Military.com combines consumer insight, cutting-edge technology and ingenuity to better the lives of millions. We serve one of the nation's largest, most loyal affinity groups: 30 million Americans who have answered the call to serve.

In just 7 years, we've revolutionized the way this community stays informed and connected. Drawing over 8 million monthly unique visitors, Military.com is the world's largest military media outlet and the leading provider of career services, education resources, information and entertainment for this demographic.

We've set the standard for developing successful communities on the Internet. From blogs to dynamic content delivery to social networking, our talented team engages consumers by combining state-of- the-art technology with creative product development and marketing.

In 2004, we joined forces with Monster (Nasdaq: MNST) to catapult us towards our vision of connecting the military community to all the benefits of service. Today, we enjoy a small company feel as well as "Monster" benefits befitting the world's leading career network.

We've come a long way and take pride in our strong team, hip office, and great view. Located in the heart of San Francisco, Military.com is easily accessible by various means of public transportation - including the ferry, BART, bus and streetcar.

We believe that life is too short not to enjoy what you do and to make contributions that matter. If that sounds right to you, send us your resume.

Requirements:

• Demonstrated experience with SQL, Java, JDBC, JSP, and Servlets
• Proficient knowledge of of HTML, DHTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Web based portal or dot.com experience
• Experienced in object oriented and pattern design
• Solid communication skills and attention to detail
• Must be enthusiastic and work well with others
• Four year degree or equivalent work experience

Desired Skills:

• Strong Unix familiarity
• Junit, regression testing, or benchmarking
• Experience with J2EE or TCL app servers
• Knowledge of Spring, Ant, or CruiseControl
• Familiarity with Oracle pl/sql or dba tasks
• Experience with version control and release management
• Leadership or management skills
  

Required Skills:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent. Masters Degree a plus
• 8+ years experience developing software in a structured setting  
• Expert level knowledge of Java, J2EE, web services and other distributed technologies and architectures
• Strong familiarity in Spring Framework, Hibernate, JDO, Resin, Tomcat, Apache
• Experience in leading lead senior engineers in the delivery of high quality products in a startup environment
• Experience in managing people
• Excellent OO development skills, as demonstrated by having designed large scale projects
• Extensive experience architecting, designing and leading the development of new products in emerging markets
• Experience with design patterns and distributed systems
• Familiarity with modern agile development methodologies and test-driven, component-oriented iterative development practices
• Strong technical background as a project lead and individual contributor
• A high degree of self-motivation and flexibility
• The ability to effectively organize and prioritize multiple complex tasks
• The ability and willingness to proactively interact creatively and achieve results in a dynamic small company environment
• Excellent written and oral communications skills

Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop technical and architectural aspects of new product features, such as newsletters, tracking, content delivery system, and security framework, to ensure consistency, quality and architectural integrity.
• Review existing software architecture and identify areas for improvement in the areas of scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Design and implement frameworks, interfaces, and services to be used by a broad range of applications and development groups.
• Provide strong customer advocacy within the product team in understanding and identifying requirements of new products.
• Understand and champion customer use cases in the context of new feature deliverables and product strategy.
• Research and evaluate technology alternative solutions to enhance our technical and product infrastructure.
• Mentor the development team in the adoption and use of best practices and design patterns.
  

Primary Responsibilities:

• Administer web production database in a 24X7 environment.
• Optimize and monitor oracle instance performance.
• Optimize and validate SQL and PL/SQL
• Assist and guide in database design.
• Function as both operation and development DBA.
• Work and communicate cross functionally with Marketing, Sales and Product.
• Responsible for backup and batch imports.
• Produce reports and/or create scripts for Marketing and Sales.

Ideal Candidate:

• 5+ years of solid Oracle DBA experience in 24X7 UNIX environment. 
• Advanced performance tuning skills (instance and SQL).
• Experience with building, installation, upgrade, and patching of Oracle.
• Strong backup and recovery skills and experience with RMAN.
• Oracle 9i or 10g experience on Linux platform.
• Thorough knowledge of Oracle architecture.
• Vi and UNIX shell scripting experience.
• Experience with supporting and multiple projects/tasks simultaneously.
• Experience in SQL tuning writing cursors, triggers and complex queries.
• Willingness to become familiar with all areas of the Military.com website.
• Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written).
• BA/BS. Advanced degree a plus.
• Experience with web applications Tomcat, especially Vignette a plus.
• Knowledge of JAVA, JSP, Servlets, Perl a plus.
• Familiarity with Veritas, EMC, and strong UNIX plus.
• Experience with open source (mySQL, etc.) or other RDBS a plus.

Online Advertising Operations Manager

• Building strategic proposals by pulling research data, verifying inventory availability and assessing the economics of the potential buy
• Responding to RFP’s and other opportunities submitted by Sales
  
• Using our ad serving system to assess and reserve inventory
• Aligning closely with Sales and Sales Planners to identify opportunities
• Working with relevant internal teams to develop new offerings on an as needed basis
• Developing presentation materials
• Becoming fully cross-trained within the Ad Operation team
• Assisting in various projects as needed

 Requirements: 

• Ability to work independently, multi-task and thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Adaptable, accountable and reliable
• Familiarity with online advertising metrics and analytic models
• Experience with an online ad serving system such as DART, Engage, etc is a plus
• Enthusiastic team player, willing to “roll up your sleeves” to help team achieve goals
• Superior communication and organizational skills
• Detail, deadline and goal oriented
• Ability to think creatively and take initiative
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products - especially Excel
• Prior military experience a plus; interest in serving the military community a must

Program Manager, Monster Military

• Manage the accounts of multiple world-class clients in support of the outside sales representative
• Work collaboratively with Sales, Sales Operations, Marketing and Product teams to deliver success and ROI to clients
• Work collaboratively with colleagues at all the organizations’ many divisions to ensure a smooth functioning business unit.
• Lead and manage the implementation and progress of campaigns across different websites
• Build relationships with multiple client contacts so that campaigns are successfully launched, optimized and completed
• Act as a resource for client questions, creative specs and media plans
• Collect data and analyze it so that the performance of multiple campaigns can be optimized
• Oversee 100% accurate centralized billing for all products for all clients
• Prepare presentations, correspondence and reports
• Manage projects and coordinate efforts across cross-functional teams as needed
• Maintain organized archives of sales and marketing collateral, contracts and campaigns

 Requirements: 

• Ability to work independently, multi-task and thrive in a fast-paced, start-up environment
• Enthusiastic, high energy and unafraid to "roll up your sleeves"
• 2 years account management and/or client service experience
• Excellent oral and written communications skills
• Strong analytical skills and follow-through
• Extremely detail-oriented, accurate
• Demonstrated success and desire for growth
• Understanding of interactive media, and emerging advertising trends
• Strong financial tracking/reporting skills for billing reconciliations
• Willingness to do whatever it takes to ensure client success
• Ability to evaluate online campaigns and recommend changes to optimize performance
• BA/BS required
• Perform quality assurance checks on campaigns and materials