Jobs At Bebo


Bebo (www.bebo.com), Located in San Francisco; with over 40 million registered members viewing billions of pages monthly, it is the largest social networking site in the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand, and the third largest behind MySpace and Facebook in the US. Officially launched in July 2005, Bebo received the 2006 Webby Award People’s Vote as the best social networking site in the world.

Our people can boast demonstrated records of success in viral online marketing and social media, having come to us from such companies as Ringo, Tickle, BirthdayAlarm, Friendster, Google, Organic, and MTV. Bebo has enjoyed positive cash flow since day one, and received $15M from Benchmark Capital in one round of funding back in early 2006.

Our recent merger with AOL will bring tremendous opportunity by combining Bebo's fast growing user base with the social graph of AIM and other assets.

At Bebo you will:

  • Expand your skills and grow your career with a creative game changing team connecting friends, facilitating self-expression and providing full experience of media entertainment on the web.
  • Enjoy a supportive work environment, flexible hours, fantastic office space in beautiful SF SOMA and great perks (see below).
  • Jump with both feet into best practices of product, scaling, community, and business sides of building a great web app.

We offer:

  • Highly competitive salary.
  • Wide selection of Medical, Dental and Vision plans to meet your specific needs.
  • Matching 401K plan.
  • All the food and drinks to stay energized and healthy.
  • On-site massage.
  • Fun parties and company trips to get keep mind and body healthy
  • Frequent catered lunches
  • Respect and appreciation for who you are and what you contribute, regardless of your ethnicity, age, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, political views, quirkiness, hair style, etc...

Currently open positions:

Director of Western Sales - San Francisco or Los Angeles 106156BR

Senior UI Designer 104407BR

Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) 104420BR

Senior Network Engineer 107846BR

Manager, Advertising Operations, San Francisco, 109913BR

Revenue Analyst, San Francisco, 109912BR

Customer Service Representative, Bilingual Spanish / English, Austin, TX, 104389BR

QA Architect, San Francisco

Director of Western Sales - San Francisco or Los Angeles 106156BR

Bebo is currently conducting a search for senior a sales professional to grow advertising revenue in the Western US, focusing primarily on the Los Angeles market. This individual will be presented with an exciting opportunity to mine a largely untapped marketplace. Amongst other requirements, a high degree of professionalism, extensive industry contacts and consultative sales skills are necessary. (for further Bebo coverage & information http://www.bebo.com/Press.jsp)

Key Success Metrics for Dir. Western Sales:

  • Reach and exceed personal sales goals
  • Maintain an accurate forecast and healthy pipeline of opportunities
  • Grow existing and new agency and client relationships at both Sr. and Jr. levels

Skill, Knowledge and Experience Requirements:

A successful performer in this role will:

  • Employ a systematic approach to analyzing territory, assessing account potential and prioritizing sales activity
  • Maintain a high level knowledge of the industry including relevant technology and competitive developments
  • Demonstrate ability to manage accounts at various stages of maturity
  • Interact and communication effectively and professionally with all internal and external contacts
  • Conduct outcome driven negotiations maintaining integrity and relationships
  • Construct and communicate tailored value propositions demonstrating Bebo's ability to deliver solutions

Key Candidate Attributes:

  • Self starter/ "Hands On"
  • Energetic
  • Client-Focused
  • Detail Oriented
  • Enjoys a fast-paced and dynamic work environment
  • Team player
  • 3-5 years solution sales experience in media arena
  • Robust network of online and other media contacts within key agencies and clients

Please reply w/ your CV to jobs@bebo.com Phone calls are welcome after you have sent your resume & cover letter. Just ask to speak to the Bebo Recruiter. 415-243-4800

Senior UI Designer 104407BR

Duties include:

  • Have a strong sense of design in respect to creating simple, elegant, aesthetically pleasing interfaces based on user-center design principles
  • Be responsible for all stages of user experience design throughout the product lifecycle ensuring a compelling look and feel that meets branding, business and user requirements (spanning user interface, interaction and visual design)
  • Design creative solutions for current and future features
  • Create new user scenarios while maintaining consistency of UI framework and design patterns
  • Work hand in hand with web developers and engineers to bring your design ideas to life
  • Be comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment while working on multiple projects at the time
  • Be comfortable with a highly collaborative iterative design process
  • Be a self-motivated team player who enjoys to collaborate within a cross-functional team
  • Contribute to an existing culture of innovation, teamwork, and fun

Please reply w/ your CV to jobs@bebo.com Phone calls are welcome after you have sent your resume & cover letter. Just ask to speak to the Bebo Recruiter. 415-243-4800

Sr. Oracle Database Administrator (Oracle DBA) – San Francisco

Responsibilities include:

  • Deliver evolving database solutions for a rapid growth 24X7 production internet service
  • Identify and develop solutions to complex scalability and bottleneck issues
  • Manage replication, failover and recovery for the database infrastructure
  • Implement performance and availability monitoring and metrics
  • Participate in an on-call rotation in support of the production database

Required Experience:

  • 3-8 years experience with Oracle databases in mission critical
  • 24X7 OLTP production environments
  • Expert level experience with Oracle 10g databases administration and architecture
  • Advanced knowledge of data replication and failover principles
  • Strong PL/SQL stored procedures, functions, and triggers experience
  • High degree of comfort with the Oracle command line
  • Experience implementing and following database and schema change controls
  • MS or BS degree in computer science or related field preferred
  • Good knowledge of UNIX/Linux

Bonus Skills

  • Certified as an Oracle Database Administrator
  • Oracle RAC / ASM experience.Proven ability to install, deploy and manage Oracle 10g/11g Automated Storage - Management (ASM)

Senior Network Engineer 107846BR, San Francisco

The ideal candidate is goal-oriented, has the ability to handle interruptions while gracefully switching between several projects, and takes a "work smarter, not harder" approach.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a network/security engineer in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
  • Manage and expand high-volume load-balanced datacenter network environment serving millions of transactions a day
  • Troubleshoot problems, proactively identify and resolve technical challenges
  • Manage all network infrastructure including Cisco firewalls, routers, switches and load balancers
  • Maintain LAN/WAN connectivity and services, make recommendations to enhance uptime, performance and reliability
  • Ensure all network equipment is kept up to date with security patches and feature upgrades
  • Triage and resolve issues by working collaboratively with team members and service providers
  • Monitor network stability and performance and endure 24x7x365 operations. Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation. Occasionally work evenings and weekends/holidays as required for emergency or regular off-hour maintenance periods
  • Design and implement data center networks, with strong emphasis on comprehensive procedural documentation and maintenance

Minimum Qualifications

  • 7+ years of network operations experience
  • BS degree or equivalent experience
  • Design and implementation experience with routing protocols (BGP & OSPF)
  • Thorough understanding of DNS/ BIND, TCP/IP protocol suite
  • Significant experience with complex networking including architecture and highly detailed understanding of layers 1-4 and 7 of OSI stack, and security ((including broadcast/multicast concepts and routing)
  • Very strong L2/switching experience and troubleshooting skills: (production LAN design, fully versed in networking concepts such as STP / RSTP / MSTP / PVST, ARP, VTP, QOS)
  • Understanding of network security methodologies as a whole, including but not limited to: ACLs, ipfw / iptables, VPNs (tunneling, IPsec, PPTP, etc.)
  • Experience with enterprise-level LAN / WAN network design and the ability to create useful documentation with Visio and other tools
  • Fluency with common network admin and intrusion detection tools such as Snort, MRTG, Nagios, Ethereal/Wireshark, Nmap, Nessus, etc.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Experience in implementing and operating multi-site, internet-facing, load-balanced production web environments.
  • Strong Cisco experience: Netscaler and ACE load balancers, ASA/PIX firewalls, 65XX switches, 28xx-72xx routers
  • Experience with installation and management of IDS/IPS, securing perimeter devices, and identifying network attacks
  • Proficiency in Linux, Solaris, and Windows environments; administrative scripting skills (Perl, UNIX shell scripting)
  • Cisco certifications (CCNA, CCNP, CCIE,.) or equivalent experience

Manager, Advertising Operations, San Francisco, 109913BR

Bebo, Inc. is currently looking for an Ad Ops Manager who will report to and work directly with the Director of Advertising Operations. Responsibilities encompass the production, implementation, and manage the optimization of all online campaigns through our ad servers. In addition the role will need to ensure the effective exchange of information and assets among all relevant parties to achieve accurate and timely posting of online ad campaigns.

Daily and ongoing responsibilities will include:

  • Manage ad serving system and integration projects.
  • Advise/consult with internal departments regarding advertising inventory, availability forecasting, campaign performance and sell-thru reporting.
  • Liaise with International account management team regarding planning, prioritization, scheduling and delivery of campaigns.
  • Supply finance team with projection and delivery reports and end of the month reporting.
  • Implement optimization efforts throughout a campaign; manage delivery, testing, and trafficking of all ad creative.
  • Provide Account Management to advertising clients.
  • Manage the ad network campaigns.
  • Screen incoming creative to uphold content restrictions and quality assurance.
  • Monitor client activity to ensure satisfaction and swift problem resolution; proactively investigate discrepancies with clients, agencies and third-party platforms.

Qualifications

  • 3-5 years experience in ad operations working with online ad sales teams preferably with an Internet publisher or advertising agency; good grasp of the online advertising industry.
  • Significant familiarity working with DART preferably, and/or one of the major ad serving or inventory management solutions (Falk, Atlas, 24/7 etc.).
  • Comprehensive understanding of campaign success metrics: conversions, CPM's, CPA’s
  • Familiarity with rich media tags, basic understanding of Java Script and basic HTML.
  • Previous client services or account management experience
  • Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills
  • Team Player with a great, positive attitude
  • Ability to work in fast-paced start-up and juggle multiple priorities while meeting deadlines
  • Must be organized and possess great attention to detail
  • BA/BS degree required

Revenue Analyst, San Francisco, 109912BR

Position Summary:

The Revenue Analyst will have primary responsibility for worldwide Revenue forecasting, recognition, and collections. The position will report directly to the Director of Ad Operations, with a strong working relationship with the Sales and Finance organizations. The Revenue Analyst will provide revenue inputs into the weekly revenue dashboard. The Revenue Analyst will help forecasting revenue and ongoing updating of the forecast. In addition, the position will supervise the accounts receivable functions.

General Responsibilities:

  • Revenue recognition
  • Support Finance by providing timely and accurate revenue for the monthly close process
  • Drive detail aspect of corporate budgets and forecasts.
  • Work closely with Ad Sales and Operations departments on revenue recognition issues and associated sales contract structuring
  • Commission plan calculation
  • Help with revenue related policies, procedures, and internal controls
  • Timely revenue budget vs actual information and revenue inputs for budget process

Functional Responsibilities:

  • Revenue recognition
  • Worldwide Revenue Consolidation
  • Revenue Reporting
  • Commission calculation

Personal Requirements:

  • Independent, self starter
  • Ability to work with departments outside finance organization, especially sales executives
  • Ability to help company’s scale their revenue function
  • Can effectively interact and supervise others
  • Flexible and team player
  • “Can do” attitude

Experience:

  • Prior Financial/Revenue Analyst experience – Minimum 2 years and significant revenue analysis responsibility
  • GAAP revenue recognition strong knowledge
  • Experience with online advertising sales model
  • Start-up company experience
  • Strong excel and Microsoft Office skills
  • Rapidly growing revenue environment
  • B.S. in Finance. MBA preferred.

Customer Service Representative, Bilingual Spanish / English, Austin, TX, 104389BR

Responsibilities:

  • Provide excellent web-based Customer Care
  • assistance to our members
  • Aid in content review of the website

Qualifications:

  • High School Diploma or GED required
  • 2 or more years of Customer Service experience preferred
  • Verbal and written fluency in both English AND Spanish required.
  • Computer proficiency with familiarity of Windows operating system
  • Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, diverse, and rapidly changing environment

QA Architect, San Francisco

Duties/Responsibilities of Position:

  • Analyze product requirements specifications, functional specifications and prepare a detailed functional test specification to be executed by the QA organization.
  • Prepare a detailed capability matrix to map capabilities to functional requirements to the test plan, for defining the acceptance criteria and ensuring comprehensive test coverage.
  • Independently design and document detailed performance test cases to cover all levels of test, including: performance, and scalability under load/stress.
  • Effectively employ automation to reduce testing cycles on repeated tasks.
  • Analyze reported defects to assess severity and prioritize them for development to fix.
  • Interact with software developers to tune code and track all problem reports to closure.
  • Assist with the QA project planning process including manpower estimation.
  • Assist with setting directions and monitoring for other project QA Engineers.

Position Specific Competencies/Skills Required:

  • Demonstrated ability to successfully plan and execute effective end to end product testing, on time.
  • Hands-on experience with programming/scripting.
  • Experience with multiple OS platforms (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux), Web Server/Application Servers, SQL databases, testing tools (scripting languages, Rational Robot, LoadRunner, Silk, etc.), and client/server or web applications.
  • Success in implementing automated testing (through API testing, GUI automation, web scalability and stress testing, code coverage, performance testing, etc.).
  • History of team participation with development staff in requirements/design validation activities.
  • Sound knowledge of software development lifecycle.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills; including the ability to effectively convey issues and alternatives regardless of the audience level or circumstances.
  • Effective organizational skills; ability to multi-task.

Experience/Education Required/Desired:

  • A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or appropriate technical degree (or 4 years equivalent experience)
  • 5 - 8 years of software product development/quality assurance responsibilities
  • 2 - 3 years of development and/or quality assurance lead or management responsibilities.
  • Strong people skills; able to positively motivate others promoting teamwork and resolution of issues.
  • Experienced with a programming (such as Java) or scripting language (Perl, AWK, etc.)
  • Familiar with version control/configuration management systems and defect tracking software.

Please reply w/ your CV to jobs@bebo.com Phone calls are welcome after you have sent your resume & cover letter. Just ask to speak to the Bebo Recruiter. 415-243-4800