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Digg's growing like a weed. If you can throw a nerf football deep through the office without destroying anyone's laptop or spilling Kevin's tea, perhaps you're right for one of the jobs we've currently got listed. We offer a generous set of benefits and a fine workspace in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood. Check the positions below and if you think you've got what it takes (cue "Eye of the Tiger") apply to join us at Digg.

Business Development
Business Development Manager
Product Management
Product Manager
Advertising
Director of Advertising Operations (Ad Ops)
Design
Web Designer (/information architect/ux engineer/standardista/loads of other stuff too)
Operations
Desktop/Enterprise Support Manager
Software Development
Software Developers
Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance Analyst

Business Development Manager

LOCATION
San Francisco, Ca (Potrero Hill)
GENERAL FUNCTIONS
This position has a broad set of responsibilities spanning across all areas of business development for Digg. Responsibilities include identifying and targeting new distribution verticals, evangelizing the Digg value proposition to prospective and existing partners, and achieving measurable unique user growth through key distribution partnerships. Digg is looking for an exceptional individual who not only has the vision and entrepreneurial spirit necessary to excel in an early stage environment, but the focus and ability to prioritize and drive deals to completion. The position offers a competitive salary, stock options, and a full package of benefits.
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Evangelize the Digg value proposition to existing and new partners with a goal toward demonstrably increasing unique users and new registrations.
  • Manage relationships with existing partners and look for and execute deeper integration opportunities.
  • Stay ahead of industry trends and make innovative recommendations to management as to relevant verticals, industries, and partnerships.
  • Develop and nurture an ecosystem of channel partners and developers to ensure that Digg addresses the needs of its strongest supporters and constituencies.
  • Identify and define business and partnership opportunities that impact key metrics and require minimal development resources.
QUALIFICATIONS
  • Internet industry experience and familiarity with the metrics and business drivers for a pure-play web business.
  • An MBA or J.D. or equivalent experience, including strong modeling skills and/or experience negotiating and drafting term sheets and contracts.
  • Excellent research skills, including the ability to quickly synthesize large amounts of information and present them concisely in both written and verbal formats.
  • 3-7 years of experience in a relevant field, with demonstrated success managing a deal pipeline and closing both large and small deals individually and as part of a team.
  • Masterful ability to create professional looking presentations, mockups, and product specifications that clearly articulate ideas and proposals.
  • Technical background or strong understanding of product development is a plus.
  • Ability to work with cross-functional internal teams and build consensus among development, product management, operations and finance teams

Product Manager

LOCATION
San Francisco, CA (Potrero Hill)
GENERAL FUNCTIONS
Digg is a recognized leader and one of the hottest growth companies in the exploding online social media space. Founded in 2004 and backed by top-tier investors, Digg is currently in the top 20 most visited sites in the US and the top 100 in the world according to Alexa traffic rankings.
We are currently looking for an experienced and passionate Product Manager to help manage our product development initiatives. Reporting to the Sr. Product Manager, this position requires a driven and creative individual who enjoys collaborative problem solving in a cross-functional environment.
The ideal candidate will be organized, agile, and effective at delivering product initiatives on time and in scope. S/he should have a personal passion for web technologies, work effectively within a team environment and be comfortable working in a highly self-directed manner.
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Work with the Design, Development, Marketing, and Business Development teams to define requirements and functional specifications for project initiatives.
  • Meticulously think through every aspect of the user experience, putting users' needs and expectations first in the definition of requirements.
  • Collect and analyze key site and business metrics and use this data to support the prioritizing and definition of project initiatives.
  • Maintain time-lines, deliverables, and requirements for projects so that they launch on time and in scope.
  • Gather new ideas for site features by reaching out to the Digg community actively monitoring channels for feedback.
  • Track, organize, and prioritize product bugs.
  • Monitor product development initiatives of key competitors.
  • Help explore product implications for new business and partnership opportunities.
QUALIFICATIONS
  • BA/BS degree; MBA a strong plus
  • Minimum 5 years of product management, product marketing, or consulting experience, preferably in consumer Web-based products.
  • Passion for analyzing products, customers and market dynamics.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • Strong use of analytics and business cases to drive decisions.
  • Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage projects concurrently.
  • Experience or familiarity with Agile product development methodologies.
  • Understanding of the technical trade-offs of various Web production technologies.
To Apply
Send your resume and a cover letter to jobs@digg.com

Director of Advertising Operations

LOCATION
San Francisco, CA (Potrero Hill)
GENERAL FUNCTIONS
This high profile opportunity will own and drive the advertising operations for one of the hottest sites on the web today. In implementing and managing Digg's advertising operations programs, this role is responsible for defining Digg's ad serving architecture and technologies, recommending a solution to the executive team, and managing the process of implementation. The position will also serve as the primary interface to Digg's internal and third party ad sales networks to ensure that advertising operations are fully optimized and the company is meeting and exceeding its delivery obligations to its network partners and clients.
Additional responsibilities include optimizing advertising performance related to site design, data analysis, predictive capabilities and recommending solutions that increase ad inventory and monetization potential.
This is a truly unique opportunity for a seasoned ad ops professional to define Digg's ad operations strategy and manage its execution. The position will be in a fast-paced environment and will require the ability to manage large partner relationships and internally manage cross-functional teams toward the execution of defined goals within short time frames. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical and communication skills and should have experience managing ad operations for a highly trafficked website.
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Manage the analysis, acquisition and implementation of an ad serving solution that meets the needs of the company and its ad network partners
  • Serve as the lead operational interface with all third party ad sales network partners and communicate daily to ensure a positive working relationship
  • Analyze ad metrics and provide dashboards to internal stakeholders along with recommendations for optimizing user experience and monetization potential of Digg's advertising
  • Manage the execution of approved optimization recommendations by writing functional specs and working with the product and development teams to execute them
  • Educate external and partner sales teams on the company's website and the various sales opportunities, including basic advertising and new viral sponsorship campaigns
  • Provide regular and accurate inventory forecasts to management and to ad network partners
  • Manage custom sponsorship campaigns by working with sales and product teams to implement and by interfacing directly with advertising clients to scope
  • Help define potential custom sponsorship opportunities based on client needs, audience relevance, and Digg's product road map
QUALIFICATIONS
  • Strong analytical decision-making and problem solving skills
  • Expert knowledge and hands-on experience with ad serving technologies, preferably on industry-leading ad serving platform(s)
  • Strong communication and partner management skills
  • Ability to break down issues and formulate a clear path to solutions
  • Demonstrated expertise in leading teams of both direct and indirect reports
  • Comfort working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
  • Thorough understanding of ad optimization techniques
  • Strong experience with user behavior analysis and site design best practices
  • Experience in work flow maintenance, milestone tracking, schedule risk management and the ability to meet deadlines consistently
  • Thorough knowledge of new technologies and industry trends
  • Self-starter attitude with a focus on results
  • Must be detail-oriented, customer service focused, highly organized, and calmly perform under a high stress/deadline-driven environment
  • Experience managing vendors and outsourced business relationships
  • A Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Mathematics, Economics or a related field is required. Master's with a focus on Operations Research, Economics, Statistics, Computer Science or related engineering/quantitative discipline \ is a plus.
  • 6+ years of relevant experience in online advertising operations, inventory management/optimization or related field is necessary. Recent experience managing ad operations at a major (top 50) online publisher/site is a big plus.
To Apply
Send your resume and a cover letter to jobs@digg.com

Web Designer

LOCATION
San Francisco, CA (Potrero HIll)
GENERAL FUNCTIONS
Digg is looking for a multi-skilled designer to join our crew in San Francisco. We're hoping to find someone who can work with our Lead Designer on all of our design projects, big and small.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Obviously, you'll be working a lot on our main site, but we'll also be looking for design work on periodic print projects, side sites, partner programs, and all the other little bits of work that crop up.
Because we've got a tiny design group here, you'll be working on everything from the planning stages, to initial concepts, to css/xhtml implementation, to working with the developers to integrate your work. You'll be brainstorming ideas and helping shape the ideas others introduce. You've got to really get off on creating intuitive interfaces that solve complex issues. You'll need to be able to see the whole user experience when designing the UI. You'll also need to be able to follow a defined visual style while helping us shape that style over the long term.
QUALIFICATIONS
  • A strong portfolio of work that we can see would be an enormous asset for applicants. An accompanying description of your portfolio, describing its strengths and even its weaknesses, would be even better.
  • Very accomplished css and xhtml skills are required.
  • Experience with subversion, php, and javascript would be great.
To Apply
Send your resume, portfolio (or a link to your online portfolio), and a cover letter to designjobs@digg.com

Desktop/Enterprise Support Manager

LOCATION
San Francisco, CA (Potrero Hill)
GENERAL FUNCTIONS
The successful candidate for this position at digg.com will be the primary desktop support resource as well as managing our corporate IT infrastructure. The job entails dealing with digg employees' mail servers/clients, accounting servers/clients, file servers, application support, cell phone integration, VOIP/voicemail and any other questions that involved the resources that employees need to do their work. This position does not deal with the operation of digg.com's servers or network infrastructure.We need someone to come in and take charge of Desktop/Enterprise support, to start as the first person in the team and then build a team around them. We are 80% Macs on the desktop with other OS's that run on mainly Apple hardware. It's a fun office but an incredibly hard-working one. We think we have a lot to offer the right person and expect your best effort and your creativity and dedication to getting the job done in return.
RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Digg.com desktop support (hardware, software, phones).
  • Digg.com corporate enterprise server infrastructure.
  • Digg.com office/cell phone systems.
  • Develop and follow digg.com IT policies and procedures.
  • Maintain and improve cellphone/calendar/email integration.
  • Develop and maintain digg.com IT documentation and standards.
  • Other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
  • Must be very experienced in OS X, Windows and Linux in a desktop support environment and able to configure, troubleshoot and maintain these operating systems.
  • Must be able to configure and troubleshoot simple network settings on said operating systems.
  • Must be familiar with common issues in Microsoft Office apps, Thunderbird, Mail.app, Safari, ClamAV, and Adobe CS3.
  • Must be experienced running Linux/Windows/OS X server environments.
  • Must have experience configuring and maintaining a VOIP system with voicemail.
  • Must have experience creating and documenting IT policies and procedures.
  • Must have experience with cell phone/calendar/email integration.
To Apply
Send your resume and a cover letter to jobs@digg.com

Software Developers (multiple positions)

LOCATION
San Francisco, CA (Potrero HIll)
GENERAL FUNCTIONS
Digg is looking to add more software developers to join our crew in San Francisco.
RESPONSIBILITIES
We're looking for people with plenty of PHP, MySQL and large scale website development experience.
You'll be working on a variety of projects - both adding new cool functionality to digg.com, and scaling the site to meet our ever increasing traffic.
QUALIFICATIONS
  • 3+ Years developing commercial websites using PHP/MySQL/Apache.
  • Experience with subversion, javascript, xhtml and css are important.
  • Also beneficial would be knowledge of memcached and full text search.
  • Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science/Computer Information Systems, or other relevant field.
To Apply
Send your resume and a cover letter to jobs@digg.com

Quality Assurance Analyst

LOCATION
San Francisco, CA (Potrero HIll)
GENERAL FUNCTIONS
You'll be getting in on the ground floor to assist our QA Manager create and instill a culture of quality at digg.
RESPONSIBILITIES
working with the development team and the QA team to execute and automate testing, implement new automation tools, and contribute to and follow test procedures.
QUALIFICATIONS
  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
  • Passion for testing and the ability to work independently.
  • Strong coding skills in PHP, SQL and/or Javascript.
  • Experience with Linux, Apache, MySQL.
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.
  • Knowledge of QA methodology, testing techniques and approaches.
  • Experience with testing frameworks and test automation.
To Apply
Send your resume and a cover letter to jobs@digg.com

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