Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)

MedNexus (http://www.mednexus.io) is a semantic search engine for Healthcare professionals (and expert consumers) - think "Google for Medicine". Our search and discovery tool is powered by cutting-edge web analytics and crowdsources users’ preferences to deliver the most relevant medical content on any topic or clinical question.

We are looking for a VP of Business Development to work closely with the founders to execute on the go to market strategy. The ideal candidate will have a passion for Healthcare, an interest in Information Systems and have experience in marketing and sales. They will help us grow our user base, expand our sales and distribution pipeline, and hone our business model.

They will work with the founders on the following processes: User acquisition and customer development Engage with thought leaders and medical organizations for branding and distribution Monitor market trends and market participants Explore sales leads (identify decision makers amongst the targeted leads in order to start sales process) Inbound marketing - build an online presence and enhance credibility through creation of content and social media engagement

The ideal candidate should be detail-oriented, highly articulate and comfortable communicating our value proposition to users, potential partners & clients. Furthermore, they should have an ability to understand larger strategic issues, and be motivated to work independently and assume responsibility during key phases in product and business development.

What we look for: - Experience in marketing and sales - Business development experience at a startup - Knowledge of healthcare and/or life sciences industry - Ability to work independently and learn on the fly

Compensation will be in equity (1%-4%) and cash (>$60k).

You will be given a large equity stake and have the opportunity to play a pivotal role in the company.

If you are interested, please feel free to reach out to founders@mednexusinc.com or visit our website.

Amazon Web Services security team is hiring. We're looking for security-minded engineers at various skill levels. Our positions range from journeyman support engineers to principal engineers.

Locations: Seattle WA, North Virginia, Dublin Ireland (EU), Sydney Australia

Positions: http://amzn.to/HackerNewsQ2

Questions: @z1g1 or via email aws-itsec-hacker-news [at] amazon [dot] com.

== Full ==

Key focus areas include:

* Recognize, adopt, utilize and teach best practices in security engineering: secure development, cryptography, network security, security operations, systems security, policy, and incident response.

* Collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer. When none of the proposals is the obvious winner, you are still decisive, able to disagree and commit to the team’s decision

* Demonstrate high capacity and tolerance for extreme context switching and interruptions while remaining productive and effective

* Participate in efforts to promote security throughout the Company and build good working relationships within the team and with others across Amazon

* Partner with teams throughout the Company to develop pragmatic solutions that achieve business requirements while maintaining an acceptable level of risk

* Solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context

* Maintain an understanding of the Internet threat environment and how it affects the company

* Find and fix flaws in existing company systems and sites

* Leverage current state of network and application security tools and how they can benefit the company

* Maintain knowledge and skills required to keep up with the rapidly changing threat landscape

* Participate in efforts that create and improve the company’s security policies

* Work under extended, extreme pressure, handle situations calmly and lead incident response teams effectively

* Proactively support knowledge sharing within the team and across the company

* Help recruit the very best people for Amazon through active participation in the overall recruiting process

* Large-scale security engineering Cloud security experience is obviously a plus, but not a firm requirement.

Full Listings are available here: http://amzn.to/HackerNewsQ2 .