Can you change the thrust washers on a 1971 MGB Roadster? Have you ever fabricated an espresso machine from twigs and bubble gum? Can you play the spoons? If so, congratulations: You have no specific qualifications to join the Center'd team, but you sound like fun. In fact, if they made a prime-time adventure show about you, we'd definitely set the TiVo.
However, if you can code like the wind, weave dreams out of pixels, or build and maintain lifetime relationships with our partners, we'd like to hear from you. Center'd is a company that is obsessed with creating a remarkable experience. We use our SentimentAnalysis technology to analyze millions of conversations from across the Web and then help people find the best local businesses and activities that suit their needs, whether that be finding something to do with kids, something romantic or just a great deal. We need like-minded team members who can create these tools. We need scary-smart, scary-creative people who will not think of this as ‘just a job’. It isn't for everyone. But it may be for you.
If you think it is, send an email to jobs@centerd.com. Bonus points if we enjoy reading it. Bonus points if we see links to your work or passions. We'd like a resume, and hope you don't waste that opportunity with just a standard 'History, Qualifications, References available upon request' resume. You aren’t like everyone else, so we hope your resume isn’t like everyone else’s.
Awesome. We look forward to hearing from you.
Current Job Listings:
As the Head of Business Development & Sales you will report directly to the CEO and will be responsible for developing and managing
relationships with partners, forecasting & generating revenue as well as building out a sales team to help you achieve these goals.
(Or In the non-Dilbert version, you'll bring home the bacon...no offense to any vegetarians; all are welcome here.)
To qualify, you will :
- have a little bit of "magic," a sparkle in the eye -- you know who you are
- have a list of previous partners who always want to work with you, no matter where you work
(even if they are not a fit here, we want to know you build those kinds of relationships)
- have a track record of generating & growing revenue
- be able to bring in deals that make our partners happy, while making money for Center'd
- have an "anything is possible" attitude and creative ideas to make things possible
- have a lot of knowledge to share and an open mind to learn more
- be a numbers-driven, achievement-oriented person
Responsibilities:
1) Forecast, own and exceed quarterly revenue targets
2) Identify, negotiate and close smart, strategic deals with partners for content/data licensing and marketing/distribution
3) Create a sales team that generates revenue through building relationships with national and local businesses
4) Hire and inspire star players as the team grows over time
Qualification details:
- BA/BS required; MBA preferred
- 5+ years of experience in Internet business development and/or sales, preferably in the local and/or online advertising sectors
- Highly motivated, independent person who can autonomously identify, pursue and close new opportunities & client relationships
- Excellent communicator who can represent the company in front of senior executives at partner companies as well as with media, analysts, etc.
- Strategic thinker with very strong quantitative and analytical skills, balanced with creative new ideas
- Strong written and verbal skills, including great presentation capabilities
- Dynamic, engaging and confident presence (there's that magic again)
We are looking for superstar software architect who has a proven track record of shipping scalable and robust internet applications. You must be capable of designing and developing significant new functionality as well as consistently producing on-going sustaining maintenance releases.
If you love building large-scale systems that include tera-bytes of data and cutting-edge indexing and data mining approaches this job is for you. This position comes with a full ownership of critical pieces of technology so there is a lot of room for innovation and design flexibility.
If you are a creative thinker who thrives in a fast-paced, consumer-driven environment, Center'd is the right place for you.
This position requires full-time coding and reports to the CTO of the company.
Responsibilities:
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent
• 8+ years of multithreaded server-side programming experience
• Strong foundation in C#/Java, OO Design, Microsoft SQL Server/MySQL
• Strong experience with HTTP/SOAP/JSON and related protocols
• In-depth knowledge of HTTP Servers such as IIS or Apache
• Solid understanding of search technologies – crawlers, indexing and mining
• Proven track record of delivering functional features
• Excellent organization, communication and interpersonal skills
• Familiarity with scrum/extreme programming/agile methodologies
• Focus on reusability, and test driven development
• Strong customer orientation or professional services background
• Knowledge in Machine learning, NLP and related technologies is a definite plus
You are an absolute front end superstar. You have plenty of companies throwing themselves at you, right? Why would you be interested in Center’d? Well...
We have the best characteristics of a startup:
•Fast, dynamic, exciting environment
•Encouragement of creativity and truly innovative solutions
•Have your creations live on the site THAT DAY
•Smart, hungry teammates
•Company equity
And the best characteristics of an established player:
•Experienced, industry-renowned leadership
•Funding
•External interest
•A real business plan
•Industry connections
And, some icing:
•Gym membership and team workouts
•All the beverages and snacks you can consume
•Training and encouragement to try new things
•A site you can show your friends with pride
Incredibly advanced backend with a differentiated social graph and all the right touches seeks a face to match. Can you bring the heat? Can you sort through the lame and meld the best of CSS/XHTML/JS/AJAX and client-side APIs/Frameworks into something worth writing home about? Can you do it today? Hmm... Maybe we should talk.
Responsibilities:
-Work closely with our product and design team to build something different. The good kind of different.
-Work closely with our engineers to hook it all up
-Do it today, do it well, and do it again tomorrow
Your Specialties:
-CSS, HTML/XHTML/W3C DOM
-AJAX/JavaScript (Object Oriented JavaScript)
-XML/XSLT
The Foundation:
-Higher-level academic learning, with a degree to match
-You know your way around ASP/ASP.NET
-You also know a bit about C# and Microsoft .NET Framework
-You’ve done this before with flair, and have the portfolio to prove it
-Oh, and what you don’t know, you can learn with a quickness
Interested? Take a look at the top of the page and respond accordingly. Operators are standing by...
