Marketing Manager

Yap, a rapidly expanding and well funded high tech software start up, is looking for the Marketing Star that will take the lead role in helping us publicly launch the company and take us to the next level. If you have 8-10 years of high technology marketing experience and aspire to become a VP of Marketing in the future we will provide you with the right experience (and the opportunity) to achieve that. A very competitive compensation and benefits package, inclusive of stock options will be a nice add-on.

About Us

We are located in Charlotte and the San Francisco Bay Area and are developing novel ways to apply advanced speech recognition and language processing to such everyday tasks as mobile messaging, voicemail to text conversion, search on mobile devices and many others. For example, our software enables your voicemails to be automatically converted to text or for your messages to be dictated on mobile phones.

Our seasoned leadership is comprised of executives from the internet and wireless industries, coming from the ranks of top technology companies, including IBM, Intel, Nuance, Nvidia and Siemens. Our previous work can be found in products such as Apple's iPod, Honda's navigational systems and RIM's BlackBerry.

About You

Your broad responsibilities will include managing of all aspects of the company's inbound and outbound marketing activities, strategic marketing plans, product marketing, branding, competitive analysis, analyst relationships, marketing and lead generation programs, consumer experience, website content/design, and corporate communications, to name a few. We expect you to be a high energy, out-of-the-box thinker, with an artistic/creative bent and self-starter mentality that requires minimal supervision. You must be able to turn a blank canvas into a well-developed marketing plan and be accountable to results. Your position will be highly visible and allow you to interact with and have direct impact on all aspects of the business.

What We Need

• 8+ years experience in high tech marketing - software, telecom, wireless (all would be a huge plus);
• Strong market strategy skills; marketing/brand management experience in a advertising-based business environment is a plus;
• Skilled in all areas of inbound/outbound product marketing;
• Bonus skills: online marketing, search engine optimization, internet and mobile advertising, viral marketing;
• Knowledge of mobile platforms and wireless industry trends is a plus;
• A real driver: self-directed, ambitious, entrepreneurial, responsible and able to work effectively and independently in a fast-paced work environment;
• Capable of rapid strategy changes in response to changing market conditions;
• Excellent communicator with great interpersonal skills, ability to interface at all levels including management and technical staff, internally and externally (verbal, written, listening);
• Experienced presenter;
• Marketing, business or related degree holder; MBA or equivalent preferred;
• Willing to travel as needed.

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