LookSmart offers a dynamic and active working environment that is complemented by a well-established foundation of human resources, benefits, and facility resources.

LookSmart is an ideal work environment for dedicated, focused people with an entrepreneurial spirit. New employees that join the team have significant opportunity to participate in the ongoing growth and future prosperity of the company  through individual compensation, option plans, the employee stock purchase plan and the company’s dedication to promote from within based on individual performance. LookSmart promotes creativity, leadership, and intellectual team-play while providing advertisers and publishers with premium and performance online advertising solutions.

The executive leadership fosters an environment based on strong work ethics and a sense of pride. Employees have great insight into the company’s workings due to strong communication across departments and from the executive team. While the company maintains all the foundations and resources of a large organization, it works hard to leverage the intimacy of a start-up to foster a tight-woven team.

At LookSmart, we value talented, dedicated employees and we reward them accordingly. In addition to paying attractive compensation, we offer a creative, challenging work environment with an emphasis on continuing career development. LookSmart is committed to promoting from within.

Benefits for regular employees in the United States include:

Stock/401(k)

Employee stock purchase plan
Purchase LookSmart stock at a discounted rate through payroll deductions
Incentive stock options
401(k)

Health/Life Benefits with coverage for family, including domestic partners

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Employee Assistance Program
Confidential 800 phone line with 24-hour problem assessment and referrals
Legal and financial advices
Life insurance/AD&D and long-term disability

Pre-tax Savings

Flexible Spending Accounts
Medical Care – set aside money from your paycheck, pretax, to pay for your expenses not covered by your health plan
Dependent Care – set aside money from your paycheck, pretax, to pay for your dependent care and elder care.
Commuter check program – set aside money from your paycheck, pretax, to pay for public transportation

Time Off

Fourteen paid holidays per year
Paid Vacation

Other Benefits

Employee Referral program
Discount on health club membership
On-site massage
Ergonomic assessment

LookSmart is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Join LookSmart’s winning team of professionals working to create online advertising and technology solutions for advertisers and publishers. We’re looking for talented people, eager for creative and technical challenges. We offer attractive salaries, stock options, and benefits in a friendly and dynamic environment. We are headquartered in San Francisco, with sales offices in Chicago and New York City.

 To submit for any of the following positions, please email: jobs@looksmart.net

Traffic Quality Analyst
The Traffic Quality Analyst is in charge of ensuring the quality of the network. This includes making certain the network is mapped correctly to meet our Advertisers' needs as well as working to eliminate click fraud.

Responsibilities Include:
• Develop quantitative analyses, custom models and ad hoc reports to effectively monitor performance, trends, and quality of our network
• Analyze disparate data sources to find obfuscated patterns
• Support our Account Managers in remediation of traffic quality issues
• Provide on-call support for quality issues

Requirements:
• 2 years experience as an analyst
• Excellent Excel and advanced SQL skills
• Experience identifying click fraud
• Experience with databases and data warehousing
• High attention to detail
• Experience in online advertising
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Director, Traffic Analysis
We are currently seeking a Director of Traffic Analysis to join the LookSmart Team.

Responsibilities Include:
• Analyzing ad network traffic performance to optimally match traffic supply to advertiser demand
• Developing tools and infrastructure to enable account managers to manage traffic sources for their accounts
• Providing second level support for Account Managers
• Doing deep analysis/data mining of ad network traffic patterns. Developing and maintaining formulas and algorithms to enable sustainable growth of partner business and direct business.
• Building Traffic Analysis function as a core competency and competitive advantage
• Managing and mentoring a small team of analysts

 Requirements:
• 3 years experience leading traffic analysis function for a major ad network
• 5 years experience in applied data analysis
• Strong domain expertise in on-line search advertising
• BA in computer science, statistical analysis or related field required, MS or PhD desirable.
• Exceptional analytical skills
• Strong communication skills
• Highly collaborative and team-oriented work style

Director of Business Development – Traffic Acquisition
We are currently seeking a Director of Business Development, Traffic Acquisition to join the LookSmart Team.

Responsibilities Include:
• Procuring search/query traffic from publishers, aggregators and other traffic sources
• Negotiating business deals with distribution partners.
• Driving the effective adoption and integration of new distribution feeds into the ad network.
• Managing the ongoing relationships with existing publishers for consistent delivery and performance of traffic from those sources.
• Managing a small team of account managers and analysts.

Requirements:
• 3 years experience leading traffic acquisition function for a major ad network
• 5 years experience in business development
• Strong domain expertise in online search advertising
• Exceptional communication skills
• Strong analytical skills
• Highly collaborative and team-oriented work style
• BA/BS required

Senior Business Analyst
LookSmart is currently seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst. In this role you will work with our account managers to define success metrics for our advertisers, and then work with the account management team to develop strategies that will beat those metrics.

Responsibilities Include:
• Develop quantitative analyses, custom models and ad hoc reports to effectively monitor performance, trends, and opportunities of the ad network
• Work with advertisers to help define their success metrics
• Develop recommendations to beat advertiser’s desired metrics based on best practices
• Recommend optimizations to account managers and assess the effectiveness of those recommendations
• Work with product team to recommend enhancements to the AdCenter application that will support optimization of advertiser’s accounts

Requirements:
• 2 years experience as a Business Analyst
• Excellent Excel and basic SQL skills
• Experience with databases and data warehousing
• High attention to detail
• Strong verbal and written communications skills
• Experience in online advertising
• Hyperion/brio experience

Paid Search Account Services Manager (New York and SF Offices)
LookSmart is looking for a hardworking, proactive paid search account services manager, based in San Francisco. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring that the needs of advertisers are being supported and for the end-to-end management of LookSmart's existing advertiser relationships. Measures of success include revenue delivered vs. targets, up-sell and optimization effectiveness, client satisfaction and retention levels, and contribution to regional account team and entire sales organization.

Responsibilities Include:
• Manage the scheduling, production and implementation of online advertising campaigns.
• Collaborate with assigned regional sales team to launch new ad campaigns and provide continued client service support and optimization efforts.
• Act as the primary point of contact for existing advertiser base and provide the "customer voice" to other teams at LookSmart
• Provide support for creative and technical inquiries by customers.
• Prepare and monitor daily and monthly campaign performance
• Develop strategic account plans and quarterly account reviews for high profile customers.
• Own campaign management, campaign analysis and optimization efforts, including keyword expansion, CPC optimization, and ROI analysis.
• Identify and implement strategic client growth opportunities.
• Monitor and help correct any delivery or inventory issues

Required Qualifications/Skills:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Experience using one or more Internet ad serving systems
• Very high-level of accuracy, keen attention to detail and comprehensive, data-driven problem solving
• 3 to 5 years experience in interactive media and advertising including familiarity with CPC, CPM, CPA pricing models; agency experience strongly desired
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment to manage multiple projects and tight deadlines.
• Demonstrate strong communication skills, with the ability to effectively converse with internal departments as well as clients/agencies.
• Strong organizational and analytic skills.
• Experience with all MS Office applications; especially Excel.
• Experience with technical troubleshooting
• Contract negotiation experience
• Strong client service background
• Consultative approach to campaign management and optimization
• Ability to strategically prioritize workload based on client type, and handle multiple client issues

Preferred Skills:
• Familiarity with PPC search marketing, a plus

Sales Operations Controller
LookSmart’s business depends on regular monitoring of customer performance and assisting the Sales and Traffic related departments in delivering revenue and margin growth. This includes both a good understanding of customer goals and metrics, as well as regular data evaluation that monitors advertiser campaign performance against distribution partner traffic behavior to determine how best to organize Sales and Traffic efforts. The Sales Operations Controller will report directly to the CFO and be responsible for building a comprehensive business dashboard, monitoring relevant performance metrics and creating processes and tools to improve performance.

This is a challenging role that will require a solid combination of communication skills to support the activities of the Sales and Traffic departments, and analytical ability to tackle complex problems and build working solutions.

Job Description:
• Communicate regularly with sales personnel to understand customer goals and related issues that arise
• Interact with Traffic Analysis and Traffic Quality personnel to understand the distribution network and assist with resolving customer issues
• Monitor daily customer activity, revenue opportunities with existing customers and the sales pipeline
• Understand existing information/work flows with regard to data reporting
• Identify gaps and implement process changes to collect and organize missing information
• Create/modify informational dashboards
• Research and evaluate industry trends/competitive analysis

In order to be effective in this role, the candidate needs to demonstrate prior experience or the ability to quickly develop proficiently with regard to the following:
• Exceptional communicator with an ability to build strong relationships across diverse business functions, primarily Sales, Traffic Analysis and Traffic Quality
• Comfort working with various sources of data
• Ability to pull Brio reports and manipulate data in Excel

The ideal candidate will have prior experience in a quantitative, data-driven role in an operational environment focused on revenue/margin and will demonstrate:
• Independence and pro-activity in identifying areas for improvement
• Industry knowledge and the ability to understand the factors that influence revenue/margin and the effect alternative strategies have on operational results
• Ability to translate business problems into data gathering/analysis tasks and perform these tasks with a commitment to accuracy and attention to detail

Minimum Job Qualifications:
• 5-7 years professional experience in areas related to business analysis
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to present results of complex analyses clearly and to interface with cross-functional teams at all levels of seniority
• Proficiency in Excel, database applications

Preferable Job Qualifications:
• Relevant experience in sales support
• Previous experience at online media companies
• MBA