Vice President, Engineering

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Products and Technology

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VP, Engineering - Community Cloud
Salesforce Community Cloud connects millions of employees, partners, and customers. Our team seeks an experienced, self-driven, and energetic individual to join our Ohana and help deliver world class products/features for the cloud out of our Hyderabad office. Our products are used by large and small customers worldwide, and big brands such as HP, Schneider, Coke, Adidas, Toyota to manage resellers, distributors, dealers, retailers, etc.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Implement best engineering management and organizational development practices as we continue to scale.
- Build a world class engineering team: Foster and facilitate the professional growth and development of our engineering staff as well as lead effective cross-functional collaboration across groups within the organization. Build organizational capability within these teams by recruiting and retaining outstanding talent and providing mentoring, training (internal and external), and other opportunities for professional growth and development.
- Drive continuous systems improvement for managing, documenting, staffing, and reviewing engineering projects and services.
- Enjoy guiding and mentoring team members to reach the pinnacles of success, but you are always ready to get hands-on, if the situation demands

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

- Bachelor's or Master’s in Computer Science or Engineering.
- 10+ years of experience as a hands-on software development manager.
- 6+ years engineering leadership of delivering world class software products/features
- 3+ years in cross-functional 2nd or 3rd level management roles.
- Experience in building strong, successful technical teams and coaching and mentoring individuals along their career paths.
- Ability to represent operational issues to senior leadership and dive deep into the technical details when required.
- Ability to prioritize in a rapidly changing environment; communicate clearly to steer the strongly talented team to deliver a high quality service.

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS:

- Hands-on full-breadth (architecture, development, program management, QE, and operations) expertise.
- Exceptional communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Demonstrated expertise at navigating complex organizational issues and driving consensus and results.
- Rainmaker recruiter – capable of building a world-class team of engineers.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills of teams across multiple geo-locations.

Company Overview:
Salesforce, the Customer Success Platform and world's #1 CRM, empowers companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way. The company was founded on three disruptive ideas: a new technology model in cloud computing, a pay-as-you-go business model, and a new integrated corporate philanthropy model. These founding principles have taken our company to great heights, including being named one of Forbes's \'World's Most Innovative Company\' six years in a row and one of Fortune's \'100 Best Companies to Work For\' nine years in a row. We are the fastest growing of the top 10 enterprise software companies, and this level of growth equals incredible opportunities to grow a career at Salesforce. Together, with our whole Ohana (Hawaiian for \'family\') made up of our employees, customers, partners and communities, we are working to improve the state of the world.
 

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