Employment Opportunities

Weather Underground is growing and looking for talented people to help.

	Job Descriptions

Software Developer

Job Title:	Software Developer
Location:	San Francisco, South of Market
Position Type:	Full-Time

About us:

The Weather Underground Inc., founded in 1995, is one of the most popular and comprehensive weather sites in the world, boasting over 60 languages. The wunderground.com site specializes in real-time delivery of current weather conditions, detailed forecasts, and severe weather advisories; it remains the market innovator for web-based weather delivery including historical conditions, city searches, weather stickers, personal weather stations, marine weather, astronomy, and user-uploaded WunderPhotos.

We are looking for developers who can assimilate themselves into our lithe but productive development environment. We are a cohesive unit, capable of self direction but gathered around a collective purpose and a sense of site ownership. Our philosophy involves minimal meetings, low management overhead, high creative input, and agile development practices which allow us to leanly dominate in a highly competitive market.

Responsibilities:

Learn existing code base (C/C++ on Linux)
Work in a team environment to brainstorm, architect, write, and debug software
Upgrade existing features
Build new products
Support existing and new products

Required Skills

Expertise in data structures and algorithms using C and C++
Strong UNIX/Linux background
Understanding of code scaling and efficiency
HTML

Preferred Skills

Knowledge of scripting languages such as PHP, Perl, Javascript, and UNIX shell scripts
Understanding of Flash, ActionScript

Benefits & Information:

Competitive salary
Health care package
Generous stock option program
Fun and casual place to work

Start date: Immediate

Send a link to an HTML version of your resume to jobs@wunderground.com. If you don't have an accessible version of your resume, email a copy as an attachment. Please make sure your email has the subject of "Software Developer".

Advertising Sales Representative

Job Title:	Advertising Sales Representative
Location:	San Francisco, South of Market
Position Type:	Full-Time

About us:

Responsibilities:

The Weather Underground has positions available for online sales professionals with established client bases. We are looking for talented people who are driven toward growing new business relationships into long-term, prosperous collaborations. Our sales team is responsible for soliciting advertising for our website and related operations.

Unleash your creative energy working with advertisers to realize their potential, track user response and optimize campaigns. The Weather Underground's proprietary technology gives you room to innovate and motivate our advertisers to take advantage of unique geographic, demographic, time and weather based targeting capabilities. Advertisements are served where and when they are most effective to best suit the needs of clients.

Skills & Qualifications:

Minimum three (3) years sales experience developing clients and/or agencies
Experience in online advertising sales, brand management, promotions and sponsorships is highly desirable
Proven track record of success driving revenue through the development of long-term strategic relationships
Extensive rolodex of agency contacts
Strong interpersonal communication and presentation skills
High energy level and productivity
Strong prioritization skills
Microsoft office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
BA/BS required

Benefits & Information: