Careers

Mobile is the new frontier of the current information technology revolution and the fastest growing sector in history. Apsalar is at the center of the global mobile industry, at the intersection of the advertising and analytics space. Based near South Park in the SoMa district of San Francisco, and surrounded by multiple mobile industry developers, we’re helping them grow their businesses with our data-powered mobile advertising platform.

If you’ve made it this far, you probably want to learn more about what it’s like to work at Apsalar. We’re a diverse, fun-loving group whose culture centers on innovation, teamwork, and passion. We expect great things from our team, and because of that, our people come first.

• Stock options
• Competitive salary
• Health insurance
• Apple equipment
• Dynamic, fast-paced work environment
• Weekly catered lunches (vegetarian included)
• Bagel Tuesdays
• Company-sponsored events and happy hours
• Incredible team of brilliant and supportive people

Apsalar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The following jobs are currently open at Apsalar:

• Senior Sales Executive – Mobile App Targeted Advertising Solutions
• Site Reliability Engineer
• PostgreSQL Database Developer
• Account Manager
• Jr. Account Executive
• QA Automation Engineer
• Director of Ad Operations

Senior Sales Executive – Mobile App Targeted Advertising Solutions

Apsalar is looking for a dynamic Senior Sales Executive to join our rapidly growing, top tier team. As our Senior Sales Executive, you will report to our CRO and be responsible for building a pipeline, responding to incoming leads and selling targeted mobile app advertising solutions to major mobile app advertisers. You will also oversee the day-to-day up-sell and management of app targeted advertising campaigns.

Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for directly signing key clients for Apsalar’s unique suite of mobile app targeting solutions: (in-app targeting through in house ads) and (3^rd party app retargeting through inventory partners). You will have proven experience in targeted advertising solutions selling within the online advertising market. Strong knowledge of market dynamics and strong industry contacts, as well as knowledge of the online ad tech landscape and its key players will be a distinct advantage.

You will be responsible for all elements of the sale from initial call through to contract signing, including in depth, technical product demonstrations as well as the ongoing strategic support of key clients through campaign delivery. The role will involve meeting and signing mobile advertisers and agencies as well as acting as an ambassador for Apsalar in the mobile app community to ensure Apsalar is front of mind with all key prospects and new clients.

As a part of a well knit, cohesive Sales and Client Success team, you will work closely and collaboratively with Apsalar’s Client Success, Business Development, and Product teams to close new accounts and deliver on excellent customer service, ad conversion volume and industry leading mobile app advertiser CTRs, CPAs and CPIs. You will play a key role in driving revenue and implementing strategies for driving ongoing client product needs. You will also be responsible for educating mobile app advertisers and agencies about all aspects of our next generation tools and how they can be leveraged to solve their goals and objectives.

Required Skills:

• Strong consultative and strategic sales skills as well as relationship building skills at C-level and with top spending online marketers and advertisers
• Self-starter, independent and capable of thriving in a startup environment
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to develop a pipeline of clients from scratch and be highly organized
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills and a proven record of closing contracts within a certain timeframe
• Ability to partner with Client Success team and other internal groups to provide the best customer experience for our clients through campaign delivery
• Excellent presentation and communication skills (both verbal and written)
• Strong analytical skills
• Passion for mobile app industry and performance based advertising

Required Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years experience with top performing track record in selling online advertising solutions directly to advertisers, including at least 1 year selling retargeting solutions or online audience targeting solutions
• Strong understanding of the online ad tech landscape and players
• Good understanding of current mobile advertising technologies and landscape

Desired Education:

• BA/BS degree preferred with a strong academic record or relevant combination of education and experience

This is a full time position offering a competitive base salary, commission, stock options, and other comprehensive benefits.

If interested, please send resume and cover letter to sales_jobs@apsalar.com

Site Reliability Engineer

Apsalar is looking for a dynamic engineer to join our rapidly growing, top tier operations team. Apsalar processes billions of events and is the leading mobile engagement management company. As our SRE, you will report to our Director of Operations and be responsible for operating an extremely high performance and scalable platform built on cutting edge technologies. Some of the technologies we employ include OpenIndiana, ZFS, RAM based PCIe hard drives backed by battery and flash, SSDs for secondary cache, SAS, Zones, all in a private cloud environment. Come and check us out. You’ll be impressed with the size and scope of the challenges and how smoothly we operate.

Responsibilities:

• Operate both front and back-end systems consisting of nginx, Postgres, HA Proxy, and in-house software all running on OpenIndiana
• Participate in on-call rotation (on-call, not scheduled torture)
• Develop, maintain, and expand the following architectures

• Zabbix based monitoring system
• Graphite based systems analytics
• Chef based configuration management system

• Develop tools as needed to streamline operations
• Support other Apsalar teams as required
• Document all of the above as needed to build institutional knowledge

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Intermediate knowledge of OpenIndiana/OpenSolaris/Solaris or intermediate knowledge of at least two other Unix (like) operating systems such as FreeBSD and Linux
• Working knowledge of at least two high level languages such as, but not limited to, PERL, Ruby, Python, and BASH
• Experience with graphing tools such as RRD, Graphite, or Cacti
• Knowledge of Apache, Nginx, HTTP, HTTPS, OpenSSL, SSH, x86 Hardware, basic storage concepts, and COW based file systems
• Working knowledge of a well known configuration management system such as CfEngine, Chef, or Puppet
• Experience operating network gear from a major vendor such as Juniper, Arista, Force10, or Cisco
• Basic system troubleshooting skills and methodology for both hardware and software

Top candidates will have one or more of the following:

• Practical knowledge of ZFS, DTRACE, Zabbix, Graphite, Chef, and OpenIndiana or Solaris
• Strong understanding storage fundamentals
• Experience with Graphite
• Detail oriented
• Experience with build automation systems such as JumpStart, Solaris AI, or Kickstart in combination with a configuration management engine

About yourself:

• Minimum two years of related work experience
• Open-minded and quick to learn new skills
• Self starter and results oriented

This is a full time position with benefits. Competitive compensation based on experience. If interested, please send resume and motivation letter to opsjobs@apsalar.com

PostgreSQL Database Developer

Apsalar is looking for an experienced PostgreSQL and PL/PGSQL developer to enhance our distributed database backend. Our architecture is very similar to Skype’s, and makes extensive use of PostgreSQL stored procedures. You will be working with our developers, DBAs, systems administrators to deliver code that handles thousands of transactions per second. You will gain valuable experience working with one of the most intense PostgreSQL deployments around, in the red-hot mobile industry, and working with some of the sharpest engineers in the business.

Responsibilities:

• Design data model changes from functional requirements and specifications
• Design and implement stored procedures to implement business logic
• Develop Python functionality for ETL
• Work with developers and DBAs on tuning query performance

Must Have:

• At least 5 years’ experience with PostgreSQL or Oracle PL/SQL
• Experience writing stored procedures on high-performance OLTP environments (not necessarily PostgreSQL)
• Database query tuning experience
• Python (or equivalent, e.g. Ruby, Lua) programming experience
• Experience with distributed, sharded or clustered database environments

Highly Desirable

• Experience with PL/Proxy and PgQ
• 2+ years’ experience as PL/PGSQL developer for production PostgreSQL databases
• PostgreSQL performance tuning experience
• Familiarity with Test-driven Development

About Yourself:

• Excellent analytic and design skills
• Self-motivated, organized, and results-oriented
• Ability to work in a small team
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

This is a full time position with benefits. Competitive compensation based on experience.

If interested, please send resume and cover letter to devjobs@apsalar.com

Account Manager

Apsalar is looking for a strategic Account Manager to help manage relationships and grow revenue with top advertising customers. As our Account Manager, you will report to our Head of Sales and be the first in a critical, high-visibility role that contributes directly to our company’s success.

Responsibilities:

• Be the main point of contact for key clients
• Manage client relationships and expectations on a daily basis
• Organize client business reviews on a regular basis
• Oversee account strategy, planning, and forecasting
• Up sell and increase spend with client

Skills:

• Strong knowledge of online advertising ecosystem; mobile preferred
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills

Desired Education:

• BA/BS degree preferred with a strong academic record or relevant combination of education and experience

This is a full time position with benefits. Competitive compensation based on experience.

If interested, please send resume and cover letter to sales_jobs@apsalar.com

QA Automation Engineer

Apsalar is looking for a QA Automation Engineer to join our growing team of highly talented individuals. If you have the skills as well as the motivation to work in our fast-paced startup environment, then you might be the right person for us. Reporting into our engineering organization, you will be challenged by the complexity of developing Python, iOS, and Android applications that exercise the front-end, back-end, API, analytics, campaign management, and mobile components of Apsalar’s products. Be prepared to become an expert on Apsalar’s products.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain test automation scripts and tools to support functional, performance, and scalability testing for all aspects of the Apsalar platform and SDKs, both on our web platform and from within mobile applications
• Develop, maintain, and execute test plans and test cases
• Develop and maintain test applications on Android and iOS platforms
• Provide clear and detailed reports on test execution status
• Write clear, precise bug reports and submit to our bug tracking system

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Understanding of and experience with SQA methodologies, techniques and approaches
• Experience with Python or a similar language
• Experience testing web applications, mobile applications, and database applications
• Experience using Selenium or similar tool
• Experience writing PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS queries
• Working knowledge of Unix shell
• Experience with GIT or a similar tool
• Experience with tools such as Python unittest and HTMLTestRunner is a plus
• Experience developing ‘test’ applications for Android and iOS is a plus
• Experience with mobile advertising is a plus

About yourself:

• Self-motivated, organized, and results-oriented
• Ability to work well in a small team – a real team player
• Superb analytical skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work in an environment that requires a strong understanding of pragmatic approaches to tasks

This is a full time position with benefits. Competitive compensation based on experience. If interested, please send resume and motivation letter to qajobs@apsalar.com

Jr. Account Executive – Mobile App Targeted Advertising Solutions

Apsalar is looking for a dynamic Jr. Account Executive to join our rapidly growing, top tier team. Based in South Market in the SOMA district of San Francisco, we’re surrounded by our customers and partners at the center of the hyper-growth, global mobile app market.

As a leading provider of mobile app analytics and behavioral advertising, we work with leading mobile app companies across a variety of industries, including gaming, m-commerce/retail, travel/hospitality, financial services, communications, and publishing.

This is the chance to get in early and help define the company’s identity and destiny. Go ahead and set your career trajectory with the mobile app industry – one of the fastest growing markets ever known.

As our Junior Account Executive, you will report to our Director of Marketing and will be responsible for generating new business opportunities, building a lead pipeline, qualifying and responding to incoming leads, managing our CRM system, and generating meetings with mobile app advertisers for our sales executives.

Benefits Include:

• Stock options
• Competitive salary
• Health insurance
• Apple equipment
• Dynamic, fast paced work environment
• Weekly catered lunches (vegetarian included)
• Bagel Tuesdays
• Company sponsored events and happy hours

Required Skills:

• Self-starter, independent, and capable of thriving in a startup environment
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to cold call and develop a pipeline of leads from scratch
• Highly organized, with excellent time management skills
• Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written, with excellent grammar)
• Passion for mobile app industry and performance based advertising

Required Experience:

• Some or good understanding of current mobile advertising technologies and landscape preferred

Desired Education:

• BA/BS degree with a strong academic record

This is a full time position offering a competitive base salary, commission, stock options, and other comprehensive benefits.

If interested, please send resume and cover letter to sales_jobs@apsalar.com

Director of Ad Operations

Apsalar is looking for a dynamic Director of AdOps to join our rapidly growing, top tier team. As our Director of AdOps, you will be responsible for converting IOs into revenue and managing a team of operation managers and data analysts.

Responsibilities:

• Convert IOs into revenue
• Recommend campaign types based on clients needs
• Ensure proper setup of campaign tracking
• Campaign / Network optimization
• Campaign allocation and margin maintenance
• Recommend product features based on clients’ feedback and personal knowledge
• Help sales team close deals by participating in pre-sales process

Skills:

• Expert knowledge of online advertising ecosystem; mobile preferred
• Ability to extract insights from huge sets of data and produce actionable insights
• Ability to ingest vast amounts of unstructured data from various sources and make snap decisions based on instant analysis
• Basic understanding of statistical analysis tools and terminology
• Expert knowledge of MS Excel
• Ability to extract data from databases (basic knowledge of SQL)
• Leadership and interpersonal skills

Desired Education:

• BA/BS degree with a strong academic record or relevant combination of education and experience

This is a full time position with benefits. Competitive compensation based on experience.

If interested, please send resume and cover letter to sales_jobs@apsalar.com

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