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Job Postings
Interested candidates should forward their resume to: avvenu-jobs@avvenu.com
Vice President, Business Development
Sr. Corporate Marketing Manager
Director of Finance
Sr. Software Engineer – Win32 Applications Development
System Administrator
Production and Data Warehouse Systems DBA
Vice President, Business Development
The Opportunity
Avvenu seeks a seasoned, dynamic individual to cultivate and secure business relationships with mobile device manufacturers, carriers, MVNOs, digital content providers, and Internet applications and services businesses. This is a "hands on" position. The Vice President Business Development is responsible for leading and directing the Company's strategic partnering initiatives to continue building on its consumer subscriber service.
The ideal candidate will have a strong grasp of remote access technologies and services, and the role they play in the lives of consumers. This person is a self-starter, possesses a high energy level and has the ability to team effectively with other members of the executive team as well as other key consultants and employees.
The selected individual must have a rolodex of pre-existing relationships with pertinent decision makers and/or influencers across the mobile content, computing and lifestyle value chain. This would include: MVNOs, carriers and mobile device manufacturers, PC manufacturers, and/or Internet-based entertainment services businesses.
Responsibilities
- Cultivating and securing new business distribution and development partnerships.
- Setting business objectives for each partnership.
- Managing and measuring the implementation of all partnerships and monitoring and reporting their on-going progress.
- Working internally to integrate partner programs smoothly with Avvenu product management, engineering and marketing.
Qualifications
- The right candidate has spent the past several years in business development activities for early to mid stage startups in the software or internet industry.
- The candidate must have a proven track record managing a small team within a business development or Mergers and Acquisition group.
- A proven track record of exceeding sales targets.
- A proven track record in negotiating and closing partnerships is required.
- The ability to develop strategic partnering plans and implement them is essential.
- An established network of industry contacts is required.
The successful candidate should possess the requisite experience required for this role, a minimum 10+ years of sales and business development experience and an undergraduate degree, with an MBA preferred.
Sr. Corporate Marketing Manager
Position
The Sr. Corporate Marketing Manager holds a pivotal position on the Avvenu marketing team. Reporting to the VP of Marketing, this team member is responsible for brand communications, messaging, positioning, branding and company-to-consumer dialog. This marketing expert is responsible both at a strategy-level and for its implementation.
Responsibilities
* Create marketing communications strategy.
* Implement marketing communications plans.
* Own the brand’s voice, visual presentation and positioning/messaging for all consumer touch points.
* Oversee all marketing communications efforts for the company including: online/offline advertising, events, corporate web presence, communications research, collateral, etc.
* Work daily with product marketing and with team members across the company.
Work Style
* Enjoys working in an entrepreneurial environment.
* Is flexible, and solutions-oriented.
* Likes to keep one-step ahead of the competition.
* Is an active listener (enjoys listening as much as speaking)
* Thrives in a team environment.
* Believes input (providing it, and receiving it) drives better results.
* Has a passion for consumer advocacy.
* Is a creative writer, with an eye for good—no, great design
* Is a strategic thinker that understands how to translate strategy into action.
* Believes that marketing should demonstrate a return-on-investment.
The Basics
* 7+ years of outbound marketing experience in the areas of brand marketing, corporate marketing, and marketing communications.
* Consumer-directed software marketing experience is mandatory.
* Proven brand building expertise.
* Talent with the written word.
* Ability to define the big picture and execute the details.
* Understanding of the principles of Marketing Communications in the areas of online and offline media vehicles, research, public relations, branding, message and positioning development, creative development.
* Excellent verbal and written communication/presentation skills.
* Strong project management skills.
* Ability to work collaboratively with marketing team, business development, product management and other cross functional groups.
* Experience in establishing and maintaining effective relationships with consumers.
* Experience negotiating with and managing outside vendors.
* Education: Bachelor's degree required or equivalent training and experience.
The Director of Finance holds a pivotal position on the Avvenu team. Reporting to the Interim CFO and the CEO, this team member is responsible for Financial planning and analysis, accounting, business model development and corporate reporting.
Responsibilities:
Accounting
* Responsible for accounting function
o Supervise 1 accountant
o Establish policies & procedures
* Sole responsibility for:
o Monthly close
o Revenue recognition
o Partner obligations
o Fixed assets
* Taxes
o Prepare schedules for corp tax returns, work with outside CPA firm
o Prepare Property, Sales/Use and other tax returns
* Debt
o Prepare debt schedules for periodic drawdowns
* Audits
o Work with outside auditors on annual audit
Financial Planning & Analysis
* Responsible for managing & maintaining budgets and forecast model(s)
* Update model(s) for actual performance. Prepare analysis of budget vs. actual
* Meet with executive team as necessary to develop plan(s) and analyze performance
* Prepare financial schedules for Board of Directors meetings
* Prepare financial analysis as needed for Executive team
Reporting
* Prepare reports as required by bank and investors
* Prepare reports for Partner obligations
Experience & Education
* 8 to 10 yrs experience, showing increasing responsibilities
* MBA required. CPA preferred.
Sr. Software Engineer – Win32 Applications Development
Avvenu is seeking a software engineer for win32 server development. Candidates must have significant expertise with the implementation of multithreaded servers on both Linux and Windows platforms.
Required Skills:
* 5 or more years industry experience building Windows applications in C++
* Deep understanding of C++, including STL
* Knowledge of OO Design principles, including Design Patterns
* Experience with Win32 API
* Multithreaded programming
* Familiarity with Microsoft tool chain (Visual Studio, etc.)
Relevant Skills:
* XSLT
* Network programming (sockets, etc.)
* Experience building web applications
* Experience integrating third-party applications, building on third-party APIs
* Experience designing APIs and delivering SDKs
The Avvenu team is seeking a talented System Administrator for our corporate office. The ideal candidate will minimally have 3 to 5 years experience, and have held administration roles with increasing responsibility in engineering environments.
Requirements:
* Production mentality and process-oriented
* Advanced experience with Redhat and other *NIX distributions
* Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Server administration
* OS provisioning and package management using kickstart, rpmbuild, yum, etc.
* Layer 2 - 7 installation and configuration
* Firewall/VPN administration
* Apache/Tomcat server administration
* Source control systems such as CVS, Subversion, RANCID
* Jr level database administration: mySQL and Microsoft SQL
* Monitoring, log server processing and analysis including nagios,
snmp, rt, mrtg, cacti, syslog-ng
* DNS, NFS, HTTP and Sendmail systems administration
* Strong scripting and debugging skills: perl, shell, cgi, php, python, tcl
* Excellent oral/written communication and documentation skills
* Four year degree or equivalent industry experience
Production and Data Warehouse Systems DBA
Avvenu is seeking an experienced MySQL DBA. This position with our Network Operations team will be responsible for management of production database systems and a data warehouse environment.
Responsibilities:
* Meet challenges of being a technical lead for production database and data warehouse systems within a fast-past high-availability 24/7 ASP environment.
* Manage MySQL databases instances including installation, configuration, replication, backup, recovery, and performance tuning.
* Create and maintain internal processes to ensure data quality and availability.
* Design, implement and automate additional ETL processes including data extractions, transformations and data loading required for data warehouse applications.
* Ability to design dimensional models and implement OLAP cubes.
* Familiarity with Mondrian, Pentaho and JasperReports open source projects is a plus.
* Collaborate with business process owners and develop implementations based on their data mining and analysis requirements.
* Proficient in schema design, SQL, MDX, scripting languages (PHP, Perl, Java/J2EE).
* Must be able to work in a team-orientated environment.
* Excellent problem solving skills and good communication skills are essential, as well as strong documentation proficiency and attention to detail.
* Minimum of 5 years experience with relational databases in both OLTP and OLAP environments.
* B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
Interested candidates should forward their resume to: avvenu-jobs@avvenu.com