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Senior Full Stack Engineer @ Bedrock

Bedrock is seeking a motivated, experienced Senior Full Stack Engineer at our rapidly growing startup to generate and nurture our B2B sales pipeline, in addition to building a world-class customer experience. He or she will be responsible for developing and building demand generation and digital marketing programs to meet revenue goals. Responsibilities include developing a strong operation backbone of marketing tools and technologies to help the company scale.

The Senior Full Stack Engineer will create and execute on the demand generation strategy for the business. A successful candidate will have a keen understanding of how to efficiently and effectively manage marketing resources to maximize business growth. He or she will define, create, execute and measure integrated marketing campaigns across a variety of channels with a focus on targeting sales managers in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) vertical.

Preferred Experience

Sales Development Rep

Bedrock Analytics provides a service that takes syndicated and retail data (Nielsen, IRI, Spins, Whole Foods, etc.) and transforms it into dynamic selling stories for consumer product goods (CPG) sales managers, and provides powerful market insights for marketing and category managers.

Bedrock is looking for an exceptional individual to act as the liaison between our Marketing and Sales teams. Your role will be to seek new business opportunities by contacting and developing relationships with potential customers.

To be successful in this role, you should have previous experience developing leads from marketing campaigns and meeting sales quotas. You will use your communication skills to cultivate strong relationships with customers, from first contact until you transition them to a Sales Manager as a qualified lead. If you are motivated and results-driven, and enjoy working in a team environment, we’d like to meet you. Ultimately, you will boost sales and contribute to our long-term business growth.

ABOUT YOU AND YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Qualify leads from marketing campaigns as sales opportunities
• Contact potential clients through cold calls and e-mails
• Present our company to potential clients
• Identify client needs and suggest appropriate products/services
• Build long-term trusting relationships with clients
• Proactively seek new business opportunities in the market
• Set up meetings or calls between (prospective) clients and Sales Managers
• Report to the SVP of Sales on (weekly/monthly/quarterly) sales results
• Stay up-to-date with new products/services and new pricing/payment plans

QUALIFICATIONS

• Proven work experience as a Business Development Representative, Sales Account Executive or similar role
• Hands-on experience with multiple sales techniques (including cold calls)
• Track record of achieving sales quotas
• Experience with CRM software (e.g. Salesforce)
• Familiarity with MS Excel
• Understanding of sales performance metrics
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills
• Ability to deliver engaging presentations
• BSc degree in Marketing, Business Administration or relevant field
• Hungry, yet polished and ethical in your approach to customers & data
• Excellent Excel skills, communication skills, interpersonal skills and relationship building
• This position is full-time and on-site in our Oakland, CA office

Back End Engineer

Bedrock Analytics is looking for an exceptional back end engineer to help us further develop a platform for story-driven analytics. On the back-end, you have worked with Play or Spring Boot framework to build microservices. On the front-end, you've worked with libraries and frameworks like Backbone, and you are familiar with newer frameworks like React and Angular. You have a track record of delivering web applications that people enjoy using, and that support enhancements over time.

If you worked on machine learning and statistical modeling in the past and you enjoyed it, there will be many interesting challenges here.

You like working in an Agile best-practices environment. You understand the importance of testable, modular, efficient code. You work with testing frameworks to ensure that your code works reliably and across different clients.

A couple of the fun problems we’re working on:

Guided Story Creation

Our customers need to deliver data-driven stories, but often lack a background in analytics. Bedrock Analytics helps them create compelling sales stories based on their market data. We are quickly automating processes for the consumer packaged goods industry, one of the largest industries in the world, in an effort to democratize insights and level the playing field for smaller brands to compete in retail.

Beautiful, Compelling Visualizations

Effective and clear visualizations are critical to our customers’ success. We not only provide standard charts, but also unique visualizations targeted to specific stories and data scenarios. Come help us create them.

About You

• You ship. You’ve built systems you can point to. You deliver quality software quickly, and you care about helping your users achieve their goals.
• You work for startups. The slow pace of larger companies makes you crazy.
• You’re pragmatically Agile. We run an Agile shop, but we are not pedantic about it. We care about delivering for our users, not being buzzword-compliant.
• You enjoy your work. We work hard, but we care a lot about team spirit and collaboration. We also try not to take ourselves too seriously.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional web development experience
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science preferred.
• Firm understanding of best practices for object-oriented and modularized software with a particular emphasis on Java
• Strong understanding of web technologies: Play Boot or Spring Boot or, AWS (S3, RDS, etc.), Jenkins and associated technologies/tools.
• Strong working knowledge of JavaScript and modern libraries, ideally React.js
• Experience with statistical modeling and machine learning, is a big plus.
• Experience with HighCharts or similar charting libraries, is a plus.
• Experience with advanced data visualization libraries, such as d3, is a plus.
• This position is full-time and on-site in our Oakland office.

To apply for this position, please send your resume and cover letter to careers@bedrockanalytics.com, with the the subject “Back End Engineer.”

Full Stack Engineer

Bedrock Analytics is looking for an exceptional full stack engineer to help us further develop a platform for story-driven analytics. On the back-end, you have worked with Play or Spring Boot framework to build microservices. On the front-end, you've worked with libraries and frameworks like React and Angular. You have a track record of delivering web applications that people enjoy using, and that support enhancements over time.

If you worked on machine learning and statistical modeling in the past and you enjoyed it, there will be many interesting challenges here.

You like working in an Agile best-practices environment. You understand the importance of testable, modular, efficient code. You work with testing frameworks to ensure that your code works reliably and across different clients.

A couple of the fun problems we’re working on:

Guided Story Creation

Our customers need to deliver data-driven stories, but often lack a background in analytics. Bedrock Analytics helps them create compelling sales stories based on their market data. We are quickly automating processes for the consumer-packaged goods industry, one of the largest industries in the world, in an effort to democratize insights and level the playing field for smaller brands to compete in retail.

Beautiful, Compelling Visualizations

Effective and clear visualizations are critical to our customers’ success. We not only provide standard charts, but also unique visualizations targeted to specific stories and data scenarios. Come help us create them.

About You

• You ship. You’ve built systems you can point to. You deliver quality software quickly, and you care about helping your users achieve their goals.
• You work for startups. The slow pace of larger companies makes you crazy.
• You’re pragmatically Agile. We run an Agile shop, but we are not pedantic about it. We care about delivering for our users, not being buzzword-compliant.
• You enjoy your work. We work hard, but we care a lot about team spirit and collaboration. We also try not to take ourselves too seriously.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of professional web development experience
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science preferred.
• Firm understanding of best practices for object-oriented and modularized software with a particular emphasis on Java
• Strong understanding of web technologies: Play Boot or Spring Boot or, AWS (S3, RDS, etc.), Jenkins and associated technologies/tools.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript and modern libraries, ideally React.js
• Experience with statistical modeling and machine learning, is a big plus.
• Experience with HighCharts or similar charting libraries, is a plus.
• Experience with advanced data visualization libraries, such as d3, is a plus.
• This position is full-time and on-site in our Oakland office.
• Bonus points: Links to your GitHub account, open source contributions or personal code projects.

Job Function Details

• Designing, developing, and implementing software code for company’s primary web application; adding new features to the application, maintaining existing functionality, and ensuring that the serving infrastructure scales with the growth of the business
• Programming in Java and utilizing Spring Boot MVC framework
• Writing front-end code in JavaScript and frameworks including JQuery and ReactJS
• Developing and maintaining software code for the back-end (servers and databases) of the web service using relational database technologies including SQL, to access and store business data in multiple PostgreSQL database clusters and the AWS data warehouse stack
• Utilizing NoSQL database technologies to access metadata in DynamoDB and cached data in Redis to make sure that any backend changes made do not result in adverse performance that could lead to service disruption
• Developing and implementing integrations with third-party service APIs including integrations with syndicated data provider gateways and processors and retail portals such as Walmart Retail Link and Whole Foods Data Portal
• Performing iterative design cycles and on-time feature releases using agile methods of development
• Participating in daily Scrum team meetings to coordinate immediate software development tasks as well as biweekly development sprint review and sprint planning meetings to help define work items the engineering team will commit to in the medium term
• Participating in team and project management meetings to define the long-term project timeline and major milestones
• Maintaining continuous integration and deployment tools; creating unit and integration tests for written software code; ensuring that any such tests are compatible with continuous integration and deployment tools that company employs including Jenkins
• Maintaining product source code in bitbucket
• Interacting with product management to develop product specifications
• Presenting product demos to other members of the team
• Leading and participating in frequent engineering feature to facilitate knowledge transfer and foster familiarity with the company’s technology across the organization
• Being as fluent in the front-end as well as the back-end of the application and its technology stack

About Bedrock Analytics

Bedrock Analytics powers the growth of today’s leading CPG manufacturers. The company’s cloud-based analytics platform and insights automation tools enable sales managers and business analysts to harness the power of data to craft powerful sales presentations that capture market share and drive increased revenue. Tracking more than $100 billion in CPG sales across more than 80 categories every month, Bedrock’s simple, powerful analytics platform and machine learning algorithms enable anyone within an organization to quickly and easily get the insights they need to close more deals. For more, visit bedrockanalytics.com.

Compensation/Benefits

• We offer comprehensive and competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Competitive salaries
• Flexible spending accounts
• Commuter Pre-tax benefits
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Competitive equity option grants
• Close-knit & friendly team
• Open office with rooftop lounge
• Beverages on-tap, snacks, etc
• We celebrate our consistent wins

Category Analyst

Bedrock Analytics is seeking a talented analyst to join our team in our Oakland offices. The analyst will interact with CEOs, Sales and Marketing VPs, Directors of Analytics and other decision makers at our CPG customers. The main responsibilities of this role entail helping CPG customers structure their syndicated data, provide guidance on how best to pull data and provide analytical consulting services to key customers. Bedrock works with some of the most innovative brands in the consumer packaged goods industry.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the sales and software teams to translate customer requirements into data requirements that work on the Bedrock platform.
• Create SPINS, IRI, or Nielsen syndicated data reports and import onto Bedrock Cloud-based software platform for consumer products clients.
• Maintain data integrity and maintenance of customer reports.
• Identify opportunities to improve customer onboarding process.
• Exposure to fast-growing disruptive consumer goods companies’ senior leadership
• Develop relationships with fast-growing, disruptive consumer products companies, focusing on both the main contact as well as senior leadership.
• Assist Sr. Customer Advisor with training and on-boarding of new customers

Qualifications & General Skills

• Strong logic, deductive reasoning, problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Able to synthesize data & simplify findings to solve client business issues
• Project management skills and ability to manage multiple priorities
• Able to work collaboratively with internal teams & external customers
• Strong sense of urgency and accountability to drive client outcomes
• Ability to learn new technical concepts quickly
• Takes high degree of ownership on work
• Passionate about technology
• Quality Control – Strong analytical aptitude and attention to detail
• Open mind to learn new software and skills
• Personable & cool under pressure
• Extremely proficient with Excel & PowerPoint
• Highly detailed oriented

Background and Technical Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree Required
• 1-5 years’ experience
• Experience with syndicated data (SPINS, IRI, Nielsen)
• Expert proficiency with retail analytics
• Willingness to travel 10% of the time
• Related industries include: Consumer Packaged Goods, Consulting, Information, Sales/Retail Analytics
• You know the difference between a vlookup and an hlookup and can offset an array in Excel without breaking a sweat

Perks

• Competitive salary
• Substantial equity option grants
• Unlimited vacation time
• Medical, dental & vision coverage
• Modern office with rooftop view of Lake Merritt
• Work with some of the most innovative CPGs
• Close-knit team of CPG experts & technologists

To apply for this position, please send your resume and cover letter to careers@bedrockanalytics.com, with the subject “Category Analyst.”