"The candidate should have experience in marketing and be interested in the internet.
We offer an adequate compensation together with equity shares in the company.
The project is initiated and funded by two experienced technology, internet and media managers in Germany."

Apply here

Send your resume to ceosearch@r2b.com.

R2B has spent the last year building a web 2.0 service that will change local advertising forever. We are ready to launch and our team of 7 is excited about building a world class company. We need a CEO/President. Our technical/production team and leadership is in place and busy. Most of our team is in India. R2B is headquartered in Fremont, CA. The company is currently led by two SV serial entrepreneurs who have run the track a couple of times.

We need a CEO who gets our vision and can sell it to traditional print media companies, local advertisers, consumers, and investors. We have self funded to this point and have built our product. Now we need to raise $1.5m from media savvy investors and form strategic business and marketing relationships with traditional print media companies. This is an opportunity that could be big enough to IPO, and will certainly have a number of interesting exit opportunities.

We are not taking applications for any other position at this time.

Duties:

Reporting to the Board, the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) will be primarily responsible for leading R2B towards the creation of significant value for R2B customers, partners and shareholders. The President/CEO will establish and be responsible for the overall vision, strategic direction, planning, budgets, and operation of the company. This will include product development and engineering, sales, marketing, operations, finance and administration. Specific expectations of the CEO/President include, but are not limited to the following:

• Build and develop the R2B team, provide strategic and organizational leadership and general management of the business

• Guide the technical development process

• Launch the R2B products, drive annual revenue growth and ensure sufficient profit margins

• Refine and continually communicate the vision both internally and externally

• Develop the strategic plan in cooperation with the Board and the senior management team

• Develop and implement tactical plans that will drive the company toward its strategic goals

• Identify and develop a plan for the development and penetration of high probability market niches

• Develop the company structure, and attract and develop superior professionals and managers who can lead this business through an accelerated growth phase

• Develop and maintain investor and banking relationships to finance the operations and growth of the company

San Mateo's Taptatap is looking to hire a BD VP in its San Mateo office. The startup has raised $2.5M in Series A funding from Gabriel Venture Partners, says PEWire. The company has yet to launch but says it will compete in the mobile social networking arena and will be "Your Contest Community" offering infinite contests for fun and prizes."

The company was co-founded by 3 top Infospace execs, led by CEO Isaac Babbs who was GM/VP Mobile Games at Infospace Mobile. This sounds very much like new launches that we have been covering including Kyte.tv and Zannel.

Send a brief overview about yourself and your resume to jobs@tapatap.com

Position Summary

The VP of Business Development/Contest Sponsorships is a business development/sales executive who will lead and manage all aspects of Tapatap partnership and revenue relationships including: finding and landing our initial contest partnerships, closing traffic partnerships, technology partnerships, and wireless carrier partnerships. You will be the first business development/revenue executive at our company. Your job is to do lots of deals very quickly!!!!

Responsibilities:
• Create and close contest sponsorship deals with youth focused consumer brands, consumer product companies, media companies, and web 2.0 companies.
• Create and close traffic relationship deals with media companies, web 2.0 companies, and mobile companies.
• Create and close strategic business development deals.
• Drive revenue by finding and signing the best partner for selling and serving ad for mobile and web text and display inventory
• Create the company’s business development plan
• Manage all aspects of the company’s inbound and outbound revenue and business development deals.
• Manage and grow the company revenue and external relationships
• Be the key executive in the company around revenue and growing revenue
• Be a key member of the executive team and will participate in all executive level meetings and board meetings on a regular basis

Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree required. MBA preferred.
• 4+ years of Director of Business Development or sales experience in a consumer online company, media company, or web advertising sales company
• 2+ years experience at high-traffic, consumer facing mobile or online, brand-name company
• A great DEAL CLOSER
• A love of meeting, seeing, and constantly networking with potential partners and peers
• A great rolodex of existing relationships in LA/Hollywood media companies, NY media companies, Bay Area web 2.0 companies, mobile companies, and youth focused product companies
• Strong experience in mobile and web 2.0 space
• Mobile content entertainment sales and business development experience a plus.
• Video game business development and revenue experience a plus
• Ability to target and understand the 16-35 demographic----you need to like and love this demographic
• Successful track record building consumer internet traffic or mobile web traffic through business development deals
• Smart, creative, dynamic, and high energy person
• Past experience building a bd/revenue team and all aspects of the department from only you from the ground up
• Excellent PowerPoint/Excel/Word skills.
• Excellent technical skills with computers and phones.
• Ability to multitask and deliver on aggressive timelines.
• Results-oriented with demonstrated leadership skills
• Critical thinker with a bias towards action
• Variety of media experience primarily in the mobile and online entertainment environments
• Expertise in analyzing data, trends, events
• Proven ability and flexibility to steer in a market that is changing constantly and rapidly
• Ability to manage multiple responsibilities and projects
• Good sense of humor, positive attitude, and proven dedication
• Enjoy working in small teams at small companies where you personally build something from nothing very fast

Apply to IDG India's Sudhir Sethi

1. Company Vision
 Build leadership position in a global service niche play for managed security services.

2. Company Goal
 Achieve revenue of US$ 100 million in 6 years.
 Partner with industry leaders in identified verticals.
 Build eco-system for innovators, application developers, and developer community and solution providers.

3. Role & Responsibilities of the CEO
 CEO will achieve revenue of US$ 100 million in 6 years with a PAT of 20% CEO will define & drive the Strategy (Business & Functional) and organizational growth to attain a goal of $100million revenue base within 6 years timeframe with a superior profitability.
 CEO will be accountable & responsible for the P&L of the New Co. CEO will lead the New Co. business during the start-up & rapid growth phases and in the process establish a full-fledged firm with hi-performance teams & organizational mechanisms for business acquisition, delivery & other support functions.
 The incumbent will interact extensively with the board in ascertaining and in many ways evolving the business plans. He or she will intensely contribute on assessing the market opportunities, identifying pockets of immediate synergies with revenue potential and areas for mid-term to long-term growth. CEO would evolve a 5-year business agenda split quarter wise on the revenue projections, operating costs, cash flows, investment-outlays and other parameters. The CEO would take on the ownership of the business plans, internalize it sufficiently with the team and strive to deliver the plans.
Profile of the Ideal candidate:
4. Essential
 Clearly a top end software executive who is well groomed to operate as a senior management executive to impact customer acquisition & set up internal process & systems to deliver on this challenge.
 Should have a customer acquisition experience at CEO,CTO,CIO level globally Has a Business Acumen skill. Has solid leadership presence. Should have held minimum of 10 years of P&L ownership
 Has built relationship with CEO/CIO of Large MNCs / Fortune 500 companies. Should have global exposure & build global businesses
 Has been part of the success story of home grown Indian companies in global consulting, services & Products space, the first domain as we envision would be candidate from one of top tier Indian software companies, who has essentially operated at the leadership level.
 An engineer-MBA from a reputed institute would be the education background.

5. Desirable
 Rolodex of customer contacts & track record of long-term client relationships with sales book in excess of US$ 50mil. Exposure to Network Security space.
 Should have high levels of Commitment and motivation towards the vision and goal Should have high perseverance and Humility A high degree of entrepreneurial spirit coupled with a good track record as a leader. High Stature individual with global mindset having worked or exposed to people & challenges, which are complex & global in outlook. With his experience & personality he should lead the organization & people, wherein alignment to him is only natural.

6. Compensation
 Attractive compensation and significant options.

7. Location Bangalore

8. Reporting to
 Board
9. Targeted Joining Date
 Oct 2007

Apply to IDG India's Sudhir Sethi

1. Company Vision
 Build leadership position in a global service niche play for managed security services.

2. Company Goal
 Achieve revenue of US$ 100 million in 6 years.
 Partner with industry leaders in identified verticals.
 Build eco-system for innovators, application developers, and developer community and solution providers.

3. Role & Responsibilities of the CEO
 CEO will achieve revenue of US$ 100 million in 6 years with a PAT of 20% CEO will define & drive the Strategy (Business & Functional) and organizational growth to attain a goal of $100million revenue base within 6 years timeframe with a superior profitability.
 CEO will be accountable & responsible for the P&L of the New Co. CEO will lead the New Co. business during the start-up & rapid growth phases and in the process establish a full-fledged firm with hi-performance teams & organizational mechanisms for business acquisition, delivery & other support functions.
 The incumbent will interact extensively with the board in ascertaining and in many ways evolving the business plans. He or she will intensely contribute on assessing the market opportunities, identifying pockets of immediate synergies with revenue potential and areas for mid-term to long-term growth. CEO would evolve a 5-year business agenda split quarter wise on the revenue projections, operating costs, cash flows, investment-outlays and other parameters. The CEO would take on the ownership of the business plans, internalize it sufficiently with the team and strive to deliver the plans.
Profile of the Ideal candidate:
4. Essential
 Clearly a top end software executive who is well groomed to operate as a senior management executive to impact customer acquisition & set up internal process & systems to deliver on this challenge.
 Should have a customer acquisition experience at CEO,CTO,CIO level globally Has a Business Acumen skill. Has solid leadership presence. Should have held minimum of 10 years of P&L ownership
 Has built relationship with CEO/CIO of Large MNCs / Fortune 500 companies. Should have global exposure & build global businesses
 Has been part of the success story of home grown Indian companies in global consulting, services & Products space, the first domain as we envision would be candidate from one of top tier Indian software companies, who has essentially operated at the leadership level.
 An engineer-MBA from a reputed institute would be the education background.

5. Desirable
 Rolodex of customer contacts & track record of long-term client relationships with sales book in excess of US$ 50mil. Exposure to Network Security space.
 Should have high levels of Commitment and motivation towards the vision and goal Should have high perseverance and Humility A high degree of entrepreneurial spirit coupled with a good track record as a leader. High Stature individual with global mindset having worked or exposed to people & challenges, which are complex & global in outlook. With his experience & personality he should lead the organization & people, wherein alignment to him is only natural.

6. Compensation
 Attractive compensation and significant options.

7. Location Bangalore

8. Reporting to
 Board
9. Targeted Joining Date
 Oct 2007

SharedBook has received $15M in private funding to date from a single investor group led by Yossie Hollander.

Prior to SharedBook, Mr. Hollander founded New Dimension Software, where he was chairman and CEO, and took it public in 1992. The company was sold to BMC Software in 1999 for $650M. In 1990, he founded Jacada [NASDAQ: JCDA], another enterprise software firm, and is currently serving as its chairman. Competitors include Blurb and QOOP.

Apply to CEO Caroline Vanderlip here.

"BlackArrow is an innovator of multiplatform, on-demand video advertising technology for advertising agencies, content programmers and distributors. BlackArrow’s ad-management platform streamlines the complexities of contracting, targeting and delivering video-based advertising. The company’s unique charter helps customers capitalize on new advertising opportunities made possible through time- and place-shifted video platforms such as broadband, video-on-demand and digital video recorders."

Black Arrow is led by Dean Denhart who is president and COO. He was CTO at Knight Ridder Digital and was EVP and CIO at Homestore. He has signed deals with RGB Networks.

Apply to info @blackarrow dot tv

BlackArrow is led by an experienced team of executives from the advertising, television and digital media industries, and backed by Cisco, Comcast Interactive Capital, Intel Corporation, Mayfield Fund and Polaris Venture Partners. The company is privately held, with offices in New York City and San Mateo, Calif. http://www.blackarrow.tv

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

Candidate will:

•Create strategies, define opportunities and structure, negotiate and secure the appropriate partnership deals that enable BlackArrow to achieve it stated business strategy and goals.

•Lead business development in building the pipeline of targeted leads in several areas: including broadband video, online advertising and Web-video publishers - both infrastructure Web publishers and ad networks. Individual will structure, negotiate and secure deals, and manage the implementation and up-sell of accounts once closed. Candidate will also help define the company’s product and partnership strategy.

•Contribute to the overall strategic planning and positioning of the company.

•Represent BlackArrow in a manner that generates a positive perception of the company in the digital media industry while in discussions and negotiations with the senior executives.

•Be expected to negotiate deals and manage the internal implementation of those deals by coordinating the operations of product management, legal, marketing and the business development team.

IDEAL EXPERIENCE:

•A history of achievement in negotiating deals with broadband video/advertising companies, and video Web publishers. Candidate must also have familiarity with and ability to strike creative business models in the Internet, media, publishing, cable and content distribution fields.

•A strong network of personal and professional contacts, especially in the online video and/or Web publishing sectors is an important attribute. Proven ability to negotiate partnerships.

•Experience establishing priorities for a business development strategy in advertising or online video business; understanding of the windowing issues faced by this sector, understanding of how to set deal parameters; and, experience articulating, supporting and rationalizing a negotiation strategy.

•Credibility based upon reputation built within the Internet, media or world-class technology industry. An individual with outstanding management and business development capability who will add impact and value to the team.

Apply here

Location
This position is based in San Francisco, California. Relocation and compensation commensurate with level of experience.

Background & Role Overview
Bella Pictures, the first national wedding photography company currently works with over 300 photographers across 40 markets. This is a newly created role that will have accountability for both our client facing photography product, as well as the health of our photographer facing talent brand.

This ultimate candidate has strong skill sets developed in both qualitative and quantitative arenas. The candidate must come well equipped with a proven track record in photography: understanding, and communicating/coaching quality, managing a disaggregated, creative work force. The role is also accountable for managing to cost centers, core metrics and timelines, ultimately delivering results. Other important elements of this role will be to continue to build a high performing talent pool, and to ensure perpetuating Bella Pictures as “the” premier choice for employment for qualified photography talent.

Primary Responsibilities
1. Responsible for delivering best in class photography quality, including training and managing talent pool to standards.
2. Manage Photographer Talent Brand
3. Develop and improve cost and recruiting forecasting, core metrics and visibility of metrics to key stakeholders
4. Establish Quality Standards for Photography Department
5. On-boarding and Communication
6. Stakeholder Communication - Develop systems and process for improved communication and visibility to key stakeholders (sales, clients, photographers)
7. Manage Assignment Desk
8. Optimize Training and Development
9. Establish Photography Department Policies

Team & Support
This role is slated to have a team of 10+ with approximately 4 – 5 direct reports. The position is supported by dotted line relationships with finance and recruiting.

Today we learn that is building a new un-named startup. "The model will attempt to create a disruption in the TV industry using contemporary internet technologies." The startup is based in Mumbai and has already hired 15 people with experience in digital video.

Balakrishnan is looking to hire a COO to run the show for him.

Apply here

The model will attempt to create a disruption in the TV industry using contemporary internet technologies.

The current team consists of 15 employees who have deep understanding and experience in digital video processing, media and product development.

Key Responsibilities:

As a COO, you will drive the P&L of this company. You will lead a team of highly skilled and passionate young people towards the set goals

You will be responsible for integrating the strategic plan of the organization with the operations. You will conceptualize and execute the strategy for growth, focusing on partner strategy and content acquisition strategy. Be the public face of the company, evangelize the company and handle media relations.

Requirements:

12+ years of relevant experience as senior leader in media industry. Would prefer additional exposures across varied industries like Telecom, FMCG and content distribution.

Should have deep contacts and understanding of media distribution

Should have a passion for operational excellence and should be driven by a sense of urgency and desire to achieve world-class performance on all relevant customer service, operational, and financial metrics.

Should be able to anticipate and develop proactive strategies in response to changes in the industry.

Should have an understanding of technology, internet industries and stay abreast of broad technological, social, governmental, economic, and industry developments and lead the company to address opportunities and challenges as they arise.

If you are the right person to take on this challenging and influential role you are invited to submit your résumé.

The startup is looking for a VP of Engineering with a Chemical engineering background. It appears that they have already built some prototypes but they may be having a hard time getting past regulations about road safety.

Apply - jobs @ biofuelbox dot com

BioFuelBox, Inc. has a critical opening for an experienced VP of Engineering. This Executive will be in on the ground floor of an exciting, funded startup company to produce biofuels from organic waste products. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated record of managing the introduction of manufacturable and supportable new products, starting from a working breadboard. He or she will hire and mentor technical staff; develop and lead consultants and subcontractors; facilitate the system design, partitioning and interfaces; define and manage the risks; and take overall responsibility for meeting specifications, schedule milestones and budgets for new BioFuelBox products.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Facilitate the overall design and specifications of transportable-sized chemical processing units (chemical, mechanical, electrical, and regulatory requirements)

• Partition the design and coordinate the development of all components and the system integration (in-house or outsourced)

• Hire, train, mentor and supervise technical staff as needed

• Lead the development of the manufacturing and supply chain for all new products

• Develop aggressive but realistic project plans and budgets with best Project Management practices and lead the execution of those plans

• Provide leadership in quality, engineering disciplines (design of experiments, six sigma, CAD tool usage, rapid prototyping, knowledge management, etc.)

CANDIDATE MUST QUALIFICATIONS:

• 10-15 years experience in high-level management role, preferably in a related industry such as biodiesel, ethanol, olechemicals/vegetable oils, chemicals, petroleum, etc.

• Experience with chemistry, supercritical process, high heat and temperature processes desirable

• BS (MS or higher preferred) in ChemE, ME or a related technical field

DESIRED ATTRIBUTES:

• Experience managing outsource design and manufacturing subcontractors

• Proficient and experienced at Project/Program Management using Theory of Constraints or other disciplined techniques

• Experienced in supplier qualification and supply chain development

• Experience in engineering compromises and trade-offs for introduction speed vs. performance vs. development costs, etc.

• Familiarity with the application and scope of relevant US Codes and Standards such as ASME, API and TEMA

• Background in operability principles and maintenance requirements of the diverse machinery used in the chemical industry

• Training and experience in Quality engineering processes and Quality products

• Proficiency in modeling and analysis tools and techniques such as CAD, CAM, Chemical process models, thermal and structural analysis

• Multiple functional experience in Development, Manufacturing and Quality is highly desired

If you are interested in learning more about this opportunity, please submit your resume for immediate review.

One of the company's founders is listed as Chief Architect and it has a CTO so definition of roles will be a priority.

Apply to CEO Ethan Stock.

Local search engine Zvents is seeking a vice president of engineering to join and lead its outstanding technology team.

Company: Zvents is a market-focused company committed to delivering a compelling experience to its users and great value to its media partners and advertisers. Our organic traffic is growing rapidly, and we power local search experiences for a growing set of major media properties such as the Boston Globe, Denver Post, and Orange County Register. We are passionate about revolutionizing the local search and discovery experience, an area which we believe to be in its infancy. We expect to be the dominant player in a fast-growing market sector with billions of dollars of advertising and the attention of tens of millions of consumers at stake. We are technology-driven, and committed to the highest standards of excellence. We are a venture-funded startup based in San Mateo, California backed by VantagePoint, Red Rock, and NetService Ventures.

Role: Lead all engineering development, release, QA, and operations for our local search web service; work with separate Product Management function to define functionality and build code to meet business and user needs; work with CTO to enact his overall technical vision for the company. Reports to CEO.

Experience: At least 10 years, of which three or more are in a significant and senior management role at a consumer-facing web service. Large-scale data-driven sites or large-scale web search experiences (including vertical search) strongly preferred. Previous management or oversight of development, QA, release, and 24/7 data center operations required. Experience in content aggregation a plus. Startup background a bonus but not required.

Capabilities: Deep understanding of software engineering principles and processes; strong computer science fundamentals; past hands-on experience designing and developing large software systems. Ability to lead code and architecture reviews of key system components, and make or lead critical decisions about performance/time/risk tradeoffs. Proven ability to be the key manager, advocate, and champion of engineering within the company. Ability to commit to delivery dates and goals which meet the company’s business needs, and successfully manage the code creation process and engineering team to hit those dates and goals. Exceptional interpersonal communication skills; must be a great listener, an inclusive and decisive leader of engineers, and great senior management team member.

Team: Within a company of about 40, Zvents currently has a largely senior engineering, operations, and QA team of fifteen. This role will manage that engineering/ops/QA team, and act as a member of the senior management team of the company. For more, see: http://www.zvents.com/support/management

Platform: Zvents is based on major open-source components including Linux, Apache, MySQL, Tomcat, and SOLR. Our front end is developed in Ruby on Rails, and much of our search core is Java. We are committed to open source and are in the process of sponsoring a major C++-based search-related project. We use a variety of languages for specific tasks and are pragmatic about their application.

Compensation: Significant equity, market salary, and full benefits.

Apply - careers@lingospot.com

Position Summary
The VP of Sales and Business Development will lead the company's business development and sales efforts, primarily focusing on partnerships with online publishers and online advertising networks. As a pre-venture-funding company, Lingo will offer the VP an opportunity to substantially participate in the success of the company through a generous stock option grant.

Responsibilities
* Build, expand and manage a sales pipeline with online publishers
* Establish and nurture senior-level relationships with advertisers and online advertising networks
* Interface with technical team regarding product requirements
* Contribute to the growth and strategic direction of Lingo's products and services
* Communicate the company's sales and business development strategy to investor and partners

Desired Qualifications
* 5+ years of online or other high-tech business development and/or sales
* Substantial experience in business development, client relationships, consultative selling and deal negotiation s
* Ability to work independently and with little supervision
* Flexibility to accept a wide range of responsibilities & duties
* Willingness to wear multiple hats and to assume a broad range of responsibilities
* Previous startup experience is highly desirable
* Understanding of online advertising models highly desirable
* BA/BSc degree required, MBA degree preferred

The Passado business plan has been making the rounds in the VC market for a while we hear. It was initially a kind of Classmates.com or Friends Reunited type site in Germany, but it is now British-owned and offering blogs and other applications. It claims 5M registered users.

The company has posted a job req for a COO/Managing Director. Apply here

Short Job Description
Liaising and working closely with the board of directors and investors, to provide strategic direction of the Passado business model
Key accountabilities of the role
• Operational management of the Passado business in all territories
• Full Profit & Loss responsibility including financial planning
• Management of the company’s costs and cash resources
• Review the existing staff team. Define an organisation to achieve the company’s objectives and hire appropriate candidates
• Assisting CTO in Managing out-sourced development company
• Strategic development of the Passado business model
• Responsibility for successful implementation of the model
• Lead business development activity
• Manage the company’s marketing activity in particular PR and act as a spokesperson with the press
• Review and renegotiation of existing partnerships and major supplier contracts with a reasonable understanding of contractual law.
Pre-requisite Knowledge, skills and experience

Required business knowledge/experience:
• Experience and success in managing an internet business or a standalone internet project within an organisation
• European experience
• Previous P&L responsibility with a sound understanding of accounting practices and budget modelling
• Strong organisational and people management skills
• Good communicator
• Business Development and marketing experience

Personal attributes / competencies:
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Self-starter. Comfortable taking initiative
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, startup environment

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