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IGN Entertainment provides many of the Internet's leading destinations fo r video gaming and entertainment enthusiasts. By providing these enthusi asts with a broad array of editorial content, related services, and ways to meet and interact with their peers, IGN has established a leading po sition in offering advertisers reach and concentration to teens and 18-3 4 year-old males. com, more than 70 community sites and a vast array of online forums. We are also a leadin g provider of technology for online game play in video games. IGN serves its audiences by providing both free and subscription-based co ntent and services. Our sites attract more than 20 million unique visito rs a month, and we have more than 200,000 active monthly and annual subs cribers. We offer our business customers a full spectrum of tools to market and se ll to these audiences, tools to help them develop better products, and r esearch services to provide in-depth understanding of the gaming and ent ertainment markets.
It's intense but casual, professional yet f riendly and supportive. If you need bureaucracy to feel secure, you won' t find it here. Everyone at IGN Entertainment shares a common vision and purpose. And we' re always looking for talented, motivated and energetic people to help u s achieve those goals.
com t hat meet functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability requir ements. These app lications are used by millions of video gamers worldwide. Requirements: - Minimum of 5 years experience creating features for a hi-profile Window s application in widespread use. SQL Server Database Administrator Location: Brisbane, CA Responsibilities: - Administer SQL Server databases. Requirements: - Expert at TSQL, tuning, backup/recovery, schema design. Consumer Products Engineering Director Location: Irvine, CA The Director of Engineering will manage 11 employees involved in custom s oftware development (desktop and webapp) performed for IGN's Consumer Pr oducts Divison in Irvine, CA. Responsibilities: Manage custom software development performed for IGN's Consumer Products Division. fileplane tcom has a custom web server and CDN which the candidate will oversee. NET group but the candidate will need to manage the desktop group, producers, and SQA engineers for some time . IS and IT handle the platform but the candidate must un derstand and manage these dependencies to ensure data safety and scaling . The candidate will serve the General Manager of the Consumer Products Division and his product managers but report to the CTO based in South S an Francisco. built a high-profile product as a software engi neer and as a manager (managing at least 15) using Microsoft technology; understand Microsoft technology for webapps and desktops alike plus avi d reader of same to stay abreast of this; savvy project manager for an interrupt-driv en and scarce resource setting; expertise w ith engineering information systems such as defect tracking, knowledge b ase, intranet, project management, and network monitoring. com that meet functionality, performance, scalability, and reliab ility requirements. Media Production Manager Location: Brisbane, CA Versatile producer who can design webapps and desktop apps, implement dyn amic web sites, and manage other producers. Responsibilities: Collaborate with feature owners to spec, design UI, and design graphics f or webapps and desktop apps. For web sites, use JSP/JSTL to implement dy namic pages. Requirements: -Minimum of one year experience in a similar position responsible for a h igh-profile webapp or desktop apps. Sales Development Manager Location: Brisbane, CA This person will be responsible for supporting and defining IGN Entertain ment's consultative sales process by leveraging IGN's value propositions through strategic, best practice marketing. Responsibilities: The goal of this position is to maximize sales revenue for the media divi sion. This person will be responsible for supporting the consumer, enter tainment, and game sales teams with audience rationale, positioning, POV 's, industry presentations, and creative ideas. This person will also be responsible for assisting sales representatives on client calls. Requirements: - 3-5 years of online advertising experience - Strong knowledge of online research methods and 3rd party research tool s - Passion for digital entertainment - Excellent verbal and written presentation skills - Strong PC skills including Excel, PowerPoint and Word - BA / BS required Marketing Intelligence Manager Location: Brisbane, CA This person will be responsible for gathering and analyzing marketing int elligence date for IGN Entertainment's marketing team. Responsibilities: -The goal of this position is to gather the intelligence needed to make m arketing decisions and recommendations, identify trends in the marketpla ce, and provide data and analysis for the use of marketing, sales, and s enior management. This position will also analyze campaign performance t rends across a variety of advertising products. Requirements: -Desire to be a part of a dynamic marketing team with a rapid growth Inte rnet company -Passion for digital entertainment -Excellent skills and experience using MS Excel -BA/BS required, with focus in mathematics, statistics, or finance Vice President, Sales Location: Brisbane, CA IGN/GameSpy offers a series of technology products that top video game de velopers include in their games to enable multiplayer and other function s The Vice President, Sales, is responsible for evangelizing and licens ing these products and services to developers and publishers worldwide a nd for managing the sales team to drive deals through the entire sales c ycle. The Vice President Sales possesses exceptional organizational and communi cation skills to motivate and mentor the sales team as well as the backg round and ability to contribute to the strategic direction of the divisi on. Responsibilities: -Manage sales team to deliver IGN/GameSpy revenue and strategic objective s from key accounts worldwide, particularly by leveraging current or eme rging IGN systems services (such as in-game communications, subscription processing, in-game advertising, professional services and/or licensing of game related content). Requirements: -10+ years sales management experience with proven ability to manage and grow a passionate systems software sales team. The Key Account Manager possesses exceptional organizational and communic ation skills to create new and to build upon previous relationships with publishers and developers. These relationships will generate new revenu e and strategic opportunities to help meet or beat our revenue and strat egic objectives. Responsibilities: -Increase IGN/GameSpy revenue and strategic value in assigned key account s, particularly by leveraging current or emerging IGN systems services ( such as in-game communications, subscription processing, in-game adverti sing, professional services and/or licensing of game related content). Requirements: -A passion for PC and console games, with the ability to describe to top game developers and publishers how GameSpy's products and services can m ake their games even more successful. IGN Professional Services, within the Publisher and Developer Services Division, works with customers to enable or extend application of in-ga me technology, while creating other value-add custom services through sy stems integration and development. net engineer will join the P rofessional Services team in creating new solutions that extend the powe r of the in-game technologies. NET, C# - Strong SQL Server database development experience (database design, dev eloping stored procedures and triggers, etc). Net, J ava, Web Services, HTML, XML, Client-side scripting (Javascript/Jscript) , CSS - Strong developer experience in using SQL Server/Oracle. Responsibilities include managing design and production and implementation of new or custom material throughout the production cycle . This includes writing product requirements, design, development, QA, d eployment/implementation, optimization and tracking performance metrics. The Production Manager will m...
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