• Work with Product Management, design, business, sales, and marketing teams to bring products to market. This involves a lot of explaining and advocating for the work of engineering teams. When done well, cross-functional teams will be working well together and engineering will have an equal voice in the business.

• Establish strong relationships with the product organization as well as the vertical development groups and teams.

• Work closely with product managers to set delivery roadmaps and release schedules.

• Collaborate with senior architects to evolve the architecture of the platform

• Deliver on the engineering strategy. In Spotfire the VP of Engineering is also responsible for creating the strategy. The key sign of success here is that teams are meeting their strategic goals.

• Manage direct reports. This includes running 1:1s, recruiting new hires, identifying skills gaps, and providing growth opportunities for engineering managers. Success is defined when seeing employees progressing by developing new skills or achieving promotions, as well as maintaining high staff retention rates.

• Perform skills assessments to identify gaps and redundancies

• Define and implement best practices

• Report to the GM and the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) on the state of the engineering organization, sharing successes, and identifying areas that need support.

• Manage the engineering organization’s financials and oversee important buying and spending decisions around key tools and technologies. The goal is to keep engineering costs down and help drive profits for the business.

• Actively participate in the budgeting process, creating our Annual Operating Plan (AOP) to make sure the cost level is balanced by the revenue targets.

• Work with Human Resources to create and implement structures around people in the engineering organization, such as establishing processes for promotions and hiring.

• Build an empowering engineering culture by fostering psychological safety and inclusivity in all their interactions and processes. Success here leads to happy, psychologically-safe employees who can be themselves at work, combined with high application and retention rates.

• Oversee any major reorganizations or help integrate any mergers and acquisitions that the organization goes through. The VP steers the ship for engineering teams in times of organizational change. That includes supporting direct reports, redesigning and implementing new processes, and ensuring that there’s clear, healthy communication around the changes.

Qualifications

• You have degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related subject plus 10+ years’ experience managing development teams

• You are a strong people manager and a passionate technologist, able to communicate on a high-level with software engineers

• You have a proven track record of scaling engineering teams and the ability to manage multiple teams of engineers while implementing best practices

• You have a bias for action and can break down complex problems into steps that drive engineering and product development

• Excellent leadership, management and communication skills

• This is a Gothenburg Sweden based position and requires in office presence full-time

About Us:

Citrix and TIBCO recently merged to create Cloud Software Group, now one of the world’s largest cloud solution providers, serving more than 100 million users around the globe. When you join Cloud Software Group, you are making a difference for real people, each of whom count on our suite of cloud-based products to get work done — from anywhere. Members of our team will tell you that we value diverse lived experiences, passion for technology, and the courage to take risks.  Everyone is empowered to learn, dream, and build the future of work. We are on the brink of another Cambrian leap -- a moment of immense evolution and growth. And we need your expertise and experience to do it. Now is the perfect time to move your skills to the cloud.

Cloud Software Group is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, sex or gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, genetic carrier status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions (including lactation status), marital status, military service, protected veteran status, political activity or affiliation, taking or requesting statutorily protected leave and other protected classifications.

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