CAREERS
Come Build the Future.
Why join uStudio?
As a platform-first development company, innovation is in our DNA. We make the world’s most powerful digital communications medium (video!) more accessible and easy-to-use than ever across business and media companies large and small.
From live video streaming, to everywhere VOD, to customizable interactive players, our APIs and apps have been rated the industry’s most innovative tools for the modern video developer or user.
Why join? Because you’re excited to help us define the future of video.
Current Job Openings
Senior Software Developer
Account Executive
Senior Software Developer
We are looking for an experienced developer to help us build great products and move our development processes forward.
You will join a team that takes responsibility for their part of the uStudio platform, implementing new features, improving performance, and building iterative and robust solutions. Above all, your work will impact the way people experience video.
What you’ll do
- Contribute on front-end work and back-end RESTful API projects
- Collaborate closely with other engineers, product, and business stakeholders to find elegant but practical solutions. You will become a valued member of an autonomous, multi disciplinary team that’s focused on improving our platform, both internally and externally.
- Write clear, maintainable code that will perform on multiple platforms, browsers, and devices.
- Learn from and teach other developers.
- Be autonomous. You’ll take full ownership of your work and take responsibility for every last detail, every step of the way.
Who you are
- You are a great human with amazing development skills. You’ve shipped multiple releases over the years, and you understand what it takes to create awesome features and get them delivered into the hands of users.
- You are familiar with multiple front-end Web technologies. We historically have used Backbone and React, with a new focus on Polymer. Ideally, you also have experience working on the backend. We primarily use Python, but it is not a requirement that you be an expert.
- You’re a great communicator. You have the communication skills to help set up frameworks and brainstorm initial concepts.
- You write modern, testable, and maintainable code in an iterative fashion. It’s important to you to get the smallest viable piece of functionality working and out to users.
- You’re passionate about developing software. You’ll push us to improve our processes, skills, and tooling to provide the smoothest development experience possible.
Who we are
- At uStudio, we believe that video has an incredible impact on consumers. We strive to make video simple for everyone, across the business spectrum.
- We emphasize a sustainable pace and long-term technical investment.
- We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better workplace for our employees and a better product for our users. This is something we value deeply, and we want you to come be a part of changing the way companies use video.
Account Executive
Account Executives are responsible for selling uStudio solutions to prospective customers. Using a consultative sales approach, the successful candidate will create and cultivate relationships to build and maintain customers for life.
The Account Executive will work with all uStudio stakeholders including Customer Success Managers, Professional Services, Pre-Sales, Product Support and Product Management to anticipate and meet customer expectations.
What We Do
uStudio is transforming the way Enterprises use media to communicate – and making the lives of employees more productive and efficient. As the first and only company with an Enterprise Podcast solution (app and platform) we are changing the way companies talk to their employees, partners and customers. Built on our patented platform, uStudio’s Podcast solution takes one of the hottest trends in consumer technology (Podcasts) and brings it to the enterprise with all the security, analytics and compatibility you would expect from a world class technology company. We’re disrupting a huge existing market while helping companies like Dell, Salesforce, Fidelity, Cintas, and AXA Financial turn Podcasting into real business impact.
Our Culture
The uStudio team is smart, passionate, and loves the hands-on hard work it takes to build a great company. As a company, we work hard, play hard, and do everything we can to make our customers wildly successful. We’re a motivated group with a passion for start-ups and the wild but rewarding ride they entail. Enjoy doing stuff outside of the office? Us too! We celebrate our successes outside of work and take care of our people with solid benefits.
What You’ll Do at uStudio
- Own an end-to-end inside sales cycle from prospecting to close
- Work in coordination with your inside sales team to sell as one unit
- Confidently outbound cold-call into target companies, identifying key decision makers and influencers – you never stop outbound opportunity generation.
- Set and execute strong product demos weekly
- Manage personal pipeline and effectively articulate progress to key sales goals: know your business
- Work to close business with your opportunities
- Represent UStudio’s culture and values in all client conversations
- Hit and exceed quarterly sales quotas
Qualifications
- Minimum 2 years Technology sales
- 4 year Bachelor’s degree
- Innate hunger, self-motivation and work ethic
- Team Player – Positivity and desire to uplift and share knowledge with those around you
- Start up personality – Experience in startup, high-growth companies and/or clearly articulated passion for entrepreneurial environments
- Curiosity – Solving business problems for our customers
- Problem Solvers – creating new and innovative ways to solve problems
- Stellar communication skills both over the phone and in writing
- Past examples of sales excellence and exceeding quotas
- Previous management of the full sales cycle from hunting to closing
- Fit in with and be excited to join the team (we’ll find this out when we meet you!)
Bonus if you have:
- Experience in a SaaS recurring revenue model with a high velocity sales motion
- Salesforce CRM experience
- Past start up experience
- Sold to midsize and larger complex companies
This job is located in our HQ office in a funky cool historic building in downtown Austin, TX. Oh, it has free parking.
Solutions Consultant
We are looking for Solutions Consultants to join uStudio’s growing team. Do you and your friends prefer watching, sharing, creating, and otherwise communicating with video? Are you excited about diving into a rapidly-evolving market where change is the only constant and you’ll never get bored? Does your mouth water at the thought of a juicy business challenge? If you approach solutions with an analytical yet collaborative mindset, offer creative solution ideas and push to bring them to life, your written, verbal, and visual communications are at a level that establish you as a trusted advisor, then we’re looking for you!
What you’ll do
- Demonstrate how video can help solve real business problems
- Brainstorm, design, and document what it takes to launch and grow new video initiatives
- Show success with small-to- medium projects – in order to prepare for larger and more strategic projects
Critical success factors
- A collaborative outlook, with openness to work with marketing, sales, engineering, QA, and customers
- Ability to focus, listen, and empathize with customers, partners, and coworkers
- Eagerness to learn from, collaborate with, and share expertise with the modern knowledge worker
Requirements
- Proven track record of delivering excellent customer service
- Evidence of managing project timelines, resources, and change controls to meet schedules & budgets
- Previous experience working with social, learning, CRM, or call center databases
- Degree or equivalent job experience in Management Information Systems or similar
Bonus credit for:
- Selling and/or servicing SaaS enterprise software
- Compelling mock-ups you’ve designed for new websites, interactive experiences, or mobile apps
- Publishing podcasts or other audio/video content of value to various audiences
- Home-run customer feedback on your technical support/training
Marketing Programs Specialist
We are looking for a bright, hard-working Marketing Programs Specialist to join uStudio’s growing team. Are you looking to expand your digital marketing and demand generation skill set? Do you enjoy getting the opportunity to wear many marketing hats? Are you passionate about building campaigns that drive real business results? If you are looking for a dynamic role in a small but rapidly growing team, then we’re looking for you!
What you’ll do
- Execute multi-channel marketing campaigns in Marketo and various ad platforms
- Create and optimize marketing content including display ads, email, landing pages, blog posts, and social posts
- Build meaningful reports that measure website and marketing campaign performance
Critical success factors
- Comfortable with technical subject matter
- Strong attention to detail
- Eagerness to learn new marketing skills and strategies
- Top-notch problem-solving skills
Requirements
- 1-3 years of B2B marketing experience
- Some experience with these basic digital marketing activities – SEO, SEM, online advertising, email marketing, and social media marketing
- Experience working in Salesforce.com and marketing automation platforms
- Excellent written communication skills
Bonus credit for:
- Experience with Marketo
- Proficiency in SEO, SEM, and/or display advertising
- Basic video editing
- Basic HTML/CSS
Business Development Rep (BDR)
We are looking for highly motivated Business Development Representatives (BDRs) to join our growing team. BDRs at uStudio have the critical responsibility of working with the marketing and sales leaders to build pipeline for our sales organization.
This is an opportunity to help us grow our company through direct outreach and targeted campaigns to large organizations that could benefit from working with uStudio.
What We Do
uStudio is transforming the way Enterprises use media to communicate – and making the lives of employees more productive and efficient. As the first and only company with an Enterprise Podcast solution (app and platform) we are changing the way companies talk to their employees, partners and customers. Built on our patented platform, uStudio’s Podcast solution takes one of the hottest trends in consumer technology (Podcasts) and brings it to the enterprise with all the security, analytics and compatibility you would expect from a world class technology company. We’re disrupting a huge existing market while helping companies like Dell, Salesforce, Fidelity, Cintas, and AXA Financial turn Podcasting into real business impact.
Our Culture
The uStudio team is smart, passionate, and loves the hands-on hard work it takes to build a great company. As a company, we work hard, play hard, and do everything we can to make our customers wildly successful. We’re a motivated group with a passion for start-ups and the wild but rewarding ride they entail. Enjoy doing stuff outside of the office? Us too! We celebrate our successes outside of work and take care of our people with solid benefits.
What You’ll Do at uStudio
- Schedule quality demos for sales team by identifying, researching and contacting potential customers and ensure those demos occur
- Hit or exceed a monthly quota
- Make 60+ outbound cold calls and customized emails per day using sales enablement tools
- Prospect quality contacts and accounts that are a best fit for using the UStudio platform
- Be the first point of contact for potential clients while executing marketing and sales tactics
- Collect market data before and during customer outreach to understand prospective customer needs and effectively communicate those needs to the sales team
- Partner with sales reps to ensure that opportunities are moving forward
Qualifications
- An interest in moving to a consultative Sales position within a software company
- 1- 2 years experience making outbound calls (past experience in a Sales Development or Business Development role)
- Ability to clearly articulate uStudio’s value proposition and use cases
- Innate hunger, self-motivation and work ethicInterest in and passion for working at a start-up
- Be confident running high-volume pipelines in dynamic, quick-moving, and rapidly changing environments
- Positivity and desire to uplift and share knowledge with those around you
- 4 year Bachelor’s degree preferred
Bonus if you have:
- Lead generation experience in a SaaS company
- General tech start-up experience
- Outreach.io, Salesforce, and other sales enablement tool experience
- Read The Challenger Sale, Extreme Ownership, The Sales Development Playbook
Salary & Benefits
- Competitive Pay
- Medical, Dental & Vision for you and your family
- Company-paid Life Insurance
- Stock Options
- Generous Paid Vacation including your birthday off!
- Free Parking
- Results-oriented culture in a casual work environment
This job is located in our HQ office in a funky cool historic building in downtown Austin, TX.
Associate Account Manager
We are searching for an enthusiastic, customer-oriented problem solver to join our team as an Associate Account Manager. This person will be an internal advocate for our customers with effective communication, analytical skills, and competent troubleshooting ability.
The ideal candidate is passionate about digital media, technology platforms and customer service. He/she is able to translate complex technical details into business context, exhibits drive to do things efficiently, and excels in a team environment. If you have superior relationship management skills, are passionate about engaging your customers and can create win/win solutions for all parties – this is the role for you!
What you’ll do
- Establish trusted relationships with customers and drive continued value of our products and services
- Work with customers to define critical goals and other key performance indicators and aid the customer in achieving their goals
- Advocate customer needs/issues cross-departmentally
- Support the Customer Success team in increasing platform adoption, ensuring retention, and identifying expansion opportunities
- Communicate with partners and customers to educate and assist them regarding open product and support requests
- Prepare reporting related to key accounts for consumption by internal and external stakeholders
- Identify trends in quality metrics and feature enhancement opportunities; work with the leadership team to improve processes
- Use acquired knowledge to suggest, edit, and write in-depth knowledge base articles
- Create and maintain internal troubleshooting documents for commonly reported issues
- Manage projects as needed
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree
- 1 to 3+ years’ experience in Customer Service
- Excellent communication skills, both in writing and on the phone, technically savvy and able to quickly pick up on a new products and internal tools
- High level of drive to succeed as both an individual and as part of a team
- Resourcefulness and industriousness in solving problems
- Ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines
- Excellent people skills and teamwork abilities