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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.

Learn more about benefits, perks and opportunities at Clearspring Careers.




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, 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, 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, VAJunior System Administrator

    Clearspring runs a sophisticated large-scale infrastructure that is touched by billions of end users. We are looking for a Junior Systems Administrator to help us provide support to a service-oriented computing environment. This role is primarily user support responding and resolving technical issues with a growth opportunity to work on network and performance issues. This role will provide lots of exposure to all facets of IT and Operations and is a huge opportunity for someone looking to learn and grow in a Linux environment.

    Primary Responsibilities:

    • Provide end-user support, resolving technical issues and providing technical assistance for both Windows and Mac environments
    • Provide remote support to end-users via phone
    • Provide end-user support for smart phone devices to include Android, iPhone, and Blackberry
    • Set up new hires with equipment and appropriate access and help familiarize them with systems, etc
    • Identify and escalate issues as appropriate
    • Support and maintenance of printers and other IT related hardware including server room equipment
    • Support and maintenance of business software applications
    • Assist with IT related projects as they arise

    Required Skills/Experience:

    • Bachelor's degree or related experience required
    • At least five years of proven experience supporting end users providing technical assistance and resolving technical issues for both Windows and Mac environments
    • Proven experience diagnosing complex technical laptop issues, Google application support, smart phone support (Android, iPhone, and Blackberry)
    • Proven experience troubleshooting network, server, application issues is preferred
    • Proven ability to work well in a team environment
    • Proven ability to multitask and juggle multiple critical issues
    • Proven ability to quickly adapt to change
    • Proven customer service skills
    • Basic Linux administration experience preferred

    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, 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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