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Software Market Researcher and Analyst
Location: San Ramon, CA or San Diego, CA
Job Code: SMRA
The analyst will be part of the product marketing team, responsible for performing various research and analysis to strategically drive portfolio, product and go-to-market strategies aimed at scientists within life science and manufacturing industries. The role will involve gathering information from customer interviews, market research reports, market surveys, media and internal systems to deliver, analyze and communicate actionable findings.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Conduct primary market research and analysis
- Gather and collate 3rd Party market analyst research
- Conduct marketing surveys, analysis and reporting
- Perform Customer Win/loss activities
- Competitive information gathering, analysis and reporting
- Portfolio life cycle analysis
- Sales Analysis
- Facilitating the Accelrys pricing committee
Requirements:
- Bachelors degree
- 2 years experience in a similar research and analysis role
- Ability to effectively manipulate data and use excel and other MS Office tools
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent presentation skills, ability to present data clearly and with impact
- Attention to detail, and accuracy
- Team player with excellent interpersonal skills
Product Marketing Manager, Biological Sciences
Location: San Diego, CA or Cambridge, UK
Job Code: PMMBS
This position will be accountable for the development and implementation of market research, planning, positioning, pricing, and promotion activities. S/he will proactively assess the effectiveness of our worldwide sales channel strategies by providing field sales personnel with the knowledge, strategy and materials to ensure sales effectiveness. The successful candidate will be a self-starter with strong organizational skills, leadership capabilities, and an ability to manage multiple projects to completion. An ability to build relationships and work well in teams will be expected.
Key responsibilities of this position include:
- Development of go-to-market plans for the Biotechnology Sector.
- Developing sales tools that highlight product positioning and provide compelling value propositions, conducting sales education seminars, as well as executing market and competitive research analysis.
- Working with Business Development to identify, develop and promote key partnerships and strategic alliances with organizations in the Biotechnology Sector.
- Leveraging available resources to facilitate knowledge transfer of industry information to internal constituencies
Experience & Qualifications:
- Minimum of 4 years of working experience within the Biotechnology related industries (genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics, etc.).
- Familiarity with Sequence Analysis, Next Generation Sequencing, Mass Spec for Proteomics, Gene Expression and R-Statistics technologies preferred.
- Minimum of 2 years experience in a business discipline (sales, marketing, product management, or product marketing) preferably within the software industry.
- Bachelor’s degree in Biology is required; MBA preferred.
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative team orientation.
Marketing Program Manager
Location: San Diego, CA
Job Code: PMPMD
The Marketing Programs Manager is responsible for the strategy, management, execution and ultimate success of Accelrys’ global marketing plans that target the manufacturing & development markets within pharm/life sciences and non-life sciences markets. Global marketing programs are focused on generating qualified leads and sales opportunities for the Accelrys sales organization. Programs will be built by assessing the market opportunity, reverse engineering sales targets and leveraging market trends. Programs will be built to market Accelrys product offerings by addressing the business problems that they solve and by accentuating benefits to the people that make, approve and influence purchase decisions.
Specific responsibilities:
- Work closely with the Product Marketing team to develop and execute a demand generation strategy that will identify, educate, and motivate prospective and current Accelrys customers.
- Work closely with each regional sales organization and other marketing functions to effectively target programs and acquire content, resources, and support to ensure program success.
- Cost-effectively manage relationships with outside vendors as necessary for any program execution services.
- Coordinate and communicate activities with the corporate marketing organization.
- Create and track metrics to measure results from marketing programs and ensure positive ROI.
- Contribute to the overall success of market development initiatives as a key team member.
- Take initiative to improve marketing related processes and practices.
- Coordinate and communicate activities with worldwide marketing and sales organizations.
Qualifications:
- Proven ability to articulate compelling and targeted value propositions for enterprise software customers.
- 4-8 years related work/industry experience.
- BA/BS in Business, Marketing, Communications or Management preferred, MBA desired.
- Experience with Salesforce.com or similar CRM / sales force automation tools.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong project and budget management skills and ability to simultaneously coordinate multiple projects.
- Strong knowledge of marketing mix and demand generation activities.
- Experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech fields is desirable.
Manager of Revenue Reporting
Location: San Diego, CA
Job Code: MRR
The primary responsibility of this position will be to provide company-wide leadership, development, and the application of consistent revenue recognition rules, and to assist in documenting the accounting guidance for revenue generating activities with specific reference to SOP 97-2, SOP 81-1 and EITF 00-21. Other key areas of responsibility include managing billing & collections, monthly reconciliations and analysis related to revenue, and working with external auditors to ensure that revenue recognition interpretations are consistent and compliant with US GAAP. The qualified candidate will possess a BA or BS in Finance or Accounting, CPA preferred. 5+ Years of combined experience in industry and public accounting is required. Experience reviewing complex contractual terms and conditions to determine appropriate revenue recognition in accordance with US GAAP would be a plus. Working knowledge of Revenue Recognition rules under US GAAP including: SOP 97-2 (ASU 985-605), SOP 81-1 and EITF 00-21 (ASC 605-25) is preferred. Excellent communication and analytical skills is required.
Managing Consultant/Project Manager, Professional Services
Location: Northeastern United States
Job Code: MCPS
We are looking for a Managing Consultant for our Professional Services division based out of a home office in the Northeast or out of our Burlington, MA sales office. Accelrys’ Professional Services division provides customers with top quality custom solutions based on the company’s software products. The Managing Consultant will effectively develop detailed project schedules that outline tasks as well as skillfully balance and prioritize the management of multiple projects simultaneously. The qualified candidate will possess the ability to lead effective kick-off and status meetings with the professional services team and customers on a regular basis. This position will also be charged with developing resource allocation plans for each project and ensure accuracy of work as well as securing necessary reviews and approvals on all projects. A Bachelor’s degree in a scientific, engineering, or a business related field is required. A Project Management Institute certification would be ideal. Previous experience in a professional services or a consulting related capacity is a must have requirement for this position. A detailed understanding of enterprise architecture standards and application development including practical knowledge of application servers, J2EE, NET, Linux and clustering technologies will be required. The candidate should have experience managing complex projects and teams with 5 or more developers. Experience with enterprise technologies and emphasis on large scale custom deployments that support large number of users is strongly preferred.
Senior Consultant, Professional Services
Location: Northeastern United States
Job Code: SCNE
We are looking for a Senior Consultant for our Professional Services division based out of a home office in the Northeast or out of our Burlington, MA sales office. Accelrys’ Professional Services division provides customers with top quality custom solutions for individual customers based on the company’s software products. A minimum of 5-7 years of experience in the chemicals, life, or materials sciences fields or a related industry is required. Understanding of enterprise architecture and application development including knowledge of application servers, J2EE, .NET, Linux and clustering technologies, server redundancy, fail-over, clustering, grid technologies, security concerns such as LDAP and single sign-on is preferred. Experience working in an environment containing Oracle 8i through 10g is desired. B.S. in computer science, chemistry, biology, mathematics, or chemical engineering is required; M.S. or a PhD is a plus. Travel to customer sites (at times up to 70%), engaging customers’ technical staff and management in technical-level discussions can be expected.
Image Analysis Software Engineer
Location: San Diego, CA
Job Code: IASD
We are seeking an experienced and skilled C++ software engineer to work within the R&D group in San Diego. This individual will focus on the development and maintenance of image analysis and image manipulation software within the Pipeline Pilot platform and on the development of image analysis algorithms. This position will maintain responsibility for imaging applications and will work directly with internal and external stakeholders within R&D, marketing, services, and partner organizations. The qualified candidate will have knowledge of machine learning algorithms and experience with the state of the art in computer vision and biological and medical image analysis. In addition to excellent C++ skills, the ideal candidate will have experience with image libraries such as IPP and OpenCV as well as experience with building image segmentation and classification algorithms. Additional required qualifications include a bachelor’s, master’s or PhD degree in computer science in an engineering or a scientific discipline and at least 3 years experience of commercial software development.
Senior Test Engineer
Location: San Ramon, CA
Job Code: STESR
We are seeking a Senior Test Engineer to support our Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) solution. This individual will be a test lead for 2-3 testers responsible for testing of the Notebook product, including heavy focus on story test automation using .Net including testing through all layers of the technology stack (thick/thin client, framework, middle-tier, DB). Regular collaboration with both local and remote development teams in an agile development environment can be expected.
Essential functions:
- Working closely with feature team (product management, development, QA) to design/automate story tests.
- Isolating and reporting defects identified through test failures.
- Estimation of story complexity.
- Designing/executing/maintaining tests in the test tracking systems.
- Engineering tools/framework/scripts for test management, setup, and data creation using C#, IronPython, and/or MS Command.
- Debugging automated test failures.
- Ability to drive a small test team to success; goal setting, performance appraisal, project task management for direct reports.
Requirements:
- 6+ years experience in software engineering/testing.
- Strong test design, technical troubleshooting, and problem solving skills.
- Proven implementations of test automation.
- Highly adaptable and willing to work in an ever-evolving agile development environment.
- Demonstrated ability to successfully lead projects and teams.
- Understanding of standard programming and SQA principals.
- Experience with programming/scripting (VBScript, JavaScript, IronPython, C#, Java, Windows command, or similar language).
- Strong written/oral communication skills; ability to articulate thoughts/opinions on tools/processes clearly.
- Prefer understanding/experience with Windows XP/Vista operating systems and Oracle or other relational databases.
- B.S. in Computer Science, Math, Life Sciences or equivalent experience.
Senior Technical Director for Applications Development
Location: San Ramon, CA
Job Code: STDAD
We are looking for a Development Manager to oversee and coordinate development across multiple teams at multiple sites working on our product suite for the Electronic Lab Environment delivering enterprise solutions for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and fine-chemical industries. You will be responsible for ensuring that work across these teams of world-class, highly motivated software engineers continues our practice of delivering high-quality, on-time software releases following the Agile SDLC in place at Symyx/Accelrys. In this capacity, you will need to develop effective working relationships with the broader R&D and business organization including quality assurance, product marketing, technical communications, and technical services teams. The ideal candidate for this role will have a proven track record of managing multiple development teams successfully, plus bring a relevant life-sciences industry background to align development with the type of customer engagements that drive the business. The position will be located in San Ramon, CA.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leverage the Agile feedback process to detect issues early on and help teams make course corrections.
- Work with teams and team leads to engage in problem solving and find pro-active solutions.
- Ensure teams are maintaining level of transparency in development process and adhering to full levels of acceptance criteria.
- Participate in planning and planning process for product releases.
- Ensure logical consistency of development effort across teams that may have different Product Managers driving feature development.
- Maintain high morale, advocate for technical excellence, and motivate teams to be dedicated to continuous improvement.
Required Experience & Qualifications:
- 15 years of software development experience.
- 7+ years of software management experience.
- General understanding of enterprise technology issues as they relate to ongoing development.
- Proven track record in managing and delivering complex projects.
- Possesses the ability to motivate people, instill accountability, and achieve results.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies.
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience in a SaaS start-up.
- Experience with XP and best practices such as TDD.
- Degree or a course work in chemistry or biology is a plus.
Advisory Scientific Software Engineer
Location: San Ramon, CA
Job Code: ASESR
We’re looking for an Advisory Scientific Software Engineer to help develop and maintain our rapidly expanding suite of enterprise solutions for the pharmaceutical, biotechnological and fine-chemical industries. This position will be part of a dynamic development team that is dedicated to delivering high-quality, on-time software releases using TDD and other best-of-breed Agile practices. The qualified candidate will need to be excellent at architecture, design and software construction. In addition to being an excellent "big picture" engineer, the Advisory Scientific Software will develop collaborative working relationships with applications development, quality assurance, product marketing, technical communications, and technical services teams from across the company. Leading projects, including defining, estimating, and scheduling project tasks using Agile methodologies can be expected in this role.
Required Qualifications:
- 8+ years of programming experience in a commercial environment.
- A bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics or the physical sciences; an advanced degree is preferred.
- Proficiency in an object-oriented language such as Java, C#, or C++.
- Broad technical knowledge in object-oriented design and implementation, design patterns, and software development methodologies.
- Knowledge of software engineering patterns and practices.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong analytical and organizational skills.
- Strong personal drive to learn leading-edge technologies and to excel.
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience working in a research laboratory and/or experience developing scientific software.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies such as Scrum and test-driven development.
- Experience developing distributed applications using Service Oriented Architectures
- Experience with SQL, relational table design, and Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server.
- Experience in UI design and implementation of commercial Windows applications.
- Experience with web technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, ASP.NET, Google Web Toolkit, Flash or Silverlight.
Software Development Manager
Location: San Ramon, CA
Job Code: SDMSR
We are looking for a Group Leader to guide an engineering team developing the DiscoveryGate platform. The DiscoveryGate product line focuses on an administration tool and an auction-based system to enable bidding on the sponsorship of selected chemicals in a proprietary database.
Key Responsibilities:
Required Qualifications:
- Expert core Java knowledge.
- Experience with highly scalable web-applications.
- Experience with multi-threading in high-concurrency applications.
- Knowledge about JEE5 and related standards (JPA, JAX-WS, EJB3).
- Good working knowledge of Oracle RDBMS, SQL.
- Working knowledge of JBoss Application Server.
- Working knowledge of Maven2 as well as Apache Ant.
Additional Desired Skills:
Basic working knowledge of the following technologies:
- JBoss Seam.
- Google Web Toolkit (GWT 2).
- Javascript.
- HTML / CSS.
- PL/SQL.
- Perforce SCM.
- Eclipse IDE.
UI Usability Expert
Location: San Ramon, CA
Job Code: UISR
This position will be working closely with various project teams to design, research, test, validate and revise user interface designs to deliver highly usable GUIs that simplify complex scientific workflows for web and smart client applications. In collaboration with the Project Managers, Product Managers, Software Developers, Quality Assurance and Technical Communicators this position will:
- Work with Product Management and Customers to conceptualize UI/UX for functional areas.
- Work with Product Management in JIT fashion to refine specific UI/UX guidance prior to iteration in which development work will begin.
- Work with agile Development teams in real time to ensure emerging UI’s are adhering to vision.
- Own overall UI/UX consistency of product suite.
- Provide guidance and vision on emerging UI/UX paradigms like touch devices, tablets, and HTML5.
Required Qualifications:
- 3 to 5 years of relevant work experience in user centered design.
- Hands on experience gaining active end-user involvement in the specification, design, and implementation.
- Technical hands-on experience with creating wireframes and implementing the “skins”, look and feel for software applications.
- Excellent communication skills
Desired Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree.
- User centered design accreditation.
- Project management skills.
- Technical Communication skills.
- Familiarity with the Agile Software development process.
Sr. Software Engineer
Location: San Ramon, CA
Job Code: SSEDS
As a Software Engineer at Accelrys you will be part of a team responsible for the design and development of domain services for our enterprise information integration platform. This position is for the 100% hands on development professional. The candidate is expected to have solid technical expertise, be a self-starter, team player and posses a strong drive for results.
Required Qualifications:
- 7-10 years of programming experience in a .NET, Java or web-based commercial environment.
- A bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics or the physical sciences; an advanced degree is preferred.
- Strong development skills in Java or C#.
- Demonstrated expertise writing relational database access components for client server or web applications. Oracle, MS SQL Server and ADO.NET experience preferred.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Microsoft .NET architecture best practices.
- Solid working knowledge of XML, OData, Restful Services, Web Services and object-oriented techniques.
- Experience writing multi-threaded software.
Corporate Paralegal
Location:
San Diego, CA
Job Code: PLSD
Accelrys has an immediate opening for an experienced corporate paralegal at the Accelrys headquarters in San Diego, California.
Responsibilities will include:
- Contract drafting, negotiation, review, summary and management.
- Preparing and reviewing non-disclosure, collaboration and partner agreements.
- Managing company’s standard contracts and forms.
- Managing company’s intellectual property.
- Maintaining corporate records and good standing.
- Legal and business research.
- Providing legal assistance to other business units as needed.
- Other paralegal duties as assigned by the General Counsel.
Job Requirements:
A Bachelors degree and/or an ABA approved Paralegal degree / certification (CLA, CP); recent graduates who have obtained a J.D. will also be considered. A minimum 3 years of experience in technology licensing, general commercial contracts and corporate legal work is required. Excellent knowledge of corporate, contract and intellectual property laws a must. A flexible attitude and ability to work well with changing priorities; ability to work under tight deadlines and handle multiple, detailed tasks will also be needed in this role.
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