Chief Operating Officer (COO)Location: PMQ, Central, Hong Kong
Compensation: Monthly salary & opportunity to earn employee stock options
About Soundbrenner
Soundbrenner brings great design and advanced technology to every musician on the planet, with the goal to help musicians master their craft. We do that by creating an integrated platform, consisting of a wearable and mobile app. It’s the one central piece of software that brings musicians together and that is designed to be used every single time music is played anywhere.
We’re headquartered in Hong Kong and operate an additional office in Berlin. We currently employ a full-time staff of 12. To date we sold and shipped over 30,000 units. Our apps are used by over 100,000 musicians every month. We’ve raised over $2 million USD in funding from investors. We were featured in the New York Times, Techcrunch, Gizmodo and around a dozen of other international press outlets. While we are proud of the progress we made so far, we still consider ourselves to be at the very beginning of what is to come.
Job Summary
This is a unique opportunity for a highly motivated individual. Your responsibility will be to run the day to day operations of the company in a number of diverse areas. You will work hands-on with multiple internal and external teams to make sure results are delivered across areas such as operations, finance, legal and more. You’ll design a set of processes - a machine - that will allow things to run smoothly every day. Beyond that you will also have the opportunity to develop high level concepts and strategies for large projects from scratch.
As COO you will be working hand in hand with the company founders and you will be one of the most defining pieces in the future of Soundbrenner.
What you’ll do:
Leading our e-commerce operation, for example overcoming the legal regulatory hurdles of new markets, negotiating with our logistics service providers, selecting the right forwarding partners and more.
Leading new special projects, for example starting a 3rd party music technology hardware shop within our mobile app and website.
Work with our customer success manager to ensure the satisfaction of our customers, both of the product and the online shop operation.
Conduct inventory planning and initiate the manufacturing of new batches, as well as attempting to achieve cost optimizations in our production and organize the quality control of finished goods.
Make cash flow projections and calculations, negotiate payment terms and secure order financing
Work with our operations manager to ensure our accounting and books are in order and design P&L and balance sheet reporting systems.
Creating fundraising documentation and join investor meetings
What we’re looking for:
You’re a Hong Kong identity card holder or have work permission in Hong Kong already
Bachelor’s degree with at least 5+ years of experience in finance, logistics, operations or related fields.
You have 2+ years of management experience and demonstrated experience leading teams of 10+ people.
You need to care deeply about doing great work. You need to derive your satisfaction not from praise, but from being proud of what you accomplished yourself. Work needs to play a major part in your life and your priorities. As member of Soundbrenner you are building a company from the ground up. That means your life right now needs to be all about growing, learning and building.
You need to be able to think outcome oriented. You always need to understand why you are ultimately doing something and constantly ask yourself if what you are currently doing is the best way to achieve it.
Challenges and problems don’t scare you. If you are surrounded by problems, you don’t focus on what’s wrong but on how you can solve it.
You will have to wear many hats and do things for the first time on a regular basis. That means you need to be good at learning new things quickly without any outside guidance. You should be able to identify what’s important & find shortcuts as fast as possible.
What it’s like working at Soundbrenner
If you are like us you have a passion for great design, technology and hardware. At Soundbrenner you get the chance to make this passion your job. Working for a hardware company you get to witness the miracles of making something out of nothing and holding your own product in your hand. What could be more exciting?
At Soundbrenner we value justice and we value fairness. If you are capable of adding a lot of value to the company, you will be compensated accordingly. That’s why we are more than happy to offer exceptional employees stock options. All you need to worry about is doing what you love to do: A great job.
You will work with highly motivated people in an intense work environment. As a result you will experience a steep learning curve and have the chance to grow in rapid speed together with the company. It will be quite fast paced and a hell a lot of fun.
The work we do at Soundbrenner has the potential to touch the life of every single musician on the planet. If we are successful your work may influence an entire industry for the better. We love music and working on something that matters inspires us to give our best every single day.
Opportunity to help build a company in close collaboration with the founding team.
At Soundbrenner you have an abundance of freedom and are only responsible for the results you produce. We think you know best how you can do great work, so it’s up to you how to get to the finish line.
You understand that your ideas have the potential to change the world? You don’t just dream to get something done - you are willing to take the first steps with all its consequences? Then you might fit right in. Please send your application to jobs@soundbrenner.com.Florian SimmendingerCEO & Co-Founder at Soundbrenner Limited