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We are looking for world-class professionals who are passionate about their work and excited about building a great business. We offer a unique environment where exceptional people are working together to create the world's best search engine for shopping. You will have the opportunity to work with an extremely strong team that is dedicated to developing a truly innovative and superior service. We have a fun, interesting, and challenging culture of innovation and teamwork. We offer competitive salaries, generous stock options, medical benefits (100% paid for employees), and an attractive work environment. Below are our current openings. Please check back regularly.

  

Chief Financial Officer

Become is the fastest growing online comparison shopping engine and marketing services company in the industry with over 25 million visits per month to its worldwide properties.  The Company has raised over $37 million from investors including TPG, European Founders Fund , Transcosmos and Ron Conway.  Become has recently acquired two companies in Japan and Germany to accelerate growth in international markets.

We are looking for a Chief Financial Officer to help us continue our expansion  and prepare for an initial public offering. We offer a unique environment where exceptionally talented people collaborate  to create the world's best online shopping search and marketing service.

The CFO will report to the Founder, President & CEO of Become, Inc.  As CFO, you will have the opportunity to work with a strong team that is dedicated to developing a truly innovative and superior service to both help businesses increase sales and consumers to find products and services online. We have a fun and challenging culture of innovation and teamwork.

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Personal Characteristics Statement:

The successful candidate must possess outstanding leadership, interpersonal and communication skills. The candidate must be a high-energy, hands-on individual and a self-confident leader who, due to her/his personal presence, style and demeanor, effectively sells ideas and programs to others. This person is by nature a risk-taker and has a high level of ambition. Of equal importance, this person must also  possess unquestionable integrity.

 

For immediate consideration, please send your resume in word or PDF to job.cfo@become.com with “CFO Position” in the subject line.

 

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) 

Become is the fastest growing online comparison shopping engine and marketing services company in the industry with over 25 million visits per month to its worldwide properties.  The company has raised over $37 million from investors including TPG, European Founders Fund, Transcosmos and Ron Conway.  Become has recently acquired two companies in Japan (www.become.co.jp) and Germany (www.pangora.com) to accelerate growth in international markets.  Become is singularly focused on growing the business for the long term and anticipates being in position to pursue an IPO in the next few years.

We are looking for a CTO to lead our global engineering team located in Silicon Valley, Japan, and Germany, and manage our global technical operations.  The CTO will work closely with the executive team and lead the engineering team to launch new versions of our state-of-the-art product search technology globally, and commercialize our Search Engine Marketing (SEM) platform into a Software as a Service (SaaS) B2B offering. The ideal candidate will have a rare combination of strong technical vision and advanced technological background, business sensibilities, and a successful track record launching web services globally and integrating multiple platforms.  We offer a unique environment where exceptionally talented people collaborate to create the world's best online shopping search and marketing services.

The CTO will report to the Founder, President & CEO of Become, Inc. and will have the opportunity to work with an extremely strong engineering team dedicated to developing a truly innovative and superior service to help businesses increase sales and consumers find the best products and services online. We have a fun, interesting, and challenging culture of innovation and teamwork.

Qualifications:

 

Responsibilities:

 

Personal Characteristics Statement:

The successful candidate must possess outstanding leadership, interpersonal and communication skills. The candidate must be a high-energy, hands-on individual with strength of convictions, a self-confident leader who, in part, due to her/his personal presence, style and demeanor, effectively sells ideas and programs to others. This person is, by nature, a risk-taker and has a high level of ambition. Of equal importance, this person must have unquestioned integrity.

For immediate consideration, please send your resume in word or PDF to job.cto@become.com with “CTO Position” in the subject line.

 

SEO Manager  

Become.com is seeking an energetic SEO Manager with expertise in technical and content search engine optimization for large websites to manage our SEO efforts. In addition to the US, Become.com currently operates websites in UK (become.co.uk) and Japan (become.co.jp), with additional international expansion underway. You will have the opportunity to join a very successful, results-oriented team, continuously testing and proving out successful SEO strategies. We are looking for a hands-on SEO professional who has a comprehensive as well as deep understanding of SEO issues involving site architecture; keyword generation; XML sitemap submissions; search friendly content; link building strategies; blog optimization; and metrics-driven SEO. If you have successfully executed SEO strategies for large eCommerce sites and are looking to build your expertise working with a team of high calibre engineers and skilled product specialists, we want to hear from you.

Job Requirements & Responsibilities

 

Qualifications & Experience

 

Become, Inc. is an exciting, well-funded and fast growing search engine company based in the Silicon Valley and serving over 10MM users every month. As a venture-funded Internet startup, we have built a shopping research and price comparison site that uses some of the most advanced technology on the web. We have won many awards for our service, including Forbes (Best of the Web), BusinessWeek (Best of the Web) and PC Magazine (Top 101 Web Sites).

We offer competitive salaries, generous stock options, medical benefits, and a great work environment. This is an opportunity to join an early-stage venture and make a significant contribution to building a great company.

For immediate consideration, please send your resume in Word or PDF format to job.mgrseo@become.com with subject line "SEO Manager"

 

SEO Intern

Become.com is seeking an energetic and enthusiastic SEO intern who enjoys writing content for articles and blog posts to join our SEO team.  This effort includes assisting the Search Engine Optimization team author unique content, research keywords, analyze hot products and compile competitor research. This person must be comfortable working in a high-energy, start-up environment and have a passion for learning about the e-commerce and search segments of the Internet industry.

 

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For immediate consideration, please send your resume in Word or PDF format with “SEO Intern” as subject line to job.intern@become.com  This internship pays $10.00 per hour. 

                        

Japanese Copywriter / Translator Intern

 

Become.com is seeking an energetic and enthusiastic copywriting intern for our Japanese website (http://www.become.co.jp) If you enjoy writing content for articles and blog posts on shopping and products, we would like to hear from you.  The copywriting intern will assist the Search Engine Optimization team translate and localize shopping tips and articles for the Japanese market, author unique content, research keywords, analyze hot products and compile competitor research as required. Proficiency in the Japanese language (at a native level) and keen understanding of Japanese consumer preferences and market trends are required. Knowledge of the English language and basic grammar is required. This person must be comfortable working in a high-energy, start-up environment and have a passion for learning about the e-commerce and search segments of the Internet industry.  This position will work from our Sunnyvale, CA office.

 

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Become.co.jp is Become.com’s comparison shopping site service for the Japanese market. Become.com is a powerful product search engine and comparison shopping service that helps people make better buying decisions and purchases online by searching over five billion web pages and using its patent-pending AIR™ (Affinity Index Ranking) search technology.  Founded in 2004 by industry pioneers Michael Yang and Yeogirl Yun, creators of MySimon, Become.com received $17.5 million from TPG Growth and an additional $8 million from European Founders Fund in 2008 to facilitate aggressive growth internationally and expand into new businesses.  With over 25 million products and 5000 merchants, Become.com provides the Web's most robust and easy to use combination of relevant product research and comparison shopping. Please visit us at www.become.com.

For immediate consideration, please send your resume in Word or PDF format with subject line "Japanese Copywrighter Intern" to job.intern@become.com  This internship pays $10.00 per hour.

                         

Data Quality Intern

Become.com is seeking an energetic and enthusiastic Data Quality intern who is detail oriented and enjoys updating product data. This position would work closely with the Sales & Account Management team to ensure products are properly categorized on our site as well as to ensure that product details are updated and display correctly online. This person must be comfortable working in a high-energy, start-up environment and have a passion for learning about the e-commerce and search segments of the Internet industry.

 

Job Requirements & Responsibilities:
• Research/edit product details and specifications using our internal tools
• Match products together to form groups of products
• Ensure retailer products are processed to go live on Become.com

 

Qualifications & Experience:
• Ability to prioritize tasks and manage deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience and comfort in working in a team environment
• Positive attitude and enthusiasm for getting results
• Ability to work quickly while being detail oriented
• Passion for the latest and greatest tech products a plus
• This position requires a 3 month commitment from the candidate, any special circumstances are subject to negotiations

For immediate consideration, please send your resume in Word or PDF format with “Data Quality Intern” as subject line to job.intern@become.com . This internship pays $10.00 per hour.

 

Software Engineer  

Become.com is looking for an energetic, talented, results oriented individual to join our core engineering team. The ideal candidate has a desire to work in a fast paced start-up environment. The position reports to the Vice President. Our engineers are focused on creating the next generation tools for comparison shopping and vertical search, applying innovative concepts for crawling, ranking, indexing and classification. We are looking for creative and inquisitive people who are passionate about solving challenging problems.

This position requires background in developing/implementing and evaluating new algorithms for machine learning, text categorization, information retrieval and natural language processing. Several years of software development experience at a startup is a plus.

Requirements:

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent (Ph.D. a plus).
• Skills/Qualifications in machine learning, information retrieval, and web data mining.
• At least 5 years of software development experience (in Java/C++), and understanding of object oriented programming and design patterns.
• Experience with distributed systems, machine learning, information retrieval and/or experience with large data (over 100Gigabyte of data) is a big plus.

For immediate consideration, please send your resume to job.eng@become.com 

 

Sales Associate

We are currently looking for an energetic and talented individual to serve as a Sales Associate to both expand our network of online universities, and clients in new categories within our Lead Generation business unit at Become.com. The ideal candidate is a sales superstar, has a passion about the Internet marketing industry and work in a fast paced start-up environment. The person will be responsible for prospecting, outbounding, negotiating and closing numerous large and medium accounts and must have good prioritization skills, detailed-oriented nature, and “fire in the belly”. The position reports to the Vice President.

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For immediate consideration, please send us your cover letter and resume in Word or PDF format to job.sales@become.com  Customized cover letters in the body of the email in highly encouraged.

  

Marketing Analyst

We are currently looking for an energetic and diligent Marketing Analyst for our Lead Generation business. The ideal candidate has a desire to work in a fast paced start-up environment and has most recently been a star performer at a successful consumer Internet company.

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For immediate consideration, please send us your cover letter and resume in Word or PDF format to job.analyst@become.com  Customized cover letters in the body of the email in highly encouraged.

 

 Sr. Manager/Director Search Marketing

Become.com is seeking an energetic, enthusiastic, highly quantitative professional to lead its Internet marketing efforts. This effort includes directing the team responsible for managing keyword portfolios and paid search processes, as well as working closely with Engineering to develop tools and processes for scalable management of keyword and content campaigns on all major networks. The position will have responsibility for managing the financial performance for all search marketing efforts. This person must be comfortable working in a high-energy, start-up environment and have a passion for learning about the e-commerce and search segments of the Internet industry. This job has a competitive salary, in addition to pre-ipo stock options and healthcare benefits. This position reports to the Vice President of Comparison Shopping.

Job Requirements & Responsibilities:

• Take responsibility for key paid search business performance metrics; revenue per visitor, conversion rates, overall revenue, and cost per click
• Lead the ongoing development and optimization of the keyword portfolio
• Develop, lead and implement the core SEM growth strategy for Become.com
• Optimize performance of the keyword portfolio by testing new creative, landing pages. Key goals are to maximize revenue while maintaining required ROI
• Manage and develop a team of SEM portfolio managers
• Direct Engineering efforts to expand and optimize large-scale automated keyword management (25MM+ keywords)
• Interact effectively with a wide variety of individuals throughout the organization including Business Team, Product Team, Engineering Team and Executive Management

Qualifications & Experience:

• BA/BS in Engineering, CS or comparable Quantitative and Analytical Major, MBA preferred
• 7+ years work experience
• 2+ years experience managing large scale keyword campaigns on Google AdWords, Yahoo Search Marketing (Panama) and Microsoft AdCenter
• High level of comfort with data-oriented, quantitative decision making
• Exceptional quantitative skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to manage to goals effectively in a matrixed environment
• Positive attitude and enthusiasm for getting results

For immediate consideration, please send your resume in Word or PDF format to job.mgrsm@become.com with subject line "Head of Internet Marketing"

  

Product Manager

Become.com is building the next generation of online comparison shopping, integrating cutting edge vertical web search capability with product comparison shopping. We are looking for an experienced, results-oriented Product Manager to help lead the charge in developing this exciting new consumer experience. The perfect candidate is a strategic thinker who is both extremely analytical and innovative. Experience in web search, comparison shopping engines, and web UI are desirable; passion for internet search and shopping, along with the desire to help create the next revolution in web search is a must. As a Product Manager, you will drive the development and innovation in our comparison shopping search product. You will have the responsibility for identifying market requirements, defining the product vision, and launching products and subsequent improvements. Product Managers work closely with senior management, as well as the Engineering, Marketing, MarCom, and Business Development teams, to effectively manage the entire product lifecycle. This position reports to the VP of Product Management. Competitive salary with generous, pre-ipo stock options

Responsibilities:

• Effectively manage online products in a highly cross-functional, collaborative environment.
• Translate consumer and business needs into MRD/PRDs and ultimately into successful products.
• Develop a working understanding of the important aspects of Become.com's web search and product search technologies, to facilitate optimal communication and decisions.
• Collaborate with Business Development to explore licensing of technologies for enhancement of Become.com products, and distribution of in-house products.
• Dynamically adapt to expanding roles and responsibilities in a start-up environment.
• Define key metrics, track and analyze product performance, and assess customer feedback.
• Aggressively identify optimization opportunities and new product features to maintain a leadership position for Become's product search and comparison shopping experience.

Requirements:

• BA/BS in CS, Engineering or equivalent technical discipline required.
• 3-5 years of product management experience, preferably in a web-based environment
• Strong strategic analysis skills and business acumen Exceptional communication and presentation capabilities to all levels of the organization
• Track record of successful development, launching, and marketing of online products in a highly cross-functional matrixed environment

For immediate consideration, please send us your resume in Word or PDF format to job.mgrpro@become.com

 

Media Buyer for Lead Generation

Become.com is a powerful search engine and comparison shopping service that helps people make better buying decisions and purchases online by searching over five billion web pages and using its patent-pending AIRTM (Affinity Index Ranking) search technology. Founded in 2004 by industry pioneers Michael Yang and Yeogirl Yun, creators of MySimon, Become.com received $17.5 million from TPG Growth and an additional $8 million from European Founders Fund in 2008 to facilitate aggressive growth internationally and expand into new businesses. With over 25 million products and 5000 merchants, Become.com provides the Web's most robust and easy to use combination of relevant product research and comparison shopping. Please visit us at www.become.com.
We are currently looking for an energetic and diligent Media Buyer for our new Lead Generation business. The ideal candidate has a desire to work in a fast paced start-up environment and has most recently been a Media Buyer at a successful consumer Internet company.

Responsibilities:

• Prospect and engage with new publishers for our Lead Generation verticals.
• Negotiate deals to maximize volume and margin of advertising campaigns while minimizing risk.
• Optimize campaigns through working with publishers on placements, creative inventory and targeting.
• Recommend action plan on new publisher relationships through campaign data analysis to improve performance and develop new strategies while managing financial loss.
• Establish relationships and serve as point person with major networks, portals, publishers and other marketing partners.
• Work with internal groups to launch and manage campaigns including creative designers, engineers, finance, sales and marketing departments.
• Manage monthly media spend and metrics

Experience/Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree required
• 2+ years of online media buying with history of managing profitable campaigns
• Experience in developing and managing sales pipelines is a plus.
• Strong negotiation skills and ability to structure deals.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Detailed oriented and organized.
• Knowledge of success metrics and ability to measure performance with quantitative acumen.
• Lead generation industry experience in loans, online education, mortgage, insurance, travel, auto or other major verticals is beneficial.
• Rolodex of relationships with major portals, ad networks, agencies and other publishers and explicit understanding of how to achieve successful campaigns.

For immediate consideration, please send resumes with "Media Buyer" as subject line to job.medbuy@become.com .

 

Director of European Finance and Accounting 

Pangora is one of Europe’s leading companies for Shopping Solutions and we wish to strengthen this position with your help. As an innovative high-tech company, we set the standards and excel with our tailor-made Point of Decision solutions by using sophisticated shopping technologies and extensive data lists. Over 70 international portals and ca. 4000 online shops in 4 European countries rely on our expertise.

Expand with us. In order to strengthen our Karlsruhe based team we are looking, with immediate effect, for a:

Director of Finance and Accounting (m/f)

As the working, hands-on leader of the two person finance and accounting team, the Director of Finance and Accounting is responsible for overseeing all accounting functions including: revenue accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, payroll, month end close, credit, cash management and corporate tax. This role will develop and manage financial projection models and implement financial planning, budgeting and forecasting process including variance analysis, and timely management reporting.

The new Director of Finance and Accounting will be part of the driving force in creating value, ensuring financial effectiveness, and helping to build the future of the enterprise. You will report to both the CEO of Become Europe and the head of the worldwide accounting organization in the United States.

 

 

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Interested?

Then accept the challenge and send a full CV in English, including your salary expectations and earliest starting date, to job.fin@become.com.   www.become.com and www.pangora.com  

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