Ampush Media

Careers

NOW HIRING. INQUIRE WITHIN.

We are looking to build our team with the positions below. Please email your resume to [careers at ampushmedia dot com] and tell us why you’d be a great fit.

Recruiters, please e-mail recruiters@ampushmedia.com.

Positions	Location
Web Graphic Designer	San Francisco, CA
Business Analyst	San Francisco, CA
Web Software Engineer	San Francisco, CA (SOMA)
Account Manager	San Francisco, CA (SOMA)
Search Engine Marketing Ninja (Specialist)	San Francisco, CA (SOMA)
Business Manager/Culture Chief	San Francisco, CA (SOMA)
Accountant/Controller	San Francisco, CA (SOMA)

Web Graphic Designer

Based in San Francisco, CA

This posting is for an IMMEDIATE opening for a TALENTED Web Graphic Designer. Work would start immediately. Part-time, Contract and Interns are OK. Talent is most important piece!

We are young, ambitious and looking to build a truly different company. Are you creative, quick and committed? We want to talk to you. Our company is growing quickly and looking for talented people. If that is you, please contact us. We focus on the online lead generation business and the role will involve significant landing page design and A/B testing.

Please email us, tell us why you’d be a great fit and enclose a Resume and Portfolio.

Responsibilities:
- Lead design for large domain portfolio including UI design, landing page design/testing and number of other areas
- Design and code front end for landing pages and back-end for client admin panel
- Work closely with engineers to build out websites, create UIs and assist in the creative process
- Work with client creative teams to build out specs for various requests
- Innovate around testing new designs and being a part of the analytics/design process
- Create visual concepts, graphics and user-friendly media for use across our campaigns

Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Art, Graphic Design, Web Design or relevant field
- HTML/CSS and ability to code
- Detailed experience with major programs: Photoshop, Illustrator and entire Adobe Suite
- 2-4 years of previous Web Graphic Design experience
- Portfolio and resume

Pluses
- Landing page design, conversion funnel design and other direct marketing/lead generation related design
- A/B Testing, Website Optimization, SEO

Business Analyst

Based in San Francisco, CA

We are looking for a solid student to be a Business Analyst for a quickly growing startup! Are you entrepreneurial, analytical, innovative and driven? Do you want the opportunity to work with Wharton Alums who have since worked at companies such as Morgan Stanley, McKinsey, Goldman Sachs and The Carlyle Group?

Put your creative, innovative and startup skills to use at a dynamic startup: Ampush Media. We are a startup focused on disrupting the lead generation business across multiple verticals, starting with education. We are a young, ambitious, bright group of founders looking to create a truly different company. We’re looking for a solid business intern to help us grow, research and build our business. Position can be during school year and/or for summer.

Job Description
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You must be entrepreneurial, highly motivated, creative and very hard working to keep up! If you can, the rewards will be well worth it..

Responsibilities, assist with:
- Detailed market research on our current market and adjacent markets
- Financial modeling and analysis
- Business development research to help identify new partners
- Data analysis to drive better optimization for our clients
- Working closely with founders to outline strategy of the business and explore new markets

Requirements:
- Entrepreneurial
- Excited to learn
- Exemplary time management and task prioritization
- Meticulous attention to detail
- A great sense of humor is always appreciated
- Innovative sense; entrepreneurial
- Hard working and excited about creating something new

Web Software Engineer

Based in San Francisco, CA (SOMA)

We are looking for very talented engineers to join an already talented team. You must love to solve problems, build things and code. You must be passionate, dedicated and brilliant. You will be the second engineer and have SIGNIFICANT impact on the technology stack and the team going forward.

If you’re talented across the LAMP stack, we want to talk.

Responsibilities
- Code mission critical applications that help run the business
- Help run our entire stack: UI/Design work, application development, database management and server administration
- Work with founders and development team to innovate around our advertising platform
- Help build media buying platform utilizing APIs such as Google Adwords, MSFT AdCenter, DSPs/Ad-Exchanges, etc
- Help architect and build platform that optimizes advertising buys and user experience
- Potential for large data analysis and optimization across our media buys
- Build (from scratch) a robust and detailed analytics platform
- Help build report interfaces, data feeds, etc
- Innovate and ask smart questions

Requirements (Please do not apply if you do not meet these criteria.)
- BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related field
- Solid performance at a top school/top company
- 2-4 years of web engineering experience
- Deep experience in the LAMP stack, including PHP, MySQL and other languages
- JavaScript coding experience and familiar with a JavaScript framework such as Mootools, YUI, JQuery, Prototype, or similar.
- Deep experience with front-end scripting including: HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX
- Deep experience with web application architecture and relational database design
- Understanding and demonstrated adaptation of cross-platform, cross-browser compatibility concerns
- Have built many things and deployed them
- Self-motivated, reliable, entrepreneurial and innovative
- Quick, Efficient and Productive

Pluses
- Experience with SEM, SEO and Display Advertising
- Previous experience in performance marketing, online advertising and lead generation
- Previous start-up experience
- Management experience
- Familiarity with EC2 and S3
- Experience with various advertising related APIs

Account Manager

Based in San Francisco, CA (SOMA)

We are looking for an experienced, passionate and high energy Account Manager. We are a startup, so you will do a bit of everything. You will work closely with the founders to manage and develop our client relationships. Account executive will be responsible for all day-to-day communication and coordination with our advertising clients. You will manage the entire relationship ensuring clients are meeting their goals, coordinating between our development and media buying teams and clients. You will also help acquire and develop new clients and expand current clients overall relationships.

Responsibilities
+ Act as primary point of contact for clients, communicating quickly and effectively with all clients
+ Coordinate between clients and all internal teams to optimize
+ Help build and manage client pipeline including new clients and spend of current clients
+ Work closely with product team and founders to understand client issues and develop new lines of business
+ Drive additional revenue and growth from clients
+ Understand and evangelize our products, approach and philosophy
+ Develop case studies and presentations
+ Conduct competitive analysis to understand industry and maintain edge
+ Lead client meetings and discussions
+ Understand performance marketing and lead generation landscape
+ Ask smart questions and be innovative
+ Manage expectations internally and externally for product builds, media buying and implementations
+ Analyze results in order to optimize for clients
+ Help manage media mix and optimization across each client

Requirements
+ Bachelor’s Degree
+ Top performance at a top school
+ 2+ years in online advertising, performance marketing, lead generation or search marketing industry
+ Flexible, startup mind set. Used to a fast-paced environment
+ Ability to juggle multiple clients at the same time
+ Immaculate communicator: written, verbal
+ Extremely personable, articulate and charismatic
+ Strong understanding of online advertising, lead generation, search marketing and display advertising
+ Very analytical , detail oriented and great with time-management. RESPONSIBLE
+ Comfortable explaining difficult concepts
+ Very proficient in MS Office including Excel and Powerpoint

Pluses
+ Direct experience with SEO, SEM or lead generation
+ Previous experience with Startups
+ Relationships in the online advertising world

Search Engine Marketing Ninja (Specialist)

Based in San Francisco, CA (SOMA)

We are looking for a quantitative, passionate and talented Search Engine Marketing Specialist to join our dynamic team of media buyers. This person should have a perfected SEM toolkit and be ready to step up into a growth role as a media buyer and leader. You should be prepared to build and manage campaigns but hopefully be looking to grow into a leadership role in our startup. The ideal candidate has 2+ years of experience in a quantitative, data-driven SEM role. This is a startup so you will be managing and juggling a number of initiatives and media buying. The ideal candidate should be highly advanced and experienced with Excel, data analysis, keyword research and new idea generation. The role will be tactical and involve building campaigns, optimizing keywords and detailed analysis and reporting. There will also be strategic elements including hiring decisions, managing and allocating spend effectively and optimization suggestions.

Our unique culture has a strong performance incentives so if you are a great SEM, you will be able to earn significantly in both cash bonuses and options.

Responsibilities
+ Take ownership over current campaigns and build out additional campaigns
+ Work across Search/PPC Networks and potentially, Facebook
+ Continuous optimization of campaigns including growing volumes and achieving CPA and ROI targets
+ Manage and implement daily reporting
+ Work closely with our internal optimization and client teams to build campaigns based on business needs
+ Significant work with founders on strategizing and building media buying operations
+ Working with engineering team and scientists to build out automated, algorithmic and quantitative SEM efforts
+ Conduct significant quantitative analysis including statistical modeling, elasticity modeling and risk analysis on our media buying
+ Be an industry stalwart who reads industry blogs every day and has a keen eye for researching new marketing verticals
+ Perform intelligent keyword search, ad copy writing, ad grouping, keyword expansion, testing and analysis

Requirements
+ Bachelor’s in quantitative subject from a top school
+ Very experienced and comfortable with SEM and all related elements
+ Ability to perform SEM nitty-gritty but desire to become a leader/manager
+ Experience with Adwords, Yahoo Search and MSN AdCenter
+ Experience with direct interfaces, AdWords Editor or 3rd party software
+ Strong quantitative, analytical and problem solving skills
+ Great team player with immaculate written and verbal communication skills
+ Advanced skills in Excel including pivot tables, macros and other advanced skills
+ Strong attention to detail and perfectionist mentality

Pluses
+ Experience with Facebook CPC advertising
+ Previous work in performance marketing, lead generation, shopping arbitrage or related spaces
+ Programming and ability to write code a MAJOR plus
+ Previous startup experience
+ Product management experience

Business Manager/Culture Chief

Based in San Francisco, CA (SOMA)

Are you the best at what you do? Then we want to work with you. In exchange, you’ll get a fun and unique culture, great benefits and as much responsibility as you can handle. Every core team member will work closely with the founders and receive options.

We are looking for great people to help us scale an already profitable model, dynamic and fast-growing company. We are a SOMA based, technology-driven internet advertising company and want to add to our team, immediately. We have built unique methods for connecting consumers with product and service providers. In less than 6 months we have brought on 30+ clients and are actively spending thousands of dollars a day on media buying. We’re growing quickly and looking to add top-notch people to our already talented team. Our team includes former employees of IAC/Ask.com, McKinsey, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Google, Morgan Stanley and we are Alums of IIT, Penn/Wharton, Stanford and UCLA. We have also assembled a group of top-notch advisers who are all successful entrepreneurs.

We’re looking for people who can think quickly and execute even faster. Entrepreneurial? Passionate about technology? Enjoy delighting clients? Thoughtful about marketing? Talk to us. You’ll have the opportunity to work alongside intelligent, motivated and creative people. Come join us and have a hand in building a great company.

BUSINESS MANAGER/CULTURE CHIEF JOB DESCRIPTION
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This is an exciting opportunity to get in at the ground level of a fast growing company and help build and manage the team. You will help grow/develop our unique culture. This is a critical position which will help make sure everyone enjoys their day to day. As a startup, we’re looking for someone who can and will where multiple hats. They should have the ability to do everything from practical policy creation/enforcement to innovative culture ideas. Office manager will own all day to day office operations from the administrative to the fun!

Benefits
+ 90% of medical, dental and vision paid
+ Flexible work schedule
+ Stock options
+ Free snacks, drinks and other food
+ Fun atmosphere and great learning, and new things you create!

Responsibilities
+ Develop and oversee general office operations and procedures
+ Coordinate all general administrative activities as necessary including supply procurement, food stocking, reception, etc
+ Work to make sure all IT needs are taken care of (e.g., printers working, new computers, internet/cable, phones)
+ Major meeting management (e.g., planning, budgeting, catering, etc.)
+ Assist all core HR functions – specifically, administering benefits and managing personnel issues as well as recruiting assistance
+ Assist with managing Accounts Receivable/Payable, Payroll and updating general ledger
+ Onboard new hires and ensure everything taken care of
+ Major administrative/organizational items related to founders and team broadly
+ Make sure all major legal issues/requirements are addressed
+ Help manage culture: events, work/life balance, new ideas internally, etc

Requirements
+ Bachelor’s degree from a solid school
+ VERY organized, process driven and analytical
+ Ability to multi-task and manage a number of items
+ Personable, able to be energetic and positive in a fast paced environment
+ Entrepreneurial and excited about helping build something
+ Friendly, helpful and good problem solver
+ STRONG knowledge of MS Office suite including powerpoint, excel and word
+ Flexibility with job roles and ability to wear multiple hats
+ Flawless written and verbal communication skills

Pluses
+ Any previous experience with online advertising, digital media, facebook, google, search marketing etc
+ Previous accounting, A/R, A/P experience
+ Experience growing an office from 10 people to 50 people
+ Background in quantitative subject, finance, accounting, etc
+ Previous startup experience

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Accountant/Controller

Based in San Francisco, CA (SOMA)

“Do-All” Accountant/Controller JOB DESCRIPTION
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This is an exciting opportunity to get into a startup at the ground level of a fast growing company and help build and lead the finance organization. This is a critical position which will report directly to the founders with significant room to build and grow the finance organization for a fast-growing technology advertising company. Career growth will be a must as the right person for this position will be able AND willing to do everything from the mundane (e.g., maintain our ledger) to the strategic/complex (e.g., analyze margins and build strategy plans.) Someone who is analytical, data-driven and numbers focused.

Benefits
+ 90% of medical, dental and vision paid
+ Flexible work schedule
+ Stock options
+ Free snacks, drinks and other food
+ Fun atmosphere and great learning

Responsibilities
+ Take full ownership over general ledger and manage day to day accounting operations of the business
+ Manage month-end close process and preparation of monthly financial statements and supporting schedules
+ Work closely with founders to report numbers, run strategic analyses and lead planning process
+ Manage client invoicing, vendor invoicing, receivables, payables, payroll and other related accounting needs
+ Assist in the managing the monthly insertion order process and reconciling delivered results against insertion orders
+ Maintaining detailed, organized records across all major clients, vendors, partners and other stakeholders
+ Manage interaction with receivables financing company (factoring)
+ Assisting with financial projections, business planning and analysis and strategy with regards to business
+ Conduct audits across all business units, functions, etc
+ Various reporting & analyses, including revenue, cost variance, etc
+ Evaluating and pursuing strategic financing alternatives including bank credit lines, SBA loans, special Government grants/loans

Requirements
+ Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance, CPA a large plus
+ Graduation from a top school with a top GPA
+ 3-7 years experience in accounting, finance or related function inside a small but growing company
+ Incredible organizational skills, very detail oriented
+ Deep experience with financial accounting software, specifically QuickBooks
+ Experience with financial statement preparation, financial analysis
+ Deep experience and comfort with numbers, quantitative tasks
+ Comfort with linking of three statements, cost accounting, financial analysis and planning

Pluses
+ Any previous experience with online advertising, digital media, facebook, google, search marketing etc
+ Previous accounting work for an early stage startup
+ Experience growing an early stage startup
+ CPA or advanced accounting experience
+ Startup orientation and willingness to do everything from the small to the strategic

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