Head - Technology - Consumer Internet - IIT

As head of technology the candidate will be responsible for working with senior business stakeholders and partners to facilitate the creation and oversee the successful delivery of a strategic roadmap of customer facing products that can be monetized in the market.

- The head of technology leads the core technology solutions team and defines the 'what', 'why', 'how', 'when' and 'how much'. The candidate will oversee and constantly improve a consistent, end-to-end process that delivers great value to buyers, sellers and advertisers on the platform.

- You will provide leadership to a matrix team of product leads, business analysts, solution architects, tech leads, developers, engineers, testers, system administrators and project managers ensuring a smooth work flow across each discipline, as ideas develop into deliverable.

- The role is not a passive one and should provide thought leadership to the teams, business and industry. You will balance business and technology requirements by robust prioritization and trade-off sessions to deliver speed to market, monetization, profitability and quality. Start fast, continuously improve, co-opt for scale and SME friendly packages are the essentials tenets of what we are building to deliver online shopping Indian style.

Desired skills and experience: Experienced in operating in complex matrix organization managing multi-disciplinary teams that need not be all reporting to you. Able to work well with partners to build mutual value while ensuring consistent delivered quality in the market.

- A proven level of experience in a technology, e-commerce or media organization involved in B2C online product development, business analysis, product development or solution design

- Champion of open-source web technologies

- Experience of scaling applications to multi-million user base

- Good grasp of digital marketing including on web, mobile, social & voice

- Exposure to tracking, analytics and RTB tools to be able to build an effective publisher network across medium

- Demonstrable experience working with project managers and developers using Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Kanban) & Waterfall methodologies

- Strong people manager with proven track record of team management and project leadership

- Strong written and verbal communicator, able to interact with Senior Management

Qualification & Experience:------- B.Tech (IITs / premium schools) with 9+ years experience in Consumer internet (commerce, portals, advertising).

Hariom