Role: Sr Director/Vice President of Software Development
Location: Portland, OR preferred, relocation considered or remote
Perforce develops DevOps tools that improve software quality and security as well as team productivity for several of the world’s leading companies, such as PIXAR, CD Projekt Red, NASA, Verizon, Honda and NVIDIA.
Position Summary:
We are looking for a strategic leader to lead a cross-functional team of back-end, full-stack, devops and automation engineers. In this global role you will collaborate with international teams across North America, Europe and Asia to build, test and deploy products.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the overall planning, development, and deployment of multiple products in Perforce’s portfolio.
- Develop and implement an architectural strategy to ensure platform security, scalability, and resilience.
- Partner closely with cross-functional teams including product management, sales customer success regarding development schedules, backlog, and roadmap.
- Implement engineering best practices to optimize development cycles as well as increase predictability and product quality.
- Manage resources effectively to resolve customer issues immediately without delaying development or overloading development teams.
- Hire and develop top engineering talent. Create a hiring plan that scales the team with the growth of the business.
- Lead the team in a way that promotes failing fast to succeed sooner when generating and testing new concepts.
- Leverage intuition on what works in the marketplace as well as new learnings from customer feedback and field research to iterate and improve the product.
- Present technology vision and roadmap to a diverse set of corporate audiences including senior leadership, executive committee, and business community.
- Ensure the team is cohesive and aligned towards the same goals
Requirements:
- BS/MS in Engineering or Computer Science.
- 10 years of previous software development and engineering leadership experience in a hyper-growth SaaS or technology company.
- Experience identifying top talent and developing team members.
- History of managing teams by establishing goals, measuring success, and holding team members accountable.
- Demonstrated understanding of the business environment and relevant strategic, developmental, and operational drivers.
- Ability to balance being hands-on with having a 30,000 feet perspective.
- Ability to work cross-functionally and own the success of the products jointly with other disciplines.
- Ability to work within a dynamic, entrepreneurial, deadline-driven environment
- Proven track record of managing successful software delivery in a public-facing SaaS web application development environment
- Extensive experience and leadership in design and developing high performance, scalable and fault-tolerant enterprise SaaS/Cloud applications
- Proven ability to drive the entire software development process from concept, architecture design, development, and QA to deployment of complex web-based and mobile applications.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies
If you are passionate about the technology that impacts our day-to-day lives and want to work with people as talented and dedicated as yourself, apply today!
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