Chief Architects, Technical Leaders and Development Directors for roles residing in top 1% of our client's organization


The Next Generation Big Data Ecosystem

Are you interested in driving the definition of and processes within the Big Data ecosystem? We are working with a client who has developed a cloud storage and compute engine that powers one of the largest online business ecosystems in the world. The system consists of a very high level programming language, a distributed replicated storage system, a variety of schedulers, management interfaces and a variety of development support tools and environments. Our client has been leading the charge on Big Data for years. Few other cloud computing services in the world can boast the scale of this system: every ten minutes it grows more than the Library of Congress grows in three months.

This is the opportunity to work on a massively parallel supercomputer comprised of tens of thousands of commodity servers coordinating to provide vast reliable storage and stunning computation power. Every day the system ingests hundreds of terabytes of data. Every day this group runs thousands of computations that read and write petabytes of data.





This team is on path to scale to exabytes of storage in coming years. The system's users run computations over the sum corpora of human knowledge - multiple copies of the world wide web and all of the structured data/imagery linked from it. A "small" computation for this system reasons over terabytes of storage within a few seconds; computations that read petabytes are becoming more and more common.





The underlying service needs to be unimaginably fast - and it needs to be rock-solid reliable.

What's next after you have one of the world's largest batch-processing systems? The team is designing a brand new execution paradigm for publisher/subscriber data pipelines, random reads and writes, and distributed transactions. What will the system process? Multiple complete copies of the world wide web, annotated with structured data, social nework updates, geospatial/map data, and semantic data. Want scale? The team will be doing tens of billions of updates per day, and trillions of reads distributed across tens of thousands of servers.

We would like to talk with you if you are a world-class distributed systems and/or HPC architect and/or team manager with new ideas and a passion to build the Big Data ecosystem - in essence, the world's largest supercomputer. We seek people who can be counted among the few top technical leaders in the company in this domain, and are capable of driving innovation that will not only propel our client company forward, but make the industry stand up and take notice as well.


Seeking

• Proven deep expertise in high-scale systems-level programming: storage and file systems, networking and transaction processing

• 10+ years of demonstrated success shipping high-scale, high-quality products on time in the areas of distributed systems, database/repository technology, and/or multi-threaded systems

• Great design and problem solving skills, with a strong bias for quality and engineering excellence at scale

• Strong technical leadership skills, including excellent written and verbal communication skills

• BS degree in Computer Science or related field, MS or PHD preferred




Global Head of Hardware Engineering for Leading Social Network Company


Our client is one of the most widely known social network companies in the world. That it has attracted a huge number of active users worldwide creates the need for a hardware infrastructure that is one of the largest and most complex in the world. We are seeking for our client a technically strong leader for its Hardware Engineering team to take this infrastructure and team to the next levels of growth, innovation and performance, while advancing the company's cultural values of hard work, transparency and individual ownership of getting it right.

The Director of Hardware Engineering will be passionate about identifying, developing and delivering technologies that provide the best possible work/watt/$$ for the company. Given the magnitude, complexity and impact of this network, the individual in this role must be an exceptional leader with strong management acumen, superior technical aptitude and an intrinsic ambition for, and skill at, building and growing an organization with the capacity and competence essential to the delivery of a world-class infrastructure platform.





This is an intellectually complex and operationally challenging role that will afford the opportunity to help change the way industry deploys hardware infrastructure at scale through a recently announced initiative founded by this company. They are leading the development of a rack-level standard to enable the rack to become a server and storage chassis, centralizing manageability and the I/O in an open fashion without sub-chasses, and scaled at the rack level. In every respect, this role will stretch the best people, and provide opportunities for further career enhancement as a reward for success.


Responsibilities

• Define next generation product roadmap, including server, storage, rack infrastructure, and potentially networking equipment designs

• Identify areas of innovation above the hardware layer that will deliver operational efficiency and reduce complexity and cost of managing a fleet of tens of thousands of devices in the worldwide data centers

• Work closely with Engineering, Technical Program Management, Supply Chain Operations and the company Research Labs to ensure all products under development are delivered on time, on budget and with good quality

• Lead and provide guidance through technical engineering problems, bugs and feature development

• Understand applications, capacity, business and site operations in order to develop optimized technologies

• Actively support the open-sourcing of all relevant hardware specifications

• Recruit, develop and retain a world-class team of top system architects and engineers who are recognized subject matter experts in each assigned area


Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data center and server hardware and software development and management on time, on budget and with high quality

• Demonstrated industry-changing thought leadership and execution

• Expert knowledge of industry technology trends and relevant technologies applicable to the company

• Must be technically relevant in designing and managing platforms; with demonstrated ability to lead and inspire electrical, mechanical, power and thermal engineers in a hands-on fashion

• Must be capable of taking on a business ownership role, and be able to ramp up quickly, operate independently and recruit strong leads and individual contributors to grow the group further

• M.S. Electrical Engineering or Computer Science or related field preferred




Head of Network Engineering for Leading Social Network Company


A second search for the same client as immediately above, one of the most widely known social network companies in the world.

While there have been significant investments in data centers and compute resources at this company, the network innovations have largely been focused on WAN technologies; so the opportunities to innovate and scale are significant. What more exciting place to ply your expertise in network engineering, technology development or web-services architecture for large-scale IP networks!




Responsibilities

• Manage the development, network design, implementation, and support of the company's network fabric

• Lead a team of talented network engineers supporting the company's production network infrastructure

• Work with multiple platform vendors and standards bodies to deliver the various components of the network architecture

• Lead and provide guidance through technical engineering problems, bugs and feature development


Qualifications

• Must have a proven track record of successfully building and leading high performance network engineering teams

• Must have a proven track record of implementing complex network engineering projects globally

• Deep technical expertise in internet and networking technologies, including in-depth knowledge of IP routing, layers 2 and 3 backbone

• Excellent people leadership, as well as strategic and tactical planning skills

• Minimum of 3+ years in a senior management or technical leadership role

• Excellent knowledge of the network industry

• BS or MS degree, or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related field

• CCIE or equivalent certification is a plus




Cloud Server Technical Program Director


Our client company continues to drive exciting advances in the design and production of server hardware infrastructure for one of the world’s largest and most diverse data center operations. This infrastructure enables the delivery of the company’s global cloud services.

In this highly visible, newly created leadership role, you will combine your technical and operational skills, and your knowledge of ODMs in Asia, to collaborate with the cloud server and application design teams and ODM partners in driving the design, production and delivery of complex, custom hardware platforms.




Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end technical program management of the design, execution and delivery of the server hardware infrastructure for the company's next-generation cloud server architecture

• Drive the delivery of custom servers and data center components via ODM manufacturers in collaboration with the company's Data Center Services team and online business

• Take complete ownership and accountability for custom hardware platforms, executing successfully the delivery of cloud server platforms for the company's numerous online businesses

• Pursue technical excellence for server infrastructure, driving innovative technologies for future hardware designs

• Manage executive and technical relationships with a variety of domestic and international ODM suppliers


Qualifications

• At least 10 years of prior experience working in the ODM industry in senior positions to manage complex server/storage products, including but not limited to motherboard designs, chassis/rack mechanical designs, electrical distribution and power supplies, BIOS/firmware and system software

• Excellent understanding of server hardware architecture for components such as microprocessors, motherboards, memory, networking, storage, battery technologies

• Deep insights into manufacturing operations, component procurement and supply chain logistics, field support and design quality control

• Extensive experience doing business in Asia, including relationship management at executive and technical levels, and ability to influence strategic contract negotiations

• Thorough understanding of the cost structure for server/storage solutions in the context of the ODM industry

• Excellent communication skills, strong presentation and influencing skills (Mandarin is a plus)

• Demonstrated executive maturity with strong business sense

• Ability to accommodate frequent travel, including international

• BS EE or ME (MBA a plus)


Additional Skills

• History of close relationships with the executive leadership of the top contract manufacturers for the server industry is desirable

• Ability to understand interdependencies between software ecosystems and hardware design

• Extensive collaboration skills with co-workers, executives and the technical supplier ecosystem (ODMs)

• Strong organizational and program management skills




Recently Completed Searches




CTO / Vice President of Software Engineering [FILLED]


Introduction

Our client is a global rights broker for some of the world’s most sought after content.  It promotes the seamless sharing of knowledge by creating innovative licensing solutions that let academic institutions, businesses and individuals quickly get permission to use copyright-protected materials while compensating authors, publishers and other content creators for the use of their works.

Our client represents the rare balance between being a company without direct competition, but in a business, content rights management, entering a defining time in its history. The company has an excellent opportunity to become the global repository and advocate for content rights management and distribution. It plays a major role in the global knowledge economy. It advances education, innovation and the free flow of ideas and information. It not only aids in IP licensing, but through the proactive marketing of its services, it promotes creators’ works and negotiates usage rights. This is the best of both worlds among corporate and individual creators and users. It is a steadily growing company that provides both the resources and presence of a well-established business, and the enjoyment of working within an intellectually challenging and dynamic work environment.

Overview of Role

The CTO / VP of Software Engineering serves as a member of the company’s Senior Management Team, and as the top Information Technology executive for the organization as well. This person is the executive-level expert on all technical issues as they pertain to Software Development, Product Architecture and Information Technology, and runs these 3 groups totaling over 70 people, including 7 managers.

While leading a small Architecture team, the CTO / VP Engineering will own and communicate the technical vision and architectural roadmap, and bring scalability to product and systems architecture while transitioning from legacy systems. This person will participate in overall business planning offering current knowledge and technical vision as related to the company’s competitive position and operating needs, and identify trends for the senior management team.

The CTO / VP Engineering will also lead and manage a software development organization of over 30 developers, as well as the Quality group and various outsourced resources. This person needs to be an agent for change, helping to bring a well-experienced software development team to the next level and a new degree of efficiency while implementing architectural/product innovations.

The CTO / VP Engineering will also determine long-term corporate-wide Information Technology needs and develop the overall strategy for information systems development. He/she will ensure the integrity of corporate data, proprietary information and related intellectual property through information security and access management; and will serve as an expert on issues surrounding the technologies the company must employ in order to achieve the company's strategic objectives. That means leveraging technologies to increase the value and usefulness of current in-house information systems to the company and its customers, while at the same time applying technologies to reduce the cost of IT infrastructure.

This role provides the opportunity to work with a highly intelligent, talented and dedicated team of people who are working at the forefront of content rights management.


Primary Responsibilities

• Provides strategic technology advice to the CEO, Executive Committee and the Board of Directors

• Monitors and assesses new technologies, and provides technology roadmap to implement business vision and roadmap

• Oversees development, QA and maintenance of all software products and applications; as well as IT

• Directs software development projects of varying sizes through development managers and project managers

- Ensures software projects are completed on time and according to corporate quality standards

- Serves as a focal point and facilitates communication upward and across project teams with respect to project status, justifications for variances, and technical information (architecture, design and implementation objectives)

- Organizes multiple simultaneous projects through development of a department plan

• Works closely with application and database architects to simplify and standardize product portfolio and databases

• Ensures software development practices, including Agile Scrum methodology, are practiced consistently across the organization

• Supports marketing and media relations by translating technical details into real customer advantages that are superior to those of competing products

• Supports acquisitions by evaluating the systems and technologies of acquisition candidates, and articulating the business values these systems could generate


Qualifications

• Broad background in software development, software engineering metrics, software development and maintenance processes and technologies, IT infrastructure (networking, servers, desktops, security) and innovation management

• Experience in strategic technology planning, policy development, and effective, timely execution

• Strong leadership qualities, strategic thinking, analytical and decision-making skills with demonstrated ability to combine broad technical, business and political factors

• Experience in one or more of the following domains – search, relational databases, messaging, SOA, cloud computing, e-commerce

• Diplomacy, presentation and interpersonal skills coupled with excellent communication abilities (written and verbal), including an ability to distill effectively complex technical information for executives

• Experience in application portfolio simplification/modernization, standardization, open source

• Experience with J2EE, Spring, Struts, Java, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Oracle database

• 12 or more years of experience in software development with 5 or more years in management

• Strong business acumen

• Exceptional people and time management skills – blend of technology management ability with strong ability to motivate and lead a bright technology staff

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering or computer science - advanced degree desirable




Group Program Manager, Global Network Management, Monitoring and Provisioning Platform [FILLED]


Introduction and Key Responsibilities

Our client is looking for a senior technical and business leader to lead its global network management, monitoring and provisioning platform program management team to build and run one of the largest cloud computing services in the world. This platform provides the core set of components used to manage the company's numerous online services. This person will be in the top 1% of this large company's employees.

This platform is used to manage a vast array of hardware across the company's worldwide hub, regional, and edge data centers. It’s the core platform to create, deploy, run and manage services across search, multimedia delivery and advertising platforms; and provides the tools and reporting to monitor the health and core metrics of each service.





The program management team is responsible for working with numerous internal and external partner teams. These partnerships span the numerous customers who are building online services, as well as the internet infrastructure team to support the company's data centers worldwide, and numerous executives from key hardware partners to support managing hardware design, procurement, installation, and servicing.





This group requires careful oversight to understand the business needs for many different partner teams, to set the direction and hire an all-star team to complement the existing resources in order to execute confidently. This person and the program management team will operate with high visibility from its stakeholders, who include executives, business groups and engineering feature teams. This team will influence the direction of all the services it touches.


Responsibilities

• Identify critical challenges and opportunities in the architecture, implementation, innovation and strategy of this product and organization and ensure the highest quality cross-organizational execution in response to these challenges

• Set the direction and hire an all-star team to complement the existing resources in order to execute confidently

• Design, develop and present technical information to key executives and high-level technical stakeholders

• Influence management and technical leaders through written and interpersonal communication

• Represent the product and group to internal and external partners

• Plan a multi-release product roadmap and manage multiple projects simultaneously

• Define realistic, meaningful and specific goals and objectives that drive priorities based on business needs, organizational capabilities and best practices


Qualifications

• Deep background in all aspects of software engineering, architecture and the development lifecycle, with strong skills in the areas of data processing platform design, application infrastructure design and development, network management, cloud services, data processing and parallel architecture.

• A balance of technical, business, and data analytics background, exceptional problem solving skills, and a minimum of 12 years’ experience in delivering software solutions

• Broad set of experiences and skills, ranging from excellence in core engineering, business/financial and data analysis, ability to deeply engage with customers/partners, and building a collaborative working relationship with development, test, product planning and partner organizations

• Strong executive presence, interpersonal, teamwork and presentation skills

• Self-motivated, self-directed and able to attract and hire A-level talent, and lead and motivate others

• Knowledge and experience in Internet search/services, information retrieval, data mining, and distributed systems is a plus

• Proven ability to align a team behind a customer-focused vision and deliver against plans


Selling Points

• High global visibility, fast-paced organization working at the cutting edge of technical and service innovation for global network management and provisioning

• The Group Program Manager will work within one of the most respected, innovative and influential internet infrastructure organizations in the world.

• This leadership position is among the top 1 ½ % of the company’s employee population.




Lead UI Architect [FILLED]


Introduction and Key Responsibilities

Our client is a global rights broker for millions of the world’s most sought after materials, including in- and out-of-print books, journals, newspapers, magazines, images, blogs and e-books.  The company promotes the seamless sharing of knowledge by creating innovative licensing solutions that let academic institutions, businesses, and individuals quickly get permission to use copyright-protected materials while compensating authors, publishers, and other content creators for the use of their works.

The company has no direct competition, and is entering a defining time in the history of the copyright industry.  It plays a major role in the global knowledge economy, advancing education, innovation and the free flow of ideas and information. In addition to licensing intellectual property, the company, through its proactive marketing and copyright services, helps promote creators’ works and negotiate usage rights. The company faces an excellent opportunity to become the global repository and advocate for content rights management and distribution; and the technology operation, under the new CTO/VP Engineering, is entering an exciting time of innovation and change. The company continues to enjoy steady growth, thereby providing the resources and presence of a well-established business, as well as the benefits of working within an intellectually stimulating and dynamic work environment.




The lead UI Architect role is a newly created position. This person will bring significant knowledge across a wide spectrum of User Interface technologies, and will serve as a resident expert on all UI strategy, design and development issues, working across the company's full product set to bring best practices in design and development, and the greatest ease of use for customers. This person needs to be an effective technical leader within an environment of change, as new UI and other elements are added to legacy products, while efforts are mounted to design and build a new single platform tying together all of the company's various products.





Responsibilities

• Develop best practices for design and implementation of the User Interface across the company's full set of products

• Own responsibility for the adoption of a  Google Web Toolkit (GWT)-based library, providing prefabricated UI elements into new and legacy products

• Design, develop and present technical information to key executives and high-level technical stakeholders

• Review / assess current practices, and cutting edge technologies, and help shepherd best ones forward

• Serve as a key contributor in a major initiative to build a new state-of-the-art platform


Qualifications

• At least 5-8 years of User Interface experience in design and implementation of web applications

• Strong JavaScript, and knowledge of Google Web Toolkit (GWT); e.g. ability to inject custom JavaScript during GWT compilation; experience with Smart Google Web Toolkit preferred

• Knowledge of HTML 5 and CSS3

• Prefer knowledge of Yahoo UI library (preferably v.3), and Alloy

• Experience with rapid application and prototype development

• Mobile UI development considered an advantage


Selling Points

• Newly created position with purview across the full current and future product set, affording the opportunity to put one's own imprimatur on the role and technology

• Evaluate, bring in and work directly with some of the most exciting leading-edge new technologies

• The company provides both the resources and presence of a well-established business, and the enjoyment of working with an extremely bright, dynamic and entrepreneurial executive team




GM Global Network and Shared Services [FILLED]


Introduction

Our client seeks a General Manager for Global Networking Services who will be the key networking executive responsible for the design, development, and operations of the company's global IP network, one of the largest in the world. This role is critical to the success of the company's cloud and online services, as well as their worldwide online businesses numbering over 200. If you’re an industry thought leader, with deep experience running large scale services, managing thousands of network devices, and a passion for leading the world’s best networking talent, then this role represents the opportunity of a lifetime.


Responsibilities

• Create and drive the vision, mission, and long term strategies for networking for all of the company's online services in an exciting, challenging environment

• Drive operational excellence by creating a services culture and acting as a change agent in the development of our services-based businesses

• Represent the organization, its capabilities and vision to the company's executives and key industry leaders

• Innovate technologies to reduce costs and increase performance and availability

• Define the role of networking in emerging cloud-based applications

• Influence industry trends with disruptive ideas and solutions

• Oversee the demanding delivery of day-to-day operations for an enormous, global network

• Demonstrate world class leadership and people management skills

• Manage a $100+ million budget

• Attract, retain, and develop world class networking talent


Qualifications

• Proven track record of successfully developing, building, and leading high performance global organizations with 100 or more employees

• Experience running large scale services with over a thousand networked devices

• 10+ years working in a senior networking role in a large scale business

• BS or MS degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related field

• Experience managing executive relationships

• Strong operational, financial, and communication skills

• Demonstrated ability to lead through a position of influence




Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships, Silicon [FILLED]


Introduction and Key Responsibilities

Our client's Research organization is looking for a senior technical and business leader to own and drive major strategic partnership initiatives that will move both the company and the industry forward in key areas of cross-company silicon architectural initiatives. This Senior Director will be responsible for developing and driving strategic, long term partnership activities at the corporate level, working with CEO’s, president and other executives, as well as world-class technical leaders across product groups and the Research organization, to develop a company-wide strategy to keep our client at the forefront of software/hardware innovation.

Examples of critical technology areas covered in these partnership activities include: parallelism, memory, displays, 3D, networking, power management, security, energy, SOC, mobility and graphics. The Senior Director will demonstrate vision to foresee and create opportunities, and strengthen integration of our client's and their partners' products in these areas through long-range planning and continuous feedback. S/he will coordinate with the team’s architects to conduct regular strategy reviews, drive engineering strategy and collaborations, and monitor progress against collaboration milestones within the business divisions. Strategic aspects of the partner relationship include technical and business components.


Qualifications

• Demonstrated track record of strong leadership in negotiating complex, long-term strategic partnerships, as well as developing and motivating influential technology and business partnership teams. Excellent at driving results through influence.

• Experience in architecture, incubation and building of new technologies that have major impact

• Strong strategic thinking and analytical skills with demonstrated ability to combine broad technical, business and political factors

• Knowledge of a broad cross-section of hardware technologies

• Diplomacy and interpersonal skills coupled with excellent communication abilities (written and verbal), including an ability to distill effectively complex information for executives

• Comfortable and successful working with ambiguity and taking risks

• Ability to work effectively across organizations utilizing strong leadership and communication skills

• Passion for winning


Selling Points

• Work with an organization not afraid to take risks, and help it define architectures and technologies for the future at the software/hardware boundary, designs that will have major impact on both the company and the industry at large.

• The Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships will work within one of the most respected, innovative and influential research organizations in the world.

• This leadership position is among the top 1 ½ % of the company’s employee population.




General Manager of Extreme Programming and Cloud Computing Futures [FILLED]


Description

As the technical leader for the Cloud Computing Futures (CCF) team at our client company, you own the vision, strategy and delivery for all hardware and software prototypes. You will create and lead an extended team of software, hardware and environmental engineers to build innovative prototypes at scale based on the company's mission of redesigning the cloud data center as a holistic system. You will collaborate with other CCF research leaders, and with product group leaders at the VP, GM and Director levels to identify and validate hardware and software design concepts that you deliver. You will coordinate CCF activities to identify industry trends and opportunities for strategic investments, and partner with leading researchers in the industry to explore and validate new and innovative ideas, and prototype from the concept stage. You will build a team of up to 100 world-class technologists that will ensure the most effective development and program management practices across all CCF projects and programs.


Qualifications

• Industry-recognized innovator in server and/or data center-related software and/or hardware

• Solid track record of demonstrating strong leadership in developing and motivating world-class technology teams, managing both solid and dotted line, and driving results through influence

• Thought leader who has demonstrated success in taking ideas from concept through to large-scale prototype

• Comfortable and successful working with ambiguity and taking risks

• Proven track record for planning and managing complex projects and relationships

• Superb written and verbal communication skills

• Passion for winning


Selling Points

• Help define a nascent market space for one of the largest computing infrastructures in the world

• The GM Cloud Computing Futures will work within one of the most respected, innovative and influential research organizations in the world.

• This role affords the opportunity to work with many of the most bleeding-edge - and greenest - technologies.




Vice President of Engineering, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure [FILLED]


Description

Our client, a privately held, venture-backed software company in Metrowest Boston area, is the leading innovator of virtual desktop infrastructure software. The company is uniquely positioned at the intersection of the fast-growing desktop virtualization and desktop management markets, and is delivering the "up-the-stack" management platform needed to make VMware, Citrix and Microsoft desktop virtualization infrastructure solutions increasingly viable, scalable and ready for mass market adoption. Unlike any other desktop virtualization solution, our client's open virtual desktop management family:

• makes server-hosted virtual desktops and virtualized notebooks and PCs uniquely personal for every user

• makes single image management, application delivery and instantaneous desktop repair finally possible for IT

• eliminates storage and its associated high cost as an obstacle to VDI deployments.


Key Responsibilities

• Provide inspirational and effective leadership and management to a team of 20+ software developers, architects and QA engineers currently engaged in Version 1 design, implementation and delivery of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) management technology

• Ensure that the company's first product is delivered with the features, quality and performance needed to secure the company's reference customer base

• Install an agile development environment and a total quality consciousness, along with the ongoing spirit of innovation and responsible risk-taking. Run team meetings/reviews and provide mentoring and leadership to ensure deliverables are met on time and within budget.

• Serve as a senior executive team member helping to make the strategy and policy decisions for the company as a whole, while contributing significantly to product strategy, requirements and roadmap

• Coordinate, and continue to build, the collaborative spirit with Marketing, Sales and strategic partners and customers to ensure timely delivery of high quality of quality products that meet customer needs and the company's strategic imperatives

• Provide technical leadership where appropriate and necessary, and oversight of project management to keep projects on track


Qualifications

• Proven leader, results-oriented driver, relationship builder and collaborator with a successful track record of leading infrastructure software development organizations of 30+ through full product life cycles delivering top-quality products on time and within budget

• Strong technology executive and manger who can contribute to high-level strategy discussions as well as architectural reviews and project management details, and can translate strategic imperatives into effective, measurable engineering plans that yield outstanding products

• A successful, resourceful, risk-oriented and flexible entrepreneur who has delivered high-impact software / system products in early-stage settings - prefer V1 experience

• Strong advocate and manager of agile development methods

• Smart, articulate leader and communicator with strong presentation and writing skills

• Vision, drive, passion, polish, high energy, good listening skills, fun

• Can understand technical details in any of the following areas: virtualization (server, application or desktop), networking, desktop/system management, internet infrastructure, OS, database engines


Selling Points

• The challenge and fun of working with an early-stage company invested in by tier-1 venture capital investors, and run by an executive team all of whose members have impressive startup success stories

• The impact of delivering cutting-edge technology helping to define the future of the products, company and industry as a whole

• Significant ownership stake in a privately held, early-stage company with tremendous upside




Managing Architect, Silicon & Hardware Architecture [FILLED]


Description

Acting in a CTO-like capacity, the Managing Architect will drive innovation across the company for our client, orchestrating the cross-divisional development of  the company's technical strategy in numerous critical hardware/software boundary areas including: parallel computing, processor and server architecture, virtualization, memory, networking, power management, security, mobility, video, and graphics.

The Managing Architect and his/her technical staff will oversee, set priorities and provide guidance for the task forces composed in part of Technical Fellows and Distinguished Engineers, in order to develop, drive and monitor implementation of the technical strategy. The Managing Architect ensures the company is in a position to be an industry leader with respect to these technologies now and into the future. These architecture task forces are responsible for providing thought leadership and creating new possibilities - ensuring that the best ideas and architectures make it into products by collaborating with the product teams' technology leaders and the company's silicon partners.  The Managing Architect is responsible for ensuring that the right task forces are productive and effective.

The Managing Architect will also coordinate with business partnership leaders to develop a technology roadmap appropriate for each of the key partner companies, and participate in regular strategy reviews and monitor progress against milestones within the business divisions.


Qualifications

• Demonstrated track record of senior strategic technical leadership and influence in hardware/systems technology resulting in company-wide and industry impact

• Strategic thinking and analytical skills with demonstrated ability to combine broad technical, business, and political factors

• Leadership and results orientation with applied ability to negotiate complex, long-term deals

• Track record for planning and managing complex projects and relationships with senior executives and technical leaders

• Passion for being at the bleeding-edge of technology

• Experience in architecting, incubating, and building new technologies that have broad impact

• Diplomacy and interpersonal skills coupled with excellent communication abilities (written and verbal), including an ability to distill complex information for executives

• Passion for (and preferably experience with) working with silicon partners

• Ability to manage ambiguity and to work both independently and in a collaborative environment

• Organizational agility and ability to drive for results through an operational model highly reliant on influence

• Knowledge of a broad-cross section of hardware technologies


Selling Points

• This role in function is essentially the company's Hardware CTO. Its degree and realm of influence is global, and spans not only the company, but also impacts the industry.

• The Managing Architect will be working closely with, and developing task force projects for, the company's Technical Fellows and Distinguished Engineers, who are among the best and brightest technical minds in the world.

• The purview of this role includes research and roadmap planning for many of the most bleeding-edge technologies.






Vice President of Marketing [FILLED]


Description

Reporting to the CEO, the VP of Marketing is responsible for product management of the overall product/service portfolio, lead generation, marketing communication/PR, marketing programs and events; and with the executive team, corporate and partner strategy. This includes aligning marketing goals and programs with overall company strategy, and with Sales and Business Development.


Key Responsibilities

• Further the company's solutions into a cohesive, well-integrated and effectively branded product portfolio

• Provide leadership around product and corporate strategy, translating strategic initiatives into measurable goals for the Marketing organization

• Work in partnership with the CEo and fellow executives to ensure the most customer-responsive product development priorities, and the branding initiatives to communicate them most effectively to the market

• Serve as an empowering leader and manager for the Marketing team, helping them to continually improve and meet deliverables

• Enable the company to reach more of the international market

• Create the programs that will help generate greater volume of leads for Sales and Business Development, and convert prospects into customers


Qualifications

• Proven leader, results-oriented driver, relationship builder and collaborator with a solid track record of accomplishments in Marketing

• Proven, strong company executive who sees the global view and can translate strategic imperatives into effective, measurable product and marketing program plans that will yield outstanding results

• Track record of having built cohesive product portfolios and grown corporate brand

• Strong evangelist and communicator - both oral and written - with excellent leadership, management, analytical and interpersonal skills

• Knowledgeable about both publisher and user-generated content and content licensing

• Successful track record in international markets a plus, as is multilingual capability


Selling Points

• The company, whose reference accounts include many within the Fortune 500, has an opportunity to become the global provider of and advocate for content rights management and intelligence at a time when content rights is entering a defining moment in its history.

• The company provides both the resources and presence of a well-established business, and the enjoyment of working with an extremely bright, dynamic and entrepreneurial executive team

• Reporting directly to, and partnering with, the CEO, this is a "run with" opportunity with major influence on company strategy, brand and growth






Director, Cloud Computing Architecture and Engineering [FILLED]


Description

Our client company is getting ready to deliver one of the largest cloud compute and service management ecosystems on the planet.  Components of this cloud initiative include OS/virtualization, storage, a developer platform with toolsets, and manageability services for widespread automation.

As a leader of a team responsible for the delivery and management of the cloud initiative, you will be responsible for the massive, global infrastructure that runs the cloud. You will be the glue between cloud development and the rest of the ecosystem associated with service delivery. You will be accountable for the quality and manageability of cloud services. You will manage a senior development team that ensures service delivery, and is equipped to build automation solutions and services that manage the cloud. You will lead the service performance and optimization initiatives, capacity planning and modeling, infrastructure delivery and optimization, global long-range plans, security and compliance methodologies, manageability and reliability mechanisms; and own the overall operational strategies for the cloud.

You will also own the strategies to influence the company's internal services to adopt the cloud manageability platform. You will build and manage a team that owns those on-boarding strategies and techniques. Driving convergence between the current configurations and technology investments for the internal services to facilitate the move onto the platform will be one of your core deliverables.


Qualifications

• This is a broad role with high executive visibility. You must possess strong technical acumen, and the ability to engage with and influence executives and drive negotiations.

• You must think big; and take measured risks; and lead with and without authority.

• You must possess strategic insights into the online service delivery ecosystem in order to help drive the future of the cloud initiative.

• 10-12 years of experience in online service development and delivery, and understanding of large-scale, global services are a must.

• Proven track record of owning fast paced, complex, e2e service delivery projects with long lifecycles is a must.

• Candidates also must have a BS/MS in CS or a related field; a Ph. D. is a plus.


Selling Points

• The cloud computing effort is one of the most influential endeavors that the company has taken on in recent times. It is at the center stage of software + services. The visibility both within the company at the most senior levels and in the industry at large, as well as the challenges, are significant.

• Everything that is latest and greatest about technology and service innovation is a part of this effort. The company has put its best minds, its most senior and technical people, to work on this set of challenges.

• Cloud computing at this company is only going to grow substantially; the company is adding hundreds of thousands of servers over the next few years.