Director R&D – VMware, Inc.

This role is based in Sofia, Bulgaria.

VMware is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility. Built on VMware’s industry-leading virtualization technology, our solutions deliver a new model of IT that is fluid, instant and more secure. Customers can innovate faster by rapidly developing, automatically delivering and more safely consuming any application.

With 2015 revenues of $6.6 billion, VMware has more than 500,000 customers, more than 75,000 partners, and 19,000+ employees in 120+ locations around the world. At the core of what we do are our people who deeply value execution, passion, integrity, customers, and community. Do you dare to do the stuff you’ve always dreamed about?

Director R&D

As a Director R&D, you are leading an R&D organization consisting of several R&D teams delivering vSphere User Interface applications. Your organization is based in VMware R&D office in Sofia, Bulgaria and is part of a global Cloud Platform Organization.

In your role, you have clear understanding of business priorities of VMware and are a key influencer in the organization and are expected to inspire innovation and provoke change in both culture and technology. The User Interface group develops products that focus on building world class user interface to facilitate adoption of vSphere and dependent solutions. You must be the champion for UI and UX and help the organization adopt new technologies.
Your focus will not only be about what we’re building, it will also encompass as to how we’re building it. You will work closely with the Product Management and UX organization and so relationship building is very important. You will need to share your ideas with people at all levels of the organization and bring them along on the journey.

As a Director, you will be expected to keep your team motivated, engaged and focused on customer and organizational goals. You have proven software development background with experience in successful delivery of high quality software. You have experience with agile software development techniques and have worked with geographically dispersed development teams/efforts. You should be highly technical, detail oriented with a focus on implementation excellence, and have experience managing large projects as well as solid people management skills to apply your expertise in a fast paced and technically driven environment. You successfully navigate through cross-functional, interdepartmental and cross-geo challenges and demonstrate consistently good judgment in dealing with conflicts.
You’ll be part of a bright engineering team that has open communication, empowerment, innovation, teamwork, and customer success culture. The Director should have strong self-directed work ethic, and is driven to produce a quality product and user experience, wrapped up in a make it happen mindset.

Your responsibilities include:

• Lead, inspire and motivate your team to deliver innovative software projects using proven development processes (Agile/SCRUM)
• Collaborate with stake holders on requirements and respond with fast product delivery by taking smart risks as required
• Ability to handle multiple, complex technical projects and have the flexibility to work in a very dynamic environment
• Define and continuously measure KPI’s for UI and UX
• Recruit talent, grow, coach and develop your team and managers as well as seek opportunity to enable and support continuous improvements to development processes and unit testing best practices
• Effectively collaborate with other functions, organizations and geographies
Required skills:
• Bachelor in Engineering/Computer Science with 10+ years of experience leading R&D teams
• 3+ years of experience as second-line manager (leading two or more first-line managers) of an R&D organization
• Appreciation for good design and an eye for perfection
• Experience with front end technologies as well as distributed, scalable systems and experience building sleek user interfaces
• Excellent presentation, interaction and communication skills along with the ability to collaborate effectively across functional organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to influence change and provoke new thinking at all levels of the organization
• Experience delivering enterprise-class software using any of the latest UI technologies (HTML5, AngularJS, JavaScript)

Desired skills:

• Master in Engineering/Computer Science
• Experience in multi-national Software company
• Solid understanding of architectural aspects of cloud scale, highly-available, multi-tenant systems
• Good understanding of virtualization and cloud platforms
• Technical background in complex, multi-platform environments (OS-es, servers, storage, networks, security, virtualization, cloud, systems monitoring and management)
• Experience with management, automation and orchestration systems.

VMware offers:

– Attractive compensation package – competitive salary, flexible bonus scheme, company sponsored mobile phone plan and additional long term incentives
– Individual career path – management and technical career growth, enhanced by learning and development program, regular performance assessment, teams of world-wide IT professionals
– Healthy work environment – company sponsored medical program, food and beverage program, sport activities, open communication
– Work-life balance – 25 days paid vacation, team buildings and celebrations

As part of the VMware global standards for integrity you will be required to go through a pre-employment screening process before you join.

All job applications will be treated with strict confidentiality.

How to apply:

To apply, please send your CV at [email protected] with Subject:Director R&D_mk