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Reply! Inc. is always seeking
talented individuals with a wide variety of backgrounds and abilities to join our
team. At Reply! we value our employee’s contributions and are committed to our team
member’s professional development and personal success. If we are not currently
recruiting in your field of interest, please check back again as positions will
change frequently.
We are currently accepting resumes for the following opportunities:
- Engineering
- Marketing & Product
- Design
- Business Development
- Sales
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All positions are based out of our Corporate Headquarters in San Ramon, CA unless
otherwise noted.
To be considered for one of the positions above, please submit a cover letter and
your resume to: christina.bailey@reply-corp.com.
The subject field of your e-mail must clearly state the title of the position for
which you are applying.
Reply!, is an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination of any person
employed by or seeking employment with Reply! on the basis of race, religion, color,
national origin, sex, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, medical
condition, veteran status, or any other factor determined to be unlawful by federal,
state or local statutes.
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Software Engineer
Reply.com, a online marketing firm is seeking a Software Engineer to work on the
next generation of a technology tool that will improve the online advertising space
for both buyers and sellers. At Reply.com, we value our employees' contributions,
and are committed to their professional development and personal success.
Ideal candidates must be comfortable working with complex business logic and must
be experts in SQL, VB.NET, ASP.NET, C#, and XML.
Responsibilities:
- Produce high-quality code using Microsoft technology
- Build and improve sophisticated applications that are founded on intricate business
logic
Qualifications:
- Microsoft Certification in two or more areas preferred
- At least three years of .NET Framework, ASP.NET and C# experience
- Working knowledge of intricate SQL statements, SQL Server
- Experience working with XML, CSS, JavaScript, HTML
- Working knowledge of IIS, JQuery, Visual Studio, and Visual Source Safe
- Ability to work with highly complex logic in a fast-paced environment
- Strong attention to detail
- Proven track record of meeting deadlines
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Web Developer/Sr. Front End Engineer
Reply! Inc., the leading online marketplace for locally-targeted advertising, seeks
to hire a brilliant Web Developer/Senior Front End Engineer. This person will work
closely with Product Management and Marketing building industry leading web applications.
You will translate rough design concepts into innovative working solutions, establish
consistency, and optimize user experience.
We are growing fast! If you're looking for a great opportunity to work for one of
the fastest growing companies in the local market, then check us out. If you have
great skills and smarts in any one of the areas listed below (and have designed
and implemented applications on the web) you may have what it takes to be a part
of creating one of the most important businesses in local.
Minimum Requirements:
1. Strong development experience with the ability to write front-end code one of
the following areas:
- Python
- Strong HTML
- Strong JavaScript
- jQuery
- AJAX
- CSS
- Experience with Cheetah (preferred), Django or Mako
2. You should also have experience working with:
- Experience with Lighttpd or Apache
- Experience with Postgres (preferred) or another SQL server
- Eclipse/PyDev
3. The ideal candidate may also have server experience and will have worked pulling
expert pages together and/or building data models and figuring out how to call the
db/talk to the services layer. (In other words the successful candidate has not
only built apis, but knows how to use them to implement applications)
- Ability to collaborate with an exceptional team of engineers
Qualifications:
- Demonstrable experience building a world-class, consumer web application
- Excellent programming skills in Python (preferred), Ruby on Rails, or PHP
- Thorough understanding of HTML and CSS
- Good understanding of client-side Javascript and AJAX
- Good understanding of MVC
- Good command of one or more web templating languages
- Disciplined approach to testing and quality assurance
- Strong command of web standards, CSS-based design, cross-browser compatibility.
- Good understanding of web technologies (e.g., HTTP, REST )
- Knowledgeable foundation in interaction design principles
- Able to excel in fast-paced environment.
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Director of Search Engine Optimization (Mountain View, CA)
Reply! Inc., the leading online marketplace for locally-targeted advertising, seeks
to hire a brilliant Director of SEO. This person will be a core member of the product
team, working closely with company executives. The primary focus of the role is
to help connect consumers with our network of 1.6 million local businesses.
Responsibilities Include:
- On-site analysis -- work with the Product and Engineering teams to audit new and
existing pages and features for traffic-generating opportunities
- SEO opportunity analysis -- identify and execute new opportunities for improving
high-quality organic search engine traffic
- Continually measure and evaluate effectiveness of various tactics in order to rapidly
iterate and improve results
- Maintain updated data reporting for company's key performance indicators
- Conduct data analysis for early-identification of risks, opportunities for growth,
and decision support
Qualifications:
- Quantitative background and experience -- you like numbers, playing with them, and
get excited when you learn new things from them. A solid understanding of statistics
is a big plus.
- Deep knowledge of Excel and modeling
- Significant experience with SEO (5+years) & Web Analytics are required
- Experience optimizing large sites with millions of pages
- Experience managing SEO campaigns across a portfolio of sites
- Engrained in the SEO community
- You are extremely organized and pay attention to detail
- We are a startup, so a willingness and excitement to work very hard is a must
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Director of Corporate Marketing (Mountain View, CA)
Reply! Inc., the leading online marketplace for locally-targeted advertising, seeks
to hire a brilliant Director of Corporate Marketing. This person will will have
responsibility for developing and implementing the company's outbound marketing
strategy integrating all marketing channels (blogs, events, and speaking opportunities,
PR) to drive Reply! Inc. awareness with merchants, consumers and industry experts.
Responsibilities:
- Develop a comprehensive PR strategy (including both consumer and corporate PR) to
increase brand awareness
- Create and execute multi-channel communication plans targeting relevant media, partner,
and customer audiences
- Build and motivate a high-performance corporate marketing team
- Develop and track metrics to manage and improve the effectiveness of marketing efforts
- Collaborate with product management and product marketing to ensure that new products
are developed in a way that resonates with our customers and key influences.
Qualifications:
- BA/BS degree preferred with 7 + years of web marketing and communications experience.
- Experience using social media (facebook, etc.) to drive exposure through new marketing
channels
- Analytically focused and metrics driven approach to building brand awareness
- Flexibility and willingness to work on a variety of projects and multi-task.
- Ability to work cross-functionally.
- Exceptional verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
- Experience working with small business merchants highly desirable
- We are a startup, so a willingness and excitement to work very hard is a must
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Online Marketing Manager
Online Marketing Manager will support Reply's Pay Per Click (PPC) efforts, including
display/banner/media ads and search engine marketing (SEM), in our auto insurance
vertical. Reporting directly to the Sr. Director of Marketing, this person will
be responsible for managing an advertising budget and allocating resources to maximize
delivery of Enhanced Clicks™ and leads while increasing efficiency. Candidates should
demonstrate a proven track record for driving acquisition growth and delivering
against direct response metrics via the web.They should also have a strong understanding
of web analytics and a disciplined approach to conversion optimization.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute a successful marketing strategy for acquiring traffic online.
- Drive traffic through display, online advertising, and affiliate marketing.
- Build and optimize paid search campaigns in Google AdWords and Microsoft adCenter.
- Manage budget, channels and expenditures according to CPL objectives with a focus
on improving ROI.
- Cultivate and develop strong partner, engine and network relationships.
- Monitor, test and optimize copy across keywords for effectively increasing performance.
- Work diligently to improve conversion optimization metrics across all channels through
A/B landing page tests.
- Manage outsourced responsibilities and agency relationships as it relates to generating
leads.
Qualifications:
- Advanced proficiency in Excel required.
- Bachelor's Degree required; MBA a strong plus. Business, Marketing, Finance, or
Economics preferred.
- 2+ years of SEM and/or performance-based online marketing experience(mandatory).
- Comprehensive knowledge of the primary search engines, search engine algorithms
and ranking strategies.
- Experience with large (100,000+ search terms) PPC campaigns and leveraging the 'long
tail.'
- Experience managing marketing and advertising budgets with a demonstrated history
of over achievement on goals and quarter-over-quarter contribution growth.
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Online Marketing Analyst
Reply.com, the leading online marketplace for locally-targeting marketing located
in greater San Francisco, seeks to hire a brilliant Online Marketing Analyst. The
position requires a strong analytical background with comprehensive spreadsheet
skills in order to optimize our marketing campaigns. This person will play a critical
role in driving Reply!'s profitable growth by compiling and analyzing Search Engine
Marketing across many vertical businesses such as: Automotive, Home Improvement,
Real Estate, Online Education and many more. This is a great way to get your start
in the online marketing industry. There are opportunities to wear many hats and
grow within the company.
Responsibilities:
- Build and optimize online marketing campaigns in Google, Bing and other online engines.
- Track ROI & profitability of online marketing campaigns and make strategic decisions
as needed.
- Analyze online data to provide actionable learnings and insights to improve online
paid search acquisition.
- Generate standard and ad-hoc reports on a regular basis
- Close coordination with engineering team for campaign tracking and measurement
- Extract and manipulate data from multiple sources to inform business decisions and
actions
Qualifications:
- Undergraduate degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Finance or Economics required
- Process strong computer skills and proficient in Microsoft Excel
- 1-3 years of related analytic or paid search experience preferred, strong Internet
knowledge a plus.
- Strong ability to think independently and creatively to translate business requirements
and business challenges into analytic project design
- Understanding of online measurement and analytics, with the ability to provide meaningful
insights in ways that colleague can understand and act upon
- Able to develop and maintain effective working relationships across functions and
organizational levels
- Excellent organization skills and strong attention to detail
- Ability to multi-task and deliver objectives consistently
- Effective presentation and communication skills, verbally and in writing
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Search Marketing Manager
Search Marketing Manager will support Reply's Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and
Pay Per Click (PPC) efforts. Reporting directly to the Sr. Director of Marketing,
this person will be responsible for managing an advertising budget and allocating
resources to maximize delivery of EnhancedClicks™ and leads while increasing efficiency.
Candidates should demonstrate a proven track record for driving acquisition growth
and delivering against direct response metrics via the web. They should also have
a strong understanding of web analytics and a disciplined approach to conversion
optimization.
Responsibilities:
- Develop a successful search engine marketing strategy for acquiring traffic online.
- Build and optimize online marketing campaigns in Google, Bing and other online engines.
- Manage budget, channels and expenditures according to CPL objectives with a focus
on improving ROI.
- Cultivate and develop strong partner, engine and network relationships.
- Monitor, test and optimize copy across keywords for effectively increasing performance.
- Provide strict ROI analysis and risk vs. reward modeling on both engine and keyword
expansion.
- Work diligently to improve conversion optimization metrics across all channels through
A/B landing page tests.
- Manage outsourced responsibilities and agency relationships as it relates to generating
leads.
Qualifications:
- Advanced proficiency in Excel required.
- Bachelor's Degree required; MBA a strong plus. Business, Marketing, Finance, or
Economics preferred.
- 2+ years of SEM and/or performance-based online marketing experience(mandatory).
- Comprehensive knowledge of the primary search engines, search engine algorithms
and ranking strategies.
- Experience with large (100,000+ search terms) PPC campaigns and leveraging the 'long
tail.'
- Experience managing marketing and advertising budgets with a demonstrated history
of over achievement on goals and quarter-over-quarter contribution growth.
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Product Manager
Reply! Inc., the leading online marketplace for locally-targeted advertising, seeks to hire a Product Manager who is looking to work in a fast paced environment to help define and build the next-generation features that will support local small businesses nationwide.
The Product Manager is responsible for developing and communicating a vision for future product development while managing the lifecycle of our current product offerings. The Product Manager will report to the Director of Product Management and will work very closely with other teams within the company including engineering, marketing, business development and sales.
Responsibilities:
- Define business requirements: You will work directly with our merchant customers, and will analyze product positioning and usage patterns to develop an understanding of how best to focus and prioritize MerchantCircle's product plan.
- Participate in feature reviews and advises on whether features should be maintained, improved or removed from the site.
- Communicating ideas: You will create wireframes & specs to get feature ideas hammered out, agreed upon and built.
- Designing product areas: You will collaborate with designers to further refine and develop product ideas.
- Shipping each revision: You will partner with engineering to ensure MerchantCircle products are developed to spec, making trade-offs as needed for quality & the needs of our customer.
Qualifications:
- 3+ years experience in the consumer Internet space
- BS/BA degree in marketing, business or computer science. MBA a plus
- A track record of driving results
- Flexibility and willingness to work on a variety of projects and multi-task.
- Exceptional verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Experience working with small business merchants highly desirable
- Experience working in a dynamic Agile development environment
- Excellent judgment in making tradeoffs and finding simple solutions to complex problems
- A can-do, roll-up-the sleeves attitude
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Marketing Analyst
Reply! Inc., the leading online marketing firm is seeking a Marketing Analyst to
help manage our Publisher Channel at our Corporate Headquarters in San Ramon. This
person will use their exceptional skills in performance marketing, sales, relationship-building
and analytics to help manage, grow and monitor our publisher partners to increase
traffic, quality and revenue opportunities for our Advertising clients. This role
will be a key aspect for ensuring the quality of our Publishers and growing the
channel. At Reply! we value our employee’s contributions to our growth and profitability
and are committed to our team member’s professional development and personal success.
Overall Role Responsibilities:
- Report, track, and analyze results from Publisher partners
- Use Excel to analyze traffic quality, conversion rates and volume of Publishers
daily to quickly identify concerns
- Monitor Publisher activity and potential policy / program violations
- Traffic new display ad campaigns and email content for networks
- Research and work with Publisher team on efficient methods of optimizing revenue
and traffic quality
- Prepare reports to assist in developing best practices around CPA marketing programs
- Prospect and generate new relationships with direct publishers
- Aggressively recruit new, top-producing Publisher partners
- Maintain a competitive review document and recommend changes based on findings
Qualifications:
- Proficiency in Excel using advanced formulas, pivot tables & graphs
- 1 to 3 years experience in online marketing
- Bachelor’s degree in business or related field
- Specific experience focused on online publisher/affiliate marketing a major plus
- Strong relationship/partnering skills
- Affiliate Network experience a strong plus
- Proven track record and solid references
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Graphic Designer (Mountain View, CA)
Reply! Inc., the leading online marketplace for locally-targeted advertising, seeks
to hire a committed Graphic Designer. The Lead Designer will work closely with Product
Management and Marketing to translate rough design concepts into working solutions,
establish consistency, and to optimize user experience. We are looking for someone
who excels when working with a small startup team and likes to have a good time
at work.
Required Skills:
- Adobe Applications Suite
- Strong sense of visual and UI design
- 3+ years previous UI, Design experience
- Online portfolio
- HTML/CSS knowledge
Qualifications:
- Strong sense of web standards design
- JavaScript
- Python/Cheetah Templates
- Experience in developing HTML emails
- SEO optimized design
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Sr. Graphic Designer (Mountain View, CA)
Reply! Inc., the leading online marketplace for locally-targeted advertising, seeks
to hire a committed Graphic Designer. The Lead Designer will work closely with Product
Management and Marketing to translate rough design concepts into working solutions,
establish consistency, and to optimize user experience. We are looking for someone
who excels when working with a small startup team and likes to have a good time
at work.
Required Skills:
- Adobe Applications Suite
- Strong sense of visual and UI design
- 7+ years previous UI, Design experience
- Online portfolio
- HTML/CSS knowledge and skills a plus
Qualifications:
- Strong sense of web standards design
- JavaScript
- Python/Cheetah Templates
- Experience in developing HTML emails
- SEO optimized design
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Sr. Sales Executive
Reply! Inc., a rapidly growing company located in San Ramon, has an exciting opportunity
for a bright, savvy, Sr. Sales Executive to join our team. This person will play
a critical role in driving Reply!’s growth in a vertical category (home improvement
or insurance) and will interact with both advertisers and publishers. The ideal
candidate will have extensive experience in direct sales roles growing revenue and
profitability quickly through the sourcing, development, and proactive management
of business relationships with major online advertisers and marketers.
Required Skills:
- Originate, close, and manage key national and regional advertisers and publishers
in a manner that will maximize growth and profitability.
- Develop a deep understanding of Reply! services and technology.
- Establish and maintain a strong sales pipeline.
- Negotiate and review new contractual agreements.
- Ongoing development, growth, and management of strategic corporate relationships.
- This position will require a high volume of outbound cold calls.
Qualifications:
- Requires 3+ years in consultative sales/business development.
- BS/BA degree required, MBA preferred.
- Experience in the online marketing industry, preferably in a company that provides
traffic or leads to large enterprise customers.
- Ability to excel in a fast paced, dynamic, entrepreneurial environment.
- Resourceful with a “do what it takes” attitude.
- Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills.
- Detail-oriented with strong analytical skills.
- Strong time management and prioritization skills.
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Regional Sales Executive (Salida, CA)
We are currently seeking energetic, money-motivated, professionally aggressive,
driven individuals to fill our Regional Sales Executive positions in Real Estate,
Automotive & Home Improvement. While sales experience is preferred, we are more
than happy to train the right people.
Responsibilities & Requirements:
- Have an entrepreneurial spirit
- Spend 75% of your day cold calling
- Originate new business
- Close sales over the phone/via e-mail
- Be a fast learner, self-motivated & a self-starter
Qualifications:
- BA/BS degree preferred with 7 + years of web marketing and communications experience.
- Experience using social media (facebook, etc.) to drive exposure through new marketing
channels
- Analytically focused and metrics driven approach to building brand awareness
- Flexibility and willingness to work on a variety of projects and multi-task.
- Ability to work cross-functionally.
- Exceptional verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
- Experience working with small business merchants highly desirable
- We are a startup, so a willingness and excitement to work very hard is a must
What We Offer:
- Base + performance based comp plan (unlimited earning potential)
- Stock options based on performance and tenure
- Opportunity for advancement
- Rewarding & professional team environment
- Great benefits package
- Come join a fun and energetic team environment where your accomplishments are celebrated
and you have unlimited opportunities to grow and develop as a professional.
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Regional Sales Manager (Salida, CA)
Reply Inc. is a leading provider of online marketing solutions serving the automotive,
real estate, and home improvement industries. With nearly 10 years in business,
we have become an industry leader in locally-targeted online marketing and are aggressively
seeking motivated, business savvy, entrepreneurial individuals who can help us lead
our next phase of expansion.
We are looking for dynamic, polished, positive individuals who are ready to build
a winning sales team from the ground up. The ideal candidate will have an internal
passion for getting results, servicing our customers, and desire to stretch their
limits to achieve success.
Qualifications:
- Must be a person of high character, strong business ethics, and positively represent
Reply! in and out of the work place
- Bachelor's degree or relevant experience required.
- 2 - 4 years experience building a successful inside sales team, or satisfactory
education and/or background
- Results-driven and empirical evidence supporting previous results
- Must be smart, driven, and have strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to analyze, prepare, and present well in front of difficult audiences such
as the sales team and upper management
- Must have adequate knowledge of pipeline stages, sales forecasting, and experience
with Excel
- Ability to coach, mentor, and train your employees and customers to help them maximize
success with Reply!
- Ability to resolve customer complaints, and employee concerns, that leave everyone
feeling satisfied with the outcome
Responsibilities:
- Recruit a team of sales professionals, three of which must come from external sources.
IE., referrals, former employees, etc.
- Analyze daily performance metrics and other Key Performance indicators (KPI's) of
your sales staff
- Establish a 30, 60, and 90 day business plan for your staff that includes:
- Company standards
- Performance expectations
- Performance coaching
- Method for follow-up on agreed objectives
- Forecast sales results weekly with supporting KPI metrics
- Deliver results that are in line with company plan
- Write basic product specs for strategic initiatives, IT projects, etc.
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