Associated Content is looking for a highly-motivated, forward-thinking, resourceful PR Manager who is comfortable operating in a friendly, fast-paced, ever-changing environment that values creativity. This is an excellent opportunity for a self-starter to contribute to developing corporate strategy and brand positioning for an early stage company.

Responsibilities:

• PR Manager will work closely with senior management team to develop strategic positioning and product messaging.
• Develop strategic ideas and pitches for consumer and industry publications, blogs, and other media.
• Secure media appearances and interviews for company spokespeople including national and local print interviews, television and radio segments and public appearances at industry conferences.
• Create and execute on-going programs to support our Sources, site visitors, advertising and publishing partner communities.
• Identify potential AC Sources who are willing to speak about their involvement in AC in press releases, media interviews, and in video testimonials.

Job Requirements:

• 5-7 years experience in a PR agency and/or in-house PR team
• Must have great communication skills, a love of writing and strategic brainstorming.
• Experience developing and managing press releases
• Experience pitching and securing media appearances
• Experience with trade shows, presentations & conferences
• Corporate PR experience with business reporters and analysts a plus
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Superior organization skills
• Must be able to work independently or as part of a team

Knowledge of blogging community, industry trends, product functionality, and competitive insight is a plus.

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

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 AC'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 AC 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 AC 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 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 AC'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 AC 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 AC 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
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 good 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 AC 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:

• Solid academic background in human-computer interaction or related field (BS or MS in Computer Science or related field a big plus).
• 6+ 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 skills.
• Excellent working knowledge of JavaScript, Flash, Ajax,Scriptaculous, Mootools, Prototype and other client and server technologies.
• Strong, clean visual design sense.
• Excellent leadership, communication and teamwork skills.

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

Associated Content is looking for a Senior Systems Administrator to assist in planning and expanding the company's infrastructure requirements. The position will assist the technical team with architecting, planning, implementing and managing two key components of the business: Our consumer web presence is a 24/7 operations and General Internal Administrative operations. Both environments are undergoing considerable growth. This is not simply a maintenance position, as both environments are making strides to upgrade hardware, operating systems, and database platforms in addition to remediation initiatives. Attention to detail, capacity to plan, ability to execute, and a commitment to excellence will take the individual far within the organization.

Responsibilities

• General, senior-level systems administration functions for Redhat Enterprise Linux & CentOS.
• Establishing and managing network hardware, including email delivery systems.
• Establishing and managing development environments for software engineers, including creation of environments and installation of software.
• Establishing and monitoring backup and recovery systems.
• On-call 24/7, to respond immediately to any system failures, managing a rotating schedule.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• 7+ years of system administration experience on a Unix platform.
• 3+ years of experience with Perl or shell scripting.
• 2+ years experience building and managing load-balanced web server clusters with Apache, PHP, and Virtual Hosting.
• 2+ years experience with backup and recovery at an enterprise- level, including tar, afio, ssh, and scp.
• 2+ years of disk management experience with Solaris LVM, Disk Suite, or Linux LVM.
• 2+ years of managing and configuration of Cisco Routers and interoffice connectivity.
• 2+ years experience of building, managing, and responding to monitoring systems measuring critical system performance.
• General familiarity with DNS, SMTP, routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, GRE), transfer (SSH, SCP, Rsync).

In addition to skill sets, this individual should:

• Be hands-on and capable of executing rapidly as an individual in addition to a team;
• Enjoy rapid change within a small, entrepreneurial, technology- driven culture;
• Have a superior business intellect.

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

Description:
Associated Content is looking for Sr. and Midlevel Software Engineers to build new consumer applications on top of AC Content Management System. These positions offer a unique opportunity to learn the business model of numerous publishing systems and translate them into highly usable applications within the context of a single-instance and component based architecture.

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. These positions are 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, JavaScript, XML, CSS, DHTML and HTML.
• Design and development of MySQL, Oracle, or MSSQL databases.
• Taking ownership of the quality and usability of the application.
• Partnering with product management, QA, and Services Delivery to understand business requirements and translate them into high quality designs

Job Qualifications:

• Applied experience with PHP, JavaScript, XML, CSS, DHTML and HTML.
• Object Oriented development skills and building online applications.
• Experience database design and development with MySQL, Oracle, or MSSQL.
• Experience with other languages and technologies: C, Shell Script, PERL, AJAX, 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.

Desired Qualifications:

• Working knowledge / experience with the Prototype and Scriptaculous Javascript libraries

The Company's technical operations are located in Denver's Cherry Creek neighborhood with a marketing and business development office in Manhattan, New York. No telecommuters. Please send resume and references to resumes@associatedcontent.com. Relocation stipend available, if necessary. AC is not working with a placement firm for these positions.

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