Jobs

Joby is always in search of curious individuals who think differently and are willing to break boundaries and disrupt convention. If you are razor sharp, enthusiastic, entrepreneurial and fanatical about the consumer experience, we’d love to hear from you. Drop us a line at jobs@joby.com and let us know a little about what makes you tick and how you would contribute to Joby.

The Company:

Joby is a young, high-growth company that creates well-designed, revolutionary products that inspire the creative and active lifestyle. The Company revolutionized the camera accessories market in early 2006 with its Gorillapod line of flexible tripods and continues to redefine the consumer electronics market with its Gorillamobile and Gorillatorch product lines. The brand has a strong and loyal following of consumers who are passionate about both innovative design and functional performance. Founded in 2005, Joby is a privately-held company headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with offices in Santa Cruz, CA; Geneva, Switzerland; Singapore and Shenzhen, China.

Open Positions:

Office Manager and Executive Assistant

The Introduction

  • Do you love working with a young, dynamic and global team, headquartered in the wonderful city of San Francisco?

  • Are you passionate about creating and thriving in creative and inspiring office environments?

  • Are you passionate about contributing to industrial design and supporting revolutionary consumer products with exciting new marketing initiatives?

If you answered yes to the questions above, please see below to learn more about Joby's search for an Office Manager and Executive Assistant.

The Description

The Office Manager and Executive Assistant will report directly to the CEO with dotted line reporting to the Director of Finance and VP Marketing. The candidate will have full office management responsibilities as well as administrative responsibilities in support of the CEO and select other VP level employees.

The Duties

  • Perform all office management duties including:

    • Upkeep and organization of entire office, including certain critical areas such as media lab, war rooms, supply room, conference rooms and kitchen

    • Upkeep of office, artistic installations and design elements to a level that reflects the Company's design-minded sensibilities and principles

    • Recurring daily, weekly and monthly office management duties and correspondences with office management related vendors including logistics companies, building supervisors, painters, cleaners, electricians, IT support, furniture designers, artists and other groups

    • Maintaining a clean, organized and outwardly design-focused office environment, which fosters creativity, collaboration and passion for our work

  • Executive Assistant and other support duties including:

    • Scheduling interview processes for managers and candidates

    • Assisting the CEO with meeting planning and presentation preparation

    • Event planning support (Global meetings, tradeshows, distributor meetings, happy hours, etc.)

    • Running reports from our Accounting and ERP systems for CEO or VP level mangers

    • New account or vendor set-up clerical support for VP level managers

    • Other general support for CEO

  • HR and finance support duties including:

    • New hire HR administrative duties

    • Potential for part-time junior bookkeeping or clerical duties

  • Other duties including:

    • Customer service back-up during rare occasions

    • Anything else that is going on at Joby including events, marketing initiatives, tradeshows and other activities. We are a fast-paced Company, that is consistently embarking on new types of marketing and product initiatives, which often require the support of the entire organization.

The Qualifications

  • 2-5 years of office management, administrative or related work

  • Bachelor's or equivalent degree

  • Highly organized individual

  • Background or demonstrated passion or education in interior design, furniture design, architecture, product design, graphic design or fine arts

  • Familiarity with Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint

  • Excellent written and oral communication skills

  • Entrepreneurial and opportunistic drive

  • Passion for photography, film-making, graphic design, product design or industrial design preferred but not required. We are a team of diverse creative talents.

Opportunities for professional development

Depending on the qualifications and performance of the candidate, this role could eventually evolve into a more senior position assisting the CEO directly (Full Time) or within the Finance, HR or Marketing departments.

The Company

Joby is a young, high-growth company that creates well-designed, revolutionary products that inspire the creative and active lifestyle. The Company revolutionized the camera accessories market in early 2006 with its Gorillapod line of flexible tripods and continues to redefine other lifestyle categories with its Gorillamobile, Gorillatorch and future product lines. The brand has a strong and loyal following of consumers who are passionate about both innovative design and functional performance. Founded in 2005, Joby is a privately-held company headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with offices in Santa Cruz, CA; Geneva, Switzerland; Singapore and Shenzhen, China.

In exchange for your time and talent, we promise you a competitive compensation package, benefits, access to our Joby Corporate Education program and a dynamic culture based on respect, personal growth and creativity.

Business Development Manager, Japan

The Role:

The Business Development Manager for Japan will report directly to the VP International Sales in Geneva and work closely with his or her peer Business Development Managers and members of the Senior Management Team. Joby is looking for an entrepreneurial self-starter to grow sales conversion in Japan; through collaboration with our exclusive distributor for our Gorillapod product range; by acquiring the right partners in Japan to distribute our Gorillatorch and Gorillamobile product range; and by growing all future product lines. The Business Development Manager is also responsible for gaining maximum entry and sell-through in the major sales outlets in the following sales channels: Consumer Electronics, Do It Yourself, Mobile Carrier / Mobile Phone accessory, Outdoor/Sporting and Professional markets.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Map the Japanese market and create a plan on how to maximize Joby’s sales potential.
  • Deepen the relationship with our existing distributor and guarantee maximum sell through with all of our Gorillapod products in the desired sales channels.
  • Monitor inventory and purchasing planning of all Japanese sales channels
  • Find new distributors for our new product lines with the potential to become the new exclusive distributors for that specific product line. Joby is interested in long lasting relationships, filtering and finding the “right” distributors is of key importance.
  • Implement a process where the distributors buy and sell all of the products in a specific product family.
  • Visit key retailers, either by yourself or with the distributors and keep tab on our sell through rate per store.
  • Ensure maximum visibility of our products in retail.
  • Maintain a steady network in the Japanese market and look for strategic partners to join commercial forces with (bundling, co-selling).
  • Maintain MSRP’s in the Japanese market in cooperation with the distributor and the retailers.
  • Obtain and maintain CXO contacts with the big retailers.
  • Interact with local Japanese PR and other marketing contacts in conjunction with Joby’s global marketing team.
  • Represent Joby at trade, PR and other marketing events and sponsorships established by yourself, with our partners or by Joby’s global marketing team.
  • Represent Joby and its products on all possible platforms to maximize the business potential.

Qualifications:

  • You live in Japan, preferably Tokyo.
  • You are fluent in Japanese and English.
  • 5-7 years of business development experience; ideal candidate will have gained his/her sales experience at a branded consumer products or consumer electronics company, and is experienced in developing and executing sales plans.
  • Excellent relationship builder with strong collaboration skills – will need to build deep working relationships across a range of partners.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills mandatory; strong business understanding required.
  • Ability to evaluate programs at a strategic level while also able to roll up his/ her sleeves and dig into the day-to-day management of the business to find optimization opportunities big and small.
  • Proven track record to meet and over exceed sales objectives.
  • Ability to analyze and present conclusions on business performance.
  • Strong project management and problem-solving skills.
  • Passionate thinker about consumer behavior.
  • Startup or small-company experience is a strong plus.
  • Passion for photography, film-making, graphic design, product design or industrial design preferred but not required. We are a team of diverse creative talents.

Personal Attributes:

  • Huge drive for success, but gains success in the right and ethical way.
  • Analytical; data and metrics driven
  • Ability to embrace the urgency and innovation required in a fast-paced, small company environment
  • Positive, can-do attitude
  • Collaborative and collegial
  • Self-directed/motivated
  • Flexible and adaptable; highly resourceful and creative
  • Competitive with a passion for winning
  • Results orientation
  • Enthusiastic
  • High integrity; trustworthy

If interested, please send your resume to sfulgheri@joby.com