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Account Executive

 

SmartBrief, Inc is looking for account executives to generate advertising/sponsorship
revenue in e-mail news service publications.

 

Responsibilities:

  • Meet target revenue goals and develop new business through a consultative sales approach.
  • Meet with corporate marketing directors and their advertising agencies to develop strategic, online marketing programs for their companies.
  • Drive the marketing and revenue strategies for a set of SmartBrief's targeted publications.
  • Develop new revenue-generating products/services through substance-driven conversations with prospects and clients.

 

Required Skills/Experience:

  • 2+ years experience in sales of advertising, media, consulting services or knowledge management products.
  • Comfortable and confident in selling to senior-level marketing executives and their ad agencies.
  • Exceptionally strong writing ability and stellar academic achievement.
  • Thrive in a team-oriented corporate environment.
  • Legal right to work in the United States.

 

Although SmartBrief is located in the heart of Washington, DC, candidates nationwide will be considered for the position.

 

Please e-mail resumes to jobs@smartbrief.com. Place the following in the subject line: Account Executive-SB

 

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Client Services Manager

 

As part of SmartBrief's Advertising Operations team, the Client Services Manager works to ensure the success of each client advertising campaign in SmartBrief and has the lead responsibility for managing the post-sale relationship with the advertising client. S/he provides day-to-day, front line contact with clients to ensure superior service and campaign satisfaction. The Client Services Manager collaborates with the sales department to anticipate client needs, innovate, and problem solve. This position allows for flex-time and telecommuting arrangements.

 

Skills and Requirements:

  • 5+ years of related work experience. Online advertising/ media company or creative agency/publicity firm background strongly preferred.
  • 2+ years of writing/copyedit experience preferred.
  • Strong academic achievement including bachelor's degree in related discipline.
  • A strong sense of organization with strict attention to detail.
  • An extraordinary customer service ethic with a strong business acumen.
  • Technical savvy.
  • Demonstrated flexibility to manage multiple tasks, solve problems and schedule work effectively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
  • Proven ability to develop relationships with professionals in a variety of industries.
  • Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
  • Thrives in a team-oriented, entrepreneurial corporate environment.
  • Proficiency with a variety of software packages, including Excel and Word.
  • Legal right to work in the United States.

 

Please e-mail resumes to jobs@smartbrief.com. Place the following in the subject line: Client Services Manager-SB

 

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Editorial Assistant

 

SmartBrief’s editorial assistant will offer administrative support to the employees of the editorial department to help create daily online business and consumer news e-mail publications in specific industries. This is a learning position, with the expectation that an editorial assistant will gain knowledge about SmartBrief as well as the industry expertise and writing style to become an associate editor.

The position of editorial assistant involves clerical functions incidental to editorial activities (time sheets, expense reports, etc.) and involvement with launches, with a heavy focus on research and preparation for editors. The editorial assistant will be responsible for data collection and interpretation, and will provide reports to editors about brief health.

SmartBrief editorial assistants will learn to write in SmartBrief's style and tone. The editorial assistant will work with all editors to improve efficiencies in brief launches and to provide support when staff members are out. The editorial assistant will assist editors in their daily duties, and must respond to editors' requests quickly and professionally. The editorial assistant also must assist in preparations for new-brief launches within the industry group by doing research, planning coverage and attending meetings with new partners.

 

Job Duties:

  • Assist editors.
  • Preparation for new-brief launches.
  • Utilization of social media (tweeting for editors, etc.).
  • Fill in when freelancers or editors are out.
  • Maintenance of and contribution to existing and future blogs.
  • Collaborate on and contribute to Special Reports and Year-End Reports.
  • Respond to reader comments and suggestions.
  • Collect, organize and take responsibility for department time sheets and work with HR to improve time sheet process and make sure freelancers are paid.
  • Assist director of editorial operations and senior editors as needed for projects, including but not limited to meeting preparation, expense-report collection and categorization of resumes for department.
  • Participate in cross-departmental projects as needed.
  • Arrange for and coordinate schedules, appointments, projects, conferences and major events.
  • Meet deadlines as given and manage multiple deadlines or projects as needed.

 

Required Skills & Experience:

  • Proven writing and editing skills.
  • Ability to extract and compile a range of data from written sources, from individuals by asking questions or from one or several given databases.
  • Limited interpretation of data.
  • Ability to merge, edit and manipulate data to generate reports.
  • Facility for using online publishing tools.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Proven record of taking initiative, sharing responsibilities and managing multiple projects simultaneously.

 

Please e-mail resumes to jobs@smartbrief.com. Place the following in the subject line: Editorial Assistant-SB

 

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Health Care Editor

 

SmartBrief is seeking a full-time editor to help create daily online business and consumer news e-mail publications in the health industry. Applicant must have two to five years of experience writing or editing health news. If you love to edit material and shape content, and thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-intensive work environment, you'll fit right in. This position includes writing as well as editing duties, with a heavy focus on editing. Other job duties include cultivating industry expertise and client relationship management. This position is located in SmartBrief's Washington, D.C., office.


Selected applicants will be asked to complete a timed writing and editing test.


Job Duties:

  • Edit summaries for inclusion in SmartBrief's health newsletters for grammar, style and tone for a particular audience.
  • Manage off-site freelancers.
  • Use online publishing tools to create e-mail newsletters and other content.
  • Manage relationships with associations, corporations and other business clients as well as content providers.
  • Respond to reader comments and suggestions.
  • Participate in cross-departmental projects as needed.


Required Skills and Experience:

  • Proven writing and editing skills. Alternative: Three to five years of experience in a communications or research role with a news organization, consulting firm, trade association or other relevant group.
  • Ability to write and edit quickly and accurately on deadline.
  • Sophisticated understanding of how to find news and information for a particular audience.
  • Facility for using online publishing tools.
  • Strong interpersonal and communications skills.
  • Proven record of taking initiative, sharing responsibilities and managing multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Ability to analyze reader trends and statistics.

 

 

Please e-mail resumes to jobs@smartbrief.com.  Place the following in the subject line: Health Care Editor-SB

 

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QA-Daily Operations Manager

 

Job Summary:


The QA-Daily Operations Manager will be involved in all aspects of the technology department's daily operations, including managing and triaging our bug queues, working with the development staff to deploy and improve testing methodologies, and performing educational outreach to the rest of the company. The primary goals will be to increase accountability and visibility into our daily operations, and to perform all intake processing of new issues and QA of all code. Hand-testing code will be required, along with maintenance of the build, Jira and documentation of code releases.


Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

  • QA all code (currently all hand-tested)
  • Manage weekly build
  • Oversee intake and triage of all new issues
  • Manage and maintain critical infrastructure components: Jira, CVS, build scripts, documentation, QA cluster, test data sources, etc.
  • Deploy automated testing, and be an evangelist and educator among your colleagues for such methodologies

 Requirements/Experience:

  •  3+ years experience with QA in the software-development field
  •  Excellent knowledge of and experience with automated testing and deploying it within the enterprise
  •  End-to-end experience with QA process and procedures
  •  Experience with Jira or similar workflow-based issue-tracking system
  •  Working knowledge of version control systems (CVS, SVN, etc.)
  •  Web application testing
  •  Hand-testing code
  •  Familiarity with Linux systems
  •  Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript familiarity a plus
  •  Extensive experience working directly with development staff

Skills/Abilities:

  • Strong communication (verbal and written), analytical and consulting skills
  • Ability to manage time and set priorities
  • Desire to educate others and the ability to lead
  • Exceptional attention to detail
  • Excellent work ethic and drive
  • Great interpersonal skills
  • Team oriented
  • Management experience a plus
     

Please e-mail resumes to jobs@smartbrief.com.  Place the following in the subject line: QA-SB

 

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Sales Associate

 

SmartBrief is seeking Sales Associates in Washington, DC to support senior sales professionals with multiple aspects of the advertising sales process. The Sales Associate will assist the sales team in managing client relationships, performing outbound calling and prospecting work, scheduling meetings, maintaining the customer database, and preparing competitive analyses, media kits and collateral. The Sales Associate will work collaboratively and strategically with senior sales staff to define and identify target markets and build the prospect universe. This entry-level position provides an exceptional learning, growing, and career-advancing opportunity in the exciting field of electronic media.

 

Required Skills/Experience:

  • 0-2 years of related work experience.
  • A strong sense of organization, with strict attention to detail.
  • Demonstrated flexibility to manage multiple tasks, solve problems and work effectively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
  • Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
  • Computer savvy and proficiency with a variety of software packages, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.
  • Thrives in a team-oriented, entrepreneurial corporate environment.
  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing or related discipline, with stellar academic record.
  • Legal right to work in the United States.

 

Please e-mail resumes to jobs@smartbrief.com.  Place the following in the subject line: Sales Associate-SB

 

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Senior Java Developer

 

Job Summary:


The Senior Java Developer will be involved in all aspects of the technology department's daily operations and lead project-based efforts for the entire company. The primary goals will be to proactively improve our current framework by finding problems and coming up with effective and innovative solutions. You must have a strong passion for code and a love of educating others and sharing knowledge. 

 

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

  • Create and maintain enterprise applications
  •  Develop new technologies for our partners and subscribers
  •  Analyze, design and build component-based applications
  •  Streamline and improve process by debugging and becoming a subject-matter expert of complex systems
  •  Perform hands-on coding and assist in designing architecture of Web-content solutions
  •  Manage multiple projects and set and manage expectations
  •  Requirements analysis, implementation and coordination of different people and resources
  •  Responsible for gathering project requirements from nontechnical people

 

Requirements/Experience:

  •  6+ years experience with Java development
  •  Bachelor's degree in relevant field
  •  Subject-matter expert in Java
  •  Expert in Struts2, Spring and iBatis
  •  Expert in SQL, JSP, XML and XSLT
  •  Working knowledge of version-control systems (CVS, SVN, etc.)
  •  Experience with Linux systems
  •  Experience with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
  •  Extensive experience working directly with development staff

 

Skills/Abilities:

  •   Superb communication (verbal and written), analytical and consulting skills
  •   Ability to manage time set priorities
  •   Desire to educate others and the ability to lead
  •   Exceptional attention to detail
  •   Excellent work ethic and drive
  •   Great interpersonal skills
  •   Team oriented
  •   Management experience a plus

 

Please e-mail resumes to jobs@smartbrief.com.  Place the following in the subject line: Senior Java Developer- SB

 

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SmartBrief Benefits

  • 100% company-paid health, dental and life plans from day 1 of employment
  • Stock options
  • 401(k) savings plan
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Paid Metro benefits
  • Paid vacation and sick leave
  • Competitive salaries
  • Employee recognition awards
  • Employee referral program
  • Encouraged career growth
  • Business fun environment
  • New office space one block from Metro Center