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Vice President of Engineering (SF)


Fluid's Vice President of Engineering is responsible for the long term vision and day-to-day tactics of running Fluid's software engineering department. This is a unique opportunity to join, at a senior level, a company recognized as a pioneer in online retail and Rich Internet Application development. Based in our San Francisco headquarters, you'll bring cohesion to a distributed group, becoming the face of our engineering department.

The Vice President of Engineering will work with the Fluid's Directors of Engineering to ensure that the team is efficiently delivering high quality code. The main direct responsibilities of the Vice President of Engineering position are reducing the cost of the delivery of engineering services and overseeing the recruiting of new engineers. If you're an organized manager, effective communicator, and superior motivator, then move forward with Fluid on the next phase of your career.

The tasks awaiting the Vice President of Engineering are:

  • Make staffing assignments for the engineering team
  • Maximize the utilization rate of the team
  • Decide when to hire contractors, and hire them as needed
  • Expand our offshore development capabilities, in a cost-effective and scalable way
  • Hire engineering employees
  • Oversee our college recruiting program, organizing and attending job fairs, information sessions, and on-campus interviews
  • Provide technical input to our business development efforts
  • Oversee the work of Fluid's Directors of Engineering

While not strictly required, we would also value experience in ecommerce platform development (especially with Demandware), object oriented software development, and web software development (including technologies like Adobe Flash and Flex, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, and PHP).

Founded in 1990, Fluid Inc. (http://www.fluid.com) is both an interactive agency and a software development company. Our respected interactive agency specializes in designing and building richly branded digital shopping experiences for global brands such as Reebok, The North Face, Vans, Calvin Klein, Lucky Brand Jeans, and Sears. The Fluid Retail(TM) (http://www.fluid.com/products/) product line simplifies, automates, and optimizes online merchandising by offering interactive product imagery and by merging ecommerce with social networking.

To apply for this position, please visit http://www.fluid.com/company/job_app/apply.php?owner=al&position=eng.vp&source=www

Candidates must be work eligible at the time of application. We regret that Fluid is not able to assist in the acquisition of work authorization for candidates at this time. Please refer to form I9 to determine employment eligibility.