Job Details: Executive Technology Director
| Job Title: | Executive Technology Director |
| Job ID: | 6007 |
| Company: | frog design, inc. |
| Position Type: | Permanent |
| Pay Rate: | Commensurate with experience |
| Date Posted: | Oct-08-08 |
If you're smart-working, hard-playing and dedicated, we'll free you to do the best work of your career.
About frog design,
frog design 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 San Francisco, California, with studios in Austin, TX; New York, NY; San Jose, CA; Seattle, WA; Milan, Italy; Shanghai, China; Amsterdam, Netherlands; 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 Executive Technology Director will lead software development projects assigned to Austin, Texas technology team. The ETD is also responsible for defining the software engineering practice for frog design. The ETD will be responsible for a variety of tasks including, but not limited to, the following:
* Lead and cultivate the Austin, Texas technology team which has a focus on software development service offerings,
* Develop and close new business relationships with clients in conjunction with the Business Development team,
* Ensure that software development methodology and process is followed
* Ensure best practices for development tools and programming/testing standards
* Ensure that estimation and scope management best practices are followed
* Ensure that the Austin technology team produces work at the highest quality,
* Ensure that the teams' utilization is at peak capacity in a creative consultancy business model and
* Ensure the group is efficient and profitable and that clients needs are met or exceeded.
The ETD will provide a central, savvy voice to the software development aspect of the company. The ETD shepherds software development efforts which includes:
* Business planning
* Cultivation of skills and talent including the selection of technology platforms to invest in
* Mentoring and guidance for the Technical Architects, Technical Directors, and Principal Technologists
* Creative concepting using application architecture presentations
* Fostering ongoing improvements in software development processes and methodologies
* Ensuring that the software development group priorities are aligned with greater frog creative objectives
To be considered, candidates must have software platform and systems experience in at least two of the following domains:
* Desktop or Consumer software
* Mobile Applications
* Content Management Systems & Portals, Rich Internet Applications, and Web 2.0
Job Requirements
Qualifications:
* Business Development
* Develop and Manage Projects and Budgets
* Ensure overall customer satisfaction
* Scope Management and Client Expectation setting
* Significant software engineering leadership experience (8-10 years leading software production teams to ship software systems)
The position will be evaluated upon the success of the following:
· Leadership of the Austin, TX technology team.
· Understanding the operational economics of the frog business model, influencing the financial drivers and improving operations.
· Establish, maintain and enhance process of software development to client's understanding.
· Assess outside Software Development image of frog, collaborate/integrate frog software development as the solution in convergent company presentations.
· Evaluate and collaborate on proposal writing with all departments and management.
· Identify key growth sectors for Software Development and target clients. Measure and evaluate department function, process and affectivity.
· Understanding the profession of your staff members.
· Developing top quality managers.
· Exercising sound business judgment with a highly effective management style.
· Demonstrating strong and persuasive communications skills, including written, oral and public presentations.
· Adapting quickly to change and demonstrating a high patience threshold.
Please submit your resume online to:
http://www.frogdesign.com/jobs.
frog design is an equal opportunity employer
| Location: [rss] | US-TX-Austin |
| Telecommute: | No (Onsite Position) |
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| URL: | http://www.frogdesign.com/jobs |
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