Do you want to take your career to the next level at a company with a TON of opportunity? Then College Recruiter could be the place for you!
All of our employees have worked remotely since 1997, so not only are we remote-first, we intend to remain so.
This position is a Director, Technology & Software who possesses strong business acumen and is highly effective in leading technology and software teams to deliver with excellence across the full software development lifecycle. Additionally, this leader will enjoy rolling up their sleeves and working closely with the development team to design new capabilities, overcome challenges, and troubleshoot issues. The ideal candidate will be passionate about using technology to continually improve business operations while also increasing the value delivered to customers.
What you’ll be doing:
- Understanding the customer use cases for College Recruiter products and ensuring the technical vision for your teams supports the best possible customer experience.
- Collaborating with Product Management on product roadmaps, technical direction, and ensuring that the short-term delivery plans align with the long-term vision.
- Working with business counterparts to ensure development plans are in place, being tracked and reported effectively and are working on managing risks and removing obstacles.
- Finding improvements to your teams’ ways of working to boost efficiency and software quality.
- Talking with your senior engineers to identify opportunities for improving the product architecture and designs.
- Work with other cross functional managers/directors to identify opportunities for working more effectively.
- Collaborating with business stakeholders on strategic planning.
- Build and lead an outstanding software development team to innovate, invent and build software solutions that are loved by our customers.
- Link technology vision and strategy with overall business objectives and communicate the plans in a compelling, concise manner.
- Develop and grow talent through effective mentoring, coaching and retention strategies.
- Work across the company to gain insight into potential roadblocks and risks and collaborate to mitigate negative impacts to committed plans.
- Understand the trends in software development architectures, languages, and environments to be able to leverage these where beneficial.
- Define ambitious, measurable goals and objectives for your teams and track progress and impact when they are achieved.
- Celebrate successes and contribute to a positive, collaborative culture.
How you’ll grow:
In the first month you will:
- Get to know your team and the exciting project work that is underway.
- Learn College Recruiter’s business and how the technology fits everything together
- Be involved in business and technology planning meetings for upcoming initiatives
Within three months you will:
- Direct and oversee high impact projects
- Drive architecture decisions and establish a future technology roadmap
- Provide coaching and mentoring as needed
Within six months you will:
- You will have demonstrated that you are the #1 technology thought leader in the company through ensuring the correct use of technology, successful software implementations, and delighted customers.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, STEM, IT or related discipline or equivalent experience
- 10 years of total experience leading software development projects and teams with 3 years in a similar role
- Experience in budgeting, project structuring, vendor and partner management, staff structuring, and negotiations.
- Strong situational analysis, negotiation, and decision-making abilities.
- Excellent spoken and written communication as well as receptive listening skills, with the ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise fashion to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience managing remote teams
- Experience mentoring and developing managers and senior technical staff
- Ability to work effectively and manage partnerships with all areas and members of the business as well as all levels of the organization.
- Demonstrated ability to drive change and successfully implement processes at scale
- Systems thinker with a process-oriented mindset and superior critical thinking skills
- Proven ability to productively work-from-home.
Benefits:
Salary Range: $140,000 – $150,000 USD
We value our employees’ time and efforts. Our commitment to your success is enhanced by our competitive compensation and an extensive benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental, and vision, short-term disability, long-term disability, and 401(k) benefits as well as future growth opportunities within the company. Plus, we work to maintain the best possible environment for our employees, where people can learn and grow with the company. We strive to provide a collaborative, creative environment where each person feels encouraged to contribute to our processes, decisions, planning and culture.
More about us and this role:
Other Than You, What We Value:
- Honesty, integrity
- Enthusiasm, passion, tenacity and fun
- Passion for the customer experience
- Critical thinking and problem solving
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Continuous improvement
- Direct and respectful communication
We need someone who shares our values and beliefs!
To have what it takes, you’ll need tons of positive energy, enthusiasm, and motivation to deliver to the highest standards. You’ll need to be a self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit.
You will be working in a small tight knit team during an exciting time as we rebuild our architecture to a node.js serverless platform leveraging Postgres and JAMstack architecture. During any given day our platform is serving up hundreds of thousands jobs and processing over three times that.
Our company was founded way back in 1991, our job board went live in 1996, we’re growing (even this year!), and we’re profitable. This proves our stability and track record. But better yet, we are an emerging growth business. We have a great advisory board, are building great technology, and have a strong growth plan.
At College Recruiter, we believe that every student and recent grad deserves a great career. Customers of our job search site are primarily Fortune 1,000 companies, government agencies, and other employers who hire at scale, meaning dozens or even hundreds into the same or similar positions. Five million students and recent graduates use our site a year to find part-time, seasonal, internship, and entry-level jobs.
College Recruiter is certified as a woman-owned, small business. We have always embraced diversity in our workforce, and also advocated for it in all workplaces. Why? Because it makes society more equitable and makes workforces more productive. Even as a small business, we have a long history of hiring people who are Black, Native American, of different religions, without degrees, women in STEM, without work experience, nearing retirement, veterans, and LGBTQ. In short, diversity, inclusion, and equity have always mattered to us, and we hope they matter to you as well.
Are you a good fit? Apply today!