Pandora is Hiring
Pandora (www.pandora.com) is revolutionizing the way music lovers discover new music while listening to their favorite artists and tunes. Pandora's personalized radio service is powered by the Music Genome Project, the most comprehensive analysis of music ever undertaken. Pandora taps into a massive musical collection to deliver a service available anytime and anywhere - on the computer, in the home, and on mobile devices. Members of the Pandora community build their own profiles, and connect to others to share in their musical experience.
Pandora has quickly become one of the largest online radio services,
well-funded and with over 10 million registered users and growing fast. We
have partnerships with industry leaders such as Microsoft, HP, Sprint, AT&T,
Sonos and Logitech. As we build on our dramatic success, we are looking for
talented, enthusiastic people to join our dynamic team. We offer
competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, a downtown Oakland
location walking distance from BART and with easy freeway access, and, above
all, a terrific team and great work environment.
Advertising Operations Analyst - Oakland, CA
Pandora Media is looking for an Advertising Operations Analyst. The right individual will be a key contributor in the Advertising and Sales Operations team responsible for implementing, maintaining and enhancing online advertising campaigns. This position involves sales and client support, campaign project management, execution and reporting.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure that online advertising campaigns are implemented in an accurate and timely manner to ensure complete and accurate revenue recognition.
- Maintain exceptional standards of quality through accurate and timely fulfillment of all IOs.
- Monitor / reconcile campaigns across delivery, financial and third party ad serving systems.
- Perform regular quality assurance/quality control checks on client campaigns to ensure they are running as contracted.
- Provision, track, measure, and analyze the performance of multiple campaigns.
- Update / maintain detailed client campaign reports on a weekly, bi-weekly and/or monthly basis.
- Work collaboratively with sales to recommend campaign pacing and optimization modifications, leveraging understanding of advertiser and product performance.
- Cultivate positive business relationships with clients and advertising, graphic design and technical teams.
- Act as client / sales contact for any campaign performance questions and other issues.
- Troubleshoot any ad creative issues that impact tracking, implementation, or reporting.
- Work with graphical advertising, 3rd party advertising tags, and Rich Media creative.
- Work directly with client on any and all elements related to creative specifications and submission.
- Review Campaign Status Report (CSR) with Manager weekly for latest update on campaigns.
- Support on-call program (as needed) to enhance campaign and quality support during non-business hours.
Requirements:
- 1-2 years experience in online advertising, project management, client services or marketing preferred.
- Experience with one or more Internet ad management preferred. (Particularly DoubleClickâs DFP or DSM product a plus.)
- Extremely proactive and highly organized, with the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and in a timely manner.
- Excellent client service, organizational abilities, and verbal and written communication skills with both internal colleagues and external clients.
- Enjoy working independently and in a collaborative team environment, sharing knowledge across the department.
- Results-driven with strong analytical skills
- Strong experience with Microsoft Office Suite, particularly in Excel.
- Experience with HTML, Macromedia Flash, Javascript a plus.
- Must love music!
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To Apply:
Send cover letter and resume to pandora-jobs@pandora.com. Please reference the job title for which you are applying.
Principals Only. Pandora does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies, and is not responsible for fees associated with such submissions.
Pandora is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Director Marketing, Advertising Sales
This position will play an integral role in all sales/marketing efforts for Pandora advertising programs
Responsibilities:
- Work with VP of Advertising Sales to develop and execute Pandora's advertising sales marketing strategy including product planning, positioning and communication strategy
- Manage marketing activities for ad product launches, presentations, sales tools, competitive analysis and general sales support
- Drive development of creative marketing and PR collateral
- Develop and execute partner promotions, working closely with sales development teams
- Manage, execute and package existing and newly developed research information
- Manage in-house and third-party design and creative services to produce custom media and custom-built sponsorship program elements
- Track performance of marketing programs
We're looking for someone who has:
- 5+ years of relevant marketing experience for consumer and digital media companies with a proven track record
- Desirable experience includes marketing emerging technologies, mobile advertising products
- Desirable experience in consumer
- An undergraduate and/or graduate degree in marketing, business or a related field
- Fluency in digital advertising and media marketplace
- A desire to thrive in a collaborative work environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Photoshop
- Ability to excel in a growing, fast-paced and dynamic environment with a proven ability to manage a complex workload and deliver high-quality work.
- Motivation to be part the future of music
Pandora is offering a full benefit package including stock options.
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To Apply:
Send cover letter and resume to pandora-jobs@pandora.com. Please reference the job title for which you are applying.
Principals Only. Pandora does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies, and is not responsible for fees associated with such submissions.
Pandora is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Sales Planner - Oakland, CA
We're interested in talking with candidates who have interactive advertising experience with a proven track record of acquiring new business and building/maintaining client relationships. The right candidate will also be creative, with solid communication skills.
Responsibilities:
- Develop online advertising and sponsorship programs to top-tier clients and ad agencies
- Develop strong/deep relationships with ad agencies and clients responsible for advertising
- Demonstrated experience prospecting and growing client requests for proposals (RFP)
- Work with ad operations to generate proposals and proactively create new ideas for advertisers
- Occasional travel, face-to-face client meetings, and tradeshows
Requirements:
- A passion for music
- Knowledge of the interactive marketplace
- BS/BA or equivalent 4 year degree is required
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong work ethic; desire to work in an entrepreneurial environment
- 2-4 years interactive experience at top-tier agencies desired; a minimum of one year of interactive experience is required
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To Apply:
Send cover letter and resume to pandora-jobs@pandora.com. Please reference the job title for which you are applying.
Principals Only. Pandora does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies, and is not responsible for fees associated with such submissions.
Pandora is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Online Ad Trafficker - Oakland, CA
Pandora Media is looking for an Online Advertising Trafficker. You will be a key contributor in the Advertising and Sales Operations team, implementing online ad campaigns, including ad trafficking and testing, and developing numerous campaign reports and analysis to support the Sales team.
Responsibilities:
- Reserve, traffic, test, and maintain online advertising campaigns
- Troubleshoot any ad creative issues that affect tracking, implementation, or reporting
- Create daily and weekly reports to monitor campaign delivery and to communicate relevant metrics to Account Management team
- Regularly monitor and reconcile campaign delivery across third party ad serving systems
- Work collaboratively with Account Managers to recommend campaign modifications, leveraging understanding of advertiser and product performance
- Assist in monthly billing process by providing month-end or campaign-end reporting
- Develop post-sale reports that wrap up results and assist in the development of case studies
- Support Account Management team by running inventory queries and updating ad calendars
Requirements:
- 1-2 years in online advertising or marketing or other relevant experience
- Attention to detail
- Ability to multi-task
- Results-driven with strong analytical skills
- Ability to work independently
- Excellent time management skills
- Experience with DoubleClick's DFP or other ad-serving applications
- Experience with campaign trafficking - rich media, standard display, text and re-directs
- Strong experience with Microsoft Office Suite, particularly in Excel
- General knowledge of HTML
- Must love music!
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To Apply:
Send cover letter and resume to pandora-jobs@pandora.com. Please reference the job title for which you are applying.
Principals Only. Pandora does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies, and is not responsible for fees associated with such submissions.
Pandora is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Graphic Designer - Oakland, CA
We have a terrific opportunity for a talented graphic designer to join our team. You should have an exceptional eye and enjoy pushing the limits of design in all directions. You need significant experience designing in a variety of styles and should be comfortable juggling several projects with changing priorities.
Pandora's graphic design team is responsible for creating cutting-edge online advertising that is well-integrated into the overall Pandora experience. You will have a level of creative freedom unusual in the advertising world. You will also help to maintain Pandora's high standards of design for new features, communications projects, and more!
Primary Responsibilities:
- Graphic design and production of unique ad units and page skins
- Authoring of HTML and CSS to implement ad units
- Working directly with the ad sales team to design compelling custom ad units for major accounts
- Design of marketing communications materials
Requirements:
- Demonstrated ability to conceptualize creative, engaging consumer designs
- A BA in Graphic Design or related field
- At least 3 years of relevant experience, including online advertising
- Strong Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash skills
- Comfortable working knowledge of HTML and CSS
- Ability to work quickly and flexibly while juggling several projects
- Ability to work in a variety of visual styles
- Knowledge of Actionscript and Motif Ad Kit is a plus
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To Apply:
For immediate consideration, please submit your resume to pandora-jobs@pandora.com. You should also include a link to your online portfolio (PDFs accepted but not preferred). Please include the Job Title in the Subject line.
Principals Only. Pandora does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies, and is not responsible for fees associated with such submissions.
Pandora is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Senior Network Engineer - Oakland, CA
We are growing our Technical Operations team to meet the demands of our rapidly growing user community, and have a terrific opportunity for a Senior Network Engineer with formidable experience and excellent communication skills. This is an expert-level position in our Oakland, CA office with relocation possible for the right candidate.
Responsibilities:
As a senior member of our Technical Operations team, you will assume a pivotal role in creating the company's core high-volume systems and network infrastructure and participate in key design decisions. You will be expected to come up to speed quickly to meet technical goals and challenges, share a leadership role in a hard-working and collaborative team, and take pride in your work. We have high expectations and are looking for a seasoned professional with experience in a wide range of areas.
Requirements:
You must be self-motivated, capable of managing your time well, and work efficiently without close supervision. You place a high value on secure, highly available, fault-tolerant systems. You are proactive in identifying and resolving technical challenges, enthusiastically troubleshoot problems when they occur, and thrive as a collaborative team player. Requirements for this position also include:
- Significant experience with complex networking including architecture and highly detailed understanding of layers 1-4 and 7 of OSI stack
- Extensive deployment and management experience of advanced multi-vendor switching and routing equipment utilizing complex routing protocols
- Significant hands-on experience with AMD/Intel server hardware
- Minimum 4 years UNIX/Linux administration experience
- Significant experience in computer security practices
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- 7x24x365 support rotation experience
Desired:
- Experience running BGP
- Experience with large-scale deployments (150+ servers) and/or NOC environments
- Extensive experience building, supporting, and troubleshooting multi-tier, high-volume, production web installations
- Advanced programming skills (PERL, Python, Shell, etc.)
- NAS/SAN experience
- CISSP or similar
- Experience providing high-bandwidth streaming media direct to consumers
- BA/BS or more in Computer Science or equivalent
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To Apply:
Send cover letter and resume to pandora-jobs@pandora.com. Please reference the job title for which you are applying.
Principals Only. Pandora does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies, and is not responsible for fees associated with such submissions.
Pandora is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Senior Systems Administrator - Corporate IT - Oakland, CA
We are growing our Technical Operations team to meet the demands of our rapidly growing user community, and have a terrific opportunity for a Senior Systems Administrator with formidable experience and excellent communication skills. This is an expert-level position in our Oakland, CA office.
Responsibilities:
As a senior member of our Technical Operations team, you will assume a pivotal role in creating and supporting the company's corporate infrastructure. You will also work with our tech support team as an escalation point for user issues. You will be expected to come up to speed quickly to meet technical goals and challenges, become a lead contributor in a hard-working and collaborative team, and take pride in your work. We have high expectations and are looking for a seasoned professional with experience in a wide range of areas including networking, file servers, and corporate Email.
Requirements:
You must be self-motivated, capable of managing your time well, and work efficiently without close supervision. You have a desire to create an excellent user environment. You place a high value on reliable, highly available, fault-tolerant systems. You are proactive in identifying and resolving technical challenges, enthusiastically troubleshoot problems when they occur, and thrive as a collaborative team player. Requirements for this position also include:
- Minimum 5 years administration experience with multiple versions of UNIX/Linux OS
- Minimum 5 years experience with Microsoft Windows Servers and Windows Desktop environments
- Advanced Email administration
- Solid understanding of Networking protocols
- Significant experience maintaining corporate IT infrastructure
- Significant hands-on experience with AMD/Intel server hardware
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- 7x24x365 support rotation experience
Highly Desirable:
- BA/BS or more in Computer Science or equivalent
- Experience creating and managing usage policies
- Significant training and experience in computer security practices
- Significant Debian Linux experience
- Advanced Windows Server experience
- Experience with automated build for servers and user workstations
- Advanced systems programming skills (PERL, Shell, etc.)
- PDA/Smartphone support (Blackberry, Windows Mobile, iPhone...)
Plusses:
- Asterisk PBX experience
- Experience Supporting Microsoft Exchange or compatible software
- Experience supporting Financial services
- CISSP or similar
- Experience providing streaming media direct to consumers
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To Apply:
Send cover letter and resume to pandora-jobs@pandora.com. Please reference the job title for which you are applying.
Principals Only. Pandora does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies, and is not responsible for fees associated with such submissions.
Pandora is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Systems Administrator - Oakland, CA
We are growing our Technical Operations team to meet the demands of our rapidly growing user community, and have a terrific opportunity for a Systems Administrator with formidable experience and excellent communication skills. This is an experienced position in our Oakland, CA, office.
Responsibilities:
As a member of our Technical Operations team, you will assume a pivotal role in creating the company's core high-volume systems and network infrastructure and participate in key design decisions. You will be expected to come up to speed quickly to meet technical goals and challenges, become a contributor in a hard-working and collaborative team, and take pride in your work. We have high expectations and are looking for a seasoned professional with experience in a wide range of areas.
Requirements:
You must be self-motivated, capable of managing your time well, and work efficiently without close supervision. You place a high value on secure, highly available, fault-tolerant systems. You are proactive in identifying and resolving technical challenges, enthusiastically troubleshoot problems when they occur, and thrive as a collaborative team player. Requirements for this position also include:
- Minimum 7 years administration experience with multiple versions of UNIX/Linux OS
- Experience with networking, including architecture, across the various network layers
- Significant hands-on experience with AMD/Intel server hardware
- Experience building, supporting, and troubleshooting large-scale deployments (150+ servers) and/or multi-tier, high-volume, production web installations
- Advanced systems programming skills (PERL, Python, Shell, etc.)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- 7x24x365 support rotation
Highly Desirable:
- Significant Debian Linux experience
- Significant training and experience in computer security practices
- BA/BS or more in Computer Science or equivalent
- Build system automation design
Plus Requirements:
- Advanced Storage Architecture experience
- Experience running BGP
- CISSP or similar
- Experience providing high-bandwidth streaming media direct to consumers
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To Apply:
Send cover letter and resume to pandora-jobs@pandora.com. Please reference the job title for which you are applying.
Principals Only. Pandora does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies, and is not responsible for fees associated with such submissions.
Pandora is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Senior Systems Administrator - Oakland, CA
We are growing our Technical Operations team to meet the demands of our rapidly growing user community, and have a terrific opportunity for a Senior Systems Administrator with formidable experience and excellent communication skills. This is an expert-level position in our Oakland, CA, office.
Responsibilities:
As a senior member of our Technical Operations team, you will assume a pivotal role in creating the company's core high-volume systems and network infrastructure and participate in key design decisions. You will be expected to come up to speed quickly to meet technical goals and challenges, become a lead contributor in a hard-working and collaborative team, and take pride in your work. We have high expectations and are looking for a seasoned professional with experience in a wide range of areas.
Requirements:
You must be self-motivated, capable of managing your time well, and work efficiently without close supervision. You place a high value on secure, highly available, fault-tolerant systems. You are proactive in identifying and resolving technical challenges, enthusiastically troubleshoot problems when they occur, and thrive as a collaborative team player. Requirements for this position also include:
- Minimum 10 years administration experience with multiple versions of UNIX/Linux OS
- Significant experience with complex networking, including architecture, across the various network layers
- Significant hands-on experience with AMD/Intel server hardware
- Extensive experience building, supporting, and troubleshooting large-scale deployments (150+ servers) and/or multi-tier, high-volume, production web installations
- Build system automation design
- Advanced systems programming skills (PERL, Python, Shell, etc.)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- 7x24x365 support rotation
Highly Desirable:
- Significant Debian Linux experience
- Significant training and experience in computer security practices
- BA/BS or more in Computer Science or equivalent
Plusses:
- Advanced Storage Architecture experience
- Experience running BGP
- CISSP or similar
- Experience providing high-bandwidth streaming media direct to consumers
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To Apply:
Send cover letter and resume to pandora-jobs@pandora.com. Please reference the job title for which you are applying.
Principals Only. Pandora does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies, and is not responsible for fees associated with such submissions.
Pandora is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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