Rovi Corporation (NASDAQ: ROVI) is focused on revolutionizing the digital entertainment landscape by delivering solutions that enable consumers to intuitively connect to new entertainment from many sources and locations, and has one of the world’s leading patent portfolios in this area, with more than 5000 issued patents and pending applications worldwide. The company licenses its patent portfolio to consumer electronics manufacturers, service providers and other third parties around the world. Rovi also provides its own extensive entertainment discovery solutions for television, movies, music and photos, together industry leading entertainment data, to create the connections between people and technology, and enable them to discover and manage entertainment in an enjoyable form. Rovi is a global company headquartered in Santa Clara with nearly 2200 employees worldwide.
Primary Role: The Vice President of Professional Services is responsible for coordinating the utilization and the direct management of the engineers and quality assurance teams for all custom engineering projects that fall outside the bounds of the core product. They will interface directly with the program management team to determine the demand for delivery resources as well as priorities. The Practice Leader will work closely with program management to develop the statement of work, which includes the scope of work to be performed, the approach, and the specific deliverables.
Responsibilities:
Manage the delivery staff - Conduct performance appraisals, approve compensation, conduct regular staff meetings, and coordinate regular business reviews with the team
Schedule resources - In conjunction with program management assess current demand against the team capacity to provide time estimates, availability, and dates for meeting deliverable commitments
Manage staff development - Ensure that proper education opportunities are provided to the delivery staff as well as provide career guidance which includes defining criteria for advancement
Manage delivery P&L - Assist and provide input to the budget planning process and revenue forecasting process. This includes managing budgeted versus actual and ensuring that utilization levels are appropriate for delivering on revenue forecasts
Manage project expenses - In conjunction with program management ensure that specific project budgets remain on target for the delivery component
Ensure the efficient implementation of each deployment step, including delegating duties to all tech leads and keeping team members informed of the client needs, deadline changes, and functionality changes
Qualified candidates must have technical competency regarding products and solutions being delivered.
The Practice Leader should be technically adept at explaining how the technology is used, how it gets implemented, and considerations for implementing the specific technologies.
The Practice Leader should have experience in managing the delivery and integration of large client server multi tier deployments
Understanding of the project life cycle and associated milestones
Financial management skills including understanding of a basic P&L
5+ years experience in managing technology implementation projects
Software development methodology experience required
Broad exposure to a wide variety of applications and technologies
Experience dealing with System Operators and/ or Satellite Broadcast companies is preferred but not required
Excellent written and oral business communication (business requirements, statements of work, proposals) and relationship building with clients
Experience managing an internal staff of developers and consultants
BA or BS minimum requirement
Please send resumes to:
karen.coleman@rovicorp.com
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