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Vice President, Engineering
Precisely
Administration
United States
Posted on Jan 14, 2025
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Intro and job overview: EngageOne solutions offer a range of products that help businesses use data-driven insights to create seamless, personalized and omnichannel communications and connect with customers using the right channels, with the right messages, at the right time. The VP Engineering leads the R&D discipline for the Engage business unit within Precisely. Operating as the business unit CTO for all Engage software capabilities for new and existing products. This role leads cross functional technical teams located in the United States, UK and Poland to deliver following agile principles whilst driving engineering excellence. This person works with internal and external stakeholders to define and refine technical strategy to make the company successful.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Develop, communicate and refine an actionable technology strategy to enable the company to be successful in the geographies and markets we do business
- Work as part of the executive team to develop product investment and release roadmaps
- Be accountable for product design and development, with focus on on-time delivery, while meeting quality and performance objectives
- Be able to work across three horizons: Modify existing capabilities in market, Develop new capabilities and identify future needs which require advanced R&D.
- Direct managers to optimize development through use of employees, contractors, and outsourcing as appropriate whilst defining metrics and measuring improvements
- Define, plan and operate within budget and identify future funding needs
- Drive a global culture of continuous improvement and team skills evolution
- Collaborate with other product engineering teams within the company to evaluate and influence capabilities which will bring value to Engage to drive efficiencies and support innovation
- Foster innovation, recruit industry leading talent, and recognize and reward top contributors
- Ensure protection of the company’s Intellectual Property
- Ensure all teams work within documented processes to support financial and certification audits.
Requirements and Qualifications:
- A technical leader with strong business acumen and proven track record of driving high-performing teams in a mostly remote organization
- At least 10 years experience and a proven reputation for developing innovative and successful commercial enterprise-level software
- Experienced in delivering software following both continuous delivery of cloud solutions and cyclical releases of on-premises software
- Extensive experience of Amazon Web Services and other cloud service providers
- Experience of implementing and managing information security practices including risk management
- Ability to attract and motivate industry-leading software development talent, keep them engaged and growing.
- Understanding of current Software Development technologies and a passion to explore the art of the possible
- History of supporting customer and partner relationships
- Experience with multi-geography, cross functional teams including partner staffing
- Excellent communication skills with experience representing your company at industry events and meetups
- Knowledge of the customer communication management, digital communication transformation, fintech and insurance technology markets
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