Jeff's Recruiting Blog

VP Creative Director at Mixbook

2012-01-27T17:14:00.001-08:00

Mixbook is looking for a Creative Director whom is a talented and passionate individual who can take design and functionality of how consumers interact with Mixbook’s creative tools to new levels of phenomenal and meaningful online experiences. This position is located in San Jose, CA.

Role:

Reports directly to the CEO, and interfaces with the CTO and CMO, this role is supported by external world-class brand consultants and visual architects, as well as key internal stakeholders, such as the Director of Engineering and Product:

Provides the lead voice in the creation and execution of Mixbook’s design and products
Helps to define the brand, its visual elements, ultimately executing Mixbook’s brand marks and maintaining the company’s visual standards

Including www.mixbook.com’s design, look and feel

Be responsible for making sure the usability of Mixbook’s editor and site’s appearance and functionality is world class
Iterate on and improve the user experience and conversion processes on Mixbook.com and interface conceptually with the marketing team on conversion goals, in addition to the engineering team for ultimate deployment on the website

Play a key role in the conceptual and business development of new features and functions to be launched on the site, as well as new businesses currently under stealth development
Build out, execute and maintain a brand style guide and user experience guide

Qualifications:

10 + years design experience working on large consumer-facing web sites and consumer applications with a focus on usability

Proven world class usability skills and corresponding set of experiences

Strong portfolio of web design and web execution which exhibits range and emotional depth with an ability to connect with Mixbook’s current target audience, females

With a skew towards the presence of children in the household

Fluent with Photoshop, Illustrator, JavaScript, CSS. Experience with products using Adobe Flex applications, as well as Flash and HTML 5, a plus
Strong communication and interpersonal skills, especially across engineering, and other executive function
BFA Design, BFAA Industrial Design, Graphics, Commercial Art, or other design and web related field
Either client side or agency background, consumer brand mandatory
Excellent communication and organizational skills
Passionate. Driven. High achiever - You challenge yourself and everyone around you to excellence.
Extremely hard working. You should be ready to make Mixbook a priority in your life.
Enjoy diversity and individualism; from flip-flops to foosball, suits to shorts @ Mixbook. It is about being who you are in our team-oriented, work hard – play hard environment.

Life at Mixbook

Mixbook is a fun, fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment where your contribution is not defined by your title but by the amazing work and passion that you bring to the table - it’s a meritocracy. You will work with people who are like-minded, passionate, and at the top of their game.

We’re a start-up that offers all the same benefits you’d find at the Bay Area’s hottest companies: medical/dental/vision coverage, 15 days paid time off, and all the shiny goodies you need to get your job done: a brand new Mac laptop and a big flat-screen monitor. More importantly, every employee is an owner of Mixbook - you will receive meaningful equity in the company.

VP of Engineering at Mixbook

2012-01-27T17:12:00.000-08:00

Mixbook is seeking a passionate, enthusiastic, and super smart VP of Engineering to help build out, mentor, and manage our development team. You’ll be reporting to the CTO/Co-founder, working with a spectacular team, learning a ton, and having loads of fun while doing it. We’re looking for a candidate who is up to the challenge of scaling a product and team lightning quick. You’ll be the CTO’s partner in helping to hire and grow a highly productive engineering organization.

Role:

Recruit world-class engineering, operations and quality assurance talent to drive initiatives and produce high quality products.
Oversee development and operations at Mixbook, including: development, deployment, optimizations, maintenance, and scale
Partner with product teams to improve development and product speed by helping to implement agile processes and workflows
Provide technical guidance and leadership to the Engineering team: mentor junior and senior managers, work with key architects to help administer and encourage best practices, improve infrastructure and architecture, and provide leadership to help set team goals for performance and technical excellence
Ensure stable deployment, maintenance, and scalability while closely managing relationship between developers and operations
Anticipate future growth needs and work with the team to address them
Foster a culture of creativity, collaboration, speed, innovation, excellence and a fun work environment while continuously elevating the quality and caliber of our engineering organization.
Drive technical excellence and innovation in the team while continuing to hold the team to a high standard of development and foster intrapreneurship and ownership

Qualifications:

Minimum 5 years in an engineering management position (Sr. Manager, Director, Sr. Director, VP)
Minimum 10 years of software engineering experience BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related field
Proven leadership skills
Ruby on Rails expertise with large-scale projects
Experience with Scrum or Agile methods
Demonstrated ability to hire and build engineering teams
Experience building and maintaining a large-scale service
Excellent people skills, both technical and non-technical
Passion for web technologies
Experience with managing Systems Operations a plus
Excellent communication and organizational skills
Passionate. Driven. High achiever - You challenge yourself and everyone around you to excellence.

Sr. Ruby on Rails Developer Opening at Mixbook in Palo Alto

2012-01-27T17:07:00.000-08:00

Mixbook is a rapidly growing Silicon Valley start-up that is redefining the way people save and share their most valued possession – their photos. Our team is driven by a passion for product, people and the perfect customer experience. Over 5 million people have used Mixbook, and 90% of our customers are actively recommending us to family and friends. Mixbook is not just another start-up: we are profitable, our revenues are growing 700% per year, and we’re just getting started.
Sr. RoR (Ruby on Rails) Developer
Mixbook is looking for a Sr. RoR (Ruby on Rails) Developer. We are looking for someone with a very high standard of code quality and code practices. In this position you will own major parts of the code base, architecture of the site, implement healthy code development processes and also do hands on development. In this role you will work closely with our co-Founder and CTO, a 5 + year RoR veteran himself and co-author of RubyAMF.
Qualifications:
• 5 + years professional development experience, understanding of MVC.
• Ruby web framework (Rails, Merb, Sinatra) experience*
• Unit testing (TestUnit, RSpec) experience*
• Automated integration testing (Cucumber, Webrat, Capybara, Selenium) experience*
• Rich browser-based development (JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS) experience.
• Obsessively strives to create the most modular, concise and maintainable code possible – beautiful code to you doesn’t mean pretty syntax highlighting.
• Experience working on Agile teams (pair programming, refactoring, story writing and estimation).
• Knowledge or interest in EC2, S3 and new server technologies.
• Bachelors in Computer Science or technical/quantitative equivalent - degree preferred. Masters degree a plus.
• Passionate. Driven. High achiever. You challenge yourself and everyone around you to excellence.
• Enjoy diversity and individualism; from flip-flops to foosball, suits to shorts @ Mixbook it is about being yourself in our collaborative team oriented, work hard – play hard, dog friendly environment.

Life at Mixbook
Mixbook is a fun, fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment where your contribution is not defined by your title but by the amazing work and passion that you bring to the table - it’s a meritocracy. You will work with people who are like-minded, passionate, and at the top of their game.

We’re a start-up that offers all the same benefits you’d find at the Bay Area’s hottest companies: medical/dental/vision coverage, 15 days paid time off, and all the shiny goodies you need to get your job done: a brand new Mac laptop and a big flat-screen monitor. More importantly, every employee is an owner of Mixbook - you will receive meaningful equity in the company.

Flex Developer Opening at Mixbook in Palo Alto

2012-01-27T17:05:00.000-08:00

Mixbook is a rapidly growing Silicon Valley start-up that is redefining the way people save and share their most valued possession – their photos. Our team is driven by a passion for product, people and the perfect customer experience. Over 5 million people have used Mixbook, and 90% of our customers are actively recommending us to family and friends. Mixbook is not just another start-up: we are profitable, our revenues are growing 700% per year, and we’re just getting started.
Flex Developer
Mixbook is looking for a Flex Developer. This is not your typical Flex programming role – Mixbook is a complex Flex application with many highly technical components. We are looking for someone who is a well-rounded computer scientist in addition to a Flex developer. This would be demonstrated by a CS degree, knowledge of more traditional programming environments or projects that show deep engineering ability. We love to see candidates who have worked on impressive Flash applications that they can demonstrate for us. We favor candidates who can show us they have a keen product sense and will contribute good ideas for improving the product.
Role:
• Launch new features, improvements and usability to Mixbook’s core Flex platform application.
• Develop and improve Mixbook’s Flash widgets for viewing and sharing photo products.
• Balance innovative new features with performance and speed for optimal user experience.
• Building custom components for use throughout the editor.

Qualifications:
• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent. 2 – 3 years flex development with ActionScript 3 and Flash Builder.
• Familiar with design patterns and component lifecycle development; unit testing a plus.
• Passionate. Driven. High achiever. You challenge yourself and everyone around you to excellence.
• Extremely hard working. You should be ready to make Mixbook a priority in your life.
• Enjoy diversity and individualism; from flip-flops to foosball, suits to shorts @ Mixbook it is about being who you are in our team-oriented, work hard – play hard environment.
• Passionate. Driven. High achiever. You challenge yourself and everyone around you to excellence.
• Extremely hard working. You should be ready to make Mixbook a priority in your life.
• Enjoy diversity and individualism; from flip-flops to foosball, suits to shorts @ Mixbook it is about being who you are in our team-oriented, work hard – play hard environment
Life at Mixbook
Mixbook is a fun, fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment where your contribution is not defined by your title but by the amazing work and passion that you bring to the table - it’s a meritocracy. You will work with people who are like-minded, passionate, and at the top of their game.

We’re a start-up that offers all the same benefits you’d find at the Bay Area’s hottest companies: medical/dental/vision coverage, 15 days paid time off, and all the shiny goodies you need to get your job done: a brand new Mac laptop and a big flat-screen monitor. More importantly, every employee is an owner of Mixbook - you will receive meaningful equity in the company.

Software Engineer

2011-02-18T11:18:00.000-08:00

Position Number 7112BR
CBS Interactive
Department Entertainment and Lifestyle
Location San Francisco
Job Description
CHOW/Chowhound is looking for a Java Software Engineer who loves to create beautiful code. The preferred candidate can work through all phases of the web development cycle, from defining product requirements to debugging and fixing problems. S/he will be able to turn these requirements into exceptional technical designs and execute these designs in code.
Required Skills/Experience * Creating consumer- facing web applications using Java
* Standard Java web stack (Tomcat, Spring, Hibernate, etc.)
* MySQL and schema design
Additional Candidate Instructions Pluses:
* Ruby
* Python
* Basic competence with html/css/jsp

Intested candidates contact me directly at jeff.morse@cbsinteractive.com

Analyst, Yield Management

2011-02-18T11:04:00.000-08:00

Auto req ID 7531
CBS Interactive
Department Office of the CFO / Yield Management
Location San Francisco
Job Description
Do you have an analytical mind? Are you passionate about problem solving? -both on your own and working alongside others? Does the challenge of optimizing the revenue potential of one of the largest media organizations in the world excite you? Can you take a challenge and run with it? If so, please consider applying for the Analyst position in CBS Interactive’s Yield Management group.
Yield Management brings analyses and insights to people at all levels of the CBS Interactive organization. Our roots go back to the beginnings of online media, where we pioneered some of the first ad delivery and inventory models. Our responsibilities have grown over the years to encompass pricing and a broader concept of yield management. Today we frequently function like an internal consulting group, focusing on a host of revenue optimization strategies. These strategies are as varied as page design, media pricing & packaging, sales compensation and corporate strategy, to name a few.
To the applicant, the role offers the following:
Breadth & Variety
- You’ll tackle a wide range of problems, working side-by-side with a diverse group of online media professionals – software engineers developing smarter site-traffic models, marketing executives creating new go-to-market strategies, etc. You’ll gain broad exposure to all facets of the exciting, fast changing online media industry.
Depth
- Working in Yield Management, a center of analytical expertise within the organization, you will gain a thorough understanding of the business that is grounded in data – from page views to CPMs to interaction rates. You’ll make an impact by combining a deep understanding of the data with an equally deep understanding of the business to generate new ideas.
Impact & Growth.
- Your work matters. You’ll be challenged, and as soon as you’re ready to take on bigger challenges, you’ll get them. Online media is a dynamic industry with a unique set of analytical problems: we want – and need -- every ounce of your initiative, intelligence and imagination.
Ownership.
- We give you as much freedom as you can handle. Once you’re trained and up to speed, you’ll own your work and the relationships with the groups you work with. You’ll be responsible for knowing the businesses you work with backwards and forwards; and above all, for making an impact on those businesses.
Responsibilities vary, but include:
- Collaborating with Pricing and Sales Management to develop smart, data-driven inventory and pricing strategies
- In conjunction with software engineers, improving ad delivery/inventory algorithms to maximize revenue.
- Streamlining business processes with the help of Ad Operations.

Qualifications:
- Passion for problem solving: You must be able to tackle new, unfamiliar, and possibly daunting problems—to break them down into manageable bits and solve them. We won’t hand you a cookbook. We want you to come up with the recipes.
- Numbers: You must have a strong quantitative background, an intuitive grasp of data, and robust Microsoft Excel skills.
- People: You should like working with them! You will be working with a varied group of stakeholders, each of whom brings a different perspective and skillset to any given problem; you must have the facility with people—an authentic desire to engage and help, but willingness to stand your ground when necessary—to lead small teams towards great solutions.
- Communication: In nearly every conversation, you will be “the numbers person.” You must be able to get your message across to individuals who don’t have the same familiarity with data. Whether the individual is a high-level executive or an engineer, you’ll need to be able to tailor your message effectively.
- Energy & Initiative: This isn’t a wait-for-something-to-happen position. You make things happen! We will provide as much training as possible, but as fast as this industry is evolving, realistically you may end up teaching yourself most of what the position requires.
- Ownership: You must be able to drive a project from start to finish: create the framework, assemble the data, run an analysis, recommend a solution, develop a plan and then drive it home.
- Interest: The energy and enthusiasm we demand is hard to muster for those without a genuine interest in what we do. If you share our excitement about an industry that sits at the nexus of technology and media, this could be the position for you.
Build strong working relationships with coworkers, direct reports (if applicable), customers (internal and external, and company management.
Provide leadership and mentoring to employees in your reporting chain utilizing best practices as a people manager and organizational leader.
Required Skills/Experience Desired Experience:
Two to five years of related experience is preferred. The candidate should have the demonstrated ability to combine quantitative analysis with effective interpersonal skills (i.e. talking and working with real live human beings) to make a business impact. Strong MS Excel skills are a must. Familiarity with SQL and data structures preferred.
Education:
BS/BA degree in math, science, or engineering, or proven track record in a quantitative/problem solving environment(or equivalent training and experience). Successful candidates in the past have come from such varied disciplines as Economics, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering and Management Consulting; however, applicants from all fields are welcome. Must successfully pass a background check.

Interested candidates contact me directly at jeff.morse@cbsinteractive.com

Senior Manager Business Intelligence, Yield Management

2011-02-18T10:56:00.000-08:00

Position Number 7123BR
CBS Interactive
Department Office of the CFO / Yield Management
Location San Francisco
Job Description
Do you have a proven record of thought leadership in Business Intelligence? Have you spearheaded your organization’s efforts to define operating metrics, analyze performance trends, and structure its data? Do you combine solid technical ability—Microsoft Excel, SQL, Microstrategy, etc.—with impressive communication skills that allow you to contribute at every level of a quantitative business exercise? And does the challenge of working at one of the largest media organizations in the world excite you?

If so, please consider applying for the position of Senior Manager Business Intelligence in CBS Interactive’s Yield Management group.

Yield Management brings analyses and insights to people at all levels of the CBS Interactive organization. Our roots go back to the beginnings of online media, where we pioneered some of the first ad delivery and inventory models. Our responsibilities have grown over the years to encompass pricing and a broader concept of yield management. Today we frequently function as an internal consulting group, focusing on a host of revenue optimization strategies. These strategies are as varied as page design, media pricing & packaging, sales compensation and corporate strategy, to name a few.

To the applicant, the role offers the following:

Analytic Impact

- You will drive reports (requirements, creation, presentation) for use throughout the CBSi organization—from tactical data feeds used to optimize page revenue, to high-level dashboards viewed by top execs. Yield Management provides insights across a broad spectrum of strategic problems: pricing, inventory forecasts, product packaging, revenue mix, advertiser segmentation, to name just a few. Your work will make CBSi a smarter business.

Leadership & Vision

- You will lead a small, agile team in charge of Yield metrics within CBSi. Yield Management oversees a broad spectrum of internal data, and is responsible for boiling down literally billions of datapoints into actionable reports. We need an individual who not only understands the various tables and views, but understands what needs to be done organizationally—in terms of process change, resource requests, 3rd party tools, etc.—to best leverage the information within.

Dynamic Workplace

- You will work in a fast-paced, fast-changing environment. Online Media is a new industry with a unique set of analytic problems: there are no cookie-cutter solutions to the challenges we face. Every project will require a fresh application of your initiative, intelligence, and imagination.

Responsibilities include:

• Provide strategic vision for CBS Interactive’s internal data structures: ETL and summarization strategy, metrics definition, data quality mitigation, etc.

• Management of small BI team: report prioritization, resource allocation, professional growth of direct reports.

• Ad-hoc business analyses and/or data mining, often using SQL and Excel.

• Report generation, either prototyped in Excel or built in a BI tool such as Microstrategy.

Required Skills/Experience Qualifications:

- Thought Leadership: You have led efforts to make your organization a smarter, more data-driven business. You’ve been handed ownership/oversight of amorphous data and put structure around it, creating maintainable infrastructures that support impactful reports.

- Technical/Analytic abilities: You must be able to hit the ground running with spreadsheets (VBA, pivot tables, etc.) and SQL scripts. On these two technologies, members of Yield Management are expected to be among the most knowledgeable in the company. You should have exposure to sophisticated modeling/simulation/regression-type data analysis.

- Communication: You must feel comfortable presenting your proposals/reports to different constituents—particularly to non- technical people who have no knowledge (or interest) in the internal workings of your data. You should be able to whip up a PowerPoint on C-level reporting strategy/resource allocation as easily as you write VBA macros.

- Initiative: You must be a self-starter. This role does not have rigid boundaries, either in terms of responsibilities or analytic “territory”; the candidate that thrives is the candidate who demands that their work has impact.

Desired Experience:

5 to 7 years of related experience is preferred, ideally including managing people.

The candidate should have a record of thought leadership in the Business Intelligence space, as well as demonstrated mastery of MS Excel, SQL, and other BI tools.

Education Requirements:

BS/BA degree (or equivalent training and experience) in math, science, or engineering, or proven track record in a quantitative/problem-solving environment. Advanced degrees are a plus. Successful candidates in the past have come from Economics, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, and Management Consulting; however, applicants from all disciplines are welcome.

Interested candidates contact me directly at jeff.morse@cbsinteractive.com

Technical Producer/Studio Manager

2011-02-18T10:49:00.000-08:00

Position Number 7463
CBS Interactive
Division/Station College Sports Online
Department Games Metacritic Sports / CBS Sports.com Production
Location Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Job Description Technical Producer/Studio Manager. This position would oversee technical production and optimization for CBSSports.com Florida location, staff and studio, build strong working relationships with coworkers, direct reports (if applicable), customers (internal and external), and company management.
* Constant review and coordination on all edit stations to assure each position is using a uniform system for production that optimizes quality and efficiency
* Workflow analysis, systems integration, project management and documentation
* Installation and configuration of video servers and traditional baseband equipment
* Troubleshoot breakdowns in production and either making corrections or contacting the appropriate department to get equipment working at optimum speed as quickly as possible.
* Keeping detailed inventory of the production system and testing updates to that system to keep us on the cutting edge of digital video production technology.
* Internal training for editors, encoders, audio technicians and studio personnel
* Technical operations and maintenance of studios, control rooms and edit suites
* Ability to operate control room switcher if needed
* Studio and EFP/ENG videography, lighting and audio
* Coordinating with Lumiere, Sports CMS admins and UVP developers to track upgrades to the CBSNews.comand CBSSports.com video player as well as Mobile
* Working with our Platform team on new integration and updates
* Streaming media field production, editing, encoding and live webcasting
* Coordinate with syndication partners to make sure the content they receive is of the highest quality available
* Coordinate with CBS News Broadcast Center engineering and technical support to make sure CBSSports.com and CBSNews.com can benefit from changes and upgrades to internal systems
* Assistance in coordinating field shoots and schedule as well as securing credentials for events for talent and Production
* Coordinate and cue video feeds for syndication and CBSSports.com programming
Required Skills/Experience * 5 years experience in this field performing the duties outlined above
* Must successfully pass a background check
Additional Candidate Instructions Job would be based in out Ft. Lauderdale office and would report to Coordinating Producer and help manage Florida Studio and Florida Production team as well as work closely with Mobile, CBSNews.com and Platform.

Interested candidates contact me directly at jeff.morse@cbsinteractive.com

Multimedia Editor

2011-02-18T10:41:00.000-08:00

Position Number 6494
CBS Interactive
Division/Station College Sports Online
Department Games Metacritic Sports / CBS Sports.com
Location Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Job Description Role & responsibilities:
- Improve what Editorial can plan for visually, react to visually, innovate visually.
- Visually enhance Editorial content and create original graphics-intensive content.
- Take lead on executing design and layout solutions for Editorial written and video content.
- Creation, editing and perfecting of most prominent images on the website. Photos, photo montages, graphics with/without photos, Flash packages, etc.
- Spec out/storyboard special editorial projects and/or work with technology to see projects through to completion.
-Ability to use raw data and information to build simple-to-understand interactive graphics that visually illustrate stories or conclusions.
- Executes the interfaces conceptualized and specified for special Editorial projects.
- Involvement in daily and long-range Editorial plans
- Work with production editors and newsroom to develop best practices
- Developing visual products for social audiences
- Measuring and analyzing impact of Editorial’s visual elements throughout the site
Required Skills/Experience Qualifications:
- Strong proficiency with new media graphic design concepts/software packages.
- Digital video and audio production
- Proficient with rich-media software (Adobe Flash/HTML 5)
- Proficient with graphics/photo-editing software (Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator)
- Online work with HTML and web content management preferred
- Experience working in a event-based environment
- Internet software (familiarity with multiple browsers, HTML editors, FTP)
- Sports knowledge a must
- Experience building visual elements for social platforms (Twitter/Facebook)
- Basic editing/writing skills preferred
- Must build strong working relationships with coworkers, direct reports (if applicable), customers (internal and external), and company management
- Must pass a background check
- Sports knowledge an absolute must

Interested candidates contact me directly at jeff.morse@cbsinteractive.com

Associate QA Engineer

2011-02-18T10:33:00.000-08:00

Job Title Associate QA Engineer
Position Number 7420
CBS Interactive
Department Entertainment & Lifestyle
Location San Francisco
Job Description
Perform black-box, grey-box & general system testing.
- Work closely with software engineers to identify and resolve issues with applications as part of a development project.
- Balance testing workload among multiple projects without sacrificing quality.
- Review software product requirements and translate these into test plans effectively.
- Build regression tests for live web sites using in- house automated testing tool.
-Build strong working relationships with coworkers, direct reports (if applicable), customers (internal and external), and company management.
Required Skills/Experience - Bachelor's degree in a technical field, computer science preferred, or equivalent training and experience.
- Possess good communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to thrive in a challenging, fast-paced environment.
- Prefer 1-2 years experience in Quality Assurance.
- Must be analytical, detail oriented and reliable.
- Team player who does not need extensive supervision.
- Creativity and a sense of humor are a must.
- Very good understanding of and experience with Windows and Unix/Linux environment
- Some experience with programming languages such as shell programming, Python, XML, and JSON
- Some knowledge of test automation tool (SILK, WinRunner)
-Must successfully pass a background check

Interested candidates contact me directly at jeff.morse@cbsinteractive.com

Software Developer

2011-02-18T10:22:00.000-08:00

Job Title Software Developer
Position Number 7270BR
CBS Business Unit CBS Interactive

Department Entertainment and Lifestyle
Location San Francisco
Job Description CHOW/Chowhound is looking for a Ruby Software Engineer who loves to create beautiful code. The preferred candidate can work through all phases of the web development cycle, from defining product requirements to debugging and fixing problems. S/he will be able to turn these requirements into exceptional technical designs and execute these designs in code. Build strong relationships with coworkers, direct reports (if applicable), customers (internal and external), and company management.
Relevant Experience:
Creating consumer-facing web applications using Ruby on Rails MySQL and schema design
CHOW.com is an award winning website for foodies who like to have fun. Chowhound is a vibrant online discussion forum about all things food. CHOW and Chowhound are part of CBS Interactive, a division of CBS Corporation.
Required Skills/Experience Requirements:
B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent degree (or equivalent training and experience)
Pluses:
Java
Python
Basic competence with html/css/jsp
Must successfully pass a background check.

Interested candidates email me directly at jeff.morse@cbsinteractive.com

2011-02-18T10:16:00.000-08:00

Job Title Software Engineer
Position Number 7112
Auto req ID 7112BR
CBS Business Unit CBS Interactive
Department Entertainment and Lifestyle
Location San Francisco

Job Description
CHOW/Chowhound is looking for a Java Software Engineer who loves to create beautiful code. The preferred candidate can work through all phases of the web development cycle, from defining product requirements to debugging and fixing problems. S/he will be able to turn these requirements into exceptional technical designs and execute these designs in code.
Required Skills/Experience * Creating consumer- facing web applications using Java
* Standard Java web stack (Tomcat, Spring, Hibernate, etc.)
* MySQL and schema design
Additional Candidate Instructions Pluses:
* Ruby
* Python
* Basic competence with html/css/jsp

Intested candidates contact me directly at jeff.morse@cbsinteractive.com

Jeff's Recruiting Blog: Operations Engineer Opening at CBS Ineractive in San Francisco

2011-02-18T10:11:00.000-08:00

Jeff's Recruiting Blog: Operations Engineer Opening at CBS Ineractive in San Francisco

Operations Engineer Opening at CBS Ineractive in San Francisco

2011-02-18T10:00:00.000-08:00

Operations Engineer
CBS Interactive
Department Entertainment & Lifestyle - TV.com 1042
TV.com is focused on making your video viewing experience more fun!
We’re building the next generation of TV.com and we need a strong
operations engineer to help us design and implement a consumer
service using the best technologies available.

The ideal candidate has touched all aspects of a large production
environment and can scale along with the company. We're seeking
someone who is self-motivated and passionate about designing and
implementing secure, reliable, and scalable systems.

Responsibilities

Work closely with engineering and the CBSi operations groups
Diagnose and troubleshoot issues related to site stability and
performancePerformance tuning for multiple services
Develop custom tools for automation
Document system design and procedures
Participate in pager rotation
Manage branching and merging (SVN)
Manage and monitor site deployments
Required Skills/Experience 3+ years experience system administration experience with Linux / Unix
Solid understanding of TCP/IP,
HTTP, memcache, SQL storage, and security
Strong scripting skills
Experience configuring web servers,
application servers, caching systems
Excellent communication skills
Preferred Skills/Experience Experience with MySQL
Experience with Python / Django
Experience building high
availability, consumer facing services

Interested candidates submit resumes to jeff.morse@cbsinteractive.com

Director, Software Engineering

2011-01-25T22:13:00.000-08:00

One of my clients, a successful online publisher of multiple monthly verticals since 1985, is looking for a Hands-on Director of Software Engineering to develop, build, and lead a new software development team. The client is located in Roseville, California, but both the person filling the Director role and the development team can be remote. Ideal locations being the Bay Area, Southern California, Seattle, or Denver. This is a Microsoft house so developers will need to have strong: .NET, C#, ASP.NET, Visual Studio.net, HTML, DHTML, CSS, AJAX, SOAP skills. Please contact me for further information and consideration. Look forward to hearing from you soon.