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Silver Key Headhunters: Senior Product Manager, San Francisco, CA

rob@mobilewirelessjobs.com (Rob Salerno) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:30:16 -0500

Search Firm: Silver Key Headhunters
Job Title: Senior Product Manager
Location: San Francisco, CA

Job Description
Reporting to the VP Products and Strategy, the Senior Product Manager is responsible for inbound product planning, working with engineering and the user experience team on defining and prioritizing product strategy and features and working with product marketing on outbound marketing and communication. This includes managing the product throughout the product lifecycle, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with engineering and user experience, to deliver winning products. It also includes working with sales, marketing, customer service and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met. The Product Manager's job also includes ensuring that the product and marketing efforts support the company's overall strategy and goals.

The Product Manager is expected to:
• Participate in the definition of the product strategy and roadmap
• Deliver MRDs and PRDs with prioritized features and corresponding justification
• Work very interactively with engineering, user experience and management to refine requirements and align with the realities of implementation and schedule
• Work with external third parties to assess partnerships and licensing opportunities
• Be an expert with respect to the competition
• Be an expert with respect to the customer
• Assist in the development of the core positioning and messaging for the product
• Perform product demos to customers and others
• Lead pricing to meet revenue and profitability goals
• Deliver a monthly/quarterly and annual revenue forecasts
• Provide the core materials for the development of sales tools and collateral
• Propose an overall budget to ensure success
• Brief press and analysts and go on press tours
• Act as a leader within the company

Required experience and knowledge:
• Minimum of 5-8 years experience as a Product Manager or Product Marketing Manager
• Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products
• 3-5 years of experience in a job in the device market (Apple, Palm, Google Android, etc.)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Solid judgment and analytic skills
• Bachelor's degree (MBA preferred)
• Technical background, with experience on the software side of devices
• Excellent teamwork skills
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
• Prior experience in the education market or book publishing a plus

To apply, please send your MS Word resume including salary requirements to:

Mike Lee, CEO/Founder
Silver Key Headhunters
mike@silverkeyinc.com

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Visit:
www.silverkeyinc.com

Our client is an Equal Opportunity Employer, m/f/d/v.

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2010 NTCA Wireless Symposium and WiExpo - San Antonio, TX

rob@mobilewirelessjobs.com (Rob Salerno) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:53:26 -0500

NTCA Wireless Symposium and WiExpo: Connecting in an Unwired World
January 13-15, 2010
The Westin Riverwalk
San Antonio, TX

Wireless technology allows us to communicate in ways once unthinkable and now possible. We are now limitless on the possibilities of how we interact to and from small towns to a global reach. The 2010 Wireless Symposium is where broadband communications gives us the future direction of wireless technology. Tailored to meet the specific needs of independent operators and rural market vendors, this conference covers it all-from marketing strategies to financial planning and case studies to network operations. Register today at www.BuildWirelessNow.com

Research In Motion: Reliability Specialist, Waterloo, ON

rob@mobilewirelessjobs.com (Rob Salerno) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:10:46 -0500

Employer: Research In Motion
Job Title: Reliability Specialist
Location: Waterloo, ON - CANADA

Research In Motion is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. RIM's portfolio of award-winning products, services and embedded technologies include the BlackBerry® wireless platform, the BlackBerry smartphone product line, software development tools, radio-modems and software/hardware licensing agreements. For more information, visit www.rim.com.

Job Description:
Achieving reliability and robustness of BlackBerry designs is an integral part of Research in Motion product development activities. The Reliability Group is growing and is an active and close partner with design and manufacturing departments. The Reliability Specialist is a key component of this team, by providing in-depth knowledge and practical application of reliability techniques that help prevent, remove or reduce the risk of field failure. This spans analysis of conceptual and early prototype design, developmental testing, product qualification and in-service monitoring.

The successful candidate will develop research and development of innovative methods to achieve continuous improvement in reliability analysis and testing. Such analysis and testing will encompass mechanical, electronic and RF features. The incumbent will develop and apply statistical methods for the design of experiments and the analysis of test and in-service data, and will write clear reports and make recommendations based on this analysis. The Specialist will work closely with engineering design groups on reliability aspects of new product introduction and with manufacturing for continued product assurance.

Essential Skills & Qualifications:
• Minimum Master's degree or equivalent knowledge in Reliability Engineering
• Proficiency and theoretical knowledge in reliability analysis methods (e.g. Physics of failure, FMEA, Fault Tree)
• Proficiency and theoretical knowledge of reliability life testing procedures (e.g. HALT; vibration; shock; thermal cycling)
• Proficiency and theoretical knowledge of data analysis (e.g. Weibull)
• Good knowledge of mechanical and electrical properties of materials and electronic assemblies.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Excellent analytical and presentation skills

To apply, please send your MS Word resume or CV, including salary requirements to:
cdecarlo@rim.com

©2009 Research In Motion Limited. All rights reserved. BlackBerry®, RIM®, Research In Motion®, SureType® and related trademarks, names and logos are the property of Research In Motion Limited and are registered and/or used in the U.S. and countries around the world.

An Equal Opportunity Employer, m/f/d/v.

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MobileWirelessJobs interviews David Gwozdz, CEO of Mojiva and mOcean Mobile at the Billboard Mobile Entertainment! 2009

rob@mobilewirelessjobs.com (Rob Salerno) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:43:41 -0500

Last week I attended the Billboard Mobile Entertainment Live! 2009 event. At the event I was fortune enough to interview David Gwozdz, CEO of Mojiva and mOcean Mobile. Here is my conversation with David Gwozdz, CEO of Mojiva and mOcean Mobile.

This interview is available as an MP3 download.

- Carl

MobileWirelessJobs interviews the Mobile Marketing Association's John Manganilla Manager, Industry Initiatives, and Bill Craig North America Membership Manager at the Billboard Mobile Entertainment! 2009.

rob@mobilewirelessjobs.com (Rob Salerno) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:39:21 -0500

Last week I attended the Billboard Mobile Entertainment Live! 2009 event. At the event I was fortune enough to interview a couple of managers of the Mobile Marketing Association. Here is my conversation with John Manganilla, Manager - Industry Initiatives, and Bill Craig, North America Membership Manager.

This interview is available as an MP3 download.

-Carl

MobileWirelessJobs interviews Miran Maric, Vice Chairman & Chief Operating Office and Craig Dorshkind Director of Marketing at Logic Wireless at the Billboard Mobile Entertainment! 2009

rob@mobilewirelessjobs.com (Rob Salerno) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:31:00 -0500

Last week I attended the Billboard Mobile Entertainment Live! 2009 event. At the event, I was fortune enough to interview executives of one of the co-sponsors of the event, Logic Wireless. Here is my conversation with Miran Maric, Vice Chairman & Chief Operating Officer, and Craig Dorshkind, Director of Marketing, at Logic Wireless.

This interview is available as an MP3 download.

- Carl

Prepaid Mobile Summit 2010, January 26-27, 2010, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

rob@mobilewirelessjobs.com (Rob Salerno) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:09:56 -0500

Prepaid Mobile Summit 2010
Date: January 26-27, 2010
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
www.prepaidmobilesummit.com

The 5th Annual Prepaid Mobile Summit will examine on how to overcome the challenges of prepaid churn through pricing and bundling strategies with the help of micro segmentation. In addition, experiences on successful and unsuccessful campaign and service roll outs and innovative strategies to increase that hard-earned 1% increase in ARPU will also be shared. Join the upcoming 5th annual summit to discuss and solve real issues and challenges which we are facing in the rapidly changing economic climate and demands.

MobileWirelessJobs is an Official Media Partner of this event. As one of our readers, you can enjoy 10% discount on conference packages. To find out more info, please email enquiry@iqpc.com.sg

MobileWirelessJobs interviews Michael Jaschke, CEO of Elanti Systems, at 4G World 2009

rob@mobilewirelessjobs.com (Rob Salerno) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:00:42 -0500

MobileWirelessJobs interviews Michael Jaschke, CEO of Elanti Systems, at 4G World 2009. This interview is available as an MP3 download.

Last week at 4G World Conference 2009 at McCormick place in Chicago, I was lucky enough to have the CEO of Elanti Systems take a few minutes for me to ask him a few quiestions. Here is a live recording of our conversation. -Carl

Click here to download the MP3.

Size: 7.6 MB. Total runtime: 16:01

MobileWirelessJobs interviews John von Tetzchner, CEO of Opera Software, at 4G World 2009

rob@mobilewirelessjobs.com (Rob Salerno) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:31:26 -0500

MobileWirelessJobs interviews John von Tetzchner, CEO of Opera Software, at 4G World 2009. This interview is available as an MP3 download.

Last week at 4G Wireless World Conference 2009 at McCormick place in Chicago, I was fortunate enough to spend some time interviewing the CEO of Opera Software Jon S. von Tetzchner. Here is a live recording of our conversation. -Carl

Click here to download the MP3.

Size: 6.8 MB. Total runtime: 14:13

MobileWirelessJobs Interviews Manish Gupta, VP of Global Marketing - Kabira Technologies, at 4G World 2009

rob@mobilewirelessjobs.com (Rob Salerno) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:54:32 -0500

Carl Schumacher Editor and Chief Blogger at MobileWirelessJobs.com Interviews Manish Gupta the Vice President of Global Marketing at Kabira Technologies at 4G World 2009.

Carl: Manish, congratulations on your move to Kabira Technologies. How have your first few months at Kabira been?

Manish: Thank you Carl (Kabira) is a great place to be. You know you look from the outside when you join a company and then you find out the details once you join a company. It's been refreshing to note that Kabira is actually doing much better than I had anticipated and expected looking from the outside. I have a great opportunity to put Kabira in the limelight being that it has great assets. We are seeing significant customer traction, the solution value proposition is hitting home with big operators in the US and of course globally, and I look forward to making a huge impact for the company.

Carl: I see that although you've only been at Kabira for a short time, you already are speaking here at 4G World and your company is also presenting at a Solutions Theater session. How did you get this effort off and running in such a short time?

Manish: So the industry is not new to me, certainly the core technologies that Kabira brings to the table is something I've had to pick up the last couple of months I have been here. I understand the challenges of the customers, the operators. I understand where the gaps are and I have a appreciation for how Kabira can bring value to the customers. So packaging the need with that supply we have on technology and solutions is my job and I feel comfortable that we have defined something that is already getting good reactions, so I am going to share that value proposition with everyone here.

Carl: I understand that Kabira Technologies is an infrastructure software company. Can you tell me how this stacks up against the huge mobile wireless potential market growth? What does Kabira have to gain during this mobile growth trend and how excited are you about Kabira's opportunities?

Manish: There are dynamics around the mobile infrastructure. Whether you talk about the radio interface billing systems, operating support systems, core networks, devices, applications. Really across the board there are significant changes that are happening. These changes are both opportunities and challenges for the operators. What Kabira offers is a way to monetize the opportunity around mobile data. When the user numbers are increasing the traffic per user is increasing. and the type of services that the user is doing is just exploding in all dimensions. What Kabira can do is help the operators increase it's Arpu, it can help the operator penetrate segments it has has not been able to in the past. The way we do that is by providing intelligence to the operating support system infrastructure that the carriers have. We sit between the network layer and the back office systems. We extract the information from the Network layer match it to the information that exists on profiles and policies in the back office and hence we can do things such as value based charging, traffic redirection and so on. So I feel very very excited that the opportunities in the market place are just beginning in mobile data. Kabira seems to have hit that at the right time, with the right solution. And we have several proof points with large customers such as AT&T in the US and Rubicon the number 2 operator in Russia, France Telecom with Orange in 25 countries. We have adequate proof points that we can go and support other customers that our not our customers today.

Carl: As you know MobileWirelessJobs.com is a site focused on employment in the wireless field. I wanted to direct a few questions towards that. What advice would you give to people with regard to finding a position with a company with the potential and excitement that Kabira has?

Manish: There are a few things that are the basics, domain knowledge and experience understanding. But really the most important thing that we look for in employees is the cultural fit. It's the passion and the desire to make something big. I think those are the fundamentals that are necessary in an individual as we consider them for new roles.

Carl: How do feel the 4G World Conference and the presentations of the various technologies being presented will impact hiring in the near future?

Manish: You know I think it will shed opportunities that perhaps the companies have not seen before. As they see those opportunities they will find a way to participate in those growth curves and opportunities the market brings to them. And that hopefully will enable them to put together growth strategies on head count and organizations that will open up new opportunities.

Carl: So what roles will Kabira be hiring for in the next 6 Months to a year?

Manish: We are stream-lining the organization with additional very specific roles. Currently we are looking to add a Director of Product Marketing with a focus on positioning, messaging, a very outbound personality that understands this space and can bring that level of thought process to the marketing organization. We expect to add some product management rolls in the future and as always we are constantly adding some folks in sales as well as on the development side.

Carl: What has been some of the more difficult type of hires you have experienced in the marketplace trying to bring people to your company? What are the road blocks you might find in hiring people?

Manish: I have only been here a couple of months now some it has been a limited experience. We are focused on one that I have been spending my time on which has been the Director of Product Marketing. And really the challenge is just filtering the right folks. Certainly considering the market place there is an abundance of personalities and people. To find the fit, as I mentioned before, the cultural fit is the most important thing for us. That where we spend most of our time as we do the assessment of our candidates.

Carl: I know that from my background you go from a year or so ago where there are not enough candidates to fill the positions, to a year later when there are too many candidates to fill the positions. It seem like it is one or the other, that either you have not enough candidates or such an abundance that you do not have the infrastructure built in to your company to do the hiring because there are so many to interview.

Manish: Right, right right.

Carl: It is a good problem to have, but it does not make it any easier.

Manish: Right

Carl: Over the past year there have been so many lay-offs and so many down-sizing's, how do you feel that has impacted companies within your realm, and where do think the time frame will be when things are starting to move forward in the direction that we were in?

Manish: I think we are already feeling that turn happen in the right direction. My sense is the marketplace, have used up the channel and the inventories that they had and our now looking to rebuild. Similarly on the design and expansion side I think the general sense is that it is starting to move in the right direction. So I would say in the next 6 months there is a little bit, but certainly in the next year you will probably see a significant material change in that perspective.

Carl: Excellent, It seems to be similar to what I am hearing from others and is a good barometer of how things are.

Carl: In closing, if you have to give what is the most important quality that separates your company, that differentiates you from your competitors, what would that be?

Manish: Clearly I would put the people as number one, we have some phenomenal people whether you think about technology, you think about development, you think about marketing and presales we have some great people. Number two is innovation and technology. Kabira has some fundamental technology that is just...there is no comparison to it. The competition plays in the similar space as we do, certainly there are many players. But the foundation underneath the solutions that exist at Kabira which is the in memory processing, very high scale, very low latency, very high availability, that is a unique proposition that underlies every thing that we do and that is something that will enable us to stay ahead of the competition.

Carl: Sound like you have very exciting things going on.

Manish: absolutely!

MobileWirelessJobs.com Interviews Wally Strater, Asst VP Radio Communication Division of NEC Corporation, at 4G World 2009

rob@mobilewirelessjobs.com (Rob Salerno) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:20:04 -0500

I attended 4G World 2009 conference at McCormick place in Chicago last week and was fortunate enough to interview several executives. There was a lot of excitement and optimism and not only did we hear the buzz on all the new products and services, we got some great perspective on what positions companies are hiring for and what type of skills will be needed in 2010 and beyond.
Hope you enjoy the interviews, let us know what you think.
- Carl

MobileWirelessJobs.com interviews David Clemons, Founder / President, Push Mobile Media at 4G World 2009

rob@mobilewirelessjobs.com (Rob Salerno) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:11:37 -0500

MobileWirelessJobs.com interviews Kevin Suitor, VP Marketing, Redline Communications at 4G World 2009

rob@mobilewirelessjobs.com (Rob Salerno) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:57:41 -0500

MobileWirelessJobs Interviews Rishi Bharadwaj, VP Product Mgmt Marketing, PCTEL at 4G World 2009

rob@mobilewirelessjobs.com (Rob Salerno) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:52:42 -0500

Hope you enjoy the interviews, let us know what you think.
-Carl

Electronic Search: Systems Engineer, United Kingdom

rob@mobilewirelessjobs.com (Rob Salerno) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:06:40 -0500

Search Firm: Electronic Search
Job Title: Systems Engineer
Location: United Kingdom - Local Candidates Only

Company:
Our client is an international wireless testing organization.

Job Description:
Our client has a fast-paced environment, so your flexibility to adapt to new and changing requirements is crucial. Electronic Search is looking for an independent, task-driven individual who can successfully manage interactions with several sales individuals. You must be organized, be detail-oriented, and have excellent communication skills.

Working with the Inside Sales and Channel Sales teams, you'll be supporting our selling efforts by answering technical questions during the pre-sales phase of the sales process. You will identify and help drive changes to the sales demo environments, help craft responses to Requests for Proposals (RFP's), troubleshoot technical setup issues, and be the general "Go To" person for the European Sales Team for all things technical.

The work location for this position is out of our office in the UK.

Responsibilities:
• Be the expert technical presence in Europe, supporting all aspects of the technical pre and post sale
• Function as a product and solution evangelist
• Conduct formal needs assessment to better understand the unique requirements facing our customers; both immediate and long term needs
• Develop and maintain excellent customer relationships both via phone and in person
• Create and deliver both technical and non-technical presentations t prospective customers
• Collaborate with sales individuals to maintain partner and customer satisfaction
• Represent the Company at Trade Shows and Events
• Accurately maintain sales data is CRM (Salesforce)

Qualifications:
• Experience with technical troubleshooting skills, OEM, and carriers
• Experience in test automation, QOS monitoring
• Experience working as a technical sales resource (Sales Engineer or Technical Account Manager)
• Excellent customer-facing skills, including the ability to present technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Skills in presenting and demonstrating software, with good objection-handling skills
• Experience selling business-critical applications such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software to small to medium sized businesses
• Familiarity with online conferencing software for demonstrations is desired
• Ability to travel within the EU and abroad - up to 50%

If you are interested in this role or know someone who please forward resumes to cschumacher@electronicsearch.com

An Equal Opportunity Employer, m/f/d/v.

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