Vice President of Technology
Description
Vice President of Technology
Ziff Davis Shopping helps millions of shoppers discover and save, delivering exceptional consumer and merchant-advertiser experiences across a portfolio of leading mobile and ecommerce brands. Our domestic brands include RetailMeNot, Offers.com, Blackfriday.com, TechBargains and TDS Gift Cards.
TDS Gift Cards, a division of Ziff Davis, is a leading platform solution for global Prepaid/Gift Card processing and program management. TDS is licensed to manage programs for Airbnb, Uber, Netflix, DoorDash, Etsy, and many others. TDS provides its digital partners turnkey solutions for monetizing and growing their revenue and brand via prepaid cards, pincode and digital solution programs through major retailers and digital distributors across the globe. TDS develops individualized strategic retail rollout plans for its digital partners to maximize revenue, branding and marketing results, making it easy for brands to own and run a global gift card program.
TDS develops unique prepaid card products and delivers them to consumers through a worldwide network of leading retailers and alternative distribution partners across 50+ countries. Headquartered in NYC, TDS has additional offices across the US, Mexico City, Brazil, Australia, France and the UK. The TDS culture and business has been built upon an entrepreneurial drive and created by experienced leaders and a team of people that thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, creative and energetic environment.
TDS Gift Cards (“TDS”) is hiring a VP of Technology to lead our technology efforts. Success in this role requires you to roll up your sleeves to combine a strong strategic mindset with broad technical and management skills. You’ll partner closely with Business, Product, Marketing, Outside Technology Vendors and Operations to define our global processing platforms, architecture, and feature development strategy and execution. You’ll be a strong mentor and encourage the career development of your team, while successfully recruiting and growing the team to deliver against our business requirements and strategy. As a key technical leader, you will play a big role in the evolution of TDS, striving for technical excellence and rigor in everything you and your team deliver.
Responsibilities
- Define the short, medium and long-term technological strategy, have it validated and mobilize the team and key stakeholders around it
- Develop and lead technical solutions that execute the technical vision and meet our business objectives, considering the trade-offs to be made between time, quality, and resources, along with the needs and priorities of different teams
- Refine our team development process to drive great technical outcomes
- Work with our development partners on enhancing our existing global platforms and building future new lines of business platforms
Required Experience and Skills
- Experience working on e-commerce products
- Experience with .net development
- Working knowledge of AWS and hosted environments
- Experience working with a parent company and building a case for adding resources to ultimately grow company revenue and meet company objectives
- Experience collaborating with key stakeholders and executives on defining a multi-year technical strategy, operational plan, and executing on the roadmap
- Responsible for managing the technology budget and making investments both internally and externally to deliver technological needs
- Experience working in cross platform technology services and support (e.g., online services, software, web technologies, ecommerce)
- Experience managing distributed teams
- Can communicate complex concepts with audiences at many levels of technical ability. Demonstrated experience collaborating with stakeholders in many creative disciplines and across multiple locations and time zones
- Experience leading, empowering and inspiring teams. Invites diverse perspectives before making critical decisions. Strong at resolving conflicts and building buy-in with many stakeholders
- Significant amount of professional experience in full stack web development
- Architectural experience with common web technologies, cloud-native development, and relational data stores
We Offer Great Benefits
- Company-sponsored medical, dental, and vision insurance (including domestic partner coverage) + pet insurance
- Flexible Vacation / Paid Time Off
- Charitable Giving Programs that include Paid Time off to volunteer and donation match
- Family Planning Programs like MAVEN Fertility Concierge
- Pregnancy and Paid Parental Leave (up to 16 weeks)
- 401K savings plan with employer match
- Employee stock purchase program (ESPP)
- Wellness Programs: Gym reimbursement, Lose It! and Calm subscriptions
- Hybrid, Remote and Flexible work arrangements
- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups where you can collaborate with teams across the company while making an impact in the areas that most excite you!
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Information
Individuals seeking employment at Ziff Davis are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation. You are being given the opportunity to provide the following information in order to help us align with federal and state Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action record keeping, reporting, and other legal requirements.
Ziff Davis Shopping is a business unit within TSE. A division of Ziff Davis, Inc.
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