Reports to: Director of Technology
To apply: Please submit a resume

OverviewThe VP of Technology role requires strengths in a number of areas. The position is client-facing and will focus on the entire project life cycle from pre-sales to fulfillment, requiring strong client as well as management and leadership capabilities. The role requires a technology strategist to partner with clients and prospects to identify business needs and create technology solutions. In addition, the VP must have strong management skills to build and evolve a technology capability, as well as a team, that is able to serve clients on time and on budget. This function will interact with world leading visual and interaction design capabilities to complement technical innovation. This position will predominantly focus on end-user oriented applications that need to be integrated with back-end technology. Additionally, familiarity and understanding the technical process and development process for multi-device platforms including set-top boxes, mobile and game consoles. A significant amount of time will be spent in leadership, working with sales to help pitch the company and make high level engineering cost and sizing estimates. Upon closing a deal, the VP will be responsible for guiding architecture, ensuring the project is resourced and managed properly, and will continue as the point of contact with clients as needed.

Primary Responsibilities- Planning and executing technology objectives and strategies with General Manager and Chief Technology Officer
- Building a world leading technology capability for a top design firm
- Developing a technology practice in partnership with the New York office that has expertise in interaction technology, strategy and research
- Improving sales and driving efficiencies
- Following and tracking changes in the technology landscape
- Providing leadership and vision for the San Francisco technology practice and providing day to day team management including: career development, performance management, resource allocation and help on technologies and implementation
- Ensuring effective and efficient cross-office and cross-service line collaboration occurs
- Contributing to key Business Development and Internal Project initiatives
- Improving skills and knowledge-base through training, industry events, membership in organizations, etc.
- Carrying out additional, unanticipated supplementary/complementary tasks as required.
- Essentially pinch-hitting when necessary

Qualifications- A minimum 10 years in technology services (consulting, agency and/or creative services firms). Additional product software development experience could be valuable
- Experience in planning, scoping and scheduling the technology aspect of projects, to contribute to proposals/quotations and to manage the effective workflow and delivery of projects
- Held a leadership role in a client services environment with external /internal presence
- Strong presentation skills. Ability to present to internal business partners and experience pitching to clients.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented with ability to influence others in these areas
- Ability to manage relationships up, sideways and down
- Ability to translate business requirements into viable technology practices
- Ability to find efficient and effective solutions to complex problems and to multi-task
- Strong sense of ownership of process and results
- Ability to build, train, retain and motivate teams
- Experience with two or more database servers such as SQL Server, MySQL or Oracle.
- Knowledge and a high degree of proficiency with three or more of the following: C#, C++, C, Java, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, .NET, Microsoft Sharepoint 2007.
- Knowledge of three or more of the following: Javascript, Flex, AJAX, HTML, CSS, Silverlight, Flash, Action Script, DOM or other RIA technologies
- Knowledge of three or more of the following: Apache, Microsoft IIS, Websphere, Weblogic, ATG, Symfony, Zend, .NET.
- The ability to execute in areas such as social networking, streaming video, security and next generation delivery technologies.
- Familiarity with a wide range of media types and production
- Able to speak merging media platforms to internal staff, clients and be able to present at seminars