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• Software Engineer (Philadelphia)
• Account Manager (NYC)
• Director of Client Accounts (NYC)
• Partner Account Manager (NYC)
• Advertiser Sales (NYC)
• Platform Engineer (Philadelphia or NYC)

Software Engineer

On the Vistar Media engineering team, we never stop looking for our next addition. We’re kinda hoping that addition is you. We are located in a secret fortress in Center City, Philadelphia on a block protected by children and their sidewalk chalk.

We’re an early-stage startup. Our code base is tiny. We want you to come in and work with the technologies you want to work with. We want you to help mold the technical foundations on which our product is written.

You must:

• Be very proficient in at least one compiled, one interpreted language and one web framework
• Have extensive experience with distributed systems
• Have coded a non-trival system soup to nuts. CSS, persistence, deployment, et cetera
• Understand Linux to a degree where you’d be comfortable admin’ing a fleet of boxes
• Be able to design and implement a large, efficient codebase
• Be able to ballpark the computational complexity of a snippet of code
• Understand HTTP
• Be able to decompose business requirements into a set of RESTful resources
• Be opinionated about your tools. Love jQuery? Great. Hate jQuery? Great.
• Have experience with the full stack. From the database to CSS.
• Be able to both identify and implement a practical test suite

It sure would be nice if you:

• Have run a system on EC2
• Know how to decompose an algorithm to map/combine/reduce phases
• Cringe when people ask if you’re a “front end” or “back end” developer
• Have worked with abstractions on top of the normal toolset like Coffeescript and less
• Are interested in client-side MVC frameworks like backbone.js, batman.js, or knockout
• Have experience coaxing functional requirements out of business requirements
• Know right where to look when your friend has messed up their .htaccess

We’ll consider baking you a cake if you:

• Have experience in the advertising industry
• Write a practical test suite for your personal code and push it to a CI server
• Like using tools like Git Flow to organize releases, features, and fixes

If that sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you. If not, that’s okay. But, we do bake a pretty mean cake.

Apply

Account Manager

Looking to make a big impact at a rapidly growing startup? We are expanding our NYC presence with individuals focused on our clients and partners. Vistar Media has a fully functional ad server and exchange for place-based media. You will be working directly with the founders to drive revenue and manage client relationships.

Responsibilities

• respond to RFPs from existing and potential clients
• manage existing clients relationships and work toward increasing the media spend of those clients
• ad operations / campaign management for clients
• working with publishers on occasion to smooth any delivery issues
• attend client meetings
• work with founders to find and pursue new revenue opportunities
• help improve media kits, presentations, and marketing material
• understand the Vistar Media platform and communicate how it can meet client objectives

Requirements

• bachelors degree
• 2+ years in ad tech managing agency / trading desk clients
• self-motivated and proactive
• very organized (you will be juggling lot’s of accounts)
• excellent communication skills
• thrive in fast-paced environments
• positive attitude and passionate about their work

Would be nice

• strong understanding of exchanges, DSPs, SSPs
• startup experience
• can hold your own in a conversation about ad delivery, cookies and third-party data

Apply

Director of Client Accounts

Looking to make a big impact at a rapidly growing startup that is revolutionizing a multi-billion dollar industry? We are expanding our NYC presence with individuals focused on managing and growing our advertiser roster. Vistar Media has the first ad server and exchange for place-based media. You will be working directly with the founders to drive revenue and lead client relationships.

Responsibilities

• expand our advertiser client portfolio through agency and brand relationships
• expand our programmatic client portfolio (DSPs, video networks, mobile networks)
• respond to RFPs from existing and potential clients
• manage media kits, presentations, and general marketing material
• hire and manage a sales / accounts team as the organization grows
• provide input on product that will help drive revenue

Requirements

• bachelors degree
• 4+ years in ad tech working with agencies / trading desk / ad networks / DSPs
• strong understanding of exchanges, DSPs, SSPs
• self-motivated and proactive
• very organized (you will be juggling many accounts)
• excellent communication skills
• thrive in fast-paced environments
• positive attitude and passionate about their work

Sure would be nice…

• startup experience
• can hold your own in a conversation about ad delivery, cookies and third-party data

Apply

Partner Account Manager

Looking to make a big impact at a rapidly growing startup that is revolutionizing a multi-billion dollar industry? We are expanding our NYC presence with individuals focused on managing and growing our publisher partner relationships. You will be working directly with the founders to educate, on-board, and manage relationships with publishers.

Responsibilities

• handle publisher partner relationships through life cycle – pre sales, on-boarding, and continuing account management
• respond to questions and educate existing and potential publisher partners
• travel to attend partner meetings
• work with founders to find and pursue new partner opportunities
• understand the Vistar Media platform and evangelize the value it provides partners
• educate/assist partners on how to use the Vistar Media platform
• provide input on product based on feedback from publisher partners

Requirements

• bachelors degree
• 3+ years in ad tech dealing with publisher accounts (working for an ad network / web publisher / SSP)
• strong understanding of exchanges, DSPs, SSPs
• strong understanding of how media is sold through both the direct channel and programmatic channel
• self-motivated and proactive
• very organized (you will be juggling many accounts)
• excellent communication skills
• thrive in fast-paced environments
• positive attitude and passionate about their work

Sure would be nice…

• startup experience
• can hold your own in a conversation about ad delivery, cookies and third-party data
• able to communicate the evolution of online ad tech and draw parallels to DOOH

Apply

Advertiser Sales

Looking to make a big impact at a rapidly growing startup that is revolutionizing a multi-billion dollar industry? We are expanding our NYC presence with individuals focused on managing and growing our advertiser roster. Vistar Media has the first ad server and exchange for place-based media. You will be working directly with the founders to drive revenue and lead client relationships.

Responsibilities

• expand our advertiser client portfolio through agency and brand relationships
• respond to RFPs from existing and potential clients
• maintain media kits, presentations, and general marketing material
• provide input on product that will help drive revenue

Requirements

• bachelors degree
• 4+ years in ad tech working with brands / agencies / trading desks / ad networks
• strong understanding of exchanges, DSPs, SSPs
• self-motivated and proactive
• very organized (you will be juggling many accounts)
• excellent communication skills
• thrive in fast-paced environments
• positive attitude and passionate about their work

Sure would be nice…

• startup experience
• can hold your own in a conversation about ad delivery, cookies and third-party data

Apply

Platform Engineer

The Platform Team is the most versatile group at Vistar Media. You will be involved in defining the product, supporting clients, working with engineers, facilitating partner relationships with networks, and understanding the sales/biz dev pipeline. You will learn everything there is to know about building software, particularly for the ad tech space.

Responsibilities

• work with the founders and product owner to define what / when we build new features
• work closely with the engineering team to clarify business requirements and manage software releases
• sync up with sales and biz dev to understand requests coming from current + potential clients
• be the first level of support for any technical request from a client or other Vistar Media team member (maintain the support queue)
• keep knowledge base up-to-date
• manage integration relationships with our partners (checking in with partner engineering teams, gathering network data, helping them through the API integration)
• testing and QA of all new features / bug fixes
• monitor system uptime via our dashboard
• handle/assist in the creative approval process for our network partners

Requirements

• bachelors degree
• actively looking to learn new things and take on more responsibility
• autonomy - there isn’t a training program and everyone is very busy
• skills: gmail, spreadsheets, docs, powerpoints,

Would be nice

• bachelors degree in engineering
• comfortable jumping in a terminal
• written some software at some point (class or fun)
• startup experience
• ad tech experience (ad servers, DSPs, SSPs, running reports, agency and publisher relationships)
• experience with JIRA or other bug tracking systems

Apply