Vice President, Technical Operations
Self Financial is a venture-backed, high-growth FinTech company with a mission to increase economic inclusion and financial resilience by empowering people to build credit and build savings.
We're looking for people who share our passion and are driven to tackle challenges, find solutions and make the financial space better for the communities we serve.
Our team is passionate about challenging the status quo of the credit industry by providing people accessible tools to take control of their credit. Executing on our mission requires deep collaboration across our teams to ensure our products reach the people who can benefit from them the most, particularly the 100 million+ Americans who have no or low credit.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
About the Role:
The Vice President of Technical Operations will manage all hands-on operational aspects of the engineering organization and its alignment with the wider company strategy. Provide the leadership, management, and vision necessary to ensure the organization has the proper operational controls, engineering roadmaps, and reporting procedures to effectively grow the engineering organization, operational efficiencies and execution of the product strategy.
A few examples of what you will drive as part of this critical role:
- Engineering vision and strategy - Responsible for working with multiple SVP and other VP level stakeholders in creating a clear, convincing technical strategy
- Technical Execution - Responsible the overall execution and reporting of the strategic technology initiatives for the company
- Collaboration, Alignment and OKR management across the organization - Responsible for collaborating across multiple functions to align on annual OKRs and shorter-term execution plans
- Alignment and leadership - Manage significant sized engineering teams and inspire leaders to deliver against high priority OKRs
- Building platforms and technology reviews - Drive ongoing product and technology reviews in conjunction with the Product Leaders with senior stakeholders and drive strategic technological discussions towards building platforms
- Getting things done and comfortable being in details to drive functional and operational excellence within cross functional product, engineering and devops projects.
What you’ll do:
- Hire, motivate, champion, retain and grow a world class team of individual contributors and leaders to own and run software development and deliver world class innovation for our customers.
- Influence technical vision working with senior architects in the team and deliver services and frameworks in the areas of ownership.
- Create strategies to balance short term requirements with long-range business plans and north star architectures.
- Drive multi-year projects to meet the strategic goals working with the stakeholders for resource planning and allocation
- Develop strong partnerships with peers across the entire organization and enable the same for the team to ensure impactful innovation aligned with the company initiatives.
- Collaborate and influence cross-functional teams, drive and align priorities in achieving business goals.
- Create, evangelize and influence the strategic projects for use across the company.
- Thrive in ambiguity, take calculated bets and enable the team for the same to deliver impactful efficiency across teams
- Own and drive strategic planning and execution for the product efficiency and operational goals (monthly quarterly and annual cadences).
- Mentor and shape our PMO leadership team and organization, inspire pragmatic thinking within or cross functional teams.
- Own and drive monthly operational reviews and release planning for the technology organization based on metrics driven data
- Establish and scale planning best practices as we grow both the engineering and supporting processes
- Operationalize roadmap inputs from internal and external sources into executable plans and tasks
- Develop a single source of truth for roadmaps and releases with our PM team
- Establish automated delivery reporting to keep stakeholders up-to-date.
- Set up feedback loops for continuous learning and make incremental improvements across the SDLC.
We have the compensation and benefits you expect. But, there's one thing that Self Financial can offer that many startups cannot: we can positively change the world, while making a profit. We are a team of Builders, empowering our customers to build their dreams. We have a Do the Right Thing ethos in all that we do, and we hope you value that approach, too.
Our perks include:
- Stock options
- Quarterly performance-based bonuses
- Generous employer-paid health, vision and dental insurance coverage
- Flexible vacation policy
- Educational assistance
- Free gym membership
- Free at-home workout through Sworkit
- Casual dress code
- Team building events and activities
- Remote work arrangements/ flexible work schedule
- Paid parental leave
Self Financial requires all employees hired to successfully pass a background check.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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