Who: BlueNIle Position: Manager of Web Development Where: Seattle What: Blue Nile is the largest online retailer of certified diamonds, engagement rings and fine jewelry. W are currently looking for a passionate and talented Manager of Web Development who will lead a team of front end web development engineers in the development and support of solutions that meet Blue [...]
Who: Quadrant Homes Position: Digital Marketing Manager Where: Bellevue What: More Washingtonians live in a Quadrant Home than one constructed by any other builder. A subsidiary of Weyerhaeuser Real Estate Company, we are now in our 40th year of award-winning home building in the Puget Sound region. The Digital Marketing Manager we seek will be [...]
Who: zulily Position: Editorial Manager/Producer Where: SoDo, Seattle, WA What: zulily’s daily release of new events requires a tremendous amount of operational and production work, and represents a customer’s daily dose of easily viewed, entertaining and delightful items for their growing family! You will see oversee editorial production of this (and other) content in our [...]
Who: Marchex Position: Lead Campaign Manager, SEM Expert Where: Seattle What: Marchex, the technology company leading the Digital Call Advertising revolution, seeks an expert in the online marketing / search engine marketing industry to help our already amazing team achieve next level goals around advertising campaigns, training, and customer support.
Who: Concur Position: Manager, Search Marketing Where: Redmond What: Working under the direction of the Senior Marketing Manager, the Manager, Search Marketing is responsible for leading Concur’s global search marketing (SEO & PPC) efforts. This includes managing an internal team, outside vendors, significant media budget, multiple accounts and campaigns to support lead generation and online [...]
Who: Manager, Advertising Services Position: Razorfish Where: Seattle What: Razorfish is one of the largest interactive agencies in the world and currently has more than 2,000 employees in 20 offices in seven countries focusing exclusively on digital marketing and technology. Each office is filled with opportunities for people who want to invent the digital future. [...]
Who: Sportswear Inc. Position: Search Marketing Analyst Where: Seattle Waterfront What: Sportswear Inc., d.b.a. as Prepsportswear.com (www.prepsportswear.com), provides innovative e-commerce solutions to consumer brands, retailers and media properties using a vertically integrated technology platform. We enable partners to create customized online marketplaces that directly target consumers with relevant, personalized products. Combining targeted merchandising, dynamic imaging, [...]
Who: Appature Inc. Position: Director of B2B Marketing Where: Seattle (Downtown) What: Appature is an extremely fast-growing, Seattle-based technology company that is changing the way organizations manage customer information and drive marketing results. Appature Nexus is used by some of the world’s leading healthcare and life sciences organizations and is quickly becoming regarded as one of the [...]
Who: HasOffers Position: Marketing Communications Manager Where: Seattle What: Dear Content King or Queen, If you are a gifted writer and you love technology or online marketing, HasOffers is very pleased that you are reading this. HasOffers is a leading producer of online marketing technology. Currently, we connect with our community and customers through an active blog, [...]
Who: Nintendo Position: Marketing Manager, Licensing, Where: Redmond What: The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii™ home console and Nintendo DS™ family of portable systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System™, Nintendo has sold more than 3.4 [...]
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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]