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Job Listing: Experience Search Marketing Strategist (SEO) @ Enquiro (8)

Monday, August 30th, 2010 · by Heri · Jobs

Company: Enquiro

Position: Experienced Search Marketing Strategist (SEO)

Responsibilites and Tasks:
Are you passionate about Search Engine Optimization? Have you demonstrated your ability to bring value to clients through effective organic Search Marketing campaigns and are looking for a new challenge as part of an organization with exciting growth plans?

If you said “yes” to these questions AND you want to contribute to an organization where you are surrounded by a passionate team of Search Marketers, where you know what is expected of you, the standards are high and the rewards are generous, where you are encouraged to grow and develop and contribute to our unique corporate culture on a daily basis….then we need to talk!

These are some of the things you would do each day:
· Develop, implement and maintain comprehensive organic search engine optimization recommendations
· Conduct keyword analysis/research and develop quality keyword portfolio utilizing SEO tools and resources
· Perform website analyses, consultation and other search engine marketing services as per client contracts
· Implement Web Analytics tracking onto client websites
· Consult on technical site issues pertaining to coding and site architecture
· Recommend and evaluate SEM tools as needed
· Develop recommendations for writing effective search marketing copy /meta data using industry best practices
· Develop and guide the implementation of complex SEO strategies
· Recommend optimization for various site components including copy, page title/descriptions, site architecture, filenames, etc.
· Ensure that client site pages follow proper SEO guidelines with respect to coding and adherence to established copy/keyword best practices
· Analyze latest algorithm changes and continually modify recommendations and best practices with regards to content, links etc
· Develop and implement quality link programs and/or directory listings
· Proactively seek information and clarification to ensure work product delivered meets client and internal expectations
· Assist in current or new client business development/proposals as needed
· Navigate a variety of search analytics tools to mine the appropriate performance data (experience with Google Analytics, Omniture, CoreMetrics, and other analytics programs an asset)
· Be proactive and innovative with solutions to meet client goals
· Participate in client meetings and conference calls
· Demonstrate a strong focus on client satisfaction
· Effectively communicate the search marketing process to clients
· Stay abreast of latest trends in the industry with constant research in the SEM community; implement strategies accordingly

About Enquiro
Enquiro is a leader in digital marketing. Headquartered in Kelowna, BC, Canada, we work with some of the best known brands from around the world, helping them achieve their customer retention and acquisition goals. From organic search engine optimization, paid search campaigns, usability testing and online surveys, to customized buyer behavior research, we offer a comprehensive and holistic approach to digital marketing for companies that want to profitably dominate their markets.

By joining Enquiro, you become part of a team that encourages growth and rewards it, values our relationships with our families and community and offers exceptional benefits and competitive compensation packages.
Requirements:
These are some of the things we’ll be looking for on your resume:
· Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or related field
· Minimum 2 years experience in Organic Search or related field
· Minimum 2 years of client service/management experience
· Must be able to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of Organic Search, the industry, and best practices in this industry
· Experience analyzing and applying response data to enhance campaign results
· Must be able to think strategically and work autonomously
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills
· Keen understanding of Return on Investment (ROI), Return on Advertising Spending (ROAS) – how to calculate, how these numbers form the foundation of strategic initiatives, and how SEO management tactics can be implemented to maximize these numbers
· Strong Research skills as the individual must be able to review articles, blogs, web discussion forums, press releases, etc. and be able to extract the key points from an SEO and technical perspective
· Ability to perform effectively under tight timelines
· Must be comfortable learning various analytic interfaces
· Comfortable with Excel and similar “number crunching” skills
· Ability to understand HTML and CSS and/or experience with URL rewriting, content management systems, blogging platforms, would be an asset
· Experience with project management, an asset

We will consider candidates located in Kelowna, Vancouver, Toronto or Montreal.

In addition, we want candidates who can demonstrate their alignment with our Core Values which are:
We, Above Me
Earn Respect, Give Respect
Be Remarkable
Make the World Better
Each Day is a Gift

Tell us why you’re a match!
If you know SEO, have a passion to ensure your clients will be successful, and love being part of a motivated team, send us your resume to: Careers@enquiro.com by Sept 3, 2010 quoting job #:SEO-0910-MTW. These would be good things to include in your cover letter: relevant skills and experience (see above), why you match with our core values, your top 10 reasons why we should hire you, your salary expectations, where you saw this job posting and gratuitous compliments about any of the Enquiro management team!

Please go to our website at www.enquiro.com to find out why we think Enquiro is the “Best Place to Work”.

“MsoNormal”>While we greatly appreciate all the replies we receive, regretfully only those selected for an interview will be contacted. This position is only open to those legally entitled to work in Canada.

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Job Listing: CTO / Co-Founder @ Tabbi media (3)

Monday, August 30th, 2010 · by Heri · Jobs, entrepreneurship

Company: Tabbi Media

Position: CTO / Co-Founder

Responsibilites and Tasks:
About US

The Company is a retail mobile marketing start-up with a focus in the emerging Point-of-choice market (Point where a customer chooses between different items in a physical environment). Engaging with customers at that point allows for cross-sale and up-sale opportunity in an interactive way never achieved before. The main offering includes a front-end mobile advertising system, a multi purpose client and server side management system used to create campaigns and gather people, product and campaign intelligence , an in-store positioning system as well as a back-end data analytic system.

We have an extensive network of contact In Canada, USA, & Middle-east. Team members and advisors include :Advertising VP’s , Owners of major grocery chains, brand managers, A lead consultant top fortune 10 company, Ex President of a major US credit Union,Point of Sale expert at major retailer , A.I specialist, Ex VP and EX president of major Wireless carriers etc.

Our CTO Match:

  • Roles and Responsibilities : Managing programing team, coding , reporting, technical documentations, reviewing previous work to ensure portability into new “commercial” deployment, lead new development . technical writing for patent applications.
  • Must have attitude : Detailed oriented,determined, energetic , passionate, resourceful, strong willingness to learn and adapt.
  • Nice to have (personal skills): vast network of contacts, previous start-up experience
  • Compensation : Equity

Lets “date” before we commit !

Requirements:
Technical requirements:

General : Mobile & Networking skills

Specific (technical Skills)

  • C++
  • J2me
  • Javascipt
  • MYSQL
  • Perl
  • PHP
  • Python
  • “R” ( Revolution Analytics) * can be learned but central component.

Nice to have (Technical skills)
Hadoop
RF engineering
Statistical skills

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Job Listing: Sales Director @ Nexalogy Environics (2)

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 · by Heri · Jobs

Company: Nexalogy Environics

Position: Sales Director in the social media intelligence sector

Responsibilites and Tasks:

Starting date: TBD

Closing date for applications: September 3, 2010

Compensation: $48 000 – $65 000 plus performance-based bonus, including sales commission

Other skills:

Full time position requiring occasional travel within North America
Fully bilingual with strong French and English communications skills
Significant experience in sales and marketing of technology-based services

Contact: Eric Steedman, CFO (job001@nexalogyenvironics.com)

Job description

Do you love social media? Do you turn to digital media to learn about (or comment on) products, services or companies? Are you convinced that a company’s brand and reputation can be deeply influenced by social media discourse? We think so too, and have developed a pioneering technology that allows both individuals and companies to understand how their brand, reputation, campaign, crisis-management efforts are perceived, while providing a platform for social media outreach and engagement.

Nexalogy Environics is a social media intelligence services company with a solid R&D-driven technology base. We employ a unique combination of science and art to deliver quality and accuracy in our work for clients. Our services provide answers to client questions and enable better decision-making based on a rigorous data-driven methodology. Our services are either stand-alone or retainer-based, but always customized to the specific issues and challenges faced by our clients.

The company is now at critical growth stage with ambitious sales targets and plans to greatly increase our visibility in the marketplace. The Sales Director will play a key role in moving Nexalogy Environics into a leadership position in the North American social media intelligence services industry.

For more information visit us at: www.nexalogyenvironics.com

The challenge

Are you familiar with companies that would benefit from social media intelligence services? Do you have the ability to identify these companies, contact them and secure their business? The suitable candidate will have extensive, proven sales experience with specific expertise in technology-driven consulting services, helping us increase the scope and depth of our client base and improve the quality of our services related to all mandates. Preferred background would have involved selling advanced research services to large organizations facing complex challenges, such as reputation, product, brand and crisis management.

The candidate will report to the VP Marketing & Client Services to accomplish the following:
• Increase sales by developing new accounts and expanding and enhancing relationships with existing customers;
• Assist in the development and execution of a marketing strategy for growing our business, based on an evaluation of our success (and failure) in the market to date; gather and communicate pertinent information on the market, customers, competitors’ strategies and communicate these as appropriate within Nexalogy;
• As required, assist with quote preparation and follow-up as well as preparation of proposals and standing offers.

Requirements:
Required skills and expertise

• Strong competence as a salesperson with a track record of previous success
• Extensive knowledge of social media issues, strategies and tactics in a business context
• An ability to understand our products and clearly communicate their value to clients
• Demonstrated ability to create long term business relationships with clients
• Ability to support and execute company strategies
• Excellent communication skills including presentation skills
• Creativity and intellectual curiosity
• The ability to work in a rapidly evolving environment
• Strong analytical skills
• A positive attitude and entrepreneurial spirit
• Extensive network of contacts an asset
• Very strong spoken and reading ability in French and English. Written English must also be very strong;

Written French not required but certainly a plus, as are additional languages.

Working at Nexalogy

You will find our modern loft space a comfortable and productive work environment in the Mile End neighbourhood in Montreal. Our work is very innovative – bleeding edge, in fact – so you will be working in a constantly changing environment with new challenges every day.

Nexalogy Environics offers a stimulating work environment that encourages initiative and creativity. We are a team of 6 full time and 3-4 part-time staff. Working hours are flexible, except when deadlines demand a coordinated team effort.

Nexalogy is a proud member of the Environics Group of Companies, and we strive to embrace the same qualities that have helped make Environics Research and Environics Communications pioneers in their field and have propelled them to the avant-garde of North American research and integrated communication companies.

If you are interested in this position please email a CV and cover letter to Eric Steedman using the following email address: job001@nexalogyenvironics.com

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Job Listing: Partner with iPad development experience (6)

Friday, August 20th, 2010 · by Heri · Jobs, entrepreneurship

Partner: Erik Yeargan at Innobec Ventures

Position:Partner with iPad Dev Experience

Responsibilites and Tasks:
I am looking for a partner with iPad development experience/interest to help build version 1.0 of a design-driven application for launch by October 1st. This version is short and sweet, but will allow the project to bootstrap future releases.

Requirements:
Objective C and iPad GUI experience.

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Offre d’Emploi: Embedded Flash Developer @ Bluestreak (3)

Friday, August 20th, 2010 · by Heri · Jobs

Compangnie: BlueStreak Technology

Position: Embedded Flash Developer

Responsabilités:
Bluestreak, société développant un moteur Flash pour systèmes embarqués, recherche pour sa division technique mobile et STB un “développeur Flash embarqué”, ayant également des connaissances en HTML5, qui voudrait se joindre à son équipe basée à Montréal. Cette personne rejoindra une société en pleine croissance afin de prendre part à des projets graphiques innovants et ambitieux dans le domaine des nouvelles technologies. Le candidat idéal aura de fortes aptitudes techniques, avec la volonté de communiquer ses idées et d’apprendre quelques nouveaux trucs en cours de route.

Responsabilités :
• Développer des applications en Flash pour l’embarqué, sur le moteur MachBlue de Bluestreak.
• Effectuer les tests unitaires des applications.
• Rédiger des documents techniques liés aux développements.
• Offrir un support aux clients pour des questions techniques relatives au développement d’applications sur notre moteur MachBlue.
Exigences:
Études et expérience exigées :

• Diplôme universitaire en informatique, ingénierie ou équivalent.
• Expérience avec Flash; ActionScript 2, MovieClips et animations provenant de code/classes externes, ligne du temps, les concepts OO.
• Expérience/connaissance dans l’utilisation des tags spécifiques HTML5.
• Expérience de développement avec Javascript et CSS3; Devrait être confortable à écrire du Javascript pour modifier dynamiquement les éléments d’une page.
• Expérience avec des applications cross browser est un atout.
• Expérience dans l’écriture d’applications pour un browser Iphone/Android est un atout.

Compétences exigées :

• Fortes habiletés de développement et de débogage en C et C ++. La connaissance de JavaScript et/ou ActionScript est un atout.
• Connaissance des environnements mobiles, ainsi que les environnements Set top Box tels que Thomson, Sagem, Nokia/Siemens.
• Familiarité avec les contraintes posées par le TTM des environnements embarqués.
• Forte motivation vis-à-vis aux défis techniques et au travail d’équipe.
• Excellentes compétences de communication verbale, écrite et interpersonnelle.
• Le bilinguisme est un atout.

Il s’agit d’un poste sur place – Vieux-Port de Montréal. Pour soumettre votre candidature, contactez-nous à jobs@bluestreaktech.com

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Job Listing: Flash Engineer @ WebDirect (5)

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010 · by Heri · Jobs

Company: WebDirect

Position: Flash Engineer job

Responsibilites and Tasks:
The job will consist of building UI interfaces for embedded, resource-constrained platforms. This position is to be filled as soon as possible. The minimal duration of the assignment is 6 months, renewable.

Requirements:
The ideal candidate would have worked on automotive head units, media players, digital photo frames, smartphones, set top boxes and such like, developing user level applications and the user interface (UI) for companies such as Visteon, Denso, Delphi, Harman etc. The other type of products could be media players, set-top boxes and digital picture frames.

The mandatory skills are the following:

  • Have prior experience with HMI (Human Machine Interface) development for automotive head units or tablet PCs or smart computing / telephony devices
  • At least 5-6 years of relevant experience
  • Desired: Experience working with any of the leading automotive electronics or infotainment companies.

Important note: Just Adobe Flash List experience on a Windows platform is not enough – the candidate must have at least 2 solid examples / projects where he used this framework in an embedded resource-constrained platform.

To apply, please send your CV to info [at] webdirectcompany.com

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Offre d’Emploi: Développeur ruby @ mTrip (2)

Friday, August 6th, 2010 · by Heri · Jobs

Compagnie: mTrip

Position: Développeur ruby

Responsibilités et Tâches:
Visant un marché mondial, mTrip développe des guides de voyage pour smart phones (iPhone et Android) tirant profit des nouvelles tendances technologiques et culturelles.

En collaboration avec l’équipe marketing, le développeur aura pour mission de concevoir une application web en Ruby.

L’application web, partie intégrante de l’offre destinée aux voyageurs, présentera des fonctionnalités avancées en relation avec les plateformes mobiles.

Exigences

  • Très bonne connaissance de MySQL
  • Bonnes connaissances des langages de programmation tels que PHP et Ruby
  • Connaissance des standards Web (XHTML, CSS, XML, etc.)
  • Bonne connaissance de jQuery
  • Motivation, Autonomie, Esprit analytique
  • Intérêt marqué pour les technologies
  • Compréhension de l’anglais
  • 3 années d’études universitaires

Devenir Candidat
Envoyez votre CV et votre lettre de motivation à jobs [a] mtrip.com

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Job Listing: Web and Facebook Application developer @ iReel (5)

Thursday, July 29th, 2010 · by Heri · Jobs

Company: iReel

Position: Web and Facebook Application developer

Responsibilites and Tasks:
iReel, a company specializing in the development and marketing of high traffic web properties and a leader in its industry is searching for a Web and Facebook Application Developer. If you are passionate about the web, social media application development and you love to push the boundaries of what is possible, iReel is the place for you. You will be working as part of a team within a fast-paced, fun, challenging and creative environment in order to achieve team-oriented goals!

Nature of position:

Under the supervision of the IT Manager, you will have as a mandate to develop social applications for networks such as Facebook. You will also take part in internet programming activities in the various projects related to the development of high performance, scalable web applications and the management of the data generated by these applications.

You will be expected to:

• Design, develop and maintain a Facebook application
• Carry out the programming of Web pages with XHTML/CSS/AJAX/Javascript
• Participate in software development with object oriented programming (PHP5)
• Program web sites based on a MySQL or alternative (NoSQL) database
• Diagnose and repair software problems
• Design, develop and write up functional specifications required during development
• Carry out other tasks compatible to your expertise

Requirements:

Qualifications :
Bachelor in computer science or any other pertinent training;
• Minimum of 2 years experience pertinent to programming
• Experience developing Facebook applications
• Experience in development with MySQL, HTML and PHP 5
• Able to easily communicate in English
• Ability to contribute individually, and lead, manage or participate in cross-functional projects
• Willingness and ability to experiment and be creative
• Ability to multitask and work well in a team environment.

If this job is a perfect fit with your interests, past experiences and goals please send your resume directly to mary.lacorte@ireel.com

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Job Listing: Software Developer @ Recoset (6)

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 · by Heri · Jobs

Company: Recoset

Position: Software developer

Responsibilites and Tasks:
Recoset is hiring a well-rounded software developer, responsible for putting our machine learning algorithms into production.

Since this is a small team you must be versatile, with work ranging from adding new API features to automating deployment, monitoring and benchmarking. A large part of the day-to-day work may involve 3rd party integrations. You may occasionally need to answer support requests from our alpha users.

Some of the technologies you may work with:

  • Cassandra, CouchDB
  • Hadoop / Pig / etc
  • C++, Javascript, Python, Ruby, Clojure
  • Rails, node.js
  • Recommendation engines, statistical models, machine learning
  • Recoset creates predictive analytics products, focusing on personalizing e-commerce experiences and online advertising.

We are backed by Montreal Start Up. Our offices are in downtown Montreal.

Experience with web analytics, large data sets or integrating ad platforms are all a plus. Willingness to learn is essential.

How to Apply:
Contact us by email with a link to a CV, or better yet, working code or open source contributions.

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Job Listing: Integrator/front End Web Developer – Facebook, Ruby on Rails, jQuery at Webdweller (5)

Friday, July 23rd, 2010 · by Heri · Jobs

Company: Webwweller

Position: Integrator/front End Web Developer – Facebook, Ruby on Rails, jQuery

Responsibilites and Tasks:
Are you passionate about web design and interested in social media and challenging ways for making user and content experience more interesting? Then we want to meet you

Job Description:

  • Work with team to design and implement webdweller.com
  • create design elements and integrate web site
  • Implement dynamic elements, with an eye on usability and browser capability
  • possibility to take over the role of project planning and management

Requirements:
Candidate profile:

  • Passionate about usability and clean CSS
  • Web developer and integrator with experience in Web 2.0 design and technology
  • Expert in CSS and javascript, particularly jQuery libraries
  • Good knowledge of Photoshop
  • Has worked iwth Git or similar source control tools
  • Experience with agile development methodologies (scrum)
  • Experience with Ruby on Raisl in a strong asset
  • Experience with Facebook applicatoin development (FBML) an asset

Personal attributes:

  • Ability to set and manage priorities
  • Problem-solving oriented
  • Motivated by a fast-paced dynamic environment

Language requirements:

  • English, French

How to Apply:
Please send your CV and references to jobs@webdweller.com

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