Got this from the Netimperative newsletter. There’s a little ad on the right hand of the newsletter containing this text:

At Vodafone we’re about to launch a brand new Online Business Unit that will turn this area of our business into a market-leading star. The plans and backing are all in place.

Now, we’re on the search for a team of experts to propel the project forwards.

But don’t take our word for it – hear more from the internet itself at www.vodafone.co.uk/webspeak

Could be good, especially if you’re on the hunt for a new project yourself.

Here’s what they’re looking for:

Strategy Development and Finance Governance
Here, you’ll use your financial expertise to support the management team in monitoring our performance and making sure the whole team meet and beat financial targets. You’ll work with plans and budgets and influence business cases.

Commercial Development
Giving deal support to OBU, you’ll forge commercial relationships and open up new revenue streams. You’ll also oversee our existing third-party partnerships and future deals to ensure we keep to the letter of the law and further our business vision.

Portal
Driving the strategic direction of co.uk to ensure Vodafone delivers a continuous, industry leading Portal experience to customers. You’ll be as switched on as I am - providing customers with choice and a really fantastic journey so that all their needs are met speedily and efficiently.

Pricing Analysis and Propositions
You’ll be our champion of pricing best practice and support the OBU research team models by designing new pricing plans for initiatives including tariffs, new product pricing and online services.

Online Marketing
Taking ownership, you’ll manage the delivery of KPIs that ensure our commercial and strategic objectives are achieved.

Online Marketing (Planning)
Setting and tracking marketing targets, you’ll make sure OBU delivers value across the company. That will involve designing the best possible marketing strategy and ensuring delivery against the plan.

Product Management
It will be up to you to make sure we don’t just meet customer needs; we surprise them with products and services that nobody else in the market place can offer. You’ll make sure that together, we implement Vodafone’s plans smoothly and build a stable platform for future developments.

Very exciting.

Check out this page here for the introduction and more details. You’ll also notice an EXCEEDINGLY lame piece of introduction text — “Hello, it’s me, the internet”

It’s written as though it’s the internet talking to you. For a moment I was elated — I thought perhaps the Managing Director of the Online Business Unit might have stuck his/her head above the parapet and posted the introduction. A demonstration of independent thought, perhaps.

But no.

Some marketing chappy has knocked it up as though the ‘internet’ is writing to you.

They say my head’s in the clouds. That I’m a dreamer. That the things I talk about just can’t be done. Well, what do they know? Pleased to meet you, I’m the internet, and I know that with unbridled enthusiasm we can achieve anything we set our minds to.

Well that’s a load of shit, isn’t it.

After all, I’m working with the world’s leading telecommunications company. Vodafone does the extraordinary every day. And now it’s my time to shine.

Do they write this stuff just to WIND ME UP?

The internet IS NOT WORKING with the world’s leading telecoms company.

The world’s leading telecoms company is steadfastly avoiding the internet — that is — DATA. Vodafone’s fine if you want to visit eBay Mobile. Or check the news on BBC News mobile.

But piss off. Piss RIGHT off if you’d like to upload a photo via ShoZu. That’ll be four pounds per 1mb photo, please. Yes, you thought you’d bought the 120mb data pack. No. That’s the 120mb ‘web’ pack. There’s a difference. Stay in the Vodafone zoo and you can use up your 120mb normally. Head out to the internet and it’s an entirely different and hugely expensive cost. Hardly right, then, to have the internet writing to you, is it?

Total rubbish. Next, have a read of this delightful prose:

I’ve always worked hard. I’ve always felt valued. But now that people are spending more and more time online, it’s crucial to our commercial vision that I step up and become the site of choice in mobile telecommunications.

Oh please.

PLEASE stop.

“Become the site of choice in mobile communications?”

Tell me now that Vodafone isn’t trying to create yet another on-deck-but-online homepage? I hope not…………..

So I’m looking for experts in Strategy and Business Planning, Marketing, Portal and Product Management to take the lead in a totally new Online Business Unit in Newbury. A broader team who can give me more than a facelift. Who will create a hub where people try and buy the latest products and services, pay bills, network and, well, do anything we put our minds to.

Give me “more than a facelift?”

Geez, yes. It’s a hub. Oh dear.

You never know, perhaps it will all change. Maybe they’ll extend unlimited web to mean unlimited data too.

We want you to think big. We want you to think bravely. And create your own piece of history by leaving your mark on me and making sure I become the market leader.

I’m

ok

Speechless.

Here’s hoping this Online Business Unit is actually going to do some interesting and exciting things. Stay positive, MacLeod!

Nice one Scott, congratulations on the appointment.

Scott joins Miyowa, the mobile instant messaging services company, as their Vice President of Product Marketing.

Scott has been there, done that, at many of the top mobile related companies in Europe — including Big Red (Voda) and Qualcomm. Most recently he was Marketing Director at Openwave Systems.

I’ll see if I can put a Q&A to him shortly.

Following on from my previous post about Zyb, I wanted to publish that they are on the hunt for some new additions. If you’re on the hunt for a new challenge, do take a look at Zyb — they’re well funded and going places.

Here’s what they’re looking for:

LONDON
PR Manager
Business Development Manager
Operations Manager

COPENHAGEN
Information Architect
Interactive Designer

Interested? Let me to connect you to Chief Operating Officer, Ed, whack me an email and I’ll do so, otherwise contact Zyb directly to apply.

One of the founders of Mobileway, Charles Damen, has recently joined the managed gaming service company, End2End.

Just in case you haven’t come across End2End recently, here’s a bit about them:

End2End enables operators to dramatically increase revenues by reducing the complexity of creating sophisticated mobile games offerings or other mobile content delivery services. End2End’s outsourced solutions enables operators to create more in-depth and loyal relationships with their most profitable customers.

Charles joins as VP of Business Development. I’m going to try and hook up with him to find out more about End2End — I’ve been hearing good things about them.

I need some help — a lot of help, actually. I’m drowning in email and it’s winding me up. Hugely. Because each email is a tip, an announcement or a piece of news that I need to get published here on SMS Text News in an organised fashion.

I need someone who has the skill to take a piece of news, pick out the interesting parts with relevant quotes if appropriate and then publish it. Further, they need to be ready for an avalanche of emails forwarded from me containing stuff to review and publish.

Location isn’t important; neither is age, sex or creed. I’d draw the line at someone who carries a 5 year old Motorola in a hip holster as their primary handset though. A good grasp of English and the abolity to spot mistakes is importint; so is an awareness of the mobile industry.

Can you recommend anyone I should be speaking with?

If you’d like to discuss, can you drop me an email (ewan@smstextnews.com) or get me on IM (ewansms @ googlemail.com, ewanjmacleod via Skype).

Ben Phillips, Commercial Director of MoMac, posted this on Facebook a moment ago. If you’re hunting for a position in mobile (you don’t necessarily need to have a track record in the industry), this could be for you:

I am currently looking for an enthusiastic individual with proven sales experience (In any area not mobile specific!) that wants to work for the leading mobile internet platform provider. Our clients range from Ministry of Sound to Conde Nast, from ITV to FHM.

Apart from working with me ;o) there are many benefits including access to world renowned brands and the wonderful world of mobile media.

I am keen to work on referral so if you know anyone that may be interest please get them to give me a shout for more information.

Business Development Manager

Competitive Salary / Benefits

London Based

MoMac is the UK’s Leading provider of ASP mobile development platforms. Working with all major Mobile Network Operators, as well as leading brands such as ITV, Glamour, GQ, FHM, NME and many more, MoMac’s cutting edge platform powers hundreds of dynamic subscription and download sites both on and off of operator portals. As part of our UK expansion, MoMac is looking to recruit the very best candidates within the mobile industry.

Position:

You will be responsible for managing new business activities, revenue generation and growth in acquisition. You will also be required to work with partners to provide new and exciting content and features to the end user. The right candidate will be working with leading brands and content publishers whilst leading the development of relationships within the mobile community.

Requirements:

The right candidate will have proven sales experience. You will be able to demonstrate a proven ability to work at all levels of management ranging from creative to commercial.

The ideal candidate wil lrelish the challenge of creating new projects and relationships. A highly motivated sales mentality is a must.

This is an excellent opportunity to add benefit to a leading mobile platform provider. If you are looking for a challenging, creative and rewarding career then please contact b.phillips@momac.net for further information.

Join the Facebook group here.

Helen Keegan of Beep Marketing will be spitting blood, I’m sure, when she reads this. She’s always been particularly annoyed by bluetooth spamming — me too.

Have a look at this job advertised on the London Craigslist:
Link: Bluetooth Marketing Person

We produce Bluetooth devices that beam a Bluetooth advertising text message to all mobile phones within the vicinity.

We need 1 individual to walk round carrying our phone with specilised software installed, automatically beaming advertising messages to all mobile phones.

If you are interested in this position or the technology, please get in touch.

Naughty!

Based in London — if mobile account management is your thing, talk to AOL.

Link: Account Management Director-AOL Mobile

AOL Mobile is the group that brings the latest in mobile technology to the wireless consumer. We want consumers to get the most out of their mobile phones by making it easy to access and use applications like; Mobile AIM, AOL Mail, MapQuest Mobile, Moviefone Mobile, and Mobile Internet right from their phones!

Sean has joined Cubic Telecom as Chief Commercial Officer. Congratulations to both Sean and Pat (who runs Cubic Telecom). You can read more on Roam4Free.

Sean, a Norwich City fan, was most recently Product Manager for Mobile at Jajah. Safe to say, he knows his stuff.
Link: Everything SKO…: My new gig…

Today is July 1st, Canada Day.

It’s also the day I start my new gig. I’m joining Pat Phelan and his amazing team over at Cubic Telecom in Cork, Ireland. A lot of you might know Pat, he is very well known in the VoIP space and is the person behind AllFreeCalls (Yak4Ever), Roam4Free and the very widely read blog by the same name.

If you’d like to know more about Sean and his background — it is seriously impressive — check out his About Me.

Link: Netimperative - 3 brings in new head of communication

Alan joins from brand and marketing consultancy Egghead Ltd where he was managing director.  Previously he was a general manager for VW Group, Luxury Cars and also worked as the company’s head of communications. Prior to that, he was head of consumer marketing for Yellow Pages with BT Group

Welcome Alan and congratulations!

I’m looking forward to see what Alan adds to the team there.

When you’re preparing for substantial and signficiant investment, or the likes of an IPO, there’s a few things you have to do. Sort out your legals, get your old shareholders in line, make sure everyone’s got their option agreements to hand — and get a decent CEO to take you to the next level.

That’s not to cast a shadow on the outgoing CEO, no, not at all. It’s recognising that zero-to-a-few-million requires a particular set of qualities — a-few-million-to-Millions requires an entirely different set of qualities. For mobile television pioneer ROK, this set of requirements comes in the form of Mobile Titan, Laurence Alexander.

The news release I got through from ROK describes Laurence as a Mobile Heavyweight. Entirely accurate, given his pedigree at o2 and more recently, as CEO of mobile handset manufacturer, Emblaze.

Laurence was the chap who was responsible for bringing Blackberry to the UK via o2. For that, I upgraded his status in my eyes from Mobile Heavyweight to Mobile Titan. Blackberry changed my business lifestyle forever.

A quick ROK refresher:

Formed in 2003, ROK Entertainment Group currently employs 150 staff worldwide and has, to date, been privately financed. ROK has filed more than 40 patent applications for a suite of mobile technologies it has developed ranging from unicast mobile TV streamed over 2.5G, 3G and Wi-Fi networks through to content-loaded memory cards and mobile VoIP and content applications.

ROK is about to do an IPO through a share exchange with US publicly listed company CyberFund, Inc. (CYFD) so on the back of what they’ve already achieved, they’ll be going through the roof shortly.

The obligatory Mobile Titan quote from Laurence:

“I’ve been amazed and impressed at all that Jonathan and the team at ROK has achieved over the past three or four years and I’m delighted to be joining the company at this exciting time” said Alexander. “We’ll be looking to consolidate our position as a world leader in the provision of mobile entertainment services and applications through partnerships with handset manufacturers and mobile operators around the world”.

We’re expecting great things, Laurence No pressure!

I had a note in from Ben of wireless sales recruitment secialist, Iconic Resources.

He’s on the hunt for a EMEA Sales Director with a messaging bent. It’s a megabucks role so I said I’d post it — if you know anyone who’s looking for a bit of a change, or if you think this is you, drop Ben a call on +44 20 7987 9357 or knock him over a mail at the address benh [ at ] iconicresources.com. And if you end up as Sales Director, I’ll carry your briefcase, right?

If you reckon the role is half-you, or if you’d like more clarification, give him a call and pick his brains, I spoke to him on the phone this evening and he’s a really friendly chap.

Anyway, here’s the spec:

Sales Director EMEA – Messaging

Great opportunity to join this leading US provider of SMS messaging solutions in its continuing expansion into EMEA. Selling interactive Voice and Data messaging products and services to the operators the company offers a market leading, user friendly intuiative solution to Voice and Data convergence SMS messaging.

You will be a proven new business developer with at least 10 years experience selling software products and services into the mobile operators able to demonstrate a track record of handson new business development. With at least 5 years sales management experience you will have been responsible for the creation of multi-national sales infrastructure and the recruitment and development of cross border sales organizations.

In summary you will be able to demonstrate:
- 10 years experience selling to the EMEA mobile operators.
- 5 years experience in the Messaging sector.
- 5 years sales management experience.
- Network of contacts in the European carriers.

AdMob are racing ahead in Europe and are on the hunt for a Sales Manager/Director, as well as an Account Manager. Know anyone who might be interested? Talk to Russell at AdMob.

Here’s the Sales Director role:

Company: AdMob
Job Title: Sales Director
Description: Sales Manager/Director, London, UK

Required: must have five to ten years experience in sales/interactive/advertising and extensive industry connections

Responsibilities:

* Create sales plan, prospect list, and generate revenue for UK agencies
* Evangelize the mobile advertising value proposition and communicate strategically with both agencies and blue chip advertisers.
* Negotiate and close business.
* Represent AdMob at local industry events.
* Keep Business Development aware of publisher opportunities.

Qualifications:

* Online or Mobile media sales experience is preferred.
* Ability to work in a developing medium and in a fluid environment.
* Self starter with ability to work remotely.
* Team player willing to help maximize the AdMob value proposition.

Link: Google: Mobile Wireless Application Developer - London

Mobile Wireless Application Developer - London
Position based in London, UK.

Google is looking for highly intelligent, enthusiastic client applications engineers to build Google’s Mobile team in London to help us make the world’s information universally accessible and useful - on mobile devices.

You must enjoy a challenge and love working with a high quality team of people as smart as you are. This position provides an excellent opportunity to help drive the flow of information into users’ hands, with the backing of one of the most recognised brands in the world.

Link: Seeking ACTOR/STUNTMAN for Jackass-type videos for Virgin Mobile BITES

Do you like pushing yourself to the limit, just for a cheap laugh? Does getting kicked in the face or being covered in scorpions sound like your idea of fun?

We are looking for the new Jackass/Dirty Sanchez and if you would like to be filmed and paid for doing ridiculous stunts then Virgin Mobile BITES wants you – get in touch with us.

Spread the word amongst your friends

Link: large company looking to sponsor artists for one off event.

If you know anyone who’s dabbled in a bit of mobile technology related art and/or creativity, it might be worth asking them to contact this Craigslist poster. There’s a big multinational with, one imagines, flippin’ great wads of cash, ready to help bring your concept into reality.

I work for an agency who is working on behalf of a large multinational technology company looking to host an exhibit of interesting contemporary/digital/multimedia events/pieces or installations in the UK later this year.

While this brief sounds vague, truth is we are looking to hear from a wide range of people who would like to be given space/money to exhibit their work.

This may be:
1) People who have ideas they would like to implement.
2) People who have work they would like bought or hosted.
3) People who have work they have exhibited but would like to display again.

Ideally you will have a track record or some other way to demonstrate credibility and substance, but the main criteria will be the quality of the idea.

The most important thing is that these are ideas or works based on either the notion of communication or looking at the world in a new way.

The pieces must be pioneering, have some element of technology and be able to be exhibited somehow in a physical manner.

Example ideas we are chasing up are: Maps of peoples’ movements generated by signals from their mobile phones, technology that changes photos taken into sound.

Playboy UK are hunting for some people to work in their Marketing & Sales Division.  If you know anyone who’s interested, the chap to speak to his Richard Gale — I can connect you.   I’ve just posted summaries, if you’d like more info, just mail me and I’ll send over the job specs. 

The roles:

Online Marketing Manager
The objective of the role is to develop new business and revenue streams for the company’s new online venture (www.playboy.co.uk). This role will develop new business and manage the business to ensure that it is delivering high value to the company.

Online/Wireless Business Development Manager
The objective of the role is to develop new business and revenue streams for the company’s new online venture. This role will develop new business and then manage the business to ensure that it is delivering high value to the company.

Also required:
- Senior Marketing Executive
- Web Developer

Link: SENIOR ANALYST INTERACTIVE MARKETING.
This one popped up on my radar — marketing isn’t just TV any more ;-) 

The Senior Analyst will conduct research into all aspects of consumer attitudes and behaviors, in particular how their use of the Internet, TV, and mobile phones affects their relationships with each other and with brands. .

That’d be quite interesting I reckon.

Link:
Director, Wireless Content Development |
paidContent.org .

Director, Wireless Content Development [by Rafat]

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., one of the most recognized brands and a leader in global sports entertainment seeks a Director, Wireless Content Development to join our team of professionals.

I came across this one earlier today and thought it was worth posting to spread the word. It looks like a rather exciting opportunity for someone with in the mobile industry.