You’re kick-ass business dude? Join us!

Von Protonet Team. Veröffentlicht 27. Dezember 2011.

After three years of hard work and our first shipments behind us – the time has come for us to walk out of the dark and change the world.

Changing the world however is not an easy feat and we can’t do it alone. We need you to help us. This is a life changing opportunity and we’d love you to take this journey with us but before you say yes, here are some things you should know.

What we believe in:

We believe in freedom, we believe that computer can change the world, and we believe in using this power to catalyze true social change and to make businesses and communities less dependent on the big players for they’re most important tools.

We also believe that true fundamental changes happen through the power of your local communities (whether it is a business or private community) and we want to enable these communities with tools that make them strong and independent.

As far as user-computing is concerned we believe the web to be the operation system of the future and we’re preparing our company to be ready and on the (surf-)board when this spectacular wave hits the shores.

What we do:

We’re building the next generation of social infrastructure, a mashup of a mini server – an accesspoint and a distributed social network. With our protonet nodes small and medium enterprises are enabled to create a secure and – most importantly – social infrastructure with the push of a button.

In the long run we’re in fact creating a new kind of operation system meant to one day provide the IT and eSocial needs of SME’s and Communities in general.

Check out some images: http://twitter.com/#!/protonet/media/grid

Some videos on our current splash-page: https://protonet.com/

What you’ll be doing:

Production and supply chain management

It’s a different kind of business, we do hardware, we do software, we do it locally, we do it distributed. you’ll be in charge in creating a supply chain that can handle our needs, and make sure we get our nodes produced in time, in perfect quality and for a good price, we’re going at the hardware problem as we go at the software problem, small iterations, small changes, short cycles. You’ll be helping us build stuff that is meant to last.

Marketing and sales

You should love to sell and since the market we’re catering to does not yet exist you’ll have to build that one too. You’ll be in charge of creating and managing a sales team (in- or outsourced), handling whatever marketing needs to be done to get the company off the ground.

Controlling and funding

As a company we’ll need numbers, we need to always know exactly where we stand, you’ll be creating the framework for us to know the company numbers at any given time. At some point we might take on external investment so you should know how to get that funding. if you don’t know it yet, don’t worry you’ll be able to learn this kind of stuff on the job.

Yes, we know this sounds like a job for a whole team (or several), and that’s what you’ll probably end up building and leading, but right now, our budget allows for just one position and that is yours. Currently all these task are handled internally within our team so you will not be alone on these issues.

How we work:

You’ll get the opportunity to work with some great coders (including 2 ex-XING Architects) an amazing industrial designer and you’ll be meeting a lot of great people in all kinds of fields helping us make this a reality. You’ll be able to tap some massive brainpower whenever you need help on something. Our company culture is a work in progress, as of now we just have one rule: create the most awesome thing you can within the given constraints.

Just as our products are made to last we see this as a beginning to decades long journey, that is why we want to provide a healthy work life balance – we work 9-5 (rather 10-6) and leave enough breathing room for your creativity and skill set to grow. We understand that there is only a certain amount of work that can be achieved in a day, so be smart, keep problem solutions as simple as possible and start on iterating from there.

The pay is decent and there is equity but if you’re looking to earn big from the get go we’re not your startup.

Our office is currently embedded within the great betahaus Hamburg.

If you’re interested and not afraid to challenge the status quo, drop us a line at: team [ät] protonet [döt] info .