Topspin Searching for VP Engineering

Hello,

Yes we’re watching the layoff news and we’re not growing at the pace we once were ourselves, but we do have a few key positions to fill still, including our VP Engineering. If you know someone with VP-level engineering management skills who loves music and would be motivated by building a software toolset to help artists run successful businesses, please have them reach out to us. On the flipside, if you *don’t* have these skills (or skills matching one of the other jobs on our Jobs page), please *don’t* email us. No offense, but we’re very busy building software and would like to keep the signal-to-noise ratio at a manageable level. Thanks!

VP Engineering, Topspin

Topspin is a media technology company helping artists and their partners build successful businesses and brand awareness by providing the software, services and infrastructure through a turn key marketing platform. We create the tools to manage content, connect with fans and generate demand for music while providing deep visibility and analytics that are actionable throughout the system. What ProTools did for music production, Topspin is dedicated to doing for music marketing.

You can read more about our company on our blog, in this Billboard article, and get a bit of a sense of what we stand for in this TechCrunch article. Our chairman and co-founder is ProTools-founder Peter Gotcher and we are backed financially by Redpoint and Foundry Group. I am the CEO and my background includes a stint at Nullsoft and Grand Royal, as well as the GM of Yahoo! Music.

We are currently on the hunt for an inspired and experienced VP of Engineering to lead the majority of our employees, our incredibly talented engineering team of twenty-five. The right candidate is a former VP of Engineering with a history of passionate leadership, knowledge of engineering process and a track record of delivering robust software against aggressive timelines. They have experience building simple, elegant and powerful Web applications as well as possessing a passion for music, either as a performer or a fan.

Experience in ecommerce, CRM, digital media delivery, analytics, scalable services and/or marketing based systems is desirable. Responsibilities include the management and oversight of the developers, network operations/IT, data services, QA and program managers in a 24x7x365 high availability environment. Technologies include RoR, MySQL, Java and python.

If this describes you, please reach out to us ASAP.

ian c rogers
Topspin