About us

Outside.in is the leading hyperlocal content and advertising platform used by millions of consumers and thousands of local bloggers and publishers each month.

Outside.in monitors all the news, blogs, and discussions on the web and dynamically maps them to more than 50,000 neighborhoods in the US. You can find "What's Happening. Where You Are. Right Now." on Outside.in's main site (you're here!). Publishers can use Outside.in for Publishers to create customized and curated hyperlocal news sections, and bloggers can submit their sites for distribution in the Outside.in Network.

Outside.in is supported by leading investors including Union Square Ventures, CNN, Village Ventures, Betaworks, the New York City Investment Fund, and Milestone Venture Partners. For more information, visit outside.in, read the company's blog, or follow us on Twitter.

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Outside.in is a young, dynamic company changing the face of local. We're always looking to add great people to our team. We offer highly competitive packages with excellent benefits. Our offices are based in Brooklyn, New York. If you are interested in working at outside.in, please get in touch.

• Software Engineers: Ruby, Scala, Geo, NLP, Ad Serving & Optimization
• Content Analyst
• Account Executive
• Advertising Operations Coordinator
• QA Lead

Software Engineers: Ruby, Scala, Geo, NLP, Ad Serving & Optimization

Outside.in is the service for finding out what’s going on in your neighborhood, or wherever you happen to be. We provide our users and publishing partners with with innovative tools to discover the news, people, places and conversations in their communities. Our platform is the leader in aggregation and delivery of localized content for consumers and publications. We are building the future of local media.

We have top tier investors and are experiencing major growth. The tech team is small, quirky (in a good way) and deeply talented. We seek experienced candidates with at least 4 years experience and startup chops to join our engineering group, to drive innovation and help ship the next generation of Outside.in applications. The next superstar Software Engineers who join us will build groundbreaking local media content and advertising products and scale them massively.

Our stack includes Ruby, Scala, C++, Javascript, Rails, Sinatra, Solr/Lucene, message queueing, and Postgres/PostGIS. We build mobile apps (iPhone, Android), Web apps, and API's. We're agile where it makes sense, but mostly sensible, intelligent, clever and hard-working. We prefer generalists who have lots of successes committing at every layer of the stack.

We are a tiny but mighty team. We have a hands-on management team full of startup DNA that knows how to build value for our team and shareholders.

Your Qualifications:

• A minimum of 6 years applicable software engineering, with a trail of outstanding references from peers.
• Ambitious, driven, and talented individual who wants to work on hard, game-changing problems
• Team player who feels at home in a flat-structured, highy collaborative environment. You can lead, mentor, and contribute without pretense.
• Write well-structured, easily maintainable, well-documented code. Be able to show us some samples you're proud of.
• At least 2 years of Ruby, and real experience with typed languages, in order of preference: Java/Scala/Clojure, C/C++, C#
• Strong knowledge of Ruby on Rails
• Excited to learn and evaluate new tools and languages (Clojure, Scala, Hadoop, Hypertable)
• Comfortable using Git for version control
• Solid SQL skills, preferable with Postgres 8.x
• Knowledge of search frameworks such as Sphinx and Lucene
• Fully proficient in Linux environment
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, EBS, etc.) preferred
• Familiarity with geometry and mapping highly desirable
• Love of well-designed API's. Be able to talk about your favorites and why they are great.
• Demonstrable track record building distributed, clustered, high-throughput applications
• Be able to balance beauty and pragmatism in your designs and code! Prove it with sample projects.
• Minimally a BA/BS in CS or related field

Your Areas of Interest:

We want you to have one or more of the following areas of interest and real-world experience:

• Geo: Geographic data, geometric containment and mapping API's
• NLP: Passion for text analysis and semantic extraction, with a particular eye towards balancing accuracy and throughput
• Ad Serving, Monetization, Optimization and Exchanges: OpenX, DFP, Google Ad Manager, RightMedia, etc... revenue performance metrics and A/B monetization strategies

What You Would Do Here:

• Architect, build, test and refine new Outside.in products and services
• Develop and expand infrastructure to process many millions of page views and transactions with fault-tolerance and predictability
• Tackle a wide variety of coding problems throughout the stack. We are a small team and we work on everything.
• Brainstorm and prototype new concepts and approaches fast. Turn prototypes into real things.
• Help continuously improve our development environment by proposing new approaches, tools, and automating brainless tasks
• Help troubleshoot and maintain production and testing environments. Contribute to diagnosing and solving performance issues whenever the occur

What We Offer:

• A driven, motivated, and talented team that believes in working hard and reaping the rewards
• High-energy, transparent work environment with brilliant people and a great opportunity to learn, grow and succeed.
• Exciting opportunities to realize the vision on "Outside.in everywhere" - we are changing local media and advertising for the better!
• Laid-back office environment
• Competitive compensation and excellent benefits

If you are qualified and a good communicator, we want to meet you. Submit your resume as text or PDF to jobs@outside.in, along with your cover note.

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Content Analyst

The Outside.in Content Analyst owns responsibility for tracking, reporting, and optimizing the metrics associated with the content we aggregate, the tags and metadata we add and the direct traffic and revenue generated from such.

The ideal candidate will have very strong quantitative and analytical skills, a deep love for diving into data to find answers and possesses strong technical acumen. Advanced Excel skills and experience with Google Analytics, Quantcast, or similar tools are hugely helpful.

Responsibilities include:

• Monitor, analyze, report and optimize daily overall content metrics, including identifying the most valuable sources and types of content as well as pages and regions.
• Monitor autotagging engines. Identify top performing tags and optimize metrics.
• Support content acquisition efforts of our growing list of media partners.
• Work closely with revenue and product teams to tie monetization data to content data and optimize.

Potential candidates should have 1-3 years of experience, either as a media planner, product manager, content, marketing or financial analyst at a media company or financial institution. Any role that included search engine optimization and marketing is a plus.

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Account Executive

We have been busy building great products and growing our inventory.We now have enough inventory to effectively market to advertisers. We need to start covering and calling on the key agencies who plan and buy local budgets on behalf of their clients—folks like Centro, MNI, etc.

If you are currently calling on these agencies, are a planner looking for a shot at selling, and want to get in on the ground floor of a fun start-up, this is definitely the spot for you.

If you are not currently calling on these local agencies, please do not apply. We are looking to find people with demonstrable knowledge and experience in our space.

We are looking to fill these roles in our NYC office.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Hit your budgets!
• Develop and maintain relationships with all relevant contacts at each assigned agency.
• Represent Outside.in with the highest level of professionalism, intelligence and client-service.
• Don’t be just an order-taker. Listen and provide creative solutions that deliver results.
• Provide accurate and timely answers to client queries on a daily basis.
• Analyze and optimize performance of client campaigns to drive success.
• Maintain accurate forecast and pipeline reports.

Qualifications:

• 2-4 years experience, in a position with sales responsibility, ideally in local media or 1-2 years experience as a planner
• Excellent listening, negotiation and presentation skills
• Knowledge of the online media business and underlying technology and research
• High-energy, results-focused, independent "do-er"
• Strong negotiation skills
• Strong account planning skills
• Good organizational and time management skills

Send a link to your LinkedIn profile to careers@outside.in.

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Advertising Operations Coordinator

We are looking for an Advertising Operations Coordinator to join our team and help us keep the dollars flowing through the system. The specs are below, but know that we are looking for a detail-oriented self-starter who is excited to get in on the ground floor, work hard and learn a lot as we grow our business.

Send a link to your LinkedIn profile to careers@outside.in.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Accurately traffic and manage all advertising campaigns, including sold campaigns and network/remnant providers
• Regularly review campaign performance, trends and delivery, and optimize monetization
• Generate reports on performance by site, partner, vertical and market and look for optimization opportunities
• Support the internal business owners and management with data and intelligence

Qualifications:

• One year of experience in an ad trafficking or coordinator role
• Experience scheduling ads into ad server (i.e. Google AdManager, DFP, etc…)
• Knowledge of search advertising products, Google AdSense and ad APIs/XML feeds a plus
• Familiarity with online advertising principles and internet technologies
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• College degree

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QA Lead

Outside.in is building the new platform for local media. We tell millions of users each month what's happening, where they are, right now. We partner with thousands of sites and provide them with innovative tools to discover the news, people, places, and conversations in their communities.

We have top tier investors and are experiencing major growth. The tech team is small, quirky (in a good way), and deeply talented. We seek an experienced QA professional with at least 4 years experience and startup chops to join our engineering group, to drive automation, quality, and help ship the next generation of Outside.in applications. The QA Engineer who join us will test groundbreaking local media applications and advertising products and help scale them massively.

Our stack includes Ruby, Scala, C++, Javascript, Rails, Sinatra, Solr/Lucene, message queueing, and Postgres/PostGIS. We build mobile apps (iPhone, Android), web apps, and APIs. We're agile where it makes sense, but mostly sensible, intelligent, clever, and hard-working. Testing is core to all of our eforts, and we take a lot of pride in the quality we ship. We are a tiny but mighty team. We have a hands-on management team full of startup DNA that knows how to build value for our team and shareholders.

Role Summary:

Hands-on manager of QA processes, metrics, and systems for testing a massively scalable software application. Responsible for the design, development, implementation, and management of quality assurance throughout Outside.in.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage quality assurance standards, metrics, and processes to ensure shipping killer products
• Create and manage multiple test environments for testing functionality, scalability, and deployment
• Develop, implement, and manage manual and automated test plans, test cases, test scripts, and test suites
• Perform both front-end web-based functional testing and back-end testing, including service testing
• Research and develop new testing methods or automated tools to improve the testing cycle and process
• Lead teams of internal and outsourced testers from functional through acceptance testing
• Manage the full bug-tracking cycle: Track defects and fixes and assess regression impacts with the engineering team. Work directly with end users and customers to resolve issues.
• Manage and implement full-cycle testing: Create and document test plans and test strategies, direct testing efforts, and track metrics across releases.

Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or related field
• 4+ years experience testing software, especially web application, preferably in a leadership role
• Expert knowledge and experience in software QA (including performance, availability, and functional testing)
• Demonstrable experience in QA automation
• Proficient in shell scripting and/or scripting languages such as Ruby or Perl
• Clear understanding of web frameworks and internet technologies
• Experience testing web services for functionality, load, and scalability
• Solid working knowledge of Unix/Linux
• Clear understanding of product release cycles, code repositories, branching, tagging, and packaging. Experience with Git preferred.
• Experience with bug tracking and management software. Experience with JIRA preferred.
• Excellent analytical skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Highly motivated, able to excel in both team and independent work environments
• Extraordinary attention to detail
• Strong team leadership ability

What We Offer:

• A driven, motivated, and talented team that believes in working hard and reaping the rewards.
• High-energy, transparent work environment with brilliant people and a great opportunity to learn, grow and succeed.
• Exciting opportunities to realize the vision on "Outside.in everywhere." We are changing local media and advertising for the better!
• Laid-back office environment.
• Competitive compensation and excellent benefits.

If you are qualified and a good communicator, we want to meet you. Submit your resume as text or PDF to jobs@outside.in, along with your cover note explaining what interests you about this opportunity and why you are the QA leader we are seeking.

20 Jay Street, Suite 1019
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718.801.8555

Partner with Us

Outside.in for Publishers helps local publishers big and small create customized Neighborhood News Pages for every neighborhood in their market. Licensed and free ad-supported versions available.

Contact us at publishers@outside.in for more information or get started at publishers.outside.in.

Advertise with Us

Outside.in gives advertisers access to the local audiences in every neighborhood in the United States. We are growing fast and adding new sites to our network every day. Contact us at sales@outside.in for more information on how to reach our hyperlocal audience.

Find Any Bugs?

Submit bugs, feature requests, and issues at outside.in/help. You might want to check our user forums first to see if we've already addressed your question or issue.

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