The Global Product Technology Development Director is acritical role responsible for ensuring the successful awareness, delivery, andoptimization of all digital products in the Global Product Technology portfolio.
Prior to production, this role will work with engineering, productowners, and PMO to carry out analysis of the Current & Next Gen work to communicateproject ‘milestones’ (specific targets that have to be met by certain dates),raise awareness of the great software that is being development, identifyprocess optimizations, and engage teams at all levels in recognizing the valuethat they all bring to the table. Digitalproducts and how they are positioned will be agreed upon with the VPs ofEngineering, Product Owners, and Technology stakeholders. The DD will work withthe PMO to establish optimal timing for each Product campaign &optimization and determines the personnel and equipment needed to deliver to agreedupon artifacts.
The DD is responsible for all engineering resources reportingin to the team including motivating and developing those engineering resourcesas an indirect people manager contributing to their career development.
Qualifications
8 years of software development experience from an industry shipping software; 6 years Project Management experience; 4 years of leadership experience (line management);
2 years of experience leading the delivery of on-line, secure, scalable data as a service
Experience with at least three software development cycles on a product used by millions of users. Experience with one live online or mobile product preferred
BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent education and experience preferred
Solid experience dealing with complex dealing with cloud, back-end and front-end technologies. Good understanding of various disciplines and interdependencies that go into software development required.
Excellent communication skills (written and oral) across all levels of an organization, especially in a distributed team from different time zones
Able to interpret product owner needs, design documents and project management data provided by central PMO group to establish and communicate scope.
Ability to own and drive a meeting with multiple stakeholders and effectively attain the meeting’s purpose.
Significant experience with agile and waterfall development methods and tools.
Expertise with project management tools like Microsoft Project, Hansoft, Jira
Strong sense of ownership, drive and ability to deliver results
Experience and passion for the learning space and education a plus
Project Execution
Responsibility for providing software development expertise and a technology point of view supporting the central product technology group: gathering and validating individual engineering task estimates provided by engineers and identifying dependencies; determining and validating resource needs to meet work task; identifying gaps and needs from PMO tracking and reporting
Driving the requirements change request process; based on software development expertise decomposing change requests into component tasks, and of estimating the impact of each change request on project schedule, budget, and resources; communicating to PMO group and project stakeholders the impact of each requested change, and produce a work breakdown structure from a design document;
Staff Management
Provides inspiring leadership by proactively meeting or communicating with employees individually to monitor and prevent potential problems or concerns; reward and recognize performance and provides coaching on performance related issues; monitors workload and recognizes extra effort with praise and discretionary rewards;
Participates in development of retention programs; works with team members to develop and pursue a career action plan and identifies potential growth opportunities; provides team members with information on self-study, courses and training opportunities; participates in employees performance evaluations; participate in the recruitment of new team members; reviewing resumes, interviewing and assessing candidates;
Leadership
Ensures adequate equipment, tools and support are provided for team members;
Enhances personal understanding of the production process and actively offers input;
Provides input for departmental planning (i.e. resource planning, cost estimates etc.); can facilitate process improvements across departments; shows comfort in moving beyond micro-management of junior staff and directs delegated responsibility effectively.
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