Product Managers at Tapjoy in San Francisco, CA

About Tapjoy

Tapjoy is a mobile advertising and monetization platform whose unique Mobile Value Exchange™ model allows users to select personalized advertisements with which to engage for virtual currency or premium content.  Tapjoy helps unlock mobile joy by empowering more than 460 million mobile users who choose to watch videos, subscribe to services, install applications and participate in other types of advertisements in exchange for virtual currency they can use in their favorite apps. Tapjoy’s turnkey in-app advertising platform helps developers acquire cost-effective, high-value new users and monetize their applications, while its powerful advertising marketplace lets brand advertisers reach a global mobile audience spanning more than 10,000 applications. Tapjoy is backed by top-tier investors including J.P.Morgan Asset Management, Rho Ventures, North Bridge Venture Partners, InterWest Partners and D.E. Shaw Ventures. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company also has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, London and Tokyo. For more information, please visit www.tapjoy.com.

Technologies we use-

Our philosophy is to “get stuff done”, and the tools we use reflect that.  We use Agile development practices, iterating quickly on features and deploying them as soon as they are ready, often multiple times per day.  We leverage many open source tools and cloud-based solutions, including:

• Ruby on Rails (Apache/Passenger)
• Amazon Web Services
  • EC2
  • RDS (MySQL)
  • SimpleDB (NoSQL)
  • Elasticache (Memcached)
  • S3
  • ELB/Auto-scaling
  • SQS
  • Cloudfront
• Hadoop/Hive/Hue
• Mahout
• Vertica
• Git/Github
• Haml/jQuery/jQTouch/Webkit Transitions
• Syslog-ng

Product Managers

Driving the product vision and strategy, our Product Management team is growing at all levels and is hiring Associate Product Managers and Product Managers. Whether you are a seasoned, hands-on product manager or a bright techie with a business mind, then we have plenty of challenging opportunities for you to contribute and grow.

Responsibilities:                   

Product Managers at Tapjoy help build new and exciting mobile products from ideation to production. We’re looking for hardworking entrepreneurs who want to dream up big ideas that will revolutionize the mobile advertising industry. We want people that can execute on an idea, build detailed specs, understand engineering requirements, and work closely in cross-functional teams to get the job done. Product managers work on a diverse set of products, from consumer facing HTML5 app marketplaces to building out big data analytics platforms.

• Responsibilities vary depending on skills, years of experience, and accomplishments.
• Participate in cross-functional product and feature teams to ensure solutions meet needs across organizations
• Gather requirements from sales, finance, developer relations, advertisers, publishers and end users
• Work with engineers to define, build, and spec new products
• Work with UI/UX to develop the user interaction flows
• Research the market and competitors, analyzing opportunity and the competitive landscape

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree from a leading university
• MBA or computer science/engineering/quantitative degree preferred
• 2+ years of product management experience in the consumer internet/mobile/ads space preferred
• Strong organizational & analytical skills
• Must have incredible communications skills, knowing how to speak with both engineering and sales audiences across different levels of technical understanding
• Strong written skills and attention to detail – must be able to write thorough product specifications and launch communications
• Ability to grasp technical concepts, business goals, and the user experience, and optimize products given resource constraints
• Proven ability to define and execute product innovations
• Experience with mobile development or mobile technologies a plus

‘It’s an exciting job with awesome perks, in the fastest and largest growing industry in the world!’

• Competitive Compensation
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
• Paid Time Off
• A downtown San Francisco Headquarters, easily accessible by public transit
• Equipped with the latest MacBook Airs & Pros, Cinema Displays and iOS/Android Phones/Tablets
• A yearly conference stipend
• Neverending snacks and 2 kegerators with delicious beers on tap for your enjoyment!
• Lunch on us when working from our SF Headquarters