Our goal is to bring together the most exciting technology companies in Silicon Valley and the most talented professionals in the industry.  (those are the kind of members TechWadi  has : - )

Date: Thursday May 15, 2008

Time: From 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM

Location: WilmerHale Law Offices - 1117 California Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94304

For Candidates:

TechWadi is inviting 20+ of the most interesting technology companies in the Valley, from the earliest stage startups to the established giants. Executives (all members of TechWadi) will be on hand to discuss career opportunities with candidates.

To attend, you will need to register ahead of time here: (it’s free but space is limited, so register now)
http://www.techwadi.org/register-career-fair/     

- EatLime  (small startup)

- Google (big startup)

- Cortina Systems (leading networking startup) 

 
… more to come - watch this space.
 

For Companies Looking To Recruit:

We all know how challenging it can be to find and recruit the best and brightest talent in the technology industry. Well - TechWadi would like to help you and your company get a leg up on the competition. You can reserve a spot for your company to recruit at the TechWadi career fair.

Act Now - If your company is interested in participating in this event, you need to reply
by email to: info @ techwadi.org       “___  Yes, I would like to participate in the TechWadi Career Fair May 15, 2008”

 (Space is limited - please confirm your attendace today)

TechWadi intends to play a key role in bridging the needs of Silicon Valley and the MENA region. And we’re off with a bang …
 

Google is looking to hire the brightest Arabic Fluent experienced Software Engineers and a site Director for the MENA region …

If you are interested or know someone who is, please contact  TechWadi member Nabil Khatib, the recruiter at Google - nabilk at Google

• Google Engineering Site Director (Arabic Fluent) – Middle East Region

Google is looking for a highly technical, hands-on Engineering Site Director to drive software initiatives for the Middle East/Arab World in a location(s) to be determined.  As the most senior engineer for Google in the region, the Engineering Site Director will be the face for Google’s Arabic engineering effort in the Arab World.

The Engineering Site Director will be responsible for the overall planning, execution and success of regionally focused projects (for the Middle East) that will have the potential for global impact. In addition to leading an initially small engineering team, the Engineering Site Director will work closely with Google’s senior management team as well as local officials and Universities and professional organizations.

Required:
•       Exceptional technical competence and accomplishment with a strong coding track record.
•       Software background and deep success developing web-based applications ideally launched in the Arab market.
•       Entrepreneurial drive plus demonstrated ability to achieve goals in an innovative environment.
•       Relevant experience as hands-on manager of a large fast-paced dynamic engineering team.
•       Solid leadership skills and success in building a strong engineering team.
•       Strong project-management skills and proven history in product delivery.
•       Can fit in well within an informal startup environment and quickly establish credibility with engineers.

Education:
•       MS in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or PhD (a plus).
•       An exceptionally strong record of academic achievement.

Language:
Arabic language fluency and familiarity with the Middle Eastern technology market.

Please note that engineering management at Google is technical, i.e., candidates are expected to have a strong track record of technical accomplishments. in addition to management accomplishments. Consequently a candidate must posses a strong and broad background in most aspects of Computer Science. Candidates will be asked technical questions during your interviews.

• Google / (Arabic Fluent) Experienced Software Engineers - Middle East

 The Software Engineering positions require at least  7+ years work experience, experience developing web-based applications, expertise in data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis, fluency in one or more of C, C++, Java, fluency in one of more of Shell, PHP, Perl or Python, solid working knowledge of Unix, preferably Linux, SQL and MySQL are a plus. Applicants must have BA/BS in Computer Science, MS or PhD.

We are looking for engineers with exceptional programming skills, excellent algorithmic and analytical skills, and a strong aptitude for building high-performance, scalable computer systems. Our recent work encompasses a broad spectrum of computer science research areas, including:Large scale distributed systems design, Information retrieval, Natural language processing, Machine learning and data mining, Algorithms and data structures research and User interface research.

Email your chronological resume
 

We will start off by posting unique career opportunities with direct access to the actual recruiters. Down the line, we will be deploying a full blown career center that will be exclusive to our members. 

Here we go: We are delighted to have Nabil Khatib as a TechWadi member and recruiter for Google.  

Google is Recruiting: 

 
Nabil Khatib is a recruiter who has completed several recruiting assignments at several Bay Area companies including Ketchum and Mindjet and others. Nabil’s latest assignment has been at Google in Mountain View, CA where he is currently looking for top-notch thrill-seeking software engineers to join the Google engineering team at various locations.

 In the US, there are openings in Mountain View, CA, San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Boston, MA, Seattle, WA and others. In Europe, he is working to fill positions at the Google EU Headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, London, UK, Zürich, Switzerland and other locations. Google engineers are in the thick of everything involved with keeping Google running, from code-level troubleshooting of service anomalies to safeguarding the availability of Google’s most popular services.

The Software Engineering position requires: 0-15+ years experience, 3+ years developing web-based applications, expertise in data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis, fluency in one or more of C, C++, Java, fluency in one of more of Shell, PHP, Perl or Python, solid working knowledge of Unix, preferably Linux, SQL and MySQL are a plus. Need to have BA/BS in Computer Science, MS or PhD.

Nabil invites you to email him your resume regarding this position or any other Google opening: 
Nabil Khatib / nabilk  at google.com

Some additional links:

www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/reasons.html
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOZhbOhEunY
www.google.com/options/index.html
www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=benefits.html
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJs5x_9SIRM

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E.J.Dieterle
YES Partners
global executive search solutions
tel +1 (650) 726-8733   x701
ejdieterle@yespartners.com

 About YES Partners (www.yespartners.com):

• YES Partners is an international Executive Search Firm helping from (pre-funding) Startups to Fortune-50 companies domestically and internationally. The Firm has recruited executives for Multinational-, National- and Regional Organizations. Positions typically are all C-level positions (CEO, CFO, COO, CMO, Country-Managers s.o.), Department heads, V-level (VP/Vice Presidents, EVP, SVP s.o.) and also ‘hard-to-fill’ positions.
  
• The Firm works as Generalist covering a wide range of industries, always focusing on the clients’ needs. YES Partners’ experience includes searches in the ICT-Sector like High-tech / IT /Software / Hardware / Telecom & Wireless, Life Science (Biotech, Medical, Pharma), FMCG (Retail), Finance, Media & Design field and Manufacturing.
• YES Partners helps since 1994 US-companies domestically and also in their expansion to Europe and Asia (especially Japan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and of course Mainland China). The other way around the Firm helps European companies expand in USA and Asia, and Asian companies in their expansion to USA and Europe.    
  

Jobs at HomeGain in Emeryville include:

• Account Executives-3 openings
• Account Manager-HomeGain-Emeryville, CA
• Business Development Analyst-HomeGain
• Director of Product Management, HomeGain
• Internet Advertising Account Manager-HomeGain
• Research Assistant-HomeGain-Emeryville, CA
• Sr. Online Marketing Manager-HomeGain-Emeryville, CA
• Sr. Software Engineer-HomeGain-Emeryville, CA

 Classified Ventures also has openings in Chicago. Be sure to check out their online listing at: classified ventures.

Company: Classified Ventures, LLC

Title: Producer / Apartments.com

# of Openings:   1
Locations:  Chicago office

 # of Openings:   1
Locations:  Chicago office

Find out more about these career opportunities in our Career Section.

Title: Producer / Apartments.com

# of Openings:   1
Locations:  Chicago office

Major responsibilities/Project:

• Primarily work with the Marketing and Media Sales teams to ensure their development requests are completed in a timely and efficient manner.
• Partner with the National Media Sales team to assist with the ad serving system and ensure it is set up properly and operating at the optimal level through careful monitoring of advertisers’ campaign structure and overall site performance.
• Analyze the ad serving system’s impacts and relationships with overall site structure. Must be able to quickly understand the business process flows, identify the impact of a request on site performance and make recommendations to improve processes using page positioning, ad system placement and template based solutions.
• Partner with the Marketing and Consumer Web site teams to assist them with initiatives from the planning and testing phases all the way to redesigning page layouts, i.e. A/B testing, with the end goal of increasing site traffic metrics.
• Partner with the technology teams to ensure all aspects of the ad serving system do not adversely impact acceptable site performance standards through consistent monitoring and analysis and implementation of possible solutions.
• Maintain and update internal reporting system (Extranet) that provides our internal and external Affiliate Sales teams with information and support.

 Experience/Education/System Requirements:

• Bachelors degree required, with a computer science or information systems degree or equivalent experience preferred
• he ideal candidate will have expertise in ad-serving systems like DoubleClick DART, ATLAS or Accipiter
• Minimum 3 years experience with HTML, JavaScript, CSS and ASP/.Net & troubleshooting effectively within these front-end languages
• Expert knowledge with MS Office, Photoshop and HTML editors
• Recommended knowledge of Visual Source Safe, FTP, MS Visio, SQL 7
• Familiarity with content management systems including Interwoven TeamSite a plus

Necessary Skills, Abilities and other Qualities :

• Motivated individual who will work closely with the product development team in seeking ways to improve the support and growth of our Marketing and Media Sales teams
• Possesses an interest in improving the interaction between possible technical limitations and business needs, then follows through with creative recommendations
• Strong multi-tasking abilities – knows how to prioritize various requests intuitively based on business needs at a macro level by keeping the goals of development and revenue in mind
• URLs of previous work must be supplied

 Apply here: Classified Ventures

Title: Account Manager / Apartments.com

 # of Openings:   1
Locations:  Chicago office

Major responsibilities/Project:

 The Account Manager’s key role is to service & retain the existing clients in their territory. The AM is also here to support the AE. They should work as a team to the greatest benefit of our clients. Below are the 2007 AM activities.

A House account is defined as a property that lies outside the reach of one of our local Account Executives. This includes all units direct is billing in affiliate territories & anything more than 2 hours away from the AE.

Maintenance Calls

Since the local AE is focused on the properties in their home market, we want to focus our AM maintenance on properties that won’t ever see an AE. You will be responsible for making maintenance calls to your House accounts. The content of these maintenance calls is very important. We must engage the property manager or person in charge of internet advertising to review the ad, their activity report, verify information, & answer any questions. You will often be the only link between Apartments.com & the House properties.

Maintenance calls to the House accounts will be your first priority. We will contact them every other month. Your 2nd priority will be maintenance calls to properties outside the home market of your AEs, but still in their billable territory (For example, Grand Rapids for Upton or Omaha for Dombovy). They won’t visit these as often & will need help reaching out to them. We will also still make maintenance calls to any properties requested by the sales team.

Rate Increases

You will also execute rate increases with any Contract Authorities that are in your House territories. You will need to make maintenance calls to them each quarter leading up to their renewal to build a relationship & ensure they are happy along the way.

Cancellations

You will be the first point of contact for cancellations in your territory. You must understand the customer’s true objection, ask questions & overcome their issue/solve the problem. For changes of management, you will have to navigate the management company’s structure to understand who makes advertising decisions & follow up with the appropriate person to get the contract signed. You must be well-versed in our Value & the customer Return on Investment.

Current AM activities

Saves cancellations, pursues change of mgmts in their territory. The AM will escalate any cancellations they cannot save. Tracking update weekly.
Reviews the orders in Production in their territory once per week. The AM will work with the APCs to resolve issues preventing the ad from going live, i.e. collecting PIFs. The AM will escalate any issues they cannot resolve. The AE is still expected to monitor orders in Production & utilize their AM as needed.
Acts as initial liaison for internal departments: Customer Service, Production, and Finance. The AM tries to resolve internal issues on the AE’s behalf. The AM will escalate any issues they cannot resolve. Performs Secret Shopping for designated accounts & reports the findings accurately.
Pitches in on ad-hoc projects that effect the business, such as following up on failed leads & activity reports. Renews standard contracts per the AE request. Sells ancillary items to the property level when the need or opportunity arises.

 Experience/Education/System Requirements:

• 4 year degree
• Should have some experience in sales or supporting a sales team.
• Must be comfortable discussing objections with clients.
• Should have intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Salesforce/CRM experience helpful, but not required
• Must have excellent phone & written communication skills – examples will be requested
• Must be comfortable multi-tasking – examples will be requested
• High energy & driven to succeed

Apply online at: Classified Ventures