Vice President of Engineering at GFI Software

GFI sells downloadable software products (primarily email/messaging and network security) to thousands of SMB’s around the world. These products provide affordable and easy-to-use solutions that enable businesses to discover, manage and secure their networks. GFI is at the beginning stages of executing an aggressive organic and acquisition-fueled growth strategy that will position it as a leading provider in the SMB software industry.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Vice President of Engineering

Location: Global
Position type: Full time (40 hours per week)

Job Descriptions

• The Vice President of Engineering will serve as a key member of the global executive team for Aurea or one of its affiliated sister companies and will be responsible for quarterly high-quality product delivery.
• As part of the leadership team, you will be expected to run an engineering organization using a revolutionary and radically differentiated process.
• With a focus on small, great global teams, productivity, factory-like process, and quantifiable business impact, you will be expected to drive higher levels of value and productivity from your engineering organization than most companies would expect to achieve.
• You must build, develop and engage a team from a global talent pool.
• In doing so, you must set an agenda for the function where the teams effectively and efficiently solve some of the most challenging software problems with engineers distributed around the globe.
• You will leverage your personal technical depth as a as a former developer and architect in order to set a personal standard for Computer Science excellence, to push your teams and to assess the talent base you need to maintain.
• If you are a world-class software engineering leader with the intellectual curiosity and desire to execute to a drastically differentiated cutting edge new software engineering process; if you have a passion for metrics-driven approach to high quality software development; if you possess senior organizational leadership, combined with the deep technical experience necessary to manage software engineering for a portfolio of software companies generating $100M annually - this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive rigorous, regular product releases across multiple, complex software products
• Establish world-class standards and technical operations to deliver consistent, high-quality products across dispersed, global teams
• Implement engineering management strategies to achieve world-class productivity and cost efficiency
• Engage with customers and product managers to ensure that product delivery obsessively aligns with customer value creation
• Transform existing teams of engineers and architects and development managers into a highly effective engineering function, including upgrading and reorganizing our talent as required
• Engage and align top talent through strong recruitment, mentoring, hands-on architectural leadership and career management
• Lead product technical due diligence and engineering talent assessment for 2-4 acquired or to-be-acquired companies each year
• Transform acquired engineering teams into an effective and efficient global model to increase quality and reduce cost over pre-acquisition benchmarks

Required Experience and Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering (MS or PhD preferred)
• 15+ years of engineering experience leading multiple teams across multiple products and technologies - this is a global leadership role for a seasoned software development leader, not a first executive role for a great software development manager
• Proven experience in building high-performance teams and scalable best engineering practices
• Spent 5 years in hands-on C++, Java or .NET architecture and programming in a hands-on, development-intensive individual contributor role
• Recent experience with DevOps and Cloud architecture. We live in the Cloud.
• Experience with high-end enterprise systems deployed in environments of Global 100 corporation complexity

Compensation
$200,000/year

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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