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Current Openings in Engineering: Optimization Engineer Database Engineer-DB2 Econometrics Engineer/Statistician UI Designer UI Software Engineer Server Engineer Who is DemandTec ? DemandTec is the leading enterprise software company providing packaged enterprise applications all built on a common Consumer Demand Management CDM platform that enable Retailers and Manufacturers to optimize results from high-potential consumers. Our unique approach leverages proven marketing science, industry knowledge, and robust enterprise computing and integration architectures. Consumer Demand Management Understanding Consumer Demand has enormous impact when the outcome optimizes the Pricing, Promotion, Assortment, and Supply strategies for thousands of items in thousands of locations. When such a system is scalable the results predictable the recommendations actionable the benefits are immediate, measurable, and sustainable. During the 1990s Retailers and Manufacturers achieved operational efficiencies expense reduction and some modest incremental revenue by implementing ERP, CRM and SCM systems. In the 2000s the only significant new gains will come from growing market share and share of wallet with the right groups of consumers. Retail Merchandising Optimization RMO DemandTec RMO applications sit on top of the DemandTec CDM platform. They provide specific pricing, promotion and assortment recommendations for every item, every store. Benefits include establishing and supporting retail merchandising business processes and best practices, leading to immediate and measurable improvements in the chosen business objectives: Volume, Revenue, Profit, Traffic, Price Image, and Corporate Brand. Optimization Engineer DemandTec is looking for an individual with broad experience in modeling and optimization systems, and specific experience in optimizing prices or promotions. The successful candidate is crucial to ensuring that DemandTec continues to provide tremendous value to its customers by helping them to optimize their business decisions. The Optimization Engineer will be responsible for developing and implementing algorithms for optimizing price and promotion decisions. This person will ensure that the implementation of the optimization algorithms currently written in GAMS General Algebraic Modeling System is robust and fast. Further, this person will influence the formulation of the consumer demand model. This position will report to the Manager of Optimization Engineering. Responsibilities Formulate optimization problems associated with econometric models and implement the formulations in commercial software.
This person must be experienced in synthesizing and simplifying information from interviews, product management, and customer visits and creating highly usable and coherent UI designs for web applications. The UI designer will be responsible for designing a user experience for the DemandTec application suite that sets Demandtec firmly in the lead of Consumer Demand Management software providers. This includes performing research into the domain, understanding and designing the workflow of the applications, and driving the design through development. It is important that the individual has a proven track record in designing Web interfaces for enterprise software. A profound understanding of Internet Explorer, style sheets, and Java Script are also a must. The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the fundamentals of user interface design, have experience working through the entire product life-cycle, and be familiar with user-centered design methods such as field studies, heuristic evaluations, and usability studies. The candidate will also have experience working in a multidisciplinary team on a dynamic web application, be results-oriented , and demonstrate effective communication and documentation skills. The successful candidate is crucial to ensuring that DemandTec build commercially-successful solutions that strongly differentiate our offerings for Retail Merchandising & Pricing, and Consumer Goods Trade Promotion Management. Responsibilities Design the best user experience possible for consumer demand management applications. Conduct interviews with product management and customers to fully understand the users domains. Research and develop a thorough understanding of the domain of retail pricing and perform workflow and task analysis Create, maintain, and evangelize UI style guides. Keep abreast of changing definitions and techniques for creating enterprise class web user interfaces. Lead engineers in building the best user experience for our applications.
This person will interact with product management, application designers and customers to understand the needs for a powerful, well-designed framework to support data-intensive and highly usable applications. It is important that the individual has a proven track record in building Web interfaces for enterprise software. A profound understanding of Internet Explorer, style sheets, and Java Script are a must. The UI Software Engineer will be responsible for designing the software architecture to support a user experience across multiple applications that sets Demandtec applications firmly in the lead of Consumer Demand Management software providers. This includes designing and building a reusable, component architecture that enables quick and robust development of new applications and features. Familiarity with UML, design patterns, internationalization, customization, and workflow support are required. The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate web UI architecture, design, and coding skills;
The candidate will also have experience working in a multidisciplinary team on a dynamic web application, be results-oriented, and demonstrate effective communication and documentation skills. The successful candidate is crucial to ensuring that DemandTec build commercially-successful solutions that strongly differentiate our offerings for Retail Merchandising & Pricing, and Consumer Goods Trade Promotion Management. Responsibilities Design and enhance the user interface software architecture to support the best user experience possible for consumer demand management applications. Work closely with Product Management and customers to determine needs and direction. Keep abreast of changing definitions and techniques for creating enterprise class web user interfaces. Lead engineers in building a powerful, easy-to-use UI platform for high performance, enterprise-class web applications. Assist, design, and write complex Java Script widgets and components.
He will interact with engineers from other groups as well as our operations and product management group to create a coherent design, and will be the conduit for the team to the platform group. An excellent understanding of Linux or Unix is necessary and specific knowledge of AIX would be greatly appreciated. Responsibilities Architect and design back-end distributed infrastructure Conduct interviews and negotiations with Program Management determine features. Design robust fault tolerant distributed system in Java that runs on several platforms Write technical design and architecture documents as well as participate in defining marketing documentation. Process and General duties Keep abreast of changing definitions and techniques for creating enterprise applications Mentor junior engineers Write technical design and architecture documents as well as participate in defining marketing documentation. Assist in design and code reviews and definition of internal programming standards.
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