Job Details: Associate Director, Technology - Multiple Locations
| Job Title: | Associate Director, Technology - Multiple Locations |
| Job ID: | 5885 |
| Company: | frog design Inc. |
| Position Type: | Permanent |
| Pay Rate: | Commensurate with experience |
| Skills: | Microsoft .NET2 / .NET3 (WPF/XAML) / Silverlight, Qt Desktop, Adobe Flash / Flash Lite / Flex |
| Date Posted: | Apr-22-08 |
If you're smart-working, hard-playing and dedicated, we'll free you to do the best work of your career.
About frog design, inc.
frog design, inc. is one of the world's leading strategic-creative consulting firms. By identifying emerging market opportunities and transforming ideas into compelling product and service experiences, frog helps Fortune 500 clients to evolve, expand, and envision their businesses. Founded in Germany in 1969, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with studios in Austin, TX; New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; San Jose, CA; Seattle, WA; Milan, Italy; Shanghai, China; and Stuttgart, Germany. With a cross-disciplinary team of more than 350 employees, frog offers a broad range of industry expertise, in fields such as consumer electronics, software, entertainment, finance, medical, retail, and fashion. Clients include Alltel, Disney, GE, HP, Logitech, Microsoft, MTV, Seagate, Yahoo! and others.
The Associate Technology Director is a highly motivational and matrixed leadership position within their frog studio's technology team. He/she is responsible for day-to-day operations, utilization rates, and personnel management of a diverse team of Technical Architects, Software Developers, Design Technologists, QA Engineers, and Technology Solution Managers. An Associate Technology Director actively participates in business development efforts such as proposals, pre-sales meetings, project estimation/scoping activities, and resource allocation. For short-term projects, he/she is expected to lead technical project delivery and is responsible for technical project management and evaluating deliverables to ensure that they meet established requirements. The Associate Technology Director's management responsibilities include making hiring decisions, mentoring employees, evaluating employee performance, and evolving frog's technology-related service offerings. He/she is also expected to define and document best practices and contribute to company-wide knowledge sharing efforts.
To be considered, candidates must show leadership experience at the Principal Technologist level and have industry domain experience in at least one of the following platforms:
• Mobile Applications in Qualcomm uiOne, BREW, Symbian (UIQ or Nokia Series 60), or Microsoft Windows Mobile
• Desktop or Web Applications in Microsoft .NET2 / .NET3 (WPF/XAML) / Silverlight, Qt Desktop, Adobe Flash / Flash Lite / Flex / AIR, or AJAX
• N-Tier Applications in Microsoft .NET, LAMP, or J2EE
• Consumer or Embedded Devices
Ideal candidates will have a portfolio of their recent work history showcasing successfully released projects and demonstrate a passion for current technology trends and best practices.
• Provide day-to-day management of a studio's technology team
• Work proactively with a studio's management team to address their team's utilization, work-life balance, and career development
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for business development efforts such as proposals, pre-sales meetings, project estimation/scoping activities, and resource allocation
• Build long-term relationships with strategic clients
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for pre-sale demos, simulations, prototypes, and short-term projects by communicating development/testing status, delegating or escalating technical issues, enabling continuous builds, managing change requests, and evaluating deliverables to ensure that they meet established requirements
• Contribute to company-wide knowledge sharing efforts by organizing, leading, and/or participating in the creation of best practices, case studies, and reference deliverables
• Make hiring decisions for a studio's technology team
• Maintain a 35-50% billable utilization rate
• Travel 20-40%
Qualifications:
• 8+ years of professional experience managing and nurturing technology teams
• Expertise in preparing and delivering proposals and presentations to all levels of a client's organization (including executives)
• Experience with project management and a variety of software development methodologies
• Proven ability to work and communicate with multidisciplinary distributed teams (including designers, developers, architects, QA engineers, and executives)
• Enthusiasm to define and document best practices and contribute to knowledge sharing efforts
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Bachelor's degree in the sciences, engineering, or a creative discipline is required (a master's degree and/or project management certification is preferred)
| Location: [rss] | US-TX-Austin |
| Telecommute: | No (Onsite Position) |
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| URL: | http://www.frogdesign.com/jobs/view-job.html?jobid=5885 |
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Please submit your resume online to: http://www.frogdesign.com/jobs. frog design is an equal opportunity employer |
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