We are seeking a Sales Director with a solid sales background in the digital space who will drive new sales business in EMEA.

Key Responsibilities and accountabilities

• Work with CCO to forecast revenue and set targets for the region
• Meet/exceed annual revenue targets
• Work with CCO to develop and execute sales strategy
• Manage a sales team to deliver individual revenue targets
• Coach sales team to develop the team into even stronger professionals
• Drive New Business through direct sales
• Identify and devise new business models
• Leverage contact book to bring new clients to the business
• Represent Saffron Digital at Industry events and conferences
• Identify and develop strategic partnerships with relevant players in the market
• Travel to meet business needs
Working Relationships
• Reporting into CCO, based in Saffron Digital HQ, London, UK

NB. Line management and Company Structure are subject to change.

Key Requirements for Role

• Solid sales background is a must for a successful candidate.
• Must be a motivated self-starter with a passion for Digital Entertainment
• At least 8 years+ Sales experience with a proven track record for meeting/exceeding targets
• Experience with developing and implementing sales strategies and solutions
• Extensive list of contacts across; Mobile Carriers, OEMS, Retailers and Broadcasters/OTT Platforms
• Lateral thinker; ability to creatively find solutions
• Experienced leader
• Previous multi-territory experience desirable
• Excellent presentation skills

We are seeking a Client Services Senior Manager with a solid client services background in the digital space who will have an active role in the strategic development of long term partnerships globally.

Key Responsibilities and accountabilities

• Work with Client Services Director to meet revenue targets for the Client Partnerships
• Manage the day to day relationship with Client contacts
• With the support of the Sales Strategy Director and Client Services Director, deliver professional services to Clients
• Provide creative input into the development of the long term partnership
• Provide insight into the Japanese Digital Entertainment Market
• Host partner guests when in attendance at industry events
• Adhere to reporting and communication systems to ensure regular correspondence with partners (weekly conference calls, regular face to face meetings, weekly status reports, contact reports etc)
• Monitor service performance, work with Client Services Director to prepare reviews, evaluation reports and recommendations for future service enhancements
• Monitor partner servicing budgets
• Report to the Client Services Director providing regular input on all partner activity, including weekly status reports and updates
• Work closely with Implementation Managers to ensure that all client product deliverables are being delivered on-time or ideally ahead of time.
• Travel to meet business needs
Working Relationships
• Reporting into Client Services Director, based in Saffron Digital HQ, London, UK

NB. Line management and Company Structure are subject to change.

Key Requirements for Role

• Proven Client Services skills required in order to create, maintain and enhance partner relationships

• Fluent Japanese speaker; reading and writing business level

• High level of commitment and initiative

• High level of precision and focus on details

• Good organisational skills and capability of trouble shooting

• Lateral thinker; ability to creatively find solutions

• Good presentation skills

We are seeking a motivated Systems Administrator, to join our strong team.
You will be working on leading edge projects in specialist areas with significant opportunity for professional growth.

The company is invested heavily in research & innovation that are central to our specialist knowledge in the video space. We are committed to best practices in software development as well as the pursuit of new technologies.

Operating from new offices in Farringdon, we promote a positive & friendly environment and investment in people.

Purpose of Job

• Being a critical part of the Saffron Digital Infrastructure Team.
• All aspects of systems administration, including the following elements:
o LAMP / LEMP Stack
o High availability server clusters (Web stack / Object Store)
o Streaming Media Servers
o Custom Saffron Digital components making up the core Saffron platform.
• Evaluation of third party open source systems on an on-going basis, to provide additional required functionality for our servers and systems.
• Specification and procurement of new systems hardware and appliances.
• Support the expansion of the systems administration team.
• Enhancements to Saffron Digital’s monitoring infrastructure.
• Automation.
• Collaboration with key technical stakeholders, to assess the current and future requirements of the system architecture.
• Implementation of complex project tasks required to be undertaken by the Team.
• Responsibility for managing, updating and creating relevant documentation.
• Implementation of complex project tasks required to be undertaken by the Team

Knowledge/Skills/Experience Required:

• Expert knowledge of deployment and Administration of FreeBSD & Linux operating systems.
• Expert level of problem solving, analytic, troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
• Ability to provide technical leadership and guidance to other members of the team.
• Experience of working in large, complex environments, with experience and understanding of change control and release management processes.
• Experience of working with high availability clustered environments.
• Experience with high-volume transactional systems and distributed applications.
• Web, database, mail and other critical services.
• Experience and understanding of networking, load balancing and DNS.
• Experience with streaming media services.
• Experience drafting specifications for new systems in both hardware and software.
• Experience designing and implementing high availability environments using FreeBSD and Linux.
• Comfortable with scripting in any of the following: Bash, PHP, sed, awk, Perl, Python and Ruby
• MySQL or other databases.
• Experience of configuration management systems such as Puppet, Chef or cfengine.
• Experience with network and systems monitoring and alerting tools such as Nagios, Cacti or Zenoss.
• Ability to plan and manage own workload.
• A professional attitude and approach towards work.
• High attention to detail.

Desirable

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
• Interior and exterior routing protocols such as OSPF and BGP with Juniper and Cisco technologies.
• Thorough understanding of the OSI model
• Experience with CDN technologies.
Building and designing core, distribution and access layer networks.
• Experience building and designing high capacity 10GbE networks and data centre infrastructure.
• Experience with recruitment of technical staff.

Internal Working Relationships

Build strong relationships with other teams and stakeholders

• Development leads & other developers
• Architecture
• R&D
• Product & Design
• Technical Project Management
• Infrastructure
• QA Team

Purpose of Job

• Develop highly scalable web services that enable Saffron clients and their users to access and consume digital media on any device.
• Participate in the technical design of your required deliverables, in addition to contributing to the end-to-end solution with your own ideas.
• Be part of an agile team, participating in the planning, estimation and development of user stories
• Produce technical documentation to a high standard.
• Collaborate with front-end developers and back end system developers in building out an end-to-end solution that scales.
• Collaborate with Technical Project Manager and senior management during development to ensure what is delivered meets expectations of client and users.
• Identify, track and close bugs out as required.
• Collaborate with QA Engineering in ensuring a robust test approach is defined for your development deliverables.
• Produce quality code with high test coverage
• Mentoring and training of Junior Engineers
 
Knowledge/Skills/Experience Required:

Essential:

• Demonstrable commercial experience of Python, PHP or Ruby
• A solid understanding of architecture and design principles for delivering scalable web services
• Experience of object oriented programming / modular programming.
• Experience of test driven development approaches.
• Understanding of MVC design patterns and frameworks.
• Experience of SQL using either MySQL, NoSQL or similar.
• Commercial experience in building web services.
• Strong problem solving skills
• Knowledge of the Linux command line and Apache.
• Demonstrable experience in building applications for cloud services like AWS, Rackspace or Azure
• Results driven and accountable for delivery.
• Strong team player

Desirable:

• Experience of working with XML and knowledge of XSD
• Experience of technologies like Celery and RabbitMQ
• Experience with Selenium
• Experience with Python or PHP frameworks E.g. DJango
• Experience with Memcached or other caching technologies
• Well versed in developing in an agile development environment.
• Experience of continuous integration and continuous deployment principles and tools.
• Competence in one other language e.g. Java or C#
• Experience with Hadoop or other analysis of big data
• Experience with Bash

Internal Working Relationships:

Build strong relationships with other teams and stakeholders

• Development leads & other developers)
• Architecture
• R&D
• Product & Design
• Technical Project Management
• Infrastructure

Purpose of Role:

The QA Manager is responsible for the day to day management, delivery and overall motivation of all personnel within the Software QA team.

Main Activities:

• Ensuring the QA team runs to optimum productivity by driving a culture of best in class test practices.
• Planning and setting weekly priorities for the QA team leads
• Reviewing existing services, products and processes to ensure optimum client satisfaction and that all Saffron services are bug free.
• Competitor analysis and reviews to benchmark Saffron Digital’s testing practices against main competitors within the industry.
• Ensuring effective training, processes and documentation are in place within the team.
• Ad hoc tasks as allocated by line manager and Senior Management
• Meeting all allocated deadlines within set time periods
• Ensuring QA KPIs are met.
• Liaise with Project management for milestone/release planning
• Analyse requirements and design specification
• Write/Review test specifications for functional testing
• Perform manual functional testing
• Verifying fixes and build tasks
• Report issues
• Monitor issue logs and provide status reports
• Support developers in problem investigation
• Liaise with software developers, Account and Project Managers
• Communicate to QA Manager on task progress and completion
• Drive automated testing solution and implementation within the QA team.

Essential to the job:

The Job Holder must be a good communicator with strong organizational skills and be pro-active with an acute attention to detail.
The Job Holder must be highly responsible and be prepared to take ownership of projects, working above and beyond the call of duty to deliver a project.
A keen interest in digital technology is a necessity along with the ability to keep a calm head in pressurized situations
In addition to good listening and communication skills, both written and verbal, the QA Manager must also have problem solving skills and a wide degree of creativity with the ability to present ideas in an intelligent and challenging environment.
The Job Holder will have experience of QA practices and people management. Excellent people skills and strength of character to work with a team in need of leadership and direction, plus an ability to identify problems and initiate actions to turn around success of individual services and client accounts are a must.
They must be passionate about their work, and drive for results and service excellence
Candidates should have a good knowledge of software development and testing methodologies
Flexibility to work extended hours to meet project deadlines.

Desirable:

Automated Testing Experience

We are seeking a motivated Android Developer, to join our strong Android team. You will be working on leading edge projects in specialist areas with significant opportunity for professional growth.

Saffron Digital is the leading global, multi-DRM, online video platform for the digital entertainment industry; powering end-to-end DRM Video Solutions for major International Carriers, MSO’s, OEMs and retailers, such as HTC, SKY and KDDI.
The company is invested heavily in research & innovation that are central to our specialist knowledge in the video space. We are committed to best practices in software development as well as the pursuit of new technologies.
Operating from new offices in Farringdon, we promote a positive & friendly environment and investment in people.

Purpose of Job:
• Developing Android components and libraries as part of delivery of full Android APK to customer.
• Produce quality code with high test coverage
• Completing necessary documentation for delivered components.
• Strong involvement in determining Saffron’s Android and Application development standards.
• Be part of an agile team, participating in the planning, estimation and development of user stories.
• Demonstrating code and application to scrum peers as required.
• Mentoring & Coaching other Android Developers
• Produce technical documentation to a high standard.

Essential to the job:
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• High competence in Java and building native apps on the Android platform.
• An Android champion – understands features of latest versions of Android and how to employ them in code.
• Commercial experience in delivering a rich media, or communications application developed for Android.
• Demonstrable experience of delivering Android across multi-devices.
• Demonstrable experience in modern development practices, including Continuous Integration and Release.
• Strong problem solving skills
• A background in mobile application development on another platform, iPhone, Symbian or Blackberry
• Experience calling web services and external APIs
• UI implementations working in conjunction with designers
• Demonstrable interest in emerging mobile technologies and protocols
• Strong communication skills

Desirable:
• Significant exposure to at least one additional language (Objective-c, , C#, C++ highly valued)
• Has worked with native libraries and incorporated them in Android. Familiar with JNI.
• Knowledge of security concepts (cryptography, digital rights management (DRM), web-based attack vectors such as XSS, SQL injection, etc.)
• Professional and commercial experience in the area
• SQL skills and an understanding of alternative storage mechanisms
• A broad understanding of digital audio, video and still image compression techniques, including knowledge of related commercial and open source software
• experience working with revision control systems (git preferred)
• Understanding of the TCP/IP protocol suite, in particular HTTP
• Familiar with GIT

Internal Working Relationships:
Build strong relationships with other teams and stakeholders
• Development leads & other developers
• Architecture
• R&D
• Product & Design
• Technical Project Management
• Infrastructure
• QA Team

Operating from new offices in Farringdon, we promote a positive & friendly environment and investment in people.

Purpose of Job

Purpose of Role:

The Tester is responsible for the quality of all applications and services developed and deployed in market by Saffron Digital.
Main Activities:

• Analyse requirements and design specification
• Write/Review test specifications for functional testing
• Perform manual functional testing
• Verifying fixes and build tasks
• Report issues
• Monitor issue logs and provide status reports
• Support developers in problem investigation
• Liaise with software developers, Account and Project Managers
• Communicate to QA Manager on task progress and completion
• Meet all allocated deadlines within set time periods

Knowledge/Skills/Experience Required:

Essential to the job:

Candidates should have a good knowledge of software development and testing methodologies
A strong desire for quality, an attention to detail, and a determination to ensure we deliver the best products we can.
Be pro-active and have a “can-do” attitude
The candidate must be a good communicator
Flexibility to work extended hours to meet project deadlines.

Desirable:

A keen interest in mobile, web and video technology
Automated Testing Experience