Website PHP/MySQL Developer
Location: Redwood City, CA
Position Title: Software Engineer
Duration: Full Time
Education.com is seeking a fanatical PHP developer to design & develop new functionality for deployment on our public web site, www.education.com. The ideal candidate for this position has five or more years hands-on experience designing and developing advanced PHP functionality and three or more years with mysql. Technology must not be an impediment for the person in this position; devising and designing the correct solutions are as important as flawless implementation. Education.com is a PHP5-based site built on a custom framework similar to Drupal; the person filling this position must be able to use PHP as second nature and focus on the more important aspects of creative construction of new capabilities. Basically, we're looking for a PHP web developer fanatic who thrives, as we do, on creating the best web sites and seeing them come to life, using the best of the latest technology.
Serious developers only: you must be a proficient PHP/MySQL developer looking for an opportunity to apply your skills in a small company environment working with a team whose members are passionate about delivering educational content to those who need it. If you want to see your PHP work used by millions of parents and have the track record of development to back you up, this is a rare opportunity you shouldn't pass up. We are a small team of half a dozen in engineering and seek someone who wants to play an important role - each member of the engineering team has a great deal of influence over the technology and structure of the web site. We allocate up to 20% of our time to innovation and independent projects; each member of the engineering team is responsible for bringing new ideas, technology, and capabilities to www.education.com.
Technologies and products used at education.com include PHP5, mysql 5, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Apache 2, Fedora 10, mootools, Google search, eclipse. Developers use high-end workstations with multiple monitors running Linux or Windows (by personal choice). The physical environment is generous and the location is about 50 paces from a CalTrain station.
Specific Responsibilities
- With the development team, design of new functionality based on a PHP and MySQL foundation.
- Evaluation of multiple approaches to solutions, making firm recommendations on engineering alternatives.
- Fanatical development of the new functionality, carrying it through QA, alpha, and release
- Keeping education.com's public site compelling, informative, responsive, and profitable
Background and Skills Needed
- High energy, open minded, passionate, team-oriented, with a strong sense of what is good and what works.
- Strong in the following areas:
- PHP5 web development on high-level frameworks.
- Development methodology and practice for large/live public web sites.
- Database design and programming.
- Front-end technologies: JavaScrpt, CSS, implementing AJAX and using mootools and related packages
- Three or more years of key roles for PHP-based public web sites.
- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
- A passion for the domain, education, is a major plus.
- A portfolio or a personal PHP-based website as a demonstration of capability is a major benefit.
Send your resume and a link to your portfolio site to jobs@education.com, attn: Bob Brown, VP of Engineering
Ad Operations Specialist
Location: Redwood City, CAEducation.com is seeking a motivated ad operations person to join our fast growing company. In this position you will lead cross-departmental teams to build out unique new advertising products for our clients. You will be engaged in the complete online advertising lifecycle – from helping to build proposals, to trafficking campaigns and working with Finance to reconcile billing. This opportunity is great for someone who has been in ad trafficking for a couple of years but has not yet had the opportunity to build the ancillary skills and experience necessary to move on to an ad ops manager role. You will be mentored and trained to understand a complete range of publisher operations and how the different pieces fit together into a cohesive whole.
Responsibilities:
- Implement interactive advertising campaigns using DoubleClick DFP ad management platform, including complex 3rd party rich media
- Project manage custom advertising campaigns cross-departmentally
- Create, test and implement tags across new placements; including tracking and targeting specifications
- Manage DFP platform to ensure campaign delivery, performance and advertiser goals are being fulfilled as scheduled
- Requesting, receiving, testing, posting, and confirming all materials from outside vendors and internal departments
- Field related questions from clients/agencies/internal and assist in resolving problems and troubleshooting errors
- Work closely with sales force to understand client needs
- Construct and deliver PowerPoint presentations
- Update inventory reports and communicate availability to sales departments.
- Produce reports for executive level decision support
Requirements:
- Minimum two years ad operations experience
- Working knowledge of rich media ad serving technologies
- Knowledge of DoubleClick DFP
- Strong analytical, decision-making and problem solving skills and abilities
- Dependable, motivated and flexible self-starter; adaptive to change and tight deadlines
- Knowledge of ad servers and online advertising
- Experience with Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Comprehensive understanding of campaign success metrics: CPM, CPC, conversions
- Able to understand business processes and work in a team environment
- Positive and ambitious attitude
- Salesforce.com admin experience a plus
Send your resume to jobs@education.com, attn: Todd Schwartz, VP of Marketing
Senior Product Manager
Location: Redwood City, CA
Description
The Product Manager will own product requirements and execution of consumer facing features. The role will also include the management and execution of new and on-going projects. You will report directly to the VP of Marketing, and will be a key hire for the product and marketing team.
- Define new products
- Assess market size and landscape for new products
- Observe and track innovation and new trends
- Perform new product cost benefit analysis and calculate ROI
- Define and drive the new product introduction process
- Define and enforce standards in product definition and NPI process
- Prioritize development investments across all departments
- Facilitate cross-department projects
- Research competition
- Able to systematically assess market value of new product ideas
- Expert-level in defining and using web analytics
- Experience with both SEM and SEO best practices
- Consensus building skills
- Ability to engage and interact with technical teams
- Ability to engage and interact with editors, marketers and management teams
- Domain knowledge of online publishing business
- High comfort level to web technology
- Well versed in A/B testing and experimental design
- Can write concise product requirements and specifications
- Ability to work autonomously
- Five or more years of experience working as a Product Manager in the following areas
- For-profit web companies
- Web-based content sites
- Experience and comfort using various social networking platforms and tools
- Managing both large and small scale projects
Send your resume to jobs@education.com, attn: Todd Schwartz, VP of Marketing
Internships
Graduate Student and Post-Doctoral Internships
Location: Redwood City, CA
At Education.com’s Redwood City, CA offices, we offer summer, six month, and 12 month internships to graduate students in education and child development. A Masters degree is required. In addition intern candidates must have knowledge in two or three of the following areas of preschool to 12th grade education: Developmental Milestones, Social Issues in School, Health and Physical Fitness, Parenting Styles, Learning to Read, Kindergarten Readiness, Special Needs, Gifted Children, Choosing a School, Learning Styles, Math, RLA, Science, Social Studies, Media and Technology Literacy, 21st Century Preparedness, Thinking About College, Extra-curricular Activities, Life Skills, Standards and Testing, Special Needs, and Parent-School Connection.
Interns are paid a stipend based on assigned projects, such as information mining, designing information portal pages, reviewing reference articles, facilitating communities of educators and parents worldwide, and creating new initiatives for parents, students, teachers, and educators. For more information, send your Resume and/or CV and References to ddaniels@education.com
Working at Education.com
Education.com offers a small company environment in a vibrant Silicon Valley setting.
Great Benefits
We won’t let you work yourself to death. Outside the office activities such as bowling, mini golf, and hiking are organized on a regular basis. We’re proud to
offer great benefits since the beginning. As we’ve grown, we’ve stayed ahead of the curve.
Learning and Development
We love the challenges that come with running one of the fastest-growing education web sites. We offer our employees training opportunities in every area that our business touches. So whether you are interested in emerging technologies, SEO best practices or the latest trends in social media and web
2.0, we encourage our employees to grow their professional knowledge and we’re going to help.
The Network
If you are looking for honest feedback and a cool group of people to work with, Education.com is for you. Not only can you build great relationships
with the people in the office, you had better be prepared to meet and work with freelancers, advertisers and non-profit organizations from all over the US.
