Jobs at Business.com

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At Business.com our mission is to help business decision makers quickly find everything they need to manage, grow and be successful in their businesses. We have a tremendously talented and dedicated staff who have created a dynamic, innovative company culture. We support them in their efforts by providing a competitive compensation package and an entrepreneurial work environment.

Our Compensation includes:

• Competitive base salary
• Medical, dental and vision; HMO or PPO - effective first of the month, following date of hire
• Medical and dependant care flexible spending accounts
• Life insurance, supplemental life insurance and long-term disability
• 401(k) program
• Paid vacation, floating holidays and national holidays
• Paid sick-time, jury service, and bereavement
• Free parking
• Financial incentives for "green" commuters

Our Benefits Include:

• Facilitated opportunities for inter-departmental communication
  • Lunch & Learn programs presented by employees
  • CEO-Employee lunches
  • Special interest and volunteer committees
• Full-time Staff Development Specialist dedicated to employee professional development and growth
• Free Lunch
• Several seasonal all-company events each year
• Business.com "buddy" assigned to each new hire to help him or her learn the ropes
• Great location in Santa Monica with many amenities within walking distance
• Recently re-designed office with employee lounge and art work provided by the LA County Museum of Art and our staff

The following job opportunities are currently available:

1. Account Executive - Inside Sales
2. Categorization Analyst
3. Product Manager
4. Search Marketing Analyst
5. Senior Web Designer / Director
6. Software Engineer - Search & Content Engineer
7. Strategic Account Executive -Southwest (Dallas, Houston, Austin)
8. Systems Administrator

Business.com is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We consider applications from everyone without regard to race, creed, color, religious preference, sexual orientation, marital status or age. We believe that diversity is the key to our creativity.

Responsibilities

• Attain sales quota and goals set by the company.
• Responsible for executing on key phases of the sales cycle such as lead generation, prospecting, reviewing proposals and campaign implementation.
• Discuss and convey the benefits/advantages of the product offering.
• Prepare daily and weekly reports for Sales Manager.
• Actively participate in bi-weekly book of business review meetings with Sales Manager.

Skills/Qualifications

• 1+ years of sales experience.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Online advertising sales experience desired but not required.
• Track record of quota attainment.
• Familiar with sales advertising concepts.
• Excellent computer skills with a proficiency using sales information systems.
• Strong work ethic and a high level of professionalism and integrity.
• Goal-oriented.
• Strong communication, organization and writing skills.
• Inside sales experience preferred.

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Responsibilities

• Follow the direction of the Director of Taxonomy to develop, maintain, and optimize rulesets to be used in automatically identifying products and product attributes on the web.
• Collaborate as appropriate with other members of the Taxonomy team, leveraging specializations within the group as necessary to complete projects.

Skills/Qualifications

• Must know SQL and a basic programming or scripting language such as Perl.
• Experience using regular expressions and boolean logic to retrieve data.
• Strong technical background with advanced MS Excel skills.
• Excellent analytical skills and advanced abilities in logical reasoning.
• Basic understanding of faceted taxonomies, metadata schemas, and thesauri.
• Prefer experience working with auto-categorization tools such as Teragram or Inxight.
• Strong interest in linguistics and linguistic technologies.
• Ability to work quickly and accurately in a high-volume work environment.
• Extremely detail-oriented.
• Team player. Intelligence and Integrity.
• Strong work ethic and a high level of professionalism.

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Responsibilities

• Own key product manager performance metrics, including RPV and Visitor Traffic and develop monthly and quarterly goals for improvements in all key metrics
• Leverage site and user performance analytics to develop new product ideas, build a business case for every project, and champion to management for approval and prioritization
• Synthesize key feedback inputs such as brand/market research, consumer segmentation data, usability studies, competitive analysis, user feedback, and site analytics data to develop long term product roadmaps
• Write full technical specification documents for every project and manage product development from conception through development, QA, and launch

Skills/Qualifications

• 2+ years of Product Management experience with a proven track record of success. Ideally, experience garnered while working on leading large-scale consumer internet websites
• Demonstrated experience gathering business requirements, formulating business cases, producing functional product requirements, and delivering high ROI
• Strong leadership, project management and organizational skills
• Results-oriented with a willingness to take responsibility and initiative
• Must work well in a "start-up" environment
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple, parallel responsibilities
• Strong understanding of internet technologies
• Some ability to manipulate data in MS Access, SQL and Excel necessary
• BA/BS in Business, Mathematics, Engineering/Computer Science
• MBA preferred

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Responsibilities

• Take charge of all aspects of core reporting to demonstrate program success, including weekly, monthly and ad hoc reporting. Report program performance to senior executives.
• Monitor and analyze program performance to identify areas of opportunity for system optimization. The candidate must be able to quickly diagnose performance issues and propose and implement solutions.
• Work with engineering resources to develop and QA system enhancements.
• Work with Product, Sales, and Finance departments to develop systems and reports to support company initiatives.

Skills/Qualifications

• 2-3 years experience in analytical activity, preferably financial, online media, advertising or direct marketing environment.
• Strong analytical thinker
• Ability to multitask and meet concurrent deadlines within a fast-paced environment
• Expert in MS Excel
• SQL & database development experience preferred
• Familiarity with online advertising technologies and terminology
• Articulate communicator and teamwork mentality
• Proven track record of success
• High level of integrity with a strong work ethic
• BA or BS in Finance, Business or related quantitative field

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Responsibilities

• Design concepts and templates for Web properties. Works and advocates to improve user flows, intuitive navigation and ease of finding desired data.
• Create HTML and CSS for design implementation
• Work with other Business.com functional units to lead efforts aimed at unified branding & consistent design
• Design printed promotional pieces like posters, brochures, trade show and other marketing/advertising design as required
• Other duties as assigned

Skills/Qualifications

• Bachelors degree with 4-5 years of web & collateral design, ideally including experience as a lead user interface designer for a large scale commercial website
• Strong Visual Design - illustrations, icons, compelling visual elements, etc
• Experience building standards based XHTML/CSS pages. Javascript and Ajax experience a big plus
• Extensive knowledge Photoshop, Illustrator and other design programs
• Experience working cross functionally with technology, product, marketing and sales teams
• Self-starter with the ability to work with little supervision
• Good written and verbal communications skills
• High level of integrity with a strong work ethic

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Responsibilities

• Reporting to the VP, Search and Content Engineering, the candidate will work as part of a team to design, develop and implement highly scalable and reliable enterprise applications with Java and/or Microsoft technologies (C#) in multiple environments

Skills/Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience developing for a high traffic Internet site, preferably in Java (JSP, Servlets) on UNIX, Linux, and/or Windows, such as C#.
• Experience using relational databases (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2).
• Experience using Web Servers (Apache, IIS) and Java EE Application Servers (WebLogic, Dynamo, JBoss, Resin).
• Experience with XML and Web Services.
• Experience with mission critical, high volume OLTP systems.
• Experience with full development life cycle.
• Experience with online advertising is a strong plus.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• Creativity, Intelligence, Integrity
• Strong work ethic and a high level of professionalism and integrity
• BS, Computer Science

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Responsibilities

• Hit or Exceed quarterly and annual revenue goals
• Cover all Agencies, SEO's, SEM's in territory as well as maintain up to 100 client direct relationships.
• Qualify and answer each prospect's question regarding the BDC service.
• Pursue and manage opportunities through to closure of the sale.
• Face-to-face client meetings as needed.
• Respond to inbound inquiries for information on the product.
• Discuss and convey the benefits/advantages of the BDC product offering.
• Prepare daily and weekly call reports to regional VP as requested.
• Air travel as needed.
• Responsible for regional prospecting.

Skills/Qualifications

• Track record of exceeding quota.
• Understanding of the Internet, online search and directory space, B2B marketing.
• 5-7 years sales experience, preferably in the online, media or high tech industries.
• Strong communication, organization and writing skills.
• Strong work ethic and a high level of professionalism and integrity.
• Creativity and Intelligence
• Bachelor's degree.

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Responsibilities

• Provide input to hardware sizing and specification of web and database servers.
• Work closely with other technology and application personnel to understand and implement application requirements, server / network / storage tuning, and configuration changes.
• Consults in design of new applications and services to ensure that they can be supported by the infrastructure.
• Evaluate, diagnoses and establish work plans to resolve system, software and network issues.
• Works on multiple, complex projects as a project leader and a subject matter expert.
• All other duties as assigned

Skills/Qualifications

• Experience working in a high-capacity, mission-critical web serving environment
• Extensive knowledge of best practices and protocols in a web environment.
• Hands on experience with system administration in a production VMWare ESX environment.
• Experience with networking and security infrastructure consisting of routers, switches, load balancers firewalls, IDS, event correlation tools, etc.
• Working knowledge of Networking protocols IP TCP/UDP, DNS, SMTP, SNMP, HTTP, HTTPS
• Windows and LINUX server experience, including expertise in system installation, monitoring, imaging, configuration, troubleshooting, performance tuning, capacity planning, and security procedures.
• Experience in at least 2 relevant scripting or programming languages (Perl, Ant, Shell, etc.)
• Enterprise storage experience, performance tuning, monitoring, configuration, replication, snapshot administration (EMC, NetApp, BlueArc, HDS, etc.).
• Ability to work and thrive in a team environment
• Proven track record of success
• Strong work ethic and a high level of professionalism and integrity

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