7digital Ltd

Jobs

7digital is somewhere special…

We’re small, fast, innovative and bursting at the seams with people passionate about music and technology. We’re growing at a rapid pace and seeking enthusiastic, creative, intelligent and fun individuals to join us in a variety of roles. In return, we can offer you a fun but hard-working environment where you can instantly see your contribution to the company’s success.

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Head of Product

We are looking for an experienced, creative and passionate product leader to head up our amazing product team of five Product Managers. You’ll be leading our growing PM team based in London and New Zealand and possibly expanding to our other offices in San Francisco and beyond.

The Head Of Product will own our overall product roadmap, manage and lead our product team and liaise with key stakeholders from development, operations and marketing.

This is a senior role within 7digital and you will report directly to the CEO and sit on the senior management team and work closely with them on planning future products and strategic platform initiatives.

You will have a strong technology product background and will be comfortable in a fast-growing start-up environment (even though 7digital is already 95-strong). You will be passionate about technology and very comfortable conversing in the language of cutting-edge web and app development and high-scale systems.

Your key responsibilities at 7digital:

  • Lead, organise and inspire the skilled PM team at 7digital.
  • Liaise and communicate clearly with key stakeholders and the wider company on all product matters.
  • Own the product roadmap and overall feature prioritisation in consultation with key stakeholders and our customers.
  • Responsibility for delivery against key product metrics (app performance, user engagement, revenues, costs, timescales and other KPIs), forecasting and reporting against budget.
  • Work closely with our CEO and management team on product strategy.
  • Liaise with key strategic partners on joint product initiatives.

Desired Skills & Experience

  • Relevant product management experience of 6+ years, including taking at least one significant web/mobile product to market, preferably several.
  • Strong leadership, communication and management skills, ideally combined with strong product vision. 5+ years of team management experience within an technology focused organization.
  • A Technical Degree or higher education preferred.
  • Good understanding of the digital content landscape.
  • Comfortable in a start-up environment but experience within a larger organisation desirable.
  • A understanding and appreciation of the fundamental concepts behind Agile & Lean Software Development. Ideally 5+ years working in an Agile environment.
  • Enough technical depth to understand the complexity of implementing a feature or product.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.

Term: Permanent contract with 3 month probation period
Salary: Dependent on experience, plus commission
Start Date: ASAP
Location: We’re based in Zetland House, Shoreditch

Important:

  • You must already be fully eligible to work in the UK
  • Due to the volume of applicants we get, if you do not hear back from us within 21 days of applying please assume you have been unsuccessful.

To apply, please e-mail your CV and a covering letter to careers+hop@7digital.com.

When applying for any position please ensure that the subject field contains the following text

7digital: I am applying for Head of Product.

N.B. If the subject does not contain the exact text above your application risks being deleted.

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Legal and Business Affairs Manager

We are looking for an experienced commercial lawyer to join our growing legal team in London. You will report to the Head of Legal and undertake a wide variety of work including drafting and negotiating international white label technology, general supplier, marketing, music licensing and publishing agreements, and advising on consumer, IP, employment and data protection issues.

You should be a high calibre UK qualified lawyer with approximately 4-6 years PQE, ideally including some in-house experience in the technology or music sector. Strong communication and analytical skills are a pre-requisite as well as the ability to work autonomously in a fast paced, dynamic environment.

This is a permanent role with an immediate start. Salary will be dependent on skills and experience.

The PQE level is stated as a guide to the level of experience required however we are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfil the role.

Music publishing and/or music industry experience would be advantageous.

Term: Permanent contract with 3 month probation period
Salary: Dependent on experience
Start Date: ASAP
Location: We’re based in Zetland House, Shoreditch, but are soon moving to shiny new offices.

Important:

You must already be fully eligible to work in the UK
Due to the volume of applicants we get, if you do not hear back from us within 21 days of applying please assume you have been unsuccessful.
To apply, please e-mail your CV and a covering letter to careers+lbam@7digital.com.

When applying for any position please ensure that the subject field contains the following text:

7digital: I am applying for Legal and Business Affairs Manager.

N.B. If the subject does not contain the exact text above your application risks being deleted.

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Administrative and Account Manager - North America

7digital North America is hiring a highly organized, self-starter who can help to manage a variety of operational and administrative projects and active client relationships across our primary sectors of consumer electronics, carriers, start ups, and brand-oriented companies.

About Us

Established in 2004, 7digital is a leading digital media delivery company with HQ in London, and offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Luxembourg and operating globally. Combining our secure and open technology platform with the broadest agreements within the digital media industry, we provide comprehensive digital music rights from all major and indie labels plus technology tools to a wide range of partners while managing our own music download stores in over 37 countries.

Our Application Programming Interface (API) is in use throughout the world, with key partners that include Samsung, BlackBerry, HP, T-Mobile USA, Toshiba, Ubuntu, Pioneer, as well as many start ups who utilize our API to offer streaming services and ala carte downloads.  7digital.com download stores are available globally and optimized for Europe and North America with dedicated stores in 37 countries.

7digital entered the US and Canadian markets in Q4 2009, grew its business gradually, and in 2012 incorporated a US entity.   We now have a team in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York as well as key staffing in London dedicated to grow the business, but we need a few more great people.

The Role
7digital North America is hiring a highly organized, self-starter who can help to manage a variety of operational and administrative projects and active client relationships across our primary sectors of consumer electronics, carriers, start ups, and brand-oriented companies.   

 Requires professional experience with high complexity technology, a thorough understanding of the digital media landscape, a tolerance for shifting sands, and a genuine curiosity about the rapidly evolving business of digital music.   Specific requirements and responsibilities listed below -

Providing account management to all North American B2B clients across core industry sectors, including but not limited to the following:

  • Communicating essential information about API functionality and 7digital value proposition to existing and prospective clients via email, phone and in person  
  • Bringing a basic understanding of core sectors of consumer electronics, carriers, start ups, music
  • Managing the day-to-day operational aspects of a client relationship including tracking payments and billing, meeting scheduling and assisting in cross-team communication 
  • Coordinating API contracting and execution of NDAs  
  • Serving as first point of contact for any active B2B clients in technical escalation process
  • Following up with client invoicing and ensuring prompt payment
  • Keeping active client information in CRM
  • Coordinating with North American team and London technical account management team
  • Understanding basics of digital product development, platforms, API and capabilities, music rights
  • Understanding client interests and needs
  • Being a team player across all facets of building the global 7digital business and be willing to help shape our organization

 

Helping to support North American market lead on all business and account-related activities, including scheduling meetings, providing continuity during travel and industry events, and coordinating key account communication

Qualities and qualifications:
3-5 years of related professional experience
College degree preferred
Self-motivated
Understanding of digital landscape, rights, technology, APIs and interest in learning
Ability to think quickly and comprehend both details and big picture
Excellent judgment and organizational skills
Ability to manage complex relationships effectively
Willingness to get the job done and ask for help when needed
Able to identify problems and recommend solutions
Able to communicate in a variety of internal and external relationships
Willing to travel in North America and occasionally to London (less than 25%)

Compensation package:
Salary and paid health/dental care
Preferred work location is in our SF business development hub (would consider LA also)
Paid vacation, observed holidays, and a “Festival Pass” – three paid days to enjoy a music or arts festival of your choice
Satisfaction knowing you are helping to change the digital music marketplace
Equity in 7digital

To Apply:
Please email a concise cover letter explaining your qualifications and relevant experience no later than March 1
Include your resume
Include your salary history and salary expectations
Include your available start date
Email to CAREERS@7digital.com with ADMINISTRATIVE AND ACCOUNT MANAGER in the subject line

Please no calls …we are heads down and busy!

 

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UK Financial Controller

We are looking for an experienced Financial Controller to join our ever expanding team here at 7digital.

Your key responsibilities at 7digital:

UK Accounts:

• UK financial accounts to completion, including appropriate balance sheet reconciliations,
accruals, prepayments, journals
• UK Financial reporting & planning
• Raising sales invoices for business to business sales
• Fixed Assets ledger & depreciation
• Payroll (accounting)
• Control of bank disbursements
• UK Tax Returns
• VAT Accounting & Returns
• Detailed cashflow analysis
• Manage UK financial audits
• Departmental budgetary control
• Assist deployment of internal processes & controls, where appropriate

Other Duties:

• Administration of Share Options Scheme
• Inter-Company transfer pricing
• Review GM Analysis
• Oversee Sales Commissions Plan
• Oversee Overtime payments
• Statistical Returns
• Ad hoc financial planning
• Insurance

Desired Skills & Experience:

UK qualified accountant, would suit newly qualified
Salary range £42,000 – £45,000
Good team player and self-starter
Experience of the music industry an advantage

Important:
You must already be fully eligible to work in the UK
Due to the volume of applicants we get, if you do not hear back from us within 21 days of applying please assume you have been unsuccessful.
To apply, please e-mail your CV and a covering letter to careers@7digital.com.
When applying for any position please ensure that the subject field contains the following text
7digital: I am applying for “UK Financial Controller”.

N.B. If the subject does not contain the exact text above your application risks being deleted.

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Business Development - North America

7digital is hiring two business development roles to help drive B2B licensing across our primary sectors of consumer electronics, carriers, start ups, and brand-oriented companies. Day to day responsibilities include cultivation and evaluation of potential partners, modeling of API license proposals, and closing commercial business deals. Requires professional experience with high complexity technology, a thorough understanding of the digital media landscape, a tolerance for shifting sands, and a genuine curiosity about the rapidly evolving business of digital music.

About Us
Established in 2004, 7digital is a leading digital media delivery company with HQ in London, and offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Luxembourg and operating globally. Combining our secure and open technology platform with the broadest agreements within the digital media industry, we provide comprehensive digital music rights from all major and indie labels plus technology tools to a wide range of partners while managing our own music download stores in over 37 countries.

Our Application Programming Interface (API) is in use throughout the world, with key partners that include Samsung, BlackBerry, HP, T-Mobile USA, Toshiba, Ubuntu, Pioneer, as well as many start ups who utilize our API to offer streaming services and ala carte downloads. 7digital.com download stores are available globally and optimized for Europe and North America with dedicated stores in 37 countries.

7digital entered the US and Canadian markets in Q4 2009, grew its business gradually, and in 2012 incorporated a US entity. We now have a team in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York as well as key staffing in London dedicated to grow the business, but we need a few more great people.

The Roles
7digital is hiring two business development roles to help drive B2B licensing across our primary sectors of consumer electronics, carriers, start ups, and brand-oriented companies. Day to day responsibilities include cultivation and evaluation of potential partners, modeling of API license proposals, and closing commercial business deals. Requires professional experience with high complexity technology, a thorough understanding of the digital media landscape, a tolerance for shifting sands, and a genuine curiosity about the rapidly evolving business of digital music. Specific requirements listed below:

  • Managing business development and outreach to core industry sectors for API licenses 
  • Bring an understanding and established network of contacts across core sectors of consumer electronics, carriers, start ups, brands
  • Achieve agreed-upon licensing revenue targets
  • Manage priorities and prospects in CRM and throughout business development cycle
  • Cultivate clients, evaluate needs, establish mutually agreeable and sustainable terms, negotiate and close deals
  • Understand basics of digital product development and platforms
  • Understand client interests and client product vision
  • Understand 7digital API and capabilities
  • Basic understanding of music rights and willingness to learn
  • Enforce agreed-upon contractual obligations between 7digital and client
  • Identify key opportunities and influencers
  • Attend tech, music and start up industry events
  • Be a team player across all facets of building the global 7digital business and be willing to help shape our organization
  • This may include supervisory/team leadership responsibilities

Qualities and qualifications:
Minimum of 5 years of related professional experience
Experience and demonstrated success achieving revenue sales targets
College degree
Self-motivated
Ability to think quickly and comprehend both details and big picture
Understanding of digital landscape, music rights, technology, APIs
Excellent judgment
Ability to manage complex relationships effectively
Willingness to get the job done and ask for help when needed
Ability to identify patterns and problems, and recommend solutions
Communication skills across a variety of internal and external relationships
Willing to travel in North America and occasionally to London (less than 25%)

Compensation package:
Salary and paid health/dental care
Work location is in our SF business development hub
Paid vacation, observed holidays, and a “Festival Pass” – three paid days to enjoy a music or arts festival of your choice
Satisfaction knowing you are helping to change the digital music marketplace
Equity in 7digital

To Apply:
Please email a concise cover letter explaining your qualifications and relevant experience no later than June 28th.

Include your resume
Include your salary history and salary expectations
Include your available start date
Email to CAREERS@7digital.com with NORTH AM BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT in the subject line

Please no calls …we are heads down and busy!

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Web Operations Engineer (Windows)

We're looking for a hands on Windows savvy operations engineer, who's not afraid of Linux, is keen to help us improve our infrastructure and platforms and who wants to work with a team currently in love with DevOps and getting a bit obsessed with automating everything.

Company Overview

7digital Ltd. is a leading digital media delivery company based in London and operating globally.

  • We’ve exceptional relationships within the music industry; we have a fully licensed catalogue of over 20 million tracks in over 37 countries giving us the broadest reach in the world outside of Apple and Amazon.
  • We may be small, but we punch well above our weight. We provide digital download services to over 500 partners including Samsung, RIM (Blackberry), HP, Toshiba, Universal Music, EMI, Warner Music, Sony and have delivered millions of digital products in over 25 countries.
  • We have a great culture and care about the people we work with.

About this job

Half the organisation is made up of tech people (Devs, DBA, Systems etc) and our CEO is a geek. We’ve got good at delivering our products and services at a fast pace in an iterative manner, but the faster we move the more apparent it is we need to be able to change our infrastructure just as quickly and reliably. We need super-talented and enthusiastic Web Ops/Sys Admins who are keen to work in a highly collaborative manner with our other tech staff to build a more robust, reliable and more highly automated platform which can cope with scaling up to meet the ever increasing demand.

We run a mix of Unix and Windows platforms – we’re pretty technology agnostic, but in this case we’re looking for people who have decent Windows (Web) experience but are not afraid of Linux – more interested in being given the opportunity to solve interesting problems with other smart, passionate people. The work opportunities are broad:

  • we manage all our own hardware and we have a lot of it (500-ish units).
  • we run our own virtualised environments. 
  • we’re looking to make greater use of IaaS & PaaS.
  • we have many sophisticated products and applications and want to be making better use of technologies like Nginx, HAProxy and Varnish within them (rather than coding our way out of every challenge).

Particularly, we have big aspirations to improve the automation of everything in our stack, we’ve made great progress already this year, but still feel we’ve only just begun. We’re big fans of companies like Etsy and Netflix and also want to view things from a “full-stack” perspective with tight collaboration between developers and operations people to achieve this goal.

Day-to-day, this job will involve

  • working in a highly collaborative manner with everyone in the organisation, particularly our other technical staff.
  • dealing with product and system-level tickets from internal teams;
  • making occasional visits to our data centres only to do things we can’t do remotely.

There’s a sane, paid, out-of-hours on-call rota (for emergencies only) which currently runs 1-week-in-4. It won’t ever get more frequent than that. This job does not involve IT Support; we already have people who are great at that.

About you (take your pick, the more the better)

  • 3-5 years (or more) experience in a Systems/Operations role. 
  • you like working with other people (not just other operations people) rather than always sitting in a dark corner with your headphones on (sometimes it’s OK).
  • you’re hands on.
  • you like and have experience with Windows, but are not afraid of Linux.
  • you have some experience with Linux too :)
  • you know the importance of monitoring and have experience configuring and managing monitoring tools.
  • you have hands on experience with server build automation.
  • you have experience with database/search infrastructure.
  • you enjoy working out how Windows and Linux can inter-operate sanely and appropriately;
  • you’re experienced with maintaining high availability and high demand systems.
  • you care about you being better, your team being better and your company being better.

Technologies

Many we already use, some we’re trialling, some we’re keen on trialling. You don’t need to know them all, but if you have experience with many of these, things are looking promising.

  • OS: Windows Server 2008R2, Windows Server Core, Debian Linux
  • Web servers: IIS, nginx, Varnish
  • Hardware: Dell, EC2, Cisco, Juniper
  • Other important tech: Active Directory, SQL Server, ASP.NET, HAProxy, Elastic Search, Solr, Debian Package Management, KVM, 
  • Tech to make our lives easier: Zabbix, New Relic, Logstash, Greylog2, Graphite, StatsD, MCollective, CFEngine, Chef, Puppet, Google Apps, RT, PowerDNS, JenkinsCI, Teamcity, Rack Monkey, Subversion, Git
  • Other tech you might run into, but not daily: Apache, Exim, SFTP, ProFTPd, MySQL, Samba

How To Apply

NO AGENCIES Any CVs submitted via agencies will be ignored. ]

If you’re interested, send an email with your CV and a cover note to michelle.flynn@7digital.com, ensuring that the subject field contains the following text: “7digital: I am applying for Web Ops (Windows)”.

If not on your CV, your cover note should include:

  • Any blogs, email groups or people on Twitter you follow and would recommend.
  • Any communities & events you attend or are involved with.
  • Any books you’ve read that stood out.
  • Links to your Twitter/LinkedIn/personal websites/blogs (if you have any of course).
  • Links to any account/s on GitHub/Google code etc.

Interview process

There are normally 3 stages:

  • Quick phone interview.
  • Practical exercise.
  • Face to face interview.
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Web Operations Engineer (Linux)

We're looking for a superb Linux operations engineer who also likes to dabble in Windows server administration. We want someone who is keen to help us improve our infrastructure and platforms and who wants to work with a team currently in love with DevOps and getting a bit obsessed with automating everything.

7digital Ltd. is a leading digital media delivery company based in London and operating globally.

  • We’ve exceptional relationships within the music industry; we have a fully licensed catalogue of over 20 million tracks in over 37 countries giving us the broadest reach in the world outside of Apple and Amazon.
  • We may be small, but we punch well above our weight. We provide digital download services to over 500 partners including Samsung, Blackberry, HP, Toshiba, Universal Music, EMI, Warner Music, Sony and have delivered millions of digital products in over 25 countries.
  • We have a great culture and care about the people we work with.

About this job

Half the organisation is made up of tech people (Devs, DBA, Systems etc) and our CEO is a geek. We’ve got good at delivering our products and services at a fast pace in an iterative manner, but the faster we move the more apparent it is we need to be able to change our infrastructure just as quickly and reliably. We need super-talented and enthusiastic Web Ops/Sys Admins who are keen to work in a highly collaborative manner with our other tech staff to build a more robust, reliable and highly automated platform which can cope with scaling up to meet the ever increasing demand.

We run a mix of Unix and Windows platforms – we’re pretty technology agnostic and are looking for people who aren’t religious about one platform or another, but more interested in being given the opportunity to solve interesting problems with other smart, passionate people. The work opportunities are broad:

  • we manage all our own hardware and we have a lot of it (500-ish units).
  • we run our own virtualised environments.
  • we’re looking to make greater use of IaaS & PaaS.
  • we have many sophisticated products and applications and want to be making better use of technologies like Nginx, HAProxy and Varnish within them (rather than coding our way out of every challenge).

Particularly, we have big aspirations to improve the automation of everything in our stack, whether that be using Puppet, Chef or some other automation tool. We’re big fans of companies like Etsy and Netflix and also want to view things from a “full-stack” perspective with tight collaboration between developers and operations people to achieve this goal.

Day-to-day, this job will involve

  • working in a highly collaborative manner with everyone in the organisation, particularly our other technical staff.
  • dealing with product and system-level tickets from internal teams;
  • making occasional visits to our data centres only to do things we can’t do remotely.

There’s a sane, paid, out-of-hours on-call rota (for emergencies only) which currently runs 1-week-in-4. It won’t ever get more frequent than that. This job does not involve IT Support; we already have people who are great at that.

About you (take your pick, the more the better)

  • 3-5 years (or more) experience in a Systems/Operations role.
  • you like working with other people (not just other operations people) rather than always sitting in a dark corner with your headphones on (sometimes it’s OK).
  • you’re hands on.
  • you love Linux, but you don’t think Windows inherently is evil.
  • you have some years production experience running Windows;
  • you know the importance of monitoring and have experience configuring and managing monitoring tools.
  • you have hands on experience with server build automation.
  • you have experience with database/search infrastructure.
  • you enjoy working out how Windows and Linux can inter-operate sanely and appropriately;
  • you’re experienced with maintaining high availability and high demand systems.
  • you care about you being better, your team being better and your company being better.

Technologies

Many we already use, some we’re trialling, some we’re keen on trialling. You don’t need to know them all, but if you have experience with many of these, things are looking promising.

  • OS: Debian Linux, Windows Server 2008R2, Windows Server Core
  • Web servers: IIS, nginx, Varnish
  • Hardware: Dell, EC2, Cisco, Juniper
  • Other important tech: HAProxy, SQL Server, Elastic Search, Solr, Debian Package Management, KVM, ASP.NET
  • Tech to make our lives easier: Zabbix, New Relic, Logstash, Greylog2, Graphite, StatsD, MCollective, Chef, Puppet, Google Apps, RT, PowerDNS, JenkinsCI, Teamcity, Rack Monkey, Subversion, Git
  • Other tech you might run into, but not daily: Apache, Exim, SFTP, ProFTPd, MySQL, Samba

 

How To Apply

If you’re interested, send an email with your CV and a cover note to michelle.flynn@7digital.com, ensuring that the subject field contains the following text: “7digital: I am applying for Web Ops Engineer (Linux)”.

Your cover note should include:

  • Why you would like to join 7digital
  • Links to any account/s on GitHub/Google code etc.
  • Any blogs & email groups you read or would recommend.
  • Any communities & events you attend or are involved with.
  • Any technical books you’ve read that stood out.
  • Links to Twitter/LinkedIn/personal websites/blogs (because we’ll find them anyway so it saves us some time).

Interview process

There are normally 3 stages:

  • Quick phone interview
  • Practical exercise
  • Face to face interview (normally do 1 & 2 on the same day).

 

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Database Developer/BI Developer/DBA

We're looking for a SQL Developer/BI Developer who likes to dabble in Database Administration. You should like the idea of working with really big, fast things and making them go faster; and doing it all the right way.


You

You’re going to have a spark about you which tells us you’re not some run-of-the-mill jobsworth. You will be charismatic and enthusiastic and have the type of personality which means you get on well with people. You hate people who whinge and moan about things, but don’t do anything about it – when you see a problem you go out of your way to solve it. You don’t see the business as your enemy, you care about doing a good job and doing the right thing by the organisation you work for.

Us

7digital Ltd. is a leading digital media delivery company based in London and operating globally.

  • We may be small, but we punch well above our weight. We provide digital download services to over 500 partners including Samsung, Blackberry, HP, Toshiba, Universal Music, EMI, Warner Music, Sony and have delivered millions of digital products in over 25 countries.

  • Our public API serves around 100,000 requests per hour and is growing fast.

  • We’ve exceptional relationships within the music industry; we have a fully licensed catalogue of over 14 million tracks in MP3 format, giving us the broadest MP3 reach in the world.

  • We have a great culture and care about the people we work with.

The Role

We’re looking for someone with a mix of database development and business intelligence development experience/skills, who is happy to do database administration too. On the development side, experience with refactoring databases and serious performance tuning would be highly desirable, as would experience with hardware design and provision for MS SQL server 2012. For BI development, we’re building a greenfield data warehouse and management information system using SQL Server 2012 Enterprise , SSIS, SSRS, SSAS and anything else that will make this thing fly. On the DBA side we need someone who’s experienced with managing transactional replication, security, backups and upgrades and who would also be happy supporting and working with the development team – and others in the organisation – maintaining, configuring and making modifications to our databases. 

We’re a very collaborative organisation and really big on Agile practices, so an exposure to those kind of environments and being happy to work in that manner would be great.
 
Among other things the role would entail:

  • Creating, designing and maintaining databases to best practices in a sustainable manner

  • Providing guidance and advice on best practice and how we can improve our data storage.

  • Helping to refactor some of our larger and older databases.

  • Assisting in managing multiple instances of SQL server across production, QA and development environments.

  • Investigating, designing and creating ETL packages for new business requirements

  • Monitoring and reporting on performance of production and QA databases.

  • Responsibility for maintenance of database servers including roll-out of updates and upgrades.

Skills

All of these

  • 4-5 years of experience with recent versions of MS SQL server.

  • Significant experience in OLAP and BI environments.

  • Experience in a high demand OLTP environment.

  • Experience with database refactoring.

  • Experience designing and implementing high availability systems.

  • Excellent understanding of database design and operating principles.

  • DBA skills & experience

  • Solid understanding of SQL security principles.

Some of these

  • Experience with serious performance tuning.

  • Experience working in an Agile software development environment.

  • Experience with ORMs such as n/Hibernate and Entity Framework

  • Experience with hardware design and provisioning for MS SQL Server

  • Experience of NoSQL and other SQL RDBMS technologies.

Apply

Please, no agencies. Any CVs submitted via agencies will be ignored. 

If you’re interested, send an email with your CV and a covering letter to michelle.flynn@7digital.com, ensuring that the subject field contains the following text: “7digital: I am applying for SQL Developer/BI Developer/Database Administrator”.  If not on your CV, your covering letter should include:

  • Why you think you’re suitable for 7digital and why you’d particularly want to work with us (not some generic response please).

  • Which blogs (if any) you read on a regular basis, or people you follow on Twitter.

  • Any communities & events you attend or are involved with.

  • What books (if any) you’ve read and if there are any that have particularly stood out.

  • Links to Twitter/LinkedIn/personal websites/blogs (because we’ll find them anyway so it saves us some time).

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Developer (senior) - Development Team

7digital are looking for smart, self-motivated software developers to join our truly exceptional development team. Good working TDD experience is essential for this role.

About you

  • You care about software, you have a passion for what you do which you can clearly convey by your actions rather than just waffly personal statements on your CV.
  • You have an eye for software design and can talk eloquently on a range of topics due to your experiences and also from reading and experimentation.
  • For you it’s more than a job.

TDD

Among other things we’re strong advocates of TDD. We think it represents such a particular mindset we’d only consider you for a senior position if you have significant working experience with it. If you do have working experience with TDD, great! We want to know more. How much? How did you do TDD? How have you used TDD on a recent project? What problems have you faced? The more the better!

The role

Our teams are cross-functional, self-organising and highly autonomous. No architects, project managers or middle management, you’ll be working directly with our Product Managers and stakeholders in a highly collaborative manner. This approach requires a huge amount of teamwork and maturity and is not right for everyone, but we believe it’s the best way to create great software.

Among other things, Pair Programming, TDD/BDD, Refactoring, and Continuous Delivery are deeply embedded and we’re constantly striving to improve the way we work. We know typing is not the bottleneck, so among other things:

  • Have around two sessions a week spending time doing things like Katas, Dojos and discussing practices and technologies.
  • Each get up to two days “innovation time” a month we can use to play with new toys or product ideas.
  • Regularly attend conferences and community events, both as participants and contributors (we’ve recently ran sessions at QCon London 2012, Software Craftsmanship 2012 and SPA Conference 2012).

However, we’re not perfect and not afraid to say so. We recognise we have many problems which need solving and a long way to go on our journey of continuous improvement.

Technology we use

Most of our stack is C#/.Net but we’re using and investigating many other languages and technologies (e.g. Ruby, server side JavaScript, C++, Python). We’d be interested in candidates from any background as long as you have a keen understanding of Object Oriented languages. Here’s a (not exclusive) list of technologies we currently use:

  • C#, Ruby, JavaScript
  • ASP.Net MVC, OpenRasta, Nancy, ServiceStack, Nhibernate, Windsor, StructureMap, NUnit, RhinoMocks, ReSharper, NDepend
  • Cucumber, Rails, RSpec, Rake, Capybara, Selenium, Watir
  • REST, OAuth
  • Git
  • MS SQL, ElasticSearch, Solr
  • Mono, Windows, IIS, Nginx
  • RabbitMQ
  • TeamCity

We’re also very keen on open source. We contribute to some of the technologies listed above as well as maintaining our own forks (+ publishing other things we’d like to share) on our GitHub account.

How to apply

Please, no agencies. Any CVs submitted via agencies will be ignored.

If you’re interested, send an email with your CV and a cover note to michelle.flynn@7digital.com, ensuring that the subject field contains the following text: “7digital: I am applying for Senior Developer”.

If not on your CV, your cover note should include:

  • A short paragraph on your working experience with TDD (see the “About you – TDD” section for more details).
  • Links to any account/s on GitHub/Google code etc.
  • Any blogs & email groups you read or would recommend.
  • Any communities & events you attend or are involved with.
  • Any books you’ve read that stood out.
  • Links to Twitter/LinkedIn/personal websites/blogs (because we’ll find them anyway so it saves us some time).

Interview process

If we’re impressed by your CV and covering letter we’ll initially bring you in for a pair programming exercise (in C#, takes about 1 hour). If that goes well you’ll have one or two face-to-face interviews with some of our developers and the Head of Development.

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Developer (mid-level) - Development Team

You may not have much (or any) working experience with TDD & Agile practices, but you want to work somewhere that passionately believes in them.

About you

  • You care about software, you have a passion for what you do which you can clearly convey by your actions rather than just waffly personal statements on your CV.
  • For you it’s more than a job.

Experience otherwise is relative – 2 years working in an agile/XP manner is worth much more to us than 5 in a traditional environment. If you don’t have working experience with things like TDD and refactoring (maybe you’ve always wanted to but your current job doesn’t allow for it) show us you’re at least familiar with the concepts and that you really want to work in this kind of environment and you’re still in with a good chance.

The role

Our teams are cross-functional, self-organising and highly autonomous. No architects, project managers or middle management, you’ll be working directly with our Product Managers and stakeholders in a highly collaborative manner. This approach requires a huge amount of teamwork and maturity and is not right for everyone, but we believe it’s the best way to create great software.

Among other things, Pair Programming, TDD/BDD, Refactoring, and Continuous Delivery are deeply embedded and we’re constantly striving to improve the way we work. We know typing is not the bottleneck, so among other things:

  • Have around two sessions a week spending time doing things like Katas, Dojos and discussing practices and technologies.
  • Each get up to two days “innovation time” a month we can use to play with new toys or product ideas.
  • Regularly attend conferences and community events, both as participants and contributors (we’ve recently ran sessions at QCon London 2012Software Craftsmanship 2012 and SPA Conference 2012).

However, we’re not perfect and not afraid to say so. We recognise we have many problems which need solving and a long way to go on our journey of continuous improvement.

Technology we use

Most of our stack is C#/.Net but we’re using and investigating many other languages and technologies (e.g. Ruby, server side JavaScript, C++, Python). We’d be interested in candidates from any background as long as you have a keen understanding of Object Oriented languages. Here’s a (not exclusive) list of technologies we currently use:

  • C#, Ruby, JavaScript
  • ASP.Net MVC, OpenRasta, Nancy, ServiceStack, Nhibernate, Windsor, StructureMap, NUnit, RhinoMocks, ReSharper, NDepend
  • Cucumber, Rails, RSpec, Rake, Capybara, Selenium, Watir
  • REST, OAuth
  • Git
  • MS SQL, ElasticSearch, Solr
  • Mono, Windows, IIS, Nginx
  • RabbitMQ
  • TeamCity

We’re also very keen on open source. We contribute to some of the technologies listed above as well as maintaining our own forks (+ publishing other things we’d like to share) on our GitHub account.

How to apply

Please, no agencies. Any CVs submitted via agencies will be ignored.

If you’re interested, send an email with your CV and a cover note to michelle.flynn@7digital.com, ensuring that the subject field contains the following text: “7digital: I am applying for Developer (mid-level)”.

If not on your CV, your cover note should include:

  • Links to any account/s on GitHub/Google code etc.
  • Any blogs & email groups you read or would recommend.
  • Any communities & events you attend or are involved with.
  • Any books you’ve read that stood out.
  • Links to Twitter/LinkedIn/personal websites/blogs (because we’ll find them anyway so it saves us some time).

Interview process

If we’re impressed by your CV and covering letter we’ll initially bring you in for a pair programming exercise (in C#, takes about 1 hour). If that goes well you’ll have one or two face-to-face interviews with some of our developers and the Head of Development.

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Customer Services Representative

Our Customer Operations team is looking for a highly organised and enthusiastic individual to help manage technical support enquiries and ensure that our customers’ issues are resolved promptly. With exceptional communication skills and an ability to prioritise, the Customer Services Representative will make a significant contribution to 7digital’s user experience.

The successful candidate will be proactive, assertive and comfortable with responsibility. Due to the nature of digital media and retail, the preferred candidate may be required to work at weekends and beyond office hours.

Requirements:

  • Excellent English, French and German language skills
  • Candidates with excellent writing skills in Spanish, Dutch or Italian will be given extra consideration
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • A good eye for detail, thorough analytical skills and troubleshooting abilities
  • Enjoys a fast-paced work environment and daily challenges
  • Basic understanding of customer relationship management systems and/or prior experience in a customer-facing role
  • A passion for music and digital media
  • An awareness of the key issues facing the music and new media industries
  • High level of computer literacy, including knowledge of different operating systems (PC and Macintosh skills are essential), internet browsers, mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) and a solid understanding of Gmail, Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
  • Degree level education is desirable, but not essential

Primary responsibilities include:

  • Responding to customer support enquiries
  • Taking ownership of critical issues and seeing them through to the point of resolution
  • Liaising with our development and content operations teams to troubleshoot reported issues
  • Identifying support issue trends and reporting them to the Customer Services Manager
  • Contributing to the improvement of the user experience and usability of all services across the 7digital network

For more information and to apply please visit about.7digital.com/jobs

Please send your covering letter and CV to careers+csr@7digital.com with the following text in the subject field: “I am applying for Customer Services Representative”.
PLEASE NOTE: WE WON’T ACCEPT ANY OFFERS FROM AGENCIES.
Location: Luxembourg, LUX

Please note that this is a 3 month fixed-term position.

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Visual/Interface Designer

7digital are seeking a talented visual designer to join our product team, with a focus on our core suite of consumer-facing music products. We have an exciting roadmap ahead, and want you to be a part of shaping and bringing it to fruition. You’ll be hugely passionate about working iteratively, designing and developing a deeply-engaging visual language and interface style across our complete consumer product suite.

You’ll be web and mobile first and foremost, but we get everywhere. So be prepared to think above and beyond – smart-TVs, multi-room sound-systems, automobiles… even the occasional fridge.

You’ll be working in a enthusiastic, open-minded and cross-skilled team of back and front-end engineers, user-experience designers and product owners, in a highly collaborative manner across the full software development lifecycle. We have no Project Managers or BAs in favour of collectively owning the products we work on.

We want people who care about the details, who take the time to do things the right way, and most of all desire achieve beautifully crafted user-interfaces that delight, not frustrate!

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with our experience designers and product owners to create a visual language that engages and excites our customers.

  • Take the 7digital brand identity to heart; be part of a design team that works across all areas of 7digital shaping and growing it.

  • Define, develop and own a visual language that can be applied across all our consumer product interfaces – web, mobile and beyond.

  • Prototype interface-designs and layouts and work closely with the team to realise them across the consumer products; everything from call-to-actions, form layouts and feedback, to grid systems, vertical rhythm and typography.

  • Work in tight collaboration with our engineering team to ensure design principles, best-practices and the highest of aesthetic quality is upheld.

  • Share and communicate your ideas to the team and stakeholders alike.

Qualifications

  • Expert visual-design skills for interactivity – you must have a strong appreciation of how visual design translates to practical and highly-usable interfaces

  • Ability to design across web and mobile applications, with an understanding of the technical constraints and techniques involved in different environments.

  • A stickler for consistency, an eye for detail and a passion for quality.

  • Expert proficiency in at least one industry-standard design package

  • Some experience of accessibility and usability concepts, knowing how to cater for these needs.

  • Able to work in a collaborative and iterative agile/lean environment, and highly confident liaising with product owners and stakeholders.

Desired experience

  • A background in tech/web or a general appreciation for technology.

  • Prototyping e.g. HTML/CSS, and/or low-fidelity wireframing

  • A keen interest in testing your designs, gathering and reacting to customer feedback.

  • A love of music, the occasional after-work drink and finding good places to lunch can help too!

About You

You care about software and how users interact with it, you have a passion for what you do which you can clearly convey by your actions rather than just waffly personal statements on your CV. Experience is relative – one or two years working in a progressive manner in an agile environment is worth more to us than twenty in a traditional environment. No or little experience either way? Show us you care and want to be better and if we’re looking for someone junior you’ve still got a good chance.

How to Apply

Please, no agencies. Any agency-submitted CVs will be happily recycled.

If you’re interested, send an email with your CV and a cover letter to michelle.flynn@7digital.com, ensuring that the subject field contains the following text: 7digital: I am applying for Visual/Interface Designer

Your covering letter should state:

  • Why you’re suitable as an visual designer for 7digital and why you’d like to work with us.

  • An online portfolio or links to examples of recent work you’re particularly proud of.

  • Any blogs/email-lists you read on a regular basis, or events you attend.

  • Any books or designers you’ve read that have made an impression on you.

Interview Process

If we’re impressed by your CV and covering letter we’ll initially ask you to complete a short design task (takes around an hour or two) so we can see how you do things. If that goes well you’ll usually have one or two face-to-face interviews with members of our product, design and engineering teams.

 
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Front-end Engineer

We're looking for a talented front-end engineer to join our product development team, focusing on building our core suite of consumer-facing music products. We have an exciting roadmap ahead, and want you to be a part of shaping it and bringing it to fruition. You’ll be hugely passionate about building, architecting and working iteratively on highly-performant and deeply-engaging large-scale web applications.

You’ll be working in an enthusiastic and open-minded, cross-skilled team of back-end engineers, UX and interface designers and product owners, in a highly collaborative manner across the full software development lifecycle. We have no Project Managers or BAs in favour of collectively owning the products we work on.

We want people who care about the details, who take the time to do things the right way, and most of all desire to achieve beautifully crafted user-interfaces that delight, not frustrate!

Responsibilities

  • Own the front-end stack; from auditing new technology opportunities to ensuring our code standards are met.
  • Have an eye for detail and a passion for quality, cross-browser compatibility and design aesthetics.
  • Be a proactive guardian of performance; maintaining, building and architecting a lightning-fast interface.
  • Work closely with our interface and experience designers to create engaging and exciting visual experience.
  • Work in tight collaboration with our engineering team, not being afraid to pair on features and be able to clearly communicate your ideas.

 

Qualifications

  • Expert in writing clean, semantic, standards-based markup and CSS, using things like LESS and SMACSS.
  • Strong, demonstrable JavaScript experience for large-scale web applications; unobtrusive, test-driven and efficient.
  • Strong understanding of the trials and tribulations of cross-browser development. Not only how to do it, but knowing when and why it’s essential.
  • An excellent grasp of accessibility and usability concepts and know how to cater for them. Graceful degradation and progressive enhancement should be in your day-to-day vocabulary and you should have good experience of the techniques.
  • Able to work in a collaborative and iterative agile / lean environment, and confident liaising with product owners and stakeholders.

 

Desired, but not essential, experience

  • Experience building for mobile-web, be it building responsive layouts or creating mobile-optimised sites.
  • An interest in user testing, usability and gathering customer feedback.
  • You’ll be working in a principally C# / .Net environment, so any experience with ASP.NET MVC and Spark  is a plus, but not critical.
  • Other things we use; Node, Require.js, Mocha, History.js, jQuery, Karma (Testacular) – any experience will help.
  • A love of music, after-work drinking and finding good places to lunch will go a long way too!

 

About You

You care about software and how users interact with it, you have a passion for what you do which you can clearly convey by your actions rather than just waffly personal statements on your CV. Experience is relative – one or two years working in a progressive manner in an agile environment is worth more to us than twenty in a traditional environment. No or little experience either way? Show us you care and want to be better and if we’re looking for someone junior you’ve still got a good chance.

How to Apply

Please, no agencies. Any agency-submitted CVs will be treated as a gift.

If you’re interested, send an email with your CV and a cover letter to michelle.flynn@7digital.com, ensuring that the subject field contains the following text: 7digital: I am applying for Front-End Engineer.

Your covering letter should state:

  • Why you’re suitable as a front-end engineer for 7digital and why you’d like to work with us.
  • An online portfolio, github or links to examples of recent work you’re particularly proud of.
  • What blogs (if any) you read on a regular basis.
  • What email groups (if any) you subscribe to.
  • Any communities and events (if any) you attend or are involved with.
  • Any books you’ve read that have made an impression on you.

Interview Process

If we’re impressed by your CV and covering letter we’ll initially ask you to do a short technical task (takes around an hour or two) so we can see how you do things. If that goes well you’ll have one or two face-to-face interviews with some of our developers and representatives from other (non-technical) teams or individuals.