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October 24, 2006
Seattle's Ontela Pictures An Engineering VP
Ontela’s PicDeck technology is supposed to make it easier to manage your camera phone photos. Uses include mobile blogging, business card scanning, mobile commerce applications. The start-up is still in non-public beta. Oak Investment partners has put money into it.
Why work there:
"Our offices are at the south end of Pioneer Square, surrounded by fantastic coffee shops, gelaterias, and restaurants. " Did you say gelaterias!
Ontella also has openings for: developers, testers, PMs and an office manager.
Send your resume and a cover letter to jobs@ontela.com.
Ontela is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to build and deploy our product, from 1.0 onward. You will be reporting directly to the CEO and working closely with other members of the team, including our CTO, Business Development, and Marketing teams.
Bottom line: your team will make or break our Company.
We need a VP Engineering who will manage the development team and deployment process to ensure that the product gets built, gets built to spec, and is shipped on time. The role requires a software veteran whose strength is management and leadership. You will be a complement to our CTO who will focus on architecture and technical infrastructure. We are also looking for…
Responsibilities:
Rapidly assimilate and comprehend the company’s current software engineering processes and core IP.
Own and manage the release schedule and dates.
Implement disciplined development strategies, processes, and tools for both local staff and overseas resources
Employ effective project management methodologies for administering development schedules, quality processes and documentation.
Plan and control the technology budget, delivering value for money while simultaneously ensuring optimal performance
Build, nurture, and lead a world-class development team, including hiring, firing, mentoring, training, applying feedback up and down the management chain, balancing egos, providing a career path for employees, and generally making a great team even better.
Requirements:
Experience leading at least one team through a full product cycle, from inception to release
Ability to recruit and retain a team of unparalleled engineering expertise
Sound business and communication skills, including Board and executive interactions
Proven track record of creating and meeting aggressive release schedules for new products – ideally a consumer-focused online service
Demonstrated ability to balance multiple priorities, such as prototype development, new product development, and maintenance of an existing service
Outstanding software process experience including the ability to accurately estimate resources needed for software projects
Proven ability to build and lead a high performance software development organization
Past experience writing code
BS in Computer Science or similar engineering degree
A minimum of 10 years experience in software development
A minimum of 5 years experience directly managing a software development organization
Good Indicators:
A stable of interesting and innovative patents with your name on them
Prior success in a similar role at a start-up
A crew of top notch talent from past jobs that would follow you across platforms, burning coals, and design methodologies
Past history as a rock star individual contributor in dev, test, or PM
Experience in at least two of the following:
MFC/Win32 API
Mobile technologies (e.g. J2ME, BREW, Symbian)
SQL (SQL Server, Oracle, or MySQL)
Linux and/or J2SE. We’re not a LAMP shop, but we’re not just a Wintel shop – we want to provide the best application service, bar none.
Thoughtful opinions on a variety of development methodologies, bug tracking databases, and the like.
Posted by Paul at October 24, 2006 11:50 PM
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