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Job Description

Sciton (Aesthetic Medical Lasers) is looking for an Area Sales Manager for the Los Angeles territory.

Position reports to the Regional Sales Manager.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for prospecting, interfacing and closing sales transactions with customers.
• Individual will be responsible for planning and implementing strategies for elevating sales.
• Perform marketing research and manage territory.
• Handle post-sale customer issues.
• Work with Field Service and corporate staff.
• Responsible for in-service training and subsequent training.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ideal candidate will have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to develop customer loyalty.
• Candidate must possess excellent prospecting and territory management ability along with strong selling skills.
• Must be able to develop business strategies with customers to ensure their success.
• Familiarity selling to physicians in private, group and hospital settings a plus.
• Familiarity with surgical and aesthetics market also a plus.

Work Experience and Education

• Bachelors degree in business or science.
• Prefer a candidate with 3 to 5 years of medical laser sales experience plus capital equipment sales experience.

Job Description

Responsible for direct supervision of financial functions, accounting, payroll and human resources. Primary responsibilities include supervision of the monthly close process, monthly, quarterly and annual billings to customers for service provided, billing reimbursements from customers, collection of accounts receivable, supervising accounts payable, monthly preparation of a reforecast, cost accounting, annual preparation of a budget, responsible for the preparation of quarterly tax projection and annual tax return preparation and all treasury administration. The Corporate Controller also creates and implements policies and procedures to identify, resolve and document accounting issues.

Reports to the President and CEO of the company.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Preparation of annual budget
• Preparation of work papers supporting the annual tax returns
• Coordinate the preparation of annual tax returns with outside CPA firm
• Implement a process to report transactions by department and compare costs incurred to budget
• Review and recordation of journal entries required to reflect the monthly activity
• Preparation of the monthly close process and month end balances
• Review monthly accounting close process including analytical review of the monthly operating results to ensure accurate accounting records are maintained
• Preparation of monthly financial statements and related footnotes
• Preparation of the year to date cash flow
• Perform cash projections to effectively manage cash balances and maximize the returns on any excess cash balances
• Preparation of monthly reforecast incorporating historical results and future assumptions
• Oversee the processing of bi-weekly payroll
• Responsible for the billing of asset management, incentive fees, dispositions and other monthly, quarterly, annual fees in accordance with the respective agreements
• Responsible in maintaining records for the retirement accounts (i.e. 401-K plan)
• Maintenance of fixed asset records for coordinated quarterly/annual inventory of fixed assets
• Will oversee the management of interstate tax preparations, sales tax and income tax
• Implement, document and maintain adequate and effective internal controls
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations
• Ensure compliance with the Investment Advisors Act of 1940 and all regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commissions, and all federal regulations
• Supervise 4 finance employees and 1 HR/Payroll manager
• Experience dealing with outside vendors, negotiating contracts and fees as needed
• Work closely with President and CEO on Corporate strategies (short and long term)
• Drive corporate board meetings, board secretary and interface with shareholders
• Manage company assets and stock options
• Any other responsibilities that may be assigned by the President or CEO from time to time

Experience:

• Minimum of 8 to 10 years of experience in the accounting and finance sector
• Eight plus years experience in managing AP, AR accountants and the accounting & finance process
• Five plus years managing a HR and Payroll manager
• Eight years experience as a controller or higher responsibilities
• Experience interfacing with a manufacturing environment plus understanding inventory, raw and finish goods
• Strong experience in both the private and public accounting sector is preferred but not required
• Exceptional computer and program skills (i.e. Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Salesforce.com, QAD)
• Strong GAAP and financial reporting technical skills
• Experience dealing with International and US sales organization plus the administration of sales commissions and leased car program
• Excellent written, verbal, organizational and analytical skills

Education:

• Bachelors and/or Masters Degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in accounting.
• CPA is preferred but not required

Job Description

Develop and implement worldwide marketing strategies to achieve corporate sales and marketing objectives. Lead 14 person marketing team. Reports to Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing.

Position reports to the Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Identify market opportunities and mobilize resources to capitalize on them
• Drive the development of marketing materials and sales tools for the worldwide market
• Develop and implement marketing and promotional programs plus monitor and evaluate them to determine their success
• Prepare launch plans for effective promotion of new products and applications worldwide
• Cultivate relationships with key physicians worldwide
• Train worldwide sales and marketing teams
• Develop and work within program budgets
• Investigate new markets and play an active role in the product development function for new applications, products and product improvements
• Develop knowledge of competitive products and companies and develop marketing strategies to win against them
• Move Sciton to the forefront of digital and multimedia marketing
• Develop worldwide print and digital media plan
• Plan and execute worldwide trade shows
• Approximately 25-35% travel is required including international

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• 15 plus years of successful marketing or related business experience at consistently more senior levels
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Ability to work effectively within the Sciton team (Engineering, Manufacturing, Service, Regulatory, Sales, Finance)
• Strong oral and written communication skills and project management skills
• Ability to execute against both short-term deliverables and long term strategic initiatives
• Technical understanding of medical devices related to the aesthetic industry (lasers)
• Clear understanding of upstream and downstream marketing with emphasis on downstream
• Successful track record in similar position
• BS or BA in Marketing, business or technical field
• MBA or other advanced degree preferred

Job Description

Develop marketing strategies and tactics to meet corporate sales objectives for one or more of Sciton’s aesthetic products from concept to obsolescence. Reports to the Sr. Product Manager.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary interface between the global market and R&D for product development, product extensions, and new clinical applications
• Design market research projects to assess customer attitudes to the current product range and new product introductions and recommend action plans from the research.
• Act as point of first reference for all product related enquiries and work collaboratively with colleagues in Clinical Research and Regulatory to address any issues that may arise.
• Develop knowledge of competitive products and companies and develop marketing strategies to address them
• Prepare competitor product information for the sales team
• Serve as product trainer for worldwide sales and marketing teams
• Drive the development of marketing collateral including ads, literature, technical papers, and videos
• Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate marketing and promotional programs to determine their success
• Manage the launch of new products
• Work directly with key physicians to cultivate medical community relationships and monitor clinical sites/clinical research to help obtain data in order to achieve product goals
• Investigate new markets and propose new products within those markets; Identify trends throughout the medical marketplace, especially, but not limited to laser
• Ghost write white papers and peer-review papers
• Other duties and responsibilities as directed by supervisor
• Approximately 15-25% travel is required

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• 7-12 years technical product management or other relevant experience
• Excellent written, verbal, organizational and analytical skills
• Demonstrated decision-making and project management skills, initiative, teamwork and success in other work related experiences
• Possess a strong ability to work independently under tight deadlines
• BS or BA in Marketing or technical-related field or equivalent
• Ability and desire to master scientific and technical content is a must

Job Description

Sciton (Aesthetic Medical Lasers) is looking for an Area Sales Manager for Western Canada – Vancouver, British Columbia.

Position reports to the US Regional Sales Manager.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for sales of all Sciton products within defined territory
• Achieve sales targets
• Responsible for prospecting, customer presentations, product demonstrations, and closing sales transactions with customers.
• Individual will be responsible for planning and implementing strategies for elevating sales.
• Perform marketing research and manage territory.
• Handle post-sale customer issues.
• Work with Field Service, and all areas of corporate staff.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ideal candidate will have successful, demonstrated experience selling capital equipment
• Must be a self starter, results driven, highly organized, with the ability to establish relationships quickly
• Ability to effectively communicate technical solutions in clear, concise, and easy to understand presentations
• Understand Return on Investment selling methodology
• Experience selling to plastic surgeons and physicians a plus
• Customer Service driven and interface with all levels of customers.
• Heavy traveling experience is required for this position.
• French speaking a plus.

Work Experience and Education

• Bachelors degree in business or science plus 3 to 5 years of demonstrated success in selling capital equipment

Job Description

Position will be located in Palo Alto and report to the Director of R & D. This is a one month to 3 month contract assignment.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, document and maintain Embedded user interface.
• Work closely with hardware engineers to define interactions between hardware and UI.

Qualifications:

• 3 to 5 years of production software development experience.
• Solid background in Object Oriented programming
• Good understanding of Design Patterns
• Some User Experience Design is helpful
• Knowledgeof one or more UI tool kits with preference given to Qt and QML
• Experience with back-end and front-end web software development a plus
• Able to write, readable and maintain code
• Experienced with one or more version control systems
• Associate Degree , prefer a Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Location:

Palo Alto, CA

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced mechanical engineer to join our technical team.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop optics mounts that are very stable against mechanical shock and temperature variations.
• Use a knowledge of materials to reliably seal a water-cooled enclosure when the seals also see strong lamp radiation from flashlamps.
• Supporting laser optics, design beam combining structures that allow higher power to be delivered or to switch quickly between wavelengths
• Brainstorm with others to design new hand pieces for delivering laser light.
• Conduct lab measurements to analyze design performance.

The candidate should be familiar with:

• Stress and strain calculations for beams and other mechanical structures.
• Inertia, acceleration, angular velocity in rotating machinery.
• The use of various bearing systems – especially ball bearings – and the use of preloading to minimize wobble.
• Motion conversion: screws, linkages, etc.
• Heat transfer, conduction, convection, radiation
• Fluid dynamics, dimensionless numbers, heat transfer therein.
• CAD/CAM
• Mechatronics.
• An understanding of basic optics and project management skills is a plus and desired.

Work Experience and Education:

• Bachelor's or Associate's degree in Electronics, Laser Technology or equivalent with a minimum of 2+ years of experience in electronic system troubleshooting/technical support/ customer service/dispatch experience.
• Medical device experience a strong plus.

Job Description

Teach and train clients (plastic surgeons, dermatologist, medical doctors, nurses) on the use of aesthetic and surgical lasers. Location: Registered Nurse can be based in Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit or surrounding area. Important that the candidate is located near a major airport due to heavy traveling.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for initial post-sales training and subsequent training as necessary.
• Resolve post-sale customer issues and clinical questions.
• Create, revise and maintain clinical training manuals.
• Design and implement customer and distributor training programs in the field; assist in evaluating the need for continuing education programs.
• Provide physician training that includes didactic and hands-on lab with live patients.
• Serve as a clinical education resource to customers.
• Serve as liaison and referral service for patients and families.
• Interface with Sales, Field Service and other corporate staff as needed.
• Attend accredited educational programs and keep current in relevant clinical areas.
• Assist in evaluation and development of clinical training programs
• Conduct site visits and gather clinical data as requested.
• Work with local and international distributors in fulfilling their training and/or clinical evaluation needs.
• May be required to represent Sciton at regional trade shows, seminars and other events where Sciton products are presented.
• Other duties and responsibilities as directed by supervisor.
• Interacts with all levels of the Company and outside customers.
• Requires travel within US and Canada.

Qualifications:

• Must have excellent communication and presentation skills. Ability to lead a diverse group of individuals toward a specific goal. Must be assertive, and self motivated.
• Demonstrate good judgment
• Work well independently
• Ability to teach and train clinical peers and should possess leadership qualities and high professional standards.
• Familiarity with surgical and aesthetics market a plus.
• Must possess excellent problem solving skills.
• Physical coordination and ability to push lasers and lift equipment.
• Must possess basic MS Word and Excel skills.
• Work Experience and Education: Must be a Registered Nurse with 5 years of hands on medical laser experience. Ideal candidate would be someone that has worked directly in the aesthetic business.

Job Description

Project/ Product Development Manager is responsible to oversee the conception and development of current and future products that will drive sales revenue. This individual will be responsible to work with a technical team of R & D engineers to create a product design that fulfills Sciton's strategic goals while integrating the needs of marketing, sales and manufacturing departments. He/she will indirectly oversee research and design teams, help with lead testing procedures and assist with drafting specifications for manufacturing. This position will report to the head of R & D Engineering.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Candidate will assist and identify the needs and goals for products from function to aesthetics.
• Must be a creative and strategic technical thinker.
• Coordinate communication/planning meetings between R & D, Marketing, Quality, Manufacturing, etc.
• Proactive hands on professional with proven ability to take ownership and drive the product line(s).
• Work closely with the Director of R & D, President and CEO to establish project timelines, review and refine technical designs plus evaluate customer & market needs.
• Individual will work closely with R & D team to experiment with and analyze different procedures as it relates to Sciton's lasers.
• Work with Manufacturing team to deliver specifications and procedures for manufacturing product.
• Partner with Director of R & D to allocate projects to technical staff.
• Work closely with New Product Manager and Senior Product Manager.
• Able to communicate and give direction to electrical, mechanical and manufacturing engineers at all levels.
• Act as the interim Director of R & D when he is not available in conference calls or meetings.
• Other duties and responsibilities as directed by the CEO or President.

Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's or higher degree in Engineering (EE. ME or Mechatronics), or equivalent
• 3 to 7 years technical product development experience in all areas of responsibility
• Ability to work effectively with Sales, Marketing, Manufacturing and Regulatory teams
• Seasoned judgment acquired through organizational experience and a demonstrated record of achievements in successfully building and supporting a technical team
• Demonstrated ability to effectively prioritize development projects using internal or external input.
• Excellent leadership and mentoring skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Able to lead technical teams and drive projects to completion
• A plus if applicant has worked in aesthetic medical device industry

Location:

Palo Alto

Description:

In this role the engineer will work very closely with the technical team. Individual will be mentored by the one of the founders.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Know MOSFETs including n- and p-channel characteristics, logic and power, gate characteristics, drivers, use in H-bridges.
• Understand motors: AC, DC, BLDC, steppers, encoders, drivers, torque, back emf, etc.
• Design high current (400 A) circuits incorporating IGBTs to control the time duration of flashlamp pulses. The circuits will usually incorporate snubbing networks.
• Know how to use optoisolators.
• Be familiar with sensors: accelerometers, gyros, displacement, pressure, etc.
• Be familiar with SPICE.
• Know the C programming language.
• Be familiar with Programmable Logic Devices from Altera or Xilinx. Have experience in coding using Verilog.
• Be familiar with System Compliance Testing.
• Design logic circuits to communicate with various devices. Example: Use three Hall effect devices to determine the position of a mechanism. Use their states to encode a SMBus device.
• Be familiar with 74 series logic.
• Be familiar with opamps and their use as ordinary amplifiers, trans-impedance amplifiers, oscillators, peak detectors, integrators, constant current sources, etc.
• Design with voltage regulators, both linear and small switching regulators – using, for example, Linear Technology ICs. Be familiar with synchronous rectification.
• Understanding of I2C/SMBus devices and implementation.
• Be familiar with microcontrollers. How to use their onboard ADCs, DACs, timers, UARTs, etc. Write code for them.
• Understand temperature measurement using thermocouples, thermistors, etc. Design temperature control systems.
• Understand transformers; both air and iron core.

Qualifications:

• Years of experience (2 to 5 years)
• BSEE degree required
• Ability to work effectively with engineering team
• Strong oral and written communication skills, project oriented
• A plus if applicant has worked in the aesthetic medical device industry.

Description:

Full-time position | Palo Alto, CA

Develop and implement marketing strategies and tactics to achieve sales objectives in the US market. Reports to Sr. Global Marketing Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Identify market opportunities and mobilize resources to capitalize on them
• Drive the development and adaptation of marketing materials and sales tools for the US market
• Develop and implement marketing and promotional programs, and monitor and evaluate them to determine their success
• Coordinate US educational seminar program
• Coordinate the development and implementation of quarterly US sales promotions and educational webinar program
• Assist with selecting and planning US trade shows
• Cultivate relationships with key physicians
• Seek, assess, and disseminate competitive intelligence
• Develop and work within program budgets
• Investigate new markets and provide input to product management function for new applications, products and product improvements
• Develop knowledge of competitive products and companies and develop marketing strategies to win against them
• Conduct training for sales representatives
• Approximately 15-20% travel is required

Qualifications:

• 5-10 years of successful marketing or related business experience that demonstrates the required knowledge and skill base
• Demonstrated initiative, teamwork, and the ability to work with minimal supervision
• Strong oral and written communication skills and project management skills
• Ability to execute against both short-term deliverables and long term strategic initiatives
• Successful track record in similar position
• BS or BA in Marketing or technical-related field
• MBA or other advanced degree preferred

Responsibilities:

• Install, service and maintain medical laser systems; Nd :YAG , Er:YAG and intense pulsed light

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of optics, electronics, cooling systems, power supplies and laser systems

Work Experience and Education:

• 2+ years laser industry experience preferred