Senior Vice President - Engineering - Internet

The is a Technology Leadership role which involves leading the engineering organization of India's top internet company and get to work amongst the sharpest of minds in the Indian Internet fraternity in Product and Technology. This is a challenging role which expects the incumbent to work with constant agility with various teams and deliver the best products in the space using effective technology platforms.

Key Responsibility Areas :

- Contribute as part of the technology team to determine strategic directions

- Forge and instill goals and standards for engineering performance

- Measure and ensure engineering, product delivery goals are met with, at an acceptable velocity and without trading off quality and performance

- Constantly motivate, mentor and guide the engineering team members

- Harness the capabilities of individuals and teams to ensure appropriate opportunities and growth for them

- Work closely and coherently with the product development team to ensure alignment and achievement of product and engineering goals

- Devise processes and mechanisms to ensure expected up time of production applications

- Augment skills and capability of the engineering team by recruiting and training the members

- Ensure smooth communication channels within the team and with all stakeholders involved in the product development and delivery process

- Contribute to crafting and own the execution of strategic product development plans.

- Provide technology leadership in a highly matrix environment. Collaborate effectively with various teams like product Development, Quality Assurance, UI Design, HR and Marketing in order to manage technology delivery as per agreed plans.

Requirements :

- Engineering graduate from a premier engineering institute with Minimum 11+ Years of relevant experience

- At least 4+ Year of experience in working with consumer Internet company / brand

- Experienced in successful implementation / adoption of agile and extreme programming methodologies

- Brilliant at communication, estimation and delivery, change management, and leadership capabilities

- Should have managed large high quality technology team directly or through hierarchy

- Having hands-on expertise would be an added advantage.