Director Research & Development Basis Technology Cambridge

Job description
Responsibilities
- Serve as the R&D team’s Product Owner, deciding the most valuable work to do sprint-by-sprint to fulfill larger goals set in collaboration with the VP, Engineering, the CTO, and other members of the executive and product management teams
- Technical Owner --- deciding how the work is done to fulfill his or her research and engineering architectural vision --- facilitating by whom it’s done to effectively engage the entire team, and implementing specific items of work (e.g., stories, bugs) if needed

- Serve as personnel manager of the members of the R&D team, mentoring, developing, managing and recruiting its members
- Serve as a key member of the engineering management team advising on department-wide decisions
- Engage with the broader marketplace as well as current and prospective customers to inform R&D strategic goals
- Advise other teams on R&D-related topics as needed
- Oversee technical portions of externally funded R&D projects
- Represent the organization to the research community, including through occasional service to it (e.g., as a reviewer or organizer)
- Support the establishment of teams to productize technology spun out of the R&D team
- Collaborate with internal development infrastructure providers

Desired Skills and Experience
- PhD or equivalent in NLP, Information Retrieval, Computer Science, or a similar field, including respected publications
- 6+ years implementing production-quality, multi-threaded software (e.g., in Java)
- 3+ years managing a team of engineers building production-quality software products
- Eagerness to lead and serve a collaborative, consensus-driven team
- Desire to solve customers’ problems through clean and creative solutions

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