Architect, Web & Middle Tier

Reports to:         VP of R&D

FLSA Status:      Exempt

Job Summary:

We are looking for an intellectually gifted architect with a spirited entrepreneurial drive. The individual must have a keen desire to win and be part of the team responsible for building and introducing corporations to cutting edge social networking software. This position is truly for a Web Guru who has successfully architected and built reusable component libraries for web2.0 use.

Responsibilities:

• Identify product & architectural needs related to user interface and design
• Analyze & review business requirements
• Evaluate new technologies
• Present and implement functional prototypes for reusable component libraries
• Architect & build scalable and robust software components
  Other duties as assigned
  

Skills Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
• Must have 7+ years experience in software engineering
• Must have experience developing and implementing web 2.0 software
• Must have experience having built reusable component libraries for Web 2.0 use.
• Must have proven track record building scalable n-tier product platforms
• Must have proven track record working with standards and thirds party APIs
• Must have experience working on multiple platforms/web-based solutions/languages (Linux, Windows, SAS, Lucene, tomcat or JBoss, Spring, Apache, Portals, Hybernate, Ajax, Eclipse, Ant, JSP/JSF/Tiles/Struts, Maven, Java, CVS/SVN, scripting technologies)
• Experience developing software used by consumers
• Must have detailed understanding of MVC patterns
• Experience developing configurable security in software solution
• Experience building 3rd party APIs
• Patent background is helpful
  

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Community Platform Product Manager

Reports to:         Chief Marketing Officer

FLSA Status:      Exempt

Who We Are:

Conenza builds and manages trusted, collaborative, unique global online communities for vibrant organizations and their alumni.  Founded in 2006 and located in downtown Seattle, our team consists of talented professionals who want to direct their creativity, intellect and experience to making a big difference for both our customers and their organizations.  We’re a fast-growing entrepreneurial company with a culture built on trusted community, collaboration, and accountability; our focused team is pursuing a compelling vision while having fun building a world-class product along the way. Our culture is built on a foundation of trust, community, creating value and providing “human touch” in everything we do.

Job Summary:

The Conenza Product Manager is responsible for product planning of Conenza online community platforms and applications. This entails managing products throughout their lifecycles, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, driving prototyping process, and working closely with the UI/UX Director and development to deliver highly-engaging, compelling and competitive products that create value for both the user and the enterprise. This role also includes working with sales and account management to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are factored into product design. The Conenza Product Manager will also include ensuring that the product efforts support the company's overall strategy and goals and are adjusted as the market company strategy evolves.

Responsibilities:

• Understand and lead the analysis of the competitive environment, customer needs and value points, target prospects, and product metrics to determine the feature set to drive value for enterprise customers and active engagement by members in the communities while at the same time creating sustainable, profitable revenue streams for Conenza.
• Drive global product requirements definition and product planning (including documentation of requirements) for new product enhancements, features, and releases for the Conenza online community platforms and applications.
• Work with the UI/UX designers, prototyping resources, the development team and other cross-functional team members to prototype, gather feedback, hone and deliver new features and releases based on functional specs-- on schedule and budget.
• Proactively lead the prioritization of enhanced functionality to ensure all products build trust, community, value and relationship with Conenza’s customers, prospects, partners and teammates.
• Clearly articulate Conenza product benefits to community sponsors (customers), community members, partners and internal stakeholders.
• Participate in development of the overall product strategy and roadmap. Responsible for converting product strategy into compelling products and product enhancements.
• Own and share fact- and observation-based customer and user insights that drive meaningful product differentiation and value/preference builders. Work in concert with cross-functional teammates (especially the marketing, technical and sales teams) to frame scope, timing and customer/prospect adoption of new features/offerings.
• Work with product strategy to identify, assess and execute third party partnerships and licensing opportunities.
  

Key Position Objectives:

• Determine and validate value propositions for community sponsors, members and partners.
• Identify and implement product features which:
  • Result in the rapid growth of the number of community members, growth of revenues per member and reduction in the cost per member.
  • Ensure Conenza online communities are essential value-creators and employ uniquely-compelling and engaging features and capabilities for community sponsors and members; and
  • Increase transactions initiated through the online communities.
• Effectively balance the requirements of corporate sponsors, member and third party partners.
• Other duties as assigned.
  

Skills Required:

• Strong online product insights – experience with B2B2C solutions, Web portals, subscription services, user-generated content, Web 2.0 applications and online communities.
• High familiarity with online social networking; experience creating social networking communities/solutions a plus. At minimum, active user of online social networks.
• End user focus – proven ability to drive rich, engaging user experience.
• Enterprise product development – experience creating generalized requirements for enterprise customers.
• Solutions-minded – ability to respond quickly to evolving business needs, priorities, and timelines.
• Rapid development/prototyping process experience
• Results-oriented – demonstrated track record of completing large-scale strategic and technical projects on time. Solid experience with analyzing and reporting on product success metrics.
• Business-focused – highly capable of balancing customer needs with business priorities, and able to clearly articulate the rationale and financial implications behind decisions.
• Team player – strong, proactive communicator and collaborator with co-workers and other stakeholders across multiple functional disciplines.
• International expertise and product localization expertise.

Talents/Personal Attributes:

• Demonstrates and promotes non-negotiable integrity and respect for the individual in an environment of mutual trust.
• Exhibits a commitment to lifelong learning, encourages others to do so and continues to grow technically and interpersonally to perform the responsibilities at the highest level.
• Demonstration of exceptional client service when communicating with prospects and clients.
• Maintains the utmost discretion in working with sensitive and confidential information.
• Flexible, collaborative, creative, open-minded yet ability to make a compelling case with conviction for what’s most important.
• Lives the brand values of trust, community, creating value and human touch.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in computer science, business, marketing, or related fields; MBA preferred.
• 5+ years online product management experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including strong documentation experience.
  

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Systems Engineer

Reports to:         Director of Information Technology

FLSA Status:      Exempt

Who We Are:

Conenza builds and manages trusted, collaborative, unique global online communities for vibrant organizations and their alumni.  Founded in 2006 and located in downtown Seattle, our team consists of talented professionals who want to direct their creativity, intellect and experience to making a big difference for both our customers and their organizations.  We’re a fast-growing entrepreneurial company with a culture built on trusted community, collaboration, and accountability; our focused team is pursuing a compelling vision while having fun building a world-class product along the way. Our culture is built on a foundation of trust, community, creating value and providing “human touch” in everything we do.

Job Summary:

We are looking for a mid-level UNIX / Linux System Engineer to develop and manage highly complex, high availability data centers. This position will involve hands-on work supporting distributed web applications in a virtualized environment, supporting 24X7 operations and customer-facing systems.

Responsibilities:

• Develop/improve our systems engineering support for our high-profile, Fortune 1000 level client base and applications
• Support of our distributed web applications supporting a 24X7 operation

• Overall design of networks and performance of system implementations for scalability and security
• Collaboration with Software Engineering teams on functional, performance, security, and reliability issues
• Assist in configuration management and capacity management
• Assist the implementation team in managing environment and system configurations during the development cycle
• Requirements gathering for hardware and software procurement  for projects, and delivering project assignments on time, within budget and with high quality
• Documentation and review of technical specifications as required and determining requirements that meet the objectives of functional specifications

• Overall adherence to engineering development processes and procedures
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field
• 5+ years as a UNIX/Linux System Engineer in highly complex, high availability data center or colo environment.
• Experience in moving production systems from one facility and one IP space to another a plus.
• Hands-on experience supporting distributed web applications in a virtualized environment, supporting a 24X7 operations and customer-facing systems.
• Experience deploying and supporting virtualization technologies, including VMotion ; Experience with Linux on VMWare is preferred.
• Outstanding security skills, including setting up and administration of Firewall devices,  Intrusion Detection Systems, and working with developers to ensure secure environments, working with 3rd party security specialists to conduct testing, and creating standards for security of all systems.
• Strong experience in monitoring and management of systems using such tools as Nagios, MRTG, Cacti, and others, including monitoring hardware, operating systems, applications, and utilization levels
• Experience with shell scripting and environmental configuration under Linux environments
• Solid SAN administration and knowledge, including SAN switching and storage management
• Deep knowledge of network-related concepts, such as routing and switching, firewall administration, and server load balancer administration
• Experience in designing networks and system implementations for scalability and security including requirements gathering and documentation and collaboration with development, QA and other departments.
• Experience with Backup and Recovery and Disaster Recovery / Business Continuence plans
• Experience with Web-specific technologies such as web servers and application servers such as Apache, Tomcat, BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, IIS, Jahia, or similar

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Architect, Software

Reports to:         VP of R&D

FLSA Status:      Exempt

Who We Are:

Conenza builds and manages trusted, collaborative, unique global online communities for vibrant organizations and their alumni.  Founded in 2006 and located in downtown Seattle, our team consists of talented professionals who want to direct their creativity, intellect and experience to making a big difference for both our customers and their organizations.  We’re a fast-growing entrepreneurial company with a culture built on trusted community, collaboration, and accountability; our focused team is pursuing a compelling vision while having fun building a world-class product along the way. Our culture is built on a foundation of trust, community, creating value and providing “human touch” in everything we do.

Job Summary:

We are looking for an intellectually gifted architect with a spirited entrepreneurial drive. The individual must have a keen desire to win and be part of the team responsible for building and introducing corporations to cutting edge social networking software. The individual will work in a relatively small agile team reporting directly to the VP of R&D.

Responsibilities:

• Identify product & architectural needs
• Analyze & review business requirements
• Evaluate new technologies
• Present and implement functional prototypes
• Architect & build scalable and robust software components
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
• Must have 7+ years experience in software engineering
• Must have experience developing and implementing web 2.0 software
• Must have proven track record building scalable n-tier product platforms
• Must have proven track record working with standards and thirds party APIs
• Must have experience working on multiple platforms/web-based solutions/languages (Linux, Windows, SAS, Lucene, tomcat or JBoss, Spring, Apache, Portals, Hybernate, Ajax, Eclipse, Ant, JSP/JSF/Tiles/Struts, Maven, Java, CVS/SVN, scripting technologies)
• Experience developing software used by consumers
• Experience developing software which supports white-label, config-based implementations
• Experience developing configurable security in software solution
• Experience building 3rd party APIs
• Patent background is helpful

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Architect, Software and Networks

Reports to:         VP of R&D

FLSA Status:      Exempt

Who We Are:

Conenza builds and manages trusted, collaborative, unique global online communities for vibrant organizations and their alumni.  Founded in 2006 and located in downtown Seattle, our team consists of talented professionals who want to direct their creativity, intellect and experience to making a big difference for both our customers and their organizations.  We’re a fast-growing entrepreneurial company with a culture built on trusted community, collaboration, and accountability; our focused team is pursuing a compelling vision while having fun building a world-class product along the way. Our culture is built on a foundation of trust, community, creating value and providing “human touch” in everything we do.

Job Summary:

We are looking for intellectually gifted engineers with a spirited entrepreneurial drive. The individual must have a keen desire to win and be part of the team responsible for building and introducing corporations to cutting edge social networking software. The individual will work in a relatively small agile team reporting directly to the VP of R&D.

Responsibilities:

• Create and document build process
• Rapid setup of prototyping environments
• Setting up and using utilities to increase the overall development speed
• Identify and fix systemic development “bottleneck” issues
• Present and implement functional prototypes
• Architect & build scalable and robust software components
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
• Must have 7+ years experience in software engineering
• Must have experience developing and implementing web 2.0 software
• Must have implemented build&deploy solutions including integrations such bugzilla/cvszilla
• Must have proven track record building scalable n-tier product platforms
• Must have proven track record working with standards and thirds party APIs
• Must have experience working on multiple platforms/web-based solutions/languages (Linux, Windows, SAS, Lucene, tomcat or JBoss, Spring, Apache, Portals, Hybernate, Ajax, Eclipse, Ant, JSP/JSF/Tiles/Struts, Maven, Java, CVS/SVN, scripting technologies)
• Experience developing software used by consumers
• Experience developing software which supports white-label, config-based implementations

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Senior Software Engineer

Reports to:         VP of R&D

FLSA Status:      Exempt

Who We Are:

Conenza builds and manages trusted, collaborative, unique global online communities for vibrant organizations and their alumni.  Founded in 2006 and located in downtown Seattle, our team consists of talented professionals who want to direct their creativity, intellect and experience to making a big difference for both our customers and their organizations.  We’re a fast-growing entrepreneurial company with a culture built on trusted community, collaboration, and accountability; our focused team is pursuing a compelling vision while having fun building a world-class product along the way. Our culture is built on a foundation of trust, community, creating value and providing “human touch” in everything we do.

Job Summary:

We are looking for intellectually gifted engineers with a spirited entrepreneurial drive. The individual must have a keen desire to win and be part of the team responsible for building and introducing corporations to cutting edge social networking software. The individual will work in a relatively small agile team reporting directly to the VP of R&D.

Responsibilities:

• Architect & build scalable and robust software components
• Develop & integrate web2.0 software
• Collaborate with architects and engineers
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
• Must have 5+ years experience in software engineering
• Must have experience developing and implementing web 2.0 software
• Must have proven track record building scalable n-tier product platforms
• Must have experience working on multiple platforms/web-based solutions/languages (Linux, Windows, SAS, Lucene, tomcat or JBoss, Spring, Apache, Portals, Hybernate, Ajax, Eclipse, Ant, JSP/JSF/Tiles/Struts, Maven, Java, CVS/SVN, scripting technologies)
• Experience developing software used by consumers
• Experience developing software which supports white-label, config-based implementations

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Web UI Developer

Reports to:         Director of User-Experience/User-Interface

FLSA Status:      Exempt

Who We Are:

Conenza builds and manages trusted, collaborative, unique online communities for vibrant Global 200 organizations and their alumni.  Founded in 2006 and located in downtown Seattle, our team consists of talented professionals who want to direct their creativity, intellect and experience to making a big difference for both our customers and their organizations.  We’re a fast-growing entrepreneurial company with a culture built on trusted community, collaboration, and accountability; our focused team is pursuing a compelling vision while having fun building a world-class product along the way. Our culture is built on a foundation of trust, community, creating value and providing “human touch” in everything we do.

Job Summary:

This position will work to create the next generation of web based applications and prototypes for Conenza’s Alumni Community Platform.

Position Responsibilities:

• Prototyping of highly dynamic web applications for user testing and demo purposes
• Collaboration with product, UX/UI and dev teams to rapidly translate page and interaction designs into working prototypes
• Revision of prototypes based on user and customer feedback
• Translating web-based application designs accurately and seamlessly into codable prototypes for the development team through creative collaboration with product and UX/UI team
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Ability to learn quickly: knowledge and experience are very helpful but ideas, passion, teamwork and openness to collaboration are essential
• Exceptional drive for high quality, best-in class user interface
• Ability to work with product teams to help understand and define requirements for prototypes
• Strong JavaScript and HTML/DHTML/CSS skills
• Proven experience with user-centered interaction design
• Scripting language experience
• Familiarity with open-source DHTML and JavaScript libraries
• Experience creating reusable UI template libraries
• Solid skills and experience in creating cross-browser applications
• Experience localizing web based solutions
• High attention to detail, good communications skills, and a positive, collaborative, make-things-happen approach to work
• Ability to multi-task and manage multiple complex initiatives simultaneously
• The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of experience in cross-browser design.

 Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with Ajax frameworks, for example YUI, GWT, Icefaces, etc.
• Experience with MVC models and programming patterns
• Experience in Macromedia Fireworks or Adobe Photoshop
• Experience with OpenSocial and Facebook platforms; familiarity with LinkedIn
• Understanding of object oriented programming
• Java experience

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