Q1 has been a great quarter for Gold Systems, and we're hiring again. If you are a software project manager, or a .NET engineer, check out the job postings at http://www.goldsys.com/careers
(Note to recruiters. We have several great relationships with recruiters already, so only contact us if you have a specific person who would be a great fit for one of our jobs. Thanks!)
With just a couple of days left in 2011, I have to say I think that 2012 is going to be a great year. At Gold Systems we have a new product, Vonetix 7 Voice, and business is really starting to take off. We beat our sales goals for Q4 by a wide margin, and we're going into Q1 with a LOT of opportunity. To say I'm thankful would be an understatement. 2011 was challenging and I'm hugely grateful to everyone who helped us end the year on an upswing.
Now we're looking for some great people to join our engineering group. We're mainly looking for .NET and IVR people, but check out our job postings at the Gold Systems website and if it looks interesting, shoot us an email.
To all my friends and business associates – have a Happy New Year and I hope to see you in 2012!
Terry
2010 was a good year for Gold Systems, and we grew revenue and profits. Now we want to do it again, so we're going to be adding to our sales organization.
We are looking for a Regional Sales Manager for the Great Lakes Region. Besides the usual requirements, (you need to be able to prospect, sell and close business) we're looking for people who fit our culture and have experience in our industry. The ideal person would have sales experience with IVR and speech recognition applications, contact centers, and most importantly a track record of selling with Microsoft and Microsoft partners.
To learn more about Gold Systems, click here. You can submit your resume on the website or if you send it directly to me, I'll get it to the right people.
Terry
(2/22/2010 – we've hired our new VP of Engineering and he started this morning. Thanks to everyone who emailed or helped in the search. I do appreciate it! — Terry)
How would you like to start the new year with a new job? I'm looking for a VP of Engineering to join us at Gold Systems. Our expectations are high, because we don't trust our people to just anyone who walks through the door. It really does start with people – we have a great group of people and the new VP has to understand that we have to treat them right if we expect them to treat our customers right. Customers expect us to deliver the very best technology and software that always works and is easy to use. (And when it doesn't work, they expect us to fix it fast, whether it ends up being our bug or theirs.) They also expect us to deliver on time and to fit in to their way of building critical applications.
I'm looking for someone who has written code and met deadlines, and who understands that software is some part art and some part science. You should be comfortable sitting down with a couple of smart engineers and brainstorming with them about how to solve a problem. And you have to be humble enough to understand you probably aren't the best coder in the group, but that it's your job to look out for and then find more of the best engineers. You'll have some customer contact too, so you've got to be able to switch from low-level techie talk to high-level overviews that reassures the customer that they are in good hands. (Many of our customers are very, very technical, so you can't be too quick to assume who knows what.)
Having a bit of the entrepreneur in you wouldn't hurt either, because everyone at Gold Systems is involved in the business and everyone on the leadership team is a part of making it work. It's OK if you don't understand how to read an income statement, we can teach you that, but you do have to want to understand the entire system at some level, not just the software development piece.
Gold Systems is known in the industry for IVR and speech recognition applications, but our market is expanding as we do more Unified Communications. The last time I looked we had 11 of the Fortune 20 as customers. We were one of the first companies to partner with Microsoft on UC deployments and now we're one of the first to build UC applications. One of your jobs will be to think about the kinds of applications we can create for customers and to help the engineering team expand their capabilities. You're probably going to need a white board wall in your office – and yes, everyone at Gold Systems still gets their own office. No cube farms here.
If you think you have the right mix of engineering abilities and leadership skills, and you believe that a company can have a good culture and still do well as a business, then email me your resume. If you do email me, mention this blog post and I'll respond and let you know that I received it. Thanks!
Terry (tgold@goldsys.com)
(For everyone who knows Matt, he's decided to step back into a pure technical role. He's done a great job of leading the team through some tough economic times and he's ready to let someone else take it on.)
Gold Systems is looking hire a couple of Regional Sales Managers and a Channel Manager.
The first Regional Sales Manager position will be on the West Coast – we're flexible about exactly where you live, but you have to be a great hunter-sales person AND fit our values and culture. One or the other isn't enough, but if you are the right person I think we have a good opportunity for you. Check out the Gold Systems website at www.goldsys.com to get an idea of what we do, and this link http://www.goldsys.com/about/careers/ to read about the jobs.
The Regional Sales Manager job description is posted now, and the Channel Manager position should be posted next week. The Channel Manager position is heavy on customer/partner relations and technical ability, and is NOT a pure sales position. This position will be in the Redmond, Washington area.
Email me directly and tell me you read about this on my blog and I'll send your email and resume right to our VP of Sales. No recruiters, please. Thanks! — Terry
Update #1
Here is a link to a page about Gold Systems, and here is the link to the Channel Manager position and the Regional Sales Manager position.