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Campaign Analysis Coordinator | Centro
Description
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Campaign Analysis Coordinator (CAC) is a great entry level role in the digital media industry since it provides a wide view of the complex landscape. CACs have the opportunity to observe media plans progress from start to finish with hands-on experience at the post-sale, post-launch stage. This typically means reporting, performance, pacing, and other measurement functions.
The CAC works very closely with the rest of the Analysis team who guides him/her through various tools and Centro processes, providing regular learning opportunities. In addition to the CA/CAC relationship, CACs work with internal Centro teams and external publishers to make sure everyone is up-to-date on the campaigns. There are also regular opportunities to shadow Analysts and Senior Analysts on client-facing projects.
Centro offers many flexible and tailored career paths, but the standard progression from this role is to Campaign Analyst (CA). The Campaign Analysis Coordinator will work with our internal teams and publisher partners for approximately 1-3 years before beginning to work with external clients as a Campaign Analyst. This is all dependent on experience, performance, and the region’s business needs.
ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN ANALYSIS TEAM
As part of Centro’s Media Operations team, the Campaign Analysis team is responsible for the reporting and performance analysis of Centro’s client-facing digital media offering. We are a team of four in the Midwest currently and 20+ throughout the country. We work very closely with our Account Management, Campaign Management, and Sales counterparts to deliver great digital media solutions for our clients.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Support the CA team while learning the digital media business and Centro’s offerings
- Update campaigns in Centro’s internal campaign management software
- Monitor the performance of digital media campaigns against benchmarks using internal and 3rd party reporting systems
- Send launch reports to publishers and confirm minimal discrepancy (work with the Campaign Manager to investigate if one arises)
- Communicate with internal teams (search, social, audience buying, etc.) about delivery and basic performance metrics
- Contact publishers and external media providers to provide campaign updates
- Work in several ad servers and pull various reports
QUALIFICATIONS
- 0-1 year of experience with relevant internship experience strongly preferred
- Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in advertising, marketing, or econ
- Excellent organization and communication skills
- Highly motivated with a strong record of project or process management
- Able to juggle a high volume of tasks and prioritize constantly
- Strong independent thinking and problem solving abilities
- Optimistic with a team mentality and a history of delivering Raving Fan service
- Solid Excel proficiency
Centro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, age, disability or any other basis protected under the law.
Data Analyst | Centro
Description
ABOUT THE PRODUCT AND ENGINEERING TEAM
Centro is building the world’s most respected product and engineering organization. This is a bold claim, and one we do not make lightly. Of course, we can back it up: Ad Tech is one of the hottest technology sectors today, with the worlds most distinguished product and engineering organizations vying to be the first to truly and forever disrupt a $200 billion industry.
Of course, delivering technology that changes the way an industry does business requires a massive product, design, and engineering effort. To do our heavy lifting, we attract talent from an array of disciplines to work in highly-collaborative, agile, cross-functional teams. Together we tackle the complexity of scale that comes from performing 30 billion transactions per day. We innovate with machine learning and Big Data solutions to deliver optimized campaign performance and recommendations. We create elegant user interfaces that unite all the functions of our platform into one, seamless, intuitive, and delightful experience.
Together, we are winning advertising tech, will you join us?
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Data Ops team is responsible for transforming Centro's data into actionable information across the organization. This ranges from daily performance reports to real-time historical analysis. Currently we use the Pentaho suite as our business intelligence platform and PostgreSQL for our database platform. We believe in Agile software development and use Scrum as our project management methodology. 'Inspect and Adapt' is more than just a catch-phrase to us. We are willing to have every problem under the sun exactly once, in exchange for never having the same problem twice.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Data Analyst will be responsible for identifying business trends, and opportunities for improving business performance, as well as developing actionable plans to capitalize on such. The Data Analyst will be working with multiple sets of complex data and various functional groups, in order to understand and draw conclusions with regards to the overall performance of the business. The role requires a blend of strong business acumen, strategic thinking, and quantitative abilities.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Assist development of business plans, cost-benefit analysis and other model-building.
- Provide input in overall strategic plans for business unit.
- Determine operational objectives by liaising with functional groups, gathering information (internally and externally), and evaluating available output options.
- Visualize and create high-level models that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the business architecture.
- Establish the appropriate metrics and methodology to review and identify potential areas for improvement.
- Perform competitive and market analysis connecting key strategic projects with implications and possible outcomes for the business unit, and present findings and recommendations to various stakeholders.
- Identify, define, and articulate industry, market, and emerging trends and how they may affect the business.
- Define project requirements by identifying project milestones, phases, and elements; forming project team; establishing project budget.
- Collaborates with key leaders to drive the strategy deployment process for the business unit, and develop and track implementation plans to ensure the appropriate level of focus and discipline.
- Defines and tracks key strategic performance metrics.
QUALIFICATIONS
- In-depth knowledge of commercial operations, product management, business development and/or marketing.
- Strong business acumen and a demonstrated ability to develop and maintain professional and personal relationships with key business stakeholders.
- Ability to understand, analyze and assimilate complex issues, draw correct conclusions and formulate clear strategy and policies.
- Excellent presentation and analytical skills.
- Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority.
- High level of intellectual curiosity combined with a ‘results-driven’ mindset and high EQ.
- Highly self-motivated with ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects and initiatives.
- At least 1 year of relevant professional experience, including broad-based experience in strategy consulting, corporate strategy and/or market/financial analysis required.
EDUCATION
- No degree can substitute for aptitude, attitude, and integrity so we have no such requirement. Bachelor’s degrees in business, economics or other related field are nice to have. An MBA, or other advanced degree related to position, is a strong bonus.
ABOUT CENTRO
Centro provides unified, cloud-based software to simplify digital media operations. Our media management platform streamlines and scales ad buys across all channels, accessing both guaranteed and biddable inventory, to achieve any campaign objective. Our holistic approach gives marketers a single system of record to fulfill their research, planning, buying, optimization and reporting needs. Since 2001, Centro has successfully planned and executed more than 100,000 national and local campaigns across all digital display platforms and ad format types. Headquartered in Chicago with 33 offices in North America, Centro's success and commitment to culture has led to many accolades, including #1 on Crain's Best Places to Work in Chicago in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.
***Centro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, age, disability or any other basis protected under the law.***
Senior Data Scientist | Centro
Description
ABOUT THE PRODUCT AND ENGINEERING TEAM
Centro is building the world’s most respected product and engineering organization. This is a bold claim, and one we do not make lightly. Of course, we can back it up: Ad Tech is one of the hottest technology sectors today, with the worlds most distinguished product and engineering organizations vying to be the first to truly and forever disrupt a $200 billion industry.
Of course, delivering technology that changes the way an industry does business requires a massive product, design, and engineering effort. To do our heavy lifting, we attract talent from an array of disciplines to work in highly-collaborative, agile, cross-functional teams. Together we tackle the complexity of scale that comes from performing 30 billion transactions per day. We innovate with machine learning and Big Data solutions to deliver optimized campaign performance and recommendations. We create elegant user interfaces that unite all the functions of our platform into one, seamless, intuitive, and delightful experience.
Together, we are winning advertising tech, will you join us?
ABOUT THE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE TEAM
The Business Intelligence team is responsible for transforming Centro's data into actionable information across the organization. This ranges from daily performance reports to real-time historical analysis. Currently we use the Pentaho suite as our business intelligence platform and PostgreSQL for our database platform. We believe in Agile software development and use Scrum as our project management methodology. 'Inspect and Adapt' is more than just a catch-phrase to us. We are willing to have every problem under the sun exactly once, in exchange for never having the same problem twice.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Centro is looking for talented, passionate Data Scientist with the skill and desire to contribute to our Business Intelligence team.
Centro’s technology focuses on improving and streamlining digital Media Logistics for online advertising. We are seeking a talented Data Scientist that can help transform the data created from these activities into actionable information. We aim to derive meaning from our data, enabling us to run our business better, and also equip our clients to advertise smarter.
If you have experience working to extract knowledge and actionable information from multiple data sources, then we would love to talk with you. If you are the type of person who comes to work every day expecting to learn, contribute, teach, and have fun, then we think you will fit right in.
As part of our Business Intelligence team you are going to collaborate to solve real-world business problems that Centro is tackling. You'll be working with engineers, business analysts and internal users to bridge the gap between raw data and analysis.
THE GIG
- A qualified applicant has a unique blend of skills that can both unlock the insights of data and tell the fantastic story contained within.
- You should be well versed in the application of analytic techniques and predictive modeling.
- We're looking for someone that does not limit their vision to how things are done today and instead focuses on the best ways to create value.
- You enjoy working directly with the people that use this information and know how to manage their expectations.
- We expect that you will contribute to the culture of learning and continuous improvement on the team.
- Also, if you don't already have it, that you will build strong business domain knowledge related to online advertising, campaign planning and execution, ad serving technologies and related topics.
YOU ARE RIGHT FOR THE JOB IF
- You have 7+ years experience working in a business intelligence, operations management, or data analytics capacity.
- Experience with statistical and data analysis tools such as: R, SAS, SQL.
- Experience with complied and dynamic scripting languages such as: Java, C/C++/C#, Python, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript.
- Experience working with big data frameworks - specifically within the Hadoop Ecosystem.
- Your background, relevant work experience and education shows a mixture of math, engineering, curiosity, writing, and skepticism.
- You have a practical ability to visualize data, communicate about the data, and utilize it effectively.
- You are able to report on what data says *AND* explore data to see what it is telling you.
- You feel comfortable operating with data that is sometimes incomplete. Or messy. Or both.
- You have some data grappling skills (moving data around and manipulating it to some extent, etc).
- You have knowledge of statistics, as well as experience with forecasting and prediction.
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to express business concepts in technical terms (and vice-versa).
Bonus items:
- You have experience with the Pentaho BI Suite (or similar toolset).
- You have experience working in on-line advertising.
ABOUT CENTRO
Centro provides unified, cloud-based software to simplify digital media operations. Our media management platform streamlines and scales ad buys across all channels, accessing both guaranteed and biddable inventory, to achieve any campaign objective. Our holistic approach gives marketers a single system of record to fulfill their research, planning, buying, optimization and reporting needs. Since 2001, Centro has successfully planned and executed more than 100,000 national and local campaigns across all digital display platforms and ad format types. Headquartered in Chicago with 33 offices in North America, Centro's success and commitment to culture has led to many accolades, including #1 on Crain's Best Places to Work in Chicago in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.
***Centro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, age, disability or any other basis protected under the law.***e
Director of Social and Native Solutions | Centro
Description
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Director of Social and Native Solutions will work to drive Centro’s revenue growth of social and native advertising channels across multiple digital platforms by providing thought leadership, education and scalable efficiency through proactive developmental solutions. This role works closely with Centro’s Sales and Media Operations teams to encourage increased adoption and sales among Centro’s growing client base of agencies and advertisers throughout the North America. The position reports into the Sr. Director, Digital Innovations.
ABOUT THE DIGITAL INNOVATIONS TEAM
The Digital Innovations team is a specialized group of media and technology strategists who focus on emerging media channels, educating and training the Media Operations and Sales teams on why and how to integrate innovative media into impactful media solutions for Centro’s clients, as well as engaging directly with clients to promote cross-platform media strategies and tactics.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Serve as Centro’s internal expert on social and native advertising
- Identify and lead development of social media and native advertising product solutions and services, from expanded offering and ongoing collateral development, to national roll-out and plan implementation
- Promote the integration of social media and native advertising solutions and products with Centro’s core digital media planning client offering
- Regularly engage regional Sales and Media Operations colleagues to ensure appropriate adoption and upsell within plans, establish opportunities for in-market client-facing presentations, as well as address growth opportunities in a timely manner
- Development and implementation of training programs for social and native advertising
- Keep abreast of channel developments through trade publications, industry conferences, seminars and in fostering strong relationships with publishers and technology vendors via frequent outreach and communication
- Provide regular POVs on evolving social media and native advertising trends, information, and learnings to ensure Centro’s Sales and Media Operations teams are up-to-date with offerings and developments with the potential to grow revenue
QUALIFICATIONS
- 5-7 years of digital advertising experience, with 3 years of emphasis on social and/or native
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of social media trends (paid and organic) across platforms, as well as experience in native advertising planning
- Detail oriented with excellent communication, presentation, and business writing skills
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to operate and succeed as both an individual and as a team
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks and responsibilities
- Willingness to travel (~25%)
EDUCATION
- College degree or higher
Centro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, age, disability or any other basis protected under the law.
Account Executive | Centro
Description
ABOUT THE ROLE
Are you passionate about sales, like to uncover new opportunities, connected in the Philadelphia market, and adept at navigating through client organizations to get to the right people?
Centro’s Philadelphia Account Executive will be responsible for developing strong relationships and growing business from agencies (small to large) and client in-house agencies across Eastern Pennsylvania.
We’re looking for someone that has sales experience as well as recent agency and/or client experience.
Centro is a technology and services company that builds and executes multi-channel digital solutions for clients.
Successful candidates can demonstrate intellectual curiosity to seek out emerging technologies and innovative tactics to solve business challenges cross-vertical and showcase thought leadership. This AE will also be responsible for working with the Media Operations and Publisher Relations teams to develop and execute online campaigns.
ABOUT THE TEAM
The AE will be based in Philadelphia, and a key member of the East Region Sales team, working alongside one other AE in the Philadelphia market.
The East Sales team is headed by a Regional Vice President and four Regional Sales Directors. Our NYC office serves as the regional hub, and this Philly AE will be encouraged to spend a few days a month in the NYC office engaging with the larger team.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Possess existing agency/client relationships to help set up meetings out of the gate
- Prospect and develop new business opportunities through cold calling and networking
- Hit/Exceed established revenue goals
- Familiarity with industry trends, research tools and analysis
- Research opportunities thoroughly and proactively, identifying an advertiser's needs while working with Media Operations to propose efficient solutions
- Present the value proposition of Centro to digital clients through intelligent, exciting presentations
- Establish strong relationships with advertising agency and client direct personnel, including all decision-makers and key influencers from junior media planners to top management
- Work with Account Manager(s) to present supporting research for media strategies and publisher recommendations
- Respond to campaign reporting results and recommend optimizations in conjunction with Account Manager and Campaign Analyst
- Collaborate with Account Managers on client requests regarding research data and tactics
- Interact with key online publishing partners to secure ad inventories and specialized ad products
- Become a positive and influential presence in your region
QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of in-market digital media experience (digital media sales preferred); 5+ years experience in advertising and media preferred
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher preferred
- Proven ability to grow sales opportunities within existing client base
- Proven ability to prospect, cold-call and create new sales opportunities
- Desire to build lasting client and vendor relationships
- Excellent presentation skills and strong attention to detail
- Strong organizational, business writing and negotiation skills
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint and Outlook)
- Familiarity with ComScore, Nielsen/NetRatings, @Plan, Media Audit a plus
- Use of sales / CRM software (e.g. Salesforce.com, etc.) a plus
Centro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, age, disability or any other basis protected under the law.
Senior Data Engineer | Centro
Description
ABOUT THE PRODUCT AND ENGINEERING TEAM
Centro is building the world’s most respected product and engineering organization. This is a bold claim, and one we do not make lightly. Of course, we can back it up: Ad Tech is one of the hottest technology sectors today, with the worlds most distinguished product and engineering organizations vying to be the first to truly and forever disrupt a $200 billion industry.
Of course, delivering technology that changes the way an industry does business requires a massive product, design, and engineering effort. To do our heavy lifting, we attract talent from an array of disciplines to work in highly-collaborative, agile, cross-functional teams. Together we tackle the complexity of scale that comes from performing 30 billion transactions per day. We innovate with machine learning and Big Data solutions to deliver optimized campaign performance and recommendations. We create elegant user interfaces that unite all the functions of our platform into one, seamless, intuitive, and delightful experience.
Together, we are winning advertising tech, will you join us?
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Data Ops team is responsible for transforming Centro's data into actionable information across the organization. This ranges from daily performance reports to real-time historical analysis. Currently we use the Pentaho suite as our business intelligence platform and PostgreSQL for our database platform. We believe in Agile software development and use Scrum as our project management methodology. 'Inspect and Adapt' is more than just a catch-phrase to us. We are willing to have every problem under the sun exactly once, in exchange for never having the same problem twice.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Centro is looking for talented, passionate Data Warehouse Engineer with the skill and desire to contribute to our business intelligence team. Centro’s technology focuses on improving streamlining the entire digital media process, from research thru trafficking, with focus on each step in between. We are seeking talented Data Warehouse Engineer that can help transform the data created from these activities into actionable information. We aim to derive meaning from our data that enables us to run our business better, and also equips our clients to advertise smarter. If you have experience working with large data systems, then we would love to talk with you. If you are the type of person who comes to work every day expecting to learn, contribute, teach, and have fun, then we think you will fit right in.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
As part of our business intelligence team you are going to collaborate to solve real-world business problems that Centro is tackling. You'll be working with all parts of the BI stack. This ranges from design, implementation and support of our data warehouse all the way through how our end users consume information we generate. You'll work closely with business users, data analysts and software engineers to design and implement data integration flows into the enterprise warehouse.
- A qualified applicant should be familiar with a variety of the data warehousing concepts and practices.
- At a basic level, you can translate business intelligence needs into a system design and then implement it.
- You have the capabilities to extend a given BI tool's out-of-box functionalities to provide better user experiences, if that is called for.
- You enjoy working directly with the people that use these reports and know how to manage their expectations.
- We expect that you will contribute to the culture of learning and continuous improvement on the team.
- Also, if you don't already have it, that you will build strong business domain knowledge related to online advertising, campaign planning and execution, ad serving technologies and related topics.
QUALIFICATIONS
- You have 5-10 years of end-to-end experience with data warehousing and BI systems (including data modeling, ETL architectures and OLAP).
- You've designed, built, and supported data warehouses.
- You have a strong understanding of dimensional modeling and other data warehouse techniques.
- You have the ability to quickly understand business requirements and transform them into data models.
- You have experience developing and implementing ETL processes, and dealing with performance and scaling issues.
- You have strong database and SQL skills. (We use PostGreSQL, but experience with similar database platforms works for us.)
- You have experience in scripting languages (perl, python, javascript, etc)
- You are knowledgeable in Java (We use Pentaho as our BI platform)
- You have expertise in job scheduling, data quality, metadata management and monitoring systems.
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to express business concepts in technical terms (and vice-versa).
- You are able to help troubleshoot problems and resolve issues.
Bonus items:
- You have experience with Ruby
- You have experience with the Hadoop eco-system (HDFC, MapReduce, Hive, Pig, etc).
EDUCATION
- No degree can substitute for aptitude, attitude, and integrity so we have no such requirement. Bachelor’s degrees in business, economics or other related field are nice to have. An MBA, or other advanced degree related to position, is a strong bonus.
ABOUT CENTRO
Centro provides unified, cloud-based software to simplify digital media operations. Our media management platform streamlines and scales ad buys across all channels, accessing both guaranteed and biddable inventory, to achieve any campaign objective. Our holistic approach gives marketers a single system of record to fulfill their research, planning, buying, optimization and reporting needs. Since 2001, Centro has successfully planned and executed more than 100,000 national and local campaigns across all digital display platforms and ad format types. Headquartered in Chicago with 33 offices in North America, Centro's success and commitment to culture has led to many accolades, including #1 on Crain's Best Places to Work in Chicago in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.
***Centro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, age, disability or any other basis protected under the law.***
Senior Software Engineer, JavaScript | Centro
Description
ABOUT THE ENGINEERING TEAM
Centro is building the world’s most respected engineering organization. This is a bold claim, and one we do not make lightly. Of course, we can back it up: Ad Tech is one of the hottest technology sectors today, with some of the most distinguished engineering organizations vying to be the first to truly and forever change a $600 Billion industry.
We are building a suite of SaaS applications that will automate and streamline digital media management - disrupting an industry often run by fax machine and spreadsheets. On our platform, our customers negotiate, analyze, and reconcile complex deals at an intense pace. The ability to manage any type of digital advertising campaign across 100% of all digital channels drastically improves the productivity and performance of digital media teams - reducing costs and maximizing profitability.
Centro is winning ad tech, and nothing garners respect like success. Will you join us?
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for an elite Sr. Software Engineer, specializing in JavaScript single-page applications and web development. You will join our team of talented engineers to build out our self-serve real-time bidding platform and help our customers execute complex advertising campaigns. You will use the best hardware in an awesome loft-style office at a great downtown location with fantastic perks.
YOU ARE RIGHT FOR THE JOB IF:
- You have 5+ years of hands-on web application development experience.
- You consider yourself a leader and go out of your way to mentor others.
- You are meticulous about design, architecture, coding standards and testing.
- You have built non-trivial web applications using object oriented JavaScript.
- You have experience debugging javascript and optimizing it for performance.
- You are competent with Java (or similar server-side languages).
- You have been a part of agile teams collaborating using Git (or similar source control).
- You have experience with one or more of RESTful services, ExtJS, Sencha Touch, Hibernate, MySQL, SASS, AngularJS.
ABOUT CENTRO
We were founded in 2001, with our roots in local digital buying. We built our own media management system to aggregate small local sites market by market so that advertisers could effectively and quickly utilize the benefits of local digital media. We expanded to work with national sites in 2008 and rapidly grew to one of the largest buyers of digital media in the U.S. We bring the scale of a large media-buying agency to our client partners. Today we manage $350MM in digital spending for our clients and we manage almost 6,000 campaigns which gives us an incredible knowledge of the marketplace.
Our vision is to deliver a unified, holistic platform to simplify digital media operations and streamline and scale campaigns across any class of inventory, publisher, or digital channel.
Please note:
- Local candidates only; no relocation.
- Must be legally able to work in Canada; we cannot sponsor visas at this time.
Centro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, age, disability or any other basis protected under the law.
Technical Support Analyst | Centro
Description
ABOUT THE ROLE
Centro’s technology team is building web applications for streamlining digital media management. Our customers live in our application eight hours a day, negotiating, analyzing, and reconciling complex deals at blazing speed. We are looking for someone who is passionate about delivering “Raving Fan” service and ensuring the successful use of our software. As a Technical Support Analyst, you will be responsible for troubleshooting customer support requests, maintaining up-to-date product documentation, and providing feedback to improve our products.
IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL
- Troubleshoot, triage and respond to customer inquiries and issues through a variety of channels as a primary priority
- Manage help content, develop training materials and communicate product updates to ensure timely, relevant and accurate information is provided to our users
- Understand all aspects of our products and become the functional domain expert within the team
- Participate in a software development team and ensure a fulfilling customer experience through the design, development and delivery of essential features and high quality software
- Report and resolve inefficiencies in product and process. We are always looking to improve!
IN RETURN YOU WILL GET
- A dedicated team committed to building great products
- Competitive salary, extensive benefits and a work environment that consistently gets rated one of the best places to work
- Annual training budget for conferences, classes, books, etc.
- A highly engaging environment, made up of the most passionate, intelligent, happy, caring and hard-working people around
QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience working in an environment that requires a high sense of urgency
- Embody Centro’s “Raving Fan” ethic and are willing to go the extra mile to satisfy our customers’ needs
- Intellectual curiosity
- Enjoy collaborating with software developers, product managers, and customers to solve real business problems
- Have exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Are positive, professional, tactful and organized
- 3-5 years related experience
EDUCATION
- Bachelor’s degree in related field
Centro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, age, disability or any other basis protected under the law.
Senior Director, Client Analytics | Centro
Description
ABOUT THE ROLE
This role is a critical hire for Centro at an opportune time in our history. With the shift in Centro’s value proposition from local media buying efficiency to a software as a service media platform, this role will be key to build & deliver the client service to enable this transformation for clients. Combining multiple platforms & buying mechanisms, this role will be responsible working with sales to define and deliver against client objectives. Defining solution templates, building predictive analytic calculators, helping in the solution sell-in of media campaigns to clients, building and optimizing campaigns, and using results to define further opportunities.
ABOUT THE TEAM
This position will be the first hire within the region with the intent to create a new team from the ground up to extend our analytical services for clients. This team will be a core part of the Data & Analytics team at Centro and will align together with the Strategic Insights team. The Client Analytics team will help advance our mission to help improve our client’s brand and performance goals with their Centro media campaigns. This team will work closely with the sales and other service teams to deliver against this mission in a dynamic, ever changing environment.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Be an analytic leader at Centro in advocating for the use of data & analysis to improve on our solutions and programs for clients
- Build solution templates for a variety of different client marketing objectives including traditional objectives like new product launch, drive website traffic or brand awareness as well as CRM objectives such as grow, upsell or retain existing customers and acquire new ones
- Work with clients to understand their data assets and existing analytical models to determine the best way to engage with Centro
- Collaborate with internal Centro teams to design campaigns, create experiments, optimize programs and use results to define client opportunities
- Be an expert in the use of 1st, 2nd and 3rd party data to improve results
- Run different experiments with clients to prove the efficiency and effectiveness of Centro media campaigns
- Lead the implementation and delivery of different attribution solutions for clients to demonstrate the return on ad spend as well as a better way to strategically deploy media
- Department Head or Senior Director of research and analytics at a large scale media agency, major media measurement company, or major media mix modeling company.
- Leader of Agency Client Solutions at a major media measurement company.
- Prior experience in developing and leveraging Consumer Insights and Media Trends.
- Strong understanding of different vendors and techniques for collecting & creating 1st, 2nd and 3rd party data assets
- Prior experience of different vendors in the DMP space with capabilities around tag management, cookie matching as well as attribution
- Strong ties and experience with media sales and/or client solutions
QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of media research, insights and/or analytics work in the advertising industry
- Strong educational background in business, mathematics, engineering, statistics or quantitative field of study with advanced degree preferred (MBA, MS, PH.D.)
- Hands on leader who is able to be agile for clients while building amazing things internally
- Interpersonal communication skills: have the ability to explain the most technical concepts to non-technical clients and Centrons.
- Prior leadership of a data and/or analytics department at a large scale agency, media provider or media measurement company covering both traditional and digital media
Campaign Analyst | Centro
Description
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Campaign Analyst is responsible for the reporting and performance analysis of clients’ digital media campaigns. CAs monitor live campaigns, provide client reporting, communicate with publishers, and suggest optimizations. The Analyst role is typically post-sale, but they can be engaged for strategic conversations or measurement guidance pre-IO.
The person in this role will possess strong analytical skills, but at the same time, be able to translate the data into digestible points. They should have the ability to analyze raw data, interpret media performance, draw conclusions, and provide actionable recommendations and their forecasted outcomes/implications. The analyst must be flexible, adaptable, extremely organized, and able to provide strategic and tactical optimizations for current and future media plans. The Analyst goes above and beyond to provide Raving Fan service for Centro’s clients and internal teams by developing strong interpersonal relationships.
Centro offers many flexible and tailored career paths, but the standard progression from this role is to Senior Campaign Analyst (Senior CA). Campaign Analysts work with our agency partners to execute media plans for approximately 1-3 years before being placed on large-scale partnerships or in-house agency business as a Sr. Campaign Analyst. This is all dependent on experience, performance, and the region’s business needs.
ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN ANALYSIS TEAM
As part of Centro’s Media Operations team, CAs are integral players on account teams that consist of Account Managers, Campaign Managers, Coordinators, and Sellers that service several accounts. In addition to support team structure, the Midwest CAs also work together. We are currently a team of four in the Midwest with 20+ Analysts throughout the country. We work very closely with our Account Management, Campaign Management, and Sales counterparts to deliver great digital media solutions for our clients.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work directly and constantly with Sales and Account Management teams to define campaign key performance metrics and design measurement plans
- Assist Campaign Management team with tracking strategy and data requirements to meet measurement needs
- Monitor the performance of digital media campaigns against benchmarks using internal and 3rd party reporting systems
- Design and provide reporting that highlights the effectiveness of digital media campaigns including display, mobile, video and RTB buys
- Analyze performance of digital media campaigns and provide strategic tactical insight and optimization recommendations to the account team
- Organize post-campaign data and insight into compelling wrap up reporting and presentations
- Identify opportunities for outside research (brand study, ad verification) on assigned clients
- Contribute to Centro knowledge base with case studies and research
QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years digital media agency or publisher experience, especially in client-facing buying or media measurement departments
- Bachelor’s degree in Advertising, Marketing, Business, Statistics, or Economics preferred
- Very strong Excel skills, and solid knowledge of MS Office
- Excellent organization and communication skills
- Highly motivated with a strong record of project or process management
- Good qualitative skills with ability to demonstrate quality data organization and analysis techniques
- Understanding of media buying and ad serving landscape
- Solid independent thinking and problem solving abilities
Centro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, age, disability or any other basis protected under the law.
Social Media Strategist | Centro
Description
ABOUT THE ROLE
This role will be responsible for supporting Centro’s clients on a day to day basis while working with the self-service platforms to develop and execute scalable products.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Execute paid media campaigns across various social platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and other self-service opportunities.
- Grow paid social revenue and adoption within Centro’s sales force
- Lead client calls for upcoming plans and regular check-ins
- Own the development of strategic proposals and provide client with professional recommendation
- Interface with Agency media teams to identify client needs, build strategic campaign plans, communicate service offerings, and identify and deliver new solutions in a collaborative fashion
- Review client deliverables for quality, ensuring that recommendations and work product are sound and viable
- Improve internal and external documents and assist in the development and documentation of best practices for improving communication and collaboration within the team and the group
- Assist in training, mentoring, and developing team members
- Embrace and encourage a culture based on team work, collaboration, and intellectual curiosity
- Work side-by-side with coordinator(s) on individual accounts by sharing campaign goals and working together to deliver successful programs.
- Provide in depth analysis and insight on campaign performance to clearly highlight the value that Centro brings and secure future opportunities
- Develop case studies and collateral as needed
- Research and suggest new opportunities to expand our product offering
- Share industry knowledge of social media and digital advertising news
QUALIFICATIONS
- 2-3 years’ experience in Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube paid advertising
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Proficient in Excel
- Eagerness to learn
- Adaptable/Flexible
- A fun, positive attitude that embodies the Centro Manifesto
- Precise attention to detail
- Proven communication and organization skills
- Thrives in a team environment
Centro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, age, disability or any other basis protected under the law.
Software Engineer | Centro
Description
ABOUT THE ROLE
This role will be responsible for building out new products while updating and expanding our existing offerings. Core functions include developing on and improving SiteScout’s highly scalable real-time bidding platform, which processes 30B+ auctions, each within milliseconds, every day. You will actively participate on our team and help drive innovation for new products and services. Our Software Engineers enjoy rolling up their sleeves and writing code.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design and develop the software implementation for new product features
- Analyze, develop, integrate, and then operationalize new Supply Sources or Data Partners
- Maintain the operation of software components working at a very large scale within the real-time bidding platform
- Document designs and all project related items
- Utilize versioning systems
QUALIFICATIONS
- Have a passion for programming and creating high-performance products
- Able to develop and maintain high-quality code
- Possess strong troubleshooting and critical thinking skills to quickly propose solutions
- Strong documentation skills
- Excited by a fast-paced product development environment
WORK EXPERIENCE
- 2+ years of software development experience with a Bachelor’s degree, an advanced degree without experience, or equivalent work experience
- Comfortable in an Agile team environment
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Excellent knowledge of Java and object oriented design patterns
- Knowledge of RESTful interface design
- Familiar with versioning systems (e.g., subversion or git)
- Intimate knowledge and experience with Java
- Experience with relational databases and NoSQL
EDUCATION
- Bachelor’s degree, or an advanced degree without experience
Centro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, age, disability or any other basis protected under the law.
Product Manager | Centro
Description
About The Product and Engineering Team
Centro is building the world's most respected product and engineering organization. This is a bold claim, and one that we do not take lightly. Of course, we can back it up: Ad Tech is one of the hottest technology sectors today, with the world's most distinguished product and engineering organizations vying to be the first to truly and forever disrupt a $200 billion industry.
Of course, delivering technology that changes the way an industry does business requires a massive product, design, and engineering effort. To do our heavy lifting, we attract talent from an array of disciplines to work in highly-collaborative, agile, cross-functional teams. Together we tackle the complexity of scale that comes from performing 30 billion transactions per day. We innovate with machine learning and Big Data solutions to deliver optimized campaign performance and recommendations. We create elegant user interfaces that unite all the functions of our platform into one, seamless, intuitive, and delightful experience.
Together we are winning advertising tech, will you join us?
About The Role
Centro is looking for an enthusiastic and highly talented individual to join our team working on the SiteScout Platform. As a Product Manager, the successful candidate will be steeped in the world of advertising technology, with a strong connection to the marketing organization. The role will have a direct impact on growing the business by helping to execute on our product roadmap. Applicants for this role should be highly knowledgeable about modern web applications and product design in general. They should also be very confident in their ability to apply their product management skills immediately. The successful candidate for this position should have a strong background in product management, with a focus on customer development, user experience, UI design, and customer success.
Core Responsibilities
- Responsible for being the voice of the customer.
- Help to maintain product roadmap and product relevance.
- Take responsibility for devising and executing winning product plans.
- Gain a deep understanding of online advertising economics, and SiteScout's business model in particular.
- Support a holistic product offering, in cooperation with marketing, sales, and support departments.
- Define useful products that can be executed against realistically and with a strong competency.
- Clearly define the "what" (as opposed to the "how") and manage the delivery of the "what".
- Provide clarity to engineering about the roadmap and our product plans.
- Be clear on task prioritization, logical sequences, and communicating those with internal stakeholders.
- Communicate clearly to engineering in writing as well as verbally, erring on the side of clarity.
- Take written positions on important issues: tough design choices, product decisions, etc.
- Maintain and update product assets, including: roadmap, feature specs, designs, and JIRA plans.
- Create collateral, FAQs, presentations, and whitepapers that can be leveraged by other departments.
- Create monthly product reports, compiling updates/data from all key sources (JIRA, email, etc.)
- Deliver status reports on time every week with absolute discipline.
Skills & Experience
- 2-3 years of experience in a product management role.
- On top of the latest innovations in product creation, design, and user experience (UX).
- Understands the market, our product line, and the competition extremely well.
- Thinks in terms of delivering superior value to our users and achieving market share and revenue goals.
- Strong grasp of customer development methodology for assessing product-market opportunities.
- Operates from a strong base of knowledge and confidence in digital advertising.
- Takes full responsibility and measures themselves in terms of the success of the product.
- Resourceful, self-reliant, and does not monopolize the resources of the existing product team.
- Decomposes problems, rather than combining problems into larger issues.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Superior communication skills (verbal, interpersonal, and written).
- Experience with modern development methodologies: Scrum, Lean, Agile, etc.
- Experience with Atlassian Suite (JIRA, Confluence, etc.) and MS Office.
- Nice to have: Experience and proficiency with Google AdWords.
- Nice to have: Solid understanding display advertising (especially RTB & Programmatic).
- Nice to have: Project management experience (PMP).
- Nice to have: Completed the Pragmatic Marketing training for product management.
ABOUT CENTRO
We were founded in 2001, with our roots in local digital buying. We built our own media management system to aggregate small local sites market by market so that advertisers could effectively and quickly utilize the benefits of local digital media. We expanded to working with national sites in 2008 and rapidly grew to one of the largest buyers of digital media in the U.S. We bring the scale of a large media buying agency to our client partners. Today we manage $350MM in digital spending for our clients and we manage almost 6,000 campaigns which gives us incredible knowledge of the marketplace.
Our vision is to deliver a unified, holistic platform to simplify digital media operations. Streamline and scale campaigns across any class of inventory, publisher or digital channel. Centro Media Manager will bring it all together under one powerful yet easy-to-use cloud-based application.
Centro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, age, disability or any other basis protected under the law.
Software Engineer, UI | Centro
Description
ABOUT THE PRODUCT AND ENGINEERING TEAM
Centro is building the world’s most respected product and engineering organization. This is a bold claim, and one we do not make lightly. Of course, we can back it up: Ad Tech is one of the hottest technology sectors today, with the worlds most distinguished product and engineering organizations vying to be the first to truly and forever disrupt a $200 billion industry.
Of course, delivering technology that changes the way an industry does business requires a massive product, design, and engineering effort. To do our heavy lifting, we attract talent from an array of disciplines to work in highly-collaborative, agile, cross-functional teams. Together we tackle the complexity of scale that comes from performing 30 billion transactions per day. We innovate with machine learning and Big Data solutions to deliver optimized campaign performance and recommendations. We create elegant user interfaces that unite all the functions of our platform into one, seamless, intuitive, and delightful experience.
Together, we are winning advertising tech, will you join us?
ABOUT THE ROLE
Centro's technology team is building web applications for streamlining digital media planning. Come design and develop great software with us in an agile environment and make life better for all of our friends in the advertising industry. Our customers live in our apps eight hours a day, planning and executing complex advertising campaigns. We’re looking for someone with experience developing fast, modular web applications in a collaborative team environment to be the newest member of our growing band of talented engineers, product managers and designers.
YOU'RE RIGHT FOR THIS JOB IF:
- You’re comfortable working on a single-page application built in a Javascript framework backed by RESTful services (we’re using AngularJS backed by Rails services).
- You’re comfortable with CSS, and want to implement it efficiently and elegantly.
- You work to build and maintain software with the highest standards of software craftsmanship.
- You believe in agile methodologies, including TDD, pairing, CI, and collective code ownership.
- You want to build strong business domain knowledge related to online advertising, campaign planning and execution, ad serving technologies and related topics.
- You want to help build a culture of learning and continuous improvement on the team, and you enjoy collaborating with customers, product owners, developers and testers to solve real business problems.
ABOUT CENTRO
Centro provides unified, cloud-based software to simplify digital media operations. Our media management platform streamlines and scales ad buys across all channels, accessing both guaranteed and biddable inventory, to achieve any campaign objective. Our holistic approach gives marketers a single system of record to fulfill their research, planning, buying, optimization and reporting needs. Since 2001, Centro has successfully planned and executed more than 100,000 national and local campaigns across all digital display platforms and ad format types. Headquartered in Chicago with 33 offices in North America, Centro's success and commitment to culture has led to many accolades, including #1 on Crain's Best Places to Work in Chicago in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.
Centro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, age, disability or any other basis protected under the law.
Paid Search Supervisor | Centro
Description
ABOUT THE ROLE
This role will be responsible for managing the performance and execution of the Paid Search Strategists & Coordinators in the East Region. They will oversee all daily tasks and objectives to make sure they are committed with flawless execution and the client’s best interest. The Supervisor will also maintain client relationships with the top tier agencies and be responsible for organically growing that business set out of the East. In addition the Supervisor will help analyze and adapt all processes to improve the paid search performance and functionality internally.
ABOUT THE PAID SEARCH TEAM
Centro’s Paid Search Team is a specialized group of search engine marketing experts. We provide full service execution of paid search campaigns including, competitor research, keyword development, ad copy, account management and reporting.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Oversee and manage a team of Paid Search Strategists, Coordinators, and Interns in the East region
- Support the Search Leadership team in presenting Centro’s paid search solutions to agencies offering the capabilities and execution abilities
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with Account Supervisors as well as Campaign Managers, and Campaign Analysts
- Train and lead paid search team on new product offerings and keep team aware of industry news, ensuring development and growth of team members
- Work directly with Search Technology Account managers to improve offering
- Become a positive and influential presence for the Paid Search Team internally with agency partners
- Give insight and best practices to the management of paid search programs to continue to improve client performance
QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years’ experience with paid search executions
- Proven ability to manage teams and provide leadership and direction
- Experience in analyzing internal processes and setting change to improve scale and performance
- Great experience and advanced knowledge of AdWords, AdCenter, and Editor Tools
- Familiarity with Kenshoo or similar Paid Search Technologies
- Experience in managing small team in both skills and leadership
- Bachelors Degree or higher
Centro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, age, disability or any other basis protected under the law.
Senior Director, Client Analytics | Centro
Description
ABOUT THE ROLE
This role is a critical hire for Centro at an opportune time in our history. With the shift in Centro’s value proposition from local media buying efficiency to a software as a service media platform, this role will be key to build & deliver the client service to enable this transformation for clients. Combining multiple platforms & buying mechanisms, this role will be responsible working with sales to define and deliver against client objectives. Defining solution templates, building predictive analytic calculators, helping in the solution sell-in of media campaigns to clients, building and optimizing campaigns, and using results to define further opportunities.
ABOUT THE TEAM
This position will be the first hire within the region with the intent to create a new team from the ground up to extend our analytical services for clients. This team will be a core part of the Data & Analytics team at Centro and will align together with the Strategic Insights team. The Client Analytics team will help advance our mission to help improve our client’s brand and performance goals with their Centro media campaigns. This team will work closely with the sales and other service teams to deliver against this mission in a dynamic, ever changing environment.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Be an analytic leader at Centro in advocating for the use of data & analysis to improve on our solutions and programs for clients
- Build solution templates for a variety of different client marketing objectives including traditional objectives like new product launch, drive website traffic or brand awareness as well as CRM objectives such as grow, upsell or retain existing customers and acquire new ones
- Work with clients to understand their data assets and existing analytical models to determine the best way to engage with Centro
- Collaborate with internal Centro teams to design campaigns, create experiments, optimize programs and use results to define client opportunities
- Be an expert in the use of 1st, 2nd and 3rd party data to improve results
- Run different experiments with clients to prove the efficiency and effectiveness of Centro media campaigns
- Lead the implementation and delivery of different attribution solutions for clients to demonstrate the return on ad spend as well as a better way to strategically deploy media
- Department Head or Senior Director of research and analytics at a large scale media agency, major media measurement company, or major media mix modeling company.
- Leader of Agency Client Solutions at a major media measurement company.
- Prior experience in developing and leveraging Consumer Insights and Media Trends.
- Strong understanding of different vendors and techniques for collecting & creating 1st, 2nd and 3rd party data assets
- Prior experience of different vendors in the DMP space with capabilities around tag management, cookie matching as well as attribution
- Strong ties and experience with media sales and/or client solutions
QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of media research, insights and/or analytics work in the advertising industry
- Strong educational background in business, mathematics, engineering, statistics or quantitative field of study with advanced degree preferred (MBA, MS, PH.D.)
- Hands on leader who is able to be agile for clients while building amazing things internally
- Interpersonal communication skills: have the ability to explain the most technical concepts to non-technical clients and Centrons.
- Prior leadership of a data and/or analytics department at a large scale agency, media provider or media measurement company covering both traditional and digital media
Developer Operations Engineer | Centro
Description
ABOUT THE ROLE
Centro's technology team is building a suite of SaaS applications for streamlining digital media management. We help marketers and advertising agencies overcome entrenched challenges to improve the productivity and performance of their digital media teams, better manage costs and maximize profitability. Our customers live in our application many hours a day, negotiating, analyzing, and reconciling complex deals at blazing speed. We are looking for someone who is excited to work with a dedicated team of product managers, designers and developers to solve complicated problems.
The Developer Operations Engineer will be involved in building our next generation of development and deployment architectures, automating processes, building and supporting all environments from development through production. This position will drive initiatives to achieve a network of service deployments backed by autonomous provisioning and monitoring systems, the dynamic creation and destruction of resources according to provisioning and performance profiles, and redundancy mechanisms that respond to system load and failure scenarios.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Write code to automate the creation and maintenance of distributed infrastructure
- Plan automated backups and fail-over configurations
- Scripting to support fully automated deployments
- Work with development team to profile and optimize architecture and infrastructure
- Explore new technologies to optimize the reliability and performance of our infrastructure automation
- Design and implement proactive monitoring to ensure health, performance and security of our production and non-production environments
- Develop capacity plans for new & existing environments
- Proactively make recommendations on upgrades or expansions to support the growing needs of the applications
- Produce high quality systems documentation
- Communicate concerns early and with clarity to impacted teams and management
- Assist in coordinating schedules for upgrades, downtimes or system impacts
- Work closely with development team to understand direction and potential future needs or requirements
QUALIFICATIONS
- 3-5 years experience in a developers operations or production operations role
- Proficient with scripting or languages
- Solid experience in automating infrastructure and deployment processes
- Strong analytical and problem solving capabilities
- Ability to execute all tasks with exceptional attention to detail
- Ability and desire to work in a fast-paced start-up environment and be able to handle several projects and tasks simultaneously
- Must possess excellent time management and prioritization skills
- Experience with Linux (Red Hat and CentOS) and/or UNIX networks and systems
- Proficient with databases and SQL
- Proficient in debugging of system configurations and application code
EDUCATION
- BS or BA in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, MIS or relevant technology degree
Centro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, age, disability or any other basis protected under the law.
Senior Vice President, Data | Centro
Description
ABOUT THE TEAM
Centro is building the world’s most respected engineering organization. This is a bold claim, and one we do not make lightly. Of course, we can back it up: Ad Tech is one of the hottest technology sectors today, with some of the most distinguished engineering organizations vying to be the first to truly and forever disrupt a $600 Billion industry.
We are building a suite of SaaS applications that will automate and streamline digital media management - disrupting an industry often run by fax machine and spreadsheets. On our platform, our customers negotiate, analyze, and reconcile complex deals at blazing speed. The ability to manage any type of digital advertising campaign across 100% of all digital channels drastically improves the productivity and performance of digital media teams - reducing costs and maximizing profitability.
Centro is winning ad tech, and nothing garners respect like success. Will you join us?
ABOUT THE ROLE
This role will be responsible for organizing, leading and growing Centro’s Data Technology Group - this includes data science, data engineering and analytics. A key contributor to overall strategy and vision, you will also be responsible for realizing the vision by designing and building phenomenal, data-based, product components as part of Centro’s media platform.
You will use data modeling, machine learning, statistical methods and related techniques to leverage Centro’s priceless proprietary data plus other 1st and third party data sources. You will discover trends, build machine intelligence and predictive capabilities, optimize and enhance and bring insight to the point of action with compelling visualizations and embedded analytics.
Working with our senior business and technology leaders, you will drive the team to explore and discover the patterns that can inform media decisions and also explore unique business opportunities for Centro that enable us to leverage our collective data assets. The ideal person will have a blend of educational and business work experience and be capable of representing Centro at conferences, trade shows, and client meetings.
There is a small existing team with a broad range of backgrounds and experience that needs a strong, hands on leader to grow and scale, accelerating delivery on Centro’s vision. This team is part of the overall R&D group led by Centro’s CTO.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Contribute as a member of the R&D leadership team.
- Lead the development and testing of hypotheses
- Research and apply multidisciplinary techniques, findings and approaches
- Design, implement and analyze algorithms that substantially impact Centro products
- Lead development of prototypes and guide solutions into production
- Contribute to Centro’s product roadmap
- Serve as the primary person to consult on complex data science issues, contributing key ideas
- Grow and lead a strong data team of scientists, researchers, engineers and analysts to help you accomplish company goals
- Use predictive modeling, statistics, trend analysis, and other data analysis techniques to collect, explore and identify the right data to be analyzed from internal and external sources
- Construct software systems and algorithms to explain or predict behavior and solve a variety of business problems
- Serve as spokesperson and advocate on relevant data science issues to both internal and external audiences and stakeholders
- Perform data analysis and data mining for multiple business functions and areas
- Create ad-hoc analysis and interpretations
- Maintain data and in-house infrastructure
- Coordinate analytic processes and develop new models to increase efficiency and output
- Create new techniques and avenues for collection, interpretation, and analysis of multiple data streams business wide
QUALIFICATIONS
- 15+ years working with large datasets, applied statistical methods, machine learning and software systems.
- 5+ years at the VP+ level responsible for leading a similar group
- Knowledge of data mining and predictive analysis
- Experience dealing with scalability challenges
- Experience working with open-source tools, cloud computing, and data visualization
- Conceptual modeling experience– sharing and articulating theories
- Ability to communicate new knowledge and insights gained from analysis of big data
- Experience performing statistical analysis to quantify the limitations of models
- Ability to take the inferences from data and produce decisions from it that will optimize objectives
- Ability to transfer knowledge and concepts to the team that is implementing the actual system
- Ability to grasp data and see patterns or make inferences at a high level
- Experience growing and managing a mixed team of data scientists, engineers and analysts across geographies and being a hands-on leader.
- Obsession with data and system improvement, tempered with pragmatic ability to prioritize
- Proven research background, in academic or industrial work, with an emphasis on delivering practical research that has a critical impact on multiple projects
- Awareness of business objectives and ability to apply this understanding to recommend and implement product development for difficult and complex technical issues
- Ability to script experimental solutions and use off-the-shelf statistical analysis tools
- Ability to quickly prototype experimental solutions and develop robust, maintainable production systems
- Experience building systems at scale using open source components such as Hadoop, MapReduce, Pig, HBase, Mahout, etc.
- Experience with relational and nonrelational data stores such as MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4J
- Experience with API based integration over the Internet using XML, JSON, REST and classic ETL/data mapping and transformation products and process.
- Experience with statistical and mathematical packages such as R, Octave, Matlab, SAS, SPSS
- Experience with Linux or Unix based production environments.
- Proficient in a programing language such as C, Java, C++, Python.
- Strong results driven personality, with a high level of enthusiasm, energy and confidence
- Excellent analytical, communication, organizational and presentation skills
- Managerial skills: hire, train and mentor research team
- Ability to demonstrate flexibility and integrity: be able and willing to work hands on, independently or with a small team providing leadership
- Experience working at a growth-stage startup company
- Experience with large scale algorithm challenges in the consumer Internet space
- Experience data wrangling/etl.
- Interest or skill in data visualizations that answer questions succinctly
- Data modeling
- Interest or experience in collaborative filtering, clustering, regression analysis, machine learning, nlp, algorithms.
- Understanding of Business KPI's
- A/B testing.
- Intuition about data and data mash-ups
- Work well independently or in groups
- Not afraid to work complex/seemingly intractable problems
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Presence as a recognized, published thought leader in their prior industry
- Frequent speaker at industry conferences and events focused on data topics
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.
- Has experience with Data Privacy and Data Rights across legal jurisdictions.
PLUSES
Advertising/marketing/media experience
EDUCATION
Graduate degree (PhD preferred) in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or applicable engineering or physical/life science subject areas. (Machine Learning/AI/Big Data focus from a well-regarded program preferred)
ABOUT CENTRO
We were founded in 2001, with our roots in local digital buying. We built our own media management system to aggregate small local sites market by market so that advertisers could effectively and quickly utilize the benefits of local digital media. We expanded to working with national sites in 2008 and rapidly grew to one of the largest buyers of digital media in the U.S. We bring the scale of a large media buying agency to our client partners. Today we manage $350MM in digital spending for our clients and we manage almost 6,000 campaigns which gives us incredible knowledge of the marketplace.
Our vision is to deliver a unified, holistic platform to simplify digital media operations. Streamline and scale campaigns across any class of inventory, publisher or digital channel. Centro Media Manager will bring it all together under one powerful yet easy-to-use cloud-based application.
Centro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, age, disability or any other basis protected under the law.
Data Quality Analyst | Centro
Description
ABOUT THE PRODUCT AND ENGINEERING TEAM
Centro is building the world’s most respected product and engineering organization. This is a bold claim, and one we do not make lightly. Of course, we can back it up: Ad Tech is one of the hottest technology sectors today, with the worlds most distinguished product and engineering organizations vying to be the first to truly and forever disrupt a $200 billion industry.
Of course, delivering technology that changes the way an industry does business requires a massive product, design, and engineering effort. To do our heavy lifting, we attract talent from an array of disciplines to work in highly-collaborative, agile, cross-functional teams. Together we tackle the complexity of scale that comes from performing 30 billion transactions per day. We innovate with machine learning and Big Data solutions to deliver optimized campaign performance and recommendations. We create elegant user interfaces that unite all the functions of our platform into one, seamless, intuitive, and delightful experience.
Together, we are winning advertising tech, will you join us?
ABOUT THE DATA TEAM
The Data team is responsible for transforming Centro's data into actionable information across the organization. This ranges from daily performance reports to real-time historical analysis. Currently we use the Pentaho suite as our business intelligence platform and PostgreSQL for our database platform. We believe in Agile software development and use Scrum as our project management methodology. 'Inspect and Adapt' is more than just a catch-phrase to us. We are willing to have every problem under the sun exactly once, in exchange for never having the same problem twice.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for a smart, motivated and experienced individual to join our Data Team as a Data Quality Analyst. The Data Quality Analyst will be responsible for verifying different complicated reports created from our data warehouse.
THE GIG:
- Apply your creativity and analytical skills in order to analyze the validity of a report's data.
- Apply your observational skills to look for gaps in process, code, testing, and environments, and drive solutions.
- Work closely with the development team to assure consistency of data in the reports.
- Create scenarios where the reports can be broken as part of acceptance criteria for development.
- Ability to learn new technologies, applications and skills quickly.
YOU ARE RIGHT FOR THE JOB IF:
- You have previous experience with Data Quality issues and proven track of improving Data Quality.
- You have strong analytical and observational skills.
- You possess strong aptitude with SQL and other database technologies. You should be able to build complicated SQL statements to obtain and analyze data.
- You have previous experience with data analysis, data mining, and data manipulations.
- You have data warehouse application experience.
- You possess a strong attention to detail.
- You have previous experience with Excel.
- You have knowledge and experience with R and/or Python.
- You have a Bachelor’s Degree in Math, Physics, Statistics, Computer Science or related field.
ABOUT CENTRO
Centro provides unified, cloud-based software to simplify digital media operations. Our media management platform streamlines and scales ad buys across all channels, accessing both guaranteed and biddable inventory, to achieve any campaign objective. Our holistic approach gives marketers a single system of record to fulfill their research, planning, buying, optimization and reporting needs. Since 2001, Centro has successfully planned and executed more than 100,000 national and local campaigns across all digital display platforms and ad format types. Headquartered in Chicago with 33 offices in North America, Centro's success and commitment to culture has led to many accolades, including #1 on Crain's Best Places to Work in Chicago in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.
***Centro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, age, disability or any other basis protected under the law.***
Account Manager | Centro
Description
ABOUT THE ROLE
Reporting into a Supervisor in the region, the Account Manager is a position centered on client services and is one where media planning and buying is the primary function. As an Account Manager you will execute the day to day responsibilities of responding to client requests and building digital media recommendations. You will work alongside an Account Executive and are responsible for managing all aspects of a client’s media plans and campaigns. This includes day-to-day operations, client deliverables, relationship management, and issue resolution.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Responsible for the stewardship of a media plan from concept to cash
- Develop comprehensive media plans across different mediums (Mobile, Video, Display) that meet each agency or client’s marketing objectives
- Assemble site consideration set and make recommendations on how to best allocate advertising budgets; utilizing media research tools, Centro’s proprietary tools, and industry/market knowledge
- Develop and issue RFPs to publisher partners; gather and analyze proposals to determine the best media selections, negotiate rates & positioning as required
- Create final media recommendation and provide Account Executive with detailed rationale that supports planning decisions
- Work with internal teams to oversee and monitor ongoing campaign performance, ensuring campaigns are executed properly and according to client expectations
- Assist Campaign Analysis team in strategic analysis of campaigns and provide recommendations for future media plans.
- Foster relationships with both agency clients and vendors
- Accompany Sales on external meetings and presentations when applicable
- Support Supervisor & Director in responding to client requests and special projects as necessary
- Facilitate and lead internal status meetings
- Manage timelines and coordination of resources for deliverables owned. Ensure deliverables are aligned and implemented across all teams to meet client’s goals and objectives
- Assist with training and mentorship to the junior members of the team
QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years interactive online media planning & buying
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- Critical thinking and proactive approach
- Proven communication skills
- Team work
- Issue resolution/problem solving skills
Centro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, age, disability or any other basis protected under the law.
Senior Data Scientist | Centro
Description
ABOUT THE ROLE
Centro is looking for talented, passionate Data Scientist with the skill and desire to contribute to our Business Intelligence team.
Centro’s technology focuses on improving and streamlining digital Media Logistics for online advertising. We are seeking a talented Data Scientist that can help transform the data created from these activities into actionable information. We aim to derive meaning from our data, enabling us to run our business better, and also equip our clients to advertise smarter.
If you have experience working to extract knowledge and actionable information from multiple data sources, then we would love to talk with you. If you are the type of person who comes to work every day expecting to learn, contribute, teach, and have fun, then we think you will fit right in.
As part of our Business Intelligence team you are going to collaborate to solve real-world business problems that Centro is tackling. You'll be working with engineers, business analysts and internal users to bridge the gap between raw data and analysis.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- A qualified applicant has a unique blend of skills that can both unlock the insights of data and tell the fantastic story contained within.
- You should be well versed in the application of analytic techniques and predictive modeling.
- We're looking for someone that does not limit their vision to how things are done today and instead focuses on the best ways to create value.
- You enjoy working directly with the people that use this information and know how to manage their expectations.
- We expect that you will contribute to the culture of learning and continuous improvement on the team.
- Also, if you don't already have it, that you will build strong business domain knowledge related to online advertising, campaign planning and execution, ad serving technologies and related topics.
QUALIFICATIONS
- You have 7+ years experience working in a business intelligence, operations management, or data analytics capacity.
- Experience with statistical and data analysis tools such as: R, SAS, SQL.
- Experience with complied and dynamic scripting languages such as: Java, C/C++/C#, Python, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript.
- Experience working with big data frameworks - specifically within the Hadoop Ecosystem.
- Your background, relevant work experience and education shows a mixture of math, engineering, curiosity, writing, and skepticism.
- You have a practical ability to visualize data, communicate about the data, and utilize it effectively.
- You are able to report on what data says *AND* explore data to see what it is telling you.
- You feel comfortable operating with data that is sometimes incomplete. Or messy. Or both.
- You have some data grappling skills (moving data around and manipulating it to some extent, etc).
- You have knowledge of statistics, as well as experience with forecasting and prediction.
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to express business concepts in technical terms (and vice-versa).
Bonus items:
- You have experience with the Pentaho BI Suite (or similar toolset).
- You have experience working in on-line advertising.
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Business Intelligence team is responsible for transforming Centro's data into actionable information across the organization. This ranges from daily performance reports to real-time historical analysis. Currently we use the Pentaho suite as our business intelligence platform and PostgreSQL for our database platform. We believe in Agile software development and use Scrum as our project management methodology. 'Inspect and Adapt' is more than just a catch-phrase to us. We are willing to have every problem under the sun exactly once, in exchange for never having the same problem twice.
Centro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, age, disability or any other basis protected under the law.
Account Coordinator, Channel Sales | Centro
Description
ABOUT THE ROLE
Reporting into a Supervisor in the region, the Account Coordinator is responsible for executing and managing live campaigns. They will work with the Sales, Account Management, Campaign Management, and Publisher Development teams to ensure the campaign is delivering and meeting the goals and objectives the client set forth. An understanding of how Centro creates a “Raving Fan” culture among its clients is a must!
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Publisher Solutions Group is dedicated to transforming our publisher partners into full-service digital media consultants through innovative technology, managed services and strong relationships.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Responsible for monitoring the performance of digital advertising campaigns against delivery and revenue fulfillment using multiple reporting systems
- Creating wrap up reports at end of campaigns
- Foster relationships with both Channel Sales partners and external publishers
- Act as the liaison between Campaign Operations, Account Management, and Sales
- Facilitate order processing and approval of Insertion Orders
- Responsible, in conjunction with Campaign Manager, for timely launch of campaigns
- Responsible for gathering screenshots for launching campaigns
- Facilitate order revisions and approvals of revised Insertion Orders from clients and with external publishers
- Proactively recommend optimizations to Clients, Account Manager and Sales based on campaign performance
- Assist Finance in billing executions and discrepancies
- Prepare end of month billing and reporting for finance team and clients
- Support Sales and Account Management in responding to client requests and special projects as necessary
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred
- Related internship experience or 1 year of work experience
- Interest in advertising & media planning
- Heavy attention to detail
- Proven communication skills
- Proven organization skills
- Team Work
- Eagerness to learn
- Proactive approach
- Adaptable/Flexible
- Experience with Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word)
Centro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, age, disability or any other basis protected under the law.
Education and Development Strategist | Centro
Description
ABOUT THE ROLE
Here at Centro, we are firm believers that “lasting success can only be achieved through dedication to the growth and wellbeing of the individual”. Centro’s Education and Development Specialist will play a large role in the development and implementation of ongoing programs for our peeps, supporting the beliefs of the Manifesto.
This rockstar will formulate, develop, and execute the education and development strategy for Centro’s business with the goal of fostering organization, team and individual effectiveness and achieve short and long term business objectives. It will be essential that the focus is on employee experience with the objective to drive organizational growth. The Education and Development Strategist will create e-Learning videos to be hosted on Centro’s Learning Management System, work closely with Management to develop and facilitate interactive education programs for Sales and Operations, and support other Education and Development initiatives as needed.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Must live and breathe the Centro Employee Manifesto principles, character traits, and leadership qualities.
- Work with Management to analyze, design, develop, implement and evaluate training curriculum.
- Create and own various E&D programs that support the corporate strategy; partner with VPs and collaboratively work with Talent & Development to ensure all strategies are aligned with Centro’s vision.
- Spearhead creation of training materials while working cross-functionally with internal teams to assess needs and design interactive and creative trainings that meet those needs.
- Design and deliver high-impact education & development programs that is on par with the vision of Centro.
- All requests and inquiries are approached with genuine acknowledgement: a smiling face and thoughtful responses.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Natural ability to lead engaging education & development efforts with a broad range of audience, from anywhere to a recent Big 10 graduate to one of Centro’s brilliant VPs, Directors, or Supervisors.
- Strong interpersonal skills; the passion to collaborate and build relationships with internal and external partners and Business Leaders (i.e. supervisors and senior management).
- Procrastination is not in your vocabulary and you are able to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines.
- Ability to seamlessly alternate between the tactical and strategic responsibilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency in all Microsoft Office programs such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook required.
- 3+ years of Industry experience.
- Solid understanding of Centro’s business and internal processes a plus.
- Previous experience using Articulate software to create eLearning videos preferred.
- Ability to travel to remote offices (25%)
- Ability to develop a distinct Centro style based on Manifesto and customer needs.
Centro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, age, disability or any other basis protected under the law.