Senior Vice President, Technology

The Role

Senior Vice President of Technology will provide strategic and execution-level management of all software development across the company. The VP, which will report to the CTO, will be a site leader for technology and play a highly visible role in front of internal team members, and will also be working with leadership to develop long-term strategic roadmaps and staying abreast of innovations in technology. Three important areas of focus will be migration to the public cloud, forming a global labor strategy and building a reliable execution engine and support model with cross functional teams.

Specifically, The Sr Vice President, Technology Will

• Coordinate engineering efforts with partners and suppliers for continuous optimization.
• Attract, hire, develop, and provide engineering leadership to retain an extraordinary team capable of exceptional productivity and innovation.
• Ensure extraordinary product quality, stability, reliability; anticipate and promptly fix any issues that put the overall product at risk at every stage of product development process.
• Develop and incorporate new technologies to encourage innovation with a focus on customer needs and improved product development.
• Instill technical discipline in the development process, holding systematic reviews to identify and mitigate risks and delays.
• Lead a multi-site, multi-country, multi-functional engineering organization with responsibility over organizational design and overall vision and strategy.

The ideal candidate will be an experienced engineering executive with high levels of operational rigor, customer orientation, and a hands-on . They will be intellectually curious and will keep Our Client at the forefront of technology innovation in its industry, with a strong focus on creating a compelling value proposition for customers.

In addition, the ideal candidate will have the following experiences, abilities, and competencies:

• An ability to inspire both customers and team members with technology leadership and depth.
• A solid understanding of what it takes to run a business; an ability to think about technology strategy and how it can impact the business rather than innovating for innovation’s sake.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and influencing skills internally and externally.
• A demonstrated ability to implement, manage, and complete scalable processes that result in improved performance against schedules and deliverables.
• The ability to embrace working within a fast-paced atmosphere where everyone is pushing towards an ambitious shared company vision.
• Experience managing large teams located in multiple countries and organized in multiple functions.
• Preferred deep engineering expertise in systems which include software components; knowledge of audio and video engineering technology, mobile devices, IoT, and edge computing would be highly valuable.

In terms of the performance and personal competencies required for the position, we would highlight the following:

Setting Strategy

• The inclination to seek and analyze data from a variety of sources to support decisions and to align others with the organization's overall strategy.
• The ability to create and articulate an inspiring vision for the organization, not only for the areas they is directly responsible for, but the enterprise as a whole.
• An entrepreneurial and creative approach to developing new, innovative ideas that will stretch the organization and push the boundaries within the industry.
• The ability to effectively balance the desire/need for broad change with an understanding of how much change the organization is capable of handling, to create realistic goals and implementation plans that are achievable and successful.

Driving for Results

• A leader who is viewed by others as having a high degree of integrity and forethought in their approach to making decisions; the ability to act in a transparent and consistent manner while always considering what is best for the organization.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty; the ability to adapt nimbly and lead others through complex situations.
• A risk-taker who seeks data and input from others to foresee possible threats or unintended circumstances from decisions; someone who takes thoughtful risks.
• The ability to set clear and challenging goals while committing the organization to improved performance; tenacious and accountable in getting results.

Leading Teams

• Continue to drive support and adoption of the Hybrid work structure.
• The ability to persevere in the face of challenges and exhibit a steadfast resolve and relentless commitment to higher standards, which commands respect from followers.
• A leader who is self-reflective and aware of their own limitations; leads by example and drives the organization's performance with an attitude of continuous improvement by being open to feedback and self-improvement.

Relationships and Influence

• Creates a sense of purpose/meaning for the team that generates fellowship beyond their own personality and engages others to the greater purpose for the organization as a whole.
• An ability to inspire trust and fellowship in others through compelling influence, powerful charisma, passion in their beliefs, and active drive.
• Encourages others to share the spotlight and visibly celebrates and supports the success of the team.
• Naturally connects and builds strong relationships with others, demonstrating strong emotional intelligence and an ability to communicate clearly and persuasively.