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Peel is driven by design and a passion for developing brilliant "second screen" experiences. We simplify complex problems, then surprise and delight. Prior to starting at Peel, members of the team helped create some of the best products available today, including iTunes, iPhoto, Netflix, Roku, Avid, and Final Cut Pro.

We're a fun company that works hard, but understands the value of well balanced professional and personal lives. Away from work, we raise wonderful young families, race cars, sail boats, play instruments, and go on adventures in outer space… Well, maybe we all just dream about that last one… On the job, we come in charged and focussed on changing the industry, forever.

We want to work with like-minded creative and talented people. If you want to change the world and the face of entertainment, we want to hear from you!

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VP of Business Development

The Vice President of Business Development role at Peel is a multidimensional leadership role. Peel is looking for a best of breed, entrepreneurial and inspiring leader. This role will be part of a small tightly-knit management team. This role will have a strategic impact on the company and requires interacting with our board of directors, when required.

Key Requirements

  • Strategic Thinking: Internalizes company's vision and builds relationships that delivers value over the long term while meeting the short term goals.
  • Relationship Building
    Ability to scope the potential of a relationship early on. Understands the partner's strengths and articulates mutual value. Hustles through creatively to build leverage. Sets the pace for the relationship and drives it to closure.
  • Leadership: Strives to set an example and be a role model for the Business Development team and other peers. Focuses on assessing talent and capability and selects the best people to build leadership.
  • Budget management: Develop, justify and manage against the budget according to the business objectives. Able to be resourceful in leveraging company and partner assets to generate maximum impact without significant investment.
  • Team Work: Collaborates well with the management team and product team at various stages of relationship building. Loves to have fun.
  • Professional integrity: Earns the trust and respect of peers and team members by setting and achieving remarkable goals in a very open, transparent and candid fashion. Acts fairly and demonstrates a high sense of corporate responsibility.

Job Responsibility

The company has various business development needs. The V.P. of Business Development must have a proven track record of managing a team that has successfully delivered in the following areas as well as deep, hands-on expertise in a few of these domains. Your role as a leader will be hands-on as well as managing your team.
  • Distribution: At the core, Peel is a mobile app company. Peel has a strong track record of being very strategic to the partners and delivers great synergy with the right partners. In this role, you will filter, prioritize and finalize relationships that will deliver the largest footprint for Peel. You will work with Mobile Manufacturers, Mobile Carriers, Television Service Providers and other mobile strategic players to help achieve Peel's goals.
  • Relationship Management: Peel is currently in business with a few large partners. In this role, you will thrive to find new opportunities with those partners to expand the footprint.
  • Value Add Partnerships: You will build partnerships that will help enhance the product. These partnerships provide additional value to our customers by enabling the product with partner's capabilities.
  • Future Revenue Model: This role has the potential to evolve into a revenue function for the company. In future, in this role, you can explore, experiment and establish a business model for the company that will help monetize the Peel platform.
  • Success Factor: As the Business Development Leader at Peel, you will be required to come in and agree on a quantified goal that balances the short term objectives with long term strategic opportunities. Your plan must be an aggressive and forward thinking plan designed to take the company to the next level. You will be expected to jump into a few deals that are in progress and drive them to closure. There are several inbound interests that need to be nurtured, evaluated and decided upon. You will also build a strong pipeline of potential deals.

Qualifications

  • 10-15 years of successful Business Development experience, including at least 5 years in a Business Development leadership role and demonstrated track record building high value relationships.
  • Identifying and developing new relationships that strengthens company's strategic position while meeting the short term goals.
  • Excellent analytical skills and ability to perform quick back of the envelope calculations on business scenarios.
  • Strong negotiation skills that creates win-win outcomes.
  • Experience drafting term sheets, working with lawyers, and closing deals.
  • Impeccable communication skills.
  • Previous experience with a rapidly growing organization (startup experience is preferred).
  • Mobile industry knowledge and experience working with mobile distributors will be huge plus.
  • B.A./B.S. with a strong academic record and an MBA from a top tier business school would be preferred.

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Android Developer

Embracing cutting edge mobile technologies? Not afraid of rolling up your sleeves and dabbling through the army of droids? Are you the go-to guy getting things done without burning midnight oil all the time? Enjoy life/work balance and craving for awesome food? We have a job for you here at Peel:

Requirements:

  • Gadget lover, early adopter
  • Hands-on Android hacker
  • Expert in Java programming
  • Have made custom Android UI/animations
  • Have published apps on Market
  • Fluent dealing with JSON/XML web services
  • Familiar w/ widget creation
  • Comfortable w/ Sqlite and Content Providers

Nice to have:

  • OpenGL
  • NDK/JNI/ADK
  • Any dynamic/functional language experience
  • HTML5

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Cloud Architect

When we think of our customer base, we think of everyone who watches TV in the world. Thats the kind of scale we think about here. Peel relies heavily on the web services to create a magical user experience. Cloud enables new possibilities for us at Peel to solve problems that were not possible few years ago. We are still small enough to go to lunch together. So you will be one of our technology leaders that will take our cloud systems to the next level.

This position will require you to come up with a new architecture for our cloud systems that can scale to huge volumes of data. In this position, you will be expected to hire and build a team that will work with our front end engineers.

If you think you know the difference between architecting and engineering, you may be the person. Contact us or email your resume to jobs@peel.com.

Requirements

  • Has 10+ years of experience developing web services in Java, MySQL, Apache, Tomcat
  • Has developed very high volume web services
  • Will be expected to come in and re-architect our existing system to be more scalable
  • Participate in feature discussions and coming up with a scalable engineering design quickly
  • Strong in implementing RESTful web services in Java : Has worked with a large user base (multimillion) that has high concurrency in data access.
  • Expert in MySQL : Understands what part of the feature to be implemented in the DB and what should be implemented on other layers
  • Expert in Tomcat and Apache
  • Has experience developing with Amazon cloud systems
  • Expertise in Lucene and/or Solr
  • Can write efficient SQLs
  • Strong in designing DB schemas
  • Proficient in one scripting language : Perl, Python etc.
  • Should have worked in Agile/Scrum process. Should be quick in releasing code to production.
  • Can hire and build teams

Nice to have:

  • Experience with scripted automation tools (SilkTest, etc)
  • Experience scripting for iPhone, Android
  • Experience testing web services
  • Experience testing web services
  • Experience testing web services

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Director of Customer Care

Do you have a proactive can-do attitude and are interested in joining an exciting Silicon Valley start-up that is redefining the way we find and watch TV? If your answer is yes, we want to talk to you.

Peel is a well-funded start-up made up of passionate, intelligent team players from world-class companies such as Apple, DIRECTV and Netflix.

We are seeking a Director of Customer Care to join our growing team. The ideal candidate enjoys the challenge of working in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

  • Become the human element of the Peel experience.
  • Build, Train and Manage a team that delivers world-class customer care on phone, email, and other medium.
  • Define and track metrics that are essential to manage a customer care organization.
  • Nurture the Peel Community; engage with them in a fun way and add to the Peel experience.
  • Build processes that will continuously improve knowledge base.
  • Manage product returns (RMA process).
  • Own and represent the customer internally and externally.
  • Rapidly scale the service organization to match the company’s growth.

Requirements

  • Experience managing a large user community is essential.
  • Experience with mobile: iOS or Android based user base is preferred.
  • Strong understanding of social platforms and ways to leverage that to nurture community is key.
  • Should have defined metrics and should be comfortable instilling changes based on metrics.
  • Experience with consumer electronics product is a plus.
  • Experience hiring agents with great interpersonal skills.
  • BA or BS degree or equivalent. MBA is preferred.
  • Should have an overall industry experience of 5 to 10 years.
  • Understanding of international business environment is preferred.

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Interaction Designer

The ideal Interaction Design candidate is an ambitious problem solver, excellent communicator, and passionate about designing delightfully compelling experiences. They are visionary and driven by innovation. They are uniquely general in that they can design intuitive interactions, artfully skin them, and breathe life into them through interactive prototypes. They strive for excellence and take pride in their work. As an advocate of the consumer, they give and receive feedback constructively, without ego.

The Interaction Designer plays a pivotal role in determining the design direction of Peel apps. They are an integral member of the design team and work directly with engineering, QA, and marketing. They work very closely with visual designers to create clear, yet visually stunning, tactile experiences.

Requirements:

  • Team player
  • Consummate multitasker, able to jump between tasks and switch gears quickly
  • Polished professional, able to accurately estimate time frames and deliver on self imposed deadlines
  • Degree in interaction design, human computer interaction, industrial design, or equivalent
  • 5+ years designing applications
  • Expertise in creating simple solutions to complex problems
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills — copywriting experience a plus
  • Expert knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, Mac OS X, and iOS — familiarity with Android a plus
  • Experience with Quartz Composer, Director, Flash, HTML5, or other prototyping or motion graphics software, a plus.

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iOS Engineer

Do you appreciate beauty, symmetry and patterns in life and code? Does your taste in life reflect in your coding style? Do you see a direct relationship between how you lead your life and how you write code? You improve one, the other improves too? Know what we are talking about???

Your work literally touches our customers, and you'll love inspiring our designers to come up with great interfaces that will ultimately delight our customers.

This position requires you to lead an entire product or sections of the product. You will work closely with our designers and QA engineers to release something to our customers fairly frequently.

If you accidentally implement a cool feature because you thought thats necessary to change the world, you may be the kind of person we want to work with. Contact us or email your resume to jobs@peel.com.

Requirements:

  • Passion for user experience
  • ObjectiveC expert
  • Hands on experience on CocoaTouch and Cocoa frameworks
  • Expert in Xcode, Instruments, Interface Builder
  • Shipped at least one amazing iPhone app
  • Memory management Guru
  • Must understand how to work with JSON based RESTful Webservice APIs
  • Dismiss ideas that sounds like a band-aid, Instead find awesome solutions that will scale and perform
  • Love to check out new stuff and try it out before telling the team about it

Nice to have:

  • OpenGL
  • Android experience

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Machine Learning Scientist or Engineer

If you are a Machine Learning Expert or Algorithm Engineer or Software Engineer with data analysis and machine learning algorithm development experience, please read on!

Peel is an exciting, well-funded and rapidly growing mobile TV start-up, and we are looking for a Machine Learning Expert to join our talented team.

Requirements

  • Masters (PhD is a plus) in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Physics
  • Good background in machine learning
  • Experience in recommendation system is a plus
  • Experience with distributed systems and distributed computing
  • Experience with Hadoop or MapReduce, GFS is an added benefit
  • Good experience in developing C++, Java.
  • Ability to help drive recommendation engine and search relevance, perform data analysis and mathematical modeling, and work with machine learning techniques.

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Visual Designer

The ideal Visual Design candidate is a pixel precise artist, passionate about bringing real world richness to the screen. They have excellent visual, written, and verbal communication skills with an aptitude for creating visual metaphors. They have a deep understanding of typography, colors, materials, textures, and finishes, with an exceptional eye for detail. They strive for excellence and take pride in their work. As an advocate of the consumer, they give and receive feedback constructively, without ego.

The Visual Designer plays an important role in developing the look and feel of Peel apps, website, and marketing collateral. Their work informs and embodies the Peel brand by communicating complex ideas with simple iconography. They work hand in hand with interaction designers and engineering to deliver visually stunning, tactile experiences.

Requirements:

  • Outstanding portfolio
  • Degree in visual design, fine art, illustration, or equivalent
  • 5+ years designing icons, glyphs, and interfaces
  • Demonstrable mastery of Photoshop, Illustrator, Cinema 4D and other design software
  • Excellent visual, written, and verbal communication skills — copywriting experience a plus
  • Team player
  • Experience with high-end printing a plus

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