Junior Product Specialist

Junior Product Specialist
Salary: £24k base + car allowance and benefits
Based: Remote – but within a 2-hour radius of the head office at High Wycombe
Term: Full-time, Permanent

Focusrite is looking for a Junior UK Product Specialist. The role will be covering the full range of award-winning products from the Focusrite, Novation and ADAM Audio brands.

A wide ranging, interesting and multi-faceted role, the Junior UK Product Specialist will be responsible for the visiting and training of our UK reseller staff in addition to being responsible for the curation and delivery of compelling end-user facing product demonstrations and events in partnership with our reseller network in the UK.

As part of the Sales & Marketing Team in the UK, you will be working closely with the Sales Team, EMEA Events Manager and EMEA Education Channel Manager, you will be a recognised public face of the company at UK based exhibitions and events.

Comfortable and confident talking to camera, you will be expected to assist in content creation to support our continuing investment in remote product training, headed up by the Channel Training Manager. Your enquiring and questioning nature, along with your empathy for people’s level of understanding will dictate your approach to the presentation style needed in the moment. All underpinned by a commercial sensitivity that recognises the value that a Product Specialist can bring to the Sales function.

In addition to your primary role, as a Junior Product Specialist, your in-depth knowledge of our product ranges and the competitive product landscape will make you a valuable resource to our wider Marketing and Product Teams and you will be expected to be a positive and pro-active participant in company meetings and longer term product strategy.

Required Skills:

• A good understanding of the markets, including the competitive landscape, in which Focusrite, Novation and ADAM Audio brands operate.
• Real life experience of using technology-based tools for music creation
• Comfortable and confident in-front of camera.
• Comfortable and confident when presenting to, sometimes large, groups of people.
• A warming personality.
• A team player.
• A skilled communicator and presenter, both verbally and in writing.

Regular travel with nights away from home and occasional weekend and evening working will be a requirement of the successful applicant.

About Us

Our audio technology brands stand together, seeking to enrich lives through music by removing barriers to creativity. We want to create opportunities for everyone to enjoy making music, from musicians trying to capture their unique sound, to the professionals delivering the greatest shows on earth. The Focusrite Group has an illustrious history with four Queen's Awards for Enterprise among a host of other accolades. We comprise six successful and rapidly growing brands: Focusrite, Focusrite Pro, Martin Audio, ADAM Audio, Novation and Ampify Music. With a high-quality reputation and a rich heritage spanning over four decades, our brands continue to shape the music-making world.

Focusrite leads that world in audio interfacing technology – more musicians record through Focusrite than any other brand. The Focusrite Pro team are focussed on the complex needs of the audio professional for whom sound is not just a passion, but a way of life. Martin Audio have been uniting audiences for almost five decades with their awe-inspiring touring and installation loudspeaker systems. Based in Berlin, ADAM Audio are precision innovators in the field of professional monitoring and loudspeaker technology, made famous by their unique ART ribbon tweeter. Novation is obsessed with helping electronic music makers find new ways to produce and perform new music. Born out of that team and based in Tileyard, King's Cross, London, Ampify Music make innovative music-making apps that are highly accessible, yet extendable and deep.

Music technology is an enriching space to work in, and that's not about to change. We embrace its evolution, and that means remaining open to new ideas. We enjoy a Group-wide open-door culture, where we can all contribute and everyone is heard as we grow and develop, both as individuals and as a team. We encourage innovation and fresh-thinking and are passionate about the inspirational solutions we create. Behind our success is a tightly knitted, like-minded family of music and audio lovers. We're always pulling together to try and make a difference; our frequent appearance in 'The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For' is testament to this.

As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage people to apply regardless of religion, ethnic background, nationality, sexual orientation or gender identity. We recognise the diversity shortcomings of our industry and are committed to driving change. Equally, we recognise the major impact that climate change is having on our world and work every day towards being industry leaders in a carbon neutral future.

Benefits include flexible working, home working, company pension, life insurance, private healthcare, employee purchase scheme, company music events, offsite company parties and free breakfast/lunch in the canteen. We arrange company training sessions, hold making things easy days, encourage personal development training, run lunch and learns and facilitate external visits.