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February 27, 2006

Distributive Networks: Software Engineer, Mobile Content Services Company, Washington DC

Experienced software engineer needed immediately to join our dynamic mobile content company! We're looking for a proactive, skilled professional who can tackle multiple, complex, deadline oriented projects; work confidently with his/her peers; and thrive in our fast paced environment.

Qualifications:
* 3+ years developing modular web-based applications using PHP, Perl, ColdFusion or other advanced scripting language.
* Proficiency in Linux/Unix system administration.
* RHCT certification or equivalent experience.
* High degree of skill with ecommerce technologies such as C#, C++, Java, XML, HTML, DHTML, CSS, JSP, JS
* Familiarity with mobile (cellular) related applications, file formats and delivery mechanisms
* Demonstrated success at developing and managing complex projects
* Solid writing and communication skills
* Preferred experience with the wireless, music or gaming industries
* Software development experience in a team environment

Job Requirements:
* Perform conceptual system design, specifications development, including writing interfaces to databases
* Translate detailed design into computer software
* Test, debug, and refine the computer software to produce the required product
* Prepare required system and data requirements documentation
* Collaborate with other departments to execute on a project

This position is full-time and based in the Washington DC office. The salary is commensurate to experience. Please provide a salary history in your cover letter.

Comprehensive, competitive benefits include:
* Working in the emerging mobile technology industry with near limitless growth potential.
* FULLY PAID medical insurance, including health, dental, and vision.
* FULLY PAID gym membership at the Sports Club LA in Washington, DC
* Hip brownstone location right off of Dupont Circle and attached to a Starbucks
* Participation in a profit sharing program and 401K.
* A coveted slot on our Kickball and Wiffleball teams

Distributive Networks is a 15-person, wireless content and technology services company that delivers cutting edge products to over 1 million users in North America. Our portfolio includes ringtones, text services, games, and more! We are committed to a vibrant company culture where every team member counts. If you are looking for an energetic office environment where your work can make a positive difference, Distributive Networks is the place for you! We are an equal opportunity employer.

CONTACT: Please submit your cover sheet and resume to hr@distributivenetworks.com. You can find us at www.distributivenetworks.com.

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Audible.com: Director of Online Merchandising, NY Area

Audible.com

Audible.com is seeking a highly experienced person to run site merchandising. Candidates must have several years of experience in online retailing and be knowledgeable and passionate about books, periodicals and spoken word performances.

Necessary Skills:
* Experience in online merchandising.
* Knowledge of e-commerce techniques and strategies, including user interface, product display, search functionality and email marketing.
* Creativity to generate successful merchandising programs and analytical skills to analyze results.
* Ability to lead dedicated team of site editors.
* Experience in publishing or book retailing is preferred.

EOE. Competitive salary and benefits.

Contact Info: Send resumes to contentjobs@audible.com with "merchandising" in subject line.

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Xringer Inc.: Licensing Account Manager, San Jose

Xringer Inc. is a leading provider of superior quality media content and entertainment applications to mobile devices around the world. Through partnerships with top tier wireless carriers and popular entertainment labels, Xringer creates the ultimate mobile personalization and entertainment experience. Xringer collaborates with popular media outlets and entertainment artists to delivers highly effective mobile marketing and promotional campaigns for the world’s top brands. Over 100 million mobile subscribers can access Xringer’s easy-to-use mobile media applications and services throughout North America, South America, Europe and Australia. More information about Xringer is available at www.xringer.com. Xringer is offering an exciting opportunity for an accounts management individual with some licensing, sales, and royalties management experience to help close and manage music-oriented licenses, as well as other content for the wireless space.

This contract-to-hire position is located in San Jose, CA.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• First contact with a variety of licensors in the music & media space
• Account management/business development/relationship building with licensors, etc, plus additional catalog research and ongoing clearance
• Maintain consistent and regular reporting involving multiple time schedules
• Internet research depending on workload and need
• Support/assistance on an as-needed basis for specific projects

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
• Experience with Internet research
• Exceptional follow-through and consistency; strong customer service and account management skills
• Some experience with general licensing procedures
• Some experience with the music and/or media industry and their related media outlets
• Some experience with royalty accounting and account management
• Comfortable with standard office software systems
• Comfortable with regular and ongoing account meetings
• Authorized to work in the United States

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
• Fluency (written and spoken) in a second language
• Knowledge of a variety of licenses (software, images, print licenses, union deals, etc)
• Knowledge of foreign licensing regulations
• Popular culture knowledge of US market
• Popular culture knowledge of another country

Contact Info: Send inquiries to aleslie@xringer.com

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Xringer Inc.: Wireless Developer, San Jose

Xringer Inc. is a leading provider of superior quality media content and entertainment applications to mobile devices around the world. Through partnerships with top tier wireless carriers and popular entertainment labels, Xringer creates the ultimate mobile personalization and entertainment experience. Xringer collaborates with popular media outlets and entertainment artists to delivers highly effective mobile marketing and promotional campaigns for the world’s top brands. Over 100 million mobile subscribers can access Xringer’s easy-to-use mobile media applications and services throughout North America, South America, Europe and Australia. More information about Xringer is available at www.xringer.com. Xringer is offering an exciting opportunity for a Wireless Developer to develop wireless content delivery applications.

This contract-to-hire position is located in San Jose, CA.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Develop wireless applications from the ground up (BREW, J2ME, Flash and WAP). Work closely with product manager for requirements/design with feedback on technical limitations with little oversight.
• Develop wireless applications which deliver mobile content (ringtones, video, and wallpaper) on a variety of platforms (BREW, J2ME, WAP, Flash and Web) to many handsets.
• Develop wireless game applications on a variety of platforms (BREW, J2ME, WAP, Flash and Web) to many handsets.
• Some small amount of travel may be necessary (mostly domestic).

REQUIREMENTS:
• Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, and Unix
• Languages: HTML, C, C++, BREW, Visual Studio (.net), Java (J2ME), PHP
• Experience with implementing wireless applications or content.
• BS degree in information technology/computer science or equivalent experience.
• Authorized to work in the United States.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
• MS degree in information technology/computer science or equivalent experience.
• Wireless User Interface experience.
• Web development experience.
• Experience with creating and converting sound files (midi, .wav, .pmd, .mmf, .mp3, .aac).
• Experience with MySQL.
• Understanding of MIDI.
• Experience in testing whitebox / blackbox applications.
• Experience w/ Flash development strongly desired!

Contact Info: Send inquiries to aleslie@xringer.com

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Xringer Inc.: Product Manager, San Jose

Xringer is a leading provider of superior quality media content and entertainment applications to mobile devices around the world. Through partnerships with top tier wireless carriers and popular entertainment labels, Xringer creates the ultimate mobile personalization and entertainment experience. Xringer collaborates with popular media outlets and entertainment artists to delivers highly effective mobile marketing and promotional campaigns for the world’s top brands. Over 100 million mobile subscribers can access Xringer’s easy-to-use mobile media applications and services throughout North America, South America, Europe and Australia. More information about Xringer is available at www.xringer.com.

The Product Management organization requires a Product Manager for our Ringtone Product. This person would be responsible for determining and scheduling all enhancements to the basic product. In addition, this person would be responsible for ensuring the content associated with the product releases continue to be compelling and for determining which enhancements to the Product need to be scheduled at which date. This person will need to work with content providers as well as many different groups internal to the organization.

This contract-to-hire position is located in San Jose, CA.

Responsibilities

• Provide in-depth market, industry and competitive analysis and positioning
• Create, document, communicate, gain approval for, and maintain product requirements and enhancements.
• Develop pricing and packaging strategies
• Develop, maintain and ensure compliance with product work plan and schedule for service delivery using a set of project management tools
• Work closely with the sales team to develop sales tools/demos
• Actively contribute to the design and development of user-facing client service features as UI, web front-ends, and third party server-side software integration.
• Work with team and outsource vendors to launch services and solution to market on time and within budget.
• External facing for specific accounts, including collecting business requirements, issue resolution, processing and aligning overall company objectives, and working directly with accounts during development to monitor and communicate status.
• Depending on experience/skills, the product managers duties may expand to augment other teams as required to deliver products throughout the product lifecycle (from inception to maintenance).

Required Experience

• 3 years + experience as a Product Manager
• Seasoned experience using MS Office
• Experience with Wireless Carriers and products
• Experience with different genres of music
• Excellent written and oral communication skills including presentation experience
• Ability to do product demonstrations
• An undergraduate degree is required
• Some travel will be required

Preferred Experience

• Ideal candidate would also have an interest or experience with music (performance, composition, editing, and production), art/graphic design, videography/editing, wireless (content, phones, and services), pop culture, foreign languages culture (Latin America, Chinese, Japanese or Russian).
• Product Manager will report to the Director, Mobile Technology who has responsibility for overall service definition and delivery.

Contact Info: Send inquiries to aleslie@xringer.com

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Xringer Inc.: Business Development / Account Manager, San Jose

Xringer Inc. is a leading provider of superior quality media content and entertainment applications to mobile devices around the world. Through partnerships with top tier wireless carriers and popular entertainment labels, Xringer creates the ultimate mobile personalization and entertainment experience. Xringer collaborates with popular media outlets and entertainment artists to delivers highly effective mobile marketing and promotional campaigns for the world's top brands. Over 100 million mobile subscribers can access Xringer's easy-to-use mobile media applications and services throughout North America, South America, Europe and Australia. More information about Xringer is available at www.xringer.com. Xringer is offering an exciting opportunity for a Business Development Associate. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for increasing revenues directly with wireless carrier customers, developing new carrier accounts and building new sales channel relationships.

This contract-to-hire position is located in San Jose, CA.

The Business Development/Account Manager responsibilities include:
-- Manage and grow some existing accounts.
-- Gather market intelligence and use various prospecting methods to identify new prospective customers and market opportunities, including new channel sales partnerships.
-- Assess prospect needs and effectively pitch appropriate Xringer offerings.
-- Develop and present proposals for customized wireless entertainment solutions.
-- Work effectively with product management and marketing to develop proposals for new product offerings to carriers, promote existing products and ensure marketing campaigns are aligned with account management goals.
-- Communicate to marketing and development teams new product requirements from customers.
-- Close sales with carriers and partners and ensure effective follow through on Xringer delivery.
-- Ensure customer satisfaction is met or exceeded.
-- Leverage client satisfaction and client relationships to grow existing accounts. Build long term relationships to ensure strong revenue pipeline.

REQUIRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
-- Bachelors degree required; MBA preferred.
-- 3+ years of directly relevant business development experience employed with a wireless software company, wireless carrier or entertainment company.
-- Sales experience into wireless carrier accounts.
-- Ability to sell high value custom software solutions and establishing long-term relationships with wireless carriers and top brands.
-- Possess some knowledge of the wireless applications markets and wireless carriers.
-- Be self-motivated and driven, with high energy levels, a strong desire to excel and play an active role in shaping the future of the organization.
-- Have demonstrable experience of effectively selling at Director to CXO levels.
-- Ability to work with cross-functional teams and individuals at various levels in a distributed environment.
-- Strong verbal, written, analytical and interpersonal skills.
-- Travel required (25-50% depending on account activity).
-- Authorized to work in the United States.

Contact Info: Send inquiries to aleslie@xringer.com

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Xringer Inc.: Marketing Manager, San Jose

Xringer Inc. is a leading provider of superior quality media content and entertainment applications to mobile devices around the world. Through partnerships with top tier wireless carriers and popular entertainment labels, Xringer creates the ultimate mobile personalization and entertainment experience. Xringer collaborates with popular media outlets and entertainment artists to delivers highly effective mobile marketing and promotional campaigns for the world's top brands. Over 100 million mobile subscribers can access Xringer's easy-to-use mobile media applications and services throughout North America, South America, Europe and Australia. More information about Xringer is available at www.xringer.com.
This contract-to-hire position is located in San Jose, CA.

The Marketing Manager responsibilities include:
-- Create, develop & implement consumer focused marketing initiatives including the creation of marketing programs, communication and collateral within the existing customer base as well as lead generation.
-- Assist in the development and implementation of strategies and tactics to increase sales and profit of Xringer consumer media products.
-- Execute online marketing plans for specific product launches that include: promotional campaigns, downloads and demos for subscription and web sales.
-- Identify cost effective opportunities and provide recommendations to improve our website, audience & online efforts.
-- Conduct market research, competitive analysis, trend information and disseminate to the team.
-- Implement research studies and contribute to competitive analysis to optimize efforts: focus groups, website traffic reports, etc.
-- Build & maintain media relationships, handle media queries & requests.
-- Create news releases, articles and PR plans including print publications, website & radio.
-- Serve as point-of-contact for internal/external entities (publishers, partners, labels, suppliers).
-- Maintain a detailed budget for all expenses related to marketing initiatives.
-- Generate various sales and marketing reports using Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
-- Trade show & event management.
-- Participate and actively contribute in team meetings.
-- Other general marketing duties as required.

REQUIRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
-- 5+ years experience in Sales and Marketing.
-- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing or equivalent.
-- Education or experience in marketing analysis and statistics.
-- Microsoft Excel, Word & PowerPoint savvy.
-- Creative and strategic thinker with a customer-focused approach to marketing.
-- Authorized to work in the United States.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
-- Experience with wireless carriers (Verizon Wireless, Cingular Wireless, etc.).
-- Experience in entertainment industry, consumer marketing or advertising agency a plus!
Contact Info: Send inquiries to aleslie@xringer.com

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