Careers at Songza

Songza is all about finding the right music for you, and what you are doing right now, without having to answer a lot of questions. To do this well, we need to mine our vast database of user listening data for actionable intelligence. Typical projects might include:

Concierge targeting

Improve our recommendation engine to show the best blend of playlists the user has enjoyed in the past and new ones they might like.

Curation tools

All our playlists are hand curated, but we need tools to help curators do their job. What's performing well? How will today's catalog updates affect existing playlists? Where is there excessive overlap?

System performance and trending

We need dynamic thresholding to remain sensitive during diurnal low traffic times while reducing false positives during heavy load.

Usage statistics

Retention rate analysis. New feature A/B testing. Explore trends and correlations. Make recommendations for improved data collection.

Presentations

Once the numbers are crunched, you'll need to create (collaborating with our marketing and graphic design teams) presentations of the results. The audience might be end-users, technology partners, advertising customers, investors, or the general public.

There are no fixed requirements for this position. Candidates exist in a high-dimensional space. The ideal candidate's personal attribute vector will exhibit high positive correlation with the following list.

• Python (pandas, numpy, scipy, sklearn, etc) including the ability to write your own tools.
• Comfortable in a Unix command-line environment.
• Lives for huge data sets that are messy, inconsistent, and incomplete.
• Mining data from MongoDB and unix log files.
• Well-versed in AWS, Hadoop, and EMR.
• Recommendation systems. Preferably one to find the best data scientist candidate in our applicant pool.
• MS or PhD in CompSci, Math, Engineering, or other field requiring rigorous statistical analysis.
• Experience with statistical and machine learning methods.
• Strong English writing skills.
• Technical presentation tools such as matplotlib, d3.js, etc.

To apply, send resume and cover letter to tech-jobs@songza.com.

Songza’s mission is to make the things our users do every day better. We believe advertising on Songza should accomplish the same thing. Our native advertising solutions integrate brands into users’ daily routines by answering the most important customer question: "How can this brand improve my day?"

Songza is looking for a regional sales manager to help us refine and scale the next generation of intent-based marketing with a solution that is native to the Songza user experience. This seller will be part of our founding sales team and will be critical in growing our revenue through "Industry First" initiatives as well as digital, audio, video and other pre-roll executions. We are looking for an individual who is entrepreneurial in spirit and thrives on building a book of business from the ground up.

Songza’s Regional Sales Manager will:

1. Proactively prospect, qualify, grow, and maintain a regional territory account list and manage activity with our CRM tool.
2. Prospect and develop key ad agency and company relationships at all levels in order to effectively build and maintain territory ad revenue.
3. Create exciting sales presentations, incorporating industry research and campaign performance data, and great mock-ups.
4. Execute and deliver high quality responses to all RFPs based on client objectives and goals.
5. Negotiate pricing and contractual agreements.
6. Drive tons of new business!

Seven things about you

1. National media sales experience in either digital, mobile, radio, print, or video is required. A proven book of business is a plus.
2. A minimum of 6 years of advertising sales experience with proven track record of exceeding sales goals and the ability to develop and manage a consistent sales pipeline.
3. Contacts and relationships with leading agencies and clients in your territory.
4. The ability to work across multiple agency departments (digital, broadcast, strategy, planning, and buying) to uncover different budgets and decision makers/ influencers.
5. Excellent communication and presentation skills with extensive knowledge of digital and mobile media advertising and the overall ecosystem.
6. A creative and fun spirit who inspires others, especially brand champions.
7. Ability to meet and exceed quarterly revenue goals.

Interested? Contact Us: Pete Roper | proper@songza.com.

Our Quality Assurance Specialist will communicate with users to ensure they’re enjoying Songza to the fullest extent and to communicate our deeply held appreciation for our users (without them, we’d all need to get real jobs). The Quality Assurance Specialist will also contribute to Songza’s quality assurance efforts by creating testing scripts, executing tests on new web and app versions and reporting any bugs to the relevant product managers.

Songza’s Quality Assurance Specialist will:

• Provide customer support, primarily via email, to troubleshoot technical user issues
• Monitor customer feedback via email and via social media chatter to identify any significant technical issues or outages and immediately report them to Songza’s development team
• Create weekly recommendations for product development (or any other department) to improve the customer experience
• Create testing scripts and execute tests on new web and app versions
• Develop and document application test plans based on software requirements and technical specifications.
• Work with Development team to ensure that the products are fully tested
• Document all enhancements, bug fixes, and new products

Five Things About You:

1. You are very tech savvy, with a strong understanding of the different browsers as well as PC and mobile operating systems and hardware.
2. You’ve heard of Amazon Web Services, Adobe Flash, Javascript, and Random Access Memory.
3. You are a great written communicator and are excited to write a LOT of emails to users.
4. You have nearly unlimited patience and grace under pressure.
5. You are passionate about being part of a fast-growing, disruptive start-up that improves the lives of millions of people every month.

To apply send resume (Word, PDF, or URL) to jobs@songza.com.

As a backend engineer, you will be responsible for the databases, and application servers that run behind the scenes on all Songza platforms. This includes implementing new features, performance monitoring, deployment, designing and tuning database schemas, and site automation. A big part of the job will involve scale-up and site reliability.

You love shipping code. You love music. You have worked on large scale software projects. You are language-agnostic. You believe in automated testing and code review.

You need to be able to work in a fast-paced, cloud-based development environment. Our core application lives in AWS. We ship code anywhere from several times a week to several times a day. We're not slaves to any particular methodology, but neither do we believe in cowboy coding. Our goal is to find just enough structure to keep things from turning into chaos without getting bogged down in meaningless process.

We don't have any hard and fast checklist of requirements, but these are the sorts of things we're looking for:

• Python
• Django
• Linux (both as a development platform and sysadmin experience)
• MongoDB
• Web technologies such as nginx, haproxy, gunicorn, memcache
• Web site scale-up, performance tuning, monitoring
• Working with large data sets
• DVCS (we use hg, but won’t hold it against you if you know git)
• HTTP, JSON, REST
• 6+ years of software development experience.
• In-depth knowledge of OOP concepts and techniques.
• A bachelors in computer science or equivalent experience.

Most important, you must love working in a high-speed environment, where everybody makes a difference. Code we write in the morning is often in production the same afternoon. Your ability to drive technical decisions is a function of how good your design and code are, not your job title or how well you dress.

To apply, send resume (Word, PDF or URL) and cover letter to tech-jobs@songza.com.

As an iOS engineer, you will be responsible for all phases of development and testing, and deployment of our iOS products. You will work closely with our backend team to interface with the Songza HTTP API, and our graphic design experts to build a beautiful and fun to use user experience.

You love shipping code. You love music. You have worked on large scale software projects. Like all our engineers, you are language-agnostic, but you're also an Objective-C wizard. You believe in automated testing and code review.

You need to be able to work in a fast-paced, cloud-based development environment. We ship frequent updates to our mobile products to implement new features, fix bugs, and keep the user experience fresh.

We're not slaves to any particular methodology, but neither do we believe in cowboy coding. Our goal is to find just enough structure to keep things from turning into chaos without getting bogged down in meaningless process.

We don't have any hard and fast checklist of requirements, but these are the sorts of things we're looking for:

• 2+ years Objective-C and iOS programming experience
• Experience building universal apps and implementing custom views
• Automated testing of applications
• A solid understanding of HTTP and RESTful webservices
• Experience with some form of version control (we use mercurial)
• A bachelors in computer science or equivalent experience

Most important, you must love working in a high-speed environment, where everybody makes a difference. Code we write in the morning is often in production the same afternoon. Your ability to drive technical decisions is a function of how good your design and code are, not your job title or how well you dress.

To apply, send resume (Word, PDF or URL) and cover letter to tech-jobs@songza.com.

Just because we don't list your dream job, that doesn't mean we don't want to hear from you. We've got a number of positions (engineering and otherwise) in the pipeline that we're not actively recruiting for right now. If the perfect person came along, we'd jump at the chance to bring them on board earlier than planned. Just send us a resume and a cover letter explaining why your life (and our employee list) won't be complete until you're part of the Songza team.

For engineering jobs, send to tech-jobs@songza.com. For all other postions, jobs@songza.com. If you send to the wrong address, we can usually figure out what you meant and get it to the right person, but we'll make fun of you. So don't do that.