Jobs at OCLC, Inc.

Owns product planning and development for linked data applications, including market analysis, strategy, business cases, roadmaps, budgets, pricing, positioning, and release plans. Leads cross-functional product workgroups, monitors roadmap progress, supports product marketing and sales, develops user personas and market research, and contributes to portfolio planning. Requires library services or library management systems experience, product or project management experience, online/database service knowledge, financial forecasting skills, and strong communication abilities.

Leads sales strategy, forecasting, account planning, and execution for large U.S. customer accounts. Builds relationships with senior decision-makers, expands and retains revenue, negotiates and closes strategic opportunities, and collaborates with product, marketing, finance, and sales teams. Provides market insights and recommendations to leadership. Requires 7–10 years of experience managing large key accounts, strong negotiation and relationship-management skills, and a bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, or sales.

Develop custom Salesforce solutions using Apex, Lightning Components, Visualforce, Flows, Lightning Web Components, and integrations to meet business requirements. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build technology that connects libraries and makes knowledge accessible worldwide.

Lead product strategy and execution for OCLC’s Capira public library discovery and engagement platform. Responsibilities include market analysis, product roadmaps, business cases, release planning, pricing, forecasting, cross-functional leadership, product marketing support, user persona development, competitive analysis, and portfolio planning. The role partners with engineering, UX, finance, sales, support teams, and library customers to improve digital discovery and engagement experiences.

Designs and analyzes new and existing software systems, collaborates with product managers and developers on requirements, and develops SaaS solutions. Requires a computer science or related bachelor’s degree, five years of professional experience including Informatica, Power BI, and Salesforce, and two years of Dell Boomi experience.

Design, implement, and operate key components of a high-throughput link harvesting and evaluation pipeline. Lead architecture and technical decisions, mentor junior engineers, adopt AI/ML (LLMs) in production, ensure system reliability and low impact on other services, and maintain high code quality with CI/CD and production support.

Build and maintain a new software platform by independently designing, developing, testing, debugging, and shipping features. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers on architecture, code reviews, and problem-solving. Optimize application performance and scalability, maintain existing systems, and contribute to Agile delivery practices. The role requires software development experience, programming skills, database knowledge, AI tool integration experience, and familiarity with cloud platforms, preferably AWS.

Serve as a strategic quality leader by defining testing vision, organizational quality standards, quality KPIs, and innovative automation practices. Lead scalable test framework improvements, risk-based testing, architectural quality discussions, and early QA involvement. Apply AI-assisted testing for test generation, self-healing automation, predictive risk analysis, and failure analysis while establishing responsible-use guardrails. Collaborate with senior leadership to drive quality culture, roadmaps, and best practices across projects.

Principal Software Engineer serving as a technical leader for resource-sharing initiatives. Responsibilities include setting technical direction, designing distributed systems and microservices, evaluating technical trade-offs, mentoring engineers, improving engineering quality and security, collaborating with architects and product leaders, and integrating AI-enabled development tools. The role requires extensive Java and Spring expertise, React and TypeScript experience, PostgreSQL proficiency, Linux-based systems development, CI/CD, automated testing, and enterprise software delivery experience.

Develop and support a high-throughput Java/Spring link-harvesting and evaluation service. Responsibilities include designing features, building RESTful integrations, testing, debugging, performance optimization, database-driven development, code reviews, observability, CI/CD delivery, and collaboration across distributed teams. The role also uses AI-assisted development and explores ML/LLM applications to improve link-evaluation accuracy and efficiency.

Leads technical teams of up to nine people supporting the OCLC Wise platform. Responsibilities include people leadership, talent development, delivery management, capacity and resource planning, operational excellence, technical decision support, platform reliability, risk management, KPI monitoring, and cross-functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, DevOps, Operations, Security, QA, and Customer Support.

Design, develop, test, and maintain software applications. Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams, contribute to design discussions and code reviews, implement new features, optimize performance and scalability, and integrate AI tools and frameworks into the development process.

Lead a small cross-functional engineering team as a hands-on technical manager (25–40% coding). Own architecture, cloud-native services on AWS, CI/CD, observability, incident readiness, ETL/data pipelines (Python), API and integration design, backlog planning, and team coaching including hiring, performance, and career development.

Own and drive product development for WorldCat data ingest, enrichment, and interoperability. Define strategy, maintain roadmap, lead cross-functional teams, collaborate with marketing/finance, analyze markets, and support portfolio planning to modernize an entity-first semantic data layer.

Serve as a strategic HR advisor to senior leaders, driving talent management, workforce planning, organizational design, change management, leadership coaching, employee relations, and HR analytics to improve organizational effectiveness and employee engagement.

Design, develop, and support scalable cloud-native full-stack applications using Node.js/TypeScript, Svelte, and Rust. Manage PostgreSQL databases, Linux servers, Kubernetes/ECS deployments, and AWS services. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, drive architecture and CI/CD, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable SaaS features.

Design, develop, test, and deliver complex software systems. Lead small teams, mentor junior engineers, participate in architecture decisions, conduct code reviews, and integrate AI and cloud solutions into products.

Lead development and delivery of AI-enabled discovery experiences for FirstSearch. Define product strategy, roadmaps, and pricing; translate researcher needs into semantic search and NLU features; partner with engineering, design, marketing, finance, and user groups to launch and iterate products; oversee cross-functional workgroups, market analysis, and go-to-market activities to drive value for member libraries.

Design, develop, and test complex software systems; lead small teams and mentor junior engineers; participate in architecture, conduct code reviews, and ensure high-quality delivery with cloud and AI integrations.

Design, develop, test, and deliver complex software systems. Lead small teams, mentor junior engineers, participate in architecture decisions, conduct code reviews, and integrate AI and cloud-based solutions while ensuring code quality and collaboration with product, design, and cross-functional teams.