Employer: Research In Motion
Job Title: Java Software Developers
Location: Andover, MA (Boston Area)

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.

Research In Motion/BlackBerry is hiring several Java Software Developers in Andover, MA (Boston area).

Job Description:
The successful candidates will be responsible for the design, development, testing and debugging of application software for the BlackBerry® platform in our Andover, MA R&D center. Work is done within a team, interacting with other component teams. The ability to work both independently and with large teams is important.

Responsibilites:
The role's responsibilities include: design, implementation in Java, and debugging of new applications; integration of new features into current applications; optimization of software to meet performance and quality goals; development of new engineering specifications and interfaces; creation and execution of unit tests; and software estimation and planning.

Essential Skills & Qualifications:
• University Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Science, or related discipline
• 5-10 years of experience in mobile software design and development using Java
• Strong object-oriented design knowledge and capability
• Experience developing multi-threaded applications
• Willingness to drive the development effort and take on responsibility
• Committed to work on all aspects of product development as a strong team member

Additional Assets:
• Proven team leadership skills
• Strong focus on user interface and improving the usability of handheld applications

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

If you're driven to take wireless technologies to the next level, it's time you join the team at RIM. We offer a challenging environment that fosters creativity and rewards excellence. Employees also have use of our award winning BlackBerry!

©2010 Research In Motion Limited. All Rights Reserved. The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties of Research In Motion Limited. RIM, BlackBerry, "Always On, Always Connected" and the "envelope in motion" symbol are registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be pending or registered in other countries..

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

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Search Firm: Pathfinders Staffing
Job Title: Director of Mobile Product Management
Location: New York, NY

Job Description:
My client, a digitial media firm is looking to hire a Director of Mobile Product Management. This is a full time position based in New York City.

Company Overview:
Firm develops and markets internet and mobile-delivered subscription-based products and services to end users.

Responsibilities:
The Director of Mobile Product Management will "own" the key metrics for a family of mobile subscription services.

• Manage a team of 3-4 product managers each focused on one or more mobile subscription services
• Manage one mobile subscription service personally
• Both directly for the Director's own product and for the products of all reporting product managers:
• Work with the VP of Product Administration to implement product strategy and priorities
• Report regularly to the VP of Product Administration on product status
• Lead quarterly executive prioritization meetings
• Work with marketing, operations, and customer service to ensure smooth service delivery to existing members, achieve steady growth of the member-base
• Understand the existing and evolving interaction of the products with marketing, operations, and customer service activities
• Watch key metrics, identify problems or opportunities, and coordinate responses
• Obtain data and conduct analysis to monitor the outcome of changes to the products or to operating procedures
• Identify risks and assess, mitigate, and monitor them
• Communicate with vendors and staff to stay abreast of regulatory changes and compliance requirements, and ensure an appropriate response as needed
• Develop specifications and project plans, and coordinate with IT for the delivery of new or enhanced functionality
• Team Management
- Assure that goals are achieved for key metrics across all mobile products
- Implement strategic priorities established by the executive team both through personal management of Director's product as well as management of reporting product managers
- Establish quarterly and annual goals for product managers and evaluate them with respect to those goals
- Help product managers establish quarterly priorities and lay out action plans
- Guide product managers at a business-issues level
- Assist product managers analyzing the metrics and outcomes of initiatives
- Ensure team milestones and deliverables are met on schedule
- Review product manager deliverables for quality, completeness, and appropriate business focus
- Keep VP informed regarding each product's status, performance, and achievement of strategic objectives

Ideal Experience:
• Managed at least one other product manager
• Hands-on product management experience with a:
- business-to-consumer product
- mobile product (preferably SMS-based)
- subscription service
- a product sold via direct response marketing
• Managed a web, mobile, or software-based product or service through the Software Development Lifecycle
• Managed a profitable product with $10+ million / year in revenue

Other Required Skills and Qualifications:
• Track record of successful long-term product management and growth
• Excellent written and verbal communication ability
• Attention to detail
• Hands-on, can-do attitude
• Diligent follow-up, perseverance, and investigative depth
• Ability to manage up and down
• Experience developing the skills and capabilities of direct reports
• Strong business intuition and business sense
• Good analytical skills; comfortable with numerical and statistical analysis; has the ability to understand, manipulate, and interpret data
• Project management, preferably use of MSProject
• Experience managing products or projects through the software development lifecycle
• Teamwork and interpersonal skills
• Vocal, confident, and assertive
• Understanding of direct marketing concepts
• Understanding of subscription-based businesses
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, less-structured, entrepreneurial environment

To apply, please send your MS Word resume including salary requirements to:
Jana@pathfindersstaffing.com

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

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I have often run into situations that this statement is true. The act of interviewing like dating can make candidates as well as interviewers act in irrational and even down right crazy ways. Candidates lose perspective and take everything way too personally and interviewers totally lose site of what is common courtesy and sometimes even common sense.

Here are some real life examples:

A candidate was interviewing for a development job. She was living on one side of the Country and the job was on the other side of the Country. After two very good phone screens, the recruiter working with the candidate followed up with the company to see if they were ready to fly her out for a face to face. Instead to the recruiter's surprise, the hiring manager said he had already left the candidate a message that they wanted to make her an offer.

Now you would expect her to think what great news! "They love me so much after two phone screens they want to make me an offer!"

Well think again...

Now compare this to dating, you have been on two dates and suddenly you get a phone call from budding romantic partner saying they love you & they want to move in.
How do you think most people would react?

Nine out of Ten would be a bit freaked out by this. "Will he ask to marry me in a weak?" "Hell I have never even been to where he lives it could be a rat hole?" "Is he a serial killer?"

And sure enough the candidate freaked out as well saying she was "feeling pressured" asking "is there something wrong with this job". The recruiter thinking fast worked it out for her to go for a face to face so she could see the area & also the office. But by that time the damage was done. The candidate suddenly got sick, and could not be reached because of a sore throat and could not talk on the phone. Two days later she texted the recruiter she had taken another job.

Lesson learned: Doing things in the right order does matter in interviewing, dating and disarming a bomb. Cutting the blue wire before red can be very dangerous.

Now on the flip side to this often candidates move to fast and talk themselves right out of a job before they even know it is right for them.

For example: A candidate submits their resume through a recruiter for a sales job. They receive an initial phone screen from human resources. During the call the HR person tells them to their dismay the position requires you to be in the office every day & that the commissions for this job is expected to be 30K less than was represented to them.

Unfortunately it is not that unusual to have HR & the hiring manager have different ideas as to what the job requires or even pays. That is why recruiters are so determined to speak with the hiring manager to take a job order.

Well now back to the example. The candidate in a very upset tone calls the recruiter who set them up for the interview and say's that even if they want another interview that he is not interested now as he was lied to about that position was a virtual office & commissions were uncapped.

So after a long conversation the recruiter calms the candidate down enough & assures them that the job is in a virtual office & the pay is uncapped because that's what the hiring manager said. So a second interview occurs & the candidate actually gets job.

Lesson Learned: Interviewing & relationships are a work in progress. A job description often evolves as candidates are interviewed & priorities change. Also the truths you have on the first date as you are trying to impress the person in front may be quite a bit different 3 weeks later after you have had two or three dates.

Now besides the dating comparison, both these examples show why having a recruiter is an important component in many hiring processes. Would A-Rod or Payton Manning think of negotiating their own contracts, of course not!

Unfortunately not every company can afford using recruiters or have a strong internal recruiting staff and actually do a good job of hiring on their. But still there is nothing like having a Jerry Maguire to navigate you through the "match.com" mine field called interviewing.

I know I had you at Hello...

Search Firm: Three Pillars Recruiting
Job Title: Director of Compliance
Location: New York, NY

Responsibilities:
The Director of Compliance is responsible for the strategic and daily management of carrier (both wireless and wire line) relationships, in addition to maintaining compliance for multiple product lines while minimizing risk. This position will report to the Vice President of Operations.

Specific responsibilities include:
• Direct and facilitate the interdepartmental compliance program
• Cultivate relationships with key stakeholders at wireless and wire line carriers
• Participate in governing bodies that influence compliance guidelines (i.e. ATIS, CTIA, and MMA)
• Monitor key business and process metrics that measure carrier compliance
• Develop and implement compliance audit programs for new and existing products
• Manage, audit, and analyze all regulatory, BBB, and carrier complaints alongside Customer Care and Legal departments
• Oversee special projects

Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree required
• 10+ years compliance or audit management experience in the online marketing industry
• 7+ years experience in telecommunications industry
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to clearly and concisely deliver presentations to various audiences
• Capacity to excel in an entrepreneurial environment

If you are interested in this role or know someone qualified for this role, please forward resumes to eric@threepillarsrecruiting.net

Eric Adelman | President | Three Pillars Recruiting
Main: 646.461.3322 | Direct: 646.240.4380 | Fax: 646.792.3331

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

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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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http://twitter.com/silverkeyinc

Visit:
www.silverkeyinc.com

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

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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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This interview is available as an MP3 download.

- Carl

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-Carl

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- Carl

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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

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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

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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!