Careers at Thought Convergence
At Thought Convergence, Inc., we believe every employee is integral to our continued success. We offer a fun and collaborative work environment that fosters creativity, ingenuity and mutual respect. Thought Convergence, Inc. team members are energetic, diverse and share a commitment to excellence. As an employee at Thought Convergence, Inc., not only will you enjoy a chance to develop your career in an encouraging team environment, but you will also enjoy a full suite of office benefits. If you are interested in becoming a member of our dedicated team, please check out the opportunities below. Thought Convergence, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
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Engineering Manager Los Angeles, CA
We are currently looking for an Engineering Manager to join our dynamic management team and bring our professional-level Development and Engineering Department to the forefront of innovation. Strong candidates will have extensive experience with project and technical management and have proven leadership capabilities.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ENGINEERING MANAGER
• In collaboration with senior management, define technical and product strategy for the company and create a unified product-suite
• Translate business problems into effective technical solutions by leading the Research and Development team and providing strong supporting research
• Monitor best practices, trends and new technologies and evaluate for possible adoption
• Provide direction and supervision to an intelligent team of Engineers
• Gather project requirements
• Deliver technical design documentation
• Develop top quality products as defined by product roadmap
• Lead thorough testing of all products and features
• Recommend and effectively implement department specific procedures
• Ensure project goals are met within scheduling and budgeting parameters
• Lead and facilitate effective technical related communication within the team and with other relevant groups to define system requirements and necessary modifications
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS OF THE ENGINEERING MANAGER
• 10+ years of web technology or software development experience including 3+ years of manager-level experience and 5+ years of hands on development experience working with key technologies such as PHP/Symfony/Zend/MySQL/LAMP/HTML/xHTML/CSS/JS/Java
• Excellent Unified Modeling Language architecture experience
• Experience with the full development lifecycle (application development, systems design and architecture, maintenance and support)
• Experience managing high traffic/enterprise level web applications (e-commerce, CRM, social media, media)
• Bachelor’s Degree, relevant advanced degree is a plus
We are giving free tours to qualified applicants. The price of admission? Your resume, references and salary history. If you have the skills, passion and drive to thrive in a collaborative, fun-loving environment, we want to hear from you.
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Please note this job is a full-time position in-house position.
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Web Analyst Los Angeles, CA
As Web Analyst, you will pull relevant data and provide pertinent and accurate analysis to help contribute to data-driven decisions regarding corporate business strategy, including, but not limited to, product and service offerings and business cultivation. The ideal candidate has extensive experience analyzing web traffic using clickstream tools and producing reports and dashboards using standard business intelligence tools. Strong candidates will work with the business in understanding their evolving requirements to deliver practical solutions of real business benefit.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE WEB ANALYST
• Identifies, creates and implements new metrics for increased visibility into performance monitoring, including, but not limited to, product performance, client trends and domain performance.
• Analyzes current system processes and assesses key business and data risks, then develops, refines and tests standardized processes to ensure the highest level of data integrity.
• Automates and manually generates reports by extracting and compiling large data sets into a logical and easy to understand format.
• Collaborates closely with product management to research and develop solutions for addressing business edicts by defining and refining algorithms and metrics on various projects where a statistical forte is necessary. Analyzes model/prototype proposed solutions in order to determine validity.
• Conducts impact analyses to determine scope and breadth of a proposed change or an identified issue on the system, ensuring all variables are considered prior to implementing a change or addressing an issue.
• Collaborates closely with product management to aid in test design and statistical analysis phases of new product testing.
• Build analytical dashboards and reports to support ongoing business decisions.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS OF THE WEB ANALYST
• Equivalent of Bachelor’s Degree (MBA preferred)
• 7-10+ years progressively responsible, related experience
• Expert in SQL, and Excel
• Previous experience with experimental design and statistical data analysis
We are giving free tours to qualified applicants. The price of admission? Your resume, references and salary history. If you have the skills, passion and drive to thrive in a collaborative, fun-loving environment, we want to hear from you.
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Please note this job is a full-time, in-house position.
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Sales Manager Los Angeles, CA
As Sales Manager, you will support the Company in achieving its revenue, market share, client penetration/retention, and profitability goals by effectively creating and executing against a multi-product sales strategy, managing a team of professionals and leveraging industry contacts and sales skills. Candidates will have strong leadership experience, building and managing a strategically focused sales team with a proven track record of making effective, strategic decisions.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SALES MANAGER:
• Manage day to day operations of the Sales & Account Management Team.
• Provide leadership and direction to motivate Sales Team towards exceeding revenue goals at the individual and team level.
• Meet team and individual revenue/booking goals.
• Take an active role in key sales opportunities, including time in the field with key customers and prospects.
• Identify and prioritize revenue and business opportunities.
• Analyze key business/market trends in terms of growth opportunities/threats to the business, and work with Management to define sales-related strategy, goals and business plan.
• Develop and implement best practices for Sales and Account Management teams for client/partner interaction. Ensure that clients receive the highest level of sales and operational customer service.
• Work with Product Management to develop a strategy to address customer needs, enhancements and priorities.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS OF THE SALES MANAGER:
• Equivalent of Bachelor's Degree and 5+ years progressively responsible, related sales experience and 3+ years of sales management experience
• Strong understanding of business development, sales and customer service
• Solid understanding of industry and related market
We are giving free tours to qualified applicants. The price of admission? Your resume, references and salary history. If you have the skills, passion and drive to thrive in a collaborative, fun-loving environment, we want to hear from you.
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Please note this job is a full-time position in-house position.
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Software Engineer Los Angeles, CA
We are currently looking for a Software Engineer to work with our passionate team to further develop the proprietary technology that powers our real-time, network-intensive and globally-reaching applications.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SOFTWARE ENGINEER
• Consult with Management, System Administration and Products to clarify all elements of Products Requirement Document (PRD), identify potential problems and suggest modifications.
• Architect solutions for business needs and prepare detailed workflow charts and diagrams of a project on a macro level that describe input, output, and logical operation to personally and/or for team members to convert into a series of instructions coded in a computer language.
• May oversee one or more developers in their developing, testing and integrating code base by providing technical guidance and support to ensure developers’ code and applications are seamlessly integrated and meet the requirements of the PRD.
• Develop object-oriented, high traffic, database-driven web applications using Symfony PHP Framework, My SQL, JQuery, CSS, Flex applications, etc.
• Use CSS W3 standards for efficient front-end user interfaces.
• Compile and write documentation of program development and subsequent revisions, insert easily understandable comments in the coded instructions.
• Audit program, software or website performance in development and live environments to ensure optimal and error free performance.
• Perform revision, repair or expansion of existing programs to increase operating efficiency or adapt to new requirements.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS OF THE SOFTWARE ENGINEER • Equivalent of 7+ years progressively responsible, related experience
• Advanced understanding of Pentaho (AKA Kettle)
• Advanced understanding of Data Warehousing
• Experience with Hadoop Map/Reduce
• Hands on experience with Nutch – Open Source Web Search Software
• Ability to work with database tables containing millions of rows of data
• Hands-on experience working in a Linux environment
We are giving free tours to qualified applicants. The price of admission? Your resume, references and salary history. If you have the skills, passion and drive to thrive in a collaborative, fun-loving environment, we want to hear from you.
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Please note this job is a full-time, in-house position.
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Web Developer Los Angeles, CA
We are currently seeking a Web Developer to join our dynamic team. Strong candidates will have proven experience developing, testing, implementing, and maintaining high quality web-based applications.
RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES OF THE WEB DEVELOPER
• Consult with Management, System Administration, Lead Developers and Products to clarify all elements of Products Requirement Document (PRD), identify potential problems and suggest modifications.
• Prepare detailed workflow charts and diagrams that describe input, output, and logical operation to convert them into a series of instructions coded in a computer language.
• Develop object-oriented, high traffic, database-driven web applications using Symfony PHP Framework, My SQL, JQuery, CSS, Flex applications, etc.
• Use CSS W3 standards for efficient front-end user interfaces.
• Code, update and maintain computer programs, software packages, or websites that fully conform to the PRD and company standards.
• Compile and write documentation of program development and subsequent revisions, insert easily understandable comments in the coded instructions.
• Audit program, software or website performance in development and live environments to ensure optimal and error-free performance.
• Collaborate with Quality Assurance to address defects uncovered during testing or reported by other departments.
• Write or contribute to instructions or manuals to guide end users.
• Perform revision, repair or expansion of existing programs to increase operating efficiency or adapt to new requirements.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS OF THE WEB DEVELOPER
• Equivalent of Bachelor’s Degree and 2-4+ years progressively responsible, related experience.
• Excellent knowledge of Symfony PHP Framework, My SQL, JQuery, CSS, Flex applications, etc.
• Experience using CSS W3 standards for efficient front-end user interfaces.
• Experience with clustered server management and administration.
• Experience working with high-traffic sites (millions of visitors/day, load balanced across multiple servers).
We are giving free tours to qualified applicants. The price of admission? Your resume, references and salary history. If you have the skills, passion and drive to thrive in a collaborative, fun-loving environment, we want to hear from you.
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Please note this job is a full-time, in-house position.
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MySQL Database Administrator Los Angeles, CA
Strong candidates will have a solid understanding of the issues surrounding large-volume websites and scalability.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE MySQL DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR
• Optimizing queries and making any necessary changes to table or data structure.
• Tuning high performance, high availability databases.
• Reviewing and applying schema changes.
• Creating a large number of master-slave replicas.
• Database backup and recovery.
• Creating automation in a distributed database environment
• Data warehousing.
• Monitoring of production environment, migration of objects from Dev to QA to Prod environments.
• Security management and capacity planning.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS OF THE MySQL DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR
• 5+ years experience as a MySQL DBA in a high online traffic environment
• Hands on experience with MySQL replication
• Knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and FreeBSD
• High Availability experience
• UNIX/Linux shell scripting
• Perl and PHP programming
• Scaling large databases with large user apps
• Database Design
We are giving free tours to qualified applicants. The price of admission? Your resume, references and salary history. If you have the skills, passion and drive to thrive in a collaborative, fun-loving environment, we want to hear from you.
Click here to apply
Please note this job is a full-time position in-house position.