Jobs

We have current opportunities for a CTO/Chief Architect, Web Engineer (Full Time), Web Developer (Internship), and a Marketing & Product Management Intern.

PathMotion provides career guidance and job search tools to students and young professionals. Using data derived from the career experiences of millions of people, PathMotion helps users to explore and define their career goals. Our clients are employers who want to attract high-quality job candidates and universities who want to to improve their career advisory services and re‑engage with their alumni.

CTO / Chief Architect

PathMotion seeks a CTO to manage our web application’s architecture and drive forward the development of the platform in line with users’ requirements.

Our approach is data driven, experimental, user-focused, and utilises rapid iterations. You may be interested in working with us if you have the following interests, each of which reflects some aspect of the products we’re developing:

• Large datasets, statistics, and algorithms
• Search, relevance, data extraction, and text mining problems
• Recommendation systems
• New approaches to data availability and access (OpenSocial, etc.)
• User behavior on the web

Responsibilities

• Manage development of core technologies based on information extraction theories and practices to revolutionise vertical search in careers. Develop algorithms, collect data, build models, analyse results, and refine methodologies.
• Manage the software development process and development group, setting short-term objectives and assessing progress. You will initially “roll up your sleeves” andalso code as you lead the existing development team, but as the company growsyou will recruit and coach additional team members.
• Work with Marketing to define the web experience roadmap based on consumer and product needs as well as market opportunities.
• Participate as a member of the senior management team in establishing governanceprocesses of direction and control to ensure that objectives are achieved, risks aremanaged appropriately, and the organisation’s resources are used responsibly.

Your success will be measured by your ability to improve the PathMotion career search experience, including search relevancy, breadth and depth of coverage of source data, and statistical accuracy.

Qualifications

• Degree in computer science or engineering.
• Hands-on experience designing, delivering and supporting large-scale applications and/or data systems.
• Strong experience with data modeling and production, from extraction to analysis, conversion, and maintenance. Experience with text mining problems preferred.
• Hands-on experience with XHTML, HTML, CSS, PHP5
• Deep experience with MySQL and large datasets
• Track record of making sound assumptions in order to constrain and solve ill-defined and complex problems.
• Experience leading dynamic teams; experience in a start up environment a plus.
• Must be a hands-on coder.
• Spoken French is a plus.

Details

• Location: Paris (Map)
• Start Date: Immediate
• Job Type: Full Time

How to apply

• Email jobs@pathmotion.com quoting “CTO/Chief Architect” as subject
• Write a cover letter that succinctly describes your qualifications
• Attach a copy of your CV/résumé in English or French

Web Engineer (Full Time)

We are looking for an outstanding application engineer with strong web-tier development skills and a burning desire to create a great product. Candidate has the desire to work directly with product and business teams to have direct influence on the direction and quality of the leading career search engine.

Responsibilities

Develop application features with a focus on the UI experience, contribute to interaction and visual design of user features, performance measurement and tuning, A/B testing. Successful candidates will be able to do middle tier development to support features and can work well with back-end infrastructure specialists.

Experience (required)

• Ability to do rapid prototyping of new features in parallel with design
• Passion for the development of high-quality web UI
• 4 years’ experience XHTML, HTML, CSS, PHP
• 4+ years’ experience working with and resolving cross-browser compatibility issues
• 4 years’ experience JavaScript/Ajax – deep knowledge of common JavaScript libraries and an ability to “do it by hand” when appropriate
• Front-end optimisation experience
• Ability to convert visual designs/wireframes into HTML
• MySQL, Unix
• Adaptability

Experience (ideal)

• 5 years web application development experience with at least 2 years experience at a high-traffic consumer web site.
• Iterative prototyping and live A/B testing to optimise user experience on a high volume consumer website.
• Experience with mid-tier technologies: Web Services, XML, API implementation REST/SOAP

Details

• Location: Paris (Map)
• Start Date: Immediate
• Job Type: Full Time

How to apply

• Email jobs@pathmotion.com quoting “Web Engineer” as subject
• Write a cover letter that succinctly describes your qualifications
• Attach a copy of your CV/résumé

Web Developer (Internship)

PathMotion offers an outstanding opportunity for a young developer to work on unsolved problems as part of a high-powered team.

Responsibilities

Develop application features with a focus on the UI experience, contribute to interaction and visual design of user features.

Experience (required)

• Passion for the development of high-quality web UI
• Experience in XHTML, HTML, CSS, PHP
• Experience working with and resolving cross-browser compatibility issues
• Experience with JavaScript/AJAX – deep knowledge of common JavaScript libraries and an ability to “do it by hand” when appropriate
• MySQL, Unix
• Adaptability

Details

• Location: Paris (Map)
• Start Date: Immediate
• Job Type: Internship

How to apply

• Email jobs@pathmotion.com quoting “Web Developer Internship” as subject
• Write a cover letter that succinctly describes your qualifications
• Attach a copy of your CV/résumé

Marketing & Product Management (Internship)

We are looking for interns who want to gain experience in online marketing and product development. To date, we have hosted interns from Berkeley, Cambridge, Harvard, Oxford, Wharton, and Yale.

Sample projects: Conceptualise and execute social media campaigns. Develop sales pitch documents for universities. Define criteria, research metrics, and calculate target list of best prospects. Track impressions, site usage, and conversion rates. Flexibility to help with bug checking during crunch periods.

Skills and experience required: Desire to learn how to launch a web site. Can think creatively about data and find patterns. Excellent written English and/or French. Maturity and flexibility. Avid Internet content consumer and participant (RSS, blogs, Facebook, Twitter). Knowledge of UK and/or French higher education market a plus. Conversational French a plus.

Details

• Location: Paris (Map)
• Start Date: Winter 2010-2011
• Job Type: Short term

How to apply

• Email jobs@pathmotion.com quoting “Marketing Internship” as subject
• Write a cover letter that succinctly describes your qualifications
• Attach a copy of your CV/résumé