Lithium delivers awesome digital customer experiences at scale for the world's biggest brands including Airbnb, AT&T and Sephora. Comprising of Social Media Management and Communities, the Lithium engagement platform enables brands to manage multiple digital touchpoints, facilitate millions of conversations, and drive smarter decisions through data - connecting customers, content and conversations at the right digital moment.

Lithium has a massive digital footprint with approximately 480 million new digital interactions analyzed daily, 100 million monthly visitors across its Online Communities, and 850 million online profiles scored through Klout. Learn more at lithium.com, join our community at community.lithium.com, or follow us on Twitter @LithiumTech.

Who are we looking for?

Lithium Technologies is seeking a Director, Engineering to lead and grow a high-caliber software team delivering the next generation of SaaS based digital customer experience platform. We are looking for someone who has - been there and done that- and has been very successful creating a durable engineering culture. Someone who knows how to motivate a team, hire and retain a world class team, keep them focused on the mission and execute strongly. Someone who has the business acumen to influence the product strategy and the technical depth to help create the technical strategy. The candidate is passionate about technology and knows how to keep modernizing the platform on a sustained basis while delivering on a product roadmap.

The ideal candidate is highly organized, action-oriented, strong communicator with a - can-do- attitude and accomplished in the development and operations of large software systems. As an engineering leader, you will also shape the roadmap in conjunction with our executives and product team.

What You'll Do

As the Director, Engineering you will lead multiple teams, who work on design and delivery of the next generation of digital customer experience applications. These applications and technologies span a variety of domains, primarily on web applications in the digital community and social space.

Responsibilities:

- Lead, manage and grow a talented and diverse group of software developers

- Mentor and motivate engineering talent to build a cohesive and high performing team

- Work closely with product management to define project scope, priorities and timelines

- Work closely with engineering leadership team to define and implement the technology and architectural strategy

- Hire and develop a skilled workforce and take initiatives in building peoples career and also align that with the objectives of the organization

- Be a people leader, manage engineering managers who have personnel responsibility and work together to build a high performing team and culture

- Establish a governance model, which includes monthly project reviews, demos, beta, launch and frequent feedback mechanism

- Take complete ownership of project technical roadmap, which includes planning, publishing schedules, milestones, technical solution engineering, risks/mitigations, course corrections, trade-outs, delivery

- Deliver high-quality scalable systems in a timely and cost-effective manner

- Implement and maintain best practices around Agile software development

- Partner with the Bangalore Leadership and HR team to roll out and operationalize strategic programs

Qualification and Required Skills:

- At least 15 years of software engineering experience in high volume consumer or enterprise SaaS applications.

- At least 10 years of experience in directly managing a team of high caliber engineers

- Experience with implementing modern and/or Agile scrum development methodologies

- Deep technical knowledge of web application development on highly scalable Java platform

- Demonstrated experience in implementing culture, process, tools to deliver high quality software

- Experience in defining strategic vision and organizational planning

- Flexible, can-do mentality

- Must have experience managing people managers

- Proven ability to attract and hire superstar engineering talent

- Demonstrated ability to execute multiple, complex technical projects

- A tech enthusiast, who builds technology advocacy, advisory and enablement through a variety of programs

- Strong communication skills, including the ability to effectively manage, influence, negotiate, and communicate with external business partners and internal teams to meet operational performance goals

- Strategic thinking and direction - Understand the overall org strategy, influence the cross functional team to align on the strategic initiative, showcase an entrepreneurial mindset in solving the underlying strategic issues

- Ability to meet deadlines, prioritize workloads, maintain a strong attention to detail and work with the group in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment

- A servant leader who naturally puts the team's success first, and empowers the engineers to be successful

- Experience working with global and cross cultural teams

Why you should join our team Lithium offers a great working environment and competitive compensation and benefits package. We're looking for fast-thinking, innovative, passionate team players who enjoy brainstorming new ideas, work with the best and brightest in the social media software industry. Build software. Reach 500 million users. Change lives. That's what we're doing at Lithium. And you can do it, too. If you want to put your stamp on the digital customer space and enjoy yourself along the way, come join the team.

Lithium we encourage our employees to be real. In keeping with this philosophy, we appreciate diversity and welcome all qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, genetic information or criminal history.

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