Come join our great team especially if you love to eat!
Us
1 billion shakes and counting. Urbanspoon is the leading app and web site dedicated to helping over twenty million consumers each month discover the best restaurants and food in multiple countries around the world. We have excellent restaurant information and recommendations from our customers as well as from professional critics and bloggers, and we’re looking for a Technical Product Manager to join a talented team in taking our apps and services to a new level. Urbanspoon is a dynamic yet stable startup located in the Eastlake neighborhood of Seattle, near South Lake Union.
The Role
The Technical Product Manager will be deeply involved in defining and executing the evolution of our product strategy. We are looking for an experienced product manager who will contribute to the product vision, translate the vision into detailed product roadmaps, lead the cross functional delivery of the product and drive the post launch analysis. You will play a critical role in our product transformation as we move beyond restaurant discovery to also helping our customers discover great food and dining experiences anywhere worldwide.
Your Task
+ Define and manage the product roadmap for new initiatives and features, and build internal excitement for the product vision
+ Build business cases by identifying market opportunities, evaluating the competitive landscape and understanding user needs. Build models to predict product KPIs and drive backlog prioritization
+ Partner with your colleagues in user experience, engineering, customer operations, business development, finance, and marketing teams to launch new products and features
+ Write rock solid user stories. Define, scope and prioritize the backlog with an understanding of tradeoffs and business impact
+ Develop clear acceptance criteria, and act as the agile product owner for determining product and feature readiness
+ Be willing and able to wear many hats in an entrepreneurial environment
+ Technical knowledge; solid understanding of architecture concepts, scope tradeoffs and evaluating new opportunities with technical team members. Our technologies include Ruby on Rails, HTML/CSS, iOS, Android, and Elastic Search
+ Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with various stakeholders, and strong project management skills
+ Excellent problem solving, organizational and prioritization skills
Required
+ Bachelor’s degree
+ 5+ years of software Product Management / Program
+ Management experience, 2+ in a technical role in an agile development environment
+ Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive actions
+ Strong verbal and written communication skills
+ Passionate about building great products and solving customer and business problems
Preferred Experience
+ CS degree or advanced degree in related field (MBA)
+ Scrum Master certification
+ Experience working with and building external APIs
+ 3+ years of consumer facing Web Product Management experience or Mobile App product experience with mass market consumer products
+ Experience driving customer adoption on web and mobile: SEO, SEM, CPI mobile acquisition, app store marketing, etc
+ Proficient with Google Analytics for web and mobile, or equivalent web/mobile analytics tools
+ SQL Proficiency
Join the #1 brand and top Web property focused on answering people’s questions. At Ask.com, we’re building a next-generation Q&A service – spanning both the Web and mobile devices — that combines the power of search with insight from real users by developing products and tools that drive user satisfaction, revenue, and traffic. We are serious about creating and maintaining a great culture and are looking for great people to come join our team.
The Role
Become part of a software engineering team that builds technology that directly answers our users questions. Ask.com was the first search engine to develop and deploy this technology which uses a combination of linguistic analysis, API usage, editorial content, and structured data processing. A wide array of tools and support applications create these Smart Answers and we are continually improving these tools while also creating new technologies to help our hundreds of millions of users around the world get to their answer as quickly as possible.
You
You are an experienced software engineer with a passion for coding excellence and a substantial interest in relational databases, big data systems, information retrieval, and application services. You will bring your innovation, motivation, and superior ability to problem solve to contribute to our continued success.
Your Task
-Maintain, troubleshoot, and improve a suite of software applications and tools that are critical to our content business.
-Monitor and improve performance and health of the applications, tools processes, and infrastructure.
-Be a constructive, participating member in migrating C#/.Net/ASP/MSSQL applications to a Java/Node.js/MySQL environment.
-Convert unstructured data to structured, relational databases and leverage those systems in data driven knowledge applications and services.
Your Skills
-Heavy knowledge in designing and optimizing complex SQL queries. Strong experience using Stored Procedures. Understanding of the differences between MySQL and MSSQL in order to port Stored Procedures from MSSQL to MySQL.
-Hands-on experience using RESTful APIs and WebServices in C#/.NET. Experience with IIS, Tomcat, Jetty, JSP/Servlet, and Apache httpd.
-Proven experience in developing web services and applications in C# and .NET environments.
-Proficient in building web services in JAVA.
-Fast prototyping skills and familiarity with scripting languages such as Python and Unix shell scripting.
-Strong unit testing, devops, and debugging skills.
-Node.js experience a plus, especially with migrating from .NET/ASP to Node.js.
-Hadoop and big data experience a plus.
-Computational linguistics and NLP experience desired.
-Strong analytical problem solving skills.
-Able to work effectively and cooperatively in a team environment.
-Experience with the Agile development methodology.
-BS/MS in computer science, computer engineering or related technical field, and -5+ years experience in job offered or computer-related occupation. PhD a plus.
Us
As a top US internet site, Ask.com’s mission is to get our millions of users across the globe the answers they need. We've been in the Q&A business for more than 17 years, and although Jeeves has since retired, we carry on his passion for serving our 100 million users with answers they can trust. We are serious about creating and maintaining a company culture that is both innovative and fun, and we’re looking for great people to come join our team.
The Role
Join a software engineering team that is responsible for developing a new application platform to support the Ask.com family of websites. Our focus is building great experiences for our users. The successful candidate is familiar with client side technologies and techniques, and has a stronger emphasis on HTTP, algorithms, network and service architecture. Some understanding of various data stores and distributed computing architecture is also beneficial.
Your Task
Design, build and test high performance scalable systems utilizing Node.js
Work closely with internal engineering customer base to understand their needs and explore technology trade-offs
Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code
Join in design of a new platform from the ground up using the best technologies for the job
Thrive in a highly collaborative team
Design and implement from start to finish (R&D, design documentation, prototyping, implementation, unit testing, test plan/test cases)
Drive continual improvement to our service oriented architecture
Your Skills
BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Advanced JavaScript skills (OO, functional, Node.js a plus)
Advanced web fundamentals HTTP, AJAX, web sockets and other emerging technologies
Experience with a breadth of languages including explicitly functional languages
Experience building frameworks for front end clients (eg: desktop, mobile/tablet)
In-depth knowledge of design patterns and their appropriate application
Solid CS fundamentals in Algorithms, Data Structures, Operating Systems, Networking
Preference for agile work environments
Excellent written and verbal communications skills at the business and technical level
Strong work ethic, commitment and team work
Ability to create solid documentation.
Master of analysis, object oriented design and other abstraction patterns
Contributor to open-source project a plus
Dictionary.com is a profitable, growing, and massive website with over 50 million unique users per month. More people visit Dictionary.com every year than go to the movies. Our customer base includes anyone who wants to feel smarter and communicate better. Our family of free, advertising-supported sites: Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com provide accurate and exhaustive definitions, synonyms, examples, pronunciations, translations, and more for millions of words. We create innovative and timely products to facilitate learning and intellectual growth, such as the Word of the Day which is enjoyed by 1 million people every day. Our vision is to go beyond a simple web utility and become the #1 trusted and inspirational brand for words and word meanings anywhere.
The Role
Dictionary.com is seeking an exceptional iOS Developer to be part of a growing in-house team. As an iOS engineer at Dictionary.com, you will play a large role in all aspects of iOS development. Your code and technological feats will be seen by millions of active users on web, tablet and smartphone products.
Responsibilities:
Collaborate with the product and design team.
Design and implement new user-facing features in Dictionary.com’s iOS products.
Build the libraries and frameworks that support internal analytics and marketing platforms.
Liaison with external & internal resources.
Ability and willingness to mentor others on mobile technologies.
Qualifications:
1 - 4 years of iOS development experience.
Experience deploying consumer-facing apps to the iTunes app store.
Computer Science degree or equivalent experience.
Considerable experience with Objective C and Cocoa Touch.
Experience with REST APIs.
Web development skills such as: HTML, CSS and Javascript/jQuery.
Experience with sizing projects and providing status updates.
Understanding of code documentation best practices and style.
Strong communication skills.
Must learn and work well independently and also within a collaborative team environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with C and C++.
Experience working with large-scale, consumer-facing apps.
Strong competencies in data structures and software architecture.
Experience working in an agile development environment.
Come join our great team especially if you love to eat!
Us
1 billion shakes and counting. Urbanspoon is the leading app and web site dedicated to helping over twenty million consumers each month discover the best restaurants and food in multiple countries around the world. We have excellent restaurant information and recommendations from our customers as well as from professional critics and bloggers, and we’re looking for a Technical Product Manager to join a talented team in taking our apps and services to a new level. Urbanspoon is a dynamic yet stable startup located in the Eastlake neighborhood of Seattle, near South Lake Union.
The Role
The Technical Product Manager will be deeply involved in defining and executing the evolution of our product strategy. We are looking for an experienced product manager who will contribute to the product vision, translate the vision into detailed product roadmaps, lead the cross functional delivery of the product and drive the post launch analysis. You will play a critical role in our product transformation as we move beyond restaurant discovery to also helping our customers discover great food and dining experiences anywhere worldwide.
Your Task
+ Define and manage the product roadmap for new initiatives and features, and build internal excitement for the product vision + Build business cases by identifying market opportunities, evaluating the competitive landscape and understanding user needs. Build models to predict product KPIs and drive backlog prioritization + Partner with your colleagues in user experience, engineering, customer operations, business development, finance, and marketing teams to launch new products and features + Write rock solid user stories. Define, scope and prioritize the backlog with an understanding of tradeoffs and business impact + Develop clear acceptance criteria, and act as the agile product owner for determining product and feature readiness + Be willing and able to wear many hats in an entrepreneurial environment + Technical knowledge; solid understanding of architecture concepts, scope tradeoffs and evaluating new opportunities with technical team members. Our technologies include Ruby on Rails, HTML/CSS, iOS, Android, and Elastic Search + Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with various stakeholders, and strong project management skills + Excellent problem solving, organizational and prioritization skills
Required
+ Bachelor’s degree + 5+ years of software Product Management / Program + Management experience, 2+ in a technical role in an agile development environment + Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and drive actions + Strong verbal and written communication skills + Passionate about building great products and solving customer and business problems
Preferred Experience
+ CS degree or advanced degree in related field (MBA) + Scrum Master certification + Experience working with and building external APIs + 3+ years of consumer facing Web Product Management experience or Mobile App product experience with mass market consumer products + Experience driving customer adoption on web and mobile: SEO, SEM, CPI mobile acquisition, app store marketing, etc + Proficient with Google Analytics for web and mobile, or equivalent web/mobile analytics tools + SQL Proficiency
Apply at our website: http://www.urbanspoon.com/careers/