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Open Positions

• Agile Project Manager (Berlin)
• Product Manager (Berlin)
• Product Marketing Manager (Berlin)
• Systems Administrator (Berlin)
• Back-end Web Developer (Berlin)
• Web Analyst (Berlin)
• Design Intern (Berlin)
• Web Developer Intern (Berlin)
• Internship (London)

Agile Project Manager (Berlin)

You are an experienced project manager with a focus on agile development and web applications. You are structured, love working on lists and timelines, and know how to prioritize in a fast-paced environment. You're a self-starter who needs minimal supervision, has strong organizational skills, and the ability to multitask.

You'll join one of the most competent development teams in Europe as a project manager to help us building the best audio platform on the web.

Your key responsibilities at SoundCloud

• Help our development team prioritize the tasks at hand
• Coordinate roadmaps and release plans, not only developers but the whole team
• Work with our CTO on planning bigger changes to the platform
• Update our wiki, scm and ticket tracking system
• Write development status reports

Knowledge and skills required

• 5 years+ of technical project management experience
• Agile development skills (scrum, standups, etc)
• Solid high-level web application design skills
• Web technology experience
• Quality assurance skills

Valuable Additional Skills

• Interaction and usability skills
• Writing skills
• Knowledge of music production tools & techniques

Are you the woman (or man) we're looking for? Please send a resume with a covering letter to jobs+projectmanager@soundcloud.com.

Product Manager (Berlin)

You are a driven product person who will take responsibility for defining the SoundCloud product roadmap. You'll be analyzing how our customers use our products, gather and prioritize requirements, and define the roadmap for soundcloud.com and related products. You'll be working closely with management and our development team as well as sales, marketing and support to ensure that product goals are met.

You'll join one of the most competent development teams in Europe as a project manager to help us building the best audio platform on the web.

Your key responsibilities at SoundCloud

• Defining the product roadmap and assisting in product strategy
• Specifying market requirements for current and future products by conducting qualitative and quantitative research
• Defining points of optimization on SoundCloud.com, and design solutions
• Write feature specifications and memos
• Know the competition and how we releate to it
• Take a leading role in the company and own the products

Knowledge and skills required

• 3 years+ of product management or similar experience
• Demonstrated success in launching excellent products
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent teamwork skills
• Interaction & software design skills
• Web technology experience

Valuable Additional Skills

• Agile development skills
• Computer Science Bachelor or higher education
• Design and usability skills
• Knowledge of music production tools & techniques

Are you the woman (or man) we're looking for? Please send a resume with a covering letter to jobs+productmanager@soundcloud.com.

Product Marketing Manager (Berlin)

You are the rare-blend of person that’s loves & excels at both data analytics and creative communication. Exceptional communication is your passion and you’ll use every thinkable tool, data or inspiration you can find in order to improve its impact. You’re highly confident with your creative output and demand to measure your marketing results since you’re always looking to improve.

You'll be working closely with our CEO and entire team to ensure that our current users know all about how to use our fantastic products and that our future users find out about us at the time when they need us.

Your key responsibilities at SoundCloud

• Lead, develop and track all product marketing initiatives including content creation for outbound marketing campaigns, website content, product videos, user case studies, and more
• Develop product positioning and messaging
• Translate product information and features into customer value propositions
• Plan & co-ordinate announcements around partnerships, integrations, artist & product releases
• Track & optimize traffic and conversion all the way from widget impression to sale.
• Conduct market research and competitive analysis

Knowledge, skills & mindset

• 3 years+ of product marketing or equivalent
• 24/7 passion for killer products
• Demonstrated measurable success in marketing awesome online products
• Deep understanding of online marketing at large scale
• Obsessive about having the best and most actionable analytics available
• Willingness to spend extra hours reducing a headline from 9 to 8 words because it matters.
• Communications connoisseur and perfectionist with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Belief in that results are more important than process, but that results are measureable
• Highly organized & used to working with web-based tools to collaborate

Valuable Additional Skills

• Successful experience working with a freemium business model at a large scale
• Google Analytics wizardry
• Design skills
• Knowledge and experience of producing music
• Music industry experience
• A love for music, (extra points for hip hop or indie rock!)

To apply, send the following to jobs+productmarketing@soundcloud.com.

• Current CV
• A cover letter
• Either a quick sketch of SoundClouds’ viral loop and guesses for the conversion metrics at each point or a suggestion of the 4 metrics you’d check each morning (and why)
• A one-liner about you (yes, that’s right, all your life and grandness in a single sentence)
• A link to a site that you think has awesome communication

Systems Administrator (Berlin)

You are a skilled system administrator with many years of experience in running high-traffic web sites. You know how to best build up a performant and secure web application stack all the way from routers to servers to load balancers. You're are flexible, down with startup life, keen on new challenges, and you're a team player. And oh, you love music!

You'll join one of the most competent web application teams in Europe as a systems administrator to provide technical support and administration to the ever-growing number of machines running soundcloud.com.

Your key responsibilities at SoundCloud

• Install software, apply patches, manage file systems, monitor performance and troubleshoot alerts from commercial, open source and locally developed monitoring tools
• Build and maintain a scalable storage cluster
• Define, document, and maintain the system and network architecture within soundcloud.com
• Identify and recommend future technology and architectural advancements to support soundcloud.com, technology migration, integration, and evolution
• Manage and lead hardware and software migration and upgrade efforts of varying size and complexity
• Work with our hosting providers to resolve issues and perform updates
• System failure analysis and recovery

Knowledge and skills required

• At least 5 years professional systems maintenance experience in a Unix environment, preferably Linux and/or Solaris
• Great shell programming skills
• Deep knowledge of all things networks
• Security auditioning skills
• Knowledge of server hardware and architecture

Valuable Additional Skills

• Experience with large-scale (1 petabyte+) storage systems
• Fluency in the nginx/Thin/MySQL/*nix stack
• Great SQL skills, including complex queries and optimization
• Experience with Ruby and preferably at least one more language
• Experience with Ruby on Rails or another web application framework
• Familiarity with agile programming methodologies
• Experience with Amazon Web Services

Are you the woman (or man) we're looking for? Please send a resume with a covering letter to jobs+sysadmin@soundcloud.com.

Back-end Web developer (Berlin)

You are an experienced web developer with knowledge of the latest web development tools and methodologies. You're are flexible, down with startup life, keen on new challenges, and you're an excellent team player. And oh, you love music!

You'll join one of the most competent web developer teams in Europe as a back-end developer to work on new features for the best audio platform on the web.

Your key responsibilities at SoundCloud

• Develop the back-end parts of new key features for the SoundCloud Rails-based platform
• Optimize the back-end of existing features for performance and stability
• Track down and resolve issues with the platform in close communication with our users

Knowledge and skills required

• Solid experience with Ruby and preferably at least one more language (C/C++ is a plus)
• Significant experience with Ruby on Rails and preferably at least one other web application framework
• Great SQL skills, including complex queries and optimization
• Familiarity with agile programming methodologies
• Fluency in the nginx/Thin/MySQL/*nix stack

Valuable Additional Skills

• Experience with test-driven development
• Experience with queue-based architectures and specifically RabbitMQ
• Knowledge of Amazon Web Services Cloud Computing API:s
• Sun Solaris Experience
• User interface design skills
• Writing skills
• Knowledge of music production tools & techniques.

Are you the woman (or man) we're looking for? Please send a resume with a covering letter to jobs+dev@soundcloud.com.

Web Analyst (Berlin)

You’re the kind of person who thanks your lucky star to live in the age of the web since everything is producing data that’s just waiting to by analyzed. You’re exceptionally organized, passionate about detail and hungry for new input. You love the latest web tech and all the new juicy ways of tracking and analyzing all parts of your app, no matter if they’re on your domain, oven an API or via a widget.

We want your data and your analysis of it to be a central point in how SoundCloud makes decisions and ultimately how we make our users say “Wow”.

Your key responsibilities at SoundCloud

• Work together with our entire team to make data & data analysis an integral part of how we get our users to say wow.
• Work together with every employee at SoundCloud to determine and implement actionable metrics that will help them in their tasks
• Set-up, monitor, tweak & update tracking across SoundCloud.com, all our widgets and our API.
• Produce, analyze and deliver customer insights based on website behavior, customer surveys and other quantitative data sources
• Analyze each new product feature and figure out how to track its impact prior to release, implement and follow-up post-release.
• Create data-dashboards for all team-members
• Experience measuring impact and effectiveness of Social Media interactions.
• Lead creation and completion of Multivariate and A/B testing document
• Perform hands-on analysis of large volumes of web analytics, transaction and customer level data
• Learn and deliver online customer analyses, which may include customer segmentation, retention analysis, lifetime value analysis, advertising research, brand research, site utilization
• Assist in weekly/monthly controlling and assemble reports (including financial)

Knowledge, skills & mindset

• Passion for data and an obsession with optimization
• A strong drive to constantly improve
• 3 years+ of web analytics experience
• Demonstrated measurable success in web analytics
• Experience in setting up, tracking and reporting on API analytics
• MS Excel Wizardry
• SQL & database knowledge
• Obsessive about having the best and most actionable analytics available
• Cohort analysis
• Proactive, self motivated, able to deal with ambiguity,
• Highly organized & used to using web-based tools to collaborate

Valuable Additional Skills

• Successful experience working with a freemium business model at a large scale
• Knowledge and experience of producing music
• Programming experience
• Music industry experience
• A love for music, (extra points for hip hop or indie rock!)

To apply, send the following to jobs+webanalyst@soundcloud.com.

• Current CV
• A cover letter
• Either a quick sketch of SoundClouds’ viral loop and guesses for the conversion metrics at each point or a suggestion of the 4 metrics you’d check each morning (and why)
• A link to your favorite source of web analytics tips

Design Intern (Berlin)

Are you a design student (or fresh graduate) who wants to get some hands-on experience? Within our small but highly motivated team you get the chance to work with us on upcoming features, own music-related projects and day to day business. The only coffee making involved is if you need a cup your self.

The ideal candidate

• Design student/graduate
• You know your tools (You don't need to be a photoshop wizard & clear mind and great thinking preferred)
• You are able to build small websites on your own (i.e. you know your html, CSS, etc.)
• You have a passion for detail, but you can be pragmatic too
• To you, the overall idea is more important than the individual pixel.
• You are curious & interested in general
• You have an opinion and you're not afraid to discuss your doubts and ideas
• You're self-confident enough to know and admit that your idea may not always be the right one
• You have no problems working with or without ToDo lists given to you

Your role

• You'll work closely with our designer on all phases of new & updated features & pages of SoundCloud.com
• You'll be in close contact, exchange ideas and communicate with the whole SoundCloud team
• There's possibility to spend time on your own, SoundCloud related, projects too

More information

• Office located in Berlin Mitte
• Full time
• Minimum of 3 months, ideally 6 months

If you're interested, send a short letter of motivation, your resume and links to websites that give us some insight on who you are and what you do to katharina@soundcloud.com.

Web Developer Intern (Berlin)

This is a great opportunity to come to Berlin and hack on cool web audio apps for a couple of months in a fast-paced start-up environment. Join one of the most exciting and most talked about companies working in digital music today and learn from a growing, talented and friendly team.

The ideal candidate

• Passion for music - both on and off the web
• Great programming skills (what language is less important)
• Self-motivated, keen to learn and forward-thinking
• You are a DJ, producer, band-member or just serious about a career working with digital music

Your role

• Build a cool feature or mashup on the SoundCloud platform
• Freedom to work on related side-projects

More information

• Office located in Berlin Mitte
• Possibility for additional remote working
• Minimum 2-3 days per week
• All agreed expenses covered including travel
• Possibility of longer term employment and/or part-time contract work for outstanding candidates

Are you the woman (or man) we're looking for? Please send a resume with a covering letter to interns+dev@soundcloud.com.

Internship (London)

SoundCloud is an online platform for music and audio professionals to share, send & collaborate on tracks. We have over 500,000 users including artists such as Moby, Royksopp, Enter Shikari, Four Tet and labels such as Domino, Atlantic, Nettwerk, Get Physical, Ninja TuneI . This is a great opportunity to get hands on experience working in a fast-paced start-up environment. Join one of the most exciting and most talked about companies working in digital music today and learn from a growing, talented and friendly team.

The ideal candidate

• You have a passion for music - both on and off the web
• You have a knowledge of the music industry and its different players from labels to pluggers
• You're a web-savvy digital native likely to spend too much time on Twitter, Facebook
• You're comfortable with platforms such as Wordpress and Tumblr
• You're a frequent reader of music blogs and you probably visit The Hype Machine too often
• You're a motivated, self-starter keen to learn and forward-thinking
• You're serious about a career working with digital music and looking for experience to get started or accompany your studies

Your role

• Perform day-to-day tasks related to SoundCloud and its users
• Respond to queries from existing users including labels and artists
• Assist in preparation of marketing materials, blog posts etc
• Take an active role in the SoundCloud community and evangelize online
• Assist in seeking out new users, opportunities and partnerships, this could be with artists, labels, pluggers, music bloggers etc.

Details

• Located in Shoreditch
• 3 days per week
• Minimum two month placement
• Travel expenses covered

Are you the woman (or man) we're looking for? Please send a resume with a covering letter to interns+london@soundcloud.com. The best candidates will tell us their music preferences and provide links to their profiles and places where they hang out online.