We're Hiring: Sales & Channel Administrator

Aptimize is an award winning Wellington based company who produce a world-first software component that speeds up web sites.

Due to rapid growth, a sales position has been created to manage both direct and channel administration. This is an exciting role in a young high growth company where you will work with international name-brand customers including Fortune 500 and Global 1000 businesses, in a high growth area – solving web site and intranet performance issues.

We have a high-energy, fast-paced environment, with the entire team committed to helping customers.

You will be responsible but not limited to the following:

• General administrative duties
• Set up technical and sales training
• Monthly invoicing & reporting duties
• Manage customer engagement and sales process
• Collate channel opportunities and regular status reporting
• Maintain customer database
• Co-ordinate/assist with advertising/PR and lead generation strategies
• Organise events 

It’s a prerequisite you will have a minimum 3+ year’s administration experience within a sales or project environment preferably within IT. You will have experience in a customer facing role with a proven track record of meeting deliverables to deadlines. The role will be suited to a sales person looking to grow their current skill set with the opportunity for career growth in the company. The hours and variety of work will require some flexibility due to global time zones and the size of the team. To apply for this role you will require a valid New Zealand work permit and reside in the Wellington region.

Sounds like you?

Please email your resume to careers@aptimize.com including a brief summary of your suitability for the role.

Aptimize At VSLive!

This week, 2-6 August, Aptimize will be exhibiting at the VSLive! Conference at Microsoft Conference center on campus in Redmond, WA. VSLive! provides developers with real-world, practical training needed to solve the .NET development challenges.

We are excited to be at this sold out event because we get a chance to talk to developers about  web performance and faster websites. We get to catch up with customers, meet new ones, exchange ideas, and generally get to be absorbed in what we love - fast websites.

Mike Iem, Business Manager

Mike can answer questions on web performance, and will be doing demos to show developers what Aptimize can do speed up websites. Stop by booth S3 for a chat about your website.

Our company is dedicated to delighting customers with faster websites and intranets, this is all we do.

>> More about Mike

>> VSLive! website

Peter Dengate Thrush Visits

Peter Dengate Thrush, Chair of the New Zealand Internet Industry Awards, visited the Aptimize office today and spent time talking with staff and learning about how our Website Accelerator (WAX) works to speed up some of the biggest sites in the world.

Peter congratulated the team on our recent New Zealand Internet Industry Award.

"Aptimize is a great example of an innovative company whosework
ensures the continuing expansion and evolution of the internet. By
accelerating websites and the delivery of web content, they are
lowering the barriers and improving access for every internet user."

Bio:

Peter Dengate Thrush is a barrister practicing in civil litigation and specializing in intellectual property, competition and Internet law.

He was the legal advisor to InternetNZ from 1996 to 1999, advising it on the formation of its registry company (Domainz). He served as chair from December 1999 for two terms. He is a past chair of InternetNZ's International Affairs Committee, and a member of its Legal and Regulatory Committee.

Peter is the Chairman of the Board of ICANN.

Peter (left) pictured with Derek Watson, CTO, Aptimize.

Aptimize Wins Internet Industry Award

We are very proud to win the New Zealand Internet Industry award for Internet Innovator.

Ed Robinson, CEO, accepted the Award on behalf of Aptimize "We are delighted and honoured to be recognized by the Internet community for our contribution to the positive impact the internet has to our economy and society.  Our vision is to make the web faster for everyone and we are rapidly executing on that vision as we continue to speed-up some of the biggest websites in the world”.

The Internet Industry Awards recognize excellence  for using the Internet as an enabling platform for business, education and society.  We had dinner and a great conversation with both the Honourable Steven Joyce, Minister of Communications and Technology and Peter Dengate Thrush, Chairman of the board of ICAAN.   Thanks to the judges, Internet NZ and the Liz Dengate Thrush Foundation for  a great night.

About:

The Internet Industry Awards are the only Awards in New Zealand that are purely focused on the Internet as an enabling platform for business, education and society
enhancing organisations. To find out more visit www.internetindustryawards.co.nz

We're at Velocity 22-24 June

This week we'll be exhibiting at the Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference, June 22-24 in sunny Santa Clara, CA.

We always look forward to going to Velocity because we get to be surrounded by people passionate about web performance and faster websites; we get to catch up with customers, meet new ones, exchange ideas, and generally get to be absorbed in what we love - fast websites.

We'll be at Booth 300, here's who you can expect to see:

Ed Robinson, CEO. Ed can answer almost any question on web performance, and has the vision that no one should have to wait for any website to load. Our company is dedicated to delighting customers with faster websites and intranets, this is all we do.

Ed fronts our videos, the latest explains the effect of distance on page load times.

Aaron Bellingham, Business Manager. Aaron is the first point of contact for getting a faster website. Aaron coordinates business and technical information you need, and sets up trials and production. Often we can speed up your website on the same day you contact us. The only thing faster than our website accelerator products is Aptimize’s service.

Aaron also works closely with our Partners so if you're interested in becoming one track Aaron down for a chat at Booth 300.

Aaron 'Beaker' Sinclair, Software Development Engineer (Linux). Beaker is Aptimize’s lead developer for Aptimize’s Website Accelerator for Linux, and architected some of Aptimize’s advanced techniques for CSS optimization. Beaker loves talking about the underlying technologies we use, so track him down at Booth 300.