Director

Prudential

(Newark, New Jersey)
Full Time
Job Posting Details
About Prudential
As one of the world’s largest financial services companies, Prudential’s individual and institutional customers rely on us to protect and grow their financial well being.
Responsibilities
- Strategic planning and execution of all aspects of product development including establishing product roadmap alignment between Product Management and Development organizations, building engineering teams. - Role model technology-leadership by encouraging adoption of tools and solutions that solve for business in a cheaper and faster manner. - Institute an Agile processes to advance rapid delivery of products and learn from user experiences. Foster a work environment that is innovative and fast. - Execute to success through diligent planning, attention to detail, effective delegation and efficient decision-making. Manage deliverables to budget and time. - Hire outstanding talent that can work in high performing teams and deliver advantaged results for the business. Develop a strong set of leaders that can drive success for the individual teams. - Communicate effectively across the organization to ensure that the team is completely aligned to the business objectives and can do the job effectively - Build strong inter-personal relationships with peers and other key stakeholders that can help smoothen execution, identify new opportunities - Lead change.
Ideal Candidate
- Overall experience of 15+ years with several years in Software Development with a majority of it in earned in product companies building mid to large-scale web-based products - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field. Masters degree preferred. - Experience working very closely with software engineering and product development teams to deliver infrastructure solutions in a collaborative, innovative manner. - Strong leadership and change management skills at least 10 years of experience in managing teams. - Proven ability to attract the best product development talent and built highly engaged teams that deliver stellar outcomes for the business. - Demonstrated ability to partner and collaborate across organizations to optimize outcomes. - Ability to be an effective leader in a fast paced, pressure environment. Effective supervisory management skills with the ability to oversee tasks delegated to subordinates. - Demonstrated ability to think strategically and translate plans into phased actions. - Must be able to interact and work with peers and leadership in the various departments within the company assisting in achieving all corporate goals and objectives. Very team oriented. - Extensive understanding and responsibility in project and program management principles, with explicit experience in the application of these principles to operational infrastructure environments. - Effective oral, written and interpersonal communication skills. Strong presentation skills necessary to communicate, and persuade, a wide range of audiences. - Is an experienced technology leader in rapid growth companies with a history of scale in the market. - Has a track record of great engineering management, and an ability to coach, mentor and motivate engineers. - Has an orientation towards product development driving the development of applications and platforms from the users perspective. - Makes decisions based on facts, asking the right questions and weighing the pros & cons. - Has experience with scaled systems and understands data and system integration; should also have a good understanding of security from a data and process perspective. - Knows his/her strengths and areas of development opportunities - Subscribes to the methodology of Go fast, make it happen and adjust along the way. Mistakes are OK but going slow is not. If something needs to get done, we do it - Possesses an ability to thrive in a production culture and push the limits of an agile development process, while maintaining a high performance cohesive team - Excellent written and verbal communication skills required. - Ability to coach and mentor software operations/SCM/Support engineers and operations resources for personal and professional growth. - Has a customer-driven mindset and insatiable appetite for engineering excellence and drive for outcomes
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