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Open Positions:

Director of Product Strategy – Posted September 2012

Director of Product Strategy

Creative Commons is a global nonprofit organization that enables knowledge sharing and creativity through its legal and technical tools. We’re looking for a Director of Product Strategy who has industry insight, strong technical management credentials, and engaging interpersonal skills to expand the design and delivery of the open licensing infrastructure for our community.

Primary responsibilities

The Director of Product Strategy reports to the CEO and is responsible for all aspects of the organization’s technology infrastructure and products. This person will lead a technical team to develop innovative solutions to maximize creativity and sharing of digital assets globally. The Director of Product Strategy leads the product team to:

Create an executive level product roadmap;
Design, develop, and implement a product strategy, aligned with emerging market trends;
Architect the technical infrastructure of the company to align with emerging industry trends;
Establish workflow priorities, standards, and procedures;
Oversee all programming and analysis activities including quality standards;
Manage all technical infrastructure operations components;
Facilitate external developer community communications to encourage 3rd party contributions;
Establish and maintain strategic relationships;
Work with CEO, Director of Strategic Partnerships, and other senior team leads to secure ongoing project funding; and,
Represent the organization in various industry and community forums.

Qualifications and requirements

Master’s degree or equivalent experience in software engineering or a related field;
Entrepreneurial spirit, involvement with a start-up preferred;
Minimum five years experience with languages and tools for creating and deploying large-scale web services;
Proven team leadership;
Experience with software and content licensing issues, and in particular Free/Open licenses;
Experience creating and maintaining a web service used by a large user community;
Engaged user testing; ability to discern user requirements and develop specifications;
Experience in global mobile application and the regional differences between geography preferred;
Experience with modern web development using open web technologies and standards;
Excellent management, written, and oral communication skills;
Superior analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities; and,
Fluency in one language in addition to English a plus.

Work environment

Collaborative, community-building atmosphere. Office is an open pod setting in Mountain View, California, easily accessible via car and public transportation. Travel required (including international).

How to apply

Please email any inquiries, your cover letter, and resume to “jobs@creativecommons.org” with the subject heading of “Director of Product Strategy Application.”