Be part of our team.
If you are bright, focused, and eager to grow in a challenging and stimulating environment, we want you to be part of our team. Just as our software solutions are unique, so is our working environment. To create the best products, we need the best people.
All employees receive a generous benefits package with full medical, dental and vision care. Every employee may participate in our stock option plan. If you are looking for a company with solid corporate values, a friendly, open culture, fun co-workers, and terrific benefits, please review the career opportunities below:
We currently have openings for the following positions:
- Inside/Outside Sales Executive
- Inside Sales Associate
- Sales Executive
- Sales Manager
- Software Engineer
For immediate consideration, please send a motivation letter and resume to our HR coordinator at rrosen (at) kefta.com. Please list the job title in the subject of your e-mail. Kefta is an equal opportunity employer.
Inside/Outside Sales Executive
Location: San Francisco, CA
Job Category: Marketing Software Sales
Job Title: Inside/Outside Sales Executive
Highly competitive package including stock-option plan
Description
Kefta seeks a seasoned, dynamic, self-starter sales executive with a proven track record of quota attainment selling marketing software or CRM solutions to large companies. The Inside/Outside Sales Executive must possess industry contacts and be able to play a leadership role within the company. The Inside/Outside Sales Executive must excel as an evangelist, leader, tactician and team player. The Inside/Outside Sales Executive will work from the company's downtown San Francisco office.
Responsibilities
- Analyze sales statistics to formulate and implement sales strategies and goals.
- Review market analyses to develop target market opportunities and sales programs, product promotion, and pricing policies.
- Responsible for leading and managing all aspects of strategic positioning of products and services.
- Establish training programs for sales representatives to determine sales potentials and monitor preferences of customers
Ideal Experience
- Master's degree in Business Administration, or related field, with three years of experience in the job offered or related occupation in product marketing.
Ideal Characteristics
- Strong customer service orientation with sense of urgency to make things happen for customer
- Ability to prepare and present high quality business correspondence, proposals and presentations
- Strong professional, confidence-inspiring presence and business style
- Unwavering personal integrity
Inside Sales Associate
Location: San Francisco, CA
Job Category: Marketing Software Sales
Job Title: Inside Sales Associate
Highly competitive package including stock-option plan
Description
Kefta seeks a high-energy, relentless inside sales associate with a proven track record of identifying, qualifying, and selling software solutions in a team-based environment. The successful candidate must have experience in phone-based technical sales. The Inside Sales person will work in the company's downtown San Francisco office.
Responsibilities
- Create sales target lists and identify decision-makers at VP and C levels
- Rapidly build and qualify a sales pipeline through lead generation and cold calling
- Secure sales meetings at the VP and C level in Fortune 1000 companies
- Demonstrate value/need for company products and obtain meetings with decision-makers
Ideal Experience
- 2+ years inside sales or lead qualification experience in the technical industry
- Experience calling into complex, multiparty organizations at VP and C levels
- Good consultative selling skills
- Demonstrable track record of attaining annual quotas
- Solid experience using sales force automation tools (ACT, Salesforce, GoldMine)
Ideal Characteristics
- Capacity to make high volume of calls
- Strong communication and listening skills
- Ability to prepare and present high quality business correspondence and presentations
- Unwavering personal integrity
Sales Executive
Location: San Francisco, CA
Job Category: Marketing Software Sales
Job Title: Sales Executive
Highly competitive package including stock-option plan
Description
Kefta, Inc. is seeking to hire a full time energetic and experienced Sales Executive to join our growing company and work from our downtown San Francisco office.
Responsibilities
- Prospecting, qualifying, and closing key accounts
- Negotiating major sales contracts
Skills and Experience
- At least 3 years of experience in selling online or direct marketing solutions
- Proven track record meeting and exceeding revenue quota in a marketing solution sales role
- Experience selling solutions at the executive level to large accounts
- Experience in Online Marketing a plus
- Able to successfully close deals and negotiate contracts
- Strong understanding of the Internet and of online marketing
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Formal training in Strategic Selling or similar models
- Bachelor's degree
Sales Manager
Location: San Francisco, CA
Job Category: Marketing Software Sales
Job Title: Sales Manager
Highly competitive package including stock-option plan
Description
Kefta seeks a seasoned dynamic, self-starter Sales Manager with a proven track record of quota attainment selling marketing software or CRM solutions to large companies. The Sales Manager must excel as an evangelist, leader, tactician and team player. The Sales Manager will work from the company's downtown San Francisco office.
Responsibilities
- Analyze sales statistics to formulate and implement sales strategies and goals
- Review market analyses to develop target market opportunities and sales programs, product promotion, and pricing policies
- Responsible for leading and managing all aspects of strategic positioning of products and services
- Establish training programs for sales representatives to determine sales potentials and monitor preferences of customers
Ideal Experience
- Master's degree in Business Administration, or related field
Ideal Characteristics
- Strong customer service orientation with sense of urgency to make things happen for customer
- Ability to prepare and present high quality business correspondence, proposals and presentations
- Strong professional, confidence-inspiring presence and business style
- Unwavering personal integrity
Software Engineer
Location: San Francisco, CA
Job Category: Engineering, Software development/Internet
Job Title: Software Engineer
Highly competitive package including stock-option plan
This is a full-time position. Contractors need not apply.
Responsibilities
- Design the architecture for Kefta's next generation software
- Develop and maintain new functionality in Kefta's application server middleware, mostly in Python with some extensions in C for performance-critical components
- Develop web-based management and reporting interfaces for Kefta's application server, in Python and Java
Experience Required
- At least 2 years' experience as an architect building large scale Internet applications
- At least 2 years' experience as an architect for mission-critical enterprise applications
- 5 years' experience working in a professional software development organization
- At least 2 years' experience in Unix network development
Skills Desired
- Hard-working, motivated and self-reliant
- Excellent analytical and design skills
- Open-minded and quick to learn new skills
- Solid theoretical foundation in computer science, database theory and data networking
- Python programming skills, or at least some similar language like Ruby or Tcl/Tk
- Knowledge of writing Python modules in C
- Multithreaded programming
- UNIX/C systems programming (Solaris and BSD)
- Ability to debug programs dumping core with GDB and hunt for memory leaks
- Sockets API programming
- Experience with industrial-strength relational databases (Oracle, Sybase, DB2, etc.) for OLTP
- Oracle OCI programming in C
- CORBA programming using C/C++ and Python
- Good working knowledge of web development (HTTP protocol, HTML, JavaScript)
- Zope programming
- Web server API programming, e.g. NSAPI, Apache DSO modules
- Java programming
- Experience working in a professional software development organization with CVS
Education Desired
- BA/BS (or equivalent)