Computational Linguist

Location:

Salt Lake City, UT

Responsibility:

Attensity seeks a Computational Linguist to assist in the design, implementation, and management of domain models and extraction technologies. This role is focused on the development of Attensity’s English extraction portfolio.

Requirements:

• Apply theoretical Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics expertise to complex, real-world problems concerning large amounts of varied and ambiguous data
•  Create and maintain industry-vertical domains consisting of dictionaries and entities
•  Create and maintain sentiment and intention annotations
•  Design and prototype new features and extraction patterns
•  Assist in development of Attensity’s cutting edge parsing and extraction technologies

Qualifications:

• Advanced knowledge of theoretical Syntax and Semantics
•  Experience with large-scale corpus analysis, esp. Social Media
• Experience building or maintaining lexicons
• Strong analytical and design skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred:

• Knowledge of databases, regular expressions, and programming languages such as Python, Perl, Ruby, C++, Java or C#
• Experience with agile software development practices
• Experience developing Ontologies or information hierarchies
• Experience working in sentiment detection models
• Proficiency in a second language

Education:

• Degree in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, or related fields, or equivalent work experience

Senior Java Software Developer

Location:

Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, test, and maintain Java-based components in a highly collaborative team environment
• Develop reliable project timelines, and then deliver against them
• Contribute to the entire software lifecycle including reviews, testing, documentation, and QA to ensure top-quality software
• Help to mentor and develop junior team members’ technical skills

Requirements:

• Experienced and demonstrates proficiency in Java 6
• Experienced in creating and maintaining unit tests using Junit
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, especially for technical information
• Strong analytical and design skills
• Strong communication and proofreading skills relaying technical information; Excellent interpersonal skills to communicate effectively
• Linux and/or Mac OS X operating systems
• Excellent problem solving skills and attention to detail

Optional knowledge/willingness to learn the following:

• Test Driven Development
• Git and SVN source version control systems
• Knowledge of distributed computing theory
• Knowledge of map reduce technology
• Continuous Deployment/Build tools (Hudson/Jenkins/Maven/Gradle)

Education:

• A Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field is required

Account Development Representative (ADR)

Location:

Palo Alto, CA

Requirements of the Position:
The Account Development Rep (ADR) is responsible for researching and identifying prospects for Attensity solutions, making contact with said prospects, and after qualification for fit for Attensity solutions, scheduling meetings for the customer with a designated Attensity Account Executive. The ADR promotes and generates new business discussions and opportunities that are handed off to the appropriate regional Account Executive for further discussion and compression through the sales funnel. A professional/enterprise ADR is not a telemarketer, but more a professional networker focusing on engaging target individuals in target accounts with meaningful dialog based on research, trigger and solution initiatives.

The primary responsibility of the Account Development Representative is to develop quality leads. The ADR supports a team of field Account Executives and works closely with them in lead generation efforts. The ADR also supports the field Account Executives via strategizing lead generation efforts and tactics related to specific accounts. The ADRs assist their Account Executives in developing new business by analyzing account potential by solution, researching appropriate contacts, initiating and nurturing dialog through Attensity social selling tools that results in setting introductory appointments.

• Develops business opportunities through effective cold calling, emailing and/or other professional contact techniques (LinkedIn InMail, Attensity BriefingPlace social selling application, OneSource/iSell, Tweet responses, industry group participation, etc.)
• Identifies development potential in accounts by studying current business and understanding via cursory research why an Attensity solution may be a potential fit.
• Initiates sales process by building relationships; qualifying potential; scheduling appointments.
• Demonstrates the ability to carry on a business conversation with external (prospects/customers) and internal associates (co-workers).
• Speaks and listens consultatively and makes recommendations to prospects regarding how the various solutions might provide business value.
• Develops sales opportunities by working as a supporting partner to a team of field Account Executives, generally geographically divided.
• Has primary responsibility for the Attensity BriefingPlace social selling deployment that is customized for the top 20 target accounts for each field Account Executive.
• Has weekly update/strategy calls with field Account Executives to review progress, strategize new account ideas, entry points, etc.
• Contributes information to sales management by evaluating current results; identifying needs to be filled; monitoring competitive products; analyzing and relaying customer reactions.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations, and extensive collaboration with Account Development Managers leaders and fellow Account Development Representatives.
• Enhances department and organization reputation by exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
• Maintains accurate records of all prospecting activities, including calls, emails, discovery call setting, lead passes, etc., in Salesforce.com
• Participates (by geographical assignment) in timely follow ups from marketing events, including, but not limited to Webinars, Trade Shows, User Conferences and other Events.
• Becomes an expert at exploiting the prospecting tools provided including, but not limited to: Salesforce.com, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, iSell/OneSource, and publically available information on the Internet.
• Adheres to all company policies, procedures, and business ethics/codes and ensures that they are communicated and implemented within the team.

Skills/Attributes:

• Self-motivated, energetic and driven, proactive, organized for follow ups
• Relationship oriented with strong people skills
• Superior communication/interpersonal abilities: Verbal and written
• Creative approach to messaging and ability to gain knowledge of industry triggers for account penetration
• Support multiple Account Executives and be aware of their current activities (existing customers, prospect conversations, etc.)
• Track efforts through CRM (SFDC, Marketo and BriefingPlace) etc.
• Stay current with online sales and marketing strategies that can be applied to current and prospective customers

Internship – Business Solutions Assistant

Location:

Palo Alto, CA

Internship Description:

Attensity is looking for interns interested in Customer Experience Management and Business Intelligence. This internship will expose you to the world’s most cutting edge methods for helping customers understand and manage vast amounts of structured and unstructured data, even in Social Media (Imagine extracting meaning and sentiment from Facebook comments!). Working directly with the Senior Director of Industry Solutions, you will use our proprietary software and methods to create industry specific solution sets, which will become a key tool for selling our products. We prefer candidates that can commit to close to 40 hours per week; there is some flexibility in schedule. Learn more about Attensity by watching this video.

Launch your career at Attensity in this intership!

Education Track:

• Business Administration, Psychology or Computer Science

C++ Software Engineer

Location:

Salt Lake City, UT

Requirements of the Position:

• Design, develop, test, and maintain:
• C++-based components processing large-scale textual data
• Internal and client-facing interfaces using the Qt cross-platform application and GUI library
• Back-end server components for SaaS offerings
• Coordinate with linguist team and support mechanisms

Required Qualifications:

• Experience and demonstrated proficiency in C++
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent work experience
• Strong analytical and design skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, especially for technical information

Preferred Qualifications:

• Qt application development
• GUI design and prototyping
• Client/server architecture and implementation
• JAVA API and JNI design and implementation
• Scripting experience (Python, Ruby, Perl, *nix shell scripting)
• Web application development experience (JavaScript, jQuery)
• Familiarity with serialization techniques (Google protocol buffers, JSON, XML)
• In-depth knowledge of source control systems, build tools and frameworks (git, svn, cmake, jenkins)
• Familiarity with machine learning techniques
• NLP background or computational linguistics experience

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related technical field or equivalent work experience

Account Executive (Enterprise Software)

Location:

Various U.S. Locations

Qualified Candidate will possess the follow experience:

• 5+ years selling complex enterprise solutions to the executive level in Fortune 500 organizations.

• Accurately forecast opportunities as they move along in the sales cycle
• Industry experience in one of the following verticals preferred:
  • Retail Banking
  • Hospitality
  • Manufacturing of technology products
  • Telecommunications
  • Insurance
  • Retail
• Travel Required

Successful Candidates will be able to demonstrate:

• Consistent attainment of quotas
• Technical aptitude
• Solution Selling behaviors
• Ability to build rapport with customers
• Self-motivated work style; competitive drive
• Assertive approach in managing prospect conversations
• Ability to make decisions based on practical, timely solutions
• Attainment of goals working through and with people

Education:

• 4 year BA/BS degree is preferred

Sales Engineer

Location:

Various U.S. locations

Requirements of the Position

• Partner with Account Executive to devise strategy to drive license, maintenance, and services revenue in the customer and prospect base
• Responsible for leading and closing the technical sale
  
  
  
  • Fully comprehend and understand the customer’s business plan
  • Work collaboratively with the Account Executive to lead the development of the technical sales strategy
  • Formulate and influence Attensity’s text analytics vision through consultative discussion with the customer team. Candidate will be a reliable and dependable “trusted advisor” among customers.
  • Understand strengths, weaknesses and tactics of competitive offerings
  • Define and influence the creation of clear “proof-of-concept,” success criteria.
  • Create compelling proof-of-concept solution using Attensity and supporting technology to deliver strong final presentation to a mixed audience
  • Create hardware sizing estimate and configuration for customer
  • Present the high-level implementation process
• Manage the technical relationship with customer throughout customer lifetime
  
  
  • Technical issue resolution
  • Identification of Attensity threats and collaborative creation of threat mitigation plan
• Provide Attensity product feedback to Attensity Product Management
• Provide competitive feedback to Attensity Product Management

Qualifications

• Travel on demand, approximately 25% but variable
• Always prepared
• Competitive and positive attitude
• Works well in fast paced team environment
• Ability to make quick decisions with imperfect information
• Ability to find creative solutions around obstacles
• Self directing

Skills

• 5+ years sales engineering experience selling to both business and IT.
• Expert in Solution Selling
• Expert understanding of Business Intelligence end-to-end architecture and support infrastructure
  
  
  • ETL methods and tools
  • Data warehouse development and integration process
  • Features of Business intelligence tools
  • Map customer team to reporting style
  • BI support structure within customer environment
• Ability to present Logical and Physical models
• Expert understanding of enterprise architecture
• Experience With:
  
  
  • SQL
  • Problem resolution with Java applications using Tomcat application server
  • MySQL or Microsoft SQL Server
  • Regular Expressions preferred
  • Microsoft Windows Server and/or Linux
  • Microsoft Powerpoint, Excel
  • Business Objects
• Excellent presentation, interpersonal and communication skills to both IT and business audience
• Prior statement of work drafting experience preferred
• Prior text analytics experience preferred
• Linguistics experience a plus

Education

• Bachelors Degree or higher

Business Analyst

Location:

Palo Alto, CA or Salt Lake City, UT

Requirements of the Position

• Manage implementation and provide  lifecycle support  working with enterprise customers to analyze reporting requirements, documenting requirements in formal specifications, analyzing and classifying  data extracts, conduct client knowledge transfer sessions,  developing client reports and creating workflows
• Work closely with the customer to identify and map business processes to Knowledge Engineering and Text Aggregation rules (experience with developing ontologies a big plus)
• Work closely with the customer to develop strategies
• Analyze and diagnose key decision support needs of customers and then develop and implement business reports and data hierarchies using Attensity text analytics technology
• Develop text analysis and media monitoring expertise and contribute to Attensity’s Center of Excellent (COE)
• Leverage expertise to provide consultation and best practice advise
• Assist in the development of best practices and tool kits
•  Travel Required
• Industry experience in
  1. Retail, Travel & Transportation
  2. Finance, Insurance & Healthcare,
  3. Communication Media Entertainment Hospitality
  4. Manufacturing & Energy
  5. Technology
  6. Telecommunications
  7. Market Research

Qualifications

• Strong business analysis skills required
• experience with Business Intelligence tools, Business Objects preferred
• Excellent problem solving, decision-making, and analytical skills
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills

Skills

• BI report design and development within Microstrategy, Business Objects or Cognos (in order of priority)
• Ability to assess client business challenges and deliver high quality solutions using Attensity technology and services
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Highly organized and motivated
• Ability to lead internal and external project teams in order to meet analysis objectives
• Experience creating social media analysis strategies and providing social media best practice advice

Pluses

• Management consulting / IT consulting experience
• Computational Linguistics experience
• Experience developing ontologies or information hierarchies

Education:

BS degree in MIS or Business Management, MBA with MIS or Management concentration preferred but not required.

To apply please email careers@attensity.com.