Peaksware News and Events

Job Posting: Web Designer

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We are looking for a full time person to design emails, web pages, banner ads and the odd print piece for marketing and sales. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated with lots of initiative while also working well in a team environment. If you are a triathlete, cyclist or runner and even better if you use www.TrainingPeaks.com or another training log to track your workouts, that will be a huge plus!

Job responsibilities include:

- Designing HTML emails

- Laying out web pages using HTML and CSS

- Designing banner ads as animated GIFs and SWFs

- Working with photos and screenshots

- Designing logos and icons

- Some design for print materials, screenprinting, vehicle wraps and banners

Requirements:

- Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver skills

- Creativity and design skills

- Initiative and passion about design

Bonus:

- Passionate about running, cycling, triathlon or other sport and excited about tracking your workouts, fitness and/or nutrition

What we offer:

- Competitive salary

- Excellent benefits (health, dental, vision, gym membership, etc)

- A great company culture (recently named one of America's Best Places to Work by Outside Magazine)

Please send your resume and cover letter to hr_at_peaksware.com and be sure to include a link to your portfolio.

About Peaksware:

Peaksware develops web, mobile and desktop software to help motivated individuals and professionals achieve health, fitness and peak performance. Our main product www.TrainingPeaks.com is used by coaches and athletes to monitor, analyze and plan training and nutrition for cycling, triathlon and running performance.

Peaksware Names Gear Fisher as New CEO

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Peaksware today announced that its Board of Directors has named Gear Fisher, co-founder and formerly Chief Operating Officer to serve as the company’s Chief Executive Officer.

Mr. Fisher co-founded Peaksware in 1999 and served as both Chief Technology Officer and recently as Chief Operating Officer overseeing the company’s products and business units. As CEO, Mr. Fisher will be responsible for the growth and overall direction of the company. Andy Stephens, Peaksware’s Chairman of the Board, said the selection of Fisher as CEO was an obvious choice based on his experience and excellent track record leading both the technology and strategic paths of the company since its inception in 1999.

“Our search for someone with strong executive and personal qualities didn’t have to go any further than our current executive team,” said Stephens. “I’m thoroughly confident in Gear as the very best choice to lead Peaksware into a new age of innovation and continued profitable growth. No one has more passion for the health and fitness goals of the company, knowledge of its products and the discipline to remain authentic even while growing into new markets.”

“As I have gotten to know Gear over the years, I am continually impressed by his emphasis on developing internal talent, his focus on creating a positive company culture and his personal integrity. Additionally, his straightforward and honest style has won the respect of employees and customers," continued Stephens.

Mr. Fisher commented, “Peaksware has a proud history of technology innovation and market leading ideas that have changed the way coaches and athletes communicate. We will continue to serve all levels of athletes and fitness enthusiasts, across many disciplines, from the elite to the beginner. TrainingPeaks will continue to be the world’s leading software platform to monitor, analyze and plan fitness and nutrition information. Even as a major player in that history, it is extremely exciting to now take the lead role in shaping the future of our innovation and market leadership.”

Mr. Fisher will assume his new duties immediately in succession of Donavon Guyot who has resigned to pursue other opportunities. Mr. Fisher and the Board wish Mr. Guyot well in his new endeavors. “We are grateful for his leadership over the years and, while we will miss his visionary influence, we respect his decision to seek new challenges at this point in his career,” said Mr. Fisher.

Mr. Fisher’s biography can be read at http://www.peaksware.com/corporate-overview/executive-team/gear-fisher-ceo.aspx

About Peaksware:
Peaksware, LLC, founded in 1999, develops software systems to help motivated individuals and professionals achieve health, fitness and peak performance. In addition to the world’s leading online training and nutrition log, www.trainingpeaks.com, Peaksware also produces the desktop products Device Agent and WKO+. Each of these products is sold both direct to consumers and can also be customized in a white label format for professionals and enterprise customers. For more information or to discuss business development opportunities contact info_at_peaksware.com.

Job Posting: C# .NET Web Developer

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Position has been filled. Thanks for your interest!

If you're interested in other available jobs at Peaksware, please visit our Careers Site.

Peaksware, LLC has an immediate opening in our Lafayette, CO office for a C# .NET Web Developer. We offer a small, relaxed environment in which to work on some great projects with other talented people for our industry pioneering applications. Benefits include flexible hours, working at home, vacation/sick time, health, and dental insurance.

Our main product is TrainingPeaks.com. We’re the industry leader when it comes to monitoring, analyzing and planning fitness and nutrition information. At Peaksware, we strive to develop software systems to help motivated individuals and professionals achieve health, fitness and peak performance.

Requirements:

- A degree in Computer Science or comparable experience (3+ years).

- A strong passion and thirst to keep up with new industry trends and standards.

- Ability to learn new things and grow in architectural design and coding capabilities is a must

- Candidate must be self-motivated and be ready to jump in today!

- Strong exposure to object oriented design and development is necessary (Java/C#)

- Experience with ASP.NET forms, object oriented C# libraries, and MVC highly desired.

- Capabilities with configuration of SQL Server and IIS a plus.

- Experience with third party or community based .NET frameworks like log4net, nunit, nhibernate, fluorineFX is a plus.

- Good understanding of database fundamentals, SQL Server and/or equivalent database experience is a plus

- Experience with w3 SOAP services as well as WCF a plus

- Experience using Visual Studio 2008 for ASP.NET/C#

- Interest in working in a Test Driven Development Environment

- Experience with version control systems such as VSS or SVN is a must

- Familiarity with concepts such as session persistence, URL rewriting, .ascx component design, third party component libraries like telerik, xceed is a big plus.

- Interest in fitness, running, cycling, triathlon or the outdoors is a strong plus

Apply today: If you are looking for a great atmosphere, fun people, interesting projects, and the ability to make a difference in the health and fitness of our customers, we want to talk with you. Start our application process at peaksware.com.

Job Posting: GUI Developer

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Developer needed to help create and maintain the most powerful Fitness and Nutrition Log on the web!

We’re currently looking to hire a developer to work primarily on our flex application (publicly viewable at www.trainingpeaks.com – just create a free account to check it out).

We are looking for candidates that are able to work on the front-end user interface of the flex application. They should have experience creating a Flex, Silverlight, or Java Swing user interface and also be up-to-date with recent web technologies and trends.

Required Experience:

Experience building business or consumer focused web applications
Strong familiarity with a tiered service based architecture
Be interested in working on an Agile and fast paced development team
Skilled with usage of Silverlight, Flex, and/or Java Swing

Preferred Skills:

Experience with AMF based consumption of services and Flex Builder
Great understanding of event based asynchronous programming
Experience with mapping, graphing, and visualization components in Flex

The person we hire will be the lead developer for the client side UI of the app and will be in charge of maintaining and upgrading the existing codebase, which includes about 10 projects comprised of 3 application swfs and around 30 module swfs. In addition, this person will be in charge of all new features, and will assume responsibility for the architecture and technologies involved in the client side application.

We offer a competitive salary, full benefits, and a great working environment. Located 6 miles outside of Boulder, CO, most of the employees at Peaksware are fitness/outdoor enthusiasts or competitive endurance athletes, and are passionate about both the work they do and the product(s) we produce.

We’re looking for this full time developer to come into the role as soon as possible.

Please send resume to hr (at-sign) peaksware (dot) com

About Peaksware:

Peaksware develops software that helps motivated individuals and professionals achieve health, fitness and peak performance. Our main product www.TrainingPeaks.com is used to monitor, analyze and plan training and nutrition by coaches, trainers, dietitians and individuals from elite athletes to general fitness enthusiasts. In addition to direct to consumer software, we power training and nutrition products for Runner's World, Outside Magazine, Timex, the New York City Marathon and many others.

Peaksware Announces Device Agent for Mac and PC

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TrainingPeaks’ Device Agent version 3.0 now provides cyclists, runners, and multi-sport athletes with an easy way to download the most popular training devices to both Mac and PC.

Lafayette, CO (September 20, 2010) – Peaksware, the software development company behind TrainingPeaks.com, the Runner’s World Personal Trainer, Outside Magazine’s Fitness Planner and other leading exercise and nutrition software platforms today announced the October release of Device Agent Version 3.0 for Mac and PC computers with the capability to download from more than 25 different devices and then upload the data to TrainingPeaks.com for analysis and sharing. The new 3.0 Device Agent allows both TrainingPeaks.com Basic and Premium Personal Edition subscribers to extract data files from electronic training devices such as the latest Garmin Edge 800, SRM Powercontrol 7, Timex Global Trainer, and more.

The latest 3.0 Device Agent is compatible with Mac OSX 10.5 and 10.6, as well as PC’s running Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. In addition to downloading and sending the data files to TrainingPeaks.com, users of the Device Agent can also add comments as journal entries which also get transferred and stored within their online TrainingPeaks accounts.

“The 3.0 Version of the TrainingPeaks Device Agent offers significant functionality to both Mac and PC users,” said Donavon Guyot, CEO of Peaksware. “Seamless data transfer between desktop and online software, as well as enhanced data analysis features within TrainingPeaks.com, combine to create a product that is truly the gold standard for workout data tracking and analysis.”

TrainingPeaks.com provides not only free online data storage, but also offers numerous other tools like building routes, nutrition tracking, sharing workouts on Facebook and Twitter, and access to expert advice from world class coaches, dietitians and other wellness professionals.

The Version 3.0 Device Agent is available for free at http://support.trainingpeaks.com/device-agent.aspx

About Peaksware:
Peaksware, LLC, founded in 1999, develops software systems to help motivated individuals and professionals achieve health, fitness and peak performance. In addition to the world’s leading online training and nutrition log, TrainingPeaks.com, Peaksware also produces the desktop products Device Agent and WKO+. Each of these products is sold both direct to consumers and can also be customized in a white label format for enterprise customers. For more information or to discuss business development opportunities contact info_at_peaksware.com.

Contact:
Dirk Friel, CMO
Peaksware, LLC
2770 Dagny Way, Suite 212, Lafayette, CO 80026
Dirk@Peaksware.com

303-725-4588

Job Posting: Marketing Coordinator

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Position has been filled. Thanks for your interest!

If you're interested in other available jobs at Peaksware, please visit our Careers Site.

Peaksware is looking for a marketing genius who also lives and breathes health, fitness and athletic performance. We need an experienced, organized, creative, web savvy coordinator with lots of self-motivation and initiative who will utilize in-bound and out-bound marketing strategies from social networking to blogging, newsletters and content writing/editing to traditional public relations.

Job responsibilities will include:

25% - Customer support (TrainingPeaks forums, Twitter and Facebook monitoring for support, support documentation, tutorials, contextual help, etc)
25% - Communication (with content contributors and distributors including media & partners)
20% - Writing and editing (blogs, newsletters, articles, case studies, press releases, etc)
20% - Community monitoring and social networking (content distribution, member engagement, branding, etc)
10% - Reporting (Analytics and other tools to track campaigns and on-going efforts)

The ideal candidate:

Will be an excellent writer and editor, well-spoken and comfortable interacting with a wide variety of people from executives to athletes
Must be extremely organized and have the proven ability to manage many projects simultaneously with excellent follow-through
Will be very web and mobile savvy and have lots of experience using social media applications like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube
Will understand and have experience optimizing content, websites and promotions for SEO
Will be driven by results as proven by a solid understanding and experience with web analytics tools like Google Analytics
Will have a basic understanding of design, especially digital design (experience using Dreamweaver and Photoshop is a big bonus)
Will be able to clearly communicate ideas and concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences across many different markets
Will personally be passionate about, and active in fitness, sports performance and/or nutrition
Will live no more than 40 minutes away from Lafayette, Colorado or be willing to relocate
Previous experience using TrainingPeaks software is a huge bonus!

What we offer:

Competitive salary
Excellent benefits (health, dental, vision, gym membership, etc)
A great company culture (recently named one of America's Best Places to Work by Outside Magazine)

Please send your resume and cover letter to: hr-(at sign)-peaksware-dot-com. You must include links to social media sites, blogs, website content, press releases or other content you created or orchestrated in order to be considered for this position.

About Peaksware:

Fly V australia Releases Daily Tour of California Race Files Powered by TrainingPeaks

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TrainingPeaks.com has teamed up with professional cycling team Fly V australia to release daily power, GPS and heart rate files during the Amgen Tour of California, May 16-23rd.

Lafayette, CO, May 13, 2010 – This year’s top-ranked professional cycling team in the United States, Team Fly V australia, will be releasing daily power, heart rate and GPS files during the 2010 Amgen Tour of California. TrainingPeaks co-founder, Dirk Friel, and Hunter Allen, co-author of Training and Racing with a Power Meter, will be providing same-day analysis of each day's stage files which will also be available to view and download by anyone who visits the Tour of California Power page located at www.trainingpeaks.com/atoc. Race data will be available to view directly through the TrainingPeaks.com File Viewer, or by downloading and analyzing data within TrainingPeaks WKO+ desktop software.

"Team Fly V australia is currently the number one ranked team racing in the US having won more than 30 races so far in 2010,” said Peaksware CMO and co-founder Dirk Friel. “TrainingPeaks is a proud supporter of the team and we are very excited that they are allowing us to release daily power files from one team member after each stage of the Amgen Tour of California. There should be some amazing data coming from this team so stay tuned to our daily race coverage."

"Having TrainingPeaks as a partner gives us an ongoing advantage in terms of athlete preparation and management. To have TrainingPeaks provide our Sport Directors and Riders daily analysis will provide us with valuable expertise that we will use to manage our Team performance and maximise our results." said Team Managing Director Chris White. White added, "As a tool TrainingPeaks is powerful but to have Peaksware’s co-founder Dirk Friel travel with us on tour provides us with substantially more fire power to add to our arsenal."

Brett Roland Fly V australia's Digital Development Director added, "The Amgen Tour of California will be the first real opportunity to show the cycling community and our devoted fans what race data our riders can produce and how we can make it available to them. Through our partnership with TrainingPeaks, and the benchmark we will set at the Amgen Tour of California, we are highlighting how we are taking behind the scenes access to team information far beyond what teams have offered their fans and club members in the past."

Stay tuned to the TrainingPeaks Tour of California Power page for daily updates including power file analysis, articles, videos, pictures, and interviews with Team Fly V australia riders and others.

About Peaksware:

Peaksware, LLC, founded in 1999, develops software systems to help motivated individuals and professionals achieve health, fitness and peak performance. In addition to the world’s leading online training and nutrition log, TrainingPeaks.com, Peaksware also produces the desktop products Device Agent and WKO+. Each of these products is sold both direct to consumers and can also be customized in a white label format for enterprise customers. For more information or to discuss business development opportunities contact info_at_peaksware.com.

About Fly V australia:

Fly V australia is an Australian Continental Team registered with the UCI. The Team is made up of 10 Australians, 2 South Africans and one rider from each of USA, Italy and Canada. The owner of the UCI license is Pegasus Racing Pty Ltd, an Australian private company. Pegasus Racing has a vision to create Australia's first PRO Tour team to be registered with the UCI and has set 2012 as it's target to first compete in the Tour de France.

Job Posting: Sales and Marketing Relationship Manager

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Position has been filled. Thanks for your interest!

If you're interested in other available jobs at Peaksware, please visit our Careers Site.

Peaksware has an immediate opening in our Lafayette, CO office for a Sales and Marketing Relationship Manager to join our growing team.

Job Description:

GENERAL SUMMARY:

The Sales and Marketing Relationship Manager has three main responsibilities:

Enterprise Level Business Development - Identify and develop high level business opportunities with prospects such as corporate wellness providers, health clubs and other enterprise level businesses.
Lead Generation - Formulate and execute integrated, strategically-focused B2B marketing programs for new customer acquisition and lead nurturing with a primary mission of bringing the sales team high quality sales opportunities.
Relationship Nurturing and Brand Recognition - Work with prospects and customers to build long lasting relationships and to increase Peaksware's brand awareness in the health, fitness, wellness, nutrition and sports performance markets.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

Assist in developing and implementing plans for lead generation/nurturing activities and programs.
Initiate the sales cycle by initiating relationships with prospective clients and qualifying leads for the sales team.
Generating new opportunities (open doors) with prospects using a variety of approaches, including: research, 3rd party resources, cold calling, e-mails and events management.
Articulate the value proposition of the company’s service to create viable prospects.
Identify market opportunities by researching, analyzing and identifying new business growth opportunities.
Assist with creating and editing sales tools to enhance selling success, including white papers, collateral, presentation materials, company/industry profiles, business partner contacts and information vehicles, etc.
Work directly with individual sales team members to drive campaigns and programs at all levels to build pipelines and help close business.
Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; etc.

Skills:

REQUIRED SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Excellent cold calling experience required - both in person and via phone or email
Strong sales aptitude
Consultative selling background and training
Proven ability to utilize web 2.0 inbound marketing strategies for B2B sales including content generation and syndication as well as relationship nurturing
Knowledgeable about the market and understanding of how the products and technology fit into the overall industry
Passionate about health, fitness, and/or athletics
Successful in working with both sales and marketing teams
Communicate ideas and information in a form well matched to and well received by others
Invites productive and regular exchanges of information among team members
Require strong written and oral communication, as well as good interpersonal and customer relations’ skills
Network and build long-lasting relationships effectively
Self-driven, results-oriented and a clear focus on high quality and business profit; with the ability to work under limited supervision
Open-minded, a progressive thinker, a listener and an individual who is comfortable with participation from fellow employees
Self motivated to continue learning for professional edification through reading, networking groups, seminars, etc
Must be able and willing to travel up to 50% of the time

EXPERIENCE

Experience selling enterprise level clients with long and complicated sales cycles
Experience managing marketing campaigns that vary in scope and complexity
Previous experience working on or collaborating with a highly driven sales team
Previous experience in a software or technology environment
Experience using TrainingPeaks.com (Personal Edition and/or Professional Edition)
Proficiency in Salesforce or other CRM

About Peaksware:
Peaksware develops software that helps motivated individuals and professionals achieve health, fitness and peak performance. The main product TrainingPeaks.com is used to monitor, analyze and plan training and nutrition by coaches, personal trainers, athletes and general fitness enthusiasts around the world. In addition to direct to consumer software, Peaksware powers training and nutrition sites for Runner's World, Outside Magazine, Timex, the New York City Marathon and others.

Position Includes:
Compensation based on experience plus full benefits including medical, dental and vision, 401k, gym membership & short term disability.

Please send your resume and a brief cover letter to: hr-(at sign)-peaksware-dot-com.

Job Posting: Quality Assurance Software Engineer

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Position has been filled. Thanks for your interest!

If you're interested in other available jobs at Peaksware, please visit our Careers Site.

Peaksware has an immediate opening in our Lafayette, CO office for a Quality Assurance Software Tester to join our growing team. We’re looking for an individual with excellent communication skills, strong exploratory testing skills, and the ability to plan and execute test sessions and test cases using a context-driven test approach. This is a full time position (40 hrs/wk).

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Manually test the functionality of our various web sites, web applications and desktop applications
Dynamically adapt test approach to the context of each project
Perform session-based exploratory testing
Develop and execute test cases, document results
Log clear, reproducible bug reports
Advocate for bugs throughout the resolution process
Work with the Test Lead and Project Manager to ensure timely testing coverage according to project schedules

QUALIFICATIONS:

A detailed oriented and curious tester’s mindset
1-2 years software testing experience on desktop applications, web applications, and web sites
Proven ability to follow direction, take ownership of assignments, and work well with others
Proven ability to communicate with technical and non-technical people at various levels
Proven ability to write clearly
Strong critical thinking and problem solving skills
Ability to manage multiple activities and projects at the same time
Strong Windows and Internet knowledge (additional Mac OSX experience a plus)
General computer/networking knowledge

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL:

be very computer savvy (but programming knowledge is not a requirement)
be passionate about health, fitness, and endurance athletics
posses great communication skills
have prior experience with our software products (TrainingPeaks.com and TrainingPeaks WKO+)
have prior experience with downloadable training devices (like heart rate monitors, GPS devices, and power meters)
have a four year college degree (or equivalent professional experience)

Peaksware strives to develop software systems that help motivated individuals and professionals achieve health, fitness and peak performance. Our main products are TrainingPeaks.com (a web based system to monitor, analyze and plan training and fitness information for individuals, trainers and coaches), and TrainingPeaks WKO+ (a desktop based program that provides detailed analysis of downloadable training device data, from heart rate monitors, GPS devices, and power meters).

Apply today: Benefits include annual salary, full medical and dental insurance, 401k, and gym membership. If you are looking for a great atmosphere, fun people, and the ability to make a difference in the health and fitness of people everywhere, we want to talk with you. Send a cover letter, your resume, salary requirements and time-frame for starting to: hr-(at sign)-peaksware-dot-com. Plain text, PDF or MS Word format is ok.

C# .NET Web Developer Position Now Available