Acxiom Jobshttp://acxiom.jobs2012-05-21 12:06:26.163100USAFoster CityTitle: Solution Architect Location: California-Foster City Solution Architect Acxiom has long been known as both an innovator in data marketing and as a trusted marketing partner to many of the world’s largest companies. Recently, Acxiom made a commitment to further invest in Acxiom product development to revolutionize the way that businesses utilize the vast amount of digital and off-line data available for marketing purposes. The explosion of new data elements produced through e-commerce transactions, mobile device usage, loyalty programs, social networking, on-line activity, etc. is often overwhelming for a company to sift through to make informed marketing decisions. Acxiom is committed to “refining” this data overload and transforming the way that companies deliver intelligent and appealing marketing offerings in a manner that respects consumer privacy. To meet this challenge, Acxiom is hiring top talent to join our products and engineering organization. In joining Acxiom, you can expect to be part of a digitally-enabled, modern, differentiated, world-class data powerhouse that is dedicated to meeting clients’ needs and offering our employees with a first-rate work environment. The Solution Architect provides technical leadership and ensures marketing & analytical solutions are architected, sized and configured to meet business needs within Acxiom standards. This includes helping insure that the needed software is included in deals or products and licensed correctly. This position works within the enterprise architecture organization. Duties and Responsibilities: *Responsible for scoping and estimating future projects with the technical executives and business owners. *Responsible for solution design and business requirements. *Anticipates obstacles and recommends solution options. Focuses on corporate objectives, feasibility and scalability of solutions. *Assists with technical and business requirements and overall project plan. *Assists in the evaluation of cost, scope, portability, compatibility and usability. *Ensures data solution design fulfills functional and technical requirements. *Monitors progress in order to stay abreast of possible issues and future challenges. *Maintains subject matter expertise in Acxiom products and industry technologies, verticals and lines of business in order to help align business needs to products, solutions and services offered. (Marketing Data warehousing, Campaign Management, Analytical Modeling, Scoring, and Reporting, data visualization and dashboarding, and Big Data Analytics.) *Documents and shares best practices and case studies. *Utilizes standard methodologies to promote consistency and drives adherence to standards within designated teams. *Familiar with other department’s methodologies including project management and development methodologies. *Identifies areas of process improvement that drive profit / margin enhancement. *Consults, advises and educates through communications at the appropriate technical granularity. Shares best practices and incorporates lessons learned into estimates, standards and protocols. *Provides feedback to the appropriate lines of business or product team to ensure Acxiom produces and/or enhances products that can meet the ever changing business needs of our clients. *Keeps informed and evaluates the latest industry news, trends, products, services, competitors and relevant existing and emerging technologies Required Skills: *System architect skills *Experience in infrastructure hardware *Database design experience *Campaign Management experience *Business Intelligence knowledge *Technical Oversight and Question/Answer with Developers during development. Desired skills: *Preference for work experience in marketing database/internet environment or Ad-Tech industry *Traditional Business Intelligence& Big Data analytical solutions (NoSQL, Hadoop, Pig, Hive and 3rd party tools), Map/Reduce skills Job Role Specific Competencies: *Application frameworks Real-time & Batch *Virtualization & Grid Marketing Solutions *Application & Solution Availability *Good understanding of basic Network concepts *Good understanding of basic security concepts *Systems Management *Database API *GUI, Global, Release, Data Management, Operations, Capacity Management *Security Architecture *ITSM / ITIL *Big Data Analytics *Java or other language *VMware (architecture) *IBM, Cisco *Database experience with Oracle / DB2, Microsoft, DB2, PostGres, MySQL *RHEL, Windows *Desktop skills / applications (Windows, MS Office Suite / Visio) *Parallel programming concepts and systems *Infrastructure experience: servers, storage, network, backup, databases (IBM, Dell, UCS, Cisco) Software: *SOA Suite - BPMS, BRMS. ESB, Messaging, etc. *Oracle, DB2 *Real-time applications *Enterprise portal / UI development *Data modeling *Business Intelligence Analytics & Reporting *Global software development *Software development life cycle and development methodologies *Data Management *Application & Availability Systems Management (e.g. CA) *NoSQL, Twisted / Event or CEP equivalent About Acxiom With a proven 40-year history, a clientele list that includes all of the top advertisers, and a market cap north of $1B, Acxiom Corporation is the clear leader in the marketing services and technology space. The world of marketing has changed dramatically with the proliferation of advanced mobile devices, tablets, cable television channels, infinite array of display internet sites, search, and digital billboards. Consumers are exposed to marketing content at every turn and marketers need to tell them a targeted, sequenced and serialized story to most effectively drive consumer action. The common denominator and necessary tool for every marketer is data. Acxiom’s cutting edge technologies enable the marketer to mine data in a way that allows for a synchronized message that reaches the consumer at the most crucial touch points. Acxiom has an impressive new senior executive team dedicated to leading Acxiom to record performance results as well as returning the company to a “best place to work” status. New executives include CEO/President Scott Howe (former Microsoft executive with an economics degree from Princeton and a Harvard MBA), CFO Warren Jensen (former CFO of Electronic Arts, Amazon.com and NBC), Chief Revenue Officer Nada Stirratt (former CRO of MySpace and executive at MTV) and Chief Product and Engineering Officer Phil Mui (former strategy leader at Google who holds a Ph.D. and M.Eng. from MIT). Founded in 1969, Acxiom is headquartered in Little Rock, AR, and serves clients around the world from locations in the United States (Little Rock and Conway, AR; Foster City, CA; New York, NY; Chicago, IL; Nashville, TN) as well as multiple locations in Europe, Asia-Pacific and South America. Acxiom is an EEO/AA employer. It’s a great time to consider Acxiom for career opportunities! Receive all new Acxiom job postings by following us on Twitter at @acxiomjobs.2012-05-17 18:01:02United StatesAcxiomCalifornia29423CAFoster City, CA28762037http://acxiom.jobs/xml/28762037/jobUSAFoster CityTitle: ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT Location: California-Foster City Acxiom has long been known as both an innovator in data marketing and as a trusted marketing partner to many of the world’s largest companies. Recently, Acxiom made a commitment to further invest in Acxiom product development to revolutionize the way that businesses utilize the vast amount of digital and off-line data available for marketing purposes. The explosion of new data elements produced through e-commerce transactions, mobile device usage, loyalty programs, social networking, on-line activity, etc. is often overwhelming for a company to sift through to make informed marketing decisions. Acxiom is committed to “refining” this data overload and transforming the way that companies deliver intelligent and appealing marketing offerings in a manner that respects consumer privacy. To meet this challenge, Acxiom is hiring top talent to join our products and engineering organization. In joining Acxiom, you can expect to be part of a digitally-enabled, modern, differentiated, world-class data powerhouse that is dedicated to meeting clients’ needs and offering our employees with a first-rate work environment. Job Summary: A critical part of this product investment is the Enterprise Architect role, which is responsible for setting direction of the technical roadmap, and the supporting technical architecture, for the corporation for the marketing services and data products. This corporate view covers multiple products and applications and involves evaluating factors such as market and technology trends, business goals, corporate vision and cost considerations. The Enterprise Architect focuses on identifying solution patterns, as well as evangelizing and enforcing standards, in order to increase reusability across the company. The Enterprise Architect may also be called upon to provide domain expertise, performance analysis and remediation recommendations, in order to ensure clients/projects are properly serviced. This role is about designing or diagnosing n-tier secure real-time & analytical applications that range from 2 nines to 5 nines of availability and recognized as an expert using SOA methodologies or light-weight programming stack where appropriate. Application range from commercial / open source to internally developed applications. Responsibilities: *Responsible for creating technical reference architectures, standards, and providing input on the technical/reference architecture. *Audit the standards created by the Architecture Review Board / Delivery Review Board, Solutions Review Board. *Reviews infrastructure and software architectures and designs and makes recommendations on viability, improvements, and adjudication input when conflicts or disagreements arise. *Assist with enterprise architectures that are added to the corporate standards for future design/client implementations. *Responsible for creating and providing input on the marketing services enterprise technical roadmaps, including: identifying the capability that is the focus of the roadmap, identifying critical system requirements and their targets; assessing major technology areas; assessing multi-national impact (if applicable); performing prototyping / POC of the new technologies, identifying technology drivers, targets, and helping with technology direction; providing technical alternatives; providing time & cost implications. *Accountable for providing input on large scope solutions or internal project architecture that are outside the corporate standards. *Responsible for owning enterprise architecture deliverables, including: review of the requirements and assumptions; systems infrastructure diagrams; enterprise Software component architecture (3rd party and Acxiom developed); high-level dataflow, process, and interaction diagrams; initial financial analysis (if GPE Architecture-driven process); reviewing and providing feedback on development artifacts. *Responsible for developing enterprise architecture standards and providing facilitation, communication, and education around those standards. *Accounts for multi-national deployment requirements when and where applicable. *Collaborates on Enterprise Continuous Improvement. *Responsible for lab & technology pioneering, including POC, database, technology evaluation and certification. *Responsible for staying up-to-date with emerging industry/technology trends. *Responsible for covering several EA architecture domains (Security, Infrastructure, Accountable for understanding Acxiom development methodologies as well as other processes across the company (i.e. procurement, data center, etc.) in order to accomplish tasks. Job Role Specific Competencies: *Application frameworks Real-time & Batch *Virtualization & Grid Marketing Solutions *Application & Solution Availability *Systems Management *Database API *GUI, Global, Release, Data Management, Operations, Capacity Management *Parallel Processing *Security Architecture *ITSM / ITIL *Big Data Analytics *Expert in Java *VMware (architecture) *IBM, Cisco *Database experience with Oracle, Microsoft, DB2, PostGres, MySQL *RHEL, Windows *Desktop skills / applications (Windows, MS Office Suite / Visio) *C or other development language *Parallel programming concepts and systems *Low-latency (sub 80ms) Software: *SOA Suite - BPMS, BRMS. ESB, Messaging, etc. *Real-time application development *Enterprise portal / UI development *Data modeling *Business Intelligence Analytics & Reporting *Global software development *Software development life cycle and development methodologies *Data Management *Application & Availability Systems Management (e.g. CA) *NoSQL, Twisted / Event or CEP equivalent Nice to have: *Real time skills plus hadoop experience *NoSQL experience (Cassandra, Mongo, CitrusLeaf) *Internet low latency *Ad Network experience a plus About Acxiom With a proven 40-year history, a clientele list that includes all of the top advertisers, and a market cap north of $1B, Acxiom Corporation is the clear leader in the marketing services and technology space. The world of marketing has changed dramatically with the proliferation of advanced mobile devices, tablets, cable television channels, infinite array of display internet sites, search, and digital billboards. Consumers are exposed to marketing content at every turn and marketers need to tell them a targeted, sequenced and serialized story to most effectively drive consumer action. The common denominator and necessary tool for every marketer is data. Acxiom’s cutting edge technologies enable the marketer to mine data in a way that allows for a synchronized message that reaches the consumer at the most crucial touch points. Acxiom has an impressive new senior executive team dedicated to leading Acxiom to record performance results as well as returning the company to a “best place to work” status. New executives include CEO/President Scott Howe (former Microsoft executive with an economics degree from Princeton and a Harvard MBA), CFO Warren Jensen (former CFO of Electronic Arts, Amazon.com and NBC), Chief Revenue Officer Nada Stirratt (former CRO of MySpace and executive at MTV) and Chief Product and Engineering Officer Phil Mui (former strategy leader at Google who holds a Ph.D. and M.Eng. from MIT). Founded in 1969, Acxiom is headquartered in Little Rock, AR, and serves clients around the world from locations in the United States (Little Rock and Conway, AR; Foster City, CA; New York, NY; Chicago, IL; Nashville, TN) as well as multiple locations in Europe, Asia-Pacific and South America. Acxiom is an EEO/AA employer. It’s a great time to consider Acxiom for career opportunities! Receive all new Acxiom job postings by following us on Twitter at @acxiomjobs.2012-05-15 20:54:15United StatesAcxiomCalifornia29422CAFoster City, CA28712220http://acxiom.jobs/xml/28712220/jobUSAFoster CityTitle: RESEARCH ANALYST (Expert MicroStrategy Developer) Location: California-Foster City •Utilizes data and statistical modeling methods to create analytical solutions and reports. •Focuses on client project research or data development. •Based on statistical and research findings, makes business and model application recommendations and / or builds data content in order to provide insight into product development and sales. •Research Analyst responsibilities are determined by organizational need and may include the following responsibilities: •Utilizes data and statistical modeling methods to create analytical solutions. •Evaluates data, constructs models, builds data strategies and defines data segmentation. •Uncovers consumer behavioral patterns and determines ways to help improve clients' profitability and marketing returns. •Based on statistical and research findings, makes business and model application recommendations. •Provides pre and post delivery support: defining project requirements, developing proposals including costs and timing expectations, defining opportunities, delivering project expectations and delivering results. •Communicates project progress to affected associates and management. •Escalates issues as appropriate. •Utilizes reporting technologies to document and execute business requirements. •Facilitates the data segmentation through clustering techniques including K-means. •Runs pixel comparison counts and resolved discrepancies with appropriate networks. Identifies measures to improve processes, increase efficiency and promote team's technical sophistication. •Automates and utilizes templates as appropriate. •Stays informed and evaluates the latest Acxiom and industry news, trends, products, services, competitors and relevant existing and emerging technologies in order to keep research methods/processes technologically current. •Develops, maintains and shares best practices. •Designs and executes data development projects. •Analyses data and develops models based on research. •Works with teams to integrate research findings and models into Acxiom operations. •Must know MicroStrategy very well, and have experience in BI development & installation maintenance using MicroStrategy in a multi-tenant environment. •Data warehousing knowledge, other BI tools. •Preferece to prior work in marketing. •Preference to prior work in product/project management. About Acxiom With a proven 40-year history, a clientele list that includes all of the top advertisers, and a market cap north of $1B, Acxiom Corporation is the clear leader in the marketing services and technology space. The world of marketing has changed dramatically with the proliferation of advanced mobile devices, tablets, cable television channels, infinite array of display internet sites, search, and digital billboards. Consumers are exposed to marketing content at every turn and marketers need to tell them a targeted, sequenced and serialized story to most effectively drive consumer action. The common denominator and necessary tool for every marketer is data. Acxiom’s cutting edge technologies enable the marketer to mine data in a way that allows for a synchronized message that reaches the consumer at the most crucial touch points. Acxiom has an impressive new senior executive team dedicated to both leading Acxiom to record performance results and to returning the company to a “best place to work” status. It’s a great time to consider Acxiom for career opportunities. Founded in 1969, Acxiom is headquartered in Little Rock, AR, and serves clients around the world from locations in the United States (Little Rock, Conway, and Fayetteville, AR; Foster City, CA; New York, NY; Chicago, IL; Nashville, TN; Atlanta, GA; Broomfield, CO) as well as multiple locations in Europe, Asia-Pacific and South America. Acxiom is an EEO/AA employer. Receive all new Acxiom job postings by following us on Twitter at @acxiomjobs.2012-05-02 20:37:28United StatesAcxiomCalifornia29376CAFoster City, CA28340026http://acxiom.jobs/xml/28340026/jobUSAFoster CityTitle: SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Location: California-Foster City Software Developer Acxiom Corporation Acxiom has long been known as both an innovator in data marketing and as a trusted marketing partner to many of the world’s largest companies. Recently, Acxiom made a commitment to further invest in Acxiom product development to revolutionize the way that businesses utilize the vast amount of digital and off-line data available for marketing purposes. The explosion of new data elements produced through e-commerce transactions, mobile device usage, loyalty programs, social networking, on-line activity, etc. is often overwhelming for a company to sift through to make informed marketing decisions. Acxiom is committed to “refining” this data overload and transforming the way that companies deliver intelligent and appealing marketing offerings in a manner that respects consumer privacy. To meet this challenge, Acxiom is hiring top talent to join our products and engineering organization. In joining Acxiom, you can expect to be part of a digitally-enabled, modern, differentiated, world-class data powerhouse that is dedicated to meeting clients’ needs and offering our employees with a first-rate work environment. Acxiom is looking for software developers with hands-on experience developing web based applications to help build one of a kind on-line marketing platform that will help our clients to better target marketing messages and offers in a privacy compliant manner. Software developers are required to participate in the complete life-cycle of the project utilizing agile development methodology. Key responsibilities include helping develop user stories, plan sprints and releases, estimate work, develop software and unit test. The work is performed in a team environment with team members who may be geographically separated. Required skills (some or most of these): *Hands-on experience developing high performance Web applications *Working knowledge of http/html, XML, CSS, Javascript *Java *Python, Php, Perl or Ruby on Rails and Shell scripting *Apache/Tomcat, JBoss, J2EE/EJB *SQL, MySql, Oracle, SQLServer or DB2 *Developing programs in Unix (any flavor) and Windows environments *Experience with code repositories and build tools like Maven or Ant *Ability to quickly learn new tools, technologies and programming languages *Self-starter and team player *SOAP/Restful services Nice to have skills: *Big Data, No SQL, Map Reduce *Analytics *Hadoop, Cassandra *JSF, Seam, Hibernate *Mongo *CouchDB About Acxiom: Acxiom is a recognized leader in marketing services and technology that enable marketers to successfully manage audiences, personalize consumer experiences and create profitable customer relationships. Our superior industry-focused, consultative approach combines consumer data and analytics, databases, data integration and consulting solutions for personalized, multichannel marketing strategies. Acxiom leverages over 40 years of experience in data management to deliver high-performance, highly secure, reliable information management services. Founded in 1969, Acxiom is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, and serves clients around the world from locations in the United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific and South America. For more information about Acxiom, visit Acxiom.com. Receive all new Acxiom job postings by following us on Twitter at @acxiomjobs.2012-04-18 18:21:21United StatesAcxiomCalifornia29289CAFoster City, CA27977920http://acxiom.jobs/xml/27977920/jobUSAFoster CityTitle: SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Location: California-Foster City Software Developer Acxiom Corporation Acxiom has long been known as both an innovator in data marketing and as a trusted marketing partner to many of the world’s largest companies. Recently, Acxiom made a commitment to further invest in Acxiom product development to revolutionize the way that businesses utilize the vast amount of digital and off-line data available for marketing purposes. The explosion of new data elements produced through e-commerce transactions, mobile device usage, loyalty programs, social networking, on-line activity, etc. is often overwhelming for a company to sift through to make informed marketing decisions. Acxiom is committed to “refining” this data overload and transforming the way that companies deliver intelligent and appealing marketing offerings in a manner that respects consumer privacy. To meet this challenge, Acxiom is hiring top talent to join our products and engineering organization. In joining Acxiom, you can expect to be part of a digitally-enabled, modern, differentiated, world-class data powerhouse that is dedicated to meeting clients’ needs and offering our employees with a first-rate work environment. Acxiom is looking for software developers with hands-on experience developing web based applications to help build one of a kind on-line marketing platform that will help our clients to better target marketing messages and offers in a privacy compliant manner. Software developers are required to participate in the complete life-cycle of the project utilizing agile development methodology. Key responsibilities include helping develop user stories, plan sprints and releases, estimate work, develop software and unit test. The work is performed in a team environment with team members who may be geographically separated. Required skills (some or most of these): *Hands-on experience developing high performance Web applications *Working knowledge of http/html, XML, CSS, Javascript *Java *Python, Php, Perl or Ruby on Rails and Shell scripting *Apache/Tomcat, JBoss, J2EE/EJB *SQL, MySql, Oracle, SQLServer or DB2 *Developing programs in Unix (any flavor) and Windows environments *Experience with code repositories and build tools like Maven or Ant *Ability to quickly learn new tools, technologies and programming languages *Self-starter and team player *SOAP/Restful services Nice to have skills: *Big Data, No SQL, Map Reduce *Analytics *Hadoop, Cassandra *JSF, Seam, Hibernate *Mongo *CouchDB About Acxiom Acxiom is a recognized leader in marketing services and technology that enable marketers to successfully manage audiences, personalize consumer experiences and create profitable customer relationships. Our superior industry-focused, consultative approach combines consumer data and analytics, databases, data integration and consulting solutions for personalized, multichannel marketing strategies. Acxiom leverages over 40 years of experience in data management to deliver high-performance, highly secure, reliable information management services. Founded in 1969, Acxiom is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, and serves clients around the world from locations in the United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific and South America. For more information about Acxiom, visit Acxiom.com. Receive all new Acxiom job postings by following us on Twitter at @acxiomjobs.2012-04-18 18:21:13United StatesAcxiomCalifornia29288CAFoster City, CA27977912http://acxiom.jobs/xml/27977912/jobUSAFoster CityTitle: DIR AGENCY SERVICES Location: California-Foster City Acxiom Corporation anticipates additional upcoming Director Agency Strategy, Foster City, CA.. The following position is an anticipated need that we plan to recruit for with a July 1, 2012 start date. Leadership role, focused on growing customers' business via building and launching digital and direct marketing campaigns for enterprise clients. Combine leading-edge strategy with Acxiom's ability to execute campaigns. Retail/CPG focus to grow and to maintain strategic leadership position. Focused on marketing strategy leading to rograms/campaigns/innovations delivered using all of Acxiom's data and execution capability. Focused on the US Retail/CPG client relationships. *Minimum of 15 years experience delivering digital strategy engagements to enterprise clients. This strategy experience must include a deep understanding of the value of building long term customer engagement and the generation of Return on Marketing Investment. *Thorough understanding of the digital value stream including Search, Display, Email, Online Media, Omniture, ComScore, utilization of DMP's. *Senior level client management experience is required along with in-depth knowledge on building Strategy Frameworks. *Thorough knowledge of the value of data to support all strategy recommendations. *Ability to create and deliver client presentations. *Experience with Retail and/or CPG clients is a must. About Acxiom Acxiom is a recognized leader in marketing services and technology that enable marketers to successfully manage audiences, personalize consumer experiences and create profitable customer relationships. Our superior industry-focused, consultative approach combines consumer data and analytics, databases, data integration and consulting solutions for personalized multichannel marketing strategies. Acxiom leverages over 40 years of experience in data management to deliver high-performance, highly secure, reliable infrastructure management services. Founded in 1969, Acxiom is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, and serves clients around the world from locations in the United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and South America. For more information about Acxiom, visit Acxiom.com.2012-04-06 10:28:51United StatesAcxiomCalifornia28309CAFoster City, CA27692117http://acxiom.jobs/xml/27692117/jobUSAFoster CityTitle: VP FINANCE Location: California-Foster City Job Role: Vice President, Corporate Tax Location: Foster City, CA / West Coast Job Responsibilities: *Lead Acxiom’s worldwide tax function. *Liaise extensively with other Acxiom groups for financial statements preparation and SEC filings, acquisition, divestiture and restructuring activities on an as needed basis. *Responsible for coordination of the worldwide effective tax calculation, FAS 109 calculations, maintenance of FIN 48 support, and coordination of financial statement audits. *Responsibility for special projects, including domestic and international restructurings, acquisition and divestitures, and Treasury-related analysis. *The Vice President, Corporate Tax will report directly to the Chief Financial Officer. Required Skills: *8 - 10 years Big 4 and/or combination US-based multinational corporate tax experience. *Bachelors Degree in Accounting required, Masters Degree preferred, CPA preferred. *In-depth working knowledge of federal tax law including, accounting methods, subchapter C, consolidated returns, international taxation and pass-through entities. *Knowledge of state taxes including income, sales & use and property taxes. *Experience in handling tax examinations of federal, state, local and international authorities. *Strong accounting and tax expertise in FAS 109 with knowledge of international aspects of FAS 109. *Strong analytical, verbal and written communication, people, and organizational skills. *Experience working in PeopleSoft environment a plus. *Excellent interpersonal skills to liaise with cross-functional teams. *Demonstrated ability to handle multiple projects, effectively prioritize, manage others, meet external deadlines, and critical thinker. *Highly motivated, aggressive, creative, articulate, results oriented. *Supervisory and project management experience. *Flexible and able to operate in fast paced, changing environment. *Ability to grow and change with the organization. *Advanced ability to communicate complex tax issues to senior management in a concise manner with the ability to establish credibility and decisiveness. *Advanced ability to investigate, analyze and solve complex problems/issues. *Highly advanced people management skills, demonstrating an ability to lead, mentor and develop associates. *Highly advanced skills in translating business needs and problems into viable and accepted solutions. *Highly advanced ability to analyze and improve business processes. *Highly advanced ability to liaise with individuals across a wide variety of operational, functional, and technical disciplines. *Expert knowledge of tax accounting practices and procedures including GAAP and Statutory accounting methodologies, disclosure and reporting. *Advanced ability to work well within a team and foster teamwork environment. About Acxiom Acxiom is a recognized leader in marketing services and technology that enable marketers to successfully manage audiences, personalize consumer experiences and create profitable customer relationships. Our superior industry-focused, consultative approach combines consumer data and analytics, databases, data integration and consulting solutions for personalized multichannel marketing strategies. Acxiom leverages over 40 years of experience in data management to deliver high-performance, highly secure, reliable infrastructure management services. Founded in 1969, Acxiom is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, and serves clients around the world from locations in the United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and South America. For more information about Acxiom, visit Acxiom.com. Receive all new Acxiom job postings by following us on Twitter at @acxiomjobs.2012-04-06 10:28:47United StatesAcxiomCalifornia29002CAFoster City, CA27692109http://acxiom.jobs/xml/27692109/jobUSAFoster CityTitle: ACCOUNT DIRECTOR Location: California-Foster City Acxiom Corporation anticipates additional upcoming Account Director opportunity for Foster City, CA.. The following position is an anticipated need that we plan to recruit for with a July 1, 2012 start date. The Account Director is responsible for developing long-term relationships between Acxiom’s Multi Channel Agency and its clients. Reporting to the Managing Director, the Account Director will insure that the Agency consistently provides its clients with the strategic leadership needed to develop successful marketing and technology solutions for the Internet as well as other related marketing channels and activities. Account Directors may be responsible for more than one client, depending on the size and complexity of each account. Assistance with managing a client portfolio may be provided by a Senior Account Manager and one or more Account Managers. In this role you will also be responsible for the overall quality of the Agency’s products and services, as well the financial performance of its client relationships. Job Responsibilities: Strategic Marketing • Lead all Agency marketing initiatives and programs with clients • Understand clients business goals and develop strategic recommendations for digital marketing and technology solutions to achieve goals • Provide guidance in analyzing and solving client problems • Identify and engage appropriate resources within, or in other Acxiom Digital offices (i.e. bring the appropriate resources to bear on the situation) • Work with GSO and Markets teams to develop sales presentations and proposals Client Relationships • Manage overall client expectations • Develop and lead long-term relationships with clients across multiple levels within the client organization Operations & Finance • Ensure consistency between client contractual agreements and Acxiom’s deliverables • Ensure the relationship between the Agency and its clients are profitable • Provide timely and accurate forecasting of future revenue • Monitor implementation and execution of client campaigns Team Management • Supervise reporting Senior Account Manager (SAM) /Account Manager (AM) • Train and coach SAM/AM’s in the development of stronger professional skills, including writing, presenting and problem-solving • Review SAM/AM email data reports • Review documents before they are sent out • Help identify potential projects and sources of revenue • Develop and foster team environment across the Agency’s functional areas Basic Requirements: • Bachelor’s degree • 7 years work experience, in an agency or corporate environment providing client-facing support and services in the marketing world • A successful track record in the development and delivery of digital marketing and technology solutions • Demonstrable ability to manage multiple complex and diverse clients • Strong leadership, writing, analytical and presentation skills are essential • Strong relationship-building skills • Experience supervising a team and working in collaborative environments Additional Qualifications: • Advanced degree About Acxiom Acxiom is a recognized leader in marketing services and technology that enable marketers to successfully manage audiences, personalize consumer experiences and create profitable customer relationships. Our superior industry-focused, consultative approach combines consumer data and analytics, databases, data integration and consulting solutions for personalized multichannel marketing strategies. Acxiom leverages over 40 years of experience in data management to deliver high-performance, highly secure, reliable infrastructure management services. Founded in 1969, Acxiom is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, and serves clients around the world from locations in the United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and South America. For more information about Acxiom, visit Acxiom.com.2012-04-06 10:28:21United StatesAcxiomCalifornia28274CAFoster City, CA27692062http://acxiom.jobs/xml/27692062/jobUSAFoster CityTitle: SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Location: California-Foster City Software Developer Acxiom Corporation Acxiom has long been known as both an innovator in data marketing and as a trusted marketing partner to many of the world’s largest companies. Recently, Acxiom made a commitment to further invest in Acxiom product development to revolutionize the way that businesses utilize the vast amount of digital and off-line data available for marketing purposes. The explosion of new data elements produced through e-commerce transactions, mobile device usage, loyalty programs, social networking, on-line activity, etc. is often overwhelming for a company to sift through to make informed marketing decisions. Acxiom is committed to “refining” this data overload and transforming the way that companies deliver intelligent and appealing marketing offerings in a manner that respects consumer privacy. To meet this challenge, Acxiom is hiring top talent to join our products and engineering organization. In joining Acxiom, you can expect to be part of a digitally-enabled, modern, differentiated, world-class data powerhouse that is dedicated to meeting clients’ needs and offering our employees with a first-rate work environment. Acxiom is looking for software developers with hands-on experience developing web based applications to help build one of a kind on-line marketing platform that will help our clients to better target marketing messages and offers in a privacy compliant manner. Software developers are required to participate in the complete life-cycle of the project utilizing agile development methodology. Key responsibilities include helping develop user stories, plan sprints and releases, estimate work, develop software and unit test. The work is performed in a team environment with team members who may be geographically separated. Required skills (some or most of these): *Hands-on experience developing high performance Web applications *Working knowledge of http/html, XML, CSS, Javascript *Java, *Python, Php, Perl or Ruby on Rails and Shell scripting *Apache/Tomcat, JBoss, J2EE/EJB *SQL, MySql, Oracle, SQLServer or DB2 *Developing programs in Unix (any flavor) and Windows environments *Experience with code repositories and build tools like Maven or Ant *Ability to quickly learn new tools, technologies and programming languages *Self-starter and team player *SOAP/Restful services Nice to have skills: *Big Data, No SQL, Map Reduce *Analytics *Hadoop, Cassandra *JSF, Seam, Hibernate *Mongo *CouchDB About Acxiom: Acxiom is a recognized leader in marketing services and technology that enable marketers to successfully manage audiences, personalize consumer experiences and create profitable customer relationships. Our superior industry-focused, consultative approach combines consumer data and analytics, databases, data integration and consulting solutions for personalized, multichannel marketing strategies. Acxiom leverages over 40 years of experience in data management to deliver high-performance, highly secure, reliable information management services. Founded in 1969, Acxiom is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, and serves clients around the world from locations in the United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific and South America. For more information about Acxiom, visit Acxiom.com. Receive all new Acxiom job postings by following us on Twitter at @acxiomjobs.2012-04-06 10:28:16United StatesAcxiomCalifornia28949CAFoster City, CA27692049http://acxiom.jobs/xml/27692049/jobUSAFoster CityTitle: SR ACCOUNT MANAGER Location: California-Foster City Acxiom Corporation anticipates additional upcoming Senior Account Manager, Foster City, CA. The following position is an anticipated need that we plan to recruit for with a July 1, 2012 start date. Senior Account Manager - Digital We have a great opportunity for top candidates with 5 - 8 years work experience who are looking to take their marketing and account management skills to the next level. Join a successful interactive marketing services company with the feel of an agency along with the breadth of top clients to keep you challenged for years to come. Acxiom, the pioneer of relationship-based email marketing and a leading interactive agency, is seeking talented Senior Account Managers to service our expanding roster of strategic clients. Under the direction of a Director, a Sr. Account Manager is responsible for the day-to-day operation of his/her accounts, making sure the account is running smoothly. Ultimately, you will be accountable to deliver email-marketing and other digital marketing solutions (social, mobile, display to name a few) that meet your clients’ business needs. As a Senior Account Manager, you are required to manage successful relationships with key client contacts by understanding their objectives, success metrics, business and industry. You will work directly with client contacts on tactical campaign tasks, be responsible for many operational aspects of your accounts, manage various types of projects – acting as the primary client contact and managing timelines and deliverables across internal cross functional teams, monitor your clients’ key performance indicators and execute your clients’ communication strategy across the channels Acxiom is supporting. To be successful, the person in this position must know the client's and our business intimately and be an effective spokesperson for the client within the agency; representing the client's point of view and concerns. In addition, the Account Manager must be able to manage a team against projects and/or campaigns with quick turnaround times. Basic Requirements: *Bachelors Degree. *Minimum 4 years of applicable work experience (direct marketing, database marketing, interactive marketing, marketing consulting, or advertising) in an agency or client facing environment. *Polished verbal, written communication and presentation skills, with both internal colleagues and external clients. *Extremely proactive, highly organized, with proven ability to manage multiple tasks. *Ability to prioritize and focus, with strict attention to detail. *Thorough understanding of and/or interest in digital marketing. *Sound knowledge of MS Office, specifically Word, Excel and PowerPoint. *Technically literate and comfortable working with Internet technologies, and desire to build technical knowledge. *Maturity and professionalism, combined with a passion for creativity. *Great team player, know when to lead and when to follow. About Acxiom Acxiom is a recognized leader in marketing technology and services that enable marketers to successfully manage audiences, personalize consumer experiences and create profitable customer relationships. Our superior industry-focused, consultative approach combines consumer data and analytics, databases, data integration and consulting solutions for personalized, multichannel marketing strategies. Acxiom leverages over 40 years of experience of data management to deliver high-performance, highly secure, reliable information management services. Founded in 1969, Acxiom is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, and serves clients around the world from locations in the United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and South America. For more information about Acxiom, visit Acxiom.com.2012-04-06 10:28:07United StatesAcxiomCalifornia28275CAFoster City, CA27692037http://acxiom.jobs/xml/27692037/jobUSAFoster CityTitle: CONSULTANT Location: California-Foster City Acxiom Corporation anticipates additional upcoming Marketing Strategy Consultant, Foster City, CA. (Home Based). The following position is an anticipated need that we plan to recruit for with a July 1, 2012 start date. Marketing Strategy Consultant This professional will be a key player supporting the sales and service delivery processes within Acxiom’s Global Consulting organization, through analyzing Fortune 500 clients’ customer acquisition, retention and loyalty marketing programs and advising on how to best leverage new and emerging media (mobile, social, search, web, email, interactive TV, video, display ads, affiliate) as well as traditional offline marketing campaigns. They will assess the customer data, insights and cross-channel engagement and provide strategic consultation to the customer on integrated multi-channel solutions. Acxiom’s Strategy Consultants provide fee-based consulting services for external clients and assist clients in maximizing their business and financial impact by expertly applying innovative emerging media strategies and best practices to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of sales, marketing, service and support functions. Our strategy consultants have vast experience blending marketing and technology to drive effective multi-channel marketing strategy and execution plans. Specifically, they understand how a marketing database can be utilized to drive business performance. Responsibilities: *Share thought leadership and guidance on how to optimize customer lifecycle value-based experiences (customer-centric, not channel or campaign focused). *Consult to address the challenges of connecting online and offline data to ensure a more aligned and coordinated brand experience (conversational dialogues). *Help world-class brands advance the capability to plan, execute and measure global, integrated marketing campaigns and communications programs. *Maintain a current knowledge base of facts, stats, trends, and success stories by tapping into the latest innovations in digital culture, media and technology. *Research and develop an understanding of the client’s business objectives. *Provide customer strategy recommendations by tapping into the latest innovations in digital culture, media, and technology. *Define a strategic roadmap and execution plan that provides the best path for optimal results towards the client’s business objectives. *Build a business case with ROI projections (integrated cross-channel scorecard) using qualitative and quantitative inputs (data-driven, fact-based). *Develop proposals including costs/timing, delivery of the project, presenting results and defining opportunities. *Explain how to improve customer data integration, analytics and modeling to help produce new customer insights and strategies around marketing based initiatives. *Help articulate the proposed new solution with contagious enthusiasm and contextually tell the story as to how Acxiom seeks to partner with the client to enable their success. *Assist Sales Representative and Account Executives in the presentation of Acxiom’s full suite of products, services, and capabilities. Required Skills: *5-10 years minimum experience as a management consultant, marketing strategist, digital SME, or new media maven for a top agency, consulting firm, marketing services firm, or enterprise software provider with a heavy focus on: Digital, New Media and Multi-Channel marketing programs in addition to analysis of customer data and the implementation of Digital initiatives. *Experience in developing and executing complex market and customer-driven strategies within the new and emerging media ecosystem. *Skilled in digital initiatives as well as brand and channel marketing, in both business-to-business and business-to-consumer environments. *Must have exceptional communication skills and the ability to interface with senior executives with confidence and clarity. *Substantial travel (50% - 70%); mostly domestic (USA), but some international (Europe, South America, China). Nice to have Skills: *Client experience as a Marketing Manager (or Director) for a recognized brand is a plus. Active industry involvement as a prolific speaker or author is another plus as is a deep understanding of digital media, interactive marketing, emerging technology, direct marketing and CRM. About Acxiom Acxiom is a recognized leader in marketing services and technology that enable marketers to successfully manage audiences, personalize consumer experiences and create profitable customer relationships. Our superior industry-focused, consultative approach combines consumer data and analytics, databases, data integration and consulting solutions for personalized multichannel marketing strategies. Acxiom leverages over 40 years of experience in data management to deliver high-performance, highly secure, reliable infrastructure management services. Founded in 1969, Acxiom is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, and serves clients around the world from locations in the United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and South America. For more information about Acxiom, visit Acxiom.com. Receive all new Acxiom job postings by following us on Twitter at @acxiomjobs.2012-04-06 10:27:57United StatesAcxiomCalifornia28706CAFoster City, CA27692014http://acxiom.jobs/xml/27692014/jobUSAFoster CityTitle: STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP MANAGER Location: California-Foster City OPEN TO REMOTE/HOME BASED CANDIDATES THAT ARE NOT IN OR NEAR FOSTER CITY, CA OR NEW YORK. Actively manage a process for governing and coordinating partnering activity across Acxiom with a focus on contracting and managing revenue producing strategic partnerships. Responsibilities Include: * Create and maintain a system for governing partnerships. * Help develop a strategy for increasing the value Acxiom realizes from partnerships, including goals for increasing revenue and contribution to profits through improving existing and adding new partnerships. * Help run a process for responding to incoming partnership opportunities, vetting requests against established priorities, evaluating candidates or routing candidates to appropriate Acxiom teams, and registering outcomes so as to maintain a partnering pipeline. * Operate and execute; translate partner initiatives and opportunities into internal activities, drive internal process to prioritize initiatives, and lead cross-functional teams to execute against them. * Manage a subset of partnerships that will be managed directly by the Global Product Solutions (GPS) Strategic Partnerships team. * For those partnerships managed directly, set a governance structure for the partnerships, discover needs and set goals, ensure the needs of Acxiom and of the partner are addressed, and set and reach financial and non-financial goals based on the objectives of the partnership. * Design and implement programs to assist Acxiom associates responsible for creating and managing partnerships to increase their effectiveness and drive more value. * Identify service providers who can supply needed expertise to partnering teams, and promote their appropriate use. * Organize and maintain a process for aggregating recommendations for potential acquisition or investment from among current or potential partners. Required Skills: * 5-10 years of experience in alliances/partnership management. * Proven record of success structuring and closing direct and partnership deals with large and complex clients and partners. Must demonstrate “hunter” mentality. * Strong grasp of the advertising ecosystem (ie advertisers/agencies, publishers, first and third party ad networks, ad targeting data providers). * A deep understanding of the marketing and related technology needs of Acxiom’s customers. * A track record of effectively discovering and mapping the needs of complex organizations, including one’s organization, and finding ways to leverage strengths of different organizations to create value. * Demonstrated ability to build relationships cross-functionally and cross-organizations at all levels and to bring alignment among disparate stakeholder. * Strong grasp of core business disciplines, including communication skills, analytical orientation, ability to influence, process design and management. * Prior success in designing, deploying, and managing enterprise wide processes. * Experience developing and negotiating long term contracts to govern business relationships. * Experience with several of the following is a plus: Apple, Google, Facebook, eBay/PayPal, Cable TV networks, Microsoft, Amazon, mobile ad networks, major mobile carriers (AT&T, Verizon). * Experience with major advertisers and/or their agencies is a plus. About Acxiom Acxiom is a recognized leader in marketing services and technology that enable marketers to successfully manage audiences, personalize consumer experiences and create profitable customer relationships. Our superior industry-focused, consultative approach combines consumer data and analytics, databases, data integration and consulting solutions for personalized, multichannel marketing strategies. Acxiom leverages over 40 years of experience in data management to deliver high-performance, highly secure, reliable information management services. Founded in 1969, Acxiom is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, and serves clients around the world from locations in the United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific and South America. For more information about Acxiom, visit Acxiom.com. Receive all new Acxiom job postings by following us on Twitter at @acxiomjobs.2012-04-06 10:26:29United StatesAcxiomCalifornia28268CAFoster City, CA27691852http://acxiom.jobs/xml/27691852/job