Jobs at GeoPoll

About you

The ideal candidate for this role brings some combination of the following personal traits to the table:

• Extremely self-motivated and highly organized
• Self-starter (willing to take initiative and champion innovative ideas)
• Collaborative and works well in a team environment
• Possesses excellent oral and written communication skills

Key Responsibilities:

• Implementation of new SMS messaging connections with wireless carriers’ SMSC using GeoPoll’s messaging platform (Java, SMPP, REST)
• Development and extension of the capabilities of GeoPoll’s messaging platform (Java)
• Implementation of new billing adapters for various wireless carrier billing systems (REST, SOAP, C#)
• Troubleshooting and debugging web applications
• Accurately breaking down and estimating work and an ability to deliver as per agreed-upon timelines
• Active involvement in design reviews, code reviews and general support of all team initiatives.

Skills & Experience: 

Languages

• Java
• C# .Net
• Javascript
• HTML 5
• CSS 3/Sass/Less

Frameworks

• .Net 4.5+
• .Net Core
• ASP.NET Core Blazor
• .Net Xamarin
• jQuery, jQueryUI
• PetaPoco
• Dapper
• Unity (IOC)
• Knockout.js
• Require.js
• Node.js
• Bootstrap.js

Tools

• ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, or other Queuing Platform
• NHibernate
• REST, SOAP, JSON, JMS, NMS
• Microsoft Visual Studio
• Team City
• Nuget

Databases

• SQL Server
• MySQL
• CouchDB
• Cassandra

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Responsibilities

• Create, optimize, and measure the success of online advertising campaigns on social media, search engines, and other ad networks and report on campaign performance regularly.
• Research and implement new strategies for B2C recruitment of GeoPoll users and B2B lead generation.
• Manage GeoPoll’s end-user day-to-day app activity and user engagement.
• Increase brand visibility by managing organic social media accounts, including copywriting, finding, or designing imagery and videos, performing hashtag and trend research, and engaging with followers.
• Create content for the GeoPoll Research Blog and GeoPoll Talks podcast.
• Advise team on recent trends in market research and business in GeoPoll’s active markets.
• Working closely with other teams, identify needed and react quickly to requests for new digital marketing campaigns.
• Support sales activities through the design of both online and offline marketing collateral.
• Ad hoc marketing tasks as needed.

Qualifications

• 2+ years’ experience in marketing, focusing on digital marketing tasks.
• Experience running and managing pay-per-click advertising on various platforms including, but not limited to, Facebook, Twitter, Google Ads, and LinkedIn.
• Strong social media management skills.
• Graphic design skills and working experience with Adobe products (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere and After Effects), Canva and other design software.
• Strong understanding of PPC ad campaign performance metrics.
• Community management experience, particularly growing a user base and social media audience.
• Experience with CRMs and email marketing platforms such as HubSpot and Mailchimp.
• Strong Excel skills and meticulous attention to number-oriented details.
• Experience measuring and reporting on mobile application metrics on analytics platforms such as Kochava and Google Play Console.
• Strong English writing and grammar skills.
• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to take on a variety of job functions in a fast- paced environment and juggle multiple requests at once.
• An enthusiastic self-starter, able to work independently or as part of a small team.
• Interest in the market research and technology industries and a willingness to learn about new topics and industries.

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Responsibilities

Under the leadership of the Portfolio Manager and Chief Operations Officer, the Program Assistant will be directly responsible for managing relationships with CATI & CAPI Teams for end-to-end quality data collection and facilitating new relationships with potential CATI & CAPI Teams.

Their responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Overall project implementation, training & support of CATI & CAPI Teams (engagement with other departments) to ensure projects are running at the required standards and pace.
• Daily oversight of the projects assigned to you (performance management, quota management and quality controls) & adherence to GeoPoll standards.
• Issue resolution and management with data collection teams on the ground.
• Coordinate with internal teams to establish project work plans and timelines for projects, prepare samples and executes deliverable submissions for client projects.
• In close collaboration with the Director and/or Portfolio Manager, ensure the success of the program management team in meeting contractual and program requirements.
• Organize program documents and manage enumerator trainings so that each adheres to GeoPoll standards and protocols to ensure all enumerators are trained per project prior to starting full data collection.
• Support the portfolio team with project adherence to the data quality standards across the different stages of delivery as assigned by the Portfolio Manager/Director of Operations.
• Manage enumeration teams to maintain full retention of the trained team throughout data collection and ensure at least 5 percent of all calls made by enumerators are graded and reviewed through audio recordings, direct listening or conducting callbacks.
• Escalate to the Portfolio team and the Portfolio Manager issues and risks that come up for a project in the portfolio so that these can be addressed in a timely manner
• Support the portfolio team with managing vendor project financials to ensure maximum accrual and help track account payables for active portfolio.
• Manage sample frames, prepare samples and monitor sample performance of individual vendor projects.

Requirements:

• 2+ years’ experience in survey design and project implementation
• 2+ years’ experience in basic data prep practices (cleaning raw data, analyzing frequencies, building pivot tables, etc.)
• 1+ years’ experience managing direct reports.
• Extremely self-motivated and highly organized
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to take initiative and develop other team members
• Ability to exercise good judgment and discretion in confidential matters
• Enjoys a fun, dynamic and challenging work environment within a start-up culture
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel.