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#RTTS12 AGENDA: FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Responsibilities:

• Manage, monitor and communicate performance for a portfolio of large publishers
• Provide end-to-end customer service for all partner needs
• Analyze inventory metrics and industry trends across accounts
• Identify revenue opportunities and communicate across different teams
• Communicate and coordinate across multiple teams daily to maximize publisher revenue
• Configure & present revenue performance reports to external customers

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Top –tier school and high GPA preferred
• 1-2 years industry experience (i.e. ad operations, programming, account management or technical experience)
• Established knowledge of top tier European publishers and ad networks

Skills/Personal Characteristics:

• Strong analytic, strategic and creative problem solving skills
• Ability to function both independently and as part of a team
• Good organizational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to work occasional nights, weekends, and early hours
• Sense of humor, hard working, and high integrity a MUST

Keynote speaker Michael Wolff is an America author (Burn Rate, The Man Who Owns the News), journalist (contributing editor to Vanity Fair, Wired and British GQ) and entrepreneur (founder of Newser and Wolff New Media). Well-known for his strong point of view, acerbic wit and clear voice, Wolff’s topic at the Summit, “Advertising is Dead,” is sure to be provocative.

Guests already confirmed to attend include executives from top media companies (like ABC, Conde Nast, NBC, Tribune Co.), great Internet publishers (like AOL, Yahoo, Business Insider, Trulia), agencies & trading desks (like IPG Mediabrands, Omnicom, Cadreon, Annalect, Wunderman, Adnetik), and leaders in the advertising technology ecosystem (like Adobe, LUMA, TargusInfo, and MediaBank).

With a stellar speaker lineup delivering actionable insights, the Real Time Trading Summit promises to deliver strong opinions and actionable opportunities:

#RTTS12 AGENDA: FEBRUARY 15, 2012

This event is an invite-only event. To request an invitation or find out more information, please visit: http://www.regonline.com/realtimetradingsummit

LOS ANGELES – January 19, 2012 – the Rubicon Project, the online advertising technology company, reveals details for its Real Time Trading Summit (#RTTS12) in New York City. On February 15th at 8:00 a.m. EST at the Hudson Hotel, the Real Time Trading Summit will convene leaders from across the advertising ecosystem to discuss and reveal the opportunity of automated ad trading for comScore 500 publishers and their advertisers.

Attendees will include executives from top media companies, agencies and leaders in the advertising technology ecosystem. With a stellar speaker lineup delivering actionable insights, the Real Time Trading Summit will bring attendees and their business into the new world of Real Time Trading. The Summit will feature “The End of Advertising,” a conversation between Michael Wolff, contributing editor for Vanity Fair, Wired and British GQ and Jay Sears of Rubicon Project.

The Real Time Trading Summit will feature visionaries, industry experts and advertising leaders including:
·    Michael Wolff, author of Burn Rate & contributing editor, Vanity Fair, Wired and British GQ
·    Joanna O’Connell, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research
·    Tim Gentry, Head of Optimisation & Effectiveness, Guardian News & Media
·    Frank Addante, CEO & Founder, Rubicon Project
·    Randall Rothenberg, President & CEO, IAB
·    Vikram Somaya, VP, Global Operations and Audience at Thomson Reuters
·    Roland Cozzolino, CTO, MediaMath
·    JT Batson, President, DDS Digital
·    And more to be announced.

Real Time Trading Summit is an invite-only event. The content will be focused on helping educate and facilitate conversations among the comScore 500 publishers. To request an invitation or find out more information, please visit: http://www.regonline.com/realtimetradingsummit

When Saata Bangura (Manager, Demand Ad Quality) asked for help from her fellow LA team members, she was thrilled with the response. Here’s why:

“Last week, in just a matter of two days, Team Rubicon gave an overwhelming response to a call for donations towards ‘Holidays for the Homeless,’ a cause organized by Janin Rimper, a close family friend of mine. For the past two years, Janin has been collecting clothes and other essential items to give to the homeless around Christmas in her hometown of San Jose, CA. Thanks to all the Rubiconers who donated, we were able to donate 10 bags of warmgoods, including pants, jackets, and blankets to Janin’s important cause. My family and I helped Janin pass out the items to the homeless on Christmas Eve. This year, we made it a point to get to know he homeless individuals that we met at the park. It was a humbling and amazing experience being able to not only hear their personal stories, but also see the deep sense of camaraderie and community amongst them. All of us here at Rubicon have a lot to be grateful for. Regardless of your circumstances, it is the people around you that make the difference. Here’s to a great year of raising each other up in

the Rubicon Project has recently teamed up withBetterworks, an employee perks platform that gives its members access to great deals at various places around the Los Angeles and New York area, to add to the many ways we support and reward our team members. We’ve been testing out the platform and are very excited to roll this out to our team members in the new year. Recently, Betterworks spoke with Mallory Maske, tRP Director of People & Culture, to get her tips for building out a successful and scalable perks and rewards program. We’ve included Betterworks’ blog below and you can also find the article here.

BetterWorks client the Rubicon Project has over 200 employees and 4 ½ years as one of LA’s hottest startups. Creative company culture and employee recognition and retention have been key since day one.

BW: Mallory Maske, Director of People and Culture at the Rubicon Project, has been test driving BetterWorks for the past few weeks in preparation for company-wide adoption in the new year.

She’s excited to see BetterWorks adoption throughout the organization, and already has big plans for how to integrate into the current company culture.

Our most recent feature, Bonus Bucks aligns perfectly with their philosophy of empowering managers and each other, and their attitude that the little things matter as much as the big.

Maske offered up 8 tips and tricks for building out a perks and rewards program that makes employees happy while also helping out the company’s bottom line.

1. Learn what matters most

“The easy thing to do is to give people money, but we haven’t found it to be more effective. It’s boring and tends to disappear into the paycheck. There’s nothing special or memorable about it. You want to pick ways to reward that personally matter to the employee.

A recent example, was a team member who was essentially working two jobs. We knew he had a son and enjoyed spending time with his family, so we sent them to Disneyland for the weekend versus depositing money in his account. They were able to create real memories from that.

As we grow larger, we worry about scaling that kind of personalization but that’s one aspect we like about BetterWorks — it allows people to apply the money towards things they’re truly interested in.”

2. Get personal

“It’s not the money that matters, it’s about being creative with what you give employees. We’ve learned that people appreciate the freedom to choose. It’s not just about getting ‘stuff.’

Time is the most valuable thing we have, so in response to our employees going above and beyond and giving time to the company, we try to give back in kind by finding ways to save them time and make their week easier.

We like BetterWorks because it lets people reward themselves, whether through a service, an experience, or a consistent perk like house cleaning. We like the focus on giving perks that help employees take a much deserved rest and break, and make things easier on their daily lives.”

3. Little means a lot

“It’s hard to break bonuses up into smaller increments even though it’s often better for team morale as more people are able to benefit. We recognize that even if it’s little, a small bonus can go a long way in saying ‘thank you for doing a good job.’

A recent example that was inexpensive for us long term relates to executive promotion. We communicated the promotion internally, but also sent a bottle of champagne to the executives’ homes so their families also knew how proud we were of their accomplishment, and so the families could celebrate together. The feedback we got was that the employee had never worked for a company who thought beyond the walls of the building before, and that made a big difference.

Bonus Bucks enables us to focus not just on the big wins, but the little wins along the way. You get to actually take the bonus or perk into your life. It’s a simple thing that really matters.”

4. Get management involved

“Where we’ve seen rewards be most effective is from the management level. We work closely with every level of management to empower them to give their team credit for doing phenomenal things.

Part of this is giving them the tools to be able to say ‘thank you’ to their teams for any level of ‘job done well.’ Bonus Bucks makes it easy for our managers to reward their teams.”

5. Encourage peer-to-peer rewarding

“As HR, I may not know what people are doing day to day, and what their interests are, but their peers do. We’re big into peer-to-peer recognition as well.

One way we envision using Bonus Bucks is to have employees request them for other employees. When the request is submitted, the employee will have to submit why that employee deserves it. If selected, that employee, along with the nomination message, will be highlighted in our newsletter.”

6. Put it in writing

“The psychology of the human spirit is to want to know that one is doing a good job. It’s all in the act of saying thanks.

It’s not enough to wait for yearly performance reviews. You need to consistently tell your people they are doing a phenomenal job and encourage them.

One thing managers commonly fail at is assuming employees know they’re doing a good job. It’s important to put it in writing. Bonus Bucks makes the act of saying thanks easy. We can clearly communicate the reason behind the bonus, because Bonus Bucks gives us the ability to add a note acknowledging the employee.”

7. Pay attention to the behind-the-scenes

“There are all kinds of acts of kindness and leadership that go unnoticed in organizations.

Not everyone can work on the high profile, ‘move the needle’ project. But, the person who went out of their way to welcome a crucial new hire and ensure their comfort and integration deserves a thanks too.

These are the kinds of acts people usually don’t spotlight, but with Bonus Bucks, it’s easy to give them a small bonus as a thanks.”

8. Let people pick out things they like

“You don’t want to offer rewards people don’t actually care about.

We used to try to guess what people would like. We did flu shots, a yoga instructor, and all these other things, but no activity ever appeased 100% of people. It was a lot of work to manage these programs internally and ended up being a waste of time and resources We asked ourselves how could we reach everyone and still get most bang for the buck.

That’s another reason we like BetterWorks. Between the monthly supplied perk budget and Bonus Bucks, we know we’re not throwing money away. We’re encouraging people to reward themselves with things that they like within the platform. We trust our employees to know what they need best.”

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For Malware & Ad Quality Protection, we’re particularly proud of this high score, given our industry-unique technology, Helix. Through the REVV platform, Helix scans publisher sites 24/7 for unwanted ads to defend against channel conflict and control ad quality.

Of course we care about revenue performance more than anything else; it’s the bread and butter of our comScore 500 publishers’ businesses, and it’s the cornerstone of ours. The recognition from Forrester is great, but it’s the large percentage of comScore top publishers who rely on us to consistently outperform their revenue goals that really get us fired up and drives innovation.

The report noted a particular key to our success in revenue performance on behalf of publishers, our “innovation around bringing new demand sources to publishers.” Our innovation on this front has always been a priority, and you can expect to hear more exciting updates on this front in the early part of this year.

Other areas that we were rated on in the report include: Publisher Protection and User Interface & Reporting.  Since we know all of these areas are equally important to publishers in driving their online ad revenue, while protecting their brand – our team continues to focus on innovation across the entire REVV platform. Highlighting these efforts, Forrester notes that we are “aggressively ramping up… development efforts and turning once-distinguishing platform features into table stakes.”

We are honored to be named a leader in Forrester’s Wave focused on Sell-Side Platforms. As this report clearly demonstrates, the market is fragmented with vendors offering a variety of products and services intending to help publishers best meet their business needs. As the only independent, transparent Real Time Trading platform, the Rubicon Project will continue to focus innovating on behalf of the publisher. In 2011, REVV drove maximum revenue on over 2 trillion ads for top publishers, including 30% of the comScore 100; classified over 60,000 ad creatives to identify their buyer, industry, agency and more; and served real time-traded ads traded to more than 627 million Internet users around the globe. We expect to see significant continued growth this year and look forward to working with the comScore 500 publishers in building and executing a monetization strategy that breaks new records in 2012.

the Rubicon Project is on a mission to automate buying and selling for the $65 billion global online advertising industry. Backed by $60 million in funding, we are currently looking for the best QA engineers in the world to work with us in Los Angeles by taking it to the next level.

Responsibilities:

• Perform test (regression, stress, whitebox, blackbox) for front end and back end products before released to public
• Develop sustainable and scalable testing strategies for Rubicon Project systems
• Create tools to increase efficiency of QA process
• Create test plans, manage and execute test cases on all products
• Contribute to automation of product testing
• Work closely with product managers and software developers to report defects and verify bug fixes

Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or Engineering
• 3+ years QA experience
• 1+ years with MySQL and Linux
• 1+ years programming/scripting experience – Java, php, perl
• Proven ability to deliver bug free world class systems
• Experience in testing both front end and back end
• Experience with automated testing suites like Selenium
• HTML and JavaScript experience
• Experience with testing both open source and enterprise technologies a plus

Skills/Personal Characteristics:

• High volume environments
• Team player
• Self-motivated; extreme pride in work
• Great attention to detail
• Out of the box, creative thinker
• Great verbal and written communication is a must