Yardbarker is growing.
If you are excited about what we are doing, please send your resume to
jobs@yardbarker.com along with a brief note letting us know why you would be a valuable addition to the Yardbarker team.
As specific positions become available, they will be posted here.
Regional Director of Sales
Yardbarker (www.yardbarker.com) is a hot Bay Area startup that is revolutionizing sports media. Yardbarker.com is becoming the place where fans and athletes hang out and talk sports, and our site is the blogging home for many prominent athletes, including Greg Oden, Donovan McNabb, Baron Davis, Carmelo Anthony, and Dontrelle Willis. We also operate the Yardbarker Network, an affiliation of over 300 high-quality sports blogs that assign us their traffic and the right to represent their inventory to premium brand advertisers.
We are very well funded and serious about building a high quality team. Our current team brings experience from ESPN.com, Disney Online, Napster, CNET and Ofoto, and our investors include well known VCs and superstar athletes.
The inventory across our network is growing rapidly and Yardbarker is looking for a dynamic, successful, and experienced sales representative to manage our West Coast sales effort, based in Los Angeles. Candidates will be expected to drive revenue with clients and agencies, balancing time between actively selling, managing accounts and strategic product planning and alignment.
Responsibilities:
- Build strategic plan for long-term advertising revenue growth
- Manage the Los Angeles and Southwest territory
- Help establish the Yardbarker brand and story with advertisers
- Present innovative rich media advertising opportunities and programs to leading brand marketers
- Coordinate with our product team to help guide the development of new advertising opportunities for clients
- Cultivate client and agency relationships
- Provide clients with a true consultative sales experience and engagement results
- Reports to VP of Sales
Qualifications:
- 5+ years advertising sales experience, preferably Internet sales experience
- Fluent with Internet ad platforms
- Proven success with top 1000 brand marketers and agencies
- Engaging leadership style that values teamwork and development
- Self-starter
- Conceptual and creative seller
- High-energy and desire to exceed
- Ability to work in a fast-paced organization
- Strong references from peers and clients
Position offers competitive salary and bonus structure, stock options, full array of benefits, and the opportunity for career advancement in an exciting start-up environment.
Please email your resume to jobs@yardbarker.com
Web (Rails) Developer
Our style is fast-paced and our process is designed to make us very responsive to our users. We are growing rapidly and we need help. Our traffic increased 2000% in 2007, and the pace is continuing in 2008. We use an agile development process, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, etc., and we are continually adding/improving everything. We need superstar (or future superstar) developers who want to join our team and contribute to building a world-class sports destination online.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
- Be involved in all areas of the Yardbarker application, from the front-end (CSS, HTML, AJAX, Flash, etc.) to the application layer (Ruby on Rails) to the DB (MySQL).
- Build cutting-edge features using the latest Web 2.x technologies.
- Enhance existing systems and implement new ones to help grow Yardbarker's capacity by multiple orders of magnitude.
- Must be able to communicate clearly, concisely and accurately with people at all levels of the organization, both verbally and in writing; and must demonstrate outstanding interpersonal skills and diplomacy.
REQUIRED SKILLS:
- 3+ years development experience or equivalent (with significant responsibility) in a high-volume web environment. You have designed and implemented software systems on your own, or as the leader of a team. -OR- You are super-smart and motivated, and can convince us that we should hire you anyway.
- You are excited to work in a start-up.
- Very good SQL and data model skills.
- Excellent OOP skills and knowledge of design patterns.
- Solid UNIX/LINUX knowledge.
- Solid experience with standard web languages/protocols (HTML / HTTP / Javascript / CSS).
- Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, self-direction.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Excitement about life. And a passion for building something great.
BONUS POINTS:
- Hands-on experience with at least one Ruby on Rails deployment, and knowledge of Rails-related tools and practices.
- Expert-level skills in CSS/HTML.
- Experience building database-driven Flash applications.
- Experience in designing, building, and growing large server farms.
- You like sports.
