Dear Jordan Bloggers

Sorry to inform you that we've been having problems with the contact list for the past few weeks. If you have sent any inquires, we regret to inform you that they were not received.

If you have any concern or issue you would like to contact us about, you will need to resend it again

Please accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience

Jordan Blogs

Interesting opportunities at Google, please see below

• Engineering Site Director (Arabic Fluent) – Middle East
• Software Product Managers (Arabic Fluent) - Middle East
• Experienced Software Engineers (Arabic Fluent)- Middle East
• Software Engineering Technical Leads/ Managers (Arabic Fluent) - Middle East

Google Engineering Site Director (Arabic Fluent) – Middle East

Google is looking for a highly technical, hands-on Engineering Site Director to drive Product and Technology initiatives for the Middle East/Arab World.
As the most senior engineer for Google in the region, the Engineering Site Director will be the face for Google's engineering effort in the Arab World.

The Engineering Site Director will be responsible for the overall planning, execution and success of projects with both regional and global impact. In addition to leading the engineering team or teams in the Arab markets, the Engineering Site Director will work closely with Google's senior management team, as well as local officials, universities and professional organizations.

Please note that engineering management at Google is technical, i.e., candidates are expected to have a strong track record of technical accomplishments in addition to management accomplishments. Consequently a candidate must posses a strong and broad background in most aspects of Computer Science. Candidates will be asked technical questions during your interviews.

Requirements:

* At least 10+ years of exceptional technical competence and accomplishment with a strong product development track record and continuing and enduring technical leadership throughout career
* Software background and large scale success developing web-based applications, ideally launched in the Arab market
* Entrepreneurial drive plus demonstrated ability to achieve goals in an innovative environment
* Relevant experience as hands-on manager of a large fast-paced dynamic engineering team
* Solid leadership skills and success in building a strong engineering team
* Strong project-management skills and proven history in product delivery
* Ability to operate and thrive in the face of ambiguity
* Can fit in well within an informal startup environment and quickly establish credibility with very capable engineers
* MS in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or PhD (preferred)

Please email a chronological resume to Nabil Khatib nabilk@google.com
Do not hesitate to share with anyone or any group that could be interested.


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Software Product Managers (Arabic Fluent) - Middle East

One of the many reasons Google consistently brings innovative, world-changing products to market is because of the collaborative work we do in Product Management. With eyes focused squarely on the future, our team works closely with creative and prolific engineers to help design and develop technologies that improve access to the world's information. We're responsible for guiding products throughout the execution cycle, focusing specifically on analysing, positioning, packaging, promoting and tailoring our solutions to all the markets where Google does business.

As a Product Manager at Google, you bridge the needs of our customers (users, advertisers and partners) and the creativity of our engineering teams. You combine outstanding product vision with the hands-on skills to work with engineers and deliver new products and features quickly to markets across Africa. Google Product Managers come from a wide range of backgrounds: many have successfully run their own software/web companies whilst others have delivered successful products for large software companies. They all combine a great instinct for developing compelling products with a strong academic background and technical aptitude to work with a world class engineering team and the business sense to drive local product goals and strategies.
Responsibilities:

* Launch products
* Identify market opportunities and define product vision and strategy
* Understand customer needs and gather product requirements
* Develop new products and enhance existing products
* Engage closely with the engineering team to help determine the best technical implementation methods as well as a reasonable execution schedule

Requirements:

* Computer Science degree. Masters or PhD preferred
* MBA degree highly regarded
* End to end Product Management experience of software / web technologies
* Hands-on developing Internet products and technologies
* Entrepreneurial drive with appreciation of user-experience, business, and commercial issues
* Understanding of the Internet, Search Engine, and On-Line Advertising spaces

Please email a chronological resume to Nabil Khatib nabilk@google.com
Do not hesitate to share with anyone or any group that could be interested.


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Experienced Software Engineers (Arabic Fluent) - Middle East
Software Engineering Technical Leads/ Managers (Arabic Fluent) - Middle East

Software Engineering positions require a significant work history, experience developing web-based applications, expertise in data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis, fluency in one or more of C, C++, Java, fluency in one of more of Shell, PHP, Perl or Python, solid working knowledge of Unix, preferably Linux, SQL and MySQL are a plus. Applicants must have BA/BS in Computer Science, MS or PhD (a plus).

These positions require exceptional programming skills, excellent algorithmic and analytical skills, and a strong aptitude for building high-performance, scalable computer systems. Our recent work encompasses a broad spectrum of computer science research areas, including: Large scale distributed systems design, Information retrieval, Natural language processing, machine learning and data mining, algorithms and data structures research and user interface research.

To get a clearer idea about your experience, please briefly reply to these questions and email back with your chronological resume:

* What are your strongest areas of expertise and interest?
* What are your preferred programming languages? Please rate yourself in them as (beginner, intermediate or advanced).
* If working, how much programming do you typically do during a week in your last 2 jobs? Please indicate in percentage (%) form.
* Please briefly describe your experience and knowledge of the technology market in the Arab World.


Please email a chronological resume to Nabil Khatib nabilk@google.com
Do not hesitate to share with anyone or any group that could be interested.

Jordan blogs would like to proudly support Blog about Jordan day on March 12th

Dear Jordanian bloggers

As we continue our march towards making Jordan blogs a warm and hospitable community as our Jordanian ethics have taught us. We are making some changes to accommodate for the great number of users. Your support is wonderful as we continue to serve this nation.

We have changed our home page to our Dot Com domain (http://jordanblogs.com), it's still the same service. It's still the same interface but our main focus now is building our online presence to continue to serve you in the best possible way.

Please update your links to the new site, If you don't have a badge displayed, please follow this link: http://blog.jordanblogs.com/page/Link-to-Jordanblogs.aspx for additional help.

Keep an eye on these pages as we add more artwork to suit all your needs.

Jordan Blogs

We would like to thank everyone who showed up for the Jordanblogs meeting. It was a night to remember. We also hope to see everyone else who couldn't make it due to weather conditions and other personal circumstances.

We would like to take this opportunity to address some of the concerns raised during the meeting, hopefully this will remove any ambiguity associated with this online community.

Jordan blogs is by bloggers targeting the world. It's a non-profit organization with absolutely no hidden agendas other than promoting bloggers and maintaining the Jordanian Blogosphere ecosystem. As it was envisioned from its inception around the same time as Jordan Planet went offline. Since then it has accelerated to include many Jordanian bloggers from all around the world. But was set back few times due to technical difficulties and management related issues in the previous committees. We need to make sure that such issues will not continue to hinder the progression of Jordanblogs.

The new owners and the new committee that is yet to be elected, will make sure there are mechanisms in place to remedy such issues. While we have great respect to the previous committees and their members, we find that they have failed to deliver a workable solution based (among other things) on democracy and professionalism.

Today, you will find at least 4 different aggregators, some are still in denial that they are in fact aggregators. This vacuum was created by the absence of a proper committee that deliberated less and took action more. The new Jordan blogs will continue to grow and expand. It will continue to be the daily source of a wealth of blog articles for everyone out there.

Jordan Blogs will not be reduced to a person. It's the collective work of every Jordanian blogger on it. It's such a shame that there will always be someone who will undermine the whole endeavors seeking momentary fame.

Regarding this meeting, here are few things to consider, while we continue to see no reason to justify everything, but we will clarify some points 

• Regarding the timing:-
  5PM might not be suitable for some people (and we apologize for that) but it's suitable for others. For example, students and ladies who can't stay out late. Add to that people who will need to use public transportation. While taking into consideration that the meeting might run for 3 or 4 hours. That will make it last beyond 9PM (10 by the time you get home).
• Jafra Cafe is known as much as other cafes. It's been promoted by famous bloggers like Roba, Khalidah and Lina. We have also sent emails to people who asked for directions.
• While we take full responsibility for not having a sticky post for the meeting, we found that it might not be appropriate to pam people with additional details that might not be necessary. The same was posted by Maioush, Aya, Jano and Qwaider.
• Some of the attending bloggers acted very childishly during the meeting pressing issues that are of no relevance to the whole event. While we thank everyone for showing up and their feedback. We don't appreciate the backstabbing, clowning and chaos that few bloggers tried to promote. It would have been perceived much better had it been a constructive and cooperative. Apparently some had their own agenda.

We will continue to call on all our friends to support the Jordanian blogging community, their assistance is instrumental in the success of everyone. Not just Jordan blogs.

We would like to also appreciate the efforts of Aya, Maioush, Jano, Eyad Ayesh