The Company is looking for experienced individuals to help us build our next-generation AK™ platform. We have a talented and fun group of people. Check out the following recent job openings, and if any look like a fit, please do not hesitate to contact us.
- Marketing Manager
- Director Product Management
- Controller
- Start-Up Accountant
- Account Manager
- Scientific Analyst
- Infrastructure Engineer
- Lead Platform Developer
Local candidates only please, as no relocation can be offered. Unsolicited resumes from recruiters are not welcome. Aggregate Knowledge is not responsible for any fees associated with unsolicited resumes.
Send all inquiries to jobs@aggregateknowledge.com. Be sure to let us know which job opening you are interested in so we can forward your request to the appropriate person.
Marketing Manager
We are looking for a Marketing Manager with deep experience with website development, content creation, and graphics. You will be part of a small team, collaborating with Product Marketing and PR to effectively communicate marketing initiatives to internal stakeholders and external customers and prospects.
The right candidate will have achieved success as a marketer, preferably within a technology company delivering software solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Own the day-to-day execution and growth of AK’s corporate website, including content, design, SEO/SEM analytics and measurement, and lead tracking via Salesforce.com
- Manage all corporate graphic projects including design of website, collateral, advertisements, videos, and infographics
- Manage vendors in the execution of marketing programs that may include website, collateral, etc.
- Develop content and collateral, including marketing blogs, templates, and style guides that demonstrate consistency with corporate messaging
- Create and execute a marketing events strategy that aligns with corporate objectives, strategic messaging, and target audience
- Lead corporate efforts in building a social presence across Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, tracking progress and ensuring goals are met
Qualifications:
- Minimum 3-5 years marketing experience within a technology company, software or B2B preferred
- Prior experience in inbound marketing, website design, and graphics a must
- Ability to quickly grasp and translate competitive advantages into key messaging and value propositions in order to develop content and graphics that tell the AK story
- Excellent written and verbal communications with the ability to effectively interact with all stakeholders, including senior leadership
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- Experience with Adobe Photoshop and InDesign required
Director Product Management
We are looking for a Director of Product Management that is passionate, energetic, and experienced to join our product team to lead, articulate and prioritize a vital area in the next gen delivery of the AK Platform.
The ideal candidate will be a go-getter with a unique blend of effective business and technical savvy, some user interface design experience, a big picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality.
Responsibilities:
- Articulate the product requirements and roadmap based on synthesized business requirements from internal and external stakeholders
- Work closely with Engineering, providing clear, actionable and prioritized product requirements to drive successful and iterative product releases
- Coordinate closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure product features meet identified and agreed upon exit criteria
- Develop effective GTM strategies to drive long lasting clarity on the value proposition, differentiation, and usability ensuring desired user adoption
Qualifications:
- At least 5+ years’ experience in software related product management
- Proven track record for managing and launching successful version 1.0/next gen products
- Proven ability to lead an engineering team across iterative development cycles
- Deep expertise of the digital advertising space required, particularly with technology platforms
- Experience with any form of online targeting, audience data management, and analytics
- Understanding of how & why digital marketers want to bridge online and offline data worlds is a plus
- Experience with ad operations, campaign management, behavioral data, and analytics is a plus
- Must be able to define and discuss merits/limitations of: DMP, CPA, Conversions, DSP, Exchanges, DFA.
- Experience building cool and effective user interface for complex technology platform
- Natural-born leader who can work and lead cross-functionally
- Highly articulate with outstanding verbal and written communication skills
- Experience managing a product over multiple product releases
- Experience working in an Agile-like software development environment
- Strong ability to work with customers and prospects
- Willing to travel
Controller
We are looking to add a rock star to our Finance/Accounting team to support a rapidly growing start-up in the SaaS industry. The companies’ fast growth has resulted in the need to build a team to support the corporate revenue projections. The successful candidate will be able to take on and learn the role very quickly in a dynamic situation.
Responsibilities:
- Billing and collections cycle
- Digest customer contracts and perform monthly invoicing using QuickBooks.
- Maintain contract administration practices.
- Monitor compliance with revenue recognition rules.
- Follow up with customers for payment.
- Monthly Close
- Prepare accruals and other journal entries.
- Prepare all account analysis.
- Prepare financial statements.
- Prepare consolidations and accounting for foreign transactions
- Address technical accounting issues such as equity compensation and warrant valuation.
- Financial Planning and Analysis
- Assist VP Finance with maintaining and enhancing budget and forecast model.
- Prepare and investigate monthly variance reporting for management team and Board of Directors.
- Equity administration
- Track option grants.
- Facilitate and execute option exercises.
- Maintain cap table in Excel today.
- Lead the implementation CapMX system for option administration tomorrow.
- Assist VP Finance with ad hoc analysis
- Analysis of costs and services to keep our company a lean operating machine.
- Compliance and investor filings.
- Periodic 409A analysis.
- Support occasional M&A activity.
Qualifications:
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and computer skills (proficient in Excel and PowerPoint).
- Strong accounting technical knowledge especially with regards FX accounting & consolidations.
- Thoughtful, reliable, accurate, and detail oriented.
- Able to multi-task and work independently.
Strongly Preferred:
- Two or more years of public accounting experience.
- Five or more years of corporate accounting/ finance experience.
- Experience in venture backed startup and/or SAAS industry experience.
Start-Up Accountant
We are looking to add a rock star to our Accounting team to support a rapidly growing start-up in the SaaS industry. The companies’ fast growth has resulted in the need to build a team to support the corporate revenue projections. Backed by premiere venture firms such as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Foundation Capital, AK needs an accountant that can wear many hats within the team and who thrives on managing a variety of tasks. The successful candidate will be able to take on and learn the role very quickly.
Responsibilities:
- Payroll
- Run by-weekly payroll.
- Edit payroll for personnel and benefits changes.
- Oversee outside payroll service performance of employee tax filings.
- Accounts Payable
- Process and obtain approval for payment on expense reports and vendor invoices.
- Generate payment checks for vendors.
- Maintain cash tracking sheet and initiate cash transfers as appropriate.
- Monthly Close
- Prepare accruals and other journal entries.
- Prepare financial statements.
- Address technical accounting issues such as equity compensation and warrant valuation.
- Financial Planning and Analysis
- Assist with monthly variance analysis.
- Equity Administration
- Facilitate and execute grant notices.
- Assist VP Finance with Ad Hoc Analysis
- Review and analysis with an eye toward company policies to minimize and control costs..
Qualifications:
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and computer skills (proficient in Excel and QuickBooks).
- Thoughtful, reliable, accurate, and detail oriented.
- Two or more years of relevant payroll and accounts payable experience.
- Able to multi-task and work independently.
Strongly Preferred:
Account Manager (based in Chicago)
This role serves a critical function in improving the day-to-day usability for our client delivery functions and ensures the continued evolution of the AK Platform and UI as a self serve tool for current and future customers. Required attributes include self-motivation, enthusiasm, flexibility, effective communication, and effective problem solving. A critical component will be helping to shape best practices that will serve as the standard operating procedure for ongoing campaign management.
Responsibilities:
- Generate and issue ad tags, teaming up with Engineering as needed to ensure seamless execution
- Understand and manage the layout of backend mapping of campaigns, ad groups, placements, creatives, and pixels (conversion and data collection)
- Manage multiple campaigns and customers concurrently, ensuring key insights are communicated and goals are met
- Work directly with agencies, ad networks, and data partners to onboard new customers, data, and campaigns
- Work with Customer Success and Product teams to ensure understanding of issues and areas for improvement in the product to help maintain industry standards as well as opportunities to leapfrog competition
Qualifications:
- 4+ years of relevant experience managing ad operations at a media, broadcast, or Internet content company
- Strong analytic and problem solving skills
- Data and pixel integration experience
- Strong customer-facing experience with a genuine ability to deliver actionable, concise clear messages to clients
- Strong understanding of online ad industry, ad serving technologies, campaign metrics (CPM, CPC, CPA) and optimization
- Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, advertising, or related field is required
Scientific Analyst
We are looking for a Scientific Analyst to provide reporting, trends, and deep insights to clients and partners using the AK Platform and custom data analysis. The Scientific Analyst is expected to understand the details of the Professional Services (PS) product offerings and to present these products to an external customer as well as work with the customer to define ad hoc analysis answering specific business questions not covered by existing products. As an externally facing role, the Scientific Analyst is critical to the success of the Professional Services team and the company as a whole. Aggregate Knowledge’s PS organization is part of the AK Science team and bridges the gap between Science and the Business Development, Product Management, Customer Success, and Engineering teams. This places the Scientific Analyst in the position of applying state-of-the-art data science to answer real-world customer questions.
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with the Customer Success team to provide actionable insights to AK partners and customers.
- Work with AK Data Scientists to design new PS products that can be applied for multiple customers and follow through with PS Infrastructure Engineers to scope and implement these products.
- Run PS products for specific customers and work with the Customer Success team to analyze the results.
- Respond to internal and external requests for custom reporting and insights, including custom analysis based on existing data as well as defining large-scale custom data extractions.
- Evangelize the AK products and solutions with clients and work to ensure customers are maximizing the value of the AK platform.
- Educate customers on the core AK Platform, as well as PS products and the insights that can be derived from them.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience working in an analytics role, including experience in a customer facing role.
- B.S. degree or higher.
- Strong analytical skills and thinking.
- Experience working with SQL.
- Some programming skills in at least one of: Java, Ruby, Python, Perl, VBScript, or similar.
- Strong skills working with Excel and other MS Office products.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, and the ability to effectively communicate requirements.
- Ability to interact and effectively communicate with diverse groups of technical and non-technical people, including senior executives internally and externally.
- Capable of managing competing requests from multiple sides of the organization, and responding rapidly to situations, while maintaining a strong attention to detail.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with statistical software (R, SAS, or equivalent).
- Strong understanding of the online advertising industry, ad serving technologies, campaign metrics, and optimization strategies.
- Digital or search advertising experience.
- Knowledge of Machine Learning techniques.
- Experience working in a Unix environment.
Key Strengths:
- Must be an independent self-starter.
- Ability and comfort working independently, creating new processes, and making key decisions on projects.
- Ability to lead projects and coordinate cross-functional teams, but with a desire to roll up the sleeves and get the job done.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to multi-task and prioritize responsibility.
- Strong focus on documentation and repeatability of tasks.
Infrastructure Engineer
We are looking for an experienced professional with large-scale data analysis and programming experience. Key responsibilities will be to manage and analyze large datasets, design and implement repeatable and automatable Professional Service (PS) products, as well as ad hoc analysis. The PS Infrastructure Engineer will work as part of a team responsible for the design and development of the PS infrastructure. The PS organization is part of the AK Science team and bridges the gap between Science and the Business Development, Product Management, Customer Success, and Engineering teams. This places the PS Infrastructure Engineer in the position of applying state-of-the-art data science to answer real-world customer questions.
Responsibilities:
- Take ownership for all aspects of a product, including design, implementation, and insuring quality and repeatability.
- Work with other Infrastructure Engineers to design and develop the PS automation framework responsible for reliably coordinating and monitoring the execution of PS products.
- Build prototypes, proofs of concept, and perform custom data analysis.
- Perform analysis on user data from internal and external data sources.
- Problem solve with the Science and Engineering teams to tackle new problems.
- “Get Dirty” with the data.
Requirements:
- At least 6 years of relevant experience.
- B.S. or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or other science discipline.
- Experience working efficiently with and manipulating large datasets (billions of rows).
- Real-world experience in a least one of: Java, Python, Ruby development.
- Experience with Unix, including Shell scripting for Unix.
- Ability to write and execute complex SQL queries to extract data.
- Experience working with Hadoop/Distributed data analysis.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
Nice to Have:
- Experience working with cascading.
- Ad industry experience.
- Strong knowledge of statistics and machine learning.
- Strong knowledge of R (or other statistics package).
Key Strengths:
- Must be an independent self-starter.
- Creativity to go beyond current tools to deliver the best solution to the problem.
- Ability and comfort working independently and making key decisions on projects.
- Proven interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills – must be able to clearly explain technical concepts and analysis implications to a wide audience and be able to translate business objectives into actionable analyses.
- Must be able to interact with diverse groups of technical and non-technical people.
- Must be able to communicate effectively to senior executives internally and externally.
Lead Platform Developer
We are looking for an experienced lead developer to work on the Media Intelligence Platform team, which is responsible for developing and managing the application infrastructure, data collection, and data flow. This position owns the core part of the platform, provides technical leadership to the rest of the team, and serves as a key resource for the team and company.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and support server-side software for the AK Platform.
- Work across functional boundaries and contribute to product development process.
- Write tools to perform monitoring and reporting for problem solving, performance, and capacity-related tests and analysis.
- Contribute to the team as both a technical leader and mentor across the organization.
Requirements:
- B.S. or higher studies in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
- 8+ years of experience developing large-scale applications with strict availability and reliability restrictions.
- Strong multi-language skills, including an ability to operate in an environment that includes Java components.
- Solid foundation in OO design and databases/SQL.
- Familiarity with Unix (Linux preferred) development and execution environment.
- Excellent organization, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Strong performance tuning, troubleshooting, and analytical skills.
- Experience in digital advertising a plus.
Key Strengths:
- Excellent written and verbal English.
- Exceptional skills with OO programming, and real world Java, Python, or C++ experience.
- Strong analytical, deductive reasoning, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to work in self-motivated and self-directed environment within a group of peers.
- Ability to identify and integrate open source software packages.
- Experience with build systems and build processes (Hudson, etc).
- Solid database experience, Postgres preferred.
- Experience with Hadoop a plus.
Other:
- Does what it takes to get it done.
- Works best in very small teams (2 – 5 people).
- Self lead, self directed, and self motivated.
- Soup-to-nuts mentality and background to back it up.
- Ideally this is someone that has just written a successful product and is looking to do it again.
- Must not be looking for a ‘job.’ This is not a 9 to 5 organization, but it is an organization that respects a family friendly, work-life balance.
