Powa Technologies—featured in TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Bloomberg, the Financial Times, BBC, the Economist, and lauded by British Prime Minister David Cameron—closed a $76MM Series A financing round this August.
We are a British payments disruptor with the world’s smallest, EMV mobile payment device servicing the world’s largest retailers, blue-chip banks, and telcos. Founded by serial entrepreneur Dan Wagner, we have pioneered SaaS e-Commerce for 16 years. Our customers include Barclays, Jimmy Choo, De Beers, Condé Nast, BBC, Universal Group, Sharp, JVC, Arsenal Football, Hoover, Tesco, and the largest retailer in Asia.
Adding to our formula for success, we added instant transaction enablement to our product mix. We are tripling headcounts, opening offices in 5 countries, going after incumbents Square, PayPal, and Lakala, and brutally slaying payment dinosaurs.
Calling all geniuses and misfits: We’re hiring (16) exceptional Fall Analysts (Full and Part time) in Beijing, starting today. Hundreds of candidates will compete to join Powa’s advanced development, “Skunk Works” team.
6 in iOS SDEs (Software Development Engineers) – Computer Science
5 in Innovation and Disruptive R&D (Hardware/Devices) – Engineering Preferred
3 in Product Marketing and Management (PMM) – All Majors
1 in Management Consulting – All Majors
1 Chief Evangelist and Head of Staff– All Majors
What we want: Candidates in either of 5 functions:
1. Software Engineering (iOS/Mobile Apps):
We are building a MVP—Minimally Viable Product (iOS Tablet App)—in the payments space. Currently in stealth mode, this app will be used by top retailers, luxury hospitality, and hyper-marts, globally. Join our founding dev team to impact purchasing for millions. We want the best talent in Haidian. Our rewards: full-time offer and tech prizes for milestones.
o 0-1 year experience software development at leading companies
o Top-notch current software development skills including Java, Objective-C, C and/or C++
o Deep familiarity with Cocoa, Cocoa Touch and other SDKs for mobile app development
o Master of Apple’s development tools and development environments
o Strong product sense and the ability to own large areas of product design and usability
o Pursuing Degree in Computer Science
o Ruby or Python
o Securing content on mobile devices
o Content encoding
o Multi-tier web applications
2. R&D, Hardware Innovation
Engineers are rockstars. They don’t wear glasses; they wear our office’s Oculus Rift. When we’re not having LAN tournaments, we send our Captains of Machinery to Shenzhen and Hong Kong to come down on suppliers like the US Marshalls. As a member of Hardware Innovation, you will be directing our London designers on building beautiful, Red Dot award commandeering products. Each facet of design has an impact scenario on our business, sales, and branding—we require small hands to solder in perfection.
Our rewards: Cash prize to bring defects under 0.01%. Being called “Root Admin” in the office.
o Learn to move CAD designs to production line at breakneck speed
o Clear understanding of DFT and DFM (Moving to manufacturing)
o Wear an Intel suit to negotiate contracts, inspect factories, and improve processes
o Experience in circuit board design/PCB layout and circuit design
o Experience in design for manufacturing, testing, and cost
o Self starters who require little oversight, who take ownership of work
o Understanding of embedded programming and experience with inductive charging, blue tooth, embedded systems design
3. Product Marketing and Management (PMM):
Some of our competitors are all marketing and no business plan. We’re fortunate to understand a fantastic user experience and eye-candy underpin repeat sales. Our General Manager is ex-agency and a closet graphics designer: he’s looking for interns to challenge his obsession to detail. PMM analysts own the customer’s first impression and compete with our SDEs and engineers to “run this joint.”
Rewards: Have millions of eyeballs on your first release; compete for an Apple Design Award
Product Marketing
o Own the aesthetic and business sense to guide our sales teams through the value-add of our products, painfully create the collateral and manuals—rejoice at them being used
o Scope competitors’ profitable features, leverage market knowledge for A/B testing and localization, develop lightning fast processes for design to reach global sales
o Direct SDEs, UI/UX artists, and Engineers on C-Level requirements, reach dual-win compromises from software, hardware, and business development
UI Artist:
o Portfolio showing proven ability in iconography, artwork in commercial products, ability to dabble in flat design vs. skeumorphs (iOS7).
o Advanced with Photoshop and Illustrator, CAD skills a plus
o Ability to design layout/UI storyboards and process flow charts
o Excellent eye for colour, shape, composition, and iconography
o Prior UI design experience or ambition to learn quickly
o Ability to work on tight timescales and communicate requirements effectively
UI/UX Architect:
o Experience with design and prototyping tools such as Visio, Omnigraffle, Flash, Adobe Creative Suite, HTML/CSS/JS.
o JSON experience a plus.
Frontend Web-Developer:
o Design, code, test and deploy web site updates and enhancements
o Interpret and implement website design with attention to user-experience best practices and in accordance with usability standards
o Develop prototypes and wireframes of website structure and functionality
o Create web pages, templates, and functionality using core technologies
o Create and modify clean, well-structured, standards-compliant code
o Assist with updates to the content, structure and functionality of existing websites
o Expert understanding of core front-end web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
o Experience with jQuery
o Ability to write high-performance, reusable code
o Experience with tempting systems and/or WordPress theming
o Experience with a CSS framework such as Sass/SCSS a huge plus
o Responsive/mobile web development experience a plus
4. Management Consultants
Does an organization ever need more than one meddlesome consultant? Your mission is the Daft Punk anthem: harder, better, faster. Nobody, not even the GM is immune to your objective critique for results and obsessive segmentation. McKinsey watch out.
Rewards: Become the proxy General Manager and leverage all aspects of the China office. Don’t mind hurting personalities—your job is to deliver fabulous product.
o Previous internships in management consulting (PTA at McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Roland Berger, Big 4 Consulting), advertising (WPP, Publicus), F500 (CocaCola), and investment banking (CICC, bulge bracket) preferred.
5. Chief Evangelist and Head of Staff
If you’re at a wedding and about to make an announcement: will 200 loosely-related guests give you their attention? Can you sell EMV mobile payments to a hot girl at the club? Are you the glue that keeps girls and guys from fighting over toilet paper in our office? Can you cash calculate cash burn and NPV, organize manically, and keep operations steady with a smile? We expect audiences to have tears rushing down their faces when you explain PCI PTS compliance.
Rewards: COO/CFO function with a mandate to advocate our products to UK, stakeholders, and channel customers.
o A true utility-player who briefs and optimizes GM’s responsibilities—defacto Office Manager
o Ombudsman and cheerleader to organize trainings, team activities, and prep BD pitches
o The investment bank’s staffer: allocates projects and tasks to keep bandwidth usage near 90%
o Benchmarks KPIs, offers feedback, and is integral to performance reviews and bonuses
o Never gets coffee: only gets things done, again and again.
Application Requirements:
1. English and Chinese CV with profile picture (Include LinkedIn and Portfolio URL if available)
2. A 3.5/4.00 GPA or the international equivalent—or an explanation of non-attainment
3. Past Chinese Writing Sample (500 word limit)
4. Choose one Essay in English (250 word limit),
1. If you were the China CEO, how would you build an office?
2. What do you expect to learn from us? What can you contribute?
3. Tell a story of how you overcame adversity.
4. Tell us something you’ve done well.
5. Tell us something you could have done better.
6. Page 356 of your utobiography: how does it read?
o Previous internship experience required for Year 2/3 students
o Freshman may provide volunteering or non-profit experience
o English fluency will be tested during interview
o Knowledge about mobile payments, its players, and its trends will be tested
o Full reference check will be conducted: 2 references required
o Post-graduates are invited to apply but must pass a numeric computerized assessment
Good luck and we hope to see you this Fall.
Email application to jameszhang@powa.com Feel free to connect with James on LinkedIn (www.jameszhang.com)
Who we want:
o Relay runners and product owners, not employees or interns: apply if you ever wanted autonomy to dream, family from a team, friends for life, and a be “legend” at university
o Rockstar Developer Flair: Internships or self-made in mobile app development, from Baidu, Tencent, incubators, seed-stages, and bootstraps
o Smart and curious, humble yet risk taking. A hands-on, roll up the sleeves attitude to build China operations.
o Bilingual in English and Mandarin to speak to our leadership team in the UK and multinational clients.
Our previous internship class: Picked from 868 applications, our previous Summer Analyst Class of 2013 included 16 seasoned interns from McKinsey, Bain & Co., BCG, Booz, Monitor Deloitte, Morgan Stanley, CITIC, Coca-Cola, and KPMG. They represented London School of Economics, Oxford, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Remin University, Nankai University, Georgia Tech, Middlebury College, University of Puget Sound, and Rhodes College. 85% attained 3.9/4.0+ GPAs, the GRE Average was 1500/1600.
Our best interns saw how to build up our Asia HQ from office hunting to building schematics for a $MM global product line. They made mistakes but only once. They picked up our international interns from Peking airport and gave teary goodbyes at Terminal 2. They gained a few pounds. They were offered return-offers in London and New York. They left as lifelong friends with a WeChat group.
Benefits
The Work:
o The opportunity to build a $MM business from Day 1
o Staffing on UK’s most disruptive hardware to hit markets early 2014
o Mentorship by American and British senior executives with recommendation from the GM
o A chance to earn full-time employment in Beijing or London for the best candidates
Perks, Body and Mind:
-Full breakfast (traditional Chinese & Western) and lunches provided for all staff
-Unlimited Pocky Snacks—all you can eat
-After-hours, fully-stocked bar
-Free executive gym membership in our office complex
-Monthly phone and after-hours transportation allowance
-Box enterprise cloud storage space and Yammer! internal social networking
Financial Package:
-We offer a competitive stipend of 150RMB per day, with performance incentives up to 300RMB/day for top-bucket performers
-Full accommodations (flights, travel) and per diems for off-site consulting engagements
Exit Opportunities:
-Return offer to our exclusive Summer Analyst programme
-Full-time hiring in our global organization for our best candidates
-Externships: London and New York externship opportunities (flights paid) for our best interns
-eCommerce and Payments experience sought by any MBB Management Consultancy, start-up, and investment bank
CBD Central Office Location: Fortune Plaza next to Kerry Hotel, Yintai Centre, and World Trade Centre. 2 minute walk from Line 10, Jintaixizhao.
Start-up Culture:
-Flat culture: Sit wherever you like, collaborate with whomever you like
-Team-based projects with individual ownership of products
-Google 80/20: Drive an innovation project for Powa on your free time
-Meet Beijing’s top tech CEOs and leaders at mixers and conferences
-Hackathons: Prizes and eternal glory for engineering achievements
Powa Technologies Asia Pacific
Our ambition is to bring Chinese online retailers into global markets, equip Chinese merchants with the most secure and cost-effective payment acceptance, and carry China forward as a cashless society. Our patented EMV Pin-Entry-Device cuts line wait at movie theatres and supermarkets, combats credit card fraud and misuse, and changes impact scenarios at every B2B vertical.
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