Front End Technical Architect - Hybrid, London - Salary Depending on Experience

Front End Technical Architect

Location: Hybrid, London 

Type: Full Time 

Position Overview: 

We are seeking a Front End Technical Architect to work on the front-end of our Remote Gaming Platform (RGP). The RGP delivers world-class games and a rich set of capabilities for a superior gaming experience. Deployed in multiple jurisdictions, it integrates with operators worldwide, providing content to millions of players.

As a product-led organization, the role involves owning the technical direction of various products and capabilities, working closely with Product Owners, Architects, and stakeholders. You will contribute to defining the future state of our platform and help development teams deliver value efficiently.

Key Responsibilities:

- Own the technical roadmap, long-term vision, and final solutions for front-end projects.

- Provide guidelines and technical support to ensure high-quality solutions.

- Assist with problem analysis, resolution, and provide high-level estimates.

- Collaborate with stakeholders to capture functional/non-functional requirements and address regulatory, security, and compliance concerns.

- Perform technical comparisons with competitor solutions.

- Mentor and support team members to enhance their technical skills.

Requirements:

- Strong JavaScript/TypeScript experience with websockets, HTML, and CSS.

- Experience with front-end frameworks like React and Angular.

- Knowledge of Python.

- Front-end security experience, particularly with CORS and Content Security Policy headers.

- Experience with network routing and web server technologies such as Nginx and Envoy Proxy.

- Familiarity with on-premise S3 object storage solutions such as Minio or Zenko Cloudserver.

- Good understanding of container technology and Kubernetes.

- Experience with service mesh technologies like Istio, particularly its use of the Envoy proxy.

- Critical thinking skills to resolve live issues promptly.

- Experience with API design and system integration (REST, RPC).

- Continuous delivery/integration and Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).

- Experience with public cloud platforms, ideally Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Core Values:

- All about the Player 

- Talent Unleashed 

- Collective Brilliance 

- Good Business, Good Citizen

Travel Requirements: 

None

Senior Account Manager - Tokyo, JPN - ¥11,000,000

Senior Account Manager

Tokyo, JPN

¥11,000,000

Job Description

We are searching for an exceptional person to join us as an Account Manager as a member of our growing Account management team in Tokyo and help Brightcove achieve breakout growth. This person must have a proactive attitude and a proven track record for delivering on or exceeding revenue goals and take pride in getting it done.

The candidate we will hire will be highly self-motivated, extremely organized, team-oriented, creative, and possess outstanding communication and negotiating skills. This role’s primary responsibility is cross-selling and upselling into a base of existing customers and requires relationship building, extensive pipeline generation and prospecting. This role also requires to act as the Customer Success/Account Retention team to ultimately ensure complete customer satisfaction and maximum value return from Brightcove products & services.

Job Responsibilities

·        Develop an in-depth understanding of the customers’ business, challenges and requirements and explain how the Brightcove platform could benefit them.

·        Build relationships with key contact person of Partners to encourage/upgrade new and repeat business.

·        Work with project champions at clients and within organization to make sure needs are met. Interact both internally with product team, finance team and professional services and externally with customers.

·        Manage existing clients including renewing the contract, and analyzing monthly usage and business contribution etc.

·        Negotiate contract renewals and upsell/add-on opportunities

·        Recruit new Partners and conduct promotional activity.

Qualifications/Experience

·        5+ years of Account Manager and/or Sales experience in the IT industry (Cloud, SaaS, PaaS preferred).

·        Media industry experience a plus

·        Demonstrated ability to multi-task across a wide range of accounts.

·        Demonstrated ability to present to technical and non-technical audiences and be able to handle objections on the fly.

·        An ability to listen to customer needs, assess these needs effectively and address them through new products and services.

·        Excellent presentation and communication skills.

·        High level of comfort and experience working with all levels of professionals both internally and externally.

·        A proven track record delivering on or exceeding goals.

·        Proven ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial young company in which cross-functional teamwork and initiative is a must.

·        Fluent in Japanese and English

·        Familiarity with HTML, CSS and JavaScript is a plus.

·        Familiarity working with APIs and SDKs is a plus.

·        Experience developing technical solutions is a plus.

Senior Account Executive - Tokyo, JPN - ¥13,000,000 - ¥15,081,018

Senior Account Executive

Tokyo, JPN

¥13,000,000 - ¥15,081,018

Job Description

We are searching for an exceptional person to take a position as a Senior Account Executive of our growing Media and Enterprise sales team in Japan and help achieve breakout growth. This person must have a proactive attitude and a proven track record for delivering on or exceeding revenue goals and take pride in getting it done. The candidate we will hire will be highly self-motivated, extremely organized, team-oriented, creative, and possess outstanding communication and negotiating skills. This role’s primary responsibility is closing deals with new customers through outreach, which requires relationship building, negotiating, and closing the deal with extensive pipeline generation and prospecting.

Job Responsibilities:

·        Develop an in-depth understanding of the customers’ business, issues/challenges and requirements and explain how the platform could benefit them.

·        Build relationships with new customers at all levels to encourage new business.

·        Identify, negotiate, and close deals with new customers.

·        Work with project champions at clients and within organizations to make sure needs are met. Interact both internally with product team, and professional services and externally with customers.

·        Recruit new Partners through outreach, connections and promotional activity.

Qualifications/Experience:

·        5+ years of Sales and/or Account Management experience in the IT industry (Cloud, SaaS, PaaS preferred).

·        Demonstrated ability to multi-task across a wide range of accounts.

·        Demonstrated ability to present to technical and non-technical audiences and be able to handle objections on the fly.

·        An ability to listen to customer needs, assess these needs effectively and address them through new products and services.

·        Excellent presentation and communication skills.

·        High level of comfort and experience working with all levels of professionals both internally and externally.

·        A proven track record delivering on or exceeding goals.

·        Proven ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial young company in which cross-functional teamwork and initiative is a must.

·        Familiarity with HTML, CSS and JavaScript is a plus.

·        Familiarity working with APIs and SDKs is a plus.

·        Experience developing technical solutions is a plus.

Senior Account Manager - Japan, Tokyo - ¥11,000,000

Senior Account Manager

Japan, Tokyo

¥11,000,000

Job Description

We are searching for an exceptional person to join us as an Account Manager as a member of our growing Account management team in Tokyo and help achieve breakout growth. This person must have a proactive attitude and a proven track record for delivering on or exceeding revenue goals and take pride in getting it done.

The candidate we will hire will be highly self-motivated, extremely organized, team-oriented, creative, and possess outstanding communication and negotiating skills. This role’s primary responsibility is cross-selling and upselling into a base of existing customers and requires relationship building, extensive pipeline generation and prospecting. This role also requires to act as the Customer Success/Account Retention team to ultimately ensure complete customer satisfaction and maximum value return from products & services.

Job Responsibilities

· Develop an in-depth understanding of the customers’ business, challenges and requirements and explain how the platform could benefit them.

· Build relationships with key contact person of Partners to encourage/upgrade new and repeat business.

· Work with project champions at clients and within organization to make sure needs are met. Interact both internally with product team, finance team and professional services and externally with customers.

· Manage existing clients including renewing the contract, and analyzing monthly usage and business contribution etc.

· Negotiate contract renewals and upsell/add-on opportunities

· Recruit new Partners and conduct promotional activity.

Qualifications/Experience

· 5+ years of Account Manager and/or Sales experience in the IT industry (Cloud, SaaS, PaaS preferred).

· Media industry experience a plus

· Demonstrated ability to multi-task across a wide range of accounts.

· Demonstrated ability to present to technical and non-technical audiences and be able to handle objections on the fly.

· An ability to listen to customer needs, assess these needs effectively and address them through new products and services.

· Excellent presentation and communication skills.

· High level of comfort and experience working with all levels of professionals both internally and externally.

· A proven track record delivering on or exceeding goals.

· Proven ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial young company in which cross-functional teamwork and initiative is a must.

· Fluent in Japanese and English

· Familiarity with HTML, CSS and JavaScript is a plus.

· Familiarity working with APIs and SDKs is a plus.

· Experience developing technical solutions is a plus.

Account Manager - Japan, Tokyo - ¥8,000,000 - ¥8,894,000

Account Manager

Japan, Tokyo

¥8,000,000 - ¥8,894,000

Job Description

We are searching for an exceptional person to join us as an Account Manager as a member of our growing Account management team in Tokyo and help us achieve breakout growth. This person must have a proactive attitude and a proven track record for delivering on or exceeding revenue goals and take pride in getting it done.

The candidate we will hire will be highly self-motivated, extremely organized, team-oriented, creative, and possess outstanding communication and negotiating skills. This role’s primary responsibility is cross-selling and upselling into a base of existing customers and requires relationship building, extensive pipeline generation and prospecting. This role also requires to act as the Customer Success/Account Retention team to ultimately ensure complete customer satisfaction and maximum value return from our products & services.

Job Responsibilities

·        Develop an in-depth understanding of the customers’ business, challenges and requirements and explain how the platform could benefit them.

·        Build relationships with key contact person of Partners to encourage/upgrade new and repeat business.

·        Work with project champions at clients and within organization to make sure needs are met. Interact both internally with product team, finance team and professional services and externally with customers.

·        Manage existing clients including renewing the contract, and analyzing monthly usage and business contribution etc.

·        Negotiate contract renewals and upsell/add-on opportunities

·        Recruit new Partners and conduct promotional activity.

Qualifications/Experience

·        3+ years of Account Manager and/or Sales experience in the IT industry (Cloud, SaaS, PaaS preferred).

·        Demonstrated ability to multi-task across a wide range of accounts.

·        Demonstrated ability to present to technical and non-technical audiences and be able to handle objections on the fly.

·        An ability to listen to customer needs, assess these needs effectively, and address them through new products and services.

·        Excellent presentation and communication skills.

·        High level of comfort and experience working with all levels of professionals both internally and externally.

·        A proven track record delivering on or exceeding goals.

·        Proven ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial young company in which cross-functional teamwork and initiative is a must.

·        Familiarity with HTML, CSS and JavaScript is a plus.

·        Familiarity working with APIs and SDKs is a plus.

·        Experience developing technical solutions is a plus.

Sales Director - Japan, Tokyo - ¥8,724,400 - ¥13,086,600

Sales Director

Japan, Tokyo

¥8,724,400 - ¥13,086,600

Job Description

We are searching for an exceptional person to take a position as a member of our growing Customer Success team and help us achieve breakout growth. This person must have a proven track record for delivering on or exceeding revenue goals and take pride in getting it done. As a Sales Director, you will drive the complete retention of our customers, and nurture them towards adopting our video products and technology across multiple areas of their business.

The candidate we will hire will be highly self-motivated, extremely organized, team-oriented, creative, and possess outstanding communication and negotiating skills. This role’s primary responsibility is to cultivate and maintain strong relationships within assigned accounts ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction and recognition of ROI, leading to strong renewals and growth opportunities. This role also requires you to work on add-on bookings and upsell opportunities, ensure complete customer satisfaction and maximum value return from our products & services.

Job Responsibilities

·        Drive retention and growth among customer base by understanding their business needs and helping them succeed

·        Maintain a cadence of communicating with customers about their adoption trends, sentiment, and mining opportunities for deeper engagement

·        Collaborate closely with stakeholder across Japan team to partner on expansion opportunities

·        Negotiate contract renewals and upsell/add-on opportunities

·        Provide insights to customers to ensure that they get the most out of the platform with the aim of helping grow our customer base

·        Gauge customers’ levels of engagement with the company and provide feedback to the other teams regarding product and service improvements

·        Report on, track and update all interactions tasks for customer plans

·        Become a domain and industry expert

·        Maintain competitive knowledge & focus

·        Exceptional at cross-collaborating internally with different teams, such as finance, legal, marketing, support etc

Qualifications/Experience

·        3-5  years+ in a quota-carrying Sales, Customer Success, Relationship Management, Account Management, or similar role within a SaaS or software company.

·        Experience working with enterprise customers.

·        A proven track record delivering on or exceeding revenue goals and quota.

·        Experience building and maintaining relationships, while working to mitigate churn and drive engagement and renewals

·        Demonstrated ability to develop, manage, and carry through complex renewals to closure.

·        Detailed understanding of client business strategy, drivers, goals and initiatives and translating these into our selling opportunities.

·        Proven ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial startup in which cross-functional teamwork and initiative is a must.

·        Possess excellent communication skills to customize communication to the customer’s needs with confidence; effectively deliver “memorable” presentations leveraging “why video” storytelling skills.

·        Demonstrate excellent networking skills to identify the right customer stakeholders and build connections quickly to drive consensus for deals; drive communications with internal cross-functional teams for renewal success.

·        Retain a customer-first attitude while still exhibiting excellent negotiation skills.

·        General knowledge of code(CSS, HTML, JAVA) would be a bonus, but not required

·        Experience with CRM (Salesforce.com), CEM (Gainsight) would be a plus

·        These are the qualifications and experience we are targeting but we also are excited to have an opportunity to teach you technologies and skills you've never used before. All we ask for is creativity and tenacity in solving the problems that we are tackling together.

Working with us

As the undisputed global leader in powering premium video for our customers, we recruit and retains highly qualified and motivated individuals, creating an environment where people can innovate and achieve their best, and we reward them for their performance by giving them the opportunity to share in the company’s success. We offer competitive benefits and compensation packages.

We offer flexible options to work in our Tokyo office, remotely or in a hybrid set up (only exceptions are the roles that MUST work a certain way which we are finalizing soon). If you choose to work in the office, our Tokyo office is located at PMO Tamachi 9th floor, 5-31-17 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014, within a 3 minute walking distance from JR TAMACHI station and Toei Mita/Asakusa line MITA station. Whichever option you choose, we have plenty of opportunities to meet your colleagues around the globe and we also celebrate a variety of personal interests with organized groups and clubs.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.