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About Us

Quigo provides innovative, performance marketing solutions for premium-branded websites and advertisers. Quigo's AdSonar is a leading network of premium-branded websites offering auction-based, pay-per-click advertising. AdSonar's content-targeted sponsored links are distributed to many of the web's most recognized sites including ESPN.com, PGATour.com, Golf Digest, ABC News, Martha Stewart, Homestore.com, Lonely Planet, Fodors.com, CareerBuilder, and IDG; and for over 150 local, regional and national news sites including those of Internet Broadcasting, The Chicago Tribune, Cox Newspapers, The Hearst Company, The McClatchy Company, Media General, Morris Communications, and USA Today. AdSonar offers advertisers multiple targeting options for their pay-per-click campaigns including national and local targeting by vertical category, site, individual page, topic, and/or keyword. Quigo's suite of search marketing solutions, including its flagship FeedPoint product, offers scalable, technology-driven services to help leading e-commerce sites acquire customers, generate sales, and build brands. Founded in 2000, Quigo has offices in New York City and San Jose, CA.

What's it like at Quigo?

Quigo is a growing, fast-paced company with an ownership culture focused squarely on our many clients and customers. The company's two primary products - AdSonar and Feedpoint - contribute to the ongoing evolutionary shift in the way people advertise and market their products and services. As such, the culture of the company and of the industries we take part are constantly shifting. Flexibility, ability to see the big picture and manage multiple projects are all critical to success here.

Quigo provides its employees with many opportunities for hands-on experience, and a chance to add to the company dialogue about what we're doing and how we're doing it. The company is full of smart, interesting, and highly experienced people from many of the well-known companies that helped build "The Internet" into what it is today.

Next Steps

If you feel like you can make a real difference to what we're trying to accomplish here, we encourage you to submit your resume for review.

Regional Sales Managers, AdSonar for Advertisers

Quigo is seeking seasoned Sales Professionals who will be directly responsible for acquiring high value advertising clients.

Responsibilities will include:

  • Acquire new advertisers for Quigo's AdSonar network via phone outreach and face-to-face meetings.
  • Consistently meet or exceed sales goals, demonstrating focused sales efforts, understanding of the Quigo business model, and an understanding of the internet advertising environment.
  • Cultivate relationships with key interactive advertising agencies.
  • Work with Account Management to effectively manage large account base, delivering superior customer service while expanding client participation.

Requirements:

  • 5-7 years media sales experience, 2-3 years online media sales preferred.
  • Demonstrated record of success in a goal oriented, highly accountable, sales environment.
  • Superior presentation skills, excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to work effectively as part of a sales team.
  • Understanding of the Internet.
  • Experience in a fast-paced environment is preferred.
  • Bachelor's degree required.

Please send resumé and salary requirements to: careers@quigo.com

Sr. Front-End Web Developer, AdSonar

Quigo is seeking a talented, self-motivated front-end web developer to join our product-development team. Front-end developers must be highly proficient at client-side technologies such as JavaScript, CSS, and, of course, hand-coded HTML; in the case of all of these technologies, deep knowledge of browser-compatibilities is essential. Additionally, front-end developers should be comfortable with, and have, significant, hands-on experience with JSP, and be able to prove in a telephone interview a reasonable degree of knowledge of the core Java APIs. Knowledge of the Struts framework is a plus, as is knowledge of AJAX. In addition to technical aptitude, candidates should have a demonstrated interest in interaction design.

Requirements:

  • Minimum 3 years experience building JavaScript/CSS/JSP-based front ends for viewing on multiple browsers and operating systems
  • Familiarity with CVS, Photoshop, and at least one J2EE application server
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a strong focus on teamwork
  • The following technologies/skills are a plus: Jakarta/Apache Tomcat; Eclipse IDE; Struts MVC framework (Action-class development and JSP authoring); custom JSP tag development and use; AJAX; Ant; XML/XSL transformations; JSTL; JSP 2.0 EL; command-line CVS ; inline video integration; Flash authoring.
  • Very strong communication skills and flawless English.

Please include all of the following when responding to this job posting:

  • Resumé
  • Sample URLs (describing your role for each sample)
  • Salary requirements
  • US Work Authorization Status

Please send resumé and salary requirements to: careers@quigo.com

Sr. Front End Web Developer, FeedPoint

We are seeking a Sr. Front End Web developer to join our dynamic cross functional product and Engineering team in New York, where you will apply your engineering skills to business needs in the burgeoning search industry. This is a great opportunity to make an impact quickly.

You will use a mix of our existing and/or new platforms to design and implement innovative Front End technology solutions for clients and internal business groups within set deadlines. You will act as the focal point between back end and front end technological product capabilities for internal business groups in accordance with client objectives. You will act as first line of defense to ensure core UI technology platform is running smoothly and in accordance with other Quigo technologies.

Personal/Engineering Skills:

  • Self-managed, proactive, creative, problem solving work style and the ability to work independently and in a team environment.
  • Able to evaluate and learn new technologies, applications and skills quickly
  • Ability to multi-task and estimate engineering tasks in a fast paced, professional environment, while balancing “Importance to User” and business ROI.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Strong ability to "mentor" and develop skills of other staff members
  • Significant background in the following: application servers (Apache Tomcat, JRun etc.…), web servers and distributed or load balanced systems, Web Services and SOA, XML, DOM, and other W3C standards
  • 5+ years experience building front-end web applications under multiple browsers and OS using HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JSP, Java Servlets and Struts MVC framework. Other front-end technologies such as AJAX, Flash, ActionScript etc. - a major plus.
  • Experienced with backend technologies: SQL, Java, Perl and good database understanding in Oracle environment. Other languages/databases - a plus.
  • 3+ years of experience with tools and environments such as: Photoshop, CVS, Eclipse, Toad, prototyping and testing tools, (other tools – a plus)
  • Experienced at writing technical and end user documentation for web applications.

Requirements:

  • Education: BS or higher in CS or other strongly related field (or equivalent experience).
  • Graphic Design education and experience - major plus
  • A huge plus will be familiarity with Data Mining; Behavioral Targeting; Contextual Advertising; online marketing campaigns, promotions, Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  • Must be eligible to work in the U.S.

Please send resumé and salary requirements to: careers@quigo.com

Ad Operations Manager (San Jose, CA)

Quigo (www.quigo.com), named Company of the Year by AlwaysOn Media, provides innovative performance marketing solutions for advertisers and premium publishers. Quigo’s AdSonar is a leading network of top-tier websites offering many types of advertising solutions.  AdSonar’s content-targeted sponsored links are distributed to many of the web’s most recognized sites including CNNMoney.com, TIME.com, People.com, ESPN.com, Forbes.com, FoxNews.com, CareerBuilder.com, LonelyPlanet.com and on over 200 local, regional and national newspaper and television sites including those of ABC, Tribune Interactive, Cox Communications, Fox, The Hearst Company, The McClatchy Company, Morris Communications, Media News Group, Scripps, USA Today and others.  AdSonar offers advertisers multiple targeting options for their campaigns; including national and local targeting by vertical category, site, individual page, topic, and/or keyword.  Quigo’s suite of search marketing solutions, including its flagship FeedPoint product, offers scalable, technology-driven services to help leading e-commerce and directory sites drive traffic, acquire new customers, and generate sales and profits.  Founded in 2000, Quigo has offices in New York City and San Jose, California.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the creation of a video ad operations function within Quigo
  • Work closely with sales force to understand client needs
  • Execute insertion orders and track status of all advertising campaigns in ad server
  • Develop a process for implementing and monitoring campaigns in order to create efficiencies in workflow
  • Responsible for collecting the creative assets from the client/agency within the desired specifications
  • Manage all site communication with ad specifications to sales, clients and agency partners
  • Monitor and analyze performance of individual publishers and the whole ad network
  • Advise management on ad serving solutions, highlight operational issues and set guidelines for ad operations process
  • Suggest methods to optimize network and campaign performance
  • Manage 3rd Party Reporting to ensure campaign delivery, and confirm advertiser goals/budgets are being fulfilled and billed as scheduled
  • Build an ad operations/traffic management team as growth dictates

Requirements:

  • Dependable, motivated and flexible self-starter; adaptive to change and tight deadlines
  • Strong analytical, decision-making and problem solving skills and abilities
  • 2-4 years experience in ad operations management working with online ad sales, preferably with a top Internet destination site, ad network provider or advertising agency
  • Experience with trafficking in-stream video advertising
  • Strong knowledge of ad servers from both publisher-side (DFP, 24/7 Realmedia, OAS), and advertiser-side (DFA, Atlas, etc.)
  • Comprehensive understanding of campaign success metrics: CPM, CPC, conversions
  • Basic knowledge of Rich Media, HTML, Javascript, Flash
  • Strong knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint
  • BA/BS degree required
  • Strong leadership, communication and organizational skills
  • Able to understand the business process and work in a team environment
  • A willingness to increase scope of responsibility quickly

Please send resumé and salary requirements to: careers@quigo.com

Senior Java Engineer, New Products

Location: San Jose, CA

Requirements:

  • CS undergraduate or higher.
  • Fluency in Java required - at least 5 years professional experience working with enterprise-level Java solutions (jsp/servlet/tomcat).
  • Fluency in complex SQL data extraction and schema manipulation.
  • Passion for creative problem solving, and experience with high-scale, highly-available systems.
  • Experience with machine learning or statistics a plus.

Please send resumé and salary requirements to: careers@quigo.com

Software QA Engineer

Quigo is seeking a detail-oriented Quality Assurance Engineer. The existing QA team is small and eager to add an energetic individual who can make a positive impact in a startup environment.

Responsibilities:

  • Identify, analyze and document defects
  • Design test plans, cases and scripts
  • Executes and documents test results
  • Execute behavioral/structural tests and automate them over time
  • Document, track and communicate results, bugs, analysis and unresolved problems

Requirements:

  • Bachelors degree or 1-3 years equivalent experience
  • Strong fundamentals in QA methodologies and procedures
  • Experience with QA testing using open source technologies
  • In-depth understanding of software development lifecycle and formal testing methodologies
  • White box and black box testing, regression testing, load/stress testing, unit testing, and tools
  • Strong knowledge of web technologies and web browsers (IE, Firefox, AOL, Netscape etc.)
  • Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Capable of identifying complex problems and choosing appropriate solutions

Please send resumé and salary requirements to: careers@quigo.com

Managing Director, Search Services

Quigo is seeking a Managing Director for our FeedPoint SEM services. The Director in this position will lead a team of Account Managers responsible for helping clients successfully market their products and services through Paid Search, Yahoo's Search Submit Pro and Comparison Search Engines. These marketing programs revolve around the creation and optimization of large-scale feeds and paid search campaign and require organized project management, heavy analytics and excellent client relationship skills. In addition, Quigo continues develop new search marketing products, so qualified applicants should have a solid technology understanding in order to fully comprehend new offerings and set strategy for introducing them to existing customers. The position includes managerial duties; as a result candidates should have proven leadership qualities and the ability to organize, motivate and manage personnel.

Responsibilities will include:

  • Assist Business Development in forming implementation strategies pre-sale in order to help bring in new business.
  • Directly manage a group of Account Managers who are implementing and growing marketing programs for a variety of clients, primarily in the retail and local spaces.
  • Act as Quigo's primary liaison and point of contact with major search engine partners such as Yahoo, Google, MSN, Shopping.com, Bizrate & Nextag.
  • Interface directly with top clients to understand campaign goals and set strategy to accomplish those objectives.
  • Mine client relationships for additional business opportunities, both within our search services and new product offerings.
  • Establish systematic account review policies across the department and set routine face to face meetings with key accounts.
  • Present performance results and go-forward strategies to client executives.
  • Help members in the department develop strategies for their own accounts and cultivate professional growth.
  • Set processed to actively test marketing messages, landing page URLs and keywords to maximize campaign performance.
  • Establish best practices per channel based on data analysis. Implement best practices training across the division.
  • Manage client budgets across multiple channels for profit maximization.
  • Keep up with industry trends and add insight into new opportunities for existing clients.
  • Understand in-house technology capabilities in order to propose creative solutions to customer needs.
  • Provide strategic insight through regular campaign reporting; think creatively about additional metrics and data points that would help clients measure the value of our programs.
  • Review campaign performance with the team and identify areas of focus for improvement and account growth.
  • Grow client engagement through superior performance and relationship management.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's Degree, MBA preferred.
  • Previous experience managing clients and budgets, working with VP and higher level contacts.
  • 7+ years online advertising experience including at least 3+ years directly involved in search.
  • 2+ years experience with SEO. Previous work with Yahoo Search Submit Pro strongly preferred.
  • Familiarity with comparison shopping engine feeds and campaign management tactics. Understanding the specific search needs of retailers.
  • Excellent written and verbal communications skills; knowledge of how to set and surpass client expectations.
  • Comfortable working in a fast paced, constantly evolving, team environment.
  • Strong quantitative and analytical experience applied routinely to previous job functions.
  • Understanding of all various online marketing metrics (ROI, COS, CPA, CPC, etc.).
  • Enthusiastic about the search industry and willing to keep up with the latest trends.
  • High degree of initiative with the ability to make recommendations and to take appropriate action with minimal supervision.
  • Meticulous attention to detail and ability to execute against an organized campaign plan.
  • Ability to develop strategic plans and break them up into prioritized, component parts.
  • Proven experience managing personnel and growing successful teams.
  • Up to 20% travel expected for client meetings/presentations.

Please send resumé and salary requirements to: careers@quigo.com

Account Manager (Retail), FeedPoint

We are seeking an Account Manager, Retail for our FeedPoint division. The Account Manager in this position will lead search strategy and implementation for top client accounts across various Comparison Shopping Engines (Shopping.com, Shopzilla, NexTag, etc.). Account management includes acting as primary day-to-day contact with major clients and agencies, creating reports and reviewing results with them, recommending optimization techniques, implementing agreed upon changes in the search engines, and continually analyzing returns in order to improve campaign performance. The role fuses relationship management with strong data analytics decision-making.

Responsibilities will include:

  • Interface with clients to understand campaign goals and set strategy to accomplish those objectives.
  • Plan and execute campaigns on Yahoo!, Shopping.com, Shopzilla, NexTag and other pay-per-click engines suitable for our retail accounts.
  • Develop recurring strategies and best practices to share with other members in the department.
  • Manage client budgets across multiple channels for profit maximization.
  • Create detailed performance reports showcasing program success.
  • Work with our production team to alter product data feeds in order to optimize accounts for profitability and ROI.
  • Analyze returns daily and react quickly to changing data.
  • Understand in-house technology capabilities in order to propose creative solutions to customer needs.
  • Grow client budgets through superior performance and relationship management.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience required.
  • Previous experience managing marketing budgets, preferably from within an agency (multi-client) environment.
  • 2+ years search engine marketing (SEM) experience.
  • 1+ year experience with comparison shopping search and/or other data feed programs (Yahoo SSP).
  • Excellent written and verbal communications skills; knowledge of how to set and surpass client expectations.
  • Comfortable working in a fast paced, constantly evolving, team environment.
  • Strong quantitative and analytical experience (Advanced Excel, MS Access or database background preferred).
  • Understanding of all relevant marketing metrics (CTR, CPC, ROI, COS, etc.).
  • Enthusiastic about the search industry and willing to keep up with the latest trends.
  • High degree of initiative with the ability to make recommendations and to take appropriate action.
  • Ability to develop strategic plans and break them up into component parts.
  • Meticulous attention to detail and ability to execute against an organized campaign plan.

Please send resumé and salary requirements to: careers@quigo.com

Director of Business Development, FeedPoint

Location: New York, San Francisco Bay Area OR Los Angeles

Quigo is seeking a Director of Business Development for our FeedPoint division, reporting to our Vice President of Business Development. The Director will acquire new business - from direct advertisers, agencies and web publishers - and also manage existing key relationships. Knowledge of market and industry trends, competitors, leading customer strategies, analytics, as well as killer sales, deal closing and negotiation instincts are required. A solid background in Internet media sales and business development, as well as direct experience in sales, business development or client services of search engine marketing (SEO, Pay Per Click, Comparison Shopping Engines or Paid Inclusion) is preferred. The Director will be supported by the client services infrastructure of a successful company. We are looking for smart, interesting people who want to work hard and learn from highly-experienced people. We provide a casual, fun corporate culture. Candidates should be energetic, self-starters, who are proactive in driving revenue and committed to creating new business opportunities in a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities will include:

  • Analyze and identify the most suitable new business opportunities, focusing on the top 500 Internet retailers/websites.
  • Work with Director, Senior Director and VP-level marketers.
  • Engage with decision makers at all levels to build and maintain a strong pipeline of ongoing new business opportunities.
  • Accurately forecast new business closure rate and revenue.
  • Initiate business discussions with new prospects, develop custom presentations, coordinate and manage new business meetings, conduct online and in-person demos, and handle contract negotiations.
  • Identify and develop a strong understanding of a prospect's core objectives and challenges and conduct detailed needs assessments.
  • Liaise with Client Services/Account Managers to effectively manage client expectations and ensure successful implementation of campaign setup, launch and renewals.
  • Leverage existing knowledge and provide value to your prospects and clients consistently.
  • Regularly meet or exceed sales goals, and demonstrate target-focused sales efforts, leadership and relationship building.
  • Travel as needed to attend trade shows and meet prospects and clients.

Requirements:

  • BA/BS degree, MBA preferred.
  • Minimum of ten (10) years of progressive work experience in Internet or Media.
  • Minimum of five (5) years in a sales or business development role, doing business with top 500 Internet companies.
  • Experience in Search Engine Marketing required in one or more: SEO, Pay Per Click, Paid Inclusion or Comparison Shopping Engines.
  • Interactive agency or search engine background preferred.
  • Online marketing consulting experience a plus.
  • Strong knowledge and understanding of web analytics, ROI metrics, online ad targeting, search marketing optimization, various SEM products.
  • Proven communication, presentation and sales skills, with a consultative selling spin.
  • List of industry contacts of decision makers/executives a huge plus.

Please send resumé and salary requirements to: careers@quigo.com

Senior Software Engineer, FeedPoint

Quigo is seeking a FeedPoint Senior 'Solutions Engineer' to join our search engine marketing technology team in our New York City office. In this role you will serve as FeedPoint’s primary engineer for client-specific solutions that require custom technology builds. You will lead a work group engineers and work closely with our business groups to understand discreet client objectives and build software to provide solutions within set deadlines. The technology you create will be used first and foremost to serve client needs and increase FeedPoint revenue; secondarily, you may be asked to extend your applications into generic versions that can service a large breadth of customers with similar needs. You will also be responsible for familiarizing yourself with all aspects of our core technology platform so that you can re-use pieces of it for solutions engineering and/or integrate your own applications with the base platform where appropriate. Our core technology includes data crawling and extraction applications, feed-building tools and an array of conversion tracking and reporting software. This is a great opportunity to make an impact quickly while refining your engineering skills in the burgeoning search industry.

Responsibilities will include:

  • Act as technology consult for internal business groups whose clients require tweaks of the FeedPoint core platform.
  • Lead the development teams to design and ensure that the technical solutions adhere to the client requirements using a mix of our existing platform and new code where appropriate.
  • Write scripts, applications, etc. to provide the correct solution for clients and internal business groups.
  • Ensure core technology platform is running smoothly and act as first line of defense if problems arise.
  • Extend your applications' flexibility to handle similar solutions for other clients where appropriate and integrate your code into our existing platform.

Requirements:

Personal Skills:

  • Self-managed, proactive, problem solving work style and the ability to work independently and in a team environment.
  • Able to evaluate and learn new technologies, applications and skills quickly.
  • Education: BS, MS or PhD in computer science, information systems engineering or other strongly related field (or equivalent experience).
  • A huge plus will be familiarity with data mining; Contextual Advertising; online marketing campaigns, promotions, Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
  • Must be eligible to work in the U.S.

Management Skills:

  • 3-5 years of experience in leading software development projects and managing project teams of more than 3 Engineers.
  • Strong ability to lead and "mentor" and develop skills of other Jr. staff members and measure ongoing performance.
  • Ability to comprehend and explain business flow processes and assist in defining project scopes.
  • Ability to set simultaneous projects direction and execute on projects deliverables and work products.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to balance the "importance to the user" with the ROI to the business.

Engineering Skills:

  • 5+ years experience applying your engineering skills to business needs.
  • Experience in all phases of product development life cycle, including requirements definitions (SPECs), development, testing procedures, product release and sustaining engineering.
  • Strong knowledge of Object Oriented analysis and design concepts (UML experience - a plus).
  • Significant background in the following: application servers, web servers and distributed or load balanced systems.
  • Good database understanding (Oracle environment): Schema design, performance tuning - a plus.
  • Ability to evaluate, select and implement 3rd party packages through APIs, file downloads, or http requests, parse information and insert into relevant areas of our database.
  • It is required to have 5+ years of knowledge/experience of the following:
    • Written significant pieces with in PL/SQL, Java and Perl (additional languages - a plus) in both UNIX and Windows Environment.
    • Ability to write scripts that parse large data files and reformat them.
    • Strong proficiency in client/server coding.
    • Strong working knowledge of XML, threads, Web Services and debugging practices.
    • Experience with tools such as: CVS (version control), Eclipse, Toad, argoUML, testing tools (additional tools - a plus).
    • Ability to set cron jobs for routine data manipulation and create schemes to handle errors and retries.

Please send resumé and salary requirements to: careers@quigo.com

Systems Administrator

Location: New York, NY OR San Jose, CA

Responsibilities will include:

  • Ensure 24x7 site operation.
  • Configure and manage system and network devices.
  • Monitor system availability and performance.
  • Help develop tools to monitor and maintain systems.
  • Help design and scale systems to meet demand.

Requirements:

  • Multiple years of Linux or UNIX system administration experience desired, but candidates of all levels will be considered.
  • Knowledge of TCP/IP networking.
  • BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • Knowledge of webservers, firewalls/security, DNS, SMTP.
  • Knowledge of one or more of the following: bourne, bash, perl, python, C.
  • Excellent verbal and written skills.

Please send resumé and salary requirements to: careers@quigo.com

Junior Systems Administrator

Location: New York, NY or San Jose, CA

Responsibilities will include:

  • Ensure 24x7 site operation.
  • Configure and manage system and network devices.
  • Monitor system availability and performance.
  • Help develop tools to monitor and maintain systems.
  • Help design and scale systems to meet demand.

Requirements:

  • .NET programming experience.
  • Linux or UNIX system administration experience.
  • Knowledge of TCP/IP networking.
  • BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • Knowledge of webservers, firewalls/security, DNS, SMTP.
  • Knowledge of one or more of the following: bourne, bash, perl, python, C.
  • Excellent verbal and written skills.

Please send resumé and salary requirements to: careers@quigo.com

Sales Representatives, AdSonar for Advertisers

Quigo is seeking energetic Inside Sales Representatives who can make a positive impact in a startup environment. These individuals will be directly responsible for acquiring high value clients.

Responsibilities will include:

  • Acquire new advertisers for Quigo's AdSonar network. Primary method of acquisition will be outbound phone, e-mail contact and direct outside contact.
  • Consistently meet or exceed sales goals, demonstrating focused sales efforts, understanding of the Quigo business model, and an understanding of the internet advertising environment.
  • Work with Account Managers to effectively manage large account base, delivering superior customer service while expanding client participation.

Requirements:

  • 2 years sales experience, media sales preferred.
  • Demonstrated record of success in a goal oriented, highly accountable, sales environment. Cold calling experience preferred.
  • Superior phone skills, excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Experience managing a large client base.
  • Ability to work effectively as part of a sales team.
  • Understanding of the Internet.
  • Experience in a fast-paced environment is preferred.
  • Bachelor's degree required.

Please send resumé and salary requirements to: careers@quigo.com