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Product Manager – Customer & Agent Experiences
Job ID: BE179958
Job Title: Product Manager – Customer & Agent Experiences
Salary: $90-130k
Location: Washington
Job Description:
Our client is seeking a talented product/program manager to lead the charge designing the best home-buying and home-selling experience on the planet. This PM will be responsible for all aspects of website interaction between millions of customers and hundreds of agents. He or she will work with the real estate operations team to define the service and process around how our client delights all customers with a fantastic real estate experience from start-to-finish.
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Search Architect
Job ID: GP708758
Salary: 120-160k
Location: Northern California
Job Description:
Our client is a fast-growing company thriving through the economic downturn by providing a unique and much needed travel service. They are looking for an outstanding engineer with strong Java application development skills and a background in vertical search. The successful candidate will have a direct impact on the core search engine development.
Responsibilities:
· will own the architecture design and development of our search engine application, taking the current implementation and ensuring it provides high quality search result ranking and the ability to scale to massively
Qualifications:
· must have 5 years designing and hands on building of high volume Java applications for the web.
· must have hands on experience developing Lucene/SOLR based search applications
· must have proven experience rapidly re-architecting systems for ease of development and scale
· must have 3 years experience working in a rapidly growing start up environment
· must have proven ability to design either a database schema or ontology
· must have hands on experience using high performing SQL with very large data sets
· must be a native speaker of the UNIX command line, XML and regular expressions
· must embrace test driven development methodologies
· must be very familiar with common collaboration and code/build management tools such as SVN, Ant, Maven
· must be able to work effectively as an individual contributor with team of wide spread talent
· must be able to defend their architectural and design decisions with a very talented technical team
· must likes to work in a collaborative team environment
· must have the ability to shift gears quickly in a start-up environment
· must have previously worked in small start up vertical search environments or possibly a social networking site and have a desire to do so again
· should have large search company experience as well as start-up company experience
· should have experience scaling MySql applications to massive scale
· should have rich experience with web application technologies: Web services, XML, SOAP, SAX, Ruby on Rails, Active Record and/or J2EE technologies including EJB, Spring, Hibernate
Company Culture:
- Travel search startup in Palo Alto
- Offices close to Caltrain
- Newly acquired series B funding
- Profitable revenue model
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Senior Software Development Engineer – Commerce
JobID: BE178854
Location: Washington
JobTitle: Senior Software Development Engineer – Commerce
Salary: $80,000 – 100,000
Job Description:
(Job ID BE178854) Our client seeks to hire a senior software engineer for its downtown Seattle office, where they are developing the industry’s most powerful application for buying and selling homes.
Their commerce team is led by engineers from Amazon and Microsoft working on a system that will process billions of dollars in real estate transactions. Because the self-service technology can drive customer satisfaction at better margins, it is fundamental to how they make real estate better.
Responsibilities:
- will work across all three layers of their system from the user interface to the application logic and the database. They use AJAX client technologies, Java, Apache, Hibernate and Postgres.
- will get the chance to build a user experience from the ground up
- will have the support and resources to learn always
- will work with a young, brilliant team with which to collaborate
Qualifications:
- must have a strong academic background in computer science or a related technical field
- must have a history of driving ambitious projects to completion, preferably at a startup
- must have lots of ideas
- must have an instinct for building customer-driven applications, and a curious, analytical mind: so you can work with product management to fix problems that discourage would-be customers or hamper agent productivity
- must have the intellectual range to be able build an application from the database schema up to the user interface, with knowledge of Java and SQL as well as JavaScript, CSS, MVC, HTML and JSP
Company Culture:
- well funded (12-mil Round C Funding) web 2.0 startup
- located in downtown Seattle
- huge passion for technology and Real Estate
Please send your resume to jobs at bincsearch dot com and reference the Job ID Number
Matchup Monday Big Company vs. Startup
Good things are happening with the AskBINC blog. One of the first changes we will be making is a weekly post on Mondays. The BINC TV crew will be hosting Matchup Monday, where they take a topic or issue and compare it to a similar topic or issue. Tune in on Monday mornings to see the guys duke it out.
Top Talent Tuesday – Bay Area
Bay Area Top Talent
Candidate #1 – This candidate has a bachelors and a PhD in computer science at a top international university, as well as a masters in Computer Science at the top university in the United States. After his exceptional educational career, he went and joined one of the most recognized web properties in the world, contributing to a number of different teams and products. He is able to develop all aspects of a web applications – from backend, server side development to front end, UI development. When you talk about rock-star, well rounded engineers – this guy is the man. He’s currently looking to expand on his entrepreneurial spirit and join a well managed, venture funded startup in which he can contribute his many years of developing mass-scale web applications. Send me an email at Peter@bincsearch.com and I’ll give you some more information on this exceptional software engineer.
Candidate #2 – This candidate has many years of experience in product management and technical product marketing. She started her career at a top communications provider company, then worked at top 5 computer science school, when they were a “start up” West Coast campus attracting engineers.
She has been successful in Product management because she is a great listener and knows how to communicate well with engineering. She is passionate about the social and mobile markets. She has managed a team of technical marketing before, but is really looking for an opportunity to “roll up here sleeves” to design and create new products and features. To speak with this candidate please email Mel@bincsearch.com.
Candidate #3 – My most valuable candidate this week is a veteran Principal of Yahoo’s Elite Development team having worked on a number of high profile projects including Panama, Mail and Search. Having recently left Yahoo, this senior engineer can build a consumer web application from front to back working through all aspects of its implementation including design, development and test. He writes code in C++, Ruby, Perl and Java and primarily builds software using the open-source stack of technologies. My candidate is looking to take on a leadership role at a very early stage Bay Area startup. If interested, please call or email boris@bincsearch.com to discuss further.
Candidate #4 – This weeks candidate is a producer who has 8 years experience working in the gaming space. She has worked primarily on handheld and console titles, but has an interest and passion for online and casual gaming. If this is the type of candidate you want on board your team, please shoot an email over to eli@bincsearch.com.
Candidate #5 – The Bay Area’s top talent is a Senior Product manager who has dual degrees. He’s been at his current company for almost 2 years and is looking to make a move. In his current position, he developed a mobile application PRD/FRDs and the distribution strategy for the iPhone, blackberries, Treos, Windows Mobile and J2ME devices. My candidate has assessed and manages rollout to over 20 countries in Europe, South America, Australia and Canada. If you’d like to speak with this candidate, call or email georgina@bincsearch.com soon.
Seattle is making its way up the list as one of the top VC funded areas.
Cnet had an article yesterday morning about the Web 2.0 Boom and was questioning if it was over. They attributed this to the amount of Venture Capitol funding going into Web 2.0 companies in the Silicon Valley, and that the numbers of funding has slowed.
Web 2.0 deals in the Bay Area actually dropped from 74 deals in 2006 to 69 last year and investments were down 3 percent from the $431 million invested in 2006. It’s clear that the real growth in the Web 2.0 sector is happening outside of the Bay Area,” Jessica Canning, director of global research at Dow Jones VentureSource, said in a statement
So if the funding for Web 2.0 companies in the Bay Area has dropped, where is the money going to? Seattle of course. According to the Puget Sound Business Journal, Seattle is one of the nation’s largest growing areas for VC funding. According to the chart below the Pacific Northwest is ranked number 5 in amount of deals, but third in the amount of money invested for 2007 (7 deals and 105 MM more in funding than in 2006)
According to Seattle PI: The Pacific Northwest showed the fastest growth rate in investment dollars of the major venture capital regions.
I can definitely attest to the web 2.0 and funding activity taking place in the Seattle area. There are some incredibly bright and motivated people flowing out from Microsoft, Amazon and Experia and it’s only a matter of time before the next Facebook or MySpace or Web 3.0 company sprouts in Seattle. There are a lot of Round A funded startups with worlds of potential. I’d love to see a few of these guys hit it big.
Microsoft resonds to Yahoo’s Rejection
The battle continues, Microsoft responded today to the rejection they recieved from Yahoo!. What will be the next move in this game? Included is the response from Microsoft:
“It is unfortunate that Yahoo! has not embraced our full and fair proposal to combine our companies. Based on conversations with stakeholders of both
We are offering
shareholders superior value and the opportunity to participate in the upside of the combined company. The combination also offers an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers while becoming better positioned to compete in the online services market.
A Microsoft-Yahoo! combination will create a more effective company that would provide greater value and service to our customers. Furthermore, the combination will create a more competitive marketplace by establishing a compelling number two competitor for Internet search and online advertising.
The Yahoo! response does not change our belief in the strategic and financial merits of our proposal. As we have said previously, Microsoft reserves the right to pursue all necessary steps to ensure that Yahoo!’s shareholders are provided with the opportunity to realize the value inherent in our proposal.”
I can’t even pretend to know what the outcome of thisYahoo-Microsoft story will be, but I do know that in this time of limbo, people at both companies are confused and in near-paralysis as this saga continues to drag itself out. I almost feel bad for the people who work for Yahoo right now. The major layoff they went through earlier this week has done major damage to the morale of the entire organization. Not only are those who got layed off distraught, but those who are still onboard are very nervous about the prospects of their future (including one poor engineer who is on H1B and in risk of being deported of he gets layed off). It must be very unnerving to not have a solid foundation on which to continue your career. And how can these Yahoos be expected to be creative and thoughtful and focused on building better products than their competitors when they are way too busy watching their backs to ensure nobody fires them or exchanges their business cards for ones that read Microsoft. It really doesn’t make for an optimal work environment.
I’ve already been contacted by several very talented Yahoo pros who are ready to depart from the chaos. My doors are open for any others who are great at what they do and interested in exploring the market.
Major layoffs at Yahoo – 1,100 people total
Today Yahoo layoffs become official. This article states that Yahoo HR Booked every single conference room at the company to conduct this mass layoff. No word yet on which departments or types of people were let go. Also no word on whether this layoff was local to Silicon Valley or if Seattle and LA campuses were effected as well. We intend to figure out who was effected and help introduce them to the companies we are representing. Although layoffs are typically considered bad news for most involved, I think this will prove to be a win-win-win for everybody involved. Win for Yahoo for realigning and refocusing their direction; win for employee who probably received a nice severance package and can now take this time to re-evaluate their career direction; and win for the new company who employs these talented xYahoos and can utilize them in ways that Yahoo was never able to.
If anybody out there has more information about which departments or teams at Yahoo were effected, please call or email me.
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