Another benefit of incubators is that their tenants can exchange ideas and advice with other budding entrepreneurs. “If you need help with something, like understanding how to advertise on Facebook, you can go to others in your space,” says David Ambrose, whose start-up, Scoop St., an online collective-buying service, moved into Dogpatch Labs’ New York incubator in January.

Mr. Ambrose’s company must move out by June, as residency there is limited to six months. The incubator currently provides 15 start-ups with as many as five desks per company, Wi-Fi access, conference space and snacks.

COMPANY JIBE - http://www.jibe.com

POSITION Vice President of Technology

LOCATION New York, New York

WEBSITE www.jibe.com

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

JIBE created the first “Employment Networking Platform” that opens up the social graph of both employers and job seekers to identify the most trusted & qualified candidates.

Designed to bring the power of social networking to online career search, JIBE integrates Facebook and Linkedin to enable employers and applicants to leverage the overlap of their social graphs. From previous co-workers to friends who work with a specific company, JIBE recognizes matches between these two networks as they apply to a job opportunity.

JIBE empowers employers to efficiently search and evaluate relevant candidates that are connected to other employees in their company. By creating a referral-based recruitment process it helps ensure a more satisfied employer and new employee. JIBE’s “employment networking platform” gives applicants benefits that no other job site provides, including the relevancy of job postings to their social connections and real-time status updates about their applications. This level of transparency and feedback gives job seekers the insight needed to get hired for the job they want.

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS:

You will report to the CEO

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Your responsibilities will include:

• Recruit, support, train, mentor, motivate and lead a best of breed technology team;
• Identify, architect, develop, implement and maintain technology solutions to meet the company’s strategic business objectives;
• Implement a flexible and scalable infrastructure to support a dynamic product roadmap and prioritize deliverables;
• Implement process and procedures in software development and hardware management that speed the company’s time to market for new products;
• Clearly communicate progress and hurdles you and your team face allowing senior management to make data driven decisions
• Manage schedules, budgets and staffing for multiple simultaneous projects;

TECHNICAL & MANAGEMENT QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience building and leading a highly motivated technical team, in a dynamic product development environment.
• In depth knowledge of Ruby, MySql, graphing databases and search solutions;
• Extensive knowledge building and managing a scalable web infrastructure;
• Experience managing consumer facing web applications and products with substantial traffic volumes and large surges;
• Extensive knowledge in build/release engineering and change management;
• Experience with iterative product development processes;

PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS & EXPERIENCE:

The ideal candidate has the following characteristics:

• Business minded engineering executive, with the ability to partner with the Chief Executive Officer and executive team;
• Superior management skills with the ability to create innovative systems that serve the organization’s revenue and business objectives;
• Creative problem solver with a “can do” attitude, a passion for the intersection of media and technology and an enthusiasm for bringing innovative technology products to market;
• A business partner to the senior executive team;
• Lateral thinker with the ability to articulate a strategic decision, give clear direction to technology team and lead by example/inspiration;
• A technical innovator who can amplify product direction with sound advice and creative solutions;
• Willing and able to roll up his/her sleeves and be ‘hands on’ in the process of building and directing the technology organization;
• An excellent communicator with the ability to work effectively at all levels within the organization;
• Impeccable attention to detail and planning along with a process-driven approach towards achieving objectives.

EDUCATION

An undergraduate degree in Computer Science or equivalent is required. An advanced degree is preferred.

COMPENSATION

A competitive compensation package will be offered to the successful candidate.  The compensation package will include a base, bonus and equity.

Send cover letter, resume, and work samples to:

Hacker@jibe.com

We’ll be reviewing applications and inviting teams in for interviews on a rolling basis.

Please fill out the application below HERE.

New York Dogpatchers, Scoop St. and Postling are hosting a forum for small businesses on April 26th.  If you’re interested, register here. The organizer’s describe the event as follows:
A place for local businesses to gather and discuss their experiences with social media. Bring your social media stories, questions, and successes to this open forum for local businesses. Chat with neighbors. Get advice. Grow your business!

So register and come by the NY lab on April 26!

Quoting Paidcontent: “Postling, a New York-based startup co-founded by David Lifson (CEO), Chris Maguire (VP of Engineering) and Haim Schoppik (CTO) — all ex-Etsy folks — has raised $350,000 in seed funding from angel investors including Dave McClure, Chris Yeh, Gary Vaynerchuk and Thomas McInereny.”

Here’s the coverage on Venturehacks, as well.  The company has grown in its short time here, and we look forward to continued good times and chef-quality meals from the team.

Huge congrats to Joe and Peter from Jibe!

Here are some more relevant links:

• Techcrunch coverage
• Joe’s blog post
• Peter’s blog post

As announced on Twitter’s blog last week, Collecta is one of the six search companies to follow the big guys in licensing Twitter’s firehose.   We’re pretty excited about it and think that the users who experience Collecta’s real-time streaming search results on either Collecta.com or one of our keyword driven widgets around the web will be too. What this means practically is that Collecta results will be more comprehensive, even lower-latency, and smoother in terms of presentation.

Today on Collecta, part of the experience is our own firehose of sorts — a real-time stream of content flowing from across the web that includes articles, photos, blog posts, comments, videos and social updates with latencies as low as .2 seconds between time of publish and time of delivery of a post as a relevant result in a user’s browser.  We combine this stream with data from Twitter Search/Summize to allow users to experience a full range of results for their queries.

However, once the firehose is fully integrated and we aren’t searching Twitter separately, we will be able to examine every tweet for relevance to any open queries on the Collecta network and shoot them through our optimized pipe one at a time, blended with the rest of our results by timestamp.  Meanwhile, we continue to create IP around delivering the right user experience — knowing what  to drop from these streams when the volume of results is high for a hot topic.  High volumes of data like the Twitter firehose are good news for these adaptive filtering systems — one of the many reasons we’re excited to be a new partner of Twitter’s in this way.

Stickybits based in the New York and SF Dogpatch Labs and founded by Billy Chasen and Seth Goldstein launched today. stickybits is a new platform for connecting the physical and digital worlds.  Peter Flint will be joining the board (see his blog post) and here’s the Techcrunch coverage.   

stickybits are unique codes that can be attached to physical objects.  Using the stickybits mobile app, codes can be written to or read by any iPhone or Android device.  Scanning codes shows information associated with the objects, and can notify users when their objects have been scanned, augmented, or moved.

According to stickybits investor Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus (IBM): stickybits is a platform with an open architecture for connecting the physical and digital worlds. This will come to be seen as completely obvious and wonderfully powerful, so I am very excited to get involved at the outset. There are great opportunities for innovation here; people will use our codes in ways we can’t even imagine.”

Using the stickybits mobile app, codes can be written to or read by any iPhone or Android device.  Scanning codes shows information associated with the objects, and can notify users when their objects have been scanned, augmented, or moved.

We’re thrilled for Seth and Billy, and the launch of this truly novel product!

Full press release here

Dogpatch, which opened in January, offers start-ups a place to work, rent-free, for several months, along with the possibility of securing an investment down the line.

Socks, crumpled pieces of paper, scribbled-upon white boards and empty beef jerky packages are scattered around Dogpatch’s roomy office. “It’s been called a frat house for geeks,” says Peter Flint, a partner at Polaris who spends several days each week in the New York office.

“There is a lot of excitement and interest budding in New York,” he says. “And if we can help convince entrepreneurs to think about staying in New York versus going to Silicon Valley, then that’s a huge win.”

Currently, 13 companies are housed in the space, including Postling, the newest spawn of the founders and early employees of Etsy. Locals cite Etsy, an online shopping bazaar specializing in handmade crafts, as one of New York’s shining start-up success stories, along with DoubleClick; TheLadders, a jobs search site; and the Gilt Groupe.

“There wasn’t anything like this in New York when Etsy started,” said Chris Maguire, a co-founder of both Postling and Etsy. “We worked out of our apartments for the first few years.”