Softonic Careers Softonic Careers

As Europe´s and Latin America´s largest software downloads and technology site Softonic.com Global Network, operating in 10 languages, currently serving monthly more than 120 million unique users, over 750 million page views per month, and delivering over 4,7 million downloads per day.
Join our Sales Team to support us on our goal of sustaining the company’s face paced growth as well as our international expansion and serving our clients throughout worldwide markets.

This role will be based in Barcelona and will report to the VP Global Sales.

Únete a nuestro equipo, para apoyarnos en nuestro objetivo de mantener el crecimiento de la empresa, así como en nuestra expansión internacional a través de los mercados de todo el mundo.

Necesitamos un Técnico en Relaciones Laborales que sea metódico, disciplinado, proactivo y resolutivo con gran capacidad de trabajo en un equipo con un marcado espíritu de servicio. Deberá estar costumbrado/a a gestionar gran volumen de tareas administrativas y gestión de documentación.

Se valorará la experiencia en entornos multinacionales y será imprescindible un elevado grado de discreción y confidencialidad.

Responsabilidades:

- Relación con la gestoría y empleados (salarios, contratos, finiquitos, liquidaciones, certificados, Tc1/Tc2 etc.). Control y verificación del trabajo de la gestoría. Envío de contratos y precontratos y gestión de los mismos con la gestoría. Gestión del archivo de personal.
- Gestión de variables de diversos equipos. Gestión de beneficios en nómina (salario a la carta).
- Gestión de bajas y partes de baja con la gestoría. Gestión de absentismo. Gestión de certificados de maternidad, desempleo con la Gestoría.
- Redactado de informes/reporting en colaboración con el departamento de Finanzas.
- Resolución de conflictos de carácter laboral, analizando y proponiendo soluciones. Resolución de dudas y consultas en materia de Relaciones y Entorno Laboral, con el fin de garantizar el cumplimiento de las condiciones pactadas en los contratos y convenios.

Join our HR Team to preserve and enhance the potential of the teams and improve the performance of each employee in Softonic.

You`ll be responsible for:

- Defining and specifying the best methodology to apply.
- Identifying the current gaps and implementing them within the training plan.
- Establishing a training plan based on the needs detected at the annual performance review.
- Managing the current budget.
- Setting up the company global training plan, online as well as offline.
- Researching new e-learning systems.

We are currently searching a Front-End developer with web graphic design abilities and expert knowledge in HTML5, CSS3 and advanced JavaScript capabilites to join our multidisciplinary development team and work on high performance projects.

What we offer:
- Latest technologies and projects diversity (Softonic Web, Desktop applications, Mobile).
- Continuous learning (Courses, Workshops, Conferences & Events, Technical library).
- Agile Methodology (Scrum, TDD).
- Crossbrowsing, W3C compliant, Graceful Degradation and Progressive Enhancement
- Work closely with proven experienced professionals of the sector.

The attitude we value:
- Open minded, someone that shares own opinions and accept other ideas;
- Initiative, eager to learn and self-driven;
- Team player, capable of teaching others if necessary;

We seek an in-house lawyer specialized in contracts, both domestic and international, with experience in intellectual property, information technology, e-commerce and personal data processing.

All candidates should be both technically excellent and commercially aware, with a strong academic background. Excellent drafting and communication skills in both English and Spanish are also essential, and the ideal candidate will enjoy being part of a team.

The main responsibilities are:
- Defining, drafting, reviewing and negotiating all Softonic commercial contracts, especifically ones related to software distribution, online advertising and other commercial agreements as required from time to time for HQ and our subsidiaries.
- Establishing professional support links with international law firms, if necessary.
- Defining and updating of terms & conditions regarding e-commerce and personal data for products and services on all Softonic websites.
- Ensuring compliance with current legislation in relation to Data Protection. Collaboration with and monitoring of data protection audits of the company in different countries
- Providing legal advice to the management team regarding licensing, technology and intellectual property
- Resolving/mediating legal disputes, if necessary
- Identifying business risks and assisting with the review of company policies and procedures.

In order to sustain growth and international expansion, we are currently looking for a new member of our International Customer Support Team (B2C).

We are looking for a person with excellent communication skills (email and phone), team player, very motivated and well organized. The ideal candidate is an internet and software enthusiast who is familiar with handling general technical issues related to software and internet. B2C experience is a plus for this position.


Your main tasks will be the following:

- Provide support for our B2C products (via Email and phone)
- Moderate user comments (OnSoftware & software reviews)
- Assisting the customer support manager
- Continuous optimization of processes

In order to sustain our growth and international expansion, we are looking for a Recruitment researcher, with experience in the internet business and focused on finding and hiring talent for Softonic.

The main responsibilities are:
- Sourcing candidates using various job boards and social networks.
- Developing innovative sourcing options including networking,
headhunting and building talent pools.
- Creating advertisements when requested to be externally for our vacancies.
- Maintaining relationship with universities in order to hire professionals who match our profiles and keeping the relationship with their labour bureau.
- You must be delivery-focused and enjoy interacting with a high volume of candidates on a daily basis.
- Support to the Talent Acquisiton team on daily bases recruitment activities.

Join our Technical team to support us on our goal of having the best download site worldwide.

The successful Senior Systems Administrator you will work with some of the most talented people in the software industry in a fun and exciting environment. We are looking for people who are solution oriented, goal driven and look at technology as a tool to achieve an entertaining result. We believe that raw talent combined with a positive attitude is what is needed to make great job.

As a Senior Systems Administrator you would be responsible for:

- Set up and administration of servers in development and production environment.
- Monitoring of different resources for identifying potential problems.
- Coordination of tasks required when uploading versions in production.
- Assisting other development team members in solving problems that arise.
- Script development for the automation of tasks.

We strive to have high available, secure and scalable systems, with plenty of opportunity to use the latest tools to help automate deployment, monitoring, fail-over and other critical aspects of their infrastructure.

Join our Technical team to support us on our goal of having the best download site worldwide.

Description:

Softonic is looking for a Project Manager & ScrumMaster with wide experience managing web related projects/tasks.

This person will be the responsible of a product oriented Development Team.

Acting as a ScrumMaster along with the Product Owner, he will be responsible of the proper execution of the development sprints, taking into account development time and cost.
Requirements
• Deliver solutions compliant with customer requirements.
• Deliver at committed time, with quality and cost control to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Ensure R&D processes (project life cycle process and Agile).
• Manage the development team assigned.
• Complete and validate the specifications with the product owner.
• Ensure the project team and stakeholders commitments.
• Monitor and control project activities and progress.
• Provide regular visibility on project progress, risks, contingency plan and issues with proper alerts and escalations.
• Identify lessons learned in performing a post-mortem & sprint retrospectives.
• As ScrumMaster: ensure Scrum process follow-up and moderates team.

Content Editor at Softonic:
As a Content Editor at Softonic, you test software applications and publish reviews based on your findings. Softonic’s Content Editors are part of the Catalog team, which is responsible for the creation
and maintenance of program review pages on Softonic.
Together with the editors from the Articles and News teams, our review editors create content to fulfill Softonic’s mission which is
to help people discover software to enhance their lives.
Our Content Editors have a profound understanding of operating systems and software; their
well-written test reviews focus on apps that are globally relevant and suitable for localization
in all of Softonic’s local sites.
As a Content Editor, you will:
- Select and test software applications
- Write and publish test reviews
- Keep existing program reviews up-to-date
- Monitor and report performance of your published content
- Closely follow application trends
- Collaborate with other content teams to ensure coverage of news/events
- Build and maintain relations with developers
- Participate in, and initiate projects

The Editor in Chief of each local site reports to the Director of Editorial Markets. He/she uses an extensive level of online editorial experience and local software market knowledge to manage the content production for his/her site, aligned with the strategic objectives of the Content department and with the company goals.
The Editor in Chief is in charge of the local site staff, its content production workflow, the development of the team and the local editorial strategy, in collaboration with the Heads of and the other Editors in Chief.

The Architecture engineer is responsible for maintaining, optimizing and ensuring the platform stability and scalability.

Understand, contribute to and communicate general information on changes on framework, software libraries versions, architectural changes and improvements.

Role Specific Responsibilities:

- Ensuring high availability
- Ensuring the platform scalability
- Framework maintenance and general improvements
- General output improvements
- Introducing control methods and continuous code improvements
- Creation and improvement of tools related to the productivity of that department
- Helping to determine how technology can be put into practice according to business requirements
- Modifying open-code applications according to business requirements

Knowledge Sharing / Documentation:

- Provide coaching, mentoring and training as needed
- Participate in cross–functional project teams by providing technical expertise and consultation
- Define the technical strategy and roadmap
- Prepare and give talks, trainings and courses of architecture and technologies in use

Technical Skills:

- Wide experience in LAMP development
- Mastery on PHP, MySQL
- Mastery in TDD, Design patterns and refactoring
- C, C++, Java and other languages are a plus
- Mastery on EXPLAIN and optimization patterns
- MySQL Developer certification (DBA certification is a plus)
- Zend Certified Engineer is a must
- Experience performing database analysis, normalization and optimization

Personal Skills:

- Performance-driven
- Self-taught
- Highly perfectionist
- A perfect mix between academic solutions and real life experience
- Constantly striving for excellence using objective, transparent and agreed upon standards
- Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills

Currently, we are looking for dynamic & proactive assistant who coordinates and manages her/his tasks efficiently.

Your responsibilities consist in:

- Creation of monthly KPI Reports
- Management of daily schedule, contacts & emails
- Filtering of calls and receiving visitors
- Preparation of meeting room setting, documentation, etc..
- Attendance at meetings, drawing up of reports & follow up of actions.
- Preparation presentations, reports, dossier, translations, mail and fax both in English and Spanish.
- Control and monitoring of tasks and enforcement actions.
- Making direct delegated executive tasks.
- Support general administrative tasks of the department.
- Organization of Travels, Appointments & Expenses
- Creation of presentations, introduction of contacts into database, etc
- Other job related issues, such as creation of summaries, Excel lists etc.
- Other personal issues, such as organizing Doctors appointments etc.

Requirements:

- Specific training in Executive Secretary
- Experience as a Secretary, or performing the similar functions for at least 1-3 years
- Proficient Internet and email user
- Expert user Microsoft Office, specifically Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Excellent verbal & written communicational skills both in Spanish & English
- Ability to work in a team.
- Dynamic, responsible & discreet person with very good presence and great capacity for dialogue.
- Excellent time management, organized and meticulous individual.
- Fast problem solver
- Confidentiality
- Valuable previous experience in Internet companies.

Softonic is seeking a data analyst who has intuition, is business-oriented and has proven experience working with statistical software programs (SAS, SPSS, R, etc.), to collaborate with the rest of the departments, contributing his or her experience in defining indicators, exploiting information and drawing conclusions.
The ideal candidate will work diligently and efficiently, be responsible and independent, be able to work calmly in high-stress situations, and be flexible and adaptable to a dynamic and ever-changing environment.

Responsabilities:

- Give product optimization insights based in proactive analysis.
- Support the rest of the departments in their decision making by collaborating in the definition of indicators, producing results and drawing conclusions.
- Ensure the rigor and correct interpretation of the results obtained.
- Improve the quality of the primary information sources and identify the secondary information sources that may be of interest to the rest of the departments within the company.

Minimum requirements:

- Advanced knowledge and proven experience with statistical analysis tools
- Knowledge of SQL queries
- Advanced knowledge of Excel
- Experience modeling time series and defining scenarios
- Knowledge and experience in using Web Analytics
- Proven experience in datamining

Our Business Development department is currently offering a 6 month internship to support our team.

Responsibilities
- Compile information, analyze findings, make interpretations, and write comprehensive reports based on data, both for internal use and for strategic partners
- Support of pre-sales and post-sales processes
- Assisting with business cases
- Monitoring for all Business Development products, highlighting issues quickly
- Invoicing to B2B clients (InstallPlus, Redirection)
- Management of internal tools related to the position, including BI data
- Affiliation tracking and reporting
- Update dead links/outdated prices on the site
- Add buttons for products
- Email response to external requests

Working closely with leadership, the Business Process Improvement team is a small group of dedicated system and process improvement specialists that work across functions to identify and resolve high-level business issues. We bring together various process stakeholders with the aim of driving better process outcomes and improving scalability.

The Process Improvement Manager will initially focus on process and data analysis in support of key system improvement projects. The role will develop into independent leadership of process and system improvement activities through deployment of standard business improvement toolsets. With time, the wider purpose of the Process Improvement Manager is to train others in the toolsets and coach fellow employees through their own improvement efforts.

Join our Content Team to support us on our goal of helping the user enjoy the best software.
Main responsibilities:
- The Editor in Chief of each local site reports to the Director of Editorial Markets. He/she uses an extensive level of online editorial experience and local software market knowledge to manage the content production for his/her site, aligned with the strategic objectives of the Content department and with the company goals.
- The Editor in Chief is in charge of the local site staff, its content production workflow, the development of the team and the local editorial strategy, in collaboration with the Heads of and the other Editors in Chief.

Join our HR team to improve and take care the Internal Communication of the company.

You`ll be responsible for:
- Internal Communication Strategy to reinforce company yearly and quarterly goals and to address the main concerns of the employees or the main communication issues of the company through the different channels.
- New People BootCamp, where she/he gets everyone informed/aligned with the Long Term/Short Term strategy, products, goals and team.
- Identifying the key Facts/Data to be communicated on an ongoing basis to all employees, defining the proper channels, targets and metrics and act accordingly. This includes also official policies, org chart, and in general corporate information of any type.
- Communication among international offices, making sure we keep informed both ways.

We are looking for web developers with solid experience in PHP/MySQL, passionate for programming and focused on performance and quality.

If Dry, Solid and Kiss means something to you, you will feel like home with us.

What we offer:
- Latest technologies and projects diversity (Softonic Web, Desktop applications,
Mobile, big data CDN, search engines).
- Continuous learning (Technical mentoring, Courses, Workshops, Conferences & Events, Technical library).
- Agile Methodology (Scrum, TDD, continuous integration).
- Industry standards compliance, mandatory Unit Testings, code quality enforcements;
- Work closely with proven experienced professionals of the sector.

The attitude we value:
- Open minded, someone that shares own opinions and accept other ideas;
- Initiative, eager to learn and self-driven;
- Team player, capable of teaching others if necessary;

Read more at http://careers.softonic.com

We are looking for a JavaScript evangelist: a web developer with solid experience in JavaScript, passionate for programming and focused on performance and quality. A great programmer who wants to keep “touching code” and, at the same time, passionate for teaching others the best practices of programming and continuously learning.

If DRY, SOLID, Agile development, KISS, code quality, TDD… means something to you, you might be what we are looking for!

You will dedicate part of your work to the frontend (JavaScript) of Softonic.com website (developing a product for hundreds of millions of users!) and the other part to give JavaScript talks and courses, inside Softonic or as speaker in public conferences and other events.

You will have at your disposal books, courses, conferences and all the tools you need to learn and expertize in the subject you will later teach, but the best of all is that you will have the best JavaScript experts to learn with in our Barcelona headquarters.

You will work in an elite team of great professionals and in a worldwide leader. You will get to know how the #1 worldwide software download website works. You will be able to grow and develop with us.

Here we care about the people: our team enjoys flexible schedules and holidays, social benefits (private medical health care, awesome facilities…), attend conferences, free English/Spanish classes during work time, official certifications, personal training plan…

Read more at:
http://careers.softonic.com

Regional Sales Manager (RSM) is responsible for building/maintaining territory revenue and when possible exceeding goals through creative and strategic selling. Work with existing and potential clients to determine their business needs and formulate an ad sales solution. RSM’s will normally be the entry point for any client looking to work with Softonic.

As team members, the best candidates will thrive in an environment that emphasizes teamwork through development and cooperative relationships, exchanging ideas, and a willingness to resolve all conflicts with quick communication. The RSM will conduct a regular analysis of territory including accurate revenue forecasts and complete regular call reports to update sales management on account activity.

Responsibilities:

- Maximize territory ad revenue
- Manage existing relationships with all accounts and ad agencies
- Seeking out and developing strategic relationships with decision makers and working directly with clients and their ad agencies to develop custom media programs to suit their specific needs.
- Managing a territory quota, setting goals and working with management and marketing to strategize on new business opportunities and creative approaches to RFPs
- Setting territory sales agenda including prioritizing and organizing sales calls for maximum dollars and managing T&E
- Establish in person relationships with clients by conducting high volume of face-to-face calls
- Attend industry trade shows and local events to meet clients and cultivate relationships
- Proactively communicate account and sales information to management and other team members through regular call reports
- Manage the relationship with a dedicated Account Manager and Ad Ops to distribute workload and optimize efficiency of territory

- Attend industry trade shows and local events to meet clients and develop contacts. Successful candidates will also demonstrate a willingness to take charge and work forcefully to achieve results, despite obstacles. Proactively communicate account and sales information to both sales management and sales team.

Softonic is seeking a software engineering with a Data Science flavor who has superb programming skills, is knowledgeable of the Machine Learning field and would like to work with massive amounts of data.

The ideal candidate will work diligently and efficiently, be responsible and independent, be able to work calmly in high-stress situations, and be flexible and adaptable to a dynamic and ever-changing environment.

Responsabilites:

- Architect, define and program the systems in production that provide the personalization algorithms in Softonic.
- Define and manage the data flows across different data storages that form the input to the algorithms.
- Transform a pilot or Proof of Concept into a system that scales to millions of users.
- Modify existing web infrastructure for including sensors and probes gathering data for the algorithms.
- Code compelling visualizations.

Minimum Requirements:

- Proficient in Hadoop and its ecosystem (MapReduce, Hive, HBase, Oozie).
- Proficient in Web development (PHP, MySQL, Web Services).
- Experience working in a Linux environment is required.
- Strong programming skills in Java and at least one of Python, C++ or Scala.
- Familiarity with Machine Learning algorithms and statistical and mathematical concepts
- Strong knowledge of NoSQL databases is a plus.
- Strong knowledge of data visualization tools (D3.js, Gephi, R, matplotlib) is a plus

Join our Sales Team to support us on our goal of sustaining the company’s face paced growth as well as our international expansion and serving our clients throughout worldwide markets.

As a Global AdOperations Director we imagine you will be passionate about all things digital, have about four years’ experience from an online businesses, are a natural born leader with the right attitude to be an ambassador for the Softonic.com brand.

This role will oversee creative solutions, trafficking, optimization, inventory management, reporting, and business intelligence. They will manage a small dynamic team and have regular contact with the teams across the globe. This team is responsible for supporting and managing the sales team and advertising partners of Softonic such as ad networks, sales houses, rich media vendors and agencies with a core focus on maximizing and optimizing value and relationship from these partnerships. In addition there is a need to develop systematic processes for assessing and analyzing partner performance and sharing key metrics with the sales team.

Responsibilities:

As a natural over-achiever used to exceeding expectations, you will be able to hit the ground running and deliver results from day one:

Internal-client management:
• Responsible for the overall success and efficiency of online advertising operations including campaign management and optimization, inventory management, reporting and trafficking.
• Project manage the delivery and implementation of all new website display advertising requests to coincide with website/channel go live dates.
• Liaise with sales directors, publishers and developers to provide new display advertising opportunities across the network and the required sales strategies. Collaborate with internal teams to launch new ad products and support existing products
• Work with sales teams to identify inventory required for specific customer objectives
• Delivery and optimization of multiple campaign types - CPM, CPC, Contextual, CPI, CPD, etc.
• Provision and analysis of campaign and website advertising reports to the finance department, publishers and sales teams to maximize revenue across the portfolio of sites.
• Creation and maintenance of display advertising specification documents for internal and external clients.

Team Management:
• Full line-management, of the team at HQ responsible for all advertising operations across Softonic. Carry out regular 6 monthly and yearly appraisals of the team.
• Responsible for the team’s output in terms of campaign creation, optimisation, reporting/post campaign analysis. Prioritisation of the teams’ job managing the day to day workload.
• Develop and implement work flow processes to improve efficiency and accuracy

3rd Party Vendor Management:
• Maintain and developing current relationships with 3rd party vendors, clients, agencies, networks and the advertising sales team.
• Advanced understanding of Flash, HTML, 3rd party javascript ad tags and ad platforms with a view to troubleshooting potential advertising issues across the network.

The Content Manager role gives operative and editorial support to the Editors that create the content in our department. Among other things, he/she controls the freshness and quality of our software database, offers support to the Editors, searches for information, creates images, and uploads videos.
A native or very advanced level for two of the following three languages: Polish, Dutch and Brazilian Portuguese. Language knowledge is critical for this position, as the Content Manager will support local Content Teams working in these languages. Besides that, we expect you to be fluent in at least one of our company languages, English and Spanish.

Main responsibilities:

- Keep our software database updated, making sure the offered versions of the programs are the latest ones and updating them when necessary, to guarantee the latest versions to our users
- Control the quality of our software database and perform maintenance tasks, to make sure information and related media (e.g. screenshots, videos) are correct/up to date
- Enrich our software database publishing new programs without review or with a developer description
- Enrich our content creating images, screenshots and searching/publishing external videos (trailers and official developer’s videos)
- Research information (e.g. news, technical data, articles, white papers, images) that can be serve as sources for Editors to create content on identified global topics (e.g. Windows 9 release)
- Feed and manage a centralized library of images, videos and documents to be the source reference for the Content department
- Blacklist programs that do not comply to our legal standards

¿QUÉ BUSCAMOS?

Queremos incorporar un DBA que se responsabilice de mantener y mejorar nuestras bases de datos, normalizando y optimizando y supervisando las estructuras y consultas.

Se incorporarán al área de Arquitectura en un equipo de desarrollo formado por más de 50 especialistas y trabajarán en nuestras oficinas de Barcelona.

¿QUÉ OFRECEMOS?

Trabajarás con los mejores: un equipo de grandes profesionales y una web líder: aprenderás cómo funciona por dentro una web del TOP 500 del mundo.

Como nos preocupamos por las personas, nuestro equipo disfruta de flexibilidad horaria y de vacaciones, beneficios sociales (seguro médico, tickets restaurant, etc), asistencia a congresos y conferencias, cursos de idiomas en horario laboral, certificaciones oficiales , etc.

Únete a nuestro Equipo de Producto y participa del crecimiento de la empresa, así como nuestra expansión internacional para seguir atendiendo a nuestros clientes a nivel mundial.

La posición de Product Manager requiere una persona enérgica, experta y con iniciativa. Buscamos una persona altamente responsable, con gran capacidad de aprendizaje y adaptación, apasionada por la creación de productos de calidad enfocados a usuario final, B2C Products.

Join our Sales Team to support us on our goal of sustaining the company’s face paced growth as well as our international expansion and serving our clients throughout worldwide markets.

Responsibilities

Support the Regional Sales Manager (RSM) to build/maintain territory revenue through creative and strategic selling. Working with existing and new clients, helping navigate RFP’s, internal systems, processes and client expectations to maximize the revenue potential by territory. Account Managers will also have account responsibility which add towards the territory goals, in conjunction with the RSM.

This role will be based in Barcelona and will report to the Head of Account Managers

Responsible for building/maintaining territory ad revenue and when possible exceeding goals through creative and strategic selling. Work with existing and potential clients to determine their business needs and formulate an ad sales solution. Candidates must have strong oral and written communication skills. Attend industry trade shows and local events to meet clients and develop contacts. Successful candidates will also demonstrate a willingness to take charge and work forcefully to achieve results, despite obstacles. Proactively communicate account and sales information to both sales management and sales team.

As team members, the best candidates will thrive in an environment that emphasizes teamwork through development and cooperative relationships, exchanging ideas, and a willingness to resolve all conflicts with quick communication.

- Maximize territory ad revenue
- Manage internal relationships for all Accounts within the designated territory
- Navigate internally response to RFPs
- Setting territory sales agenda including prioritizing and organizing sales calls for maximum dollars and managing T&E
- Proactively communicate account and sales information to management and other team members through regular call reports
- Manage the relationship with a dedicated RSM and Ad Ops to distribute workload and optimize efficiency of territory

(Chinese Version Below)

The Editor in Chief is responsible for the management, motivation and professional growth of his/her team of editors. The Editor in Chief ensures the quality and performance of the content created by his/her editors, according to the defined editorial guidelines and strategy and participates in the definition of the Content department goals and strategy.

Main responsibilities:

- Lead a team of editors to create the best content (including reviews, articles and videos) to help, inform, teach and keep our users always updated with the latest software-related info

- Develop the skills and the expertise of the editors, mentoring, motivating them and identifying training and growing opportunities

- Define and/or improve the local editorial guidelines (including style, voice and tone), in accordance to the global guidelines

- Identify and apply a local content strategy, to offer the most appropriate and successful content for your market’s audience

- Supervise the quality, freshness and performance of the created content, through web analytics, KPIs and other internal tools

- Set and be responsible for the content creation and performance goals of the team

- Be responsible from a Human Resources point of view of the local team, including yearly performance reviews and new editors’ recruitment

- Team up with the other local sites’ Editors in Chief, to work on editorial global projects, share best practices, take operative global decisions, participate in the development of the global content strategy and define shared goals for the department

- Proactive management of departmental projects

- Ensure that all the published content complies with our legal policy. Take immediate action in case of infringement

- Collaborate with other departments and be their Content point of contact for joint efforts and projects (e.g. SEO, marketing, business development)

- Be a point of reference for your local market in the company, contributing with your local knowledge and expertise to other departments’ initiatives

Required Skills:

- Editorial leadership, to guide and inspire editors to create the best content for our audience

- Team management skills, to motivate editors and make them grow

- High level of responsibility, self-motivation and enthusiasm

- Efficient time and task management

- Good knowledge of operating system(s) and software

- Be up-to-date on software and technology trends

- Advanced online editing and writing skills

- Ability to define a distinct editorial style and strategy, according to the site and the audience needs

- Good knowledge of journalism principles and values (e.g. objectivity, fact-base writing, verification of sources, points of view balance, research capabilities)

- Online professional editorial experience (Content Director or similar for professional sites/blogs)

- Knowledge of SEO guidelines, applied to online writing

- Experience with Content Management Systems (Wordpress or similar)

- Advanced knowledge of English, both written and spoken

- Good networking and negotiation skills

- Analytical thinking

- Experience with Google Analytics or similar web analytics tools

- Teamwork player and good communication skills between different culture

- English speaking, writing and reading skills for work requirement

Desired skills:

- Ability to work quickly and accurately in a fast-moving environment

- Good knowledge of additional languages (other than English)

- Experience working with KPIs analysis and tracking

- Business knowledge of the software industry

- Initiative skills to propose new content ideas and spark collaboration opportunities with other teams

- Professional social media writing/strategy experience

- Personality:  open and optimistic, target-oriented working style

- 2 years Working experience with software download website or software magazine

Chinese Version

职位描述:

内容总监，需要负责编辑团队的管理，激励和专业成长；需要根据已创建的编辑方针和策略来确保其编辑团队所创建的内容的质量及可用性；需要参与到内容部门的目标和策略的建立当中。

主要职责：

- 带领编辑团队创建对于用户来说，最好的内容（包括评论，文章和视频）帮助，咨询和教程，并确保我们的用户始终拥有最新软件更新相关信息
- 发展编辑们的技能和专业知识指导，激励他们，并针对性的提供培训和成长机会
- 依据全球准则，来制定 和/或 改善当地部门的编辑指向（包括风格，声音和调调）
- 以赢得市场为目的，制定并运用最成功的更适用于本土的内容策略
- 通过网络分析，KPI和其他内部工具，负责监督网站内容的质量，新鲜度和实用性
- 设定并负责完成内容团队的内容创建及可用性目标
- 以人力资源为焦点管理本地团队，其中包括每年的绩效评价和新编辑招聘
- 与其他国家站点的内容总监进行交流会议，社论全球项目，分享最佳实践，实行全球站点决策，参与全球内容战略的发展，并与本地团队分享所设定的共同目标
- 主动对部门的项目经行管理
- 确保所有公布的内容符合法律政策。在侵权案件中，采取立即行动
- 参与与其他部门的交流，从内容编辑的角度，来积极响应共同的努力和项目（如搜索引擎优化，营销，业务发展）
- 使用您对当地市场的了解和专长，为当地公司其他部门提供有创意的参考

所需技能：

- 编辑领导技能，引导和激励编辑们，为我们的用户创建最好的内容
- 团队管理技能，激励编辑，使他们成长
- 拥有极高的责任感，有自我激励的精神和热情的工作态度
- 足够的时间和任务管理能力
- 熟练掌握各种操作系统和软件
- 有最新的软件和技术的发展趋势探索能力
- 拥有较强的在线编辑和写作技巧
- 能够根据网站和用户需求，自我设定一个鲜明的编辑风格和策略
- 有较好的新闻焦点关和价值观知识（如 客观事实的基础写作，核查来源，公平的观点以及研究能力）
- 在线专业编辑经验（内容总监或类似的专业网站/博客）
- 搜索引擎优化知识，并能将其应用到在线写作
- 拥有内容编辑及管理系统的经验（Wordpress或类似）
- 良好的英语书面和口语技能
- 良好的网络技巧和商谈技巧
- 有独立分析思考能力
- 谷歌Analytics（分析）或类似的网络分析工具使用经验
- 能够适应不同文化之间的团队合作精神和良好的沟通技巧
- 工作中需要非常好的英语说，写，阅读技能

优先考虑技能：

- 在快速发展环境中，也能够快速并准确的完成工作
- 熟练掌握一种除英语以外的外语
- 有KPI分析及跟踪的工作经验
- 有一定的软件产业商业知识
- 拥有自主创新的内容编辑相关想法，能够把握分享与加入其他团队合作的机会
- 专业社会媒体写作/战略经验
- 个性开朗乐观，以目标为导向的工作作风
- 在软件下载网站或软件杂志公司有2年以上相关工作经验

Join our Sales Team to support us on our goal of sustaining the company’s face paced
growth as well as our international expansion and serving our clients throughout
worldwide markets.
Support the Regional Sales Manager (RSM) to build/maintain territory revenue through
creative and strategic selling. Working with existing and new clients, helping navigate
RFP’s, internal systems, processes and client expectations to maximize the revenue
potential by territory. Account Managers will also have account responsibility which
add towards the territory goals, in conjunction with the RSM.
This role will be based in San Francisco and will report to the Sales Director, North
America.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Responsible for building/maintaining territory ad revenue and when possible exceeding
goals through creative and strategic selling. Work with existing and potential clients to
determine their business needs and formulate an ad sales solution. Candidates must
have strong oral and written communication skills. Attend industry trade shows and
local events to meet clients and develop contacts. Successful candidates will also
demonstrate a willingness to take charge and work forcefully to achieve results, despite
obstacles. Proactively communicate account and sales information to both sales
management and sales team.
As team members, the best candidates will thrive in an environment that emphasizes
teamwork through development and cooperative relationships, exchanging ideas, and
a willingness to resolve all conflicts with quick communication.
- Maximize territory ad revenue
- Manage internal relationships for all Accounts within the designated territory
- Navigate internally response to RFPs
- Setting territory sales agenda including prioritizing and organizing sales calls for maximum dollars and managing T&E
- Establish in person relationships with clients by conducting high volume of face-to-face calls
- Attend industry trade shows and local events to meet clients and cultivate relationships
- Proactively communicate account and sales information to management and other team members through regular call reports
- Manage the relationship with a dedicated RSM and Ad Ops to distribute workload and optimize efficiency of territory

REQUIREMENTS:
- Candidates must have strong oral and written communication skills.
- Successful candidates will also demonstrate a willingness to take charge and work forcefully to achieve results, despite obstacles.
- University graduate, preferably in a business, communication or marketing discipline
- 3+ years of advertising sales in a large online property.
- Experience selling to local media planners and direct branding clients.
- Solid global knowledge in Internet usage and online media trends
- Strong business acumen, interpersonal and analytical skills
- A team player who is able to maintain excellent working relationships with clients and internal departments, willingness to work under pressure, and one who puts the needs of our Clients first
- Passionate about people and passionate about sales
- Good understanding of technology and contacts within the Online Advertising market.
- Demonstrated ability to sell value of media properties rather than just the program/price
- Must be client focused, revenue generating

Join our Sales Team to support us on our goal of sustaining the company’s face paced growth as well as our international expansion and serving our clients throughout worldwide markets.

Responsible for building/maintaining territory revenue and when possible exceeding goals through creative and strategic selling. Work with existing and potential clients to determine their business needs and formulate an ad sales solution. RSM’s will normally be the entry point for any client looking to work with Softonic.

This role will be based in New York and will report to the Sales Director, North America.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for building/maintaining territory ad revenue and when possible exceeding goals through creative and strategic selling. Work with existing and potential clients to determine their business needs and formulate an ad sales solution. Candidates must have strong oral and written communication skills. Attend industry trade shows and local events to meet clients and develop contacts. Successful candidates will also demonstrate a willingness to take charge and work forcefully to achieve results, despite obstacles. Proactively communicate account and sales information to both sales management and sales team.

As team members, the best candidates will thrive in an environment that emphasizes teamwork through development and cooperative relationships, exchanging ideas, and a willingness to resolve all conflicts with quick communication. The RSM will conduct a regular analysis of territory including accurate revenue forecasts and complete regular call reports to update sales management on account activity.

- Maximize territory ad revenue
- Manage existing relationships with All accounts and ad agencies (East Coast)
- Seeking out and developing strategic relationships with decision makers and working directly with clients and their ad agencies to develop custom media programs to suit their specific needs.
- Managing a territory quota, setting goals and working with management and marketing to strategize on new business opportunities and creative approaches to RFPs
- Setting territory sales agenda including prioritizing and organizing sales calls for maximum dollars and managing T&E
- Establish in person relationships with clients by conducting high volume of face-to-face calls
- Attend industry trade shows and local events to meet clients and cultivate relationships
- Proactively communicate account and sales information to management and other team members through regular call reports
- Manage the relationship with a dedicated Account Manager and Ad Ops to distribute workload and optimize efficiency of territory

Requirements:

- Candidates must have strong oral and written communication skills.

- Successful candidates will also demonstrate a willingness to take charge and work forcefully to achieve results, despite obstacles.

- University graduate, preferably in a business, communication or marketing discipline
- 3+ years of advertising sales in a large online property.
- Experience selling to local media planners and direct branding clients.
- Solid global knowledge in Internet usage and online media trends
- Strong business acumen, interpersonal and analytical skills
- A team player who is able to maintain excellent working relationships with clients and internal departments, willingness to work under pressure, and one who puts the needs of our Clients first
- Passionate about people and passionate about sales
- Good understanding of technology and contacts within the Online Advertising market.

- Demonstrated ability to sell value of media properties rather than just the program/price

- Must be client focused, revenue generating

Japanese version below

The Japanese edition of Softonic.com is looking for an Editor in Chief, who will be managing the content editorial team in Japan (they write reviews about PC software, Android and iPhone Apps and WebApp). The Editor in Chief will not only be managing the team but also responsible for a content creation and downloads in the Japanese site. It will be a very challenging and important position because you will be able to decide strategies and directions of the site.

Your responsibilities will include

- Management of a team of editors, including skill-up trainings, mentoring, motivating, and recruitment

- Defining and/or improve the local editorial guidelines to produce high quality and productivity of the contents

- Supervising the quality, freshness and performance of the created content

- Defining KPI and leading a team to achieve higher performances over stretched-goals

- Deciding all keywords translation and Japanese phrases up to 10K words

- Research and analysis of the industrial trends and news about PC, mobile and WebApp to increase a site performance

- Development and execution of local strategies and support of sales and marketing under CEO’s supervision

- Participating meetings with a content team in headquarter to lead and achieve global tasks and goals

- Contributing to writing new reviews, finding new software and updating our Japanese online listings

- Ensuring that the published content complies with our legal policy.

Being a member of Softonic, you will be given the opportunities to hone your strong people and content management skills among a diverse and talented team of international IT journalists and professionals. We’re the world’s biggest software download website company with a strong business model and profit margin, promising future growth, and talented people. Since you will be leading the Japanese editorial team and responsible for content KPI, we expect you to have outstanding business and industrial knowledge and management skills. If you are interested in committing to this challenging content director role within a dynamic Internet company, we’d love to hear from you.

Minimum skills

- Native Japanese speaker, with an excellent writing skill with a distinct style and voice

- Management experiences, strong leadership skill

- Demonstrated experiences of planning and execution of content strategies

- Advanced online editing and writing skills, knowledge of journalism principles and values

- Work experiences in software, online (internet), mobile, media (including offline media) or gaming industry

- Ability to work respecting customers, partners, and colleagues with passion

- Business level English

- University degree

Desired skills

- Minimum 7 years working experiences

- Knowledge of SEO guide lines to be applied to online writings, expertise of web analytics tools

- Good knowledge of operating systems and software

- Passion for introducing excellent software and smartphone applications to Japanese and global users

- Highly positive and proactive attitude towards work, honest, and supportive

- Data analytic skill, logical thinking, ability to manage tasks speedily and simultaneously

- Experiences of working both in a venture company and a global company would be a plus

会社概要
1997 年に設立されたソフトニック社は1.3億人のユニークユーザーを持つ、世界最大級のソフトウェアとアプリのガイド＆ダウンロードサイトを運営しています。英語、ドイツ語、スペイン語、フランス語、イタリア語、中国語をはじめ13か国語をサポートしており2010年末に日本市場に進出しました。ソフトニック社は、コカコーラ社、ヴォーダフォン社、マイクロソフト社、シスコ社等を抑え3年連続「スペインで最も働き甲斐のある会社第１位」に選ばれており、誰もが働きたいと憧れる超優良企業です。
職務内容
今回、ソフトニックではクリエイティブなライティング力とソフトウェアやインターネットへの情熱を持ち、卓越した成果とチームマネジメント力を兼ね備えたコンテンツディレクター（コンテンツ部長）を採用します。弊社のサイトのコンテンツを作成するローカルチームを率いるだけでなく、コンテンツのクオリティやダウンロード数に関してのマネージメントも担って頂きます。日本版サイトの将来の方向性や戦略を決める役目も担う、大変重要且つやり甲斐のある仕事です。
具体的な日常業務:
- 日本のコンテンツエディターのマネジメント（スキルアップトレーニング、モチベーションの管理、採用等を含む）
- 日本のコンテンツ選択と基準の策定および高い品質・生産性の管理と改善
- レビューの改訂およびソフトウェアアップデートの品質・生産性の管理と改善
- KPIの策定と管理、ストレッチゴールの達成
- 数万に及ぶサイト内の取扱和訳の決定
- サイトパフォーマンスを上げる為の、モバイルやウェブアプリケーションをはじめ最新トレンドの調査・分析
- 日本代表のもとローカル戦略の立案実行やセールス＆マーケティング等のサポート
- 本社コンテンツチームとの定例会議、本社のゴールやアクションとのアライメント
- ソフトウェアの評価＆日本語レビューの執筆、ソフトウェアリストとバージョンの更新、特集記事の企画編集執筆、ソフトウェアに関するニュースやアドバイスやインサイトを掲載するブログへの寄稿
- コンテンツのコンプライアンス管理
ソフトニックでは、国際的ITジャーナリストやビジネス・プロフェッショナルからなる多様で有能なチームを10言語毎に構成しています。その一チームである日本語チームをリードし、コンテンツKPIに主責任を負う重要なリーダーとして貢献することを期待しています。インターネット、ビジネス、チーム管理における卓越した実績と更なる成長が当職種では求められます。私たちは優れたビジネスモデルと強い成長性と収益性、非常に優秀な社員からなる世界的ソフトウェアダウンロードサイトを運営しています。もしもあなたがダイナミックに成長する世界的インターネット企業を舞台に、プロフェッショナルとして、日本と世界のIT業界に貢献する仕事を望むのであれば、是非私たちと一緒に働きましょう。
必須スキル・経験
- 日本語を母国語とし優れた文章力を有すること（ユーザーにとって魅力的な文章が書ける方）
- インターネット企業におけるマネジメント経験、リーダーシップスキル
- ビジネスレベルの英語力
- コンテンツ戦略の立案と決定、コンテンツ管理に関する豊富な経験と卓越した実績
- 優れたオンラインエディター/ライターとしてのスキル、ジャーナリズムの知識
- SEOガイドラインの知識とコンテンツにアプライできる能力、ウェブ解析ツールの専門知識
- ソフトウェア、インターネット、モバイル、メディア（雑誌等オフラインを含む）またはゲーム業界での実務経験
- OSとソフトウェアの豊富な知識
- お客様やパートナーや仲間への尊重と情熱
- 4年制大学卒業（学士）以上
歓迎するスキル・経験
- ７年以上の社会人経験
- iPhoneやiPad, Androidはじめ世界中の素晴らしいソフトやアプリを日本と世界に紹介したいという強い意欲
- 前向きで成長していく意志と能力、行動力、実行力
- データ分析力、論理的思考力、スピーディーに仕事をこなし結果を出せる力
- 高いコミュニケーションスキル、チームワークスキル、他者を尊敬できるマインド
- ベンチャー企業、外資系企業で働いた経験はプラス評価