Software Developer - D.E. Shaw (New York, NY and Cupertino, CA)

The D. E. Shaw group is looking for top-notch, innovative software developers to help it expand its tech venture and proprietary trading activities. We’re a global investment and technology development firm with approximately US $35 billion in aggregate investment capital and a decidedly different approach to doing business. The application of advanced technology is an integral part of virtually everything we do, from developing computationally intensive strategies for trading in securities markets around the globe to designing a supercomputer intended to fundamentally transform the process of drug discovery. Developers at the firm work on a variety of interesting technical projects including real-time data analysis, distributed system development, and the creation of tools for mathematical modeling. They also enjoy access to some of the most advanced computing resources in the world. If you’re interested in applying your intellect to challenging problems of software architecture and engineering in a stimulating, fast-paced environment, then we’d love to see your resume.

To apply, e-mail your resume to DataShaping-Prog@career.deshaw.com.

Members of the D. E. Shaw group do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.

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Associate Manager/Manager, Client Service - Nielsen (New York, NY)

The Nielsen Company is a global information and media company with leading market positions and recognized brands in marketing information (ACNielsen), media information (Nielsen Media Research), trade shows and business publications (Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, Adweek). The privately held company is active in more than 100 countries, with headquarters in Haarlem, the Netherlands, and New York, USA. For more information, please visit, www.nielsen.com.

As a business of the Nielsen Company, BASES is a market leader in consulting for marketers of new products. Major manufacturers rely on us to evaluate their new product ideas, accurately predict sales and increase the brand’s potential by helping marketers make decisions at critical stages of the new product development process. We conduct studies on over 10,000 new product ideas per year. We offer a highly stimulating, challenging, yet casual work atmosphere.

Title:

Associate Manager/Manager, Client Service

Description:

The Associate Manager/Manager role is part of BASES Client Consulting organization, which is the division from which our senior executives typically rise. The Manager is ultimately responsible for managing the day-to-day relationship with their clients. These individuals usually manage a small work team of analysts, consult with clients, and oversee the design, analysis, and sales forecasting projects of his or her work team.

While 3+ years of related experience is a prerequisite, BASES provides extensive training to give managers the subject matter expertise to function effectively in our business. This includes training regarding sales forecasting, designing and analyzing market research, and delivering high impact consultative presentations to our clients.

Qualifications:

Job Requirements: 3+ years of experience preferably in marketing, market research, or an analytically-based field (e.g., engineering). Excellent analytical and communication skills. Enjoy working with quantitative information. Must be detail and client service oriented. Strong collaboration and teamwork skills. Previous managerial experience desired. Exact starting position will be based on skills and previous relevant experience.

Education Requirements:

Bachelors Degree: Any major welcome; 3.0 minimum GPA. Training Provided

We offer dynamic careers that give you the opportunity to contribute and the room to grow. You can create a wide career path across all of our businesses. Nielsen promotes and enforces a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) for all individuals.

Margaret Bowani
Senior Recruiter
The Nielsen Company
margaret.bowani [at] nielsen.com

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Data Miner/Senior Analyst - HMS Holdings (New York, NY)

HMS Holdings Corp. is a national leader in cost containment and program integrity services for government healthcare programs. In 2006, HMS recovered more than $1.0 billion from third parties and other funding sources for its clients, and provided data that assisted them in saving billions more. HMS serves the Medicaid programs of 40 states, 65 Medicaid managed care plans, SCHIP, child support agencies, and the Veterans Health Administration. HMS Holdings Corp (NASDAQ: HMSY) is headquartered in New York and operates 23 offices nationwide.

We are seeking a Data Miner/Senior Analyst to be responsible for the hands on development of technical and business processes which convert data based business opportunities into revenue. We are looking for an entrepreneurial development type who likes to get deep into the data but who wants to be a player in the business.

Qualified candidates will have 4+ years healthcare claims data and mainframe SAS experience as well as proven data mining and analytical skills. Excellent communication skills (oral and written) as well as honed organizational and project management skills are a must. Minimum of a Bachelor's degree required.

We are proud to offer a wide variety of benefits as part of our overall commitment to the people who make our success possible. In addition to a competitive salary, our employees receive an excellent benefits package that includes comprehensive healthcare coverage and matching 401k plan.

For immediate consideration, email resume with cover letter indicating salary requirements to: recruit@hmsy.com. Please reference job code: SASDM-SB in the subject of your email. Please visit us at www.hmsy.com for additional information.

We are an equal opportunity employer.

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Architect, Ad Conversion Platform - Clickable (New York, NY)

POSITION

Clickable (www.clickable.com) is the first Web service to make creating and managing online advertising simple and effective for small and midsize businesses. We’re an innovative and venture-financed Search Engine Marketing (SEM) technology start-up, based in New York City, featured by TechCrunch 40 and awarded Newcomer of the Year by AlwaysOn. We’re changing the game by bringing easy-to-use yet powerful SEM capabilities to customers suffering from complexity and inefficiencies.

We’re seeking a dynamic Software Architect to join our Engineering Development team, focusing on initiatives to capture, analyze and integrate sales conversion data collected from web sites and integrating it into the advertising campaigns in Google AdWords, Yahoo Search Marketing, Microsoft adCenter and other advertising engines.

The Architect position will be a senior member of an engineering team that is responsible for building Clickable’s software products. These applications are high- volume, real-time, mission critical applications that drive revenue for our customers and are critical to the success of Clickable.

The position is based in New York City or Northern Virginia and reports to the CTO.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Architect a robust platform to
  • Collect conversion data from web sites
  • Analyze the conversion data in real-time
  • Feed the conversion data to a user dashboard in real time
  • Integrate the conversion data with data from the advertising campaigns being run on Google AdWords, Yahoo Search Marketing, Microsoft adCenter, etc.
• Rapidly prototype the above platform with creativity and innovations that have a significant impact to the customer
  • A JavaScript and Flash based web collector
  • A messaging system to transfer data from web sites to the raw data store
  • A messaging system to transfer data from raw data store to the SQL Server integrated repository
  • A Google maps-based widget to display the results of the conversion data in real-time
• Direct the development and QA of the platform
• Plan, deploy and hand-over the operations of the platform to the operations team.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience as an architect that has put into production mission critical real-time applications
• Enthusiasm for solving interesting problems
• Fluency in C# and/or C++
• Several years developing web-based applications
• Expertise in designing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Strong understanding of OO and design patterns
• Expertise in the .NET application framework
• Solid knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server and/or other relational databases
• Experience with on-line search marketing and advertising a plus
• Excellent overall communication skills
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

About Clickable, Inc.

Clickable is an online advertising Web service that makes creating and managing search-engine marketing campaigns simple and effective. Clickable provides an intuitive experience to view search marketing performance across a broad range of networks, including Google AdWords, Yahoo Search Marketing, Microsoft adCenter and others.

Key Milestones:

• Clickable was founded July 2006 by David S. Kidder and Munish Gandhi, and self-funded through July 2007.
• In September 2007, Clickable launched its product into Beta as a featured company at TechCrunch 40.
• In December 2007, the company completed its Series A round of investment, led by Pequot Ventures and Union Square Ventures, totaling $6 million. Strategic individual investors joined, including Jonathan F. Miller, former America Online Chairman and Chief Executive, and Peter Thiel, Managing Partner of The Founders Fund and Co-founder of PayPal. Miller now serves on Clickable’s board of directors.
• Clickable made several key appointments to its management team: Former Nielsen BuzzMetrics executive Max Kalehoff joined as Vice President of Marketing, and former AOL and Microsoft veteran Preston Green joined as Vice President of Customer Experience.
• In January 2008, AlwaysOn awarded Clickable 'Newcomer Of The Year' and 'OnMedia Top 100' company in digital media and advertising.
• In February 2008, the company began moving out of Beta, with limited commercial availability.

Send resume to jobs@clickable.com

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Computational Finance Engineer - Monitor110 (New York, NY)

Description

Rapidly growing financial intelligence firm seeks an extremely talented individual to join our team as Computational Finance Engineer. This is a highly competitive position in which the candidate will work with a unique and extensive set of unstructured, real-time Internet data in order to develop concrete theoretical and applied models for generating alpha. The candidate will be working under the guidance of well-known and established experts in the field of quantitative finance and artificial intelligence, and research may lead to one or more published whitepapers in respected journals, as well as contributing to product evolution.
The perfect candidate has a strong passion and determination to seek out profits through analysis of unconventional market data and test his/her theories in a practical environment. Candidates should be able to thrive in fast-paced environments with minimal supervision.

General Requirements

Applicants should hold an undergraduate degree in a quantitative discipline such as mathematics, computer science, engineering, statistics or economics, and should currently be enrolled in a graduate program in applied mathematics or statistics, mathematical or computational finance, operations research, or computer science. Candidates with previous research work in computational finance, artificial intelligence applied to finance, or a related field, will be given preference.

Successful applicants will have a strong theoretical understanding of quantitative methods used in finance, including volatility measures and price forecasting. He/she will also have a strong proficiency in statistics and probability theory, numerical methods and mathematical modeling.

Computation-specific Requirements

Applicants should have excellent skills working with Excel. Experience programming in Python and/or a statistical software package (R, Stata, SAS) is a big plus. Knowledge of other programming languages such as C++ or Java, scripting language such as Perl, or a mathematical package such as MATLAB or Mathematica, is also a plus.

Responsibilities

• Exploring theoretical and applied models for trading equities, fixed-income, and derivatives using unstructured data
• Identifying new sources of data that are of value to quantitative trading models and/or other research studies

International applicants must have high oral and written English proficiency and be able to present the results of their findings to internal and external audiences.

Relevant professional experience is preferred but not required.

About Us

Our small, but rapidly growing company is leveraging leading-edge technologies and data to create innovative financial intelligence solutions. Lead by highly reputable Wall Street and technology veterans with proven track records of entrepreneurial success, our well-funded start-up leverages advanced intelligence technologies to find tradable information on the web and provide our clients with this information before it becomes news. Our service enables our Institutional Investor clients to access, analyze and monetize information gleaned from the internet in a manner previously unthinkable. Our dynamic team shares the enthusiasm and drive to do something truly innovative and is backed with our own personal funds, strategic angel investors, a Tier 1 bi-coastal VC and the family office of one of the most famous and successful hedge fund managers on the planet.

In exchange for your talent and dedication, we are proud to offer an exceptional benefits package, including:

• Competitive salary
• Stock options
• Medical benefits (including vision and dental insurance)
• 401(k)
• Great location in NYC
• Free soda!

Please submit your resume/cv to: elyse [at] monitor110.com and list the job title in the subject line. Thank you.

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Quantitative Analysts - Princeton Brand Econometrics (New York, NY)

Princeton Brand Econometrics, the pharmaceutical industry's Gold Standard for forecasting and resource allocation, is looking for a Quantitative Analyst for our New York office. Send resume, salary requirements, and a covering letter to Barry Tannenholz at: b.tannenholz [at] pbeco.com.

Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree or Master’s in Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or Operations Research.
• Software Experience: Strong SAS experience desirable. Ability to program at a very high speed is essential.

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Software Developer (New York, NY and Cupertino, CA)

The D. E. Shaw group is looking for top-notch, innovative software developers to help it expand its tech venture and proprietary trading activities. We’re a global investment and technology development firm with approximately US $35 billion in aggregate investment capital and a decidedly different approach to doing business. The application of advanced technology is an integral part of virtually everything we do, from developing computationally intensive strategies for trading in securities markets around the globe to designing a supercomputer intended to fundamentally transform the process of drug discovery. Developers at the firm work on a variety of interesting technical projects including real-time data analysis, distributed system development, and the creation of tools for mathematical modeling. They also enjoy access to some of the most advanced computing resources in the world. If you’re interested in applying your intellect to challenging problems of software architecture and engineering in a stimulating, fast-paced environment, then we’d love to see your resume.

To apply, e-mail your resume to DataShaping-Prog@career.deshaw.com.

Members of the D. E. Shaw group do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.

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Chief Scientist (New York area, NY)

Opportunity

Chief Scientist. Competitive salary, incentive compensation, and equity in a well-financed and rapidly growing venture. PhD preferred. New York area.

Necessary Skill-sets

• Algorithm design and construction
• Experience working with sparse and noisy data
• Statistical modeling and data mining
• User modeling in a dynamic, changing system
• Taxonomy construction

Problem Area

Our problem deals with users navigating the Internet space:

1. The users: A user has a finite set of characteristics that are each binary in nature. The user pool approaches fifty million and will continue to grow. While we do not know the specific characteristic assignment of each user, we know the approximate distribution of each characteristic within the user pool at large.
2. The world: The Internet is an ever-changing and dynamic system.
3. Observable actions: We can view user behavior on the Internet through click-stream data, but we are limited to an incomplete view for specific domains only.
4. The test set: We have a test dataset containing both the characteristics of each user as well as a complete view of each user’s click-stream behavior.
   

Question: How do we return the X users most likely to have a particular characteristic, where X must exceed 2 million?

Orientation

Given the specific nature of the problem, a Chief Scientist would need direct experience in the online world.

Due to high market demand for our capability, the Chief Scientist will need to have an orientation towards implementation, not long-term theoretical research.

Contact Information

Please send CV to: chief.scientist.search [at] gmail.com

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Risk Quantitative Analyst (New York, NY)

The D. E. Shaw group, a global investment and technology development firm with approximately US $30 billion in aggregate investment capital and an international reputation for financial innovation and technological leadership, seeks an exceptionally gifted individual for the role of Quantitative Analyst in its Risk group. The ideal candidate will have at least 2 to 3 years of experience in the Market Risk area of a Wall Street firm, money manager, or risk software vendor. The individual will be responsible for firmwide risk analysis and will work with individual portfolio managers on strategy-specific risk management. A Ph.D. in finance, mathematics, statistics, or econometrics is preferred. Exposure to systematic trading techniques is a strong plus, as is experience interacting with a trading desk or strategy managers. The role affords the exciting opportunity to help build a firmwide risk management infrastructure and to collaborate with some of the brightest minds in alternative asset management. Applicants should submit a resume and cover letter to DataShaping-RiskQuant@career.deshaw.com.

Members of the D. E. Shaw group do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.

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Middle/Back Office Software Developer - D.E. Shaw (New York, NY)

The D. E. Shaw group, a global investment and technology development firm, is looking for exceptional software developers to support its proprietary trading and asset management activities. In addition to having outstanding academic credentials and a deep knowledge of computer science, we're looking for individuals who can play a key role in the development of critical portfolio accounting, general ledger, workflow, and document management systems for a fund with approximately US $30 billion in aggregate capital. Promising candidates will have extensive experience with Java, Perl, and SQL; industry experience in a similar role is desirable but not required. Our company culture is focused but informal, which is reflected in our casual dress, relatively flat management structure, and flexible vacation policy, as well as in the high degree to which new employees work closely with senior staff on key initiatives. We strongly emphasize personal ownership of projects, and new hires are given substantial responsibility from their first day on the job. If you're interested in applying your intellect to challenging problems of software architecture and engineering in a stimulating, fast-paced environment, then we'd love to see your resume. To apply, e-mail your resume and a cover letter to DataShaping-MBOProg@career.deshaw.com.

Members of the D. E. Shaw group do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.

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Quantitative Developer - D.E. Shaw (New York, NY)

The D. E. Shaw group, a global investment and technology development firm with approximately US $30 billion in aggregate capital, is looking for top-notch, innovative quantitative developers to help create computationally intensive strategies for trading in securities markets around the globe. Quantitative developers bring exceptionally strong mathematical, analytical, and software development skills to bear on interesting and challenging problems in computational finance and automated securities trading, such as the implementation of statistical algorithms for time-series analysis, the creation of new analytics tools, and the development and analysis of statistical models for our computerized financial trading strategies. They also enjoy access to some of the most advanced computing resources in the world. Successful candidates have traditionally been the top students in their respective math, physics, engineering, and computer science programs and have extensive software development experience using C, C++, or Java. To apply, e-mail your resume and a cover letter to DataShaping-QuantProg@career.deshaw.com.

Members of the D. E. Shaw group do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.

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Associate Director - Wunderman (New York, NY)

Wunderman, a division of Young & Rubicam Brands, is one of the largest, most experienced customer-centric marketing communications companies in the world, operating in more than 78 offices in over 35 countries. We build brands by creating tangible, imaginative customer experiences that drive sales and help clients keep their customers for life. Our focus is simple: acquire, keep and offer value to customers in the most creative way possible.

Here's a glimpse of what's happening here: we've won (and are continuing to win) some sensational new business, our dynamic and insightful creative continue to break barriers and win awards, and we enjoy a truly unique work environment that encourages cross-discipline training and breadth of exposure. We have enhanced our interactive offerings to a cutting-edge capability and were just identified as a Top Ten (#2) Digital Agency of 2007 by Ad Age. Additionally, we continue to bring value to long-standing blue-chip clients in all areas of relationship marketing.

As a leader in Relationship Marketing and Interactive advertising, we are currently staffing up due to both recent client acquisitions and expansion of existing business. So, let's connect on what your goals are for the future. Let's see if Wunderman can provide a solid partnership, continued education and career path for you and for your future.


Description:

Title:

Associate Director

Scope of Position:

• Work with and on behalf of agency clients to develop and execute data-driven marketing strategies.
• Lead project teams to develop and integrate strategy, planning, operations and analysis of internal customer data and external data sources as appropriate.
• Specific Responsibilities: Evaluate clients’ business objectives to determine appropriate database marketing solutions, define project objectives and develop work plans.
• Analytical services
  • Program Effectiveness
  • Customer Profiling
  • Program Development Planning
  • Profitability Analysis
• Statistical Modeling
  • Database Development/Management
  • List Management
  • Fulfillment Management.
• Develop budgets for database components of client proposals and ensure resource availability.
• Provide project leadership to project teams.
• Guide the selection of tools, technologies and applications to maintain state-of-the-art data management and decision-making. Consult with clients on development of integrated marketing databases or data warehouses designed to improve information capture and segmentation capabilities. Can also include enhancements to existing systems.
• Select, coordinate with, and manage service bureaus who are maintaining client databases.
• Work closely with account management, customer dialogue and media at key points of project streams to ensure full integration.
• Participate in new business development activities: planning and presenting in pitch environment.

Technical Skills:

• 7+ years experience in database marketing, relationship marketing, or data management
• Extensive programming in SAS
• Solid understanding of all aspects of database marketing (process, approach, tools and techniques) with hands-on expertise in at least one dimension.
• Analytical skills and experience with market data analysis; identifying and explaining trends in business indicators.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts and ideas to non-technical audience.
• Ability to translate broad marketing strategies into technical applications.
• Solid understanding of direct marketing economics
• Analytical background required, MBA a plus

Behavioral Skills:

• Demonstrated consulting and relationship building skills
• Strong strategic perspective in advice and recommendations
• Strong presentation and business communications skills
• Problem solving skills
• Strong influence management skills

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