and will be responsible for providing legal services relating to all aspects of the business and working on a variety of legal matters, including reviewing advertising agreements and structuring, negotiating and drafting content license agreements, vendor agreements, and a range of other contracts.

Responsibilities

Provide general legal support and advice to all departments in a fast-paced, technology-based business environment.
Understand business needs and goals, identify legal issues and hurdles, realize solutions and alternatives, and counsel and communicate with executives and managers concerning the legal risks, solutions, and alternatives.
Draft, review, and negotiate complex strategic contracts impacting all areas of the business, including content licensing agreements, advertising contracts, technology licenses, leases and other agreements.
Manage all company contracts.
Interface directly with and manage outside counsel.
Provide other legal support as required.
Reports to VP & General Counsel.

Qualifications

J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership and good standing with at least one state bar required (Georgia preferred).
Bachelor's degree in business preferred.
2-5 years of legal experience, preferably in an in-house legal department.
Prior experience with IAB contracts preferred.
Excellent ability to analyze and solve problems.
Commercial negotiation and drafting ability.
Must be proactive with excellent follow-through on tasks.
Must have strong verbal and written communication skills, organizational skills and attention to detail, flexibility and adaptability to shifting priorities and deadlines, and be confident and capable of working with both technology and business contacts in a continuously evolving environment.
Exceptional interpersonal skills.
Must possess a high degree of integrity.

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Database Engineer

Overview

Responsibilities

The Database Engineer will be based in Atlanta, GA at Inform’s headquarters, and will report to the Senior Manager of Engineering Operations. S/he will primarily be responsible for developing and maintaining SQL/RDBMS along with all functions related to data.

ABOUT YOU

You are a detail oriented database engineer.
You take pride in writing clean and clear SQL.
You take pride in writing clean DRY code.
You don’t need micro managing. You can be given a task and ensure it gets completed properly on time.
You are a team player, who enjoys collaboration and working in an agile environment.
You are confident enough in the work you do to give an Operations Engineer your cell phone number.

REQUIREMENTS

At least 3 solid years writing SQL queries
1+ yrs experience with .NET
Solid understanding of Normalization / Denormalization Concepts
Solid understanding of Design Patterns
Must understand Agile/SCRUM methodologies and worked on a Scrum team.
Solid understanding of cloud computing concepts as well as Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings.
Understanding of MVC / WebAPI concepts and application frameworks (selection and implementation).
Solid experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Development
Solid experience writing and interfacing with RESTful web services.
Experience with various databases (MSSQL, Postgresql).
Knowledge and implementation of unit testing frameworks.
Familiar with TDD and BDD.
Experience working with high transaction systems.
Experience with revision control systems such as Git or Subversion.

BONUSES

Contribute to open source projects.
Experience with Large Scale Replication
Experience with EMR/Hadoop
Experience with Solr, Cassandra, MongoDB
Experience with Entity Framework 5 / 6
Experience with IIS
Experience with ZeroMQ
Experience leveraging AWS services to build highly scalable applications
Experience with microservices
Experience with CI/CD

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Software Engineer

Overview

We are a small engineering team that is innovating and disrupting the digital media space in a big way. Our platform drives a significant percent of video views across the web and the work you do here will be seen by millions of people.

Responsibilities

Manage a diverse book of business, representing Inform and serving as partners' primary point of contact.
Work closely with Business Development to smoothly transition new partners into the Inform content exchange.
Effectively manage business processes, including, but not limited to: onboarding and product implementation, reporting and proactive remediation, and all aspects of billing.
Identify, develop and maintain meaningful relationships with key contacts across multiple departments within each partnership, achieve trusted advisor status, become the partner's video strategy expert, and provide advice to ensure product adoption, value, revenue generation and retention.
Continuously update and maintain CRM with relevant partner information and contacts.
Ensure exceptional quality of services and solutions, including satisfactory resolution of support requests.
Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Product Management, Engineering, AdOps, and Finance teams to deliver world-class customer service and solutions.
Communicate regularly with the Sales team to understand inventory demands, opportunities for focus/growth, and client feedback regarding publisher inventory.
Proactively communicate Inform's value proposition, educate partners on market trends and identify growth opportunities, educate partners on the Inform product suite.
Become the partner advocate at Inform: gather partner feedback, diligently relay the feedback internally, and ensure it is taken into consideration by the respective department(s); follow through with partners to ensure the communication channels remain open.

Qualifications

Your name, address, telephone number and email address;
6+ years of overall work experience; 4-6+ years of Sales, Account Management, or Business Development experience in online digital media, or advertising industry products.
Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, marketing, or business.
Comprehensive understanding of the online media marketplace.
Willingness to travel at least 50% of the time to build and grow publisher partnerships.
High-powered math and analytics skills, ability to act quickly in a fast-pace environment.
Intelligent, outgoing individual with strong interpersonal skills and solid work ethic ("Roll up your sleeves and get it done attitude").
Excellent business writing, training, communication, organizational and presentation skills.
Negotiation, influencing skills and an ability to persuade at all levels of a partnership.

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Palo Alto, California

Director, Product Management

Overview

This position represents a critical role at Inform as the person will work closely with the technology teams to deliver on product goals. The right person will have the opportunity to shape Inform's innovative platform and share the exciting evolution of Inform's Digital Media Exchange.

This role involves ownership of the strategic roadmap for the entire product organization, with responsibilities including formulating product strategy, translating the product vision, defining future product needs with accountability for revenue, adoption, and utilization of Inform's product family. We're disrupting and helping to reinvent a huge industry. Our technology powers digital video for thousands of publishers, from the New York Daily News and Los Angeles Times, to political sites like The Blaze and more than 200 television stations.

You will be responsible for positioning, defining, marketing and championing our solutions. You will serve as a critical link to marketplace insights, contributing to the development of our next-generation platform and products, and ultimately creating an even better experience for publishers, content providers, advertisers and consumers.

Though you are a strategic thinker who analyzes the market and seeks to clearly position products for success; you should also be scrappy, entrepreneurial and willing to roll up your sleeves. We seek a self-starter who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment and highly- competitive marketplace.

This position reports to the Executive Vice President of Engineering.

Responsibilities

Create, define and manage the multi-year product roadmap
Own product specifications, technical requirements, product business rules, product pricing, product growth plans and competitive market & product analysis
Directly build and lead a team of product managers
Set and manage expectations for the direction of this evolution with senior leadership team
Work closely with internal stakeholders including account management, content management, adtech, and development engineering as well as external customers including content providers and online publishers
Lead and provide guidance and direction to achieve the product vision and proactively identify and resolve strategic issues that may prevent optimal execution

Qualifications

8+years in product related positions with a track record of increasing responsibility
Experience with digital media, mobile, video and advertising
8+ years of experience in mass market consumer focused software products
Excellent verbal and written communications
Experience leading teams both directly and by influence
BA/BS required

The Successful Candidate will Demonstrate

5-10 years of proven experience launching commercially successful and critically acclaimed products
Direct leadership and product management experience overseeing the design, development and launch of successful consumer internet products and/or device applications
Willingness to dive deep in understanding the product, business, and competitive landscape
Ability to think at both the strategic and tactical levels
A strong customer-oriented view of product development
Superb analytical skills: Ability to solve complex problems through analytics and a data-driven approach to decision making
Ability to prioritize competing opportunities, balance market needs with business priorities, drive detailed trade-offs over the product lifecycle, manage conflict, and articulate the rationale behind decisions
Strong leadership skills: Ability to balance and productively resolve contradictory demands and timelines in order to deliver against the company vision and goals

Leadership Characteristics

Getting Work Done Through Others
Manages people well; gets the most and best out of the people he/she has; sets and communicates guiding goals; measures accomplishments, holds people accountable, and gives useful feedback; delegates and develops; keeps people informed; provides coaching for today and for the future.
Focus on Action and Outcomes
Attacks everything with drive and energy with an eye on the bottom line and the big picture; not afraid to initiate action before all the facts are known; drives to finish everything he/she starts
Keeping on Point
Can quickly separate the mission-critical from the nice to haves; quickly senses what the next most useful thing is to work on; focuses on the critical few tasks that really add value and puts aside or delays the rest.
Evaluating and Deploying People Accurately
Reads people accurately; can diagnose strengths and weaknesses; and potential; knows what skills are required to do a job or role; hires the best

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Server Engineer

Overview

Inform is looking for a mid to senior level server engineer to help build our content, recommendation and analytics platform. You will be dealing with a huge volume of data that has both real time, semi-real time and offline needs. You'll be working with team who has great passion to build world class products and huge experience in coding JVM based languages.

Responsibilities

Work with product team and understand the requirements
Work with other members of engineering team (distributed across different locations) to perform requirement analysis, design, development, code reviews.
Work with content crawling and processing, and content ingestion workflow, using products like SWF, Kenisys
Work with machine learning team in integrating machine learning components
Work with recommendation engines and analytics engine
Handle high volume of events for processing and analysis
Build APIs using Swagger
Use EC2 infrastructure and Docker based deployment tools
Heavy focus on performance and scalability

Qualifications

High-performance programming experience using Java and/or Scala
Expert in OO design and "practical abstraction"
Deep knowledge of multi-threading programming, understanding of Java Concurrency framework and/or Scala Akka framework
Experience with GIT, Ivy, Maven, SBT
Exposure to ORM techniques, document storage engines
JAXB/Jackson or other content mapping engines
Working experience with Linux and Mac OSX
Experience designing and monitoring APIs
Exposure to agile development methodologies
Experience in working with distributed teams

You'll Do Even Better with

Configuration/tuning Jetty, Netty
MongoDB/other non-relational database production experience
Development experience with a high-traffic, consumer Internet application platform
Swagger
Experience in dealing with huge data sets
Experience in docker based deployment
Experience in continuous deployment environment

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Senior Project Mananger

Overview

Responsibilities

Create and manage the project plans.
Responsible for execution and final delivery of the product.
Identify major project management risks and create action plans based on needs.
Responsible for the team conforming to set standards and processes throughout the project lifecycle.
Drives the release management and change management processes.
Owns, communicates and manages the risk process.
Facilitates communication and drives the team.
Produces, drives and manages the project plan and schedule.
Provides weekly and/or daily status updates on all projects.
Actively assist, communicate and manage priorities of team.
Works closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers/Leads, QA Leads and Executive Management team.

Qualifications

At least 5 years of project management experience, PMP preferred.
Understanding of and experience with Software Development project life cycle.
Impeccable communication and cross-team coordination skills. Solid oral, written, and presentation as well as strong interpersonal skills are required.
Ability to plan, schedule, monitor and coordinate multiple concurrent tasks to meet assignment deliverables and deadlines.
Technical acumen. Development experience is a plus.
Excellent facilitation skills.
Track record in developing dettailed plans for comlplex projects involving challenging requirements, limited resources, and fixed deadlines.
Excellent relationship building skills.
Experience with Agile preferred.
Attention to detail, the ability to work in a fast-paced and energetic environment.
Experience in Digital Media preferred.
Experience in Confluence Wiki and Jira is a plus.

Technical Experience

Proficient in web-based technologies, including HTML, XML, FTP, JavaScript, and Adobe Flash.
Familiarity and working knowledge with rich media applications.
Meaningful experience with online video and of video encoding applications is a plus.
Exposure and working knowledge of Java, Python, PHP, or .Net is a plus.

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Mananger, Local Broadcast

Overview

This position is on our new Local Broadcast team, and is focused on bringing the most value to our broadcast partners that participate in the Inform platform. The position works directly with our VP Local Broadcast to evaluate the success of our broadcast partners and develop best practices and product ideas to help grow their business.

A Manager, Local Broadcast will foster and grow relationships with broadcast partners and will actively learn and understand their business as it relates to digital content and video. This includes the opportunities to help that partner increase the viewing of their video, as well as the understanding of the costs and labor involved in producing digital video.

This position will champion the needs of our broadcast partners throughout all aspects of the Inform organization including: operations, support, ad sales, product development and strategy. Broadcasters will look to this person as a partner to grow their business.

Responsibilities

Champion the value of Inform to broadcast partners and the opportunity to expand those relationships.
Serve as first point of contact for day-to-day product usage and support for broadcast partners.
Ensure timely response and resolution of partner issues by being our partners' advocate within Inform organization.
Prepare and present best practices; monthly usage and revenue reports; and performance analytics for partners.
Support the identification of viral content from broadcast partners to the Inform content team.
Facilitate the on-boarding of new broadcast partners, or new feature activation and rollout.
Monitor video feeds from partners to identify content opportunities or technical concerns.
Awareness of broadcast industry trends and needs as they relate to digital news consumption and distribution.

Qualifications

3+years in broadcast television, radio or new media positions.
Experience with digital media, mobile, video, social and advertising.
Excellent verbal and written communications.
Experience communicating with teams both directly and via email.
BA/BS required.

A successful candidate will demonstrate

Passion to help our partners be successful.
Ability to create task list and see those tasks through completion with self-motivation.
Understanding of a typical process to publish content onto broadcast websites and social media.
Familiarity with how to publish videos online through platforms like YouTube or Facebook.
Superior communication skills, including verbal, in-person and emails.
A strong desire to innovate.

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Sales Planner

Responsibilities

Support advertising sales team in managing proposal, presentation, and campaign management functions
Support sales team with order entry, working closely with ad operations, providing account support functions, and building presentations
Support our Account Executive
Manage campaign look-ups and proposal generation
Actively pursue new business prospecting and lead generation using available resources
Manage the RFP process
Assist with developing sales strategies
Research necessary data for pending campaigns and create reports for current campaigns
Fulfill client requests
Assist with the development of creatives to internal teams, clients, and publishers
Work with the Finance team to assist with the billing process

Qualifications

2+ years' experience in digital media planning and online ad sales
Experience using one or more online ad serving systems (i.e. DFP/DoubleClick)
A strong desire to work in sales and a team environment
Strong experience working with Excel and PowerPoint required
Superb negotiation and problem solving capabilities
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a strong attention to detail
A team player who will thrive in our fluid, fast-paced, dynamic, scaling environment.
A highly motivated self-starter. Operates with a sense of urgency and values accountability.
A creative problem solver who makes concise informed judgments.

Who We Are

If you've ever clicked on a news video, you’ve interacted with Inform. Inform partners with the top online publishers, content providers, and advertisers to drive increased revenue while bringing premium, brand-safe videos to millions of viewers. At no cost to publishers or content creators, Inform provides a robust video technology platform with advanced analytics; full service digital media management and CMS; 24/7 editorial support; and much more.

HOW IT WORKS

Inform isn’t just a video plug-in. We're a full-stack technology and revenue solution utilized by thousands of top publisher sites, with billions of page views each month. Inform’s technology infrastructure provides in-line automated, contextual video placement and options for seamless one-click placement for enhanced editorial control that incorporates patented word graph algorithms at an unprecedented scale. We don’t just have a model representation of contextual data -- we developed the largest contextual map of the English language. Our technology creates personalization, recommendation, and mobile spaces that offers Inform’s advertisers, content providers, and publisher partners ways to reach and monetize valuable audiences.

TEAM

Founded in 2007, Inform set out to provide free solutions for online publishers and content creators struggling to navigate the online monetization ecosystem and has grown to over 100 employees with offices in Atlanta (HQ), Palo Alto, New York City, and Los Angeles. In the past eight years, we have acquired three technology companies, including our latest, Reverb Technologies. We are growing fast and need people who want to take leaderships roles in the technology space.

Our CEO, Greg Peters, has a track record of leading growth and public technology companies including Internap Network Services Corporation. Prior to that, Mr. Peters was Vice President of International Operations for Advanced Fibre Communications (NASDAQ: TLAB) and Adtran (NASDAQ: ADTN), where he led global expansion to over 40 countries. He also currently serves on the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC), a White House committee that works closely with Homeland Security and White House security and national intelligence advisors.

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Senior Account Manager

Responsibilities

Own partnership with a collection of designated accounts with online publishers
Enhance the experience of the most strategic online publishers by developing strong relationships with C-level contacts and by providing exceptional client services
Meet and consult regularly with partners to understand priorities, review performance, and share product updates
Work with a broad range of internal parties (product, engineering, BD, legal, marketing, etc.) to build partner strategies
Identify strategic opportunities to upsell against partners strategies
Communicate regularly with the Sales team to understand inventory demands, opportunities for focus/growth, and client feedback regarding publisher inventory
Proactively communicate company’s value proposition, educate partners on market trends and identify growth opportunities, educate partners on the company’s product suite

Requirements

7-10 years of project management or account management experience working directly with clients
Proven ability to grow/upsell accounts towards revenue goals
Strong ability and desire to interface with clients both remotely and face-to-face, to provide timely, consistent and accurate support.
A solid understanding of web technologies and the digital media revenue ecosystem, including web advertising measurements and analytics
Outstanding relationship management and customer service skills
Strong analytical skills to collect business intelligence by conversing with clients and monitoring/identifying trends in data and in generated reports
Highly motivated, proactive, dedicated and creative in order to pull all necessary resources for the client
Intelligent, outgoing individual with strong interpersonal skills and solid work ethic, "roll up your sleeves and get it done attitude."

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Senior Data Engineer

Overview

Responsibilities

Responsible for design, build test, and support distributed computing applications with a focus on data analysis.
Lead engineering projects and support leads of other projects.
Work closely with data scientists and product engineering team to identify opportunities and define data products.
Work with QA team to ensure effective quality assurance practices.
Develop new product experiments and analyze results.
Engage in peer review of design, code and practices of other engineers, including your own.
Present product development ideas and develop prototypes/experiments to demonstrate them.
Learn and implement new technologies and algorithms.
Evangelize and educate both internally and externally about engineering work at Inform.
Assist in recruiting other engineers.

Requirements

Experience leading software development projects.
Expertise with at least one other programming language preferred.
5+ years experience with one of Python, Java or C++, preferably with more than one.
1+ years experience with distributed computing/big data systems.
3+ years experience with building large scale, highly available applications.
5+ years experience with SQL and RDBM's.
1+ years experience with Hadoop, NoSQL data stores, or distributed RDBMS’s, 3+ years experience preferred.
Experience with successful agile development methods strongly preferred.
Expertise with systems software development preferred.
Strong communication and data presentation skills preferred.
Expertise with functional/declarative programming preferred.

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