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