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THE COMPANY:

Exponential* is a technology-enabled media services company that delivers innovative products and services to meet the demands of today*s digital advertisers. Through a variety of offerings, the Exponential* group of businesses enables online advertisers to reach their target audiences from around the globe to across town.

THE BRANDS:

From premium publishers and CPM advertisers to performance marketing, lead generation and in-text solutions, Exponential* delivers results for online advertisers. Each of our businesses * Tribal Fusion*, FullTango* LeadGenuity* and EchoTopic* * brings state of the art optimization technology, media services and years of experience in representing publishers and delivering highly successful campaigns for our advertising clients.

THE AWARDS:

Profitable and privately-held, Exponential is a rapidly growing, technology-drive media services company. The Exponential brands have received numerous industry awards for innovation and growth including Deloitte*s Technology Fast 50 - Silicon Valley, AlwaysOn OnMedia 100, and Red Herring North America 100 Winner.

LOCATION: Emeryville, California

SUMMARY:

We seek a highly technical VP of Engineering who is an accomplished technologist, people and project manager. You will bring a track record of delivering on-time high quality large-scale products that delight customers and constituents. You possess a reputation of managing astounding results from distributed teams based out of multiple locations including corporate, remote domestic and international offshore locations. You are a successful collaborator of efforts and ideas to drive the release of high revenue generating products. You are a master tactician at aligning various efforts to one common result of success for all of Exponential.

As a natural leader you are highly proficient at operating in a fast-paced environment and possess excellent verbal and written communication skills. The core of your personal style includes a high level of energy, creativity, smarts, openness, directness and resiliency.

This position reports to our CEO.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead the Engineering Department including Software Development, Quality Assurance, and Production Operations/IT.
• Ensures projects are completed on time and according to corporate quality standards.
• Facilitates communication upward and across project team including project status, justifications for variances and technical information (architecture, design and implementation objectives).
• Serves as focal point for other departments on project status or other project information.
• Organizes project through development of a Project Plan.
• Ensures productions operations and IT are successfully supporting the enterprise.

• Ensures projects are completed according to product specifications and are properly documented:
• Implementation of the product satisfies the product specifications.
• Product architecture and implementation is maintainable and extendible to accommodate future development and maintenance (architecture documentation and architecture design review).
• Ensures that documentation gets appropriate level of technical review support.
• Ensures that QA test plans meet the project requirements.
• Ensures that appropriate development and corporate methods and procedures are followed.

• Collaborate with the CTO, CEO, Product Management, and other business leaders on ensuring successful execution of the technical vision to support enterprise business goals.

PROFESSIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

• 10+ software development experience
• 5+ years relevant experience managing large, fast-paced and dynamic engineering teams.
• Prior successful experience managing offshore development teams.
• Experience with high traffic Web applications or very high volume applications using Oracle
• Experience with large scale, high performance systems
• Experience with Java, Oracle, Unix,
• A career emphasis on backend/server side development
• Strong background with Object-oriented design and implementation
• Strong background in relational database
• BS/MS in Computer Science or related technical discipline
• Successful track record of recruiting, training, building and managing geographically dispersed technical teams, including the utilization of offshore development resources.
• Entrepreneurial drive, demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in an innovative and fast paced environment.
• Experience overseeing 24/7 production operations
• Solid leadership skills, experience building strong engineering teams.
• A combination of large and small company experience and the personality traits*collaborative, honesty, integrity, intensity and passion*necessary to blend with the rest of the executive management team.
• Strong project-management skills. Proven track record for product delivery. Able to fit in well within an informal startup environment and to provide hands-on management.
• Successful track record of collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Very high technical competence, track record of strong coding and individual technical accomplishments.

PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS:

• Highly entrepreneurial, with a high level of energy, dedication, and an unrelenting drive to succeed and win. Not afraid to roll up their sleeves.
• A high energy level that demonstrates a consistently upbeat and infectiously enthusiastic attitude.
• A *roll up the sleeves* attitude; a self starting orientation with the intense drive to *make things happen;* must be a *doer.*
• Smart, creative and a decisive professional who knows how to balance tactical and strategic issues.
• A leader around whom individual performers will be willing to rally; an inspiring coach, capable of working with a wide range of individuals and skill sets.

keyworks: vp engineering vp software development

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