Simply Hired Appoints Bill Jeffries as Senior Vice President of Business Development

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Simply Hired^®, a technology company that operates one of the world’s largest job search engines, today announced a key addition to its executive team with the hiring of Bill Jeffries as Senior Vice President of Business Development. Jeffries brings more than 20 years of executive experience in growing audiences and revenue for innovative technology companies including Demand Media, Revver and ValueClick. In his new role, he will be responsible for developing strategic global partnerships that drive value for both job seekers and employers.

“His deep knowledge and insight into our business, pay-for-performance models and disruptive technologies is tremendously beneficial as we round out our world-class leadership team in an effort to create the best job site available.”

With more than 30 million unique visitors per month, Simply Hired provides job seekers access to over eight million job openings, and connects employers to qualified candidates through its proven pay-for-performance recruiting solution. Simply Hired currently powers jobs on more than 40,000 network partner sites, including LinkedIn, Mashable and Bloomberg Businessweek.

“Bill brings decades of experience in strategic business and partnership development to the Simply Hired team,” said James Beriker, president and CEO of Simply Hired. “His deep knowledge and insight into our business, pay-for-performance models and disruptive technologies is tremendously beneficial as we round out our world-class leadership team in an effort to create the best job site available.”

Most recently, Jeffries served as the Senior Vice President of Partner Content at Demand Media, where he led efforts to provide publishers, retailers and brands with high-quality, engaging content solutions to grow their audiences, customer base and revenue. Jeffries also served as Vice President of Business Development at Revver, a pioneer in video publishing that cultivated emerging online talent, and as Vice President of Business Development at ValueClick, where he was responsible for distribution and network operations for paid search.

Jeffries began his career by founding Jeffries Technologies, a system integration business, which was featured as one of Inc. Magazine’s 500 fastest growing privately-held U.S. companies. He also founded and ran Digital Boardwalk, a pioneer in providing hosted eCommerce and Web publishing solutions to new media business ventures.

About Simply Hired

Simply Hired^®, a technology company that operates one of the world’s largest job search engines, connects job seekers and employers through its powerful search engine platform and performance-based job advertising solution. With more than 30 million unique visitors per month, the company provides job seekers access to over eight million job openings across all job categories and industries, reaching job seekers on the web, social networks, mobile devices, email and through more than 40,000 partner sites including LinkedIn, Mashable and Bloomberg Businessweek. The Sunnyvale, California-based company has twice been named a “Top Workplace” by The Bay Area News Group and is privately held with funding from Foundation Capital and IDG Ventures.