The Product Manager will have responsibility for planning, positioning, defining, building, and launching new features while maintaining and enhancing existing services. Additionally, he/she will contribute to the creation of a product roadmap that will enable the company to be successful in reaching its vision and generating mass adoption of its products and services. The Product Manager should be a generalist who can work effectively cross-functionally with Design/Engineering/QA on the development of functional specifications, with Sales teams on various target client segments, and with Marketing on positioning of product features.

Position Responsbilities

• Product Definition: Determine appropriate feature set and prioritize development requests. Gather customer requirements. Lead consumer and partner concept and usability testing.  Structure new releases, including roll-out, pricing and profit strategies.
• Product Development: Lead and participate in feature teams. Work closely with development team on the product specification. Work with creative and development on product look and feel. Manage beta and coordinate with engineering and QA to ensure product quality.  
• Product Launch: Collaborate with development to manage release schedule. Track progress and make appropriate tradeoffs across feature sets, timing, and quality.  Work with marketing to define and implement positioning and messaging.  Ensure smooth launch across development, sales, marketing, customer service and operations. 
• Industry/Customer Insight: Research and participate in customer advisory groups and quantitative studies to understand customer needs and preferences. Use information to develop and prioritize product features and competitive positioning.  Track audience acquisition activities, determine impact measurement process, and recommend audience acquisition strategies.
• Product Strategy: Understand and contribute to product vision.   Create product roadmap for phased delivery of key product features. Identify new market opportunities. Recommend and develop new product ideas.  Work with sales and customer service to identify product and marketing needs, and establish efficient feedback process that produces meaningful results.

Candidate Qualifications

• 5+ years successful product management or relevant experience
• Experience with Internet photo and video search
• Proven ability to successfully lead the development and launch of an Internet product
• Highly motivated, action-oriented manager
• Ability to perform both on the tactical and strategic level
• Hands-on approach to managing multiple complex projects simultaneously
• Ability to work well with and earn the respect of development, sales, and marketing teams
• Strong presentation skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Must be able to develop and drive Product business case
• Proven ability to build and manage teams
• Energetic and fun to work with
• BA/BS degree required; MBA preferred

Send cover letter and resume to jobs@pixsy.com.

Candidate must have a broad set of knowledge gained through experience across all areas of .NET development for the database-driven web enterprise.

Candidate Qualifications

• Expertise in ASP.NET web development
• C# or Visual Basic.NET for console / automation applications
• Excellent working knowledge of XML/XSLT
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005
• Thorough understanding of JavaScript (Ajax, DHTML)
• CSS
• Good sense of web UI / design aesthetics
• Experience leading a development team in a RAD environment
• Strong analytical, decision-making and problem solving skills and abilities.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Internet savvy with good understanding of media search and online advertising sectors.
• Ability to organize, meet tasks on short deadline, multi-task and have effective work ethic.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Strong communication and customer service skills, and ability to exchange information with others clearly and concisely.
• 5+ years of relevant web + database development experience
• 4 year degree in IS or computer-related field is preferred, but a non-IS degree can be offset by significant industry work experience.

Please send cover letter, resume and salary requirements to: jobs@pixsy.com

Seeking motivated software test and test automation engineers to work in a fast-paced environment for a media search firm. Responsibilities will include all aspects of software testing including test automation, reporting, performance metrics, etc.

Position Responsbilities

• Minimum 3 years software testing experience including one or more of the following:

• Functional testing
• Regression testing
• Black-box testing
• White-box testing
• Unit testing

• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced technical environment
• Ability to perform technical testing tasks such as general IT troubleshooting, generating SQL queries to verify results, communicating with system developers, etc
• Good written and verbal communication skills

Candidate Qualifications

• Practical experience with test automation tools.
• Experience with performance testing
• Experience with build management
• Previous development experience in .Net (C#, VB.Net, etc.), C++, or Java technologies

Please send cover letter, resume and salary requirements to: jobs@pixsy.com

Candidate must have a good set of knowledge gained through experience with web development for a large, commercial audience. The candidate should have knowledge of many areas of web development, and the creativity and commitment to help bring ideas to life on the web.

Candidate Qualifications

• Expertise in ASP.NET web development
• Excellent working knowledge of XML/XSLT
• Thorough understanding of JavaScript (Ajax, DHTML)
• CSS
• Good sense of web UI / design aesthetics
• Some knowledge of T-SQL would be helpful
• Strong analytical, decision-making and problem solving skills and abilities.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Internet savvy with good understanding of media search and online advertising sectors.
• Ability to organize, meet task on short deadline, multi-task and have effective work ethics.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Strong communication and customer service skills, and ability to exchange information with others clearly and concisely.

Please send cover letter, resume and salary requirements to: jobs@pixsy.com

Pixsy is growing and we are looking for a seasoned pro to help us keep growing. Pixsy seeks an action oriented business developmement professional with experience developing partner, channel sales and syndication relationships with publishers, online media properties, social networks, and other key consumer sites/networks.

Position Responsbilities

The Director/VP, Business Development will be directly responsible for establishing partner/distribution relationships with publishers and complimentary online services. The Director/VP will be responsible for taking these relationships through contract, with minimal support; candidates should be comfortable developing relationships, developing business models and pro forma financials, contracts and implementation plans, negotiating deal terms, etc. This role will also be responsible for coordinating the launch of any such partnerships and ensuring they perform to the forecasted targets. Pixsy is looking for a deal-oriented candidate who "makes things happen".

The Director/VP, Business Development will be based out of our San Francisco, CA office and report directly to the CEO. Candidate will also be involved in a variety of strategic activities that grow the business.

Candidate Qualifications

Candidates will have a minimum of 5 years online business development experience.

Contact info: Send cover letter and resume to jobs@pixsy.com.