Far beyond being a simple Web 2.0 community, sevenload specializes in cross-medial marketing and is a provider of modern online video technology.

As a part of our international expansion, we are currently looking to fill a number of vacant positions at the soonest possible starting date.

Position:
We currently have job openings for Community Supporters USA/UK (m/f), available at the soonest possible starting date. This position will either be based at our headquarters in Cologne, Germany, or via home office. We offer a competitive compensation package, a friendly working environment, an organized and process-oriented approach as a start up and continuous learning opportunities.

Summary of Key Responsibilities:

• Involvement in the management of the English speaking communities on sevenload
• Handling written customer enquiries
• Key community support organizational tasks

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience in community management and customer support
• Completed professional training/university degree
• Native English speaker
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Customer-focused, and ability to work well in a team
• Organizational and problem-solving skills, as well as good interpersonal skills, composure and diplomacy

Contact:
If this profile matches your expertise, experience and aspirations, we’d be delighted to receive your complete application, including salary requirements and a possible starting date. Please email your application labeled “Community Supporter USA/UK” to jobs@sevenload.com.

Summary of Key Responsibilities:

• E-marketing actions (branding, web design, bannering, promotional campaigns, minisites, viral marketing, search engine marketing) from strategy, design and development, right through to delivery.
• Print & Outdoor campaigns in cooperation with our investor Burda Media and Ströer Outdoor

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• You will be responsible for project analysis & planning, allocating resources, budgeting and handling.
• You will ensure the review and delivery of the project on time and budget.
• You’ll provide excellent performance and understand the project also from a technical point of view
• Significant experience in web project management, strong knowledge of project management techniques and procedures
• Experience in marketing actions such brand positioning, promotional campaigns.
• Experience in creating e-marketing actions using internet as main channel, which supposes a good technical background in internet technologies (Html, Xml, .net, Flash)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent team management skills
• Ability to be efficient and productive under pressure
• Fluent in German & English
• University degree

Our offer
We offer a competitive compensation package with an interesting bonus program, a friendly working environment, a organized and process-oriented approach as a start up and continuous learning opportunities.

Summary of Key Responsibilities:

• Editorial for entire language site ie Portal Management:
  • arrangement and placement of content
  • planning for approx. 6 months of contents to push
  • place daily/weekly viral contents as well as adjust video on homepage daily/weekly
  • coordination with sales/marketing team about what needs to be pushed
  • blogs (for announcements of contents) as well as other methods of pushing contents
  • conceptualize site’s look according to season, holidays, sports and sporting events, as well as larger international events
• Research
  • Find new content (scour web),
  • Identify new partners,
  • Identify what IP holders and TV content are relevant

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• You will be responsible for site project analysis & planning.
• Significant experience in web project management, strong knowledge of project management techniques and procedures or editorial experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to be efficient and productive under pressure
• Fluent in English

We offer
We offer a competitive compensation package with an interesting bonus program, a friendly working environment, a organized and process-oriented approach as a start up and continuous learning opportunities.

Summary of Key Responsibilities:

• Editorial for entire language site ie Portal Management:
  • arrangement and placement of content
  • planning for approx. 6 months of contents to push
  • place daily/weekly viral contents as well as adjust video on homepage daily/weekly
  • coordination with sales/marketing team about what needs to be pushed
  • blogs (for announcements of contents) as well as other methods of pushing contents
  • conceptualize site’s look according to season, holidays, sports and sporting events, as well as larger international events
• Research
  • Find new content (scour web),
  • Identify new partners,
  • Identify what IP holders and TV content are relevant

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• You will be responsible for site project analysis & planning.
• Significant experience in web project management, strong knowledge of project management techniques and procedures or editorial experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to be efficient and productive under pressure
• Fluent in English

We offer
We offer a competitive compensation package with an interesting bonus program, a friendly working environment, a organized and process-oriented approach as a start up and continuous learning opportunities.

Cologne, June 18, 2008 – sevenload.com has secured its Series B round of financing, raising a double digit million € investment figure. Once approval has been granted by the German Federal Antitrust Office sevenload will have T-Online Venture Fund, a part of the Deutsche Telekom, which owns T-Mobile, as their new lead investor. Previous Investors Burda Cross Media, Media Ventures, dw capital (investment fund of denkwerk), company founder Ibrahim Evsan and CEO Axel Schmiegelow as well as the company’s management team also contribute to the round. sevenload has also be established an equity program for existing and future management and employees.

“sevenload’s latest round of funding will enable our international expansion and help us secure our business model of providing content rights owners with a significant stream of revenues. We’re excited to have gained such strong investment partners “, said Axel Schmiegelow, CEO sevenload GmbH.

sevenload currently operates a .com, a German .de and a Turkish website. More than three million websites have joined the sevenload network and use the sevenload video player. sevenload’s further international expansion will lead to the release of new localized sites in French, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Polish within the next 4 weeks.

Cologne, June 16, 2008 - Digital content rules. Web-TV users are constantly confronted by the challenging gray zone between legal and illegal content. In an effort to protect content owners’ rights and to support the production of original works on the web, sevenload has joined the “User Generated Content Principles” initiative. Through this, sevenload is solidifying its role as the leading independent platform for legal Web 2.0 video content on the European web TV market.

“sevenload believes in the significance of this cooperation. By confirming to protect the rights of copyright owners, we incur an important commitment towards our content partners. Users will consider sevenload a capable counterpart, as they benefit from our technology which protects them from copyright violation”, explains Jeff Coe, sevenload’s Director of International.

sevenload is the first German company to join the world’s leading media companies such as Walt Disney, Microsoft, Fox Entertainment, Viacom, CBS and NBC Universal in protecting copyright claims of content owners. Furthermore, the potential of user generated web TV content is preserved by setting up the principles in creating and distributing original content on the web.

“We promote the originality of content and establish a new kind of thinking between established and professional content owners, and independent producers of niche content, user generated videos, newcomers and talents“, says Coe.

The “UGC Principles” enhance communication between platform hosts and content owners. By joining this initiative, sevenload will be launching a platform campaign at www.sevenload.com that easily explains the ideas and technical mechanisms to the users. Further information about the initiative “UGC Principles” can be found at www.ugcprinciples.com.

“sevenload is honored to receive this international award”, gleamed Axel Schmiegelow, sevenload’s CEO. “Our efforts to create real innovation and provide users, content providers and the advertising industry with a new interactive TV medium have now been recognized by one of the most important juries in high-tech. Winning the Red Herring 100 Europe award further underlines our potential for rapid international expansion.”

“Red Herring 100″ winners undergo a grueling jury evaluation that includes: analysis of company financial data, assessment of the management, appraisal of the business plan as well as how the company has developed over the last year.

“We’re very excited about working together with T-Online on both a technical and an editorial level. And I believe that because we focus our attention on trendsetting technologies, innovative communication and visionary entertainment methods, we’ve not only set ourselves apart from other platforms in the market, but also clearly positioned ourselves as a leading provider of modern video entertainment”, said Ibrahim Evsan, Founder and CTO of sevenload GmbH.

T-Online’s user base will have direct access to selected video content from sevenload’s community and channel partners. In addition to that, all of T-Online’s users will be only a couple clicks away from sevenload’s social media platform, where they can interact with other users and professional content producers.

Axel Schmiegelow, sevenload’s CEO commented, “This cooperation will establish a new pointed source of revenue for our content partners. Ad clients will have access to new and exciting online advertising formats with unprecedented conversion, both on T-Online and sevenload”.

According to various planned phases of the deal, T-Online will particularly benefit from the complete technical overhaul of www.sevenload.com that will introduce interactive Web 2.0 features and high quality user generated contents. In addition to supplying the current formats on sevenload, the next phase will include the development of new show concepts.

“With partners like sevenload, www.t-online.de is not only acting as a savvy internet aggregator, but is also actively taking part in shaping the internet of tomorrow”, said Ralf Baumann, www.t-online.de Portal Manager. “We’re enabling our users to consume exciting Web 2.0 content and offering our ad clients new formats in a high quality environment.”

This partnership emphasizes sevenload’s position as an independent content provider. sevenload has already demonstrated that they have forward thinking and trendsetting technologies in the work they have done together with companies such as BMW, Hubert Burda Media, EM.TV and Endemol- and is, therefore Europe’s leading platform for legal Web 2.0 video content.

Cologne, April 3, 2007 – sevenload GmbH was able to win yet another investor, Martin Varsavsky, after Burda Digital Ventures joined up with the company. Mr. Varsavsky will also become a member of the start-up’s advisory board. The multi-media platform www.sevenload.com will thus be on the side of this internationally recognized and successful entrepreneur.

“We are delighted to have won a good friend, experienced businessman and expert, who is well-versed in configuring platforms, in Martin Varsavsky” said Axel Schmiegelow, Managing Director of sevenload GmbH.

Varsavsky is known worldwide for having established companies such as Viatel, Jazztel, Ya.com and FON. In fact, a very well-known German entrepreneurial personality, Christiane zu Salm, is also on board at Fon. Moreover, Mr. Varsavsky is also a shareholder in other various known companies such as XING, Joost, Zudeo, Netvibes, Vpod, Gspace and Technorati. Additional investors for FON include among others: Sequoia Capital, Google, Skype and Index Ventures.

Ibrahim Evsan, founder and CTO of sevenload also welcomed Martin Varsavsky’s start with sevenload: “Our circle of investors is being completed by someone who will be able to expand out technological expertise.”

“European video portals such as sevenload are significantly more advanced than YouTube. sevenload combines the features of Flickr, which allows sharing of still photos, and YouTube, the video sharing site, on an independent platform”, explained Martin Varsavsky. “sevenload is one of the most promising companies in Europe and is quite convincing of this through its visionary and technological advances.”

In addition to his entrepreneurial activities, Mr. Varsavsky is very involved in the areas of renewable energies and education. He is the primary investor in the wind parks “El Moralejo” and “Proesa”, owner of Sybilla and Jocomomola. He has also founded two important education portals in Latin American: Educ.car and EducarChile.cl in Argentina and Chile. In addition, Mr. Varsavsky is the founder of the Safe Democracy Foundation and he is also on the Board of Trustees of the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation, and is teacher and board member of the Instituto de Empresa, one of Europe’s most prestigious Business Schools.

Cologne, 26.03.2007 – Burda Digital Ventures GmbH has completed a minority investment in sevenload GmbH and has simultaneously agreed to a comprehensive (though non-exclusive) cooperation with Burda R&D, Marketing & Communications.

“We are delighted to have won Burda as a partner, who we feel has recognized the potential of digital media very early on”, said Ibrahim Evsan, Founder and CTO of sevenload.

“Burda offers us complete company autonomy paired with deeper media expertise”, highlighted Axel Schmiegelow, sevenload’s CEO. “Burda’s thematic range and target markets will work well with our strategy.”

sevenload’s goal is to win new users through qualitative differentiation and new clients through additional internet portals and implementation of the company’s unique video technology. “In addition to an unbeatable technological advance, we were persuaded by the consequent orientation of an efficient business model. The management team understood where the value from video platforms on the web are added”, explained Frank Seehaus, Director of Burda Digital Ventures.

Burda R&D, Marketing and Communications Director Dr. Marcel Reichart also added: “Our investment in sevenload makes it possible for us to strengthen our position in the video publishing market, and that includes our media brands and communities, new formats and marketing offers.”

sevenload received financial consultation for this year’s transaction for the German ” Web 2.0″ from IEG Investment Banking in Berlin.