Business Development Manager:
The successful candidate will have an active network and a proven track record of building and delivering solid marketing solutions in an effective and scalable way. This is a fantastic opportunity and an excellent environment for someone looking to advance their career and be part of an innovative and dynamic digital media organization.
Responsibilities:
- Consistently meeting and exceeding sales goals.
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with clients and ad agencies.
- Placing high level calls will be expected. Client and agency meetings are of the utmost importance to best position oTeKbits for success.
- Identifying new business opportunities; understanding client needs and presenting relevant solutions.
- Managing day-to-day relationships to meet short-term deliverables and long-term campaign goals.
- Effectively organizing, prioritizing and managing multiple projects in a deadline-driven environment.
- Responsible for the entire sales process: identifying sales opportunities and carrying through to successful campaign completion.
- Developing and maintaining a strong sales pipeline to ensure sufficient opportunities exist to meet revenue goals.
- Keeping up-to-date and detailed records of sales activity through a CRM solution.
Job Qualifications:
- Passionate about the digital media industry
- A keen ability to see opportunities, understand needs, create relevant solutions, set proper expectations and close meaningful deals
- Demonstrated record of success in a fast-paced, goal-oriented sales environment
- Dynamic, flexible, hard-working and highly organized
- Excellent oral and written communication skills are a must
- Well organized with attention to detail.
Business Development Interns:
oTeKbits is seeking ambitious and motivated undergraduate and graduate-level interns. Interns with our business & content development team have the opportunity to work with and learn from our leadership. Responsibilities include research, analytics, relationship management and collateral development for an innovative and dynamic digital media organization.
Responsibilities:
- Researching new opportunities for content partnerships, syndication relationships and brand licensing
- Tracking, analyzing and communicating performance of oTeKbits partnerships
- Developing marketing collateral for outreach to potential partners
- Helping manage and build relationships with existing partners and products
- Performing competitive analysis in current and future focus areas
Qualifications:
- A strong grasp of the social and digital media space
- A business or media-focused major
- Strong communication and writing skills
- Experience using MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and Google Docs
- Proficient quantitative and qualitative analytical skills and ability to communicate findings
- Effective team player and self-starter who understands how and when to be proactive
- Ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment
- Highly organized and passionate about digital media, technology and startups.
- Driven hard worker with a fantastic attitude
- Must be available a minimum of 18 hours a week
Editorial Intern – Technology
oTeKbits currently seeks ambitious and motivated undergraduate and graduate-level editorial interns. You will be expected to work from anywhere and the minimum requirement is that you are a university student. As an editorial intern you will have the opportunity to work with and learn from Otekbits editors. Responsibilities include research, fact checking, copy editing and writing.
Interns must have personal laptop and internet access and will be paid per hour. For more details, please review the job requirements below:
- Must be available a minimum of 18 hours a week
- Strong familiarity with WordPress (HTML)
- Strong fact checking skills
- Strong grasp of grammar
- Ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment
- Highly organized
- Hard worker who is driven and has a fantastic attitude
- Knowledge of the technology space and oTeKbits‘ core coverage areas
To Apply: Send an email to otek[at]bits[dot]com stating how you meet the requirement and why you should be considered for the internship. Also, include your twitter, facebook and linkedin profile url in the email.
Technology Blogger, Contributors and Content Producers
oTeKbits is looking for technology bloggers, contributors and content producers in Nigeria for all of it’s tech channels – Startup, Developers, Gadgets, News, Resource, and Events. Are you:
- a tech enthusiast
- a good writer with reporting skills
- proficient with the internet
- a good virtual worker
To Apply: Send your resume and some examples of your writings to otek[at]bits[dot]com.
oTekBits is a leading technology media company dedicated to providing daily coverage of everything happening within the Startups, technology and developers ecosystem. We also provide product/service review and in-depth analysis of technology trends/events and happenings within the mobile & technology ecosystem.
Technology journalists in Nigeria
HumanIPO.com is looking for technology journalists in Nigeria for its growing tech news section. This is definitely something for you, if you’ve got:
- love for the internet, new technology
- knowledge how to write an article
- excellent English
- good reporting skills
- prior journalism experience is a plus
Send your resume and some examples of your writings to kd@humanipo.com.
HumanIPO is an African tech news site and startup community for people creating something new in Africa – starting businesses, investing in technology or joining startups.
Watch out for this space for more tech and tech-ish jobs – full time, part time, freelance, volunteer, etc.