This position is withESW Capitalor one of its affiliated companies.

The Senior Vice President of Technical Product Management directly impacts the success of our organization via our product teams.

We need someone who can be responsible for building and managing an elite Technical Product Management team. Each member of this elite team holds the title of “Vice President of Technical Product Management” within a specific division of our portfolio.

The ultimate goal of this effort is to strengthen our teams by facilitating collaboration and communication between them.

The Senior Vice President of Technical Product Management, as well as each of their team members, will beexpectedlearn and use a wide array of existing third-party technologies.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Knowwhen and how to design new data structures and algorithms.

Applymodern software design patterns (think cloud, containerization, etc) to product requirements.

Understandthe fatal impact that poor product design decisions can have and strategies on how to avoid them.

Communicatetheir technical decisions in a clear, written manner so that other people on the team may follow their direction.

Definedata structures and object models.

Createalgorithms to solve high-value problems.

Mapsolutions to large “building blocks” of existing open source components and cloud services.

Make decisionsthat reduce scope in favor of simplicity.

Communicateclearly (especially in writing).

Provide active daily feedbackto individual contributors writing Important Technical Decisions. Help make them simpler and clearer.

Lead and manage a team. Interview new VPs of Technical Product Managementand guide them through a structured training period.

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS

BS in CompSci, CompE, or EE.5+ years of hands-on production code development in Java or C#.

3+yearsexperiencemaking the core technical design decisions that were then implemented by other developers.

Excellencein reducing overly complicated and unstructured answers into a set of simple and structured decisions.

Ability to identify and articulate patternsin unstructured and unorganized content.

Excellent written communication skillsincluding architecture diagrams, data flows, and system component diagrams.

A passionfor creating work in a process-driven way and working with team members to continuously improve that process.

Experience working for a Top 100 software development company such as:

• Microsoft, Google, Oracle, Facebook, etc.

• A leading financial institution such as Goldman Sachs, Citi, HFT Trading firm, etc.

• A software outsourcing organization (as one of the top 5 technical architects).