Site Leader/Director - Cloud India - Product Development Firm

Job Description

Position Title: Site Leader /Director - Cloud India

Company: Product Development Company

Location: Pune, India

Reporting Line: VP /GM Engineering - Cloud business.

Responsibilities: Director Engineering Cloud India will be responsible for building and growing the Cloud business. The successful candidate will have local responsibility to develop the cloud engineering team and will lead the India build out and operations.

The Director of Cloud India will:

- Design and locally deploy the cloud architecture to support multiple deployment options including managed cloud services, joint partnerships with global and regional service providers, and deployments in both public and private cloud environments.

- Build and manage a team to support the local deployment and operations of Company's cloud.

- Collaborate with the Company Product Management and Engineering teams to contribute to Company Cloud

- Support the development of the partner ecosystem to enhance the growth of the cloud business.

The successful candidate will have a demonstrated ability to develop a vision, drive and manage the execution of that vision, and deliver top-tier results while load balancing and prioritizing efforts across strategy, leadership and operations. He or she is able to straddle the line of business and technology to execute on technology decisions that are influenced by the needs of the business.

Strategy & Planning

- Act as a thought leader for technology-enabled business opportunities, in addition to partnering in the strategic planning, leading enterprise transformation through technology and evolving enterprise architectures.

- Develop and maintain an appropriate cloud organizational structure that supports the needs of the business.

- Establish functional goals, objectives, and operating procedures.

- Demonstrate - Organizational Agility- by balancing the role of strategist with urgency while simultaneously managing the delivering results in a growing and fast paced environment.

Business Development

- Develop strategies to grow the business including development of new solutions as well as go to market approaches that include organic, inorganic and partnering approaches

- Develop channel strategies to broaden market reach

People Leadership, Relationship Building and Partnership

- Recruit and build a high performing team of experienced cloud business and technology leaders

- Establish a proactive, trusted, advisor culture within the Cloud organization that serves all areas of the business.

- Builds employee knowledge and skills in specific areas of expertise.

- Partner with all levels of the business to leverage technology as a strategic enabler and driver of business performance and outcomes.

- Transformational Leadership- remaining focused, facilitating and evolving change in support of continual business performance improvements. You will direct cloud engineering, cloud product management and cloud operations.

Operational Management

- Effectively communicate plans and provide consultative advice, counsel, education and guidance up, down and across all levels on the development of cloud operations and business.

- Appropriately organize and present ideas, options, plans, initiatives, roadmaps, business cases and other pertinent information required by management to make effective decisions

Plan, develop, deploy and integrate innovative solutions that meet existing and future market/business needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, availability, sustainability, implementation schedules, and adherence to development goals of customer base.

Key Experience and Qualifications: The successful candidate will possess the following key qualifications:

Technical / Professional Competencies

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline. MS or MBA preferred.

- Minimum 10 years of senior level, cross-functional leadership roles in technology related companies including business strategy, product management, engineering and operations

- Proven track record building a cloud team with full P&L ownership; experience taking on-premises solutions to a cloud model is a plus

- Proven track record of responsibility for managing technical development or operations teams.

- Must have extensive experience in the Cloud India industry with an understanding of competitive landscape, business development and cloud operations for the enterprise market.

Leadership, Management and Relationship Building Skills