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The AddThis team, part of Clearspring, is based in our McLean, VA and New York City offices. The ability to shape AddThis is limitless — your work will be seen and used by billions of people around the world.

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Current AddThis Team Openings

  • LocationOpen Positions
  • Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Texas, AtlantaAccount Executive - Sales

    We're looking for talented sales individuals who are willing to work for a company at the forefront of the new Audience Marketplace Landscape. We are looking for sales executives in the Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Texas, and Atlanta territories to work with agencies and advertisers to break new business, and increase business from our existing client-base.

    Required Skills/Experience:

    • 3+ Years of Digital Sales experience
    • Present and sell company products and services to current and potential clients
    • Pro-active, positive attitude and exceptional work ethic
    • Identify sales prospects and contact these and other accounts as assigned
    • Prepare presentations, proposals and sales contracts
    • Establish and maintain current client and potential client relationships
    • Identify and resolve client concerns
    • Experience with Salesforce to keep status updates, manage opportunities etc.

    Clearspring Audience Platform enables the largest brands and agencies in the U.S. to target audience segments based on intent and influencer data. Clearspring reaches over 200M U.S. uniques, and uses demand side platforms to deliver campaigns to these audiences via real time bidding on ad exchanges.

    Apply

  • McLean, VAAccounting Manager

    Clearspring is looking for an Accounting Manager. Primary responsibilities include day-to-day accounting operations to financial analysis and reporting. This position requires a detail oriented team player who can work with minimal supervision in a fast-paced environment with time sensitive deadlines and multiple demands.

    Primary Responsibilities:

    • Prepare and issue customer invoices in accordance with media insertion orders/terms of contracts and delivery systems
    • Review sales and partner agreements for adherence to revenue recognition and expense guidelines in accordance with GAAP
    • Responsible for vendor and employee expense disbursement processing
    • Maintain balance sheet account reconciliations and ensure accuracy of month end financial
    • Customer collections follow through on aged receivables
    • Assist with cash flow forecasting
    • Prepare and analyze monthly P&L budget to actual variances
    • Enhance the financial internal control environment through design and implementation of new controls and processes

    Required Skills/Experience:

    • Undergraduate degree in Accounting - CPA and/or MBA combined with solid accounting experience is a plus
    • 6+ years of accounting experience - Public accounting audit experience combined with corporate accounting experience in a small to large accounting department
    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in interactions with employees at all levels, customers and outside vendors in addition to auditors and government agencies
    • Strong analytical, accounting and auditing skills with demonstrated proficiency in U.S. GAAP
    • Software experience to include a major ERP package such as: Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, Great Plains
    • Proficiency in Microsoft Office products

    Apply

  • McLean, VAAd Ops Strategic Analyst

    Clearspring is looking for an Ad Ops Strategic Analyst that has a background in ad campaign management as well as the ability to problem solve down to the root causes, analyze quantitative measures, optimize performance of ad campaigns and has general web and java knowledge. This is a data-intensive position and involves daily reporting and optimization leveraging multiple data points.

    Primary Responsibilities:

    • Day to day management of advertising campaigns, which includes campaign trafficking, targeting, pacing, optimization, and reporting
    • Manage campaign process, including requesting creative, tracking pixels and troubleshooting ad issues
    • Provide excellent customer service for our sales team, clients and partners
    • Point of contact for out of the ordinary asks on ad campaigns
    • Debug escalated or out of the norm issues with campaigns
    • Problem solve and break down issues to the root causes and map out immediate fixes as well as longer term systematic fixes
    • Pre-emptively identify issues and address
    • Testing of performance - managing test results and communicating to product and sales
    • Translate complex, manual processes and activities to repeatable, scalable products

    Required Skills/Experience:

    • Bachelor's degree or related experience required
    • At least 1-2 years of trafficking experience using Atlas, DART or other leading online ad servers
    • Experience with ad trafficking, de-bugging, data collection, working with ad specs, ad tags, ad platforms and external customers
    • Proven problem solving skills with the ability to break down issues to find systemic issues
    • Proven analytical skills with an established approach to quantitative analysis
    • Proven exceptional spreadsheet skills
    • Strong communication skills with the ability to translate quantitative numbers into recommended actions
    • Ability to work in a fast paced, startup environment
    • Organized with ability to work on multiple projects, issues, etc
    • Working http and java knowledge a plus

    Apply

  • McLean, VABusiness Intelligence Analyst

    Clearspring is looking for a Business Intelligence Analyst. The Business Intelligence Analyst position will be responsible for supporting business teams and their decision through critical reporting, analysis and insights relative to their products, processes, competitors and marketplace.

    Primary Responsibilities:

    • Responsible for business analysis, requirements gathering, management, development and delivery of reports and other data output formats
    • Partner with the business teams to understand key performance indicators (KPIs), business processes and underlying data sources to collect and build function requirements for reporting dashboards
    • Create and produce weekly executive and operational reports, in addition to ad hoc reports
    • Metric creation, performance, and trending analysis
    • Own the process of driving core insights from available data and create strategies to improve operational decisions

    Required Skills/Experience:

    • Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent work experience
    • Experience using industry leading business intelligence and reporting tool sets
    • 5+ years of experience working as a business analyst
    • 3+ years working with and enhancing business intelligence solutions
    • Must be able to write SQL queries
    • Proven experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
    • Ability to work effectively on multiple priorities with strict deliverable dates
    • Team-player with superior interpersonal skills who can work closely with both technical development teams and end business users
    • Proven skills in MS Office tools (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, Visio)
    • Proven advanced skills in MS Excel
    • Proven ability to work independently with little direction
    • Proven ability to be a self-starter

    Apply

  • McLean, VACampaign Manager

    Clearspring is looking for a Campaign Manager who will be responsible for managing day to day campaign trafficking, targeting, pacing, optimization, reporting, and overall campaign strategy. This position involves managing the full life-cycle of campaigns including pre-campaign tasks like tracking pixel generation and placement as well as creative review. This is a data-intensive position and involves daily reporting and optimization leveraging multiple data points.

    Primary Responsibilities:

    • Day to day management of advertising campaigns, which includes campaign trafficking, targeting, pacing, optimization, and reporting.
    • Manage campaign process, including requesting creative, tracking pixels and troubleshooting ad issues.
    • Provide excellent customer service for our sales team, clients and partners.

    Required Skills/Experience::

    • Bachelor's degree or related experience required
    • At least 1-2 years of trafficking experience using Atlas, DART or other leading online ad servers
    • Knowledge of online ad serving (video ad experience a strong plus). Additional experience with online ad exchanges is a plus
    • Comfort and experience with a fast paced environment
    • Strong written and oral communication skills
    • Hands on experience with all the common online pricing systems and terminology
    • Familiarity with HTML, XML, Flash and Excel. As most of the reporting is in Excel, detailed experience with this program is a plus
    • Proactive, detail-oriented nature

    Apply

  • McLean, VADirector, Marketing

    We're looking for a talented Marketing leader who is interested in working for the largest sharing platform on the web. This is a great opportunity for an experienced Marketing leader to build and develop the Marketing function and have a significant impact on the Clearspring brand, publishing and advertising aspects of the Clearspring business.

    Primary Responsibilities:

    • Work with CEO and Executive Leadership team to evolve the brand and create a unified platform message
    • Develop marketing and brand strategy and corresponding tactics to establish Clearspring as the thought leader in the industry
    • Lift market exposure through different channels
    • Play a pivotal role in developing promotions and campaigns and creating promotional materials for promotions and releases
    • Manage and work with external vendors to develop sales collateral
    • Develop and provide insight into marketing analytics of promotions, campaigns, etc
    • Build and lead the Marketing group as the company grows

    Required Skills/Experience:

    • At least five years of proven marketing experience to include marketing analytics, building brand awareness, public relations, and promotions
    • Bachelor's degree or related experience required. BS in Marketing or BBA preferred
    • Proven presentation, project management, negotiation and analytical skills
    • Comfort and experience in a fast paced, start-up environment
    • Proven excellent oral and written communication skills
    • Proven attention to detail
    • Proven experience in leading a team and working collaboratively across functions

    Apply

  • McLean, VASenior Recruiter

    Due to our continued growth, Clearspring is looking for an in-house Senior Recruiter. This position is responsible for ensuring organization staffing needs are met through recruitment efforts. Efforts include identification of appropriate sourcing options, working with managers to define needs, sourcing, screening and interviewing candidates, building a talent pipeline, and developing recruitment collateral to include interview guides, ads and brochures.

    Primary Responsibilities:

    • Works closely with management to identify hiring needs
    • Screens candidate resumes and applications and forwards applicable ones to hiring managers
    • Interviews applicants for assigned open positions and schedules candidates to interview with hiring managers and designated interview panels
    • Serves as primary contact point for candidate and hiring manager throughout the process. Works with hiring manager and Director, Talent on offer details. Presents offer details to candidates
    • Participates in initiatives designed to identify and attract the best candidates for the Company. This includes, but is not limited to identifying and attending networking events to build a talent pipeline, hosting career events, employment branding initiatives, sourcing initiatives, strategic staffing initiatives, etc.
    • Leads university and college recruiting activities and manages relationships with various schools to ensure participation in appropriate job fairs, graduate interviewing schedules, etc.. Leads intern program efforts and works closely with internal hiring managers and universities to ensure program meets needs of both constituencies
    • Interacts with search firms and employment agencies

    Required Skills/Experience:

    • Bachelors degree in business, communication or equivalent
    • At least 5 years of experience in recruiting and employment
    • Experience with recruiting via social media and non-traditional recruitment methods
    • Basic understanding of employment laws, with solid understanding of legal/illegal pre-employment inquiries
    • Excellent knowledge of recruiting techniques and employment policies and procedures
    • Excellent planning, time management, communication, decision making, presentation, organization, and interpersonal skills
    • Proven ability to work independently, to be a self-starter, to be resourceful and to work in a fast-paced environment
    • Demonstrated proficiency with MS Office, email and Internet applications

    Apply

  • McLean, VASoftware Engineer

    Do you enjoy solving interesting problems with web-services and middleware requiring high-availability and high performance? We're looking for a software engineer with excellent problem solving and analytical skills with about one to two years of experience who wants to start or improve their career learning from a very talented team of software engineers.

    We value those with exceptional technical skills who want to work with others in a fun, challenging, and hard-charging environment, and can make exciting things happen with technology.

    Primary Responsibilities

    • Developing core algorithms and automated testing systems for high-impact web-services and middleware used for behavioral tracking
    • Learning high performance architecture and creating automated performance tests

    Required Skills/Experience

    • One to two years of coding experience in a team-based environment
    • BA/BS in Computer Science or a similar technical degree
    • Proven skills in Java development (J2SE and/or J2EE)
    • Proven skills in UNIX shell scripting and build systems (ant, maven, etc)
    • Version control (SVN)
    • Some familiarity with testing tools or experience with automated testing
    • LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) skills / experience (not required)
    • Proven problem solving skills

    Apply

  • McLean, VASoftware Test Engineer

    We're looking for a great software test engineer with a focus on quality assurance to help us build the tools and systems needed to keep the world's largest content sharing platform going strong. You'll work as part of a small, focused team developing innovative testing frameworks and tools, supporting and guiding the efforts of test engineers, and helping to manage the entire infrastructure that this requires.

    We value those with exceptional technical skills who want to work with others in a fun, challenging, and hard-charging environment, and can make exciting things happen with technology.

    Primary Responsibilities:

    • Work with geographically distributed teams to design automated test methodologies
    • Develop and maintain test tools
    • Conduct large-scale distributed performance tests and manage a test infrastructure
    • Work closely with fellow engineers as part of the new feature development process

    Required Skills/Experience:

    • One to two years of proven Javascript, Java, or PHP development
    • Bachelor's degree or related experience required
    • Proven Unix skills
    • Proven experience conducting performance testing
    • Some familiarity with scripting languages such as Python, Perl or Ruby
    • Selenium/WebDriver and shell scripting experience is preferred

    Apply

  • McLean, VASr. Java Software Engineer

    We're looking for an extremely talented Java software engineer to help tackle some of the largest-scale data processing challenges around. You'll work as part of a small, focused team developing cutting-edge solutions to highly unique problems.

    We value those with exceptional technical skills who want to work with others in a fun, challenging, and hard-charging environment, and can make exciting things happen with technology.

    Primary Responsibilities

    • Working with a small team to drive the architecture of our core distributed data processing infrastructure
    • Hands-on software development, with a large amount for direct contribution
    • Managing a collaborative development pipeline
    • Producing designs and test frameworks in addition to feature code
    • Contributing expertise in specific technical areas to the team as a whole

    Required Skills/Experience

    • CS/EE, advanced degree preferred
    • 5+ years of real industry experience with Java-based development
    • Expert-level Java skills and design experience, including significant knowledge of core libraries and common design patterns
    • Experience in a team-based environment working on commercial software products
    • Commercial experience with distributed, high-performance systems
    • Experience with light-weight and/or Agile development methodologies is desired
    • Experience with open source data processing frameworks is a plus

    Apply

  • McLean, VASr. Software Architect

    We're looking for an extremely talented Senior Software Architect to join our Advertising Product Team that will be responsible for providing architectural and big picture oversight for development of new or enhanced products. This position will operate as a leader by providing technical advice, guidance and mentorship to the development team. You'll work as part of a small, focused team developing innovative solutions to highly unique problems focused on turning big data into actionable behavioral targeting and analytics products. We value those with exceptional technical skills who want to work with others in a fun, challenging, and hard-charging environment, and can make exciting things happen with technology. You're starting with a cutting edge platform, and extremely smart team, and helping lead the charge to scale and create the best behavioral products on the market.

    Primary Responsibilities:

    • Responsible for ensuring quality and consistency of the software architecture across the system and providing day-to-day technical guidance to the development teams
    • Hands-on software development, with a large amount for direct contribution
    • Managing a collaborative development pipeline
    • Producing designs and test frameworks in addition to feature code
    • Contributing expertise in specific technical areas to the team as a whole
    • Define the system, technical, and application architectures for major areas of development and recommend course of action
    • Stay up-to-date on business initiatives and objectives, particularly as these relate to infrastructure and development architecture issues. Research and implement best practices frameworks/capability models

    Required Skills/Experience:

    • Bachelors degree and/or equivalent work experience
    • 7+ years of real industry experience with Java-based development & associated frameworks
    • Expert-level Java skills and design experience
    • Advanced knowledge of SQL databases
    • Intermediate knowledge of PHP and associated frameworks
    • Experience in a team-based environment working on commercial software products
    • Experience with light-weight and/or Agile development methodologies is desired
    • Experience with open source data processing frameworks is a plus
    • Advanced degree preferred

    Apply

  • McLean, VASystem Administrator

    Clearspring runs a sophisticated large-scale infrastructure that is touched by billions of end users. We are looking for a Systems Administrator to help us provide support to a 24x365 service-oriented computing environment. This role includes participation in software releases, on-call rotation, and support, as well as distributed computing infrastructure design and configuration. This is a chance to play in a large operational sandbox, and work in a highly effective technical team.

    Primary Responsibilities:

    • Identify and resolve service and performance issues
    • Create or update documentation including network diagrams, procedures, and policies
    • On call duties
    • Routine End User Support
    • Other duties as assigned

    Required Skills/Experience:

    • At least three years of proven experience in a service oriented, computing environment, Linux Server support and end user support
    • Proven experience configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting the following systems - Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, DNS, SMTP Systems, Apache web servers, MySQL Data servers
    • Bachelor's degree or related experience required
    • Proven experience scripting to automate tasks using one or more of the following: Bash, SH, Perl, Python, PHP
    • Proven ability to work well in team environment
    • Proven ability to multitask and juggle multiple critical issues
    • Proven ability to quickly adapt to change
    • Proven experience configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting the following systems is preferred - Loadbalancer Configuration, tuning Network routing and firewall configuration/maintenance SAN File Systems, Tomcat application servers, Monitoring/Alerting Systems, LDAP, Configuration Management, CDN Management and Configuration
    • Proven experience diagnosing complex issues is preferred
    • Proven experience troubleshooting network, server, application issues is preferred

    Apply

  • New York, NYUI/JavaScript Developer

    Our JavaScript tools are loaded billions of times per day, across the web (not a typo). We're looking for an amazingly talented front-end developer to help us take the next step with the world's largest content sharing platform and social toolset, AddThis. You'll work as part of a small, focused team on sophisticated client-side solutions for the social web.

    We value those with exceptional technical skills who want to work with others in a fun, challenging, and hard-charging environment, and can make truly exciting things happen with technology. Advanced JavaScript, highly optimized code, minimal dependencies.

    Primary Responsibilities

    • Working with a small team to contribute to the design and implementation of core product features in our client toolset, using JavaScript and related web technologies
    • Managing your development pipeline — being able to identifying and prioritize tasks as well as execute on them
    • Producing software designs and test frameworks in addition to feature code
    • Contributing strong expertise in specific client-side technical areas to the team as a whole

    Required Skills/Experience

    • B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent
    • Experience in a small-team environment working on a commercial software product
    • Strong expertise with modern frameworks such as jQuery (though we're more interested in frameworks you've written on your own)
    • Total comfort with light-weight and/or Agile development methodologies

    Clearspring is headquartered in the DC area, but we're looking for folks to work with our other engineering staff in NYC. In this position you'll be able to work from home, our NYC office, the crash pads of fellow NYC- based engineers, the library, whatever, with occasional trips to DC.

    Interested? Drop us a line, and include some awesome examples, side projects, past work, whatever you're proudest of.

    Apply

  • McLean, VAUI/JavaScript Developer

    Our JavaScript tools are loaded billions of times per day, across the web (not a typo). We're looking for an amazingly talented front-end developer to help us take the next step with the world's largest content sharing platform and social toolset, AddThis. You'll work as part of a small, focused team on sophisticated client-side solutions for the social web.

    We value those with exceptional technical skills who want to work with others in a fun, challenging, and hard-charging environment, and can make truly exciting things happen with technology. Advanced JavaScript, highly optimized code, minimal dependencies.

    Primary Responsibilities

    • Working with a small team to contribute to the design and implementation of core product features in our client toolset, using JavaScript and related web technologies
    • Managing your development pipeline — being able to identifying and prioritize tasks as well as execute on them
    • Producing software designs and test frameworks in addition to feature code
    • Contributing strong expertise in specific client-side technical areas to the team as a whole

    Required Skills/Experience

    • B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent
    • Experience in a small-team environment working on a commercial software product
    • Strong expertise with modern frameworks such as jQuery (though we're more interested in frameworks you've written on your own)
    • Total comfort with light-weight and/or Agile development methodologies

    Interested? Drop us a line, and include some awesome examples, side projects, past work, whatever you're proudest of.

    Apply

  • McLean, VAWeb Developer

    We're looking for a great web developer to help us take the next step on the world's largest content sharing platform and social toolset. You'll work as part of a small, focused team developing great user experiences across the web, on both the server and the client side, in PHP and JavaScript.

    We value those with exceptional technical skills who want to work with others in a fun, challenging, and hard-charging environment, and can make exciting things happen with technology.

    Primary Responsibilities

    • Working with a small team to contribute to the design and implementation of core product features in PHP, JavaScript, and related web technologies
    • Managing your individual development pipeline with the assistance of a team lead
    • Producing software designs and test frameworks in addition to feature code
    • Contributing expertise in specific technical areas to the team as a whole

    Required Skills/Experience

    • B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent
    • Experience in a team-based environment working on commercial software products
    • Competence with modern web tools such as Zend Framework, JQuery, etc.
    • Experience with light-weight and/or Agile development methodologies
    • Experience with backend technologies and Unix systems is a plus

    Apply

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