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A different opening!

Position Title: Director of Software Engineering Location: Walton on Thames Reports to: VP of Software Engineering
  •   The heart of a startup.  
  •   The stability of an established company.
  •   Software that accelerates innovation at the world’s leading companies. 
Apply to Perforce today if this sounds interesting to you! We’re a leading global software company looking for smart, fun, talented team members. At Perforce, you’ll enjoy competitive benefits while working with and learning from some of the best and brightest in business. Before you know it, you’ll be in the middle of a rewarding career at a company headed in one direction: upward.  

Position Summary
This is a significant opportunity for the right person to lead all development and product delivery for Perforce’s industry leading code analysis and testing products. You will join the engineering leadership team for Perforce’s DevOps product portfolio to continue driving innovation and business growth. The right candidate will have a track record of inspiring and leading a team of highly talented software and quality engineers to deliver industry leading products that delight customers. Essential Functions
  • Drive a fast-paced execution and delivery of new features and updates
  • Maintain an open and transparent culture and motivate the team to go above and beyond
  • Sustain superior product quality
  • Collaborate with marketing, product management, technical support and sales to drive revenue growth
  • Collaborate with leaders of portfolio products do identify opportunities to leverage technology and drive customer satisfaction and growth through product synergies
  • Recruit, select and train high performance software and quality engineers
  • Lead complete product lifecycle from planning through release and sustaining engineering
  • Enable career growth for development team
   Required Education, Experience and Skills
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of experience and a proven track record of leading successful enterprise software product development teams
  • Experience leading distributed development teams
  • Strong technical skills with C/C++ on Windows, Linux, and Mac platforms
  • Familiarity with all aspects of the software development process.
  • Experience developing enterprise scale development tools including SCM, test, static analysis, etc.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communications skills
  • Must be a team player, have time management skills, adapt well to changing work requirements
   About Perforce Enterprises across the globe rely on Perforce to build and deliver digital products faster and with higher quality. Perforce offers complete developer collaboration and agile project management tools to accelerate delivery cycles — from agile planning tools to requirements, issues and test management, which then link to all source code, binary assets and artifacts for full build and release tracking and visibility. The company’s version control solutions are well known for securely managing change across all digital content — source code, art files, video files, images, libraries — while supporting the developer and build tools your teams need to be productive, such as Git, Visual Studio, Jenkins, Adobe, Maya and many others. Perforce is trusted by the world’s most innovative brands, including NVIDIA, Pixar, Scania, Ubisoft, and VMware. The company has offices in Minneapolis, MN, Alameda, CA, Mason, OH, the United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, Germany, and Australia, and sales partners around the globe. For more information, please visit www.perforce.com.

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