Vice President, Product Owner - Developer Experience

About the position

As the Vice President and Product Owner for the Global Developer Experience team within the CTO organization, you will spearhead the strategy to enhance developer velocity from onboarding to code delivery. You will collaborate with other product owners, tech leads, engineers, and delivery professionals to assess developer processes and cultivate habits that foster increased automation, minimize undifferentiated heavy lifting, and enable secure self-service. Your responsibilities will include identifying and partnering on critical business initiatives. You will manage skilled tech leads to ensure the delivery and successful adoption of your products, as evidenced by the development teams' overall improvement in velocity for modern initiatives. Financially accountable for the end-to-end product line, you will be empowered to efficiently run and scale your organization. Success in this role will be gauged by the extent to which projects integrate the developer tools using automation and achieve quantifiable business results. With your expertise in application development, infrastructure, and governance, you will bring a wide range of technical and leadership skills to your team, promoting a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain a global product roadmap based on an understanding of the business and the strategic potential of the capabilities you own.
• Provide deep technical expertise driving developer portal content including UI, Application and Infrastructure development patterns.
• Establish a tagging and metrics driven model to identify versioned patterns deployed in production.
• Streamline the number of developer portals across the company to enhance the ease at which developers engage with different processes and teams.
• Promote an inner-source developer ecosystem, fostering a collaborative environment.
• Lead with an application development and automation mindset, promoting frequent, small changes.
• Partner consistently with the business to ensure strategic alignment for core capabilities and initiatives.
• Ensure alignment of product features and stories, reviewing and prioritizing user stories.
• Communicate frequently with business stakeholders to ensure engagement and buy-in.
• Champion adoption of your product line, creating a user-friendly and sustainable adoption model.
• Lead sprint and release plans together with the Scrum Master and organizational technology teams.
• Work with Tech lead(s) to build modular & reusable solutions.
• Manage the end-to-end financials of the product line.

Requirements

• Deep Application Development, Engineering, Analytics, or similar experience.
• Strong technical experience in Application Development, Automation, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience in programming languages, libraries and frameworks: Python, Java, JavaScript, React, Springboot, Node.js, or similar.
• IAC: Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar.
• Microservice front-end experience.
• Domain Driven Design knowledge.
• Cloud Architecture experience.
• APIs - both internal and external.
• Event Driven Design knowledge.
• Resiliency, including multi-region design strategies.
• Containerization - docker or kubernetes.
• Information Security - Oauth, mTLS, authn and authz.
• Observability - metrics, logging, and end-to-end tracing.
• Modular and Reusable code experience.
• Agile methodology knowledge.
• Operations processes to support an active production environment.
• Understanding of observability and how signals and automation technologies can drive incident response.

Nice-to-haves

• Lead and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts, and perspectives.
• Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an ongoing basis.
• Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills.
• Effective Communication skills.
• Decision-Making & Critical Thinking abilities.
• Interpersonal Relationships knowledge.
• Financial/Business Acumen.
• Analytical Thinking skills.
• Agile Methodologies knowledge.

Benefits

• Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences.
• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).
• Company-funded pension plan.
• Wellness Programs including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs.
• Work/Life Resources to help support various personal topics.
• Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment and accredited certificate programs.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices after one year of service.