Friday, April 17, 2009

Seeking a Software Sales Executive - Federal

I could use your help finding great candidates for our opening for a Software Sales Executive - Federal at NetBase. Please feel free to forward this.

Software Sales Executive - Federal
Location: Washington, DC

If you ever wanted to take part in how the world’s leading companies and governments leverage various forms of content and next generation search technologies, let NetBase give you the inside track to this dynamic sales career.

NetBase delivers Content Intelligence solutions that harness value and insight from any source including the Internet, premium purchased content, and your own enterprise content. NetBase delivers value by "reading" every sentence inside each available document, linguistically understanding that content, comparing that content to "uniquely deliver" relevant answers and insights that you can use to take action. NetBase is being deployed by organizations that are recognized as global leaders in healthcare, publishing, manufacturing, consumer packaged goods and government such as Elsevier, Procter & Gamble, 3M, The U.S. Army, Pepsi and many more. For more information on how you can use the power and insight of Netbase, visit www.netbase.com.

NetBase seeks an experienced Sales Executive/Hunter to drive client acquisition in the Federal Government segment. This role is 100% focused on acquiring new clients and driving new business.

The ideal candidate is a bright, ambitious, responsible, hard-working individual with a proven track record selling complex products to senior level government officials, particularly in the Armed Forces community.

This position offers opportunities for significant compensation as well as potential career growth in sales, and sales management. It also features the benefits of working for a startup company, including rapid change, a fast paced team-work environment, and stock options.

US work authorization required.

Qualifications:
- Proven track record selling complex solutions to the Federal Government and Armed Forces, in and exceeding sales targets
- Passion for sales, exceeding sales goals, and adding value for clients
- Ability to rapidly drive sales from cold call to close
- Aspires to the highest level of integrity
- Undergraduate degree (Engineering degree a plus)
- Outstanding communication, leadership, and teamwork skills
- Ability to adapt to rapid change
- Resourceful, flexible, and aggressive about learning new things
- Track record of meeting deadlines
- Skills with computer tools and office automation tools
- Knowledge of Miller Hieman sales methodologies a plus
- MBA a plus

Location: Washington, DC
Percentage travel: 60% Travel

Authorization to work in the US required.

To apply: Please submit a resume and cover letter via email to team@netbase.com with the subject of "Software Sales Executive - Federal".

Seeking Machine Learning Specialists

I could use your help finding great candidates for our opening for a Machine Learning Specialist at NetBase. Please feel free to forward this.

Machine Learning Specialist
Location: Mountain View, CA

NetBase, a well-funded, fast growing company with an impressive roster of top-tier Fortune 500 companies, seeks to grow its team with a machine learning specialist.

NetBase delivers Content Intelligence solutions that harness value and insight from any source, including the Internet, premium and enterprise content. NetBase reads every sentence inside documents, linguistically understands the content and powers breakthrough search experiences with relevant answers and insights. NetBase is being used by organizations that are recognized as global leaders in healthcare, publishing, manufacturing, consumer packaged goods and government such as Elsevier, Clorox, 3M, The U.S. Army, Pepsi and many more.

The Machine Learning Specialist role involves clustering/classification, topic identification, named entity tagging, lexicon acquisition and pattern identification from large corpora. The ideal candidate will have a PhD degree in Computer Science or related field with experience in natural language processing, computational linguistics, or information retrieval/extraction. Strong programming skills are required. At least two years of experience working with real life NL systems is required. A strong research record is a plus. We look for people who are flexible, learn quickly, and love getting into the details.

Authorization to work in the US and relocation are required.

To apply: Please submit a resume and cover letter via email to team@netbase.com with the subject of "Machine Learning Specialist".

Seeking a Software Architect

I could use your help finding great candidates for our Software Architect openning at NetBase. Please feel free to forward this.

Software Architect
Location: Mountain View, CA

NetBase, a well-funded, fast growing company with an impressive roster of top-tier Fortune 500 companies, seeks to grow its team with a hands-on software architect.

NetBase delivers Content Intelligence solutions that harness value and insight from any source, including the Internet, premium and enterprise content. NetBase reads every sentence inside documents, linguistically understands the content and powers breakthrough search experiences with relevant answers and insights. NetBase is being used by organizations that are recognized as global leaders in healthcare, publishing, manufacturing, consumer packaged goods and government such as Elsevier, Clorox, 3M, The U.S. Army, Pepsi and many more.

We seek a hands-on architect with extensive background in software development to translate business objectives into a technology vision and articulated architecture. Candidates should have a strong track record of designing and developing multi-tiered web applications that are high quality, scalable, and reliable. We prefer generalists who have driven feature development at every layer of the stack. We have a strong preference for large-scale text search expertise whether at a big search company or through experience customizing systems like Lucene or FAST. Also preferred are candidates with experience in applying NLP and Machine Learning to solving problems for Fortune 500 end-users.

Candidates should have excellent interpersonal skills and a track record of increasing responsibility. Those who are skilled in organizational needs assessment and driving change via consensus will fit in well on our team. Candidates should be able to establish credibility quickly and provide mentorship to team members. We target talented individuals who are resourceful, flexible, and aggressive about learning new things.

We are an Agile development shop. We do test-driven design and rapid iterative development and are looking for a like-minded architect to help us build for the future.

Requirements:
* 10 years work experience with 3+ as an architect
* Experience in large-scale, distributed, web-based applications
* Agile development methodology
* Deep knowledge of Java
* MS or PhD in CS
* Database design and SQL (MySQL a plus)
* Excellent interpersonal and communications skills
* High degree of integrity and drive
* Expertise in Adobe Flex, Flash and Python are nice to have

Authorization to work in the US and relocation are required.

To apply: Please submit a resume and cover letter via email to team@netbase.com with the subject of "Software Architect".

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