Who: IP Street Position Senior UI Developer Where: Seattle What: Founded in 2009, IP Street (http://www.ipstreet.com) develops and markets software to help corporations, law firms, financial research firms, and government agencies better analyze patent-related information. Our goal is to make IP data easy to get, use, and understand, so everyone can have access to high quality [...]
Who: IP Street Position Senior Developer Where: Seattle What: Founded in 2009, IP Street (http://www.ipstreet.com) develops and markets software to help corporations, law firms, financial research firms, and government agencies better analyze patent-related information. Our goal is to make IP data easy to get, use, and understand, so everyone can have access to high quality [...]
Who: Google Position: User Experience Designers Where: Seattle (Fremont)/Kirkland What: Google has two Research and Development offices in the Seattle area located in the Kirkland and Fremont neighborhoods. The Fremont office is also home to a sales office. Google Seattle/Kirkland has dozens of projects in areas like ads, search, systems, and web and desktop applications. [...]
Who: Seattle Central Community College Position: Communications Consultant 2 (Web Content Writer) Where: Seattle What: Seattle Central Community College is seeking a permanent, full time, Communications Consultant 2. Applications for this position close on December 19. The person in this position will report to the VP for Admin Services and will work closely with the webmaster and [...]
Who: BuzzBee Position: Marketing Manager Where: Seattle What: Marketing Managers are responsible for creating, delivering and ensuring the quality of the marketing work performed at BuzzBee. Best candidates will understand and ramp quickly on new clients and projects including correct positioning of message/tone in marketing campaign deliverables to target audience. Also, they will have proven [...]
Who: Cut Media Position: Organic Search Manager Where: Seattle What: Cut Media is a private equity backed start up based out of Pioneer Square headquarters in downtown Seattle focused on building the top destinations on the web for saving consumers time and money. We have just completed a multi-million dollar round of funding and are [...]
Who: Razorfish Position: Digital Account Manager Where: Seattle What: Razorfish is one of the largest interactive agencies in the world focusing exclusively on digital marketing and technology. Our Advertising Services is the fastest-growing discipline within Razorfish and is searching for new talent.
Who: Hornall Anderson Position: Interactive Creative Director Where: Seattle What: We’re looking for someone with a deep background in Interactive design and branding – someone who can lead a team to develop engaging experiences for built spaces, video, web and mobile environments.
Who: Hornall Anderson Position: Business Development Director Where: Seattle, WA What: Hornall Anderson (http://www.hornallanderson.com) is looking for an experienced sales executive with demonstrated ability to identify and develop new business with C-suite relationships across a spectrum of business verticals. We are looking for people who have an understanding of and a passion for branding and [...]
Who: Amazon Position: Account Manager – Amazon Associates Where: Seattle What: We are seeking an experienced online Account Manager to build out processes that scale the impact of the function across all touch points including sales, partner integration and customer service.
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Feb 6 2012
Techspresso Shots: PS Top Tech Talent Changing Posts, Places and Partners, Avg. Salary $90,000+
Like the Bay Area’s Silicon Valley, the “Emerald Triangle” of Seattle, Redmond and Kirkland has become a many faceted jewel of a marketplace for elite technical and management talent, and strong software design and programming professionals throughout the ranks.
As the NW tech world turns, management turnover churns with it. Watching the direction of “HR talent flow” from one company to another, is a fair predictor of who is up and who is down in any given industry category at a particular time.
Take “third-party apps” for example, and the shifting momentum in that market space between Microsoft and Amazon. Last year, Charlie Kindel (no Kindle “name-pun” intended), who was a Microsoft general manager leading third-party app initiatives, left the company to launch a start-up as yet unrealized. At the time Kindel called Windows Phone “the best product Microsoft has ever built.”
Now, his replacement, Brandon Watson is leaving Microsoft to join Amazon.com’s Kindle team also in third-part app development. Watson’s Twitter account confirmed the move. “The rumors are true. The team is in great hands,” he wrote on Friday. “I’ll miss working on #wpdev.”
Mary Jo Foley notes at ZDNet that the Amazon group Watson is joining makes Kindle apps for a variety of platforms, including Windows Phone. Watson leaves Windows Phone with a legacy of accomplishment According to AllAboutWindowsPhone.com, more than 60,000 items have now been published in the Windows Phone Marketplace.
Still it seems a bit surprising that the degree of overlap in the mobile app field is not restricted by a non-compete or non-disclosure agrement that would make it difficult to make such a switch “on the fly.”
Our talented cadre of Seattle workers are earning an average of $90,000 per year, up 5 percent from last year, plus an annual bonus of close to $10,000 according to a survey conducted by TechFlash. This compares favorably with the average annual wage of $81,327 for tech professionals nationwide.
Like the Microsoft and Amazon parallelism, the Bay Area has two opposing tech poles in Google and Apple. In an HR switch last week, Google purportedly pulled off a coup by hiring Apple’s senior director of product integrity for a secret project, according to VentureBeat. The hiring is interesting because the Department of Justice is investigating Google and Apple for allegedly working out a “no poach” agreement where the companies — along with Pixar, Lucasfilm, Intel and Intuit — allegedly conspired to suppress employee compensation by not poaching each other’s employees.
According to this Linkedin page, Simon Prakash worked at Apple for more than eight years where he was most recently the senior director of product integrity responsible for product quality across all of Apple’s products, from iPhones to Macs.
Now he’ll be working for Google on a secret project, presumably run by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who is in charge of a variety of secret research and development projects at Google. The company recently acquired Motorola Mobility, and it has a wide variety of hardware projects under way that Prakash might be working on. [24x7]