Sr. Manager, Technology

Our Team:
The Digital Partnerships team at Vistaprint establishes, integrates, merchandises, promotes, and manages the business partnerships with 3rd party software and services providers whose platforms provide complementary high:value online business solutions for Vistaprints customers. A critical selection criterion for establishing a strategic partnership with a Digital software provider is whether Vistaprint can create unique and differentiated added:value services to layer on top of the partners standard DIY/self:serve offering.
What You Will Do:
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Build processes that drive technical accountability within the team, identifying process bottlenecks, and clearing any potential roadblocks for the engineers.
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Introduce improvements to the team 's SDLC processes, ensuring the team writes quality code that follows the :ilities (reliability, scalability, testability, monitor:ability, etc.)
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Regularly tracking, sharing, and improving metrics to improve the team 's efficiency and quality of work in order to produce performant teams.
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Contributes to the team 's success by providing feedback on pull requests and reviewing the overall architecture of features that are being delivered.
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Independently plan and carry out changes to team staffing and technical assignments in service of company goals: identifying gaps, defining roles, and managing team size.
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Partner with Architects to ensure the team builds flexible systems and processes, working towards simple, straightforward solutions and reducing complexity when possible.
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Partner effectively with Product Managers to manage scope and define deliverables for the roadmap based on estimates that get refined over time, responsible for all resource assignments and communicating timeline, scope, and technical concerns to partners.
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Identify areas of technical debt, do the cost/benefit analysis for resolving this debt, and work with Product to get the work added to the roadmap.
Your Qualifications:
At Vista, we are striving to hire individuals that add new ideas and perspectives to our teams and enhance our culture. No matter your background or work experience, we strongly encourage you -even if you feel that you don 't meet the exact requirements or have the same qualifications. You might be a great candidate for this or other opportunities.
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10 years of experience engineering back:end systems (Preferably Java/Node js)
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4 years of managing a team of over 10 engineers across distributed locations.
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Ability to engage in technical discussions, ask the right questions, engage at a helpful level and sniff out suboptimal decisions, and advocate for and teach good ones.
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Exceptional coaching and mentorship skills
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Proven track record of being proactive, moving with purpose and responding to problems efficiently.
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Experience identifying risk and strong ability to assess and address risk when needed
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Strong project management skills with an ability to create and manage roadmaps and track and improve team velocity
Nice to Have:
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Curiosity: You are driven to understand our business, product, and technology, and that knowledge to create better outcomes
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Incisiveness: You think clearly and analytically. You fairly and holistically evaluate tradeoffs, and have the intellectual reasoning to get the right answer most of the time.
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Exceptional Recruitment Skills: You are able to paint a compelling vision for engineering, understand candidates motivations and get them excited about making an impact at Vista
Why Youll Love Working Here:
There is a lot to love about working at Vista. We are an award winning Remote:First company. We 're an inclusive community. We 're growing (which means you can too). And to help orient us all in the same direction, we have our Vista Behaviors which exemplify the behavioral attributes that make us a culturally strong and high:performing team.
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Job Type: Permanent