Current openings at Sonopia, US

• Public Relations
• Copywriter
• Sr. Director Handsets
• Sr. Director Mobile Product
• Director of Logistics

Public Relations

Sonopia has over the past weeks had front page articles in Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today and feature articles in broadsheet and industry publications around the country. This is just the beginning.

Job Description:

Sonopia is looking for a shining star within PR to lead our massive outreach, establishing Sonopia and its partner brands as the most attractive choice for consumers looking for cell phone service. Sonopia works with major music acts, sports teams, environmental organizations, professional associations and alumni associations.

The role will include setting public relations objectives, developing Sonopia's overall public relations positioning strategy and working with the CEO and CMO on execution.

Sonopia offers excellent benefits for the right candidate including stock options, great working conditions, flexible hours and the chance for international travel.

Skills / Qualifications:

• 8-10 years in public relations, mix of agency and in-house experience preferred
• Domain expertise in wireless services, consumer technologies and Internet businesses
• Relationships with mainstream media and technology/vertical press
• Accomplished project lead who can manage projects independently
• Strong organizational skills, ability to multi-task
• Startup experience is a huge plus.

The ideal candidate will be ready to bring their Public Relations skills and background to a fast-moving, dynamic environment. A creative, self-starter with the desire to make a difference will thrive and be rewarded at Sonopia.

Responsibilities Include:

• Develop and refine corporate messaging and the positioning of products/services
• Manage news pipeline
• Create materials including press releases, press kit documents and corporate presentations
• Serve as primary liaison with reporters across consumer, business, trade and vertical press
• Foster and manage relationships with industry analysts
• Coordinate speaking engagements at key conferences
• Manage events
• Support other communications and marketing programs as necessary

Personal Attributes Desired

Sonopia encourages flexible working practices and values results. Members of the Sonopia team are expected to be resourceful and self-motivated. The successful candidate will need to possess the following personal attributes:

• Innovative, out-of-the-box thinker
• Be successful in a highly dynamic environment
• Resourceful, driven and self-motivated
• Able to work on multiple projects in parallel
• Adapt to changing priorities without slowing down
• Focused on quality of results

The ideal candidate will be ready to apply their project management skills and marketing background to a fast-moving, dynamic environment. A creative, self-starter with the desire to make a difference will thrive and be rewarded at Sonopia.

Copywriter

Responsibilities

Sonopia's lead copywriter will create creative, strategic marketing materials and some product-related copy. Production of standout marketing materials is critical to the success of our business model and to the effective sales and marketing of our partners' branded mobile phone service.

The successful candidate will develop concepts and copy for direct mail and email campaigns, advertising, web banners, flyers/collateral and other marketing platforms as identified in our partners' customized marketing plans. On the product side, you will write copy for partner web and Wap sites as necessary and complete other projects as required.

The lead copywriter will work with Sonopia's Art Director and designers to create compelling creative for our partners in the following categories:

• National Brand Owners
• Large National Charities
• Educational Institutions
• Professional Organizations
• Sports Teams
• Regional Sports Clubs

Skills

• Strong (5-10 years) consumer copywriting background
• Experience across a range of print marketing platforms
• Radio experience preferred
• Successful track record of planning and implementing creative marketing campaigns
• A passion for systems, process, accountability and great performance

The ideal candidate will be a senior level copywriter with significant direct marketing background, experience marketing to affinity and/or niche groups, some management experience, a high degree of creativity, and flexibility to meet the needs of diverse organizations and industries.

Personal attributes

Sonopia encourages flexible working practices and values results. Members of the Sonopia team are expected to be resourceful and self motivated. The work will occasionally be difficult and long hours may be required.

Sonopia is a startup environment. The candidate will be part of the initial team bringing Sonopia's ground breaking business model to the world.

The candidate should be organized and methodical with a calm disposition, not easily stressed, with the ability to excel in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Location

The position is located in Sonopia's office in Menlo Park, California.

Sr. Director Handsets

Reporting to VP Product Management

Sonopia's mission is to provide every organization, group or club with the opportunity to create branded mobile service and build a unique mobile and web community of supporters and members. With Sonopia, anyone can create and start marketing a mobile service in 15 minutes or less. Since we launched in early April, over 1000 different groups have launched their own mobile services.

Summary

We're looking for the right person to manage our handsets and accessories product lines. You will work closely with the manufacturers and suppliers on ensuring us a great product lineup. We expect you to live and breathe handsets, Bluetooth headsets and other key accessories.

Working closely with key suppliers keeping up to date with their roadmaps, what sells in the market, what the new trends are. You should focus on how Sonopia can continue to offer a compelling selection of handsets that runs our mobile clients to ensure the best possible subscriber experience.

Responsibilities Include:

• Driving the creative discussions around roadmap and handset experience
• Planning our handset and accessories product line in detail by researching market trends, customer needs and developing roadmaps
• Managing the handsets product lifecycle
• Ensuring product success and its positive impact on Sonopia's business
• Keeping track of competitive products
• Being a team player on the Product Management Leadership team and take part in ensuring that Product Management Leadership provides great product leadership for Sonopia
• Taking part in creating Sonopia vision and help ensure that we lead our part of the industry

Sonopia offers excellent benefits for the right candidates including stock options, great working conditions and flexible hours. You will be expected to travel regularly both in the US, to Europe and other key markets.

Compulsory skills/experience:

• Proven experience track-record working with mobile handsets
• Several years experience in product management and/or business development
• A passion for great products
• Excellent interpersonal skills including an ability to work closely with suppliers
• Sense of salesmanship to present the opportunity Sonopia offers our handset partners
• Experience in working closely with developers and clearly present handset features and status to senior management and investors
• Great analytical and problem solving skills and experience applying these skills to resolve any roadblock to bring the right selection of handsets to market
• Extraordinary verbal and written communication skills in English
• Comfortable using standard IT tools such as the Outlook, PowerPoint, Word and Excel

The successful candidate will also have experience in several of the following areas:

• Building and managing a large number of vendor relationships
• Detailed knowledge of the handset market and the functionality of key handsets in the market
• Experience working with remote teams

Personal attributes:

Sonopia encourages flexible working practices and values results. Members of the Sonopia team are expected to be resourceful and self motivated. The work will be challenging and long hours may be required.

The candidate should be organized and methodical with a calm disposition, not easily stressed, with the ability to excel in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

The successful candidate will need to possess the following personal attributes:

• Be successful in a highly dynamic environment
• Resourceful and Self-motivated
• Organized and methodical with excellent attention to detail
• Able to work on multiple projects in parallel
• Adapt to changing priorities without slowing down
• Be effective under tight deadlines and time pressure
• Motivated to keep customers happy
• Focused on quality of results above all else

Sr. Director Mobile Product

Reporting to VP Product Management

Sonopia's mission is to provide every organization, group or club with the opportunity to create branded mobile service and build a unique mobile and web community of supporters and members. With Sonopia, anyone can create and start marketing a mobile service in 15 minutes or less. Since we launched in early April, over a 1000 different groups have launched their own mobile services.

Summary

We're looking for the right person to own and manage our mobile product. You will be working out of our main office in Menlo Park, California. You'll be responsible for our mobile offering including our mobile clients, subscriber sign-up, mobile services and billing.

As the Mobile Product Lead you will manage a team of product managers in Kyiv, Ukraine where we have our development center. You will work closely with the other Product Leads in Menlo Park and with key stakeholders such as our Exec team, marketing and engineering. Working closely with your team and the rest of Sonopia, your job will be to constantly improve our mobile user experience and mobile offering to lead the market in micro segmented mobile services that fit each subscriber's key areas of interest and needs.

Responsibilities

• Driving the creative discussions around roadmap and mobile experience
• Planning our mobile clients, subscriber sign-up, mobile services and billing in detail by researching market trends, customer needs and developing roadmaps
• Managing the mobile product lifecycle
• Ensuring product success and its positive impact on Sonopia's business
• Keeping track of competitive products
• Being a team player on the Product Management Leadership team and take part in ensuring that Product Management Leadership provides great product leadership for Sonopia
• Taking part in creating Sonopia vision and help ensure that we lead our part of the industry

Sonopia offers excellent benefits including stock options, great working conditions and flexible hours. You will be expected to travel regularly to visit partners in the US and your team in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Compulsory skills/experience:

• Proven experience track-record working with mobile product and/or backend.
• Several years experience in product management
• A passion for great products
• Good at working as a team player
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Experience in working closely with developers and clearly present handset features and status to senior management and investors
• Great analytical and problem solving skills and experience applying these skills to resolve any roadblock to bring the right selection of handsets to market
• Extraordinary verbal and written communication skills in English
• Comfortable using standard IT tools such as Outlook, PowerPoint, Word and Excel
• Experience working with remote teams

The successful candidate will also have experience in several of the following areas:

• Software development background
• Detailed knowledge of the mobile market
• Experience in UI and/or design

Personal attributes

Sonopia encourages flexible working practices and values results. Members of the Sonopia team are expected to be resourceful and self motivated. The work will be challenging and long hours may be required.

The candidate should be organized and methodical with a calm disposition, not easily stressed, with the ability to excel in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

The successful candidate will need to possess the following personal attributes:

• Be successful in a highly dynamic environment
• Resourceful and Self-motivated
• Organized and methodical with excellent attention to detail
• Able to work on multiple projects in parallel
• Adapt to changing priorities without slowing down
• Be effective under tight deadlines and time pressure
• Motivated to keep customers happy
• Focused on quality of results above all else

Director of Logistics

Summary

Do you have the skills and background to help Sonopia democratize the way people obtain mobile service?

Sonopia is looking for an experienced individual to manage the supply chain and logistics for the handsets, accessories and branded affinity we use to fuel our rapidly growing business. The scope of this role would include all aspects of the inventory life cycle from product introduction to end of life phase out, and, in support of this, interaction and management of the OEM suppliers and vendor community of Sonopia.

Sonopia offers excellent benefits for the right candidates including stock options, great working conditions, flexible hours and the chance for international travel.

General Description

The Director of Logistics ensures that Sonopia maintains a robust supply chain. This is done by managing supplier relationships, integrating demand forecasts and maintaining the Sku relationships needed to ship the affinity branded devices Sonopia offers its customers.

Responsibilities

The Director of Logistics has full responsibility for the Sonopia supply chain linking suppliers (OEMs and other Vendors) to the end customer who purchases a device. This includes management of our logistics partner and interaction with partners involved in the device validation process.

Specific responsibilities

• Translation of marketing plans into demand forecasts and purchasing plans
• Management of the Sku database and assorted Sku bundles
• Management of purchase orders and releases against POs
• Management of Skus through the full life cycle from introduction to obsolescence.
• Guide new devices through the internal and external device validation process at product introduction and upon firmware upgrades
• Operational management of the Logistics Supplier

Compulsory skills:

• Supply and Demand modeling and scenario planning
• Device introduction process management
• Strong analytical skills with Excel and other desk top tools
• Executive level communications skills and the ability to produce high quality analytical information on inventory, lead times and risks/mitigating actions with regard to supply positions
• Ability to work independently and to fully own the end to end supply chain of Sonopia.

The successful candidate will also have experience in several of the following areas:

• Device validation and testing
• Management of, or working within, an OEM
• Logistics management in the FMCU space
• Management of firmware versions in existing inventory
• Quality Management techniques with regard to inspection of received goods
• Supplier and partner management
• Purchasing and purchase release processing

Personal attributes

Sonopia encourages flexible working practices and values results. Members of the Sonopia team are expected to be resourceful and self motivated. The work will occasionally be difficult and long hours may be required.

The Director of Logistics must function well in a matrix organization and interact with peers in Product Management, Program Management, Engineering, Marketing, Customer Service and Quality Assurance. The role requires an individual with strong skills in the definition of processes and systems and a strong focus on details.

Educational requirements:

A BS in business, logistics or management, or related experience is required. A masters degree is desired.

If you are interested in career opportunities with Sonopia, please send us detailed CV to hr@sonopia.com with the "Position name" in the subject line.

Only successful candidates will be contacted for interview.