Career Opportunities with Uniblue

Product Manager

Forming part of the Product Management team, the Product Manager is the key person responsible for the product he/she represents, managing it in line with the company’s vision and strategy throughout the entire lifecycle.  This is a very challenging and exciting opportunity for someone who loves software products and enjoys working with cross-functional teams.

As a key point of reference within the company, this role calls for someone who has excellent inter-personal skills and who is able to lead without formal authority. The ideal candidate needs to be a fast-learner and a critical thinker, with a passion for creating great products - whether it’s a brand new product or enhancing an existing one.

Your key responsibilities:

•  Create realistic product roadmaps based on researching, understanding, and defining profitable market requirements and presented via Business cases and plans;
• Plan and coordinate the execution of the product distribution strategy, including but not limited to pricing, naming and product positioning, based on accurate analysis of the market and a firm understanding of customer needs and consumer on-line behavior;
• Ensure that the product runs on a healthy P&L and maintains the best acquisition and retention rates on the market;
• Constantly keep up with market trends in order to be able to identify the best opportunities for the product;
• Always gauge and improve product customer satisfaction levels;
• Plan, launch and monitor execution of product related projects across various teams and departments within the company, ensuring maximum communication and coordination, high quality standard and on-time delivery.

Your skills and experience:

•  A University degree, ideally at Masters level, in a business related subject;
• At least 3 years experience in managing products, preferably software;
• Demonstrated knowledge of the sales funnel and the key routes to market in a consumer e-commerce business;
• Whilst software development skills are not required, the ideal candidate should have sufficient technical knowledge to understand the detailed elements of the product to be able to effectively identify new opportunities and unique selling points;
• Excellent research and data management skills, able to identify which research needs to be carried out and accurately interpret and respond to data gathered;
• Excellent presentation skills, able to represent information visually and to promote the product internally as well as externally;
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills in English;

What the role offers:

• The ability to work on and be responsible for an award-winning Uniblue product with cross-functional teams on very challenging projects;
• An environment which values one’s own level of expertise and the opportunity to verbalize ideas or suggested courses of action;
• A company environment that is fresh, dynamic and very employee-focused;
• The opportunity to specialize in the online software utility industry.

Legal Executive

As we go through another period of growth, we are looking for a Legal Executive who will be supporting and reporting to the Legal Counsel. This position calls for someone who is meticulous, thinks analytically and is able to produce pragmatic solutions and high quality work in a fast-paced working environment.  

Key responsibilities:

• To assist in vetting, negotiating, interpreting and drafting contracts and other legal documents;
• To assist in vetting company messaging and other content to ensure legal compliance;
• To liaise and coordinate with other departments in collecting information required for legal purposes as and when required; 
• To perform legal research and assist in providing legal services for domestic and international operations;
• To take responsibility for other activities as required from time to time.

Required skills and experience:

• Be a qualified lawyer;
• Two years working experience, preferably in-house;
• Extensive familiarity with contracts and excellent writing skills are a must.  Experience in technology and employment law would be considered an asset;
• Have strong communication skills, able to handle people and situations diplomatically and assertively;
• Be highly motivated, able to work well under pressure and on own initiative and able to equilibrate priorities and organise work effectively to meet deadlines;
• Can rise to meet challenges and is ready to learn and be mentored where necessary.

What this role offers:

• The opportunity to work on various challenging projects and tasks related to the technology industry;
• Clearly defined performance expectations and guidance to learn necessary company procedures;
• An environment which values one’s own level of expertise and the opportunity to verbalise ideas or suggested courses of action;
• An overall company environment that is fresh, dynamic and very employee-focused with numerous health and wellness benefits.

Head of Engineering

With an entrepreneurial spirit at its heart, this fast-growing, privately-owned business is constantly looking for talented people to add to the extraordinary team. A positive, focused and innovative attitude - combined with a love for new challenges – are the key ingredients for successful candidates.

This position will direct and drive exciting change throughout the business and the industry. Uniblue’s products and technologies require constant, rapid innovation and understanding of how people use computing devices. The opportunity to investigate and invent on new platforms must be a passion.

General Scope and Summary

The Head of Engineering will have 7 to 15 direct reports individual contributors and project leaders of all engineering grades distributed in more than one country and will be responsible for leading major/minor releases of one or more products and/or maintenance releases. Shall plan and drive roadmap, business initiatives, represent engineering function to customers, partners & executive staff.

Primary Role and Responsibilities:

•  Actively helps innovate and develop new technologies and products. Must have a focus on quality while maintaining an entrepreneurial spirit and ability to deal with change;
• Plan and drive product roadmap;
• Directs activities focused on product enhancements, defect fix activity and new releases;
• Ability to rapidly prioritize, design and develop quickly adapting to change and leading others to do likewise;
• Sets direction, defines goals and aligns engineering goals with business goals;
• Facilitates cross functional collaboration;
• Regularly presents on direction, initiatives, and products;
• Ability to think strategically and influence a broad group;
• Identify intellectual property and build a patent portfolio;
• Responsible for employee retention, career growth, succession planning and risk mitigation;
• Ability to communicate complex information to internal and external audiences;
• Professional demeanour to maintain and enhance relationships;
• Assesses, identifies and evaluates fundamental issues, providing strategy and direction for major functional areas;
• Provides cost estimates to the senior management as input to the operating plan;
• Understand and enforce legal and ethical development of technologies and management practice. 

Qualifications:

Specialized Knowledge & Skills

•  Advanced knowledge of overall development lifecycle and process improvement;
• Must be knowledgeable on one or more product development life cycle methodologies (i.e. Agile development);
• Performs moderate to complex code, design analysis, testing or experimentation on segments of projects. Provides time estimates and schedules;
• Must be familiar with industry standard debugging tools and technologies;
• Adept with project management reporting and measurement tools.

 Job Requirements

• 2+ years of managerial experience and 5+ years of engineering experience;
• Demonstrable industry experience and/or Bachelor's degree in relevant field minimum (B.S. in Computer Science, Electronics, Mathematics, or related discipline);
• Ability to pass a background check may also be required;
• Very good customer communication skills;
• Travel on need basis. 

Email Marketing Specialist

As we go through an intense period of growth, we are seeking to engage an experienced Email Marketing Specialist to take shared responsibility for the development, planning, deployment and continual optimisation of our B2C Email marketing life-cycle.

This is an exciting opportunity in a fast moving, international company. As an Email Marketing Specialist, you will play a key role in developing effective life-cycle and behavioural email marketing campaigns for our customers. You will have responsibility for the end-to-end email production process from briefing through to deployment and reporting.

The ideal candidate will have a solid background specifically in email marketing, matched with excellent communication and relationship building skills. This position calls for a self-motivated, creative individual who is able to contribute to the strategic plan, as well as manage the day-to-day deployment activities.

Key responsibilities:

• Take shared responsibility for the development, planning, deployment and continual optimisation of our B2C email marketing lifecycle;
• Account manage the relationship between our email database provider and act as the internal database guru to ensure timely delivery of email campaigns to various customer segments;
• Work closely with project managers, designers and our content team to create and develop new email materials and concepts;
• Liaise and communicate with internal teams to co-ordinate and deploy all email send-outs, including but not limited to: design, content, translations, QA testing, deployment, reporting;
• Conduct daily, weekly and monthly performance analysis and work closely with the reporting department to gather statistical data to be reported to Management;
• Be involved in the continual analysis of our customer base, suggest and implement new segmentation strategies and have influence over new ways in which to engage with our customers;
• Ensure all KPI’s are met and contribute to the continual growth of the email marketing channel;
• Research and keep up-to-date with the latest email trends and tools available. 

Required skills and experience:

• A minimum of 3 years of experience in an email marketing role, preferably for a B2C  company;
• A marketing or business-related degree  would be considered an asset but not essential;
• Have experience of implementing, deploying and managing life-cycle and behavioural email campaigns;
• Strong account management skills, demonstrating an ability to build and maintain business relationships;
• Knowledge of Exact Target or other similar email marketing tools and databases;
• Complete fluency in both written and spoken English;
• Numerically literate and able to analyse data to identify business opportunities;
• Basic knowledge of HTML and SQL would be considered an asset;
• A creative mindset in order to be able to create innovative promotional material together with our creative team;
• Have a confident personality with good team work and organisational skills;
• Have a keen interest in improving one’s skills and to learn tools that are integral to this role.    

What this role offers:

• A challenging and stimulating working environment within a supportive team;
• The opportunity to apply your e-mail marketing skills and grow in the e-commerce sector;
• Clearly defined performance expectations and the opportunity to showcase your expertise.

Online Advertising Specialist

As we go through another period of growth, we are looking for an experienced Online Advertising Specialist to join our Strategic Accounts team working across a portfolio of clients.

This is an exciting opportunity in a fast moving company. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in e-commerce, acquisition and optimisation with a proven ability to build strong relationships and manage client accounts. This position calls for a self-motivated, proactive individual who is able to critically analyse data and work with the team towards improving business strategy and performance. Interested candidates need to demonstrate excellent organisational skills with an ability to work effectively and efficiently towards deadlines whilst maintaining a professional work ethic.

 Key responsibilities:

• Be responsible of a portfolio of accounts, managing each on line campaign/ promotion from beginning to end including monitoring of results;
• Creating forecasts and business plans for each account;
• Provide regular feedback to the Strategic Accounts manager on account performance and key metrics;
• Report, collate and analyse relevant account data in order to optimise campaigns.

 Required skills and experience:

• A minimum of 3 years work experience in a digital marketing environment, having acquired a varied array of online marketing skills including, online advertising and other online partnership promotions, PPC, affiliate marketing and SEO;
• A marketing or business-related degree, CIM qualification or equivalent;
• Proven track record with growth of revenue from online advertising;
• Advanced Microsoft Excel knowledge with the ability to graphically represent data and translate statistics into insights and actions;
• Proven account management skills, demonstrating an ability to build and maintain business relationships;
• Excellent command of the English language, able to express oneself fluently in writing and oral presentations;
• Familiarity with all other MS Office applications including Word and PowerPoint;
• Knowledge of German, French, Japanese and/or Scandinavian languages is considered an asset;
• Familiarity with Salesforce.com, Google Analytics and other online marketing tools will be considered an asset.

 What this role offers:

• A challenging and stimulating working environment within a supportive team;
• The opportunity to apply and develop account management skills in the e-commerce sector;
• Clearly defined performance expectations and the opportunity to showcase your expertise.

Product Marketing Manager

The Product Marketing Manager is responsible for the internal and external marketing communications of the company’s product portfolio.  This is an integral role in the business working in conjunction with the Product Management team, ensuring the development of products that deliver true customer value whilst maximizing customer revenues. The role is also responsible for ensuring the delivery of comprehensive go-to-market strategies, allowing the front line sales teams to achieve sales targets.

As a key role in a fast-paced and dynamic organization, this post calls for someone who has strong leadership qualities and excellent inter-personal skills. The ideal candidate needs to display confidence, enthusiasm and easily establish rapport with all stake-holders. Equally important in this role are strong analytical and organizational skills and the ability to present and explain technical data in a manner that engages the audience.   

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Create realistic marketing plans based on the product roadmaps set by Product Management;
• Plan and execute go-to-market and distribution strategies across all channels;
• Co-ordinate the creation and delivery of relevant sales & marketing collateral, sales tools, channel training, presentations, and other necessary tools/material and ensure that the sales & marketing team has everything necessary to go to market;
• Support both Acquisition and Retention teams with product related information as necessary;
• Conduct price tests to improve market offers and improve on products revenue, reporting back any findings to Product Management;
• Conduct product launching events and represent Uniblue in international events;
• Act as a mentor to product marketing executives and be able to coordinate the team’s output in line with business needs. 

Required skills & experience:

• A combination of the completion of a degree in Marketing or a related field and a minimum of four years’ of experience in a product marketing position;
• Demonstrated knowledge of the sales funnel and the key routes to market in a consumer e-commerce business;
• Experience in the software industry would be ideal, having had sole responsibility for taking at least one product to market; 
• A proactive, innovative mind-set, able to think ahead in the market but also in the day to day task and people coordination required by the role;
• Excellent people management skills, able to liaise and engage with all sectors and tiers of the business demonstrating confidence and expertise;
• Fluent in project management skills, able to interpret and create work-flow documents;
• Excellent presentation skills, able to represent information visually and to sell the product internally as well as externally;
• Whilst software development skills are not required, the ideal candidate should have sufficient technical knowledge to understand the detailed elements of the product to be able to effectively identify new opportunities and unique selling points.

What this role offers:

•  An environment which values one’s level of expertise and the opportunity to verbalise ideas or suggested courses of action.
• A company environment that is fresh, dynamic and very employee-focused.
• The opportunity to specialize in the online software utility industry.

UI Front-end Software Developer

Uniblue’s UX/UI team designs and improves our applications to ensure that they fully cater to the needs of our users. Working within our product development team, as a UI Front-end Software Developer you will focus on interpreting high fidelity visual designs into pixel perfect HTML front-ends. You will also contribute at each stage of the user-centered design process.

This is an exciting opportunity in a fast moving company. We require someone who is systematic, precise and able to follow standards to efficiently deliver high quality outcomes. Reporting directly to the UX/UI Manager, the role calls for someone who enjoys being part of a hard working team, has a passion for UI, and views learning as a continuous process.

Key responsibilities:

• Construct user interfaces using contemporary development technologies (HTML/CSS, etc.), including integration with engineering.
• Work within a fast-moving UX/UI team to improve or create user experiences through quality and intuitive design.
• Implement & maintain localization projects
• Work closely with interaction designers and software developers on the production team.
• Day-to-day tasks include working with JavaScript, CSS layouts and creating HTML layouts that cater for multiple languages.

Required skills and experience:

• A minimum of three years working experience in a similar role, preferably having a Bachelors Degree of education in Information Technology or equivalent accreditation.
• Fluent in HTML and CSS technologies. Hand-coding ability is a must.
• Skilled in working with JavaScript, primarily the jQuery library.
• Can handle cross-browser integration.
• An eye for detail where every pixel matters.
• Excellent communication skills with complete fluency in both written and spoken English.
• Knowledge of templating technologies such as Django and Jinja2.
• Be familiar with Adobe applications such as Fireworks, Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Be ready to learn and develop on different technologies.

What this role offers:

• Clearly defined job expectations.
• Space to demonstrate your expertise.
• Opportunity to learn and expand your skills.
• Chance to work within a professional team that values quality.