Key Position Accountabilities

Market Strategy: Lead collaborative effort to devise and execute winning marketing and corporate strategies. Provide thought leadership among executive staff on strategic direction, issues and initiatives related to brand, marketing, user acquisition and engagement.   Provide strategic planning and research including corporate positioning, market and competitive analysis, and customer segment selection and penetration plans.

Marketing Communications: Brand and Market Awareness. Create broad awareness of Chime.In, Echofon and UberSocial through messaging, public relations, speaking engagements, events, trade shows, social media and community relations.  Grow these brands by reinforcing the values of the company in all users, partners and prospect interactions.

Online Marketing:  Develop and execute online marketing and customer acquisition strategies. Increase website traffic by overseeing initiatives in SEO, SEM, social media marketing, WOM marketing, email campaigns, affiliates, etc.  Continually improve processes in online marketing to drive maximum user acquisition at lowest cost.

Roadmap and Analytics: Own the planning for all marketing activities and campaigns.  Manage an annual marketing calendar and provide excellent service to members and other company departments.  Create a dashboard of key performance analytics, which will be measured and reported on a regular basis.

Creative Services: Manage a talented team of creative professionals who serve multiple departments in designing and developing the company’s look and feel, website page designs, advertising, and digital and paper collateral materials.

Requirements

• At least 10 years’ experience with top-performing marketing organizations.  Strong preference for experience in social media and/or internet companies.
• Ability to develop and lead a high performing team of marketing professionals.
• Strong experience in transcending traditional means of marketing and adopting new approaches to running online marketing campaigns on limited capital.
• Must possess creative problem solving abilities and be able to create creative solutions where more can be done with less in terms of resources.
• Must be a strong believer of various mainstream and cutting edge social media platforms. A strong personal social media brand on Twitter, Linkedin, Google + or FB is especially valuable.
• Experience in leading and implementing marketing best practices in a startup environment is strongly preferred.
• Must be able to work in a fluid and fast-paced environment with a strong executive team

Other Key Attributes

• A passion for social networks, compelling user interfaces and delivering new products to consumers
• Proactive consensus builder and problem solver
• Hands-on, goal-oriented, ‘can do’ mentality
• Good written and spoken English is essential
• Must be qualified to work in the US.

You will manage day-to-day interactions with developers and will be the developers’ advocate within UberMedia. Externally, you will proactively champion UberMedia products within the developer community, with a focus on building high potential relationships.  Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, you will design and manage events for the developer community and creatively find ways to recruit top developers to build for our platforms.

You are a highly talented and experienced developer with expertise in developing applications for new platforms. You have a keen interest in, and are an active user of, social media platforms. You have a strong background in multiple programming languages, particularly in Java.

You are ambitious and looking for a working environment that challenges you to get the best out of yourself. You are energetic and you have a ‘can do’ mentality. You love building relationships and interacting with new faces.  You are a consensus builder and team player with a bias towards action.

Key Position Accountabilities

• Launch developer API for Chime.in
• Build network of developers to create applications using the Chime.in API
• Serve as primary liaison between UberMedia and developer community

 Requirements

• At least 5 years experience in developer relations or related function
• Extensive experience with Java-based development and tools
• Experience with other programming languages is a big plus
• Proven ability to work closely with software engineers 

 Other Key Attributes

• A passion for social networks, compelling user interfaces and delivering new products to consumers
• Proactive problem solver and consensus builder
• Hands-on, goal-oriented, ‘can do’ mentality
• Good written and spoken English is essential

You have a keen interest in the technical limitations and possibilities of mobile devices and platforms. You have a strong background in multiple programming languages, particularly in Java. You can work with our UX lead to create compelling interfaces that adapt well to the multitude of devices that Android runs on.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop mobile applications for Android used by millions of people every day
• Develop new features for our existing Android applications
• Working with QA on improving product quality

Requirements

• At least 5 years of relevant professional experience, of which at least 1 year on the Android platform
• Extensive experience with Java-based development and tools
• Experience with other programming languages is a big plus
• Proven ability to work closely with software engineers 
• Experience with Affinity REST-like APIs

Other Key Attributes

• A passion for social networks, compelling user interfaces and delivering new products to consumers
• You aim at delivering clean, high-quality, elegant code
• Hands-on, goal-oriented, ‘can do’ mentality
• Good written and spoken English is essential

You have a keen interest in mobile devices’ and platforms’ technical limitations and possibilities. You have a strong background in multiple programming languages and particularly in Java. You can work with our UX lead to create compelling interfaces that adapt well to the iPhone and iPad devices.

Key Position Accountabilities

• Develop mobile applications for iOS used by millions of people every day
• Develop new features for our existing iPhone applications
• Working with QA on improving product quality

Requirements

• At least 5 years of relevant development experience, of which at least 2 years on the iOS for iPhone and iPad platform
• Extensive experience with Java-based development and tools
• Experience with other programming languages and platforms is a big plus   

Other Key Attributes

• A passion for social networks, compelling user interfaces and delivering new products to consumers
• You aim at delivering clean, high-quality, elegant code
• Hands-on, goal-oriented, ‘can do’ mentality
• Good written and spoken English is essential

Requirements

• Minimum of five years experience as an interactive designer in the following areas: Internet, agency creative,  graphic design or mobile.
• Minimum of two years of experience in Web design and online marketing
• Fluency in current graphic design practices and web production software, such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects
• Knowledgeable about basic open-source web CMS systems, including WordPress, Joomla and Drupal.
• Knowledgeable about mobile applications and skilled in mobile design. 
• Strong technical knowledge of how technologies apply to interactive design such as HTML, Flash, CSS, and AJAX.
• Knowledge of Web and mobile site structure and functionality.
• Understanding of and experience in corporate branding, layout, color theory and typography in both print and digital media.
• Has demonstrated successful design and integration, and the delivery of projects on time and within the given budget.
• Ability to manage off-site development teams.
• Solid understanding of project deliverables, and the ability to take responsibility for them.
• Ability to effectively manage multiple projects/tasks of varying complexities, meet deadlines and work well under pressure
• Ability to work independently on strategic issues with team members, capable of managing fairly complex projects
• Excellent organization and communication skills
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to meet tight deadlines is essential for a fast-paced environment

Entrepreneur and lifestyle genius Russell Simmons (@UncleRUSH) has developed the UberRush theme for his fans with custom icons and colors inspired by Russell’s socially mindful and spiritual life. The “Topics of the Day” channel will feature direct interaction with “Uncle Rush” himself, and other channels will feature inside entertainment, music and style info from Russell’s “hip-pop” website GlobalGrind.com.

For pro football fans, now that the strike is settled and the season is in full gear, the Pro Football Characters theme allows you to easily locate and follow your favorite players on Twitter, including pictures, insider scoop, power players and breaking news. You can also join the Daily End Zone Debate, where you can tweet about your favorite football topics.

Finally, for fans who are currently using the desktop A.plus app – and especially for those who have been waiting patiently for a mobile version – we are happy to let you know that the A.plus theme is now available on UberSocial for BlackBerry and iPhone as well as Twidroyd on the Android platform. Channels include tweets curated by @aplusk around current events, technology, personal projects and interesting charities as well as insider content directly from the entertainment world.

You can download any of these themes from your phone’s app store or by visiting www.ubersocial.com or www.twidroyd.com. We hope you enjoy these as much as we have enjoyed bringing them to you!

The process is simple – all you have to do is download the latest version of your app and re-login with your Twitter username and password. All of our apps – UberSocial for BlackBerry and iPhone, Twidroyd for Android devices, and Echofon for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Firefox – have all been updated to include this process. On the Apps page you will find a complete list of our apps by platform with links to download your favorites.

If you don’t update, starting today you will see a frequent error message from Twitter saying that your app is not allowed to access direct messages. Once that error message goes away, you will still be able to use all of the other functions in your app, but you will no longer be able to see your direct messages.

Additional information can be found on the Support page.

Key Position Accountabilities

• Create and execute project work plans and associated communications documents and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion
• Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis
• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals
• Determine and assess need for additional staff and/or consultants and work with management to make the appropriate recruitments if necessary during project cycle
• Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders
• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools
• Track project milestones and deliverables
• Develop and deliver progress reports, requirements documentation, and presentations
• Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas
• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans
• Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle
• Conduct project post mortems and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements
• Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management

Requirements

• MBA or Bachelor’s degree preferably in business, engineering or technology
• 3+ years experience in direct work experience in a software project management capacity, including all aspects of process development and execution
• Strong experience with project management software
• Strong background with managing technology products
• Experience in managing projects for marketing agencies or companies marketing consumer software products, particularly mobile apps, highly desirable
• Facility with Twitter and other social networks
• Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Ability to conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Ability to be flexible with project adjustments and alterations
• Ability to read communication styles of team members who come from a broad spectrum of disciplines
• Excellent written, oral and presentation skills
• Solid analytical, organizational and problem-solving skills

Ashton says, “What we’ve built is a social media surfing device with curated channels to enhance the discovery process of the real-time web. I hope people enjoy it as much as I do.” We’d love to hear what you think.

-Bill