Careers
Interested in being part of a hot company in the mobile marketing and advertising space? We are looking for bright, experienced people to join our growing team. We offer an entrepreneurial work environment that fosters a vibrant team culture where individual contributions make a big difference.
Our total compensation and benefits package is competitive and includes health, dental and vision insurance, 125 Flex Spending Plan, 401(K) Plan, and Life, AD&D and LTD Insurance. Proof of eligibility to work in the USA is required. No Visa sponsorships. Local candidates only. No relocation assistance at this time. Apptera is an equal opportunity employer.
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Current Open Positions
Title: Marketing Manager
As a Marketing Manager, you will play a critical role in helping Apptera solidify its position as a leading provider of Voice & Visual Mobile Advertising. In this role, you will need to be a marketing ‘athlete’ with a consistent ‘can-do’ attitude and willingness to take on a wide array of challenging tasks. You should possess a strong understanding of marketing fundamentals, but also have a creative streak that drives you find new and innovative ways to reach marketing objectives.
Responsibilities
- Understand Apptera’s unique offering in mobile advertising and help communicate our brand and value proposition both internally, and externally in the marketplace with clients, potential partners, investors and media
- Lead day-to-day execution of various marketing communication deliverables
- Partner with the sales team to understand their needs
- Work collaboratively with Sales and BD teams to develop marcom materials including: advertiser and publisher demos, proposals and responses to RFPs, trade show materials and marketing programs, media kits and one-sheets, etc.
- Own Apptera web presence including managing SEO and SEM efforts, project-managing site upgrades, performing regular updates to the website to ensure that the content is fresh, relevant and effective
- Provide assistance in managing outside agencies (PR & Web firms), contractors and consultants
- Play an active role on the Creative Services team, work with Ad Ops and Sales to develop and deliver effective advertising campaigns on behalf of advertisers
- Support Apptera’s external PR efforts with media, trade shows, research analysts etc including writing press releases, performing media outreach, coordinating speaking opportunities and panel participation, trade show exhibiting, etc.
Qualifications & Attributes
- Bachelors degree or equivalent
- 2 - 5 years experience in marketing and/or experience in account management at a marketing agency or creative services within a corporation
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Highly motivated, self-starter; focused on achieving results and exceeding goals
- Highest level of integrity
- Strong capabilities with PowerPoint, Word and Excel, working knowledge of a variety of design and publishing tools such as InDesign, Illustrator & Photoshop; Audio editing and production experience is a major plus
- Demonstrated ability to:
- Effectively manage a wide range of projects and tasks to completion
- Take on new roles and responsibility as needed to help the company
- Understand and keep up-to-date on what’s happening in mobile
Compensation
- Apptera will offer an attractive base salary augmented by a motivational bonus plan along with stock options with a highly visible role within a growth company
Location
- Sunnyvale, CA
Department
- Marketing, Reporting to Sr. Director, Marketing
Applicants must include their name and "Marketing Manager" in the email subject field of their response. (i.e., Jane Doe-Marketing Manager-applicant). Thank you!
Title: Software Engineer
General Responsibilities
- Interact with product management, customers and engineering to understand application and gather requirements and to deliver creative solutions that address such requirements
- Design and implement enterprise-grade business solutions for our customers using our speech and mobile ad platform
- Document both high and low level designs
Requirements
- Software development experience using Java, J2EE, JDBC, Struts and Web Services
- Experience in developing web applications using Tomcat, WebSphere or similar web/app servers
- Working knowledge of RDBMS (MySQL, Oracle, etc) based high transaction/volume systems
- Proven ability to develop complex client/server and web-based systems on multiple platforms
- Good communication skills and proven ability to interact effectively with other team members
- Ability to work independently and prioritize tasks when working within tight schedules
Desired Experience
- Knowledge of object/relational persistence/IOC framework such as Hibernate/Spring
- Experience with Apache Axis, SOAP, JavaScript, XML/XSLT
- Experience in creating easy to use web-based user interface using DHTML,CSS, JavaScript, JSP
- Ability to hand-code html and javascript
- Understanding of voice technology, Voice XML, telephony, etc.
- BS or MS in computer science
- Minimum of 3+ years of software design and development experience
Compensation
- Our total compensation and benefits package is competitive and includes health, dental and vision insurance, 125 FSA Plan, 401(K) Plan, and Life, AD&D and LTD Insurance.
Location
- Sunnyvale, CA
- Proof of eligibility to work in the USA is required. No relocation assistance at this time. Apptera is an equal employment opportunity employer.
Department
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Engineering, reporting to Manager, Engineering
Applicants must include their name and "Software Engineer" in the email subject field of their response. (i.e., Jane Doe-Software Engineer-applicant). Thank you!
APPTERA'S MARKET OPPORTUNITY
Enormous Potential Demand for Voice and Visual Mobile Advertising
- Worldwide voice and visual mobile advertising expected to reach over $10 billion in revenues by 2010.
(eMarketer Online 10/07) - Over 1 trillion calls in the US alone, trillions of global minutes spent on the phone (more than all other media combined).
Over 3.3 billion cell phones worldwide. (Informa Telecoms & Media, 11/07)
- At the ‘knee of the curve’ in terms of multi-modal wireless device adoption which will unleash significant potential for consumer services and usage. As such, phones have become a new media channel.
- Hundreds of billions of minutes are “wasted” as consumers are stuck in call center hold loops, listening to Muzak.
Apptera Delivers a Compelling Value Proposition for
- Publishers: enable companies to monetize their phone channels to support new services and to turn cost centers into incremental, new revenue and profit streams
- Advertisers: enable marketers to access new consumer touch-points, initiate more direct relationships and drive leads and customer acquisition
- Consumers: offer relevant and timely sponsor messages and promotional offers
Proven, Standards-Based Technology
- The company has filed over 38 patents and has 4 issued patents dealing with the company’s core mobile advertising technology, personalization and yield optimization heuristics for voice and visual advertising
- Apptera is the only player in the market to offer a complete solution including
- Unique voice capabilities to rapidly develop innovative voice applications
- Robust ad plaform enabling both voice and visual advertising
World-Class Team
- Over 100 years of cumulative experience building high growth voice, internet and technology start ups.
- Strong culture and track record of success