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Vice President – Engineering
Company | 2U |
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Location | Arlington, VA, USA |
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Salary | $240000 – $297000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 10+ years of leadership experience in an environment with robust technical products and constant innovation
- Excellent business judgment, communicative, and interpersonal skills that result in the ability to work effectively with leadership, teams and external clients
- A willingness to create, identify and leverage cutting-edge technologies at an enterprise level
- Proven ability to understand a product vision and execute on it
- Ability to discern in a buy vs. build situation
- Demonstrable Process Management experience in an SDLC environment of continual change
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Mathematics, Engineering or a related major or equivalent work experience
Responsibilities
- Establish Business Processes specific to the objectives of the 2U TechDev group
- Work alongside the CTO to ideate and think big-picture about what’s next
- Evaluate and recommend solutions that enhance company-wide productivity as well as enhance and increase 2U partner resources
- Collaborate with other leadership in tech to successfully implement engineering KPI measurements, and monitoring to establish engineering best practices
- Partner with our internal coaches to help XP teams deliver technically excellent software of demonstrated value
- Make strong, confident, outside-the-box decisions that affect the future of 2U technology and the business as a whole
- Areas of responsibilities are CRM consolidation and various Learning Management Systems
- Proactive use of AI tools for process automation and SDLC
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with data products and learning focused product management products
- Strong technical acumen; we use Python, JavaScript, MongoDB, Salesforce, Jira, AWS
- Familiarity with Agile/XP technical practices including Test Driven Development, Pair programming, Continuous Integration, etc.
- Familiarity with various Generative AI and process automation tools
- Track record of choosing technologies that succeed in a corporate infrastructure
- Have proven experience making outside-the-box decisions, open to change
- Start-up experience a huge plus