Job Description

Snap is seeking a highly intelligent, innovative, quantitative and technically savvy individual to analyze process complex data sets related to online advertising marketplace.

* Are you a pioneer looking to apply your skills to an emerging market?
* Are you innovative, driven and enjoy scouring data and a market to come up with better ways of doing things?
* Do you have intermediate to advanced programming skills in at least one high level language (Perl, Python, Java, Ruby or shell scripting)?
* Do you have experience working with extremely large data sets exceeding 1 TB?
* Do you have an engineering mentality, i.e. knack for figuring out what went wrong by taking apart and then putting back together again?
* Do you enjoy working with end results oriented team that likes to win?

If you said "yes" to all the above and you have a passion for the Internet industry, this may be the position you have been seeking.

Responsibilities

* Make Snap successful.
* Gather, understand and maintain Internet online advertising data
* Deliver insights based on underlying trends in the data to improve efficiency of Snap’s strategies
* Ensure collected data is accurate and rapidly accessible
* Apply economic principles to datasets to develop and model media buying and selling strategies
* Optimize data collection process to scale to larger data sets
* Collaborate with others to test and refine strategies based on the data sets

Requirements / Qualities

* BS degree required or MS preferred in computer science, computer engineering, statistics, or applied math with an exceptional GPA
* 3 years professional programming experience in at least one high level language (Perl, Python, Java, Ruby or shell scripting)
* Experience with Linux and related tools
* Work experience manipulating large scale datasets via flat files and common database skills
* Ability to apply a pragmatic financial or business outlook to daily work and long-term plans
* Experience using statistical modeling packages such as SAS and interest to test emerging tools such as HADOOP, a plus
* Experience in financial services or investment management, asset management, risk management, a plus
* Experience with machine learning algorithms, a plus
* Highly intelligent, motivated, innovative, with ability to accept and give very direct constructive criticism for improvement in an ego-less manner
* High energy with strong work ethic and commitment, ability to operate with tight deadlines in a startup environment

Company Overview

Snap is one of the largest distributed media networks on the Internet, already reaching 24% of the US audience and tens of million unique global users each month in 48 languages. Snap contextual products are used on over 2,000,000 websites and blogs, who appreciate the improved experience we provide their users along with the additional advertising inventory we create.

Launched in 2006 by Founders Bill Gross & Tom McGovern, Snap is backed by blue chip Venture Investors including Mayfield Fund and Idealab.

Environment

Snap is a mid-stage start-up that is growing year over year. Snap has achieved it market success with a relatively small team of HIGH IMPACT team members. Snap intends to continue to follow this strategy of keeping the organization small in the immediate term but will expand as revenues grow.

The Snap environment is a start-up where employees are personally passionate about the products and building the business and will do what ever is necessary to achieve our shared goals. It is a meritocracy where great ideas from any team member is celebrated and pursued yet “good ideas are killed as we only have time for the great ones.” We are an “always on” team that values fact based decisions, speed, entrepreneurship and sweating the details.

Company Benefits

* Fun people in a great working environment
* Stock options package
* Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
* Life insurance
* Company holidays and Paid Time Off (PTO)
* 401k
* Subsidized lunches, gourmet coffee, free snacks, daily fruit and healthy snacks, and free soft drinks
* Casual dress

Position Location: Pasadena, CA. Local candidates only, no relocation

INTERESTED CANDIDATES SHOULD SUBMIT THEIR RESUME AND SALARY HISTORY TO CHRISTOPHER STARACE: chris {at} snap {dot} com

Snap is an equal opportunity employer

Job Description

Snap is seeking a seasoned Sr. Media Buyer with history of sourcing and maintaining profitable media relationships/placements to drive growth and successfully leveraging partnerships with publishers and networks. Leveraging your vast rolodex of relationships with online publishers, networks and ad exchanges, you will be responsible for the identification, negotiation and acquisition of profitable media buys. In addition, the Sr. Media Buyer is also responsible for insuring that sources maintain the minimum acceptable metrics/goals. Timeliness, attention to detail, analytics and accuracy are critical to this position. This individual must be a self-motivated team player with the ability to focus on short-term objectives and long-term growth opportunities. S/he will have direct responsibility in the fulfillment of large-scale online advertising campaigns.

The individual must be experienced in a start up environment that requires both planning and managing and rolling up the sleeves.

Responsibilities

1) Make Snap successful.
2) Find, evaluate, and negotiate online advertising deals in the US and internationally
3) Analyze and manage marketing campaigns to achieve Snap’s volume and ROI goals
4) Foster relationships with advertising networks & publishers
5) Optimize placement and targeting of online media buys using internal ROI measurement system
6) Administer monthly media plan
7) Provide professional support and account management to publishers and ad networks
8) Troubleshoot serving problems and reporting discrepancies

Requirements / Qualities

1) BA/BS degree
2) 5+ years of proven successful online media buying experience showing profitable results and quarter-over-quarter contribution growth
3) Accomplished in dynamics of negotiating profitable online media deals with proficiency in analytics, online marketing metrics and optimization strategies
4) Passion to participate as a key driver in taking this business to the next echelon of success in the online media/entertainment space
5) Must be a "hunter"
6) Proficient in Microsoft Excel
7) Ability to multi-task within a fast-paced environment
8) Strong communication, follow through, attention to detail, problem solving skills

Company Overview

Snap is one of the largest distributed media networks on the Internet, already reaching 24% of the US audience and tens of million unique global users each month in 48 languages. Snap contextual products are used on over 2,000,000 websites and blogs, who appreciate the improved experience we provide their users along with the additional advertising inventory we create.

Launched in 2006 by Founders Bill Gross & Tom McGovern, Snap is backed by blue chip Venture Investors including Mayfield Fund and Idealab.

Environment

Snap is a mid-stage start-up that is growing year over year. Snap has achieved it market success with a relatively small team of HIGH IMPACT team members. Snap intends to continue to follow this strategy of keeping the organization small in the immediate term but will expand as revenues grow.

The Snap environment is a start-up where employees are personally passionate about the products and building the business and will do what ever is necessary to achieve our shared goals. It is a meritocracy where great ideas from any team member is celebrated and pursued yet “good ideas are killed as we only have time for the great ones.” We are an “always on” team that values fact based decisions, speed, entrepreneurship and sweating the details.

Company Benefits

• Fun people in a great working environment
• Stock options package
• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
• Life insurance
• Company holidays and Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401k
• Subsidized lunches, gourmet coffee, free snacks, daily fruit and healthy snacks, and free soft drinks
• Casual dress

Position Location: Pasadena, CA. Local candidates only, no relocation

INTERESTED CANDIDATES SHOULD SUBMIT THEIR RESUME AND SALARY HISTORY TO JAY MEYDAD: jay {at} snap {dot} com

Snap is an equal opportunity employer

When we launched Snap Previews Anywhere an Internet eon ago, we quickly realized that as helpful as previews were, most pages from a site offered similar visual information. (Previews of every page on Wikipedia, Amazon, Flickr etc. were virtually indistinguishable.) As a result, in the spring of 2007 we raised the bar and released Snap Shots ™ which included “Rich Shots” that provide much more information to the user as well as increased interactivity. We started with 7 Rich shots including the popular WikiShot and kept adding when we saw specific opportunities to improve the user experience such as the TechCrunch CrunchBase Shot. As a fallback when we did not have a Rich Shot we still offered the original PreviewShot which is essentially a photo of the web page.

That is now changing; Snap is retiring the PreviewShot as our engineers have developed a scalable system that automatically creates Rich Shots for virtually any web page.

So now Snap Shots of any web page, such as the below example of a link that points to a post on Gigaom's Tech blog, will become All Rich Shots in which information is presented in a much more usable manner with key metadata and text excerpts so you will be able to grok more information faster.

We will be rolling out the beta of All Rich Shots in phases. Today you can already see them in action on TechCrunch.com. As with any radical change in a service there will be some rough edges so we look forward to your feedback to help improve All Rich Shots.

Today marks a unique milestone in UNIX history. The timestamp (the representation of system time) reaches 1234567890, the number of seconds since the epoch (Jan 1, 1970).

Here in California, this occurs at exactly 3:31:30 pm. To celebrate this special occasion, the Snap team will have its traditional Snappy Hour today exactly at 9876543210!

On top of that, it's Friday the 13th. An auspicious day for the superstitious numerologists among us, for sure.

This post was written by Scott Johnson, a senior software engineer at Snap.

Nominations for Mashable’s Open Web Awards have officially opened, and we hope our faithful users, publishers and followers will help Snap Shots be voted the #1 Blog Plugin!

To vote, simply type in your email and hit the "Submit" button in the widget below. Then spread the word and share your vote with your Twitter followers and Facebook friends. Don’t forget to check your inbox for an email asking you to confirm your vote.

Update: The winners were selected and unfortunately Snap was not chosen this year. We will try again next year.

Title: Manager, Product Development


Job Description

THIS POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED

Snap is looking for a hands-on Manager of Product Development to lead its software engineering team in delivering innovative Snap Shots products.
Reporting Relationship: Reports to Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities

1) Make Snap successful.
2) Grow and manage a high performance, experienced software engineering team that delivers new Snap Shots products and features.
3) Create new tools that allow customization and provisioning by Snap’s publishing partners and Snap’s operations team.
4) Develop tools and scripts to speed development of new products
5) Work with senior members of the engineering team to ensure technical design is consistent with Snap’s architecture and is of high quality.
6) Liaison with business development and product management to ensure new publisher and content partner deployments are successful.
7) Plan and schedule execution of product engineering efforts making appropriate trade-offs in time, quality and budget.

Requirements / Qualities

1) Track record of success in dynamic, small group or company environments.
2) High energy with strong work ethic and commitment.
3) Ability to collaborate with others in an ego-less manner to get the right answer.
4) Experience in successfully managing engineers and projects.
5) Strong communication skills, particularly in managing team and communicating technical matters to non-engineer stakeholders.
6) Ability to develop simple tools and scripts using Linux, Apache, Mysql, Perl, PHP, Python, and XML.
7) 5 years experience in software with at least 1.5 years as a technical lead or development manager. Experienced in the product development life cycle requirements gathering, specification, documentation, testing, release, and maintenance. Familiar with CVS and Bugzilla or other mainstream version control and bug tracking packages.
8) BS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering preferred

Company Overview

Snap is one of the largest distributed media networks on the Internet, already reaching more than 19% of the US audience and 35 million unique global users each month in 48 languages. Over 100 times per second, we reveal the content that users want, in the best form possible, and deliver it to them right where they are. Our Snap Shots products are used on over 2,000,000 websites and blogs, who appreciate the improved experience we provide their users along with the additional advertising inventory we create. Our Engage products help major content owners add depth to their own offerings and extend their reach across our network to build awareness, traffic and revenue. Together, they comprise a complete solution that is helping to re-aggregate content and users in an increasingly fragmented Internet. Snap’s business model is based on selling advertising on the Snap Shots products.
Launched in 2006 by Bill Gross, Snap is backed by blue chip Venture Investors including Mayfield Fund and Idealab.

Environment

Snap is a mid-stage start-up. Snap has achieved it market success with a relatively small team (less than 30 employees) of HIGH IMPACT team members. Snap intends to continue to follow this strategy of keeping the organization small in the immediate term but will expand as revenues grow.
The Snap environment is a start-up where employees are personally passionate about the products and building the business and doing what is necessary to achieve our shared goals. It is a meritocracy where great ideas from any team member is celebrated and pursued yet “good ideas are killed as we only have time for the great ones.” We are an “always on” team that values fact based decisions, speed, entrepreneurship and sweating the details.

Company Benefits

• Fun people in a great environment
• Stock options package
• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
• Life insurance
• Company holidays and Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401k
• Subsidized lunches, gourmet coffee, free snacks, daily fruit and healthy snacks, and free soft drinks
• Casual dress
• Great working environment

Position Location: Pasadena, CA. Local candidates only, no relocation

INTERESTED CANDIDATES SHOULD SUBMIT THEIR RESUME AND SALARY HISTORY TO MIKE AGOSTINO: mna {at} snap {dot} com

Snap is an equal opportunity employer

Now it’s easier than ever to keep up with your favorite celebrities!

Snap has recently launched a test program with Time Inc’s People.com to deliver a customized People celebrity Snap Shot across Snap’s top entertainment/celebrity partner sites. The specialized People Shot will give users headlines, photos and the latest news on top celebrities from the People.com website.

To see the People Shot in action, check out on celebrity sites such as Yeeeah, BumpShack, Right Celebrity and others.