Position: Director of Product Development
Company: promdex
Experience required: 5y
Category: Lead
English level: upper
Published: 2021-07-01T00:00:00+03:00

A Director of Product Development is a hands-on technology leader responsible for general oversight of product development, the corporate IT infrastructure architecture, provisioning, planning, installation, and monitoring.

He/She implements and supports a technologically advanced and rapidly growing computing environment for clinical information management.
A Director’s of Product Development overall role is to people management (outsourced teams), cloud computing design, implementation, and operations.
Cloud comprises of internal software development environments and a SaaS-based platform used by product clients.
The ideal candidate should have a proven track record in enterprise product development by building large, scalable infrastructure, and has a proactive go-getter attitude; is a creative thinker, problem solver, an inspiring mentor.
The Director of Product Development supervises staff software engineers and builds an ecosystem people enjoy working in and is able to constantly deliver the results.

🗽 Extremely sharp communication skills in English are a must-have for the role.
🌏 Applicant’s location: Kyiv or very nearby.

**Required Skills:**

✔ 15+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise product development and cloud computing systems.
✔ 8+ years of proven managerial experience with distributed outsourced teams (must have led teams of at least 50 engineers); successful cases of team development and talent retention;
✔ Vision. An ideal candidate sees how they'd like teams, technology, customers, and competitors to relate in years into the future;
✔ Excellent knowledge of hardware, scalable product software, database, and network services;
✔ Hands-on practical experience in AWS cloud architecture (EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, Cloud Formation, etc.), design patterns, and production implementations;
✔ Outstanding communication and presentation abilities in English (both verbal and written);
✔ BS/BA in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or relevant field;
✔ Be able to operate reasonably 24/7/365.

**Will be an advantage:**

✔ Understanding of quality and information privacy requirements in regulated industries (Life Sciences preferred);
✔ AWS Certification in Operations and/or Security;
✔ Design of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity processes;
✔ A technical mindset with great attention to detail.

**Responsibilities:**

✔ Lead the development and delivery of all products and services as the company expands its product portfolio. Ensure that corporate computing environments are designed, implemented, and supported according to business and regulatory requirements;
✔ Guide and decide on processes for the engineering organization, including the software development life cycle, type of technologies used, and overall prioritization of work and projects;
✔ Collaborate with other teams to research, design, and test high performance and cost-effective cloud technologies;
✔ Retain and grow the entire team (support, monitor, evaluate, coordinate the resources effectively);
✔ Leadership, mentoring, and coaching - nurture talent by providing skill and career development to team members and training them to become exceptional technical leads and people managers;
✔ Ensure mitigation of relevant security, privacy, and business continuity risks;
✔ Participate in budget planning/corporate audits;
✔ Participate in client meetings.

**Working Conditions:**

▷▷ PTO included (1 month of your work = 1 paid day off + 1 PTO quarterly = 16 PTO per year total).

▷▷ Bonus program (annual performance-based bonus / long-term bonus - once every three years 8.33% of total income).

Full-time/remote (home-based)/long-term position. Cross-functional interactions. 40 hours per week, 8 hours per day, Monday-Friday.

The working schedule is close to GMT+3 (Kyiv, Ukraine), but you should cross with EST (NY) to collaborate effectively with management and clients. Such a position requires 24/7/36 support, it doesn't mean having constant overtime but requires your full engagement.

**Team size and its structure:**

The existing engineering team is about 60 people, managed by the Regional Director of Engineering.

You, collaborating closely with the Regional Director, will be able to improve the current structure and reallocate the resources to ensure constant deliverables.

The department consists of small groups (3-6 professionals; 50/50 server-side and front-end environment). Small groups report to team leads. There are different departments in the company: Engineering, Operations, QA, Business Analysis, Network Operations, etc. The team is international, mostly located in the European Time zone, most of the engineering team is located in Ukraine; Kyiv and nearby to it is the widest members-based location.

**If you are interested, the process is as follows:**

1) You register on our website and leave your application with your full CV in pdf or doc format;
2) We arrange up to 30 min video call to discuss the key points;
3) English Test (up to 15 min call);
4) Technical interview;
5) Offer.

**About Company**

The Company provides comprehensive metadata-driven solutions to fulfill an enterprise's data engineering and business analytics needs, through excellence in technology and its applications, plus deep and broad IT industry knowledge. The company's platform and solutions are based on industry standards and best practices.

From its headquarters in Princeton, NJ, and offices in Asia and Europe, the Company has delivered innovative solutions since 2009 resulting in unparalleled advantages for clinical development related to data quality, time of completion, and cost-efficiency.