Who: Northwest Shipping Room Supply, Inc.

Position: Merchandising Assistant

Where: Seattle

What: Northwest Shipping Room Supply, Inc. is seeking an enthusiastic and self-motivated Merchandising Assistant who has working knowledge of the packaging/distribution industry. The Merchandising Assistant will support the department by assisting with the design and development of strategies for selection, pricing, and promotion of products in order to meet objectives and provide exceptional customer service.

Responsibilities:

• Assisting with quoting/costing of items to ensure best pricing, product availability, and vendor capabilities.
• Creating and maintaining accurate information for new and current vendors.
• Monitoring orders and resolving shipping/receiving discrepancies.
• Compiling inventory data for ordering materials, supplies and equipment.
• Establishing strong levels of communication and partnership with cross-functional teams.
• Assisting the Account Representatives to determine exact customer specifications and cost effective solutions.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• 1-3 years of merchandising experience in packaging/distribution industry.
• Ability to build key relationships and effectively communicate with all levels of the organization, internally and externally.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment and to work accurately with close attention to detail.
• Ability to pass a pre-employment background check.

Contact: Resumes are accepted using an online application process. Please click  HERE to start the application process for the Merchandising Assistant position.

Who: Rally Marketing

Position: Sr. Event Producer

Where: Seattle

What: You love the challenge of planning and producing top tier events for Fortune 500, household name brands. You “get” the big picture and see it clearly — but you realize that success lives, or dies, in the details. Your high energy, sense of responsibility, and pride in “owning it” make you the best at what you do. Prioritizing projects and tasks to pull off a flawless activation is part of your DNA.

Rally Marketing Group is seeking a highly experienced contract Sr. Event Producer to plan, manage and produce high impact events to help launch a new product for a major consumer brand.

Responsibilities: Producing the events from top to bottom, including selecting & managing vendors, securing assets, selecting (in partnership with the Creative Director), coordinating, and managing third party labor, managing expenses, logistics, and budgets to ensure the flawless flow and execution of high-visibility, multi-day events.

Ongoing communication with Rally’s Seattle-based creative team will be required to coordinate overall event look & feel. Project management support will be provided from Rally’s Seattle office and client account support will be based in Dallas. Participation in weekly status meetings is required (via phone or in person as availability allows). Also including:

• Sources & negotiates necessary elements for the event
• Manages third party labor and expenses
• Keeps appropriate departments and third-party vendors informed, on-task, and on-schedule for all event details
• Develops event run of show
• Develops and maintains workback schedule
• Delivers reconciliation of final program field labor and expenses

 Requirements:

• Minimum 5+ years Event Production/Execution experience
• Experience working in an agency environment strongly preferred
• Bachelors Degree preferred
• Demonstrated successful contract management of event execution deliverables within deadlines and budget
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work collaboratively

Who: Projectline

Position: Marketing Consultant

Where: Seattle

What: Are you passionate about high tech business-to-business marketing? Do you have a keen eye for messaging, positioning, and audience alignment? Do you get excited about telling compelling and influential stories as part of a modern approach to marketing? If so read on. Projectline is looking for a new Marketing Consultant to join their team of b2b experts managing customer-centric marketing programs for our high tech clients.

Position Overview: In this role you will develop an understanding of client’s business and how to help them reach their goals. You will focus on full time or multiple part-time client projects, work with enterprise sales teams, marketing teams, sales partners, and actual customers to gather software solution deployment information, qualify customers for a customer evidence or reference program, develop interesting written success stories (case studies), and more. You will write communications that are sent to customers and internal teams, and maintain sophisticated tracking and reporting tools.

You will hone and perfect your project and information management skills by developing innovative ways to provide on-demand status reports; develop and execute on processes to identify customers who are willing to be profiled in success stories. You will manage writers, editors, designers, and other vendors to exceed client expectations. You will also be helping deliver on client needs long-term and having an all around good time helping our clients succeed.

Responsibilities:

• Establish project goals and milestones
• Track and monitor client results and budgets to ensure that project is on schedule and fiscal target
• Keep management abreast of project allocations
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously and successfully
• Qualify customers for rapid deployment, customer evidence or reference programs
• Build high trust relationships with clients
• Work with top reference customers to ensure they are satisfied and their experiences run smoothly
• Partner with clients to increase rapid adoption, customer reference or evidence program usage and visibility
• Use your savvy communication skills to work with customers to gather software solution deployment information
• Manage vendors, case study writers and editors to produce a quality product for the client and their customers
• Provide program guidance to clients and customers
• Work with Product Marketing teams as they prepare for the launch of their new product(s
• Attend meetings, trainings, airlifts, summits, conference calls
• Manage on-going reporting and tracking towards monthly, quarterly, and annual reference goals

Requirements:
• 4 – 6 years of product management, marketing management, or communications management required
• 2+ years of experience in customer reference or customer testimonial marketing
• 2+ years field sales or marketing experience in a high tech company a plus.
• Natural intuition with written language, including messaging, tone, clarity, flow, etc.
• Willingness to ask questions and take initiative
• Comfortable talking to people in many different roles in client’s large organizations without trepidation
• Willingness to work around road blocks and lack of responsiveness with charm and persistence
• Exceptionally positive attitude, professionalism, pride in work product
• Advanced usage skills with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint products (or equivalent classes/course work before starting)
• Strong analytical skills
• Flexible and intuitive personality that can manage complex internal and client relationships
• BA Degree (Focus in marketing, business, communications, or related field strongly preferred)
• Demonstrable sense of humor and whimsy required

Contact: 

1. Apply online at: http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH12/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=PROJECTLINE&cws=1&rid=351
2. Include a cover letter that shares:
a. description on how specifically how your experience and interests fit with the position requirements above
b. your salary requirements
c. your available start date

Nine By Blue

The acquisition – a 100 percent cash and stock deal –includes Blueprint, Nine By Blue’s search analytics and diagnostics proprietary software, which will become part of the RKG technology suite.

A search industry visionary, Fox is widely known as the creator of Google’s Webmaster Central and helped launch sitemaps.org. The author of Marketing in the Age of Google, Fox also serves as a contributing editor for Search Engine Land and writes for a variety of publications on search engine optimization and searcher behavior. She’s advised companies of all sizes globally, has offered advice on better citizen access to online US government information for White House online initiatives, the NIH, and other government agencies, and speaks to audiences worldwide. She is the Founder and CEO of Nine By Blue, and in joining RKG takes on the new role of Chief Product Officer.

“We are thrilled to have Vanessa, Blueprint and the Nine By Blue team join RKG,” said George Gallate, CEO, RKG. “At RKG, we unashamedly see digital through the lens of search. By using data to understand customer intent, we make marketing smarter, particularly search and social, both to build brands and create customer fulfillment. Nine By Blue is a like-minded company that shares our values of smart people using smart technology, and we’re excited about what we can achieve together.” 

RKG is one of Google’s largest independent paid search agencies in terms of billings under management and was named by Advertising Age as the fastest growing search agency in their 2013 Agency Report. A recent Forrester study cited RKG as a leading Demand Generation agency, and in the Internet Retailer Top 500, RKG had the most retail clients compared to any other search agency. RKG offers a wide range of digital and search services, including pay-per-click, SEO, social media marketing, comparison shopping management, display advertising and multi-channel attribution management services.

The combined technology and robust consulting services provided by RKG analysts offers online businesses a complete solution for mining data, developing strategy and executing tactics efficiently.

“There are many synergies between the technical and consulting services of Nine By Blue and RKG,” said Fox.  “We are looking forward to leveraging RKG’s established infrastructure to bring Blueprint to a broader audience, and to bring new products to market at a faster rate. We’re already collaborating on areas like social and mobile, where there is a major shift in consumer behavior and are preparing for some exciting updates to the Blueprint offering and the broader technology portfolio. Marketers need real, actionable metrics, not just more data, and need insights to better connect with audiences as online behavior shifts.”  

Both Nine By Blue and RKG were founded by marketing executives who saw a need for solutions that simplified the process of acquiring, analyzing and acting on data related to customers’ online behavior. As creator of Google Webmaster Central, Fox created the tools and diagnostics to enable organizations to open up the black box of search to make their web sites found by more searchers in Google. She left Google in 2007 to start Nine By Blue, helping companies develop smart strategies around organic search data and its influence on every business function. RKG was formed by Alan Rimm-Kaufman and George Michie in 2003 after careers in online merchandising exposed them to the challenges of trying to manage paid search, statistical data capture and analysis, and IT constraints within an organization. In 2011, RKG acquired Audette Media, beefing up the agency’s SEO offering and bringing that company’s founder, Adam Audette, into the newly created position of Chief Knowledge Officer at RKG.

Commenting on the deal, Audette added, “There’s a deep need in the SEO industry for people and practices that focus on users rather than algorithms. Vanessa understands this and is a clear leader in the space. Together we will be well positioned to help our clients solve the multi-million dollar questions: ‘What are customers searching for, and why?’; ‘How can we better target these customers?’; ‘Where and how should we invest our money?’ Through data we’ll gather the information needed to answer these questions, and integrate it with our shared knowledge to create informed, ROI-focused strategies for our clients.”

In her new role, Fox will work closely with Gallate, Audette and RKG founder and Chief Marketing Scientist, George Michie, on groundbreaking product development and client strategy.  Integration of Blueprint into the RKG platform has begun, with completion expected early this summer.

Fox and the Nine By Blue team will continue to be based in Seattle, operating as RKG Seattle. Additionally, RKG has offices in Boston, MA, San Francisco, CA and Bend, OR with headquarters in Charlottesville, VA.

Who: Avalara Inc.

Position:  Marketing Manager

Where: Seattle

What: Join the revolution! Avalara Inc., one of the fastest growing technology companies in the United States, is seeking a Marketing Manager.

Responsibilities: The Marketing Manager is expected to be proactive in creating and implementing outside-the-box business development and marketing strategies to assist in generating new client relationships, expanding current client relationships, and enhancing Avalara recognition as the leading provider of Sales and Use Tax Exemption Certificates Software as a Service and other Vendor/Seller documents needed to conduct business. The Marketing Manager will work closely with General Manager and Program Manager to establish priorities and programs that will increase visibility and lead generation for all Avalara products.

• Develop and implement high-level partnering relationships with industry associations and consultants. Work in conjunction with practice members, marketing communications and public relations professionals to generate content, create and implement practice/industry-specific marketing materials, and identify and leverage public and media relations opportunities.
• Advancing innovative, digital campaign and brand principles that drive sales growth and identify, qualify and develop new business leads and prospects.
• Develop a system for tracking and maintaining action on leads across various business development activities, oversee and monitor follow-up efforts.
• Deliver timely marketing and event plans that include success metrics and reports for defined marketing initiatives.
• Ensure a close loop lead management process with all marketing initiatives, working closely with sales on lead conversion through nurture strategies and ROI reporting.
• Attend and/or participate in relevant seminars and events to develop relationships in order to meet with clients and future prospects.
• Effectively use marketing technology tools to increase prospect identification and internal information sharing.
• Understand and demonstrate experience using social media platforms and developing tactics and content that support a defined marketing program and/or campaign.

Requirements:

1. Ecommerce / web presence experience is a must.
2. 4 year college degree required
3. 7+ years of marketing and business development experience in a professional service industry, with preference given to sales and use tax experience
4. Marketing communication experience and a knowledge of interactive technologies
5. Ability to collaborate with internal teams and external partners
6. Highly motivated self-starter who is able to handle a variety of projects that require tight deadlines.
7. Proficient at issue-spotting, and possess a strong intellectual curiosity about Sales and Use Tax and business transactions in general.
8. Highly organized and possess strong creative abilities and excellent writing skills, as well as the ability to think strategically and analytically.

Contact: Apply online at www.avalar.com/jobs.

Who: WatchGuard

Position: Business Development Representative

Where: Seattle

What: The Business Development Representative (Sales) reports to the Manager, Business Development (Sales). This role is focused on working within a team of colleagues to create a significant quantity of new sales opportunities that others in the Sales organization can regularly convert into sales, resulting in a significant impact on new sales volume. This will be done by creating and qualifying opportunities, spending significant phone time translating potential opportunities into concrete leads, developing company and contact data and profiles, by developing one’s skills and knowledge base, and ultimately by managing one’s own time effectively.

Responsibilities/Objectives:

Develop Sales Opportunities

• Identify new business opportunities; meet or exceed targets
• Fully qualify potential leads
• Follow-up on WatchGuard events to turn participants into qualified leads
• Make cold calls, typically as a way to turn event participants into qualified leads
• Build higher value leads where possible, for example:
  • Short-term leads (within 0-3 month time frame) are higher value leads
  • Longer-term leads (within 3-6month time frame) are lower value leads
• Generate appointments for TSM’s — for example, may take the form of a private webinar

Make Calls

• Spend significant time on the phone, creating new leads
• Meet or exceed targets; typically may average 70-80 calls per day
• Over a week, average approximately 75 minutes per day in active live conversation with potential leads

Develop Data and Customer Profiles

• Add new contacts and their data to Sales Force, including:

• Emails
• Mobile numbers
• Ensuring correct addresses
• Create company/lead profiles, including:
• VPN and firewall renewal date(s)
• Technologies currently in use, including IT infrastructure
• Meet or exceed targets, such as “number of new direct phone lines (or direct email addresses) identified”
• Create good online notes describing key elements of customer phone conversations

Self Management

• Manage your time to successfully address the many activities required for success in this role
• There will be specific duties to be done every week; manage your time to successfully complete those duties
• Meet or exceed targets

Self- and Team-Development

• Build your skills and technical knowledge
• Learn company products
• Pass sales professional certification test(s) on our website
• Collaborate constructively with colleagues, so that as you grow in skills and results, they are supported in also growing their skills and results

 Requirements:

• A personality that can handle the volume of work, and of people in organizations often saying “no”
• Able to “push” for what you want without being pushy
• Skilled contributor to team growth and success
• Skilled contributor when working on one’s own
• Fluent in Spanish speaking and writing
• Demonstrates initiative
• Stable work history
• Working Conditions-Position primarily works in an office environment. User of computer display terminal required. Some bending and lifting may be required.
• Travel-Some travel possible

Contact: Apply online.

Voice commands immediately recognizes the user and will instantly turn the console on by saying “Xbox on.” With “instant switching,” users can switch from gaming, TV and Web browsing seamlessly. Instead of “One,” the new name could have been called Multi  called ”Snap mode” lets users run multiple programs at the same time, including making group Skype calls in high-definition.

A feature called Xbox One Guide lets users scroll through a show guide, call for specific TV shows or change channels with voice command. 

“No more memorizing channels or hunting for the remote control,” said senior vice president Yusuf Mehdisaid.

The Xbox One comes with an upgraded controller. Microsoft says the new device has 40 new design innovations, including impulse triggers, Wi-Fi direct radio stack, integrated battery compartment and a precision directional pad.

The console will come with 8 gigabyes of RAM, a Blu-ray drive, USB 3.0 connector and HDMI in and out. The system runs on three systems in one: Xbox operating system, Windows Kernel and a combination of the two that enables multitasking.

Xbox Live is getting an upgrade, as well. To support the new cloud-based features, Xbox Live will run on 300,000 servers for the Xbox One — up from 3,000 servers for Xbox 360.  

Always Online?

Another new feature of Xbox One lets users install any game from the disc to the console’s hard drive, and then play that game whenever they like without having to put the disc in. “On the new Xbox, all game discs are installed to the HDD to play,” said Microsoft in a report by Wired.

What follows is that each disc would have to be tied to a unique Xbox Live account, else you could take a single disc and pass it between everyone you know and copy the game over and over. Each disc must then only install for a single owner.

Microsoft said that if a disc was used with a second account, that owner would be given the option to pay a fee and install the game from the disc, which would then mean that the new account would also own the game and could play it without the disc.

But what if a second person simply wanted to put the disc in and play the game without installing, asked Wired, and without paying extra? In other words, what happens to our traditional concept of a “used game”? Microsoft did not yet have an answer to this question, and it  is surely something that game buyers (as well as renters and lenders) will want to know.

The other questions pertain to the “always online” premise– that is, that single-player games would require a constant online connection to function. Here’s the difference.  Xbox One will give game developers the ability to create games that use Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service, which means that they might be able to offload certain computing tasks to the cloud rather than process them on the Xbox One hardware itself. This would necessitate the game requiring a connection.

Are developers forced to create games that have these online features, and are thus not playable offline? They are not,  accordiing to an Xbox exec. So the always-online future may come in incremental steps. 

Microsoft also announced a partnership with film director Steven Spielberg and 343 industries to create an exclusive TV show of the blockbuster title “Halo.” 

The NFL is also partnering with Xbox to create a fully immersive experience that lets fans switch between watching a game to checking fantasy football statistic in the Xbox ecosystem, using SmartGlass and Kinect.

Xbox One will be available worldwide “later this year.” Microsoft will reveal more details and games at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). There are no current details on pricing. It’s also unknown if the Xbox One is backwards compatible with the Xbox 360.

Microsoft’s competitor Sony is also launching its next-generation game console, the PlayStation 4, later this year. Nintendo released the Wii U in 2012.

The original Xbox 360 debuted in 2001 and its successor the Xbox 360 was unveiled in 2005.  [24x7]

“The Lively concept came about in response to the overwhelming number of fans we observed at concerts who were attempting to use their phones to capture the experience and memory of a live show and share it with their friends,” said Dean Graziano, founder and CEO of Lively. ”Each live show is such a unique performance and an individual experience for each fan; we just saw the need for a better way to capture the experience. We take care of everything for the concert-goer, so they can just relax and enjoy the show. The feedback from the fans, artist, and music community has been amazing! Lively has introduced a new way to deliver a high quality experience for the fans and help drive new incremental revenue and exposure for the bands.”

Here’s how it works: Concert-goers simply download the free Lively app which allows them to purchase the performance they just attended, immediately after the concert for $4.99 for audio or $9.99 for both audio and video. To Lively enable the bands, they simply leverage Lively’s Audio Manager where Lively provides the software applications and technology required for any artist to capture and sell quality audio and video of their shows.

Click the following link to see a demo of the Lively experience: https://vimeo.com/65528593.

“Fans and those of us in the live music industry have been waiting for a solution like Lively for quite some time,” said Alex Kochan, vice president, AEG Live Pacific NW. ”Live shows are a unique and special experience, Lively captures the essence of that experience and gives the fans a way to take that specific show home with them. How cool is that? Show up, enjoy the show, no need to try and record it on your iPhone, Lively does it better. There are hundreds of live shows I now wish I had a recording of. Lively is a win-win for everyone – both bands and their fans.”

The Lonely Forest show held May 4^th at The Crocodile Café in Seattle represented the first time Lively had officially promoted and sold audio and video content packages. The sold out show of 500 concert-goers, included an addressable smartphone audience of 350. Of those with an Android or iOS device, 228 downloaded the free Lively App resulting in 33 in-app content packages purchased or a nearly 15 percent conversion rate. [24x7]

Who: 

Position: Senior Digital Product Manager

Where: Seattle

What: The Seattle Times is seeking a Senior Digital Product Manager to manage the planning, creation, development, and overall lifecycle of advertising products and initiatives to build revenue, audience, and market share for The Seattle Times Company. 

Responsibilities:

• Leads cross functional project teams including direct reports and peers, in the refinement of current products and/or programs as well as business development and implementation of new products and supporting rate programs.
• Leads the full product development lifecycle: conception, requirements (specifications), planning, design, implementation, and performance reporting.
• Strategic requirements include growing revenue and market share through new online and print advertising products, or improvements to those that already exist, while ensuring optimal profitability.
• Manages overall advertising product roadmap and establishes quarterly priorities for product lines and business development initiatives with input and oversight from the Director of Product Management, the Director of New Product Strategy, and the Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

Requirements: At least 7 years experience creating, developing, and overseeing product development and performance analysis, including bringing new product from concept to market launch, preferably with a focus on online advertising. Supervisory experience. Experience in working in cross-functional product development team.

• BA or BS Degree (Finance, Accounting, or Economics) or Advertising. Experience with traditional print advertising
• Business Analysis: Understands business drivers and can translate them into viable product solutions. Able to interpret market measurements such as site traffic, revenue, marketshare and translate these into tangible product goals. Must be able to see connections that create revenue additions or exposure. Will be making and/or recommending strategies, based on knowledge and experience. Must be able to follow existing guidelines for product analysis when available, and be able to develop new guidelines for product review as necessary. Projects require keeping the big picture in mind while ensuring that numerous details are taken care of. Will participate in long term strategic planning when it involves product line development. Must understand business and marketing in addition to understanding multiple systems of which products are scheduled and reported.
• Needs Analysis.
• Technical Skills: Must be highly skilled in Word, Excel, Visio, and Project. Must be able to partner with developers and designers to translate product needs into feasible technical solutions for mid-to-large-scale, complex Web applications. Must possess a working knowledge of Web technologies and applications (PDF, CSS, Flash, video/audio formats, e-commerce processes, content management concepts). Must have a working knowledge of online advertising and performance technologies, including ad serving technology, traffic-monitoring, and related systems.
• Communication: Must have the ability to build consensus across a diverse organization. Exceptional leadership skills required–ability to influence when necessary and direct when necessary.

Contact: Apply online.

Who: Smartsheet

Position: Senior Software Engineer

Where: Bellevue

What: Are you the go-to person on your team? Do the hard problems always seem to land on your desk because you’re the only one who can solve them? Do you spend more of your time convincing people to let you build what needs to be built than actually building it? Have you spent more than 10 hours in meetings this week? Come work for Smartsheet and unleash your true potential.

Smartsheet is looking for their next software engineer to join the development team. Their business is built on finding top grade talent and getting out of their way while they build and improve award winning Software as a Service (SaaS) offering for collaborative work and project management. Their software team is small, highly efficient, and results oriented. They work in an agile apolitical environment that stays focused on building great software. Here you can use the latest web technologies to their fullest potential. We are looking for the most highly motivated and intelligent individuals.
This position is based at Smartsheet headquarters in Bellevue, WA.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the entire development life cycle, from concept to release
•  Implement new features and improve the ones we have already built
• Develop and maintain server-side Java code
• Build JavaScript client code, utilizing both proven and bleeding-edge web technologies
• Build and maintain integrations with the big boys: Amazon Web Services, Google, Salesforce.com, Box, Zimbra, PayPal, and others
• Participate in all phases of quality assurance and defect resolution

Requirements:

• 5+ years software development experience
• 2+ years JavaScript/Ajax/CSS
• 2+ years Java web application development
• Experience building highly scalable, high availability applications
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment with frequent production releases
• Legally eligible to work in the U.S. on an ongoing basis

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with SaaS apps (Google Docs, Salesforce, etc.)
• MySQL database experience (performance, scalability, availability)
• Experience with Apache Lucene
• iPhone or Android native mobile application development experience
• Experience developing, documenting, and supporting REST APIs

Contact: Apply online.