Summary
As a trusted technical leader, you'll help guide the trajectory for the future, supporting management in crafting strategic roadmaps across all our Siri devices, prioritizing tasks aligned with objectives, and collaborating with leadership on decisions regarding scalable and sustainable architecture for pivotal projects through logic and experience, not just authority. You will also play an active part in attracting top talent. You'll foster a healthy culture and leverage it to help invest in nurturing our next-generation of technical leaders, blending technical expertise with strong communication skills.

Key Qualifications
10+ years of hands-on experience architecting, designing, and developing software products.
8+ years of experience in building, managing, and leading multiple highly skilled teams of engineers, including growing new engineering managers and leading leaders.
Prior experience delivering customer-facing software for consumer electronic devices
Proven ability to grow and guide an engineering organization through productive critique, evangelism, training, learning, and coaching.
Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience guiding strong results from organizations that span geographic boundaries.
Strong in Computer Science fundamentals, software engineering principles, and development methodologies.

Description
Responsibility of the role will include (but not limited to):

Being a trusted "thought partner": Provide thought direction to leaders on critical technical decisions, best engineering practices, and testing strategies to ensure consistently high-quality products. Able to have transparent and honest conversations that accurately articulate any current situation but biases for a viable path forward.

Thinking strategically: set the stage for more innovation, speed & quality. Able to think about the long-term when making short-term decisions.

Simplifying the complex: ensure technical decisions make sense to the entire organization. Able to flex your style depending on your audience (executive to new college grad IC)

Driving results through influence: Influence through logic from experience and research, not positional authority. Able to rally cross-functional teams to meet a common goal. Able to represent the organization and make decisions externally that align with leadership.

Attracting key talent: Drawing in top talent by sharing the excitement of our work and creating an environment where growth and learning are central. Able to articulate the opportunity to join our team as irresistible.

Investing in and growing the next generation of key talent: mentor and nurture our engineering talent, helping them develop their skills and grow into future leaders within the team. Able to characterize the importance of both technical decision-making/implementation mixed with strong communication skills and demonstrate examples.

Education & Experience
CS degree or equivalent experience

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