Engineering, Data & User Insights ShareThis

We are ShareThis, and we are looking for highly accomplished engineers. Read on and let us know if youd like to share in the experience.

ShareThis is a service in the social media space. We enable site publishers to provide a simple one-button option to users to share site content with others through email, social networks, and social bookmarking. ShareThis promotes sharing of interesting content among users connected by a social graph and shared interests. We are able to accumulate significant data on sharing behavior, providing insights on interests, and influence circle of users. We have experienced significant growth both in adoption by site publishers and share actions by users. Over 130,000 publishers have incorporated the ShareThis widget driving 4 billion+ page views monthly.

This team member will be responsible for building and leading a team of computer scientists and engineers responsible for developing a new platform that captures, analyzes, models various insights from sharing behavior of users. This is a key strategic initiative for the company and as such garners significant visibility at senior levels. The position will report to the CTO. Responsibilities of this position include:

- Innovative Product Development: The successful candidate will be responsible for innovating and shaping a new product that benefits users, publishers, and advertisers. You will lead a team to conceptualize product components, technology architecture, implementation and integration between various systems within the company that will collectively work together to deliver a solution. Much of this involves significant innovation and breaking new ground.
- Technology Architecture: As the senior technology leader you will own the platform architecture and insure that it is highly scalable, extensible, and adaptive as it evolves through the next 12-18 months.
- Product Rollout: The company is currently engaged in several opportunities to apply data insights working with advertisers and publishers. You will work with Product Management and other technology groups in defining the roadmap, scope, and deliverables. You will be responsible to drive an iterative approach to rollout in testing, refining, and improving features based on audience response.
- Business Integration: There are a number of ways to develop and grow the Data/User Insight product e.g. content recommendation for users, and applying key insights from the data through partnerships with publishers and advertisers. You will develop collaborative relationships with our Business Development & Sales teams to help analyze and scope solutions that impact our customers.

If you are the ideal candidate, you will be part creative, part architect and part builder. You should be clearly passionate about user experience and social media. You should also be able to apply innovative technology to business problems, and have an outstanding technical and product sense. From a technical perspective, you must have direct domain experience in data mining, machine learning techniques, deep understanding of algorithms and statistical techniques used in computational advertising. You should be able to demonstrate first-hand experience in building and deploying systems that process large data sets. Implementation experience in Java, Hadoop, HDFS/HBase or equivalent is strongly preferred. The ideal candidate is likely to come from a company involved in large data set mining, and online advertising.

M.S/Ph.D in Computer Science from a leading school and an undergraduate degree in mathematics, computer science, or other technical discipline is preferred.

Location:	94 North High Suite 300 Dublin, OH 43017 United States