Project Manager for Digital Media (NY Office)

Are you an over-achiever with a passion for digital media? Do you thrive in the informal and thrilling dynamics of a start-up environment? Then come join the best and brightest in online video discovery and recommendation!

Taboola is widely recognized as the world’s leading content discovery and distribution platform with over 180M uniques a month seeing Taboola recommendations, and nearly a billion recommendations served every day.

Taboola’s service is used by publishers to recirculate their own traffic by generating personalized on-site content recommendations. Taboola also enables publishers, brands and agencies to acquire high quality traffic and unique-users by recommending their content as third party content, which populates Taboola’s widgets throughout our network of Tier 1 publishers. Those publishers include NYTimes, BBC, TMZ., Bloomberg, BusinessWeek, Time.com, USAToday, The-Hollywood-Reporter, CafeMom, Politico.com, Billboard.com, Fox Television and many more.

We are looking for a Sales Engineer/ Project Manager to work with exciting, top-of-the-line clients in the online media world and create real impact in the way the discovery experience is perceived and implemented. The Sales Engineer/PM will be expected to support and assist the sales process by developing a deep understanding of our products’ capabilities and providing a critical technical information. S/he will also lead complex but short-term implementation projects by effectively being the go-to person for all matters pertaining to the project – both externally and internally.

We are looking for a smart, capable person with a can-do attitude, a love for challenges and a keen, technological mind. The candidate should have experience managing customer-facing projects in the online media space and a strong technical background.

Responsibilities and skills:

• Support the sales process by understanding clients’ needs, Taboola’s technological platform, and how to bridge between them
• Become the focal point for the clients in all matters relating to requirement definition, implementation and deployment of Taboola’s platform
• Simultaneously manage a number of projects under little supervision
• Develop a strong working relationship with clients and become their trusted resource
• Work closely with the remote R&D team to ensure seamless project delivery, including prioritization of R&D tasks according to projects requirements and timeline
• Occasional travel to Israel for training and/or specific projects

Requirements:

• A minimum of 2 years of experience in field engineering, sales support or technical project management, preferably in the online media space
• BA or B.Sc. in a relevant field
• Basic knowldge of HTML/CSS, other web technologies a plus
• Deep understanding of user experience, GUI and web interface
• Strong analytical skills to monitor stats, converse with clients and identify trends in data and in generated reports
• Proven multitasking and prioritization skills
• Truly service-oriented with the willingness to go the extra mile to support clients
• Experience working with remote teams – a great advantage
• Excellent technological skills and ability to quickly learn what is needed to support the campaigns successful implementation and optimization
• Will and ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment and learn, learn, learn!

Send your resume and cover letter detailing how your qualifications match our requirements to Jobs-US@taboola.com.