SVP of Global Engineering

Job Description:

The SVP of Global Engineering for the Pluralsight product will have direct responsibility for the delivery of the product line, the infrastructure that enables the delivery of that product set, and in-application support for customers with internal processes and procedures to ensure that our customers are delighted. Reporting directly to the CTO, you will have phenomenal insight into business objectives and will be relied upon to prioritize technical engineering objectives and workstreams to meet those business objectives. We're looking for someone with experience building a SaaS product, crafting and communicating internal engineering processes, and leading leaders while promoting collaboration, an intense customer focus, and strong culture of accountability.

Who you're committed to being:

• A conscientious and versatile engineer

• Someone with an eye for seeing where and when technical decisions improve our product roadmaps

• A leader with the emotional intelligence and maturity to lead highly capable direct reports and the skills to encourage and build connection with team

• members at all levels

• A thoughtful and artful communicator

• Able to prioritize complex deliverables into actionable projects

• Someone with enormous drive to build the best product

What you'll do:

You will lead a globally distributed (US / APAC / EMEA) organization of 200+ software engineers and senior engineering managers working on our product. Responsibilities include:

• Product Delivery: Translate product strategy into an executable technology roadmap and guide the org through consistent, scalable, and reliable delivery as we evolve our cloud architecture using AWS-native technologies

• Product Excellence: Coordinate the technology and components to delight our users, improve quality, and reduce the cost of support and maintenance

• Reliable Experience: Ensure your product meets or exceeds contracted SLAs

• Talent Development: Champion the growth, and personal development of hundreds of engineers

• Strategic Partnerships: Enable a direct and deep relationship with product managers, sales, and account managers

• Product Strategy: Advise our evolving product strategy by bringing technical perspective to the conversation

• Product Champion: Strategically leverage Pluralsight's own products across your organization

• Org Effectiveness: Build alignment through and across the org and teams while promoting accountability, transparency, and innovation; optimize systems, tools and processes to increase speed and quality; supervise and report engineering metrics tied to company KPIs

Experience you'll bring:

• Extensive experience with shipping and operating cloud services, with technical depth to be active in decisions about the large architectural investments

• Hands-on software development experience and credibility with teams of hands-on engineers

• Experience with software methodologies and development tools for project management and issue tracking

• Diagramming and development of presentations and maps and specifications for developers

• Experience with content production tools, terms, and related technical and legal concerns

• Experience with API management, product instrumentation, analytics, continuous development and integration, and security / audit concerns

• Experience with UX and UI concepts

• Demonstrated experience leading and coaching senior leaders and globally distributed teams

• Strong cross-team and cross-department partnership skills for negotiating smart agreements

Requirements:

15+ years as a software engineer (including extensive experience as leader of leaders) working on large-scale technical projects have prepared you for this role. Technically trained, inquisitive, and with excellent communication and leadership skills, you care about quality engineering, understand business needs, and value empathy. You are ready to work with the CTO, business and product leaders, and cross-functional leaders across the company who will look to you to get things done.

• Hybrid Work Model: This role follows a hybrid schedule, with on-site work at our Westlake/Dallas, TX office Tuesday through Thursday and remote flexibility on Mondays and Fridays. This approach helps us collaborate more effectively, make decisions more quickly, and build a stronger culture, while still providing flexibility.

Why you'll love working here:

• We're a blended workplace, where team members work remotely or in a hybrid setup depending on their role and location

• We're mission driven and guided by our culture pillars

• We have a strong commitment to diversity and belonging

• We cultivate a culture of trust, autonomy, and collaboration

• We're lifelong learners and champion team member growth and advancement

• We've got you covered - team member benefits include competitive compensation packages, medical coverage, unlimited PTO and Summer Fridays, wellness reimbursements, Pluralsight subscription, professional development funds and more.

About us:

Pluralsight provides the only learning platform dedicated to accelerating the technology skills and capabilities of today's tech workforce. Thousands of companies, government organizations and individuals around the world rely on Pluralsight to support critical technology skill development in areas that are crucial to innovation including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cybersecurity, software development, and machine learning. Pluralsight provides highly curated content developed by vetted technology experts, industry leading skill assessments, and hands on, immersive learning experiences designed to help individuals skill-up faster.

Physical and Mental Requirements:

Work is performed in an office (or home office) environment and requires the ability to operate office equipment and keyboards. Sedentary work. Repetitive work. Ability to perform tasks related to documentation, data analysis, transcription and extensive content analysis. Learn new tasks, remember processes, complete tasks independently, and make timely decisions in the context of a workflow.

EEOC Statement

Bring yourself. Pluralsight is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age or protected veteran status. Pluralsight will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please visit the bottom of our website to learn how to request an accommodation.

For more information on Pluralsight's commitment to building a more diverse and inclusive workforce, please review our most recent Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging report here.

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