Every day, people come to Facebook to connect with friends and family, discover what's going on in the world, interact with businesses, find potential customers, and build community. Facebooks Global Operations team exists to help them.
Facebook is looking for a motivated, experienced and entrepreneurial leader to join our Strategic Initiatives (SI) Team. SI is a global team, which supports and enables the success of functional partners in Scaled Operations (SO) and Global Operations (GO) by offering close stakeholder collaboration, thought partnership, effective communication, and program excellence. In particular, this individual will join the Business Enablement team within SI, which focuses on building technology products and services to support Facebooks partner workforce. This is a pivotal role to lead technology strategy and drive solutions through building partnerships across organizational boundaries.
This will be a highly impactful individual contributor position.
Technology Strategy and Partnerships Lead, Strategic Initiatives Responsibilities
* Deeply understand the architecture and integration points of Facebook's processes, products, and policies
* Drive vision, strategy, business/technology architecture and roadmap to Influence FB product roadmaps for Operations
* Use problem solving skills to analyze large and complex business problems and provide recommendations for technology improvements
* Drive projects from abstract ideation through proof-of-concept, creating concrete execution plans
* Seek and build partnerships. Act as a consultative and strategic partner cross-functional teams from business, engineering, process and product teams to build/improve the technology experience on our existing suite of products
* Define, build and track key performance metrics to measure success and identify and iterate on opportunities for optimization
* Drive internal process improvements across multiple teams and functions
* Provide impactful insights into the companys strategic direction
* Requires at least 10-20% international travel
Minimum Qualifications
* 10+ years of experience as a software/systems leadership/consulting, leading technology strategy, roadmap and solutioning across the technology stack
* Communication, presentation and interpersonal skills
* Demonstrated experience in advocating technology solutions and driving executive alignment
* Strategic thinker with analytical and problem-solving experience
* Track record of leading multiple teams and influencing stakeholders without authority, demonstrating creativity, detail-orientation, and delivering results with execution rigor
* Experience in fostering cross-functional working partnerships with business, engineering, and product teams in medium to large organizations
* Bachelors or Masters Degree in computer science, information systems or other related fields
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience working in a technology company or consulting firm
* Knowledge of functional areas like customer support, vendor support, UI/ UX, or engineering
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About the Facebook company
Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities we're just getting started.
Facebook is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations) in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions or who are neurodivergent, and to candidates with sincerely held religious beliefs or requiring pregnancy related support. If you need support, please reach out to accommodations-ext@fb.com.
(Colorado only*) Minimum salary of $136,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
*Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085(8-5-20)
Menlo Park, CA
Facebook, Inc. provides various products to connect and share through mobile devices, personal computers, and other surfaces worldwide. The company’s products include Facebook that enables people to connect, share, discover, and communicate with each other on mobile devices and personal computers; Instagram, a community for sharing photos, videos, and messages; Messenger, a messaging application for people to connect with friends, family, groups, and businesses across platforms and devices; and WhatsApp, a messaging application for use by people and businesses to communicate in a private way. It also provides Oculus, a hardware, software, and developer ecosystem, which allows people to come together and connect with each other through its Oculus virtual reality products. As of December 31, 2018, it had approximately 1.52 billion daily active users. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.