Benefits Include

• 10 vacation days, 5 sick days, and 8 paid holidays
• Hydra funded medical plan and contributory dental and vision plans
• Hydra funded HRA plan to limit out-of-pocket medical, dental, and vision expenses
• Flexible Spending Account that allows one to put aside pre-tax income to cover medical and dependent care expenses
• Life insurance and Long-Term Disability insurance 100% paid for by Hydra
• Voluntary Short-Term Disability insurance available for employees
• Traditional or Roth 401k with employer matching up to 4% of your earnings
• Dependents are eligible for health, dental, and vision at additional cost

Affiliate Manager

Hydra operates one of the fastest growing and leading performance-based cost-per-action (CPA) online advertising networks. We are seeking an experienced Affiliate Manager to join our team.

Job Description

Use your exceptional skills in performance marketing, sales, relationship-building and analytics to manage, grow and monitor our Affiliate partners (publishers, and search and email marketers) in order to increase traffic and revenue opportunities for our Advertising clients, while contributing to the overall company goals and objectives. High earning potential for those self-starters eager to build an online career and who love to learn and challenge themselves.

Job Duties

• Deliver proactive account management by providing business solutions to Affiliate partners, as well as offering ideas/methods of increasing revenue through unique marketing programs
• Implement and drive strategies to grow revenue from existing Affiliate partners by initiating new campaign ideas, incentives, and bonus offers
• Aggressively recruit new Affiliate partners
• Research and work with Affiliate partners on efficient methods of optimizing their revenue
• Actively consult with Affiliate partners on an ongoing basis to help exceed their revenue objectives through recommendation and implementation of best practices around online marketing programs
• Meet and exceed monthly revenue goals
• Prepare sales reports to track, analyze, and forecast the revenue opportunities for Affiliate partners
• Monitor affiliate activity and potential policy/program violations
• Log partner activity into appropriate CRM tool
• Analyze and resolve diverse, complex and technical issues via an in-depth knowledge of company's products, services, industry, and technical interfaces
• As needed, coordinate activities and resources between cross-functional teams, including sales, marketing, production, operations, finance, and senior management
• Keep abreast of competition, competitive issues, products, and markets for consumer and performance based marketing and lead generation
• Attend and participate in team meetings, training seminars, and workshops
• Occasional travel to industry conferences

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• Minimum 3 years Internet Advertising experience required. Specific experience focused on online affiliate marketing a major plus
• Strong relationship/partnering skills
• Demonstrated, effective communication and influencing/negotiation skills
• Strong sales recruitment skills
• Ability to manage and grow relationships with Affiliate partners in a highly competitive market
• Familiarity with creative and marketing processes and techniques
• Understanding and insight regarding effective online marketing campaigns, as well as general marketing campaign
• Ability to learn and contribute quickly
• Results oriented
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task and succeed in fast paced, dynamic environment
• Ability to analyze potential opportunities and program effectiveness
• Team player
• Solid computer skills and knowledge of MS Excel

Please respond with resume and brief introductory statement and/or cover letter. Email AM-jobs@hydragroup.com to apply.

Compensation

Competitive base salary, depending on experience, plus commission. No relocation expenses are available for this position.

Hydra also offers excellent benefits, a casual work environment, and is known for taking care of our employees. Benefits include 401K with matching company contributions, health insurance, and more. We are a fast-growing company of 50+ individuals, including recognized and award-winning talents in the Internet and advertising space. We operate from a great location in the heart of Beverly Hills. Hydra is an equal opportunity employer.

Online Marketing Coordinator

We are seeking an Online Marketing Coordinator to assistant our Affiliate Management team. This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated professional or recent college graduate looking to get into the online marketing space!

Job Description

An entry-level support role for a team of account managers in a face-paced, customer service oriented environment.

Job Duties

• Field incoming calls and emails from current and prospective clients
• Daily outbound contact via phone and email to current clients
• Review and assess prospective client applications
• Industry, market and competitive research
• Stats analysis and comparison
• Respond to client inquiries and troubleshooting issues

Qualifications

• Two years previous work experience.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Outgoing and professional personality.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills and a team player.
• Motivation to succeed and move up.
• Proficient in MS Outlook, MS Word, and MS Excel.

Please respond with resume and brief introductory statement and/or cover letter. Email AM-jobs@hydragroup.com to apply.

Compensation

Competitive base salary, depending on experience.

Hydra also offers excellent benefits, a casual work environment, and is known for taking care of our employees. Benefits include 401K with matching company contributions, health insurance, and more. We are a fast-growing company of 50+ individuals, including recognized and award-winning talents in the Internet and advertising space. We operate from a great location in the heart of Beverly Hills. Hydra is an equal opportunity employer.

Lead Developer

Hydra is looking for an experienced and highly motivated Lead Developer to lead our software development efforts for a variety of in-house, enterprise-level marketing applications.

Job Duties

• Lead and mentor a small team of programmers and software architects in the development of highly scalable, robust web applications
• Work with software architects during the design phase to offer insight for proposed solutions
• Utilize experience to determine best methods for implementation of a particular software design
• Ensure defined development standards and best practices are consistently being utilized by developers on your team by managing peer code reviews and other techniques
• Handle merging of code from various development branches using CVS/SVN
• Participate in project management process and be accountable for on-time and on-budget delivery of software projects

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional developer experience within a team-oriented environment, including previous team leader experience and the ability to effectively motivate the team members
• 3+ years of solid OO PHP5 experience utilizing a web application MVC framework architecture
• Experience with Zend Framework, Symfony, and other PHP frameworks a plus
• Solid experience in developing high-performance (millions of transactions) and high-availability (zero downtime) web applications
• Solid understanding of web application MVC frameworks is important, but dependency on any particular framework brand is not; the ability to quickly adapt to a proprietary framework setup is critical
• Solid experience in traditional LAMP environments and other tools such as CVS
• Advanced knowledge of JavaScript technologies such as AJAX, JSON, YUI Library
• Knowledge of cross-browser development techniques and hurdles
• Solid understanding of software design, coding and testing patterns
• Strong ability to find solutions to challenging and often unique development obstacles
• Experience in the online advertising industry—specifically CPA/CPC models—is a major plus
• Excellent logic, analytical, and organizational skills with an uncompromising attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact professionally with all department levels
• Available to work in Beverly Hills, CA and able to work in the office five days a week (tele-commuting is not available for this position)

Please respond with resume and brief introductory statement and/or cover letter. Email IT-jobs@hydragroup.com to apply.

Compensation

Competitive salary, depending on experience.

Hydra also offers excellent benefits, a casual work environment, and is known for taking care of our employees. Benefits include 401K with matching company contributions, health insurance, and more. We are a fast-growing company of 50+ individuals, including recognized and award-winning talents in the Internet and advertising space. We operate from a great location in the heart of Beverly Hills. Hydra is an equal opportunity employer.

Senior Software Developer

Hydra is looking for an experienced and highly motivated Senior Software Developer to join our team developing a variety of in-house enterprise-level marketing applications.

Job Duties

• Work with a small team of programmers and software architects on developing highly scalable and robust web applications
• Work with software architects during the design phase to offer insight for proposed solutions
• Utilize experience to determine best methods for implementation of a particular software and database design
• Ensure defined development standards and best practices are consistently being utilized by developers on your team by managing peer code reviews and other techniques
• Handle merging of code from various development branches using CVS/SVN
• Participate in project management process and be accountable for on-time and on-budget delivery of software projects

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional developer experience within a team-oriented environment
• 3+ years of solid OO PHP5 experience utilizing a web application MVC framework architecture
• Experience with Zend Framework, Symfony, and other PHP frameworks a plus
• Solid experience in developing high-performance (millions of transactions) and high-availability (zero downtime) web applications
• Solid understanding of web application MVC frameworks is important, but dependency on any particular framework brand is not; the ability to quickly adapt to a proprietary framework setup is critical
• Solid development experience in LAMP environment
• Advanced knowledge of JavaScript technologies such as AJAX, JSON, YUI Library
• Knowledge of cross-browser development techniques and hurdles
• Solid understanding of software design, coding and testing patterns
• Strong ability to find solutions to challenging and often unique development obstacles
• Experience in the online advertising industry—specifically CPA/CPC models—is a major plus
• Excellent logic, analytical, and organizational skills with an uncompromising attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact professionally with all department levels
• Available to work in Beverly Hills, CA and able to work in the office five days a week (tele-commuting is not available for this position)

Please respond with resume and brief introductory statement and/or cover letter. Email IT-jobs@hydragroup.com to apply.

Compensation

Competitive salary, depending on experience.

Hydra also offers excellent benefits, a casual work environment, and is known for taking care of our employees. Benefits include 401K with matching company contributions, health insurance, and more. We are a fast-growing company of 50+ individuals, including recognized and award-winning talents in the Internet and advertising space. We operate from a great location in the heart of Beverly Hills. Hydra is an equal opportunity employer.

Account Executive

This position is responsible for prospecting and closing new accounts with B2C companies to sell their products/services or generate online leads via Hydra Network, our CPA-based affiliate network. We are looking for someone with at least one year experience as an account executive or account manager with an ad network and a strong rolodex of advertiser contacts. The account executive will be responsible for prospecting and closing new clients as well as maintaining those accounts on a day-to-day basis. The ideal person will be very confident and able to negotiate on his or her terms. The commission portion of compensation is heavily based on negotiation skills. Successful account executives are earning well over six figures after 8 to 12 months of employment.

Job Duties

• Develop, negotiate and close new accounts. Prospects are generated from cold calling and incoming leads
• Track success of campaigns through Hydra Network and spearhead ways to improve client's results
• Construct deals within selling guidelines (product offerings, pricing, etc.) established by Hydra management
• Assist in the collection of past-due accounts
• Requires approximately 10% travel for trade show events

Qualifications

• At least 1 year of experience working as an account executive/account manager with an Ad or Affiliate Network, required
• Self motivator with proven negotiation skills and an ability to close Fortune 500 companies
• Strong interactive media agency connections. Background in successful online advertising principles with experience negotiating CPA (cost-per-action), CPC (cost-per-click) and CPM (cost-per-impression)
• Strong writing skills to negotiate contracts
• High competency level in MS Office products including Excel and Power Point. Solid Excel spreadsheet capabilities

Please respond with resume and brief introductory statement and/or cover letter. Email ae-jobs@hydragroup.com to apply.

Compensation

Competitive base salary, depending on experience, plus commission. No relocation expenses are available for this position.

Hydra also offers excellent benefits, a casual work environment, and is known for taking care of our employees. Benefits include 401K with matching company contributions, health insurance, and more. We are a fast-growing company of 50+ individuals, including recognized and award-winning talents in the Internet and advertising space. We operate from a great location in the heart of Beverly Hills. Hydra is an equal opportunity employer.