Chief Product Development and Technology Officer (CTO) - Auto

The Chief Technology Officer sits within the North America Automotive Business Unit.  The successful candidate will direct and execute on the strategic roadmap and technology evolution, for the entire portfolio of Automotive Product solutions, ultimately driving growth across the technology product suite. 

The candidate will possess the business and technical depth along with engineering expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary technical deployments, including legacy migrations to a next generation cloud-based, big data environment. Additionally, the candidate will bring excellent organizational, communication and interpersonal skills to inspire our teams, rapidly establish trust amongst a diverse set of stakeholders and execute an effective change management process to advance our resources for the future state.

Key responsibilities of the CTO will include:

• Lead the product engineering organization, to architect, develop, release and support the products of NA Automotive; additionally, the CTO leads Architecture, DevOps, QA, Security and Infrastructure.
• Develop and drive the implementation of the technical vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Automotive business.
• Continue to mature the software development lifecycle and agile processes, for the technology organization.
• Lead the technology transformation (Cloud 9) and migration of products, services, and clients to AWS, while managing the client needs in a hybrid environment through the lifecycle of the transformation.
• Lead technical programs including engineering teams to get high-quality products and features through an agile, high velocity, fast-paced software project lifecycle, ensuring success metrics are informing future efforts, and quickly fine tuning the program as needed.
• Partner with peers and other functional leaders such as, product management, sales, marketing to drive results. Act as an advisor of technologies that may improve efficiency and effectiveness across the business.
• Lead the resource allocation process to prioritize development initiatives in a way that transparently highlights trade-offs, enabling business goal achievement.
• Direct the execution of enterprise-wide information security plans to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the division's applications, data, and servers.
• Establish accountability and governance processes to direct and control development efforts to ensure that objectives are achieved, risks are managed appropriately and proactively, and the organization's resources are used responsibly.
• Identify technology trends and evolving user behavior that may support or impede our technological investments and drive innovation that leverages key technology trends such as GenAI, machine learning, mobile, cloud, big data, responsive design, and modern APIs.
• Effectively communicates the technology strategy to executives, internal and external partners, and customers.
• Be a steward for control of the department budgets, including budget planning, tracking and business case development and ROI measurements.
• Effectively manage capital budgets and headcount as governed by agreed-upon key performance indicators.
• Ensuring a high performing and highly engaged workforce through leadership practice, performance management; Cultivates the company’s culture and lives its mission and values.
• Promote and champion DevSecOps principles and practices and the productivity gains that result from continuous testing, integration, and deployment.
• Contribute to the broader leadership agenda on an ongoing basis as a member of the business unit leadership team. Including building trusted, collaborative relationships with peers.

Qualified candidates for the Chief Technology Officer role should have proven progressive management and leadership experience, leading a distributed, full stack Software Engineering team, in either a headquarters setting or in a division/segment. The ideal candidate will preferably be an individual who has displayed leadership within a result-oriented, growth company.

Further required experience would include:

• Proven track record of building a high-performance culture focused on engineering excellence and innovation.
• Ownership of release schedules and milestones, keeping up a high velocity in a fast-paced environment.
• A versatile technology executive able to engage at a detailed level in an ecosystem, which consists of an extremely broad technology stack spanning AWS, Java, Angular, ECS, EKS, Docker, Open Source, AWS, and various database technologies.
• Thorough knowledge of AWS services; demonstrated expertise leading teams to develop and/or migrate applications to AWS.
• Proven experience in highly matrixed complex environments and demonstrated ability to drive transformation and innovation.
• Able to lead several technical programs at once, setting priorities, leading cross-functional teams to take products to market, ensuring success metrics are informing future efforts, and quickly fine tuning the program as needed.
• Excellent decision-making, presentation skills and strong influencing skills to be able to interface and articulate our technical capabilities to our clients, and leadership.
• Focus on consistently driving results by effectively managing capital budgets and headcount as governed by agreed-upon key performance indicators.
• Outstanding intellectual acumen with a natural willingness to engage in constructive & transparent discussions where the candidate is perceived as a true thought partner to the Group President and peers.
• Ability to inspire others by actively communicating and motivating all levels of employees with vision, clear execution priorities and support of BU direction.
• Team player, partner and collaborator who builds trusted cross-functional relationships.
• Strategic thinker who can understand competitive and technological context to drive results while investing for a better future.

Education and Experience

• Master degree preferred or equivalent experience in Computer Science/Engineering and at least 15 years' experience in the Information Technology field.
• 10+ years in technology leadership positions of increasing scope and responsibility, and ideally 5+ years of leadership experience as a VP of agile software development teams.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.