At TrustYou we are working hard on achieving our vision of building the world’s largest sentiment database. We want to understand and aggregate all opinions on services and products. If you want to join us to help with our ambitious goals, please contact us at jobs@trustyou.com.
Current Positions
Technical
- Software Engineer
- Statistician
- Data Engineer
- Data Specialist
- Application Software Engineer
- Working Student Software Engineer
Sales
- Director of Sales, UK, France, D-A-CH, U.S.
- Account Executive (US/Canada)
- Sales & Marketing Work Student
Position: Software Engineer
Location: Munich, Germany
Description: TrustYou is looking for smart, talented software engineers based in Munich, Germany to work on crazy hard problems. We’re most interested in people with strong theoretical and practical algorithms skills. Above all, we want people who like data and lots of it.
We have opportunities for superstars as well as the undiscovered geniuses out there. We care a lot more about beautiful minds than hot acronyms, but we’re hoping to find people with the following qualities:
Required:
- Generally like data processing.
- Strong interest in massively distributed systems.
- Thrive in a start-up environment and enjoy wearing many hats.
- Degree in Computer Science or other technical/scientific field.
- Fluency in C, C++, Java or Python. Functional and statistics languages are considered an advantage.
- Strong algorithms and data structures knowledge.
- Experience in writing fast production code and code optimization.
- Mastering Unix philosophy and the command line.
Nice to haves:
- Familiarity with MapReduce programming models such as Hadoop.
- Knowledge of natural language parsing.
- Machine Learning knowledge/experience.
- Information Retrieval expertise.
- Familiarity with databases.
- EC2 experience.
Position: Statistician
Location: Munich, Germany
Description: TrustYou is looking for statisticians with exceptional ability on data analysis and specific algorithm design to join our team and work in our comfortable and pleasant Munich office. The most successful candidates for this role will hold a degree in mathematics, statistics or a minor in statistics and would be fluent in one programming language R, Python, Java. We expect an open minded person thinking beyond a learned collection of unrelated ad hoc devices and able to coach our team on statistical aspects. Interest in connected fields like formal languages is considered an advantage.
Desired skills:
- Deep expertise and experience with statistical data analysis (i.e. linear models, dimensional analysis, multivariate analysis, stochastic models, sampling methods) in both academic and work experience.
- Designing experiments to improve the quality of data extraction (quantitative and qualitative analysis).
- Ability to draw conclusions from data and recommend actions.
- Clustering and classification analysis and techniques and latent semantic indexing.
- Data Visualization tools and techniques.
Nice to haves:
- Experience with statistical and inductive parsing.
- Speech recognition and machine translation experience or interest.
Position: Data Engineer
Location: Munich, Germany
Description: TrustYou is looking for a smart and effective working on multiprocess jobs with good attention to detail that has both experience with and passion for large data.
Required – The ideal candidate would:
- Have a degree in engineering, science, or linguistics.
- Be eager to learn new tools and skills related to data and scripting.
- Be able to propose out-of-the-box strategies based on insights about data.
Desired Skills (at least three of the following):
- Proficient in a language such as C, C++, Java or Python.
- Linux/bash scripting.
- HTML DOM/XPath and/or Regular expressions.
- Speaks multiple languages.
- Experience with data curation.
- Linguistics research.
- Project management.
Responsibilities:
- Research and analyze data on the web.
- Evaluate and judge algorithmically generated data and assess data quality.
- Curate data schemas.
- Aggregate, clean, and merge data.
- Generate, maintain, and operate the generation software and scripts.
- Write automation scripts.
Position: Data Specialist
Location: Munich, Germany
Description: TrustYou is looking for fast, highly focused individuals with strong attention to detail and correctness, great organizational skills, and wide-ranging interests and areas of expertise.
Time: Full time candidates. Two internships will also be available for the 2010 – 2011 academic year.
Required – The ideal candidate would:
- Have a degree in engineering, science, or linguistics.
- Be eager to learn new tools and skills related to data and analysis.
- Be able to propose out-of-the-box strategies based on insights about data.
Desired Skills:
- Excellent web research skills.
- Familiarity with multiple languages.
- Experience with data curation.
Responsibilities:
- Evaluate and judge algorithmically generated data and assess data quality.
- Research and analyze data on the web, including finding and evaluating data sources and providing answers for specific data questions.
- Research domain-specific data standards in a variety of subjects (eg., international points of interest, health, entertainment, education).
- Apply data generation software and scripts.
- Thoroughly document findings, assumptions, and conclusions.
- Provide feedback and direction for data acquisition and scrubbing.
- Author specifications to improve data processing and natural language processing, if appropriate.
Big Pluses:
- Familiarity with Unix commands.
- Regular expressions, XPath, or SQL.
Position: Application Software Engineer
Location: Munich, Germany
Description: Do you love building apps from new technologies? Playing/working with data and APIs? Telling your friends and/or the world about your latest technology discovery? If yes, we want you to consider coming on board as our developer evangelist. We are looking for a special person to help us make lots of friends in the developer community and inspire them to do cool, creative and impactful things with the TrustYou open data platform. Your goal is to catalyze and grow our data ecosystem with strong, active participation from many types of developers with diverse use cases.
Role:
- Engage and build relationships with the TrustYou developer community – with both existing and prospective customers.
- Deliver articulate, effective presentations/demos with technical content to small and large audiences.
- Win the hearts of developers by helping them realize the full value of TrustYou products and services.
- Run, organize, and attend hackathons, meetups, roundtables, conferences and other events, both local and national.
- Produce collateral and content (e.g. blog posts, example apps, videos, tutorials, tweets) to increase the virality of TrustYou data and APIs.
- Provide customer support on TrustYou forums and groups; engage in active conversation in blogosphere, news groups, mailing lists and social networks.
- Help developers conceptualize, design and build projects and products using TrustYou.
- Gather feedback that will inform Engineering, Product, Marketing, and Sales decisions.
- Provide weekly updates/metrics on developer acquisition and retention efforts.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of product management, technical marketing or related experience.
- Experience building thriving developer communities.
- Have built web and/or mobile apps before, and are familiar with most current web development and data management technologies.
- Passion for data, keen ability to unearth unobvious opportunities and spot possibilities.
- A data geek who loves people, is a good listener, and enjoys sharing ideas and insights.
- Stand-out communication skills; clearly explains ideas to different people with different viewpoints.
- Able to hit the ground running (while learning on the job); be methodical and organized; able to manage multiple opportunities, projects and priorities concurrently.
- A bias towards action and the ability to work well in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial and constantly changing start-up environment.
- Ability to work and travel independently with unwavering professionalism and high productivity.
Bonus Points:
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
- Previous experience as a web developer, technical evangelist, or technical product manager.
- Familiar with and knowledgeable about the various developer platforms, APIs, and Web Services (Facebook, Android, iPhone, Google AppEngine, AWS) – both functionality and terms of use.
- Working knowledge of modern web technologies including cloud computing based APIs and protocols (REST, JSON, SOAP).
- Knowledge of open source software design and development practices (e.g. direct experience with Hadoop).
Position: Working Student Software Engineer
Location: Munich, Germany
Description: TrustYou is looking for smart, talented students to work on crazy hard problems. We
offer flexible working hours and are most interested in people with strong theoretical
and practical algorithmic skills. Above all, we want people who like data and lots of it.
We have opportunities for superstars as well as the undiscovered geniuses out there.
We care a lot more about beautiful minds than hot acronyms and we’re hoping to find
people with the following qualities:
Required:
- Love for data processing
- Strong interest in massively
- Thrive in a start-up environment and enjoy wearing many hats
- Fluency in Javascript or Python
- Strong algorithms and data structures knowledge
- Experience in parsing Html, Xml, Dom
- Mastering Unix philosophy and the command line
Nice to haves:
- Further experience with one or more functional, statistics languages, C, C++ or Java
- Familiarity with databases, EC2 experience
Position: Director of Sales, UK, France, D-A-CH, U.S.
Location: UK, France, D-A-CH, U.S.
Description: TrustYou is looking for experienced sales representatives in the UK, France, D-A-CH,US and Canada.
As a TrustYou Director of Sales you will be required to develop opportunities, demonstrate, advise on, promote and sell TrustYou’s products. In addition to a degree from a prominent university, successful candidates will have either a significant sales record in the hospitality or alternatively software industry, or will have spent a number of years in a customer-facing sales or marketing oriented role.
The role of an Director of Sales is to meet or exceed revenue targets through prospecting for new customers and maintaining relationships with existing customers. Applicants must be motivated to reach targets, meet deadline requirements and possess strong negotiating skills.
Candidate should have a strong understanding of the travel and hospitality industry – ideally with a special interest in social media. Candidate should be able to discuss TrustYou’s products in relation to the needs of all levels of a client’s organization, while at the same time understanding the strengths and weaknesses of competitive products. Candidate must be able to demonstrate TrustYou’s products and draft high quality proposals as a standard part of the sales process.
Candidate will be expected to maintain relevant data salesforce by recording all significant sales activity for each account or opportunity. Weekly Sales forecasts must also be maintained in an accurate and timely fashion.
Desired Skills:
- Must have experience selling – ideally in travel and hospitality or alternatively in software
- Have demonstrated ability to sell and close deals
- Excellent oral and written communications skills
- Drive for results and win-win deals
Position: Account Executive (US/Canada)
Location: United States or Canada
Description: TrustYou is looking for experienced sales representatives in the US and Canada.
As a TrustYou account executive you will be required to develop opportunities, demonstrate, advise on, promote and sell TrustYou’s products. In addition to a degree from a prominent university, successful candidates will have either a significant sales record in the hospitality or alternatively software industry, or will have spent a number of years in a customer-facing sales or marketing oriented role.
The role of an account executive is to meet or exceed revenue targets through prospecting for new customers and maintaining relationships with existing customers. Applicants must be motivated to reach targets, meet deadline requirements and possess strong negotiating skills.
Candidate should have a strong understanding of the travel and hospitality industry – ideally with a special interest in social media. Candidate should be able to discuss TrustYou’s products in relation to the needs of all levels of a client organization, while at the same time understanding the strengths and weaknesses of competitive products. Candidate must be able to demonstrate TrustYou’s products and draft high quality proposals as a standard part of the sales process.
Candidate will be expected to maintain relevant data salesforce by recording all significant sales activity for each account or opportunity. Weekly Sales forecasts must also be maintained in an accurate and timely fashion.
Desired Skills:
- Must have experience selling – ideally in travel and hospitality or alternatively in software
- Have demonstrated ability to sell and close deals
- Excellent oral and written communications skills
Position: Sales & Marketing Work Student
Location: Munich, Germany
Description: TrustYou is looking for smart, talented students to help us drive our international
expansion and helping to enter new markets and verticals. The work student will be
assigned to market research, drafting marketing campaigns and materials as well as
sales initiatives and direct contact to potential clients.
Required:
- Passion to communicate with others: in person, phone, email or social media
- Strong interest in marketing and sales
- Quick to learn new things
- Interest in new business models and markets
- Thrive in a start-up environment and enjoy wearing many hats
- Good English-speaking capabilities are a must
How to apply:
Applications without cover letters will not be considered. Please send us your resume and cover letter.
Please include links to your blog, Twitter, etc. where we can learn more about your ideas, passions, etc.
If you really want to impress us, build a web app using our APIs and include a link to it in your cover letter. Bonus points for pointing out bugs or things that annoy you/could be better on the platform.