Platform Services Director (OAK) | Ask.com | Oakland, CA
Platform Services Director (OAK)
(Location: Oakland, CA)
Us
We are a motivated group of people who have a blast creating the building blocks to support and scale one of the biggest consumer websites in the US. Every day, we innovate and learn so we can build infrastructure and technologies that power the next generation of search and content experiences on a global level.
What We Offer
As a top US web site with hundreds of millions of users, we are no stranger to collecting and processing BIG data and using it to achieve BIG business results. We drive the business to success by building one of the most successful SEM platforms in the world. This system provides massive leverage for SEM Analysts to place adverts for keywords that advertise our best content which can drive good margins. This has provided improved results for content businesses as we acquire them, but needs to remain flexible as the market changes, while remaining very scalable. We seek to leverage the latest and greatest in technologies to help drive the business, advertise our products, which delight our customers, all to create and grow business value every day. Intelligence from processing data is key to our daily business success. We are looking for a leader who can work with business stakeholders within all our Ask business units, and manage a diverse technology team to -
You are a passionate technical leader with strong vision, ability to partner with multiple stakeholders at all levels, balancing short and long-term objectives with them. You have demonstrated success building multiple strong technology teams. You have a strong ability to collaborate with specialized technology teams to produce solutions collaboratively. You will have wicked data design skills and an excitement for defining and leading engineering efforts for logging, processing, storing and delivery of analytics data. You take rapid action on creative solutions and ideas, looking at problems from different angles to seek out fresh perspectives. You thrive in a team environment and have a passion for coaching and mentoring teams, knowing that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You are a high level negotiator capable of finding & effectively communicating the best solution for a variety of executive stakeholders.
Your Task
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Us
We are a motivated group of people who have a blast creating the building blocks to support and scale one of the biggest consumer websites in the US. Every day, we innovate and learn so we can build infrastructure and technologies that power the next generation of search and content experiences on a global level.
What We Offer
As a top US web site with hundreds of millions of users, we are no stranger to collecting and processing BIG data and using it to achieve BIG business results. We drive the business to success by building one of the most successful SEM platforms in the world. This system provides massive leverage for SEM Analysts to place adverts for keywords that advertise our best content which can drive good margins. This has provided improved results for content businesses as we acquire them, but needs to remain flexible as the market changes, while remaining very scalable. We seek to leverage the latest and greatest in technologies to help drive the business, advertise our products, which delight our customers, all to create and grow business value every day. Intelligence from processing data is key to our daily business success. We are looking for a leader who can work with business stakeholders within all our Ask business units, and manage a diverse technology team to -
- refine and reform our marketing technologies, supporting our business units’ success
- define a comprehensive data strategy, and create a set of new generation of data services; from data pipelines, to data warehouses, to data marts, matching the business needs to first-class technical solutions.
You are a passionate technical leader with strong vision, ability to partner with multiple stakeholders at all levels, balancing short and long-term objectives with them. You have demonstrated success building multiple strong technology teams. You have a strong ability to collaborate with specialized technology teams to produce solutions collaboratively. You will have wicked data design skills and an excitement for defining and leading engineering efforts for logging, processing, storing and delivery of analytics data. You take rapid action on creative solutions and ideas, looking at problems from different angles to seek out fresh perspectives. You thrive in a team environment and have a passion for coaching and mentoring teams, knowing that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You are a high level negotiator capable of finding & effectively communicating the best solution for a variety of executive stakeholders.
Your Task
- Own the overall cross-business data platform that provides business intelligence services to multiple businesses about customer behaviour on multiple websites and mobile platforms
- Own the platform which provides Search Engine Marketing (SEM) service to multiple businesses, supporting the BU in driving traffic to websites that then provide economic value
- Build strong teams to
- Design and build scalable infrastructure and platform to collect and process very large amounts of data (structured and unstructured), including streaming real-time data
- Make the marketing system robust, re-engineering as needed, justifying and prioritizing investment. Simultaneously support the marketing business unit as it finds new approaches to drive business success and expands its’ scope across other Ask business units.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to understand, document and prioritize key technology decisions, processes and business needs for technical platforms. This will require an strong technology skills and experience. Work with Big Data and other services in a highly distributed environment desirable.
- The ability to negotiate compromises and balance priorities.
- Work with business analysts stakeholders across all Ask Portfolio businesses to help define technology needs for the logging, processing, storage and presentation of data in a manner that delivers business value.
- Partner with technology service providers to sub-contract the provision of core services needed by your platforms
- Liaise with other development and reporting teams through the implementation process of new reporting systems.
- Create, define and deliver new processes that will enable better development efficiencies.
- Senior Management experience of organizations with multiple technology teams, enhancing leadership and rebuilding technical capabilities while continuing to deliver business priorities.
- 5+ years of experience leading cross-functional/cross-BU initiatives, preferably in the area of Big Data and BI or equivalent.
- 10+ years of software development experience using multiple programming languages, iteratively delivering business value, while also reforming legacy solutions or equivalent.
- Experience building large scale distributed data processing systems/applications or large-scale Internet systems required (cloud computing experience a plus)
- Strong, hands-on experience with distributed systems and computing systems development
- Knowledge of a range of big data technologies such as Hadoop, Pig, and Hive
- Knowledge of meta-data specification in data dictionaries and automated data verification a plus
- Knowledge of Internet marketing techniques (SEM, SEO) a plus
- Self-directed with strong project management skills and ability to lead initiatives and sub-teams toward common goals in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Must have a strong passion for data accuracy and reporting quality and best practices
- Excellent oral and written communication, presentation and analytical skills for working with executive and business stakeholders
- B.S. degree in Computer Science/Engineering (higher degrees preferred)
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