Corporate Counsel

TheStreet.com is seeking a mid to senior-level attorney to focus on contract drafting, compliance, corporate governance, and a variety of other corporate matters. The attorney will work independently but collaboratively as part of a small and fast-paced legal department. This position is based in New York.

Requirements:

• JD, with strong academic credentials.
• Admission to New York bar.
• 4+ years of experience, preferably with time spent in both law firm and in-house environments.
• Experience advising clients on structuring transactions and business development deals, including sales and services contracts.
• Familiarity with SEC compliance (’33 Act and Investment Advisor Act) and broad exposure to corporate governance matters.
• Organizational skills and ability to balance numerous projects under pressure.
• Flexibility and willingness to work on a broad variety of legal matters.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills; must be dynamic as well as highly team- and service-oriented.
• Commitment to professionalism and collegiality.

Responsibilities:

• Draft, review and negotiate a variety of customer commercial transactions including: license agreements, headline indexing agreements, co-branding agreements, revenue sharing agreements, content distribution agreements, NDAs, vendor agreements etc.
• Support the continuous improvement of standard form agreements and the development of policies and procedures for commercial agreements for business and sales groups.
• Responsible for compliance function (annual review, SOX Compliance, investment policy, code of ethics, etc.
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• Monitor compliance with privacy laws and keep privacy policies updated.
• Assist the General Counsel in managing corporate governance and record keeping related to subsidiary entities including corporations and LLCs.

Corporate & Compliance Counsel

TheStreet.com is seeking a mid to senior-level attorney to provide detailed analysis, assistance and support to the General Counsel in relation to compliance and contract matters (along with various additional corporate matters as necessary). The attorney will work independently but collaboratively as part of a small and fast-paced legal department. This position is based in New York.

Responsibilities:
Compliance related:

• Maintain and execute the company’s compliance program as it relates to online multimedia and financial advisory services business. Meet and work with members of the business units to ensure the successful documentation and completion of the annual compliance review, execution of marketing reviews, and development/updating of business requirements based on state and federal regulation.
• Assist as needed in the execution of audits, complaint reviews, and all other aspects of the compliance function. Specific duties include, but are not limited to: working with in-house counsel and outside counsel to enhance documentation of the business requirements which guide compliance by the business units with applicable laws and regulations (including CAN-SPAM laws, privacy laws, Sarbanes- Oxley, and the Investment Advisors Act of 1940).
• Assist in reviewing, updating, publishing and archiving company’s compliance policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Review and evaluate customer complaints to help identify instances of non-compliance as necessary

• Draft, review and negotiate a variety of customer commercial transactions including: various license agreements, headline indexing agreements, co-branding agreements, revenue sharing agreements, content distribution agreements, NDAs, vendor agreements etc.
• Support the continuous improvement of standard form agreements, the development of policies and procedures for commercial agreements for business and sales groups.

Requirements:

• JD, with strong academic credentials.
• Admission to New York bar.
• 4+ years of experience, preferably with time spent in both law firm and in-house environments.
• Experience advising clients on structuring transactions and business development deals, including sales and services contracts.
• Familiarity with SEC compliance (’33 Act and Investment Advisor Act) and broad exposure to corporate governance matters.
• Organization skills and ability to balance numerous projects under pressure.
• Flexibility and willingness to work on a broad variety of legal matters.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills; must be dynamic as well as highly team- and service-oriented.
• Commitment to professionalism and collegiality.

Advertising Sales Regional Directors

Responsibilities:

• Prospect and develop key senior level ad agency and company relationships in order to effectively build and maintain territory ad revenue vs. budget.
• Establish professional relationships and a robust account pipeline by prioritizing and conducting a high volume of weekly account opens and sales calls to realize maximum revenue.
• Strategically approach prospects and determine needs, marketing initiatives/ objectives, business model, budget cycle and key decision-makers.
• Develop effective sales proposals and ad sales solutions by utilizing a thorough understanding of appropriate and available inventory.
• Conduct high-level client sales meetings and presentations to aggressively and professionally move the sales process towards agreement in a timely manner.
• Negotiate final agreement points in conjunction with internal staff and prospective clients.
• Maximize advertising results and ensure a high renewal rate by communicating with client services team and client to assure execution of contract deliverables and maximum program optimization.
• Efficiently manage territory T&E.
• Complete regular call reports, sales pipelines and revenue forecasts.

Qualifications:

• BA/BS.
• Five plus years of demonstrated success in advertising sales in online media.
• In-depth knowledge of interactive advertising with regard to positioning and technology.
• Solid contacts and relationships with agencies and clients.
• Ability to sell conceptual, multi-faceted and profitable advertising programs.
• Ability to think strategically from a marketing perspective.
• Ability to orchestrate internal champions at high levels to acquire necessary funding from a variety of budgets.
• Highly developed written and oral presentation skills.

Account Manager (San Francisco)

Responsibilities:

• Proactively assist the West Coast sales team in managing existing business and pursuing new business opportunities.
• Represent TheStreet.com with a high level of integrity and knowledge and act as a resource for all West Coast clients and agencies.
• Manage & monitor current campaigns by coordinating with internal operations and client & agency contacts.
• Maintain constant awareness of West Coast advertiser activity in order to identify new business opportunities.
• Collaborate with the national sales team to share information and resources.
• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of available advertising programs, site information and resources.
• Assist with the development of proposals, internal and client reporting and all sales related materials.

Qualifications:

• BA/BS.
• Two or more years of interactive sales or interactive agency media related work experience.
• Strong understanding of our business, online marketing and the West Coast advertising community.
• Ability to deliver accurate, professional work under tight deadlines.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Some evening events and travel required.
• Excellent communication and customer service skills.
• PowerPoint, Photoshop, Excel and other related computer skills necessary.

CONSUMER MARKETS

Sales Representatives

Responsibilities:

• Make proactive calls throughout the day to individual investors in order to introduce to and sell them our premium products.
• Utilize our existing database to locate customer information and track sales initiatives.
• Become a knowledgeable and trusted advisor to our clients in order to cross-sell and up-sell our products.
• Interpret feedback from clients and make product enhancement recommendations as needed.

• BA/BS.
• Two plus years of successful sales experience within the financial services industry.
• Strong knowledge of and passion for Wall Street.
• Strong phone presence and excellent listening skills.
• Perseverance and passion for the thrill of the sale.
• Ability to think and react quickly to client demands.
• Commitment to a high level of client service.
• Ability to think and react quickly to client demands.

CUSTOMER SERVICE

Customer Service Representative (New York)

Objective:
Support our rapid growth by extending value to our customers, as well as identifying investment styles and presenting premium products to qualified clients. Become an integral part of our Customer Service team. Gain full knowledge of the inner workings of TheStreet.com, our products and corporate culture. Train for sales, marketing, editorial, or senior customer service positions.

Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree.
• Upselling/cross-selling experience is a plus.
• Financial experience a plus (internship experience acceptable).
• Basic understanding of and passion for the stock market and familiarity with financial terminology.
• Superior verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to multi task in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to speak confidently to senior executives and money managers.
• Proficiency in MS Office applications and the Internet.
• Desire to learn new products and applications as needed.
• Outgoing, team-oriented personality and willingness to embrace challenges.

Business Development Manager

Seeking a highly motivated business development professional. Qualified candidates MUST have established relationships within the online world, preferably within the finance space.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the Director of Traffic Acquisition to identify and secure revenue-generating partnerships and innovative content distribution deals.
• Pursue traffic and subscription-driving relationships with online and financial organizations.
• Work closely with the Director to determine proper formulas and criteria for evaluating deals before recommending to senior management.
• Coordinate with internal teams and external partners to ensure the successful execution of business development deals.

• Minimum of 3+ years of business development experience. MUST have at least 1+ year experience developing online partnerships.
• Sales experience in related industries, such as interactive publishing, internet, and financial services.
• Demonstrated ability to execute against multiple projects and excel in a fast-paced, results-oriented work environment.
• Superior presentation, communication and negotiating skills.
• 2-3 years of experience with Excel.
• Basic financial modeling skills.
• BA/BS required. MBA a plus.

Marketing Manager

Objective:
Pilot innovative web and email-based programs designed to retain our qualified customers. Provide the inspiration, vision and dynamic leadership behind these programs which are designed to meet the specific needs of our various customer segments. Reinforce relationships with our existing customer base by increasing value perception and brand loyalty.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, implement, and manage retention programs.
• Track and report performance across numerous retention metrics.
• Work with the Customer Service team and strategic partners to implement and manage programs on a daily basis that will ensure an outstanding customer experience and increase subscriber retention.
• Work with marketing and creative teams to concept, test and evaluate new methods or messages that will drive the highest response and profitability from target consumers.
• Evaluate current attrition performance levels. Propose and lead the development of strategies and supporting tactics across all customer segments that will drive measurable, sustainable retention improvement within the existing customer portfolio.
• Interact with other teams and departments to facilitate continuous process improvements that result in service which will consistently meet or exceed customer expectations.
• Ensure sales and marketing requirements are implemented into customer retention and loyalty programs.
• Work with customer service to handle cancellation requests (attempt to save accounts, identify future sales opportunities, and document cancellation reasons).
• Create and maintain a customer reference database for use by Sales and Marketing.

• BA/BS
• 2-3 years of online marketing experience
• Membership/subscription marketing experience strongly preferred
• Strong knowledge of direct marketing principles and practices
• Interest in investing and/or brokerage concepts a plus
• Excellent project management skills with ability to multi-task and work well within a fast paced, deadline environment
• Strong interpersonal and written/oral communication skills, including business writing and presentation
• Extensive experience with Excel a plus

Sales Representative:

Objective:
Lead our rapid growth and become an integral part of our Professional Markets team. Deliver our value proposition and close the deal on our premium products for institutional investors.

Responsibilities:

• Make proactive calls throughout the day to institutional investors in order to introduce to and sell them our professional products.
• Utilize our existing database to locate customer information and track sales initiatives.
• Become a knowledgeable and trusted advisor to our clients in order to cross-sell and up-sell our products.
• Interpret feedback from clients and make product enhancement recommendations as needed.

• BA/BS.
• Two plus years of successful sales experience within the financial services industry.
• Strong knowledge of and passion for Wall Street.
• Strong phone presence and excellent listening skills.
• Perseverance and passion for the thrill of the sale.
• Ability to think and react quickly to client demands
• Commitment to a high level of client service.

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Systems Administrator

• At least 5 years hands-on production experience.
• Ability to work independently with little direction on projects.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of Solaris 9/10 and RedHat ES.
• Ability to support all key infrastructure services: DNS, Sendmail, snmp, Jumpstart, Kickstart, etc.
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• Understanding of and ability to support SAN and NAS attached storage.
• Ability to support Java application servers as well as Apache, Tomcat and Resin applications.
• Strong shell programming skills.
• Knowledge of and experience in application of enterprise-wide backup and disaster recovery strategy.
• Knowledge of enterprise monitoring systems.
• Netscaler or other load balancing technology.
• Experience with the following is a plus: Oracle, MySQL, Checkpoint Firewall, Application Firewall (Teros), and Sun Cluster.

Senior Developers

In the next two years, we will be rebuilding our content management system, content publishing and syndication engines and extending our e-commerce systems, as well as redesigning our web properties. The focus will be on delivering a highly robust and flexible content platform leveraging Web2.0 technologies and methodologies. We will also be exploring our own innovations in online web publishing and social networking to help drive our business.

We will utilize cutting-edge technologies and tools, including a variety of open source Java (such as Resin, Lucene, Hibernate, Spring, and Velocity); exploit the latest AJAX capabilities; deploy Oracle RAC, and much more. This is an exciting time to be a part of TheStreet.com’s technology department!

We're hiring mid to senior level developers that aren't afraid to experiment with and learn new technologies, share and promote their ideas and interact directly with the creative, editorial and business teams. We need highly innovative technologists as well as great communicators- developers who are comfortable working in a highly dynamic and collaborative environment.

Our IT management strategy incorporates world-class concepts and best-practices in technology innovation, technical project management and business fundamentals. We have already attracted a number of world-class IT innovators with proven track records in delivering cutting-edge technologies.

Database Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain proper procedures and guidelines for all aspects of database usage.
• Database backups and recovery, including the multi-instance, multi-site disaster recovery infrastructure.
• Work closely with developers on automation and implementation of all database related functions and devise automation through scripting and job management.
• Provide support and maintenance for the Discoverer environment by assuring uptime of the application server and components and by building support objects for the business groups.
• Maintain the necessary security for the production databases and Discoverer environment.
• Monitor the database parameters and performance metrics and assist users with query tuning.
• Team with the rest of the OPS group to ensure proper balancing of system, storage, and network resources.

• BA/BS degree or equivalent.
• Five plus years of experience supporting a production Oracle database.
• Ability to use Unix OS to its full potential.
• Advanced shell scripting and SQL scripting skills.
• Experience with supporting Discoverer, Oracle reports, and Oracle Application Server in a production environment.
• In depth understanding of database backup and recovery methodology, and familiarity with Oracle disaster recovery options, such as DataGuard.
• Familiarity with SQL server a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to multi-task and respond to new priorities as needed.