MokaFive Careers

Virtualization is changing the way people use computers and MokaFive is changing virtualization.

We are here to make an impact and we have what it takes - a huge market, world-class engineering, top-tier funding and ground-breaking technology which originated from 4 years of research at Stanford University.

We are expanding our team and are looking for exceptionally talented individuals who want to make a difference. We value intelligence, passion, effectiveness, experience and customer focus.



Marketing / Sales / Product Management

Senior Product Manager

MokaFive is looking for a talented and ambitious Senior Product Manager to join our high-powered team. We are a well-funded Silicon Valley startup creating the next generation of desktop virtualization products. This is an extraordinary opportunity for someone who wants to play a high-impact role in a fast-paced project with exciting technologies and top-notch engineers.

The Senior Product Manager will be responsible for product planning and execution throughout the produce lifecycle. This will include gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with engineering, sales, marketing and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met. The Senior Product Manager's role will also include ensuring that the product supports MokaFive's overall strategy and goals.

The primary responsibilities:

  • Define the product strategy and roadmap
  • Deliver MRD's and PRD's with prioritized features and corresponding justification
  • Work with external third parties to assess partnerships and licensing opportunities
  • Run beta and pilot programs with early-stage products and samples
  • Be an expert with respect to the competition
  • Act as a leader within the company

Requirements/Skills:

  • Minimum of 3 years experience as a Product Manager
  • Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Bachelor's Degree (MBA preferred)
  • Technical background, with experience in consumer and small business applications
  • Design sensibility with focus on user experience
  • Excellent teamwork skills
  • Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
  • Must engage with customers on a regular basis
  • Examples and at least one sample of an effective document delivered in the past

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@mokafive.com.

Marketing Program Manager

Do you love marketing and want to help shape the commercialization of technology in the fast developing desktop virtualization space? We're looking for a marketing programs manager who has the experience designing and executing both online and off-line demand generation programs. We want a creative professional to define innovative ways to educate IT decision makers and buyers about MokaFive's services. You will work with product management and sales team to understand lead generation requirements on an on-going basis and develop a marketing plan, promotions calendar and campaign mix. Through those programs, you will both attract new customers and deeply engage with existing customers. You will test new marketing programs, including new online marketing options, and adjust your tactics based on campaign effectiveness. This is a great opportunity for anyone with aspirations to be a leader in how to execute B to C and B to B technology marketing.

Job Objective: To drive marketing awareness, lead, and adoption generation programs targeted at small and medium enterprise businesses. (This position reports to the VP of Marketing)

The primary responsibilities of this position are the following:

  • Overall demand generation planning.
  • Promotion calendar and campaign mix planning.
  • Programs budgeting and campaign performance tracking.
  • Developing creative assets and tools.
  • Managing and executing programs and planning and running awareness and lead generation initiatives.
  • Proactively work with product management, sales, and business development to get alignment on targets and programs to best drive sales results.

Requirements/Skills:

  • BS/BA in business, marketing, or social sciences.
  • 4+ years in the business technology market and broad knowledge of IT systems, including SaaS.
  • 4+ years planning and executing marketing programs with experience managing a marketing budget.
  • Hands-on experience with website analytics, and tracking and reporting tools to assess campaign effectiveness.
  • Strong project management skills and experience, including managing external creative agencies and events vendors. International project experience is a plus.
  • Passion for technology, creativity to think outside the box and leadership to execute effectively.
  • Exceptionally communicator, capable of working effectively across functions.
  • A high level of professionalism, passion, ethics, confidence and commitment.
  • Strong organizational skills and customer focused.
  • Flexibility in regards to work schedule and travel.

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@mokafive.com.

Sales Representative/Business Development

MokaFive is looking for a talented and driven Sales Representative to join our high-powered team. We are a well-funded Silicon Valley startup creating the next generation of desktop virtualization products. This is an extraordinary opportunity for someone who wants to play a high-impact role in a fast-paced project with exciting technologies and top-notch engineers.

Job Objective: Responsible for all sales activities, from lead generation through close in an assigned territory. Develops and implements agreed upon marketing plan which will meet both personal and business goals of expanding customer base in targeted areas. Works within the sales and support teams for the achievement of customer satisfaction, revenue generation, and long-term account goals in line with company vision and values.

The primary responsibilities of this position are the following:

  • Responsible for the sales of MokaFive services tailored to the SMB IT industry.
  • Demonstrates technical selling skills and product knowledge.
  • Develops annual business plan in conjunction with Business Development Manager, which details activities to follow during the fiscal year.
  • Complete understanding of pricing and proposal models.
  • Sells consultatively and makes recommendations to prospects and clients
  • Develops qualified leads through referrals, telephone cold calling, emails and networking.
  • Assists in the implementation of company marketing plans as needed.
  • Creates and conducts effective proposal presentations.
  • Demonstrates the ability to gather, submit detailed business information for pricing, and presentation of solutions to identified prospects.
  • Use salesforce.com to maintain records of all sales and prospecting activities including sales calls, presentations, closed sales, and follow-up activities.
  • Participates and contributes to the development of programs offered to clients, prospects and other company employees.

Relationships and Roles:

  • Maintain contact with all clients in the market area to ensure high levels of Client Satisfaction.
  • Demonstrate ability to interact and cooperate with all company employees.
  • Build trust, value others, communicate effectively, drive execution, foster innovation, focus on the customer, collaborate with others, solve problems creatively and demonstrate high integrity.
  • Maintain professional internal and external relationships that meet company core values.
  • Establish and maintain effective working team relationships

Requirements/Skills:

  • 2-3 years of sales experience in the IT industry.
  • Experience with small-medium businesses and educational organizations.
  • Extensive experience in all aspects of customer relationship management.
  • Strong understanding of customer and market dynamics and requirements.
  • Willingness to work and, if needed, travel globally.
  • Proven ability to achieve sales quotas.

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@mokafive.com.

Developer Evangelist

MokaFive is looking for a talented and driven Developer Evangelist to join our high-powered team. We are a well-funded Silicon Valley startup creating the next generation of desktop virtualization products. This is an extraordinary opportunity for someone who wants to play a high-impact role in a fast-paced project with exciting technologies and top-notch engineers.

Job Objective: Evangelize MokaFive's revolutionary technology to the developer community at large, with a special focus on small and medium business, including the education market. Design and implement a world-class developer program with the communications, information resources and tools to attract and support a vibrant community of MokaFive developers. This will involve the creation and management of a portion of the MokaFive's web site targeting developers and execution of plans to build capacity around that environment, and all communications and information necessary to build the community.

The primary responsibilities of this position are the following:

  • Set the vision and execute on the plan to build a vibrant community of developers on the MokaFive platform.
  • Actively interact with developers through mailing lists, discussion forums, blogs and other means.
  • Be an effective and influential ambassador for our company and bring feedback from developers back into MokaFive's product requirements roadmap.
  • Establish and manage all communications with MokaFive's developer community. Organize our developer services and knowledge base as we grow.
  • Develop alliances with other technology platforms.
  • Speak at technical conferences, create and perform demos to developers and customers.

Requirements/Skills:

  • BS/MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent work related experience required, or must be sufficiently technical to effectively engage and direct developers.
  • Passion, curiosity, technical depth and exceptional communication and presentation skills to both executive and technical audiences are required.
  • 3+ years of experience in building and maintaining a developer community or users group with an open-source software company or mission.
  • Exceptionally creative communicator, capable of building excitement within the development community.
  • A high level of professionalism, passion, ethics, confidence and commitment.
  • Strong organizational skills and a focus on users and customers being served and inspired.
  • Flexibility in regards to work schedule and travel.

This position reports to the Sr. Director, Business Development.

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@mokafive.com.

Technical Services Engineer

MokaFive is looking for a talented and driven Technical Services Engineer to join our high-powered team. We are a well-funded Silicon Valley startup creating the next generation of desktop virtualization products. This is an extraordinary opportunity for someone who wants to play a high-impact role in a fast-paced project with exciting technologies and top-notch engineers.

Job Objective: Responsible for all sales activities, from lead generation through close in an assigned territory. Develops and implements agreed upon marketing plan which will meet both personal and business goals of expanding customer base in targeted areas. Works within the sales and support teams for the achievement of customer satisfaction, revenue generation, and long-term account goals in line with company vision and values

The primary responsibilities of this position are the following:

  • Support customers, prospects and field sales engineers through emails, forums and phone support
  • Use salesforce.com to maintain records of activities including support calls, presentations, POC/Pilot deployments, and follow-up activities
  • Work in a strong team environment to provide unparalleled support to customers and field engineers in a wide variety of industries
  • Participates and contributes to the development of MokaFive software offered to clients, prospects and other company employees
  • Visit Customer Sites for implementation and scoping
  • Take customer requirements and report requirements to engineering
  • Help define and create support processes (with direction)
  • Help create and maintain FAQ's for MokaFive site
  • Build LivePC's for demo's, customers and prospects

Relationships and Roles:

  • Maintain contact with all clients in the market area to ensure high levels of client satisfaction
  • Demonstrate ability to interact and cooperate with all company employees
  • Build trust, value others, communicate effectively, drive execution, foster innovation, focus on the customer, collaborate with others, solve problems creatively and demonstrate high integrity
  • Maintain professional internal and external relationships that meet company core values
  • Establish and maintain effective working team relationships

Requirements/Skills:

  • Windows Admin experience (optional but not requirement with Active Directory or LDAP)
  • Linux Admin Experienced
  • 2-3 years of support or professional services experience in the IT industry
  • Experience in all aspects of customer relationship management
  • Strong understanding of customer and market dynamics and requirements
  • Willingness to work and, if needed, travel globally

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@mokafive.com.

Engineering / QA

Software Engineer - Virtualization

We are looking for outstanding engineers who want to significantly improve the way people use computers by leveraging virtualization technology.

You will be responsible for developing and evolving the core MokaFive technology that radically improves the usability and effectiveness of our products.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and evolve the MokaFive LivePC engine, the core MokaFive technology that differentiates our products from all others.
  • Extend MokaFive to additional hypervisors, host and guest operating systems and hardware.

Required

  • 2-10+ years software development experience.
  • 2+ years experience in C++.
  • Strong knowledge of Windows internals and/or Linux kernel.
  • Degree in Computer Science or other relevant field (or equivalent experience).
  • Willingness to work hard and do what it takes - even if it's not in the job description. We are a start-up, after all.

Preferred

  • Knowledge of and experience with virtualization.
  • Experience with commercial software development.
  • Experience developing on multiple platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac, games, phones, etc).

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@mokafive.com.

Software Engineer - Tools

We are looking for outstanding engineers who want to significantly improve the way people use computers by leveraging virtualization technology.

You will be responsible for developing and evolving the tools used by MokaFive's users and partners to develop virtual machines - LivePCs - which then run in the MokaFive environment.

Responsibilities

  • Develop tools which allow users to easily create and manage their own virtual computing environments (LivePCs).
  • Research and understand the current technology and competition. Develop the strategy for radically changing the Virtual Machine creation landscape.

Required

  • A fearless and pragmatic approach. We are breaking new ground here and need someone who is both fearless enough to explore new territory and pragmatic enough to deliver value to end-users quickly.
  • 2-10 years software development experience.
  • 2+ years experience in C++.
  • Degree in Computer Science or other relevant field (or equivalent experience).
  • Willingness to work hard and do what it takes - even if it's not in the job description. We are a start-up, after all.

Preferred

  • Knowledge of and experience with virtualization.
  • Experience building SDKs and other development tools.
  • Experience in Java, Perl, Python or other languages.
  • Experience developing on multiple platforms (Linux, Windows, Mac).
  • Experience in Windows and/or Linux administration.

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@mokafive.com.

Software Engineer - MokaFive Server

MokaFive is working in one of the hottest segments of the enterprise software industry. Already an established leader in client-side virtualization, MokaFive is bringing their special blend of creativity and know-how to the server-side, creating solutions that allow Enterprise IT groups to create, manage and control their client computing resources.

Responsibilities

MokaFive is seeking a talented and driven Senior Software Engineer to provide leadership on and hands-on contribution to their next generation virtualization management offering. This person will join a very strong team that is accustomed to creating working software at a rapid pace. Superior candidates will have strong communication skills and be able to clearly articulate technical opinions with a focus on finding the best solution.

Required

  • Degree in Computer Science or relevant field, or equivalent experience.
  • 4-10 years software development experience in Java.
  • 3+ years experience developing scalable, enterprise-class server software.
  • Strong familiarity with AJAX, Javascript, HTML and CSS.
  • Excellent problem solving skills.
  • Ability to demonstrate superior object-oriented design and programming skills.
  • Experience with the complete software development lifecycle.

Preferred

  • Experience with Java-based frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate.
  • Experience with thin-client GUI toolkits such as GWT.
  • Experience with multiple platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac).
  • Knowledge of and experience with virtualization.
  • Experience with Agile development methodologies such as Scrum.
  • Familiarity with PHP is a plus.

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@mokafive.com.

QA Automation Engineer

We are looking for an outstanding QA Automation Engineer to help us improve our products and the way we develop them.

Responsibilities

  • Develop test tools and tests to automate functional and regression testing.
  • Automate UI testing using UI-based tools.
  • (Please note: if your experience is limited to using commercial GUI-based testers such as Silk, this won't be the right position for you.)

Required

  • Several years of test automation experience.
  • Experience with shell, Perl, Python, or other scripting languages.
  • Degree in Computer Science or other relevant field (or equivalent experience).
  • Willingness to work hard and do what it takes - even if it's not in the job description. We are a start-up, after all.

Preferred

  • Knowledge of and experience with virtualization.
  • Experience with multiple platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac).
  • Experience with commercial and open-source test automation tools.

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@mokafive.com.

QA Engineer

We are looking for an outstanding QA Engineer to help us improve our products and the way we develop them.

Responsibilities

  • Work cross-functionally to develop and execute tests which effectively and efficiently measure the quality of MokaFive's products.
  • Work cross-functionally to communicate testing results and resolve issues.

Required

  • Several years of hands-on QA experience.
  • Degree in Computer Science or other relevant field (or equivalent experience).
  • Willingness to work hard and do what it takes - even if it's not in the job description. We are a start-up, after all.

Preferred

  • Knowledge of and experience with virtualization.
  • Experience with shell, Perl, Python or other scripting languages.
  • Experience with multiple platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac).
  • Experience with QA automation.

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@mokafive.com.

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