Job Description

5+ years professional experience in an engineering or technical team, of which at least 3+ years are managing technical programs/projects

Hands-on software development/Product Engineering experience

Support multiple cross-functional technical teams to deliver their objectives in fast-paced and complex programs and projects

Develop strong partnerships with engineering and product management leaders to drive focus on strategic and tactical program objectives

Build strategic relationships with key technology and business leaders to ensure program success

Support driving teams and individuals in planning and executing roadmaps, releases, and work backlogs

Support leading efforts to identify risks, resolve key project conflicts, and establish appropriate resolution paths

Fill in gaps across roles and functions as needed, performing as an adaptive problem solver

Provide reporting as necessary on project status, risks, issues, and mitigation plans

Create a collaborative work environment that fosters shared understanding, transparency, mastery, autonomy, innovation, and continuous learning

Share best practices of modern planning and execution

Demonstrated success managing multiple major and concurrent programs

Prior experience driving development of massive-scale distributed data platforms, recommendation and search technologies, big data pipelines, and/or analytical tools.

Significant experience working with software engineering leadership, technical teams, and individual contributors

Passion about being an indispensable part of a great product

Ability to communicate authoritatively at a sufficient technical depth

Passion to learn new concepts and technologies

Ability to build collaborations and create a community of leadership

Agile coaching and practitioner experience (Scrum, Kanban) with multiple teams

Experience in managing all phases of end-to-end product development

Knowledge of Internet client/server social networking applications and systems

Knowledge of machine learning applications and platforms

Hands-on software development experience