by Rick Stomphorst
About the Job
The purpose of this role and why this role exists
We are growing our team again.
The consistent high quality of our products and services is resulting in continued healthy growth. Resultingly, we are searching for professional to lead, nurture, and grow client engagements within our Software and Data Services portfolio.
You will have ultimate accountability for strategic client relationship management for assigned clients, becoming their trusted advisor in problem solving, managing their expectations, and developing new opportunities for future business.
Depending on the project, you will either be accountable or responsible for delivering the project and managing the teams delivering these projects.
The right candidate will also be involved in refining business strategy and influencing the roadmap of the company’s services.
Perks
Why we’re a cool company
- Recent recipient of Employee Recommended Workplace Awards
- Flex time, partial work-from-home
- Full benefit package from Day 1
- Headquarters in NE Oakville. Less than 1km from the QEW, walking distance to cafes and eateries.
- Less than 1km from the QEW, walking distance to cafes and eateries.
If people only knew the great stuff we do here. – Unsolicited quote from team member
Top Responsibilities
The part that you play in this organization, and specific duties you are measured against
- Develop strong relationships with assigned clients, understanding their challenges, while mapping our solutions to these challenges
- Ensure high quality delivery of service solutions to assigned clients
- Elicit and document high-to-mid-level tangible business objectives that can be mapped to solutions
- Initiate solution discussions with assigned clients with an objective of being awarded additional engagements
- Develop strong relationships with prospective clients to land new engagements
- Actively promote the company, its products and services
- Project Management
Client Management | Develop and maintain a strong client relationship that aligns with the company’s objectives and client centric approach
Technical and Business Skills | Maintain and acquire fundamental skills on technologies being leveraged in solution delivery to understand limitations, benefits and purpose, in order to contribute to solutioning and communication with client
Leadership | Developing others, mentors, and serves as a role model
Some of the Experiences & Background we’d like to see
All the things you’re good at because you’ve done most of these before
- 7-10 years experience with Enterprise Solution Architecture
- 5 years experience in enterprise project management
- Experience developing new or improved processes and methodologies
- Understands complex database concepts
- Possesses demonstrated work experience with more than one relational database management system
- Understands object-oriented concepts
- Understands the benefits of the various programming languages
- Excellent communicator both when writing, speaking, and presenting solutions
- Experience with our stack: databases TBD, Java, JavaScript, XML, SQL Server, Microservices architecture, Containerization (K8s, Docker), SOAP / RESTful services, AWS, Azure, Bluemix
- Technical degree in Computer Science or Engineering at University or College level
Please include your resume. We’re searching for local resources only.
Send your resume to Rick @ SearchVelocity.ca
Disclaimer: While measures were taken to ensure the accuracy of this document, SearchVelocity or our Client cannot warrant 100% accuracy or completeness.
by Rick Stomphorst
Imagine crafting content for a rapidly growing Oakville software product company.
Top Responsibilities
The part that you play in this organization, and specific duties you are measured against
- Content creation: blogs, whitepapers, testimonials, case studies, New Feature Releases
- Working with developers and SME to create content
- Within the content, utilize your knowledge of SEO/SEM and adwords to drive traffic (nice to have)
- Designing and building web pages
Some of the Experiences & Background we’d like to see
All the things you’re good at because you’ve done most of these before
- Post-Secondary degree in a business-related field (Marketing, Sales, Management, Communications) or Technology
- 3-years experience creating long-form content for technology companies, for a very technical audience
- HTML/CSS
- An exceptional attention to detail
- A willingness to take the initiative
- Excellent verbal, written, copy-writing, and presentation skills
Nice to haves
Experience developing value propositions for pragmatic and conservative enterprise-sized buyers
- SEO/SEM
- PPC, backlinks, Shopping carts, web analytics, CMSs
- A successful candidate will bring a technical background with an understanding of B2B business workflows
- Social Media tools and strategies
- Adobe Creative Cloud or ability to edit or create imagery
Sound like you? Sent your resume to rick@searchvelocity.ca now!
Please include your resume. We’re searching for local permanent resources only.
About the Company
Our client is a growing 6-year old company which has already attracted thousands Enterprise-level clients from over 70+ countries including Fortune 500 companies. These clients now rely on our client’s solutions to integrate data between their various applications. They have become a leading provider of data integration.
Application integration is a painful and daunting task, typically costly and inefficient to develop. To address this, our client has developed robust value-add additions which leverage existing Microsoft integration offerings. Their software solution is cost-effective and easy for developers to use.
They offer a relaxed work environment, walking distance to eateries, and healthcare spending account.
Sent your resume to Rick @ SearchVelocity.ca
by Rick Stomphorst
PHP developer for an established FinTech company in Oakville. We have created a digital platform for wealth management for Canadians. Our mission is to simplify investing for Canadians to help them reach their financial dreams sooner.
We are growing. We’re building new products and have other new products in the pipeline including eventually migrating to a native cloud serverless solution. We need an additional Sr. PHP Developer (full-stack) to join our team to help us build and continue to grow.
Our goal is to find a self-starter, seasoned developer, with very good communications skills who can contribute to our best practices. Someone with a successful track record of developing and delivering scalable, responsive, secure, multi-tenant SaaS projects, both individually and as a team member (hint: showcase your past projects at the interview – bring them with you!).
Perks
- Free financial advice and no fees on your investments – a benefit that will pay off for decades
- Benefits and RSP matching start on day-one
- Flex hours outside of core 10-3
- Perkopolis subscription
- … and more
Key Responsibilities
The part that you play in this organization, and specific duties you are measured against
- Full-stack development including research and analysis, requirements review and gathering, design, impact analysis, estimating, unit testing, internal documentation and maintenance
- Planning out sprints while identifying and assisting in mitigating technical, schedule, and other project risks
- Consuming APIs. API development (potentially if this is something that interests you)
- Occasional Level-3 support, defect investigation and resolution
- Integration with backend Financial Systems
Some of the Experiences & Background We’d Like to See
All the things you’re good at because you’ve done most of these before
- PHP experience – 5+ years
- GUI – Expert level – Must have
- .NET / C# – 3 years – Very nice to have
- 5+ years MySQL or MSSQL
- CMS experience, preferably with WordPress
- HTML/CSS, Bootstrap, Restful APIs, Selenium
- Strong in security for web applications
- Git, or similar open source code control systems
- Agile Scrum environment
- Windows OS
- Experience consuming third-party libraries, APIs and Web services
- Proficiency with cross-browser/cross-platform issues
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent
Nice to Have
- Fintech experience
- AngularJS or other JavaScript-based front-end web frameworks
- AWS or Azure Cloud experience
- Slack & Jira
- Sharepoint and Sharepoint API
- Devops experience
Candidates must be legally entitled to work in Canada and must be able to travel intermittently to the United States
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About the Company
An established and growing FinTech company in Oakville. We have created a digital platform for wealth management for Canadians. Our mission is to simplify investing for Canadians to help them reach their financial dreams sooner.
by Rick Stomphorst
About the Job
The purpose of this role and why this role exists.
- We continue to grow and are adding a Visual Designer to our team. We’re searching for a self-starter who has a passion for visual brand development coupled with UX/UI design
- You will be leading visual branding exercises (logo design, theme design, etc.) AND designing engaging user experiences for our client’s products
- We need a client-facing professional who factors in the “big picture” view rather than work based on tickets. We need someone who brings highly creative ideas to visual design engagements with our clients and has a thorough understanding of user-centered design methodologies
- You will have the freedom to try new things, get creative, and leverage your highly effective, results-driven approach to visual branding, logo design, theme design, colour palette selection and UX/UI design
Perks
Our work environment
- Partial work from home
- Flex hours
- Casual, yet professional environment
Top Responsibilities
The part that you play in this organization, and specific duties you are measured against
- Visual branding: logo design, theme design, colour palette selection, application layout
- Own the UX design for every project assigned to you. New projects appear regularly
- Interview clients and stakeholders during discovery sessions and extract their ideas and vision for visual branding, and web/mobile digital products to create the best user experience possible
- Present digital creatives to client and iterate on them as feedback dictates
- Create web/mobile style guides including but not limited to color palettes, typography, component (e.g. form elements) look & feel
- Design wireframes, visual design, mockups, user workflows and experiences
Some of the Experiences & Background we’d like to see
All the things you’re good at because you’ve done most of these before
- 5-years visual design experience
- 3-years relevant experience designing SaaS software applications (web and mobile)
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (verbal, written, presentation)
- Strong visual eye for typography and visual layout
- Proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Sketch, InVision and/or other software that could be adopted into existing processes
Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline (Visual design, UX design, psychology)
Connect with Us!
To learn more about the client, their culture and the opportunity, we invite you to share your resume with us via this job board or to Rick @ SearchVelocity.ca, Subject: UX/Graphic Designer
Have a canned cover letter? Delete it. Tell us why you’re perfect for this opportunity and you’re virtually guaranteed an interview.
by Rick Stomphorst
Do you love building relationships with customers and influencers? Do you love helping to solve customers’ problems? Do you love the presales side of customer management? If so, then this role may be for you.
The successful candidate will have customer success, customer service, or sales support experience dealing with international corporate buyers, responding to their product inquires, providing quotes, and generally ensuring overall customer satisfaction so they will renew.
This is not an outbound sales role. You carry no quota and there is no cold calling (whew!).
About the Job
The purpose of this role and why this role exists
- Handle in-bound product inquiries, responding with web demos, quotes and invoices – 80%
- Ensure overall customer satisfaction so they will renew, while navigating complex licensing scenarios – 20%
Top Responsibilities
The part that you play in this organization, and specific duties you are measured against
- Customer Engagement:
- Working with prospective end-clients ensuring they understand the product’s value proposition, often by asking them the right questions
- Delivering sales presentations and web demos
- Providing quotes and invoices, following up on quotes
- License Management for renewals and trials. Proactively look at churn and contact customers at risk prior to renewal time and track information regarding any cancellations
- Advocate our product and services to existing or prospective customers
- Inspire clients to think strategically about how our product can support their business needs
- Collect customer stories about successes using our software
- Vendor management – working with resellors, producing quotes and invoices
- Customer Advocacy – ensuring we are providing superior service and support to ensure customers are successful and renew
- Trusted Adviser – Coach customers on the best practices of using our software, and the use and benefits of our products
Some of the Experiences & Background we’d like to see
All the things you’re good at because you’ve done most of these before
- Post-Secondary degree in a business-related field (Marketing, Sales, Management, Communications)
- 3-5 years experience in B2B Customer Success, Customer Service, Customer Advocacy, Pre-Sales, or Sales Support roles within a technology company
- Strong remote presentation skills
- Demonstrable experience delivering value propositions for pragmatic and conservative enterprise-sized buyers
- A willingness to take the initiative
- An exceptional attention to detail
- Excellent business-level verbal, written, copy-writing, and presentation skills. Efficient communications is king
- Ability to manage multiple competing priorities
Additionally Desired Experience
- A successful candidate will bring a technical background with an understanding of B2B business workflows
- Authoring procedural documentation
- Experience in a software company
- Experience with CRMs
Candidates must be legally entitled to work in Canada and must be able to travel intermittently to the United States
Sound like you? Sent your resume to rick@searchvelocity.ca now!
Please include your resume.
About the Company
Our client is a growing 6-year old company which has already attracted 3,000+ Enterprise-level clients from over 70+ countries including Fortune 500 companies. These clients now rely on our client’s solutions to integrate data between their various applications. They have become a leading provider of data integration.
Application integration is a painful and daunting task, typically costly and inefficient to develop. To address this, our client has developed robust value-add additions which leverage existing Microsoft integration offerings. Their software solution is cost-effective and easy for developers to use.
They offer a relaxed work environment, walking distance to eateries, and healthcare spending account.
by Rick Stomphorst
Sr. JAVA Developer for SaaS Product Company
- Full-stack SaaS software development, deployment & implementation, maintenance, and documentation
- Linux / MAC OS environment experience
- Strong MySQL and experience with large datasets
About You
- JAVA development for 7×24 production environments
- Experience with large datasets (5TB+)
- You’re not simply a developer, but bring a wide set of experiences with technology
- Not allergic to Apple and Linux platforms
Must have experience
- JAVA / JSP – 5 years
- Full-stack experience
- Netbeans or Eclipse experience
- Technical expertise with MySQL
- Apache Tomcat and Linux
- Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) – nice to have
- Computer Science related degree or diploma ideally with coop terms
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