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Dictionary.com is a profitable, growing, and massive website with over 60 million unique users per month. More people visit Dictionary.com every year than go to the movies. Our customer base includes anyone who wants to feel smarter and communicate better. Our family of free, advertising-supported sites: Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com provide accurate and exhaustive definitions, synonyms, examples, pronunciations, translations, and more for millions of words. We create innovative and timely products to facilitate learning and intellectual growth, such as the Word of the Day which is enjoyed by 1 million people every day. Our vision is to go beyond a simple web utility and become the #1 trusted and inspirational brand for words and word meanings anywhere. Dictionary.com needs you to take us to the next level.
Summary
Are you a motivating leader who can enthusiastically communicate a vision and get your development team excited about what they’re building? Do you have experience working with a distributed, diverse and innovative team of developers? Dictionary.com is looking for a talented technology leader to manage a growing team of engineers building innovative new products for the #1 Dictionary resource on the web.
Responsibilities
- Managing people and projects in a fast-paced environment including issue management and removal of obstacles.
- Translating business needs into technical requirements and potential issues.
- Manage the technology budgets and effectively plan financial requirements for future growth.
- Manage, drive and grow a team of local, remote and contract employees.
- A team worker, “whatever it takes” attitude.
- Strong background in performance testing, analysis & tuning.
- Ability to connect with & lead Sr. developers with expert skill set in areas where you are not an expert.
- Ability to investigate and suggest new tools to improve efficiency and assist with development.
- Able to lead a team to quickly prototype ideas if necessary.
Required Experience and Technical Skills
- Proven management skills of people and projects in a fast-paced environment including issue management and removal of obstacles.
- Experience translating business needs into technical requirements and potential issues.
- Ability to make prioritization and implementation decisions in a high pressure environment that align to business and architecture goals.
- Manage the technology budgets and effectively plan financial requirements for future growth.
- Ability to manage, drive and grow a team of local, remote and contract employees.
- Sound software design skills.
- Strong background of Internet technologies, WWW and networking (protocols).
- Experience with caching technologies and session management (cookies, server based sessions, etc.)
- Experience working with real world web 2.0 technologies – Ajax, JSON, JavaScript, HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS)
- Solid understand of SEO best practices and process.
- trong background in performance testing, analysis & tuning.
- Ability to connect with & lead Sr. developers with expert skill set in areas where you are not an expert.
- Ability to investigate and suggest new tools to improve efficiency and assist with development.
- Able to lead a team to quickly prototype ideas if necessary.
- 5 yrs+ industry experience
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
Highly Recommended
- Experience developing for mobile products like the iPhone and BlackBerry.
- Experience with JIRA, SVN & Wiki tools.
- Experience with Agile development.
Professional Skills
- Smart ,Curious, Creative and Passionate
- Analytical, Accountable and Adaptable
- High Attention to Detail
- Strong Commitment to Team
Location: Oakland, CA
Interested? Go here to apply: http://www.jobvite.com/j/?cj=o6UeVfwT&s=TechCrunch
Dictionary.com does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies. Accordingly, agencies are requested not to submit such resumes to our job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company. Recruitment agencies that nonetheless submit unsolicited resumes to Dictionary.com agree and acknowledge that the company is free to use them at its discretion, including without limitation directly contacting the candidate, and will not under any circumstances be responsible for any recruitment or similar fees related to such unsolicited resumes.
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