VP Engineering
Posted on: 14 Jul 2021
Bellevue, WA
Job Description
About the Opportunity
The ideal candidate is an established leader of leaders, responsible for managing an area or department. You are responsible for defining the mission of your team, inspiring and motivating your team to pursue that mission, and setting strategic goals for them to achieve in that pursuit. You have a balanced understanding of business and technical objectives and your guidance is sought out because your decisions drive the best outcomes for both. You own a set of key performance indicators important to the business, and drive outcomes for the business by setting goals against these metrics.
Responsibilities
Ensure delivery of business critical goals
Provide strategic and operational expertise to help scale up the business and execute vision/priorities
Provide business critical change management leadership
Develop and cultivate strong relationship with key stakeholders to drive the planning and execution of vital strategic and operational goals
Develop and coach other members of the team
Requirements
Strong experience in product and technology
10+ years relevant experience
Exposure working across multi-disciplinary teams
Ability to restructure or reengineer organizational processes for a measurable positive impact on revenue generation.
Sets benchmarks independent of, and beyond, organizational best practice, based on a clearly defined understanding of what is possible.
Adopts a long-term perspective about the business
Strong communication skills, both written and oral, and the ability to interface with cross-functional teams, as a leader, in a professional and polished manner
Strong work ethic and high level of confidentiality using good judgment and an exceptional sense of accountability
High energy, strong team player, creative thinker, and strategic influencer.
Must be willing to travel
Must have the legal right to work in the United States
Discovery, Inc.
New York, New York
Discovery, Inc. (formerly Discovery Communications) is an American mass media company based in New York City. Established in 1985, the company is best known with its non-scripted and factual television channels, such as the namesake Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Science Channel, TLC, HGTV, Travel Channel, Food Network, Cooking Channel, and DIY Network. It also expanded to digital business, such as Group Nine Media (35%) and media properties for golf enthusiasts under the Golf Digest and GolfTV brands.
Discovery also owns or has interests in local versions of its channel brands in international markets, in addition to its other major regional operations such as Eurosport (a pan-European group of sports channels), Discovery Communications Nordic (which operates general-interest channels in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland), TVN Group in Poland, Lionsgate, an American-Canadian movie studio, and a portfolio of various free-to-air channels in Germany and Italy, and the UK such as DMAX and Real Time.
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IndustryMedia/Entertainment
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No. of Employees7,000
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