If you’re hard-working, passionate & imaginative... we want to hear from you!
BuyerZone is a fast-paced, growth-oriented, energetic, fist-pump-in-the-air, smart, fun, imaginative, cooperative,
customer-focused, hang-out-with-your-coworkers-worthy and entrepreneurial company. Our hard-working employees
enjoy year-round activities like Red Sox games, harbor cruises, and the weekly happy hours we affectionately
call "Beer Thursdays."
More about Buyerzone
BuyerZone makes it possible for companies of all sizes to find great suppliers for the products and services they need to run their business. BuyerZone is a unique place where you will still find the atmosphere and excitement of a small entrepreneurial company, supported by the fantastic resources and opportunities of a large corporation. BuyerZone has been recognized by Deloitte as one of the fastest growing technology companies for five consecutive years, and we’re proud to say that our employees are the reason for our long track record of success.
To learn more about the BuyerZone business model, watch this video demonstration we created for our sellers. View the demo.
Please check out our open positions below. If you don’t see a position that interests you, we encourage you to email your resume to jobs@buyerzone.com.
Current Openings
Senior Online Marketing Analyst
BuyerZone, the leading online marketplace for business purchasing, is seeking a turnkey PPC professional to play a key role in an established, proven team.
This position provides an excellent opportunity to become an outstanding search engine marketer from one of the leaders in the industry. With profit and loss responsibility for a multi-million dollar portfolio, you will work with all the leading search engine marketing (SEM) platforms and learn many related techniques to create, optimize and grow our results. Your creativity will also be tapped as our entrepreneurial culture greatly encourages refining our current practices and testing new ideas in our constant quest to improve results. Your innovation, creative thinking and success will be rewarded with ownership of new projects, programs and channels.
Please do not apply to this role without at least 2 years of dedicated PPC experience on your resume.
Outstanding candidates will thrive in fast-paced quantitative operation, work well with a team and have a strong intellectual curiosity, a roll-up-your-sleeves attitude and a constant desire to over achieve.
Responsibilities:
- Monitor day-to-day financial results
- Collect, synthesize and analyze data for program performance
- Work collaboratively and cross-functionally with Online Marketing and other cross-division colleagues
- Identify expansion opportunities within and outside current online marketing plan
- Prepare ad-hoc analysis where needed
- Conduct industry research and present actionable findings
- Propose and implement changes to copy, creative, and user experience to improve results
- Manage relationships with representatives from the major online advertising channels
Requirements:
- 2 years of direct, dedicated PPC experience with a substantial campaign
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- Outstanding quantitative and analytical skills across various engines and platforms
- Comfortable manipulating numbers, primarily within Microsoft Excel
- Capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously, hitting deadlines and performing under pressure
- Outstanding ability to execute swiftly with a strong attention to detail
As you acquire expertise within the fast growing world of online marketing, the analyst experience will launch your career and help build your personal network of colleagues and friends. You’ll join a high-spirited, collaborative group that’s committed to excellence and beating goals.
Want to hear from the manager of this role what the job is like? Check out our video job description.
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UI / JavaScript Engineer
Do you obsess over writing beautiful code and delivering unparalleled user experiences? Do you thrive on learning new things and constantly being challenged?
BuyerZone is looking for a talented front-end engineer to join our exciting, fast-paced, agile development team. The engineering team at BuyerZone is responsible for maintaining four public-facing websites that net millions of users every month, as well as an internal website that supports all aspects of our daily business. There is never a dull moment! We are passionate about what we do and we take pride in delivering new technology to our internal and external customers that continuously exceeds expectations. This is a small engineering team — everyone is a thinker, a problem-solver, and plays a critical role in ensuring the success of our monthly development sprints.
You will be responsible for:
- Building new functionality and maintaining existing functionality our public-facing and internal website.
- Working with product managers, back-end engineers, and the QA team to see projects through, from conception to completion.
- Contributing creative ideas and insight as part of a cross-functional team focused on improving visitor conversion on our website.
- Developing and setting up A/B split tests using a variety of testing tools and platforms.
What you'll need to excel in this position:
- Expertise in JavaScript, including a solid understanding of Object Oriented Programming (OOP), AJAX, JSON, and object serialization.
- Extensive experience writing elegant, readable, maintainable HTML and CSS, as well as some experience with HTML5 and CSS3.
- Knowledge of, but not reliant on, JavaScript frameworks (jQuery, Underscore, etc.)
- Familiarity with JavaScript design patterns (this is important!)
- A creative approach to problem solving, innovation, and issue resolution.
- Ability to communicate and collaborate with team about code, architecture, and design.
- Proven experience building complex, scalable, maintainable, cross-browser-compatible web applications.
- Ability to write well-abstracted, reusable code for UI components.
- A passion for creating engaging and intuitive user experiences.
- An extraordinary team-player attitude!
Highly desirable candidates will have the following skills:
- Mobile development experience
- Experience with A/B and multivariate testing concepts and tools
- Experience using version control, requirements and bug tracking systems
*Important*
In addition to submitting your resume, please include an example of something you have built using JavaScript.
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Affiliate Marketing Coordinator
BuyerZone is the leading B2B lead generation company that is in need of an ambitious, driven person to help grow our affiliate program.
The Affiliate Marketing Coordinator role is an ideal position for someone who is self-motivated and enjoys working in the online space. This position will focus exclusively on working with and acquiring new affiliate partners that drive quality traffic across a number of verticals.
Outstanding candidates must have excellent verbal and written communication skills, exceptional client relationship talent, and a strong aptitude for organization and attention to detail. Previous experience that demonstrates your ability to identify, qualify, negotiate and close online affiliate relationships/business development partnerships is a big plus.
Responsibilities:
- Research/prospect for new affiliates in targeted market areas and verticals
- Contact affiliates through inbound leads, email, cold calls and existing contact lists
- Qualify promising affiliates who would be compatible to promoting our offers
- Effectively identify a prospect's needs and offer quality solutions
- Negotiate payout structures for affiliates
- Manage all affiliate needs including negotiations, set-up, promotion strategy, reporting and billing
- Manage accounts on an ongoing basis; identify issues and encourage growth
- Work closely with our online marketing and sales teams to maximize opportunities and ensure traffic quality
- Participate in strategy development
- Monthly revenue and profit responsibilities
Required skill set:
- At least 1-2 years of experience in sales or marketing, ideally with previous affiliate or online marketing/monetization experience
- Strong track record of meeting and exceeding aggressive sales targets
- Solid understanding of online advertising/marketing and pricing structures (especially paid and organic search)
- Excellent attention to detail, highly organized and flexible
- Superior oral and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently as a motivated team player
- Ability to work collaboratively to ensure smooth execution of partnerships
- Ability to handle multiple priorities
- Strong ability to analyze data and extract key learnings
- Proficient with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook), Salesforce.com experience a plus
- Bachelor’s degree
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Inside Sales Representative
BuyerZone is looking to hire our next rock star to join our Inside Regional Sales Team. BuyerZone has provided top-tier internet marketing and lead-generation services to clients for over 10 years. In this tough market we have been extremely successful and we want you to share in our success.
Reporting to the VP of Inside Sales, the Inside Sales Representative will be responsible for selling BuyerZone’s flagship product, QuoteConnect, to new business-to-consumer and business-to-business corporate clients. The Inside Sales Rep. will prospect potential clients, provide product and services information and close sales with local/regional business. A large portion of the workday is spent in telephone and email contact with prospective and existing clients. This is an excellent opportunity for a highly driven sales representative. This person will join the BuyerZone sales team selling fast-growing, high-retention rate online lead generation programs and services that will continue to drive the company’s rapid revenue and profit growth.
Responsibilities:
- Prospect and work various leads conducting on-line demonstrations to demonstrate the features and benefits of our service.
- Consistently move the customer or prospect towards commitment, and close sales.
- Present key selling points/features and benefits while focusing on customer needs and expectations — A demonstrated ability to outsell the status quo.
- Consistently close new sales prospects and build revenue.
- Manage and maintain a detailed pipeline to achieve assigned monthly quota.
- Maintain the established standards for the minimum number of calls and talk time per day.
- Attain a minimum of 100% of assigned revenue goal and new account acquisition goal by initiating outbound calls to prospective customers and new accounts.
- Effectively utilize SalesForce.com for management of all daily business activities. Maintain accurate records of all sales and prospecting activities including sales calls, qualifications, closed sales, and follow-up activities within the assigned categories to maximize revenue potential.
Requirements:
- College degree and at least 1–3 years previous inside sales experience in an internet/online advertising sales environment.
- Consistent track record of sales success and over-achievement of sales quotas/goals.
- Excellent phone and communication skills to clearly articulate benefits to both experienced and inexperienced audiences.
- Proven ability in cold calling to and engaging with executives at all levels.
- "Hunter mentality" and a desire to over-achieve.
- Maintain average of 60 good conversations per day with prospects and sellers.
- Demonstrated ability to thrive in environments characterized by rapid growth and change.
- Highly organized and able to manage multiple initiatives at one time.
- Team-player with high-energy, drive and maturity.
- Outstanding time management, organizational and communication skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, Outlook and related CRM database (sf.com preferred), customer relations and reporting software.
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Senior J2EE Web Developer
As a Senior J2EE Web Developer at BuyerZone, you will have the opportunity to spearhead the efforts of the engineering team. You will be able to enjoy the thrills of individual contribution as you take the lead on coding and developing for those more advanced and challenging projects, working to create enterprise-caliber websites. As a Senior Developer, you may also have the chance to review the design and code of fellow developers, and take on a mentoring relationship. You can put your strong Java and object-oriented design background to good use in this production J2EE environment – join our agile development team, and deliver code quickly to the field to see your work in action! As you build this code, you will also be part of the team that supports this 24/7 website. Leverage your experience with J2EE, Spring, and Hibernate as you work to design and implement all new functionality!
BuyerZone makes it possible for companies of all sizes to find great suppliers for the products and services they need to run their business. BuyerZone is a unique place where you will still find the atmosphere and excitement of a small entrepreneurial company, supported by the fantastic resources and opportunities of a large corporation. Using the industry leading standard open source stack, you will become an integral part of the creation and maintenance of web-based transactional applications for BuyerZone’s web site, www.buyerzone.com. BuyerZone has been recognized by Deloitte as one of the fastest growing technology companies for five consecutive years, and we’re proud to say that our employees are the reason for our long track record of success. Highly motivated and experienced individuals will fit right in!
What you'll need to excel in this position:
- Previous experience designing and developing websites
- Real World experience in Spring and Hibernate
- Small company experience
- Ability to carry out a project independently or lead several developers on a project
- Working knowledge of current Java EE architectural/development best practices and design patterns (e.g. SOA, dependency injection, ORM)
- Experience working with Subversion and Maven
- Technical pride to meet the deadlines to which you’ve committed
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor others
Background Requirements:
- 6-10 years of recent experience in J2EE software design and development on websites – this is an absolute must!
- 6-10 years of experience forming complex SQL statements, functions, and stored procedures
- Deep understanding of database indexes and how to leverage them to improve performance
- 5+ years of experience in working with the Spring Framework to create MVC powered websites
- Experience with Spring Security will be considered a plus!
- 5+ years of experience in working with Hibernate/JPA
- 5+ years of experience working with an open source templating language such as Velocity or Freemarker
- 5+ years working with the Java Messaging Service (JMS)
- Bachelor’s Degree
In addition to submitting your resume, please include a description of your most recent project using Spring, elaborating on the Spring/Hibernate interaction.
$5,000 signing bonus available.
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You’ll BENEFIT from working here.
Here are just some of the many benefits of working at BuyerZone:
- Competitive compensation
- Hard working but casual work environment — jeans and sandals are the norm (well, maybe not in the winter)
- Technical, creative, and analytical collection of people
- Growth opportunities — if you hit a home run, you'll be noticed
- Skill set development — because, really, it should never stop
Oh, and all the other important things, too:
- Medical
- Choose from a variety of plans that fit you (and your family) best
- Dental
- Because healthy teeth are happy teeth
- Vision
- Options and allowances for lens and contact wearers
- Retiree Medical
- Continued medical insurance after retirement is important
- 401k
- Including competitive company match
- Health Savings Account
- A tax-advantaged way to pay for medical expenses
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Opportunity to purchase company stock
- Commuter Spending Account
- Save on public transportation and parking expenses
- Flexible Spending
- Healthcare flexible spending account
- Short & Long Term Disability insurance
- Paid by the company
- Life insurance
- Paid by the company
- Work/Life Solutions
- Specialists trained to handle complex situations
- Tuition reimbursement
- Because learning is still fun, right?
- Paid Time Off
- The longer you stay the more you get
- Paid Holidays
- How nice is that?
- Parental leave benefits
- Paid time off to spend with your child after a birth, adoption, or foster care placement
- Discounts galore
- Auto, home, & pet insurance, local gyms, cell phone plans, computers and more
Work hard. Play hard.
BuyerZone is, first and foremost, about working hard and growing our business. That takes effort, commitment and dedication, and also the occasional late night or early morning to make sure things are done well and done right. That doesn’t mean we don’t like to have fun though. Be it at a company event, after hours with colleagues or even on our indoor putting green (Augusta this is not) during the workday, it's about taking some time to regroup and recharge.
Some sample company events:
- Bowling
- Scavenger hunt
- Red Sox game
- Holiday party
- Roving feasts
After hours:
- Beer Thursday
In our space:
- Ping pong
- Foosball
- Mini basketball
Oh, and lest we forget, we also give back:
- Annual charity auction
- Annual volunteer outing at the Greater Boston Food Bank
BuyerZone Core Values
BuyerZone is a special place to work. Our core values are simply words to describe our culture, the way we work and act, and what we believe in.
Prize teamwork and collaboration
Great teamwork lies at the heart of our past success and future achievements. Through healthy debate, active cooperation, and great execution, we can accomplish anything.
Focus on our customers' success
When our buyers and sellers can accomplish their goals, BuyerZone wins. Our long-term success only comes from truly listening to, understanding, and responding to our customers.
Communicate openly and honestly
Whether internally or externally, we seek to speak clearly and with positive intent. We encourage the open exchange of ideas and opinions.
Value our employees
Our people drive our business forward every day, nurturing great ideas and turning them into reality. We want BuyerZone to be a truly great place to work, learn and grow.
Welcome innovation and change
Change is critical for progress to occur. We must actively seek new, better ways of doing our work and push ourselves and each other out of our comfort zones.
Have passion for what we do
Passion and enthusiasm for your work is fundamental to job happiness. When we care and approach work with a positive attitude, time flies and great things happen.
Test, measure, repeat
Tests are a great way to see if an idea will work. We test early and often, with data-driven analysis to let the numbers inform our decisions.
Push for results and have fun
We take great satisfaction from a job well done. Work for us is both about driving results with a sense of urgency and having a blast on the journey there.
Top reasons why you’d want to work at BuyerZone
- You want to make an impact. We may be part of a large, multi-national organization, but we’re still a start-up at heart. If you like working in a fast-paced, everyone’s-accountable atmosphere — this is the place for you.
- You’re more interested in the assist than the slam dunk. BuyerZone has been successful because of an intense focus on teamwork. It’s about groups working together to deliver the best products, services and experience for our customers — period.
- You take nothing for granted. Things are meant to be improved, tweaked or totally overhauled. If you have a distinct curiosity and like tackling challenges everyday — apply now.
- You want to grow your career. We may be an Internet company, but we take seriously the development and growth of our people (and have since we started). Career development is a two way street at BuyerZone — so you should never be going the wrong way.
- You’re talented, intelligent, fun, detail-oriented, web-savvy, organized, collaborative, outgoing, inquisitive and empathetic. If so, you’d be a great candidate.
