Description:
Associated Content seeks an Account Executive to expand our growing Advertising Sales business. The Account Executive position will report to the VP of Advertising Sales & Business Development.

Responsibilities:

• Develop target list and initiate contact with potential customers
• Research partner needs and propose custom advertising solutions designed to address partner objectives
• Expand Associated Content's presence in priority advertiser and agency marketing organizations; establish and cultivate relationships with key decision-makers throughout assigned territory
• Utilize all available tools to expertly and properly represent Associated Content in the advertising community, including extensive face-to-face meetings, phone calls, email, and conference attendance
• Demonstrate outstanding organization, preparation, and public speaking abilities
• Successfully negotiate advertising sales commitments, both for new and renewal accounts, that are consistent with Associated Content business objectives
  
• Consistently meet or exceed sales goals

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree
• 5-7 years media experience, including minimum 3 years online sales experience
• Demonstrated excellence in business relationship-building skills
• Track record of outstanding sales performance
• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple requests concurrently
• Ability to problem solve and bring timely resolution to issues
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Frequent travel

Please submit cover letter and resume to resumes@associatedcontent.com. Competitive salary.

Description:
Associated Content is looking for an organized, detailed, and creative Account Coordinator to assist the sales and business development team. This position will be based in our New York office.

Job Responsibilities:

• Monitor day-to day activities within accounts
• Execution of customer orders
• Manage the fulfillment and optimization of campaigns in order to meet customer requirements and expectations
• Work closely with sales and various internal teams to create and update proposals
• Maintain and revise client insertion orders and secure necessary inventory to launch campaigns according to established deadlines
• Identify opportunities within accounts for up-selling
• Provide customers and AEs with regular delivery reports
• Coordinate with internal departments the successful and timely delivery of necessary sales platforms and materials
• Coordinate directly with ad operations team to ensure proper campaign launch, creative implementation, testing, and issue resolution
• Maintain current knowledge of latest industry news and research

Required Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor's Degree from a 4 year college
• Work Experience: At least 2 years (advertising / media experience preferred)

Technical Skills:

• Effective project management skills
• Microsoft Office applications and database applications, specifically Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
• Salesforce and Doubleclick Mediavisor
• Extensive Internet Media Knowledge

Non-Technical Skills:

• Ability to work independently
• Ability to handle multiple projects at same time
• Prompt, courteous, professional
• Excellent phone skills
• Highly organized and detail oriented

Desired Qualifications:

• Technical Skills: Online or traditional media buying/planning/sales experience, working knowledge of comScore, Quantcast, DoubleClick, Atlas, AdRelevance, and Ad Database
• Non-Technical Skills: strategic and creative thinking skills, presentation skills, ad agency experience a plus

Please submit cover letter and resume to resumes@associatedcontent.com. Competitive salary.

Description:
Associated Content is looking for a Sponsorship Coordinator to assist sales and business development teams. Candidate will be responsible for managing the full lifecycle of Associated Content's sponsorship elements, and ensure successful launches of new campaigns. This position will be based in our New York office.

Job Responsibilities:
Candidate will be responsible for managing the full lifecycle of Associated Content's sponsorship elements, and ensure successful launches of new campaigns. Key responsibilities include:

• Working seamlessly with Sales team to represent client's marketing objectives
• Developing all sponsorship execution briefs and production timelines for each deal
• Managing deal requirements and client expectations to appropriate internal departments: content, tech, products, design, business development, community and ad operations
• Running weekly production meetings with internal teams to ensure progress of sponsorship deliverables, address questions and be able to provide a status for sales
• Communicating campaign status to Sales
• Leading internal testing/QA process
• Identifying existing content that matches brand objectives via Associated Content's proprietary content tools

Job Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelors Degree from a 4 year college
• Years Work Experience: 3-5 Years: digital or cross media advertising experience required
• Strong Project Management Skills
• Microsoft Office applications and database applications, specifically Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
• Extensive Internet Media Knowledge
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to handle multiple projects at same time
• Prompt, Courteous, Professional
• Excellent phone skills
• Highly organized and detail oriented
• Some design or technical knowledge preferred

Please submit cover letter and resume to resumes@associatedcontent.com. Competitive salary.

Description
Associated Content is looking for a highly experienced media professional to develop and execute its editorial vision. Associated Content boasts perhaps the web's largest contributor base of over 300K contributors who publish content on every topic in every format. The central responsibility for this new position will be to conduct, direct and empower this large contributor base to create high quality social media content at unmatched scale.

Responsibilities:

1. Content Analysis - Understand Associated Content's existing and incoming programming

• Breadth and depth: Where are content gaps and areas for expansion?
• Performance: Analysis of library
• Forecasting: Where do our contributors need to go today, tomorrow and over time?
• Follow, understand and communicate trends in online programming at Associated Content and web-wide
• Assist VP of Content and Content Managers as they review content
• Improve the quality of the content library everyday

2. Content and Contributor Acquisition - Influence Associated Content's future programming decision-making

• Curation: Direct content-acquisition decisions, including the web's biggest assignment desk
• Work alongside the Community Team as they recruit, retain and activate contributors
• Convert insights into new ideas and match ideas against existing programming
• Inform the valuation process of new and existing content

3. Content Creation - As the Company's lead contributor, produce quality content

• Model best-in-class content practices through daily submissions
• Publish recaps of interesting stories (on Associated Content and the web) for contributors, consumers and partners

4. Evangelist - Like every senior executive at Associated Content, obsessively share Associated Content's model, community and library with the press and appropriate circles.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of editorial experience with an established media company
• Editorial experience in multiple channels / categories / topic areas
• Experience managing and directing a large pool of contributors
• A prolific, known and credible content creator
• Expertise in and enthusiasm for the intersection of consumer and emerging media
• Superior communication and presentation skills
• BA/BS degree with solid academic credentials

Please submit cover letter and resume to resumes@associatedcontent.com. Competitive salary.

Description
As a Sr. Interaction Designer, you will work closely with engineers, product managers and sales / marketing throughout all stages of the product cycle. If you're a critical thinker with a stellar design sense, have a strong technical background, and an eye for making things better, and if you're looking for a job where your work can have an impact on the web experience -- then this role is for you!

Responsibilities:

• Helping to define the user model and user interface for new and existing Associated Content products and features.
• Developing high level and/or detailed storyboards, mockups and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction, eye tracking and design ideas.
• Gauging the usability of new and existing products, and making constructive suggestions for change.

Requirements:

• Killer Graphic and UI design skills in an Adobe friendly environment
• Solid academic background in human-computer interaction or related field (BS or MS in Computer Science or related field a big plus).
• 5+ years of working as an HCI or UI/Interaction design resource
• Demonstrated experience in designing usable web-based interfaces.
• Expert Photoshop, HTML and PHP presentation layer development skills.
• JavaScript (Scriptaculous, Mootools, Prototype), Flash, Ajax, and other client and server technologies skills.
• Strong, clean visual design sense.
• Excellent leadership, communication and teamwork skills.

Please send resume, references and online portfolio to resumes@associatedcontent.com. Competitive salary.

Description
Associated Content is looking for a PHP Developer/Software Engineer to build new consumer applications on top of our Content Management System. This position offers a unique opportunity to be a part of one of the fastest growing websites on the Internet: www.quantcast.com/associatedcontent.com. Use your PHP experience to create highly usable applications within AssociatedContent.com's component based architecture. Millions of people will use the applications you design each and every day.

Applicants should have a strong working knowledge and a solid understanding of object oriented application design and the confidence to apply this knowledge to web application development.

The success of this position will be measured by the timeliness, usability, and quality of the applications. This position is part of a dynamic, high-energy Application Development team.

Responsibilities:
Your role will be to develop and maintain applications that allow consumers to search and transact with a wide range of services. You will be responsible for:

• Developing Web applications using PHP
• Building features with JavaScript, XML, CSS, DHTML and HTML
• Design and development of MYSQL databases
• Taking ownership of the quality and usability of the application
• Partnering with Content Contributors, Product Management, QA, and Services Delivery to understand business requirements and translate them into high quality applications

Job Qualifications:

• Applied experience with PHP (or similar web based language) and any of these languages a plus: JavaScript, AJAX, XML, CSS, DHTML and HTML
• Object Oriented development skills and building online applications
• Experience with database design and development with MSSQL, MYSQL or Oracle
• Optional experience with other languages and technologies a plus: C, Shell Script, PERL, OO frameworks
• Experience with Linux platform
• BS/BA in Computer Science or related working experience
• Have a passion for usability, strong project management skills, excellent written and oral communication skills
• Able to collaborate and thrive in a fast-paced high-performance environment

Preferred Qualifications:
Working knowledge / experience with the Prototype, jQuery and/or Script.aculo.us Javascript libraries

Please send resume and references to resumes@associatedcontent.com. Competitive salary.

Description:
We are looking for a highly motivated, entrepreneurial, Javascript Engineer to join our dynamic team, building our next generation platform. As part of our day to day challenges, we strive to come up with innovative product solutions that will improve user experience for millions of AssociatedContent.com users. The ideal candidate would have the experience to build a JavaScript framework that would incorporate technologies (AJAX based development with PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript).

Required Technical Skills:

• Extremely sound software design and object oriented programming skills
• Can easily can identify and work with efficient algorithms and data structures
• Extensive experience with browser technologies and internals, with an emphasis on Mozilla and Firefox browsers
• Expertise in JavaScript and web technologies for the browser (HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS)
• Must have experience working with prototypal inheritance in JavaScript, along with closures, DOM, namespacing and functional programming
• Experience working with real world web 2.0 technologies - Prototype, Script.aculo.us, Ajax, JSON, jQuery
• Strong programming experience in PHP and one or more dynamic (Perl, Python, etc.) or static languages (C++, Java)
• Experience working with syndication technologies such as RSS and ATOM
• Comfortable developing and debugging on Mac, Linux platforms and familiarity with Firebug and YSlow extensions

Preferred Qualifications:

• Comfortable working with open source libraries and components; getting involved and possibly helping them out if necessary.
• Experience with MySQL database, querying syntax and relational data structures
• Strong background and emphasis on high performance algorithms and code
• Experience working with multi-threaded application development and state management
• Comfortable with caching technologies and session management (cookies, server based sessions, etc.)
• RESTful server API development
• Able to take an idea and quickly prototype examples that can become a product
• A team worker, able to work in a fast paced environment
• Able to give rough work estimates and strive to complete projects per the project schedule. Able to work with project management to help them with the schedule of the project.
• Sense of humor

Please submit cover letter and resume to resumes@associatedcontent.com. Competitive salary.