Sr Director, Software Engineering

With a work environment that encourages and nurtures creativity, great ideas take flight and become products and services built from the bottom up. Working for Rosetta Stone or Lexia, divisions of Cambium Learning Group Inc., means that your opportunities are limitless.

There's an amazing energy here. It's the feeling that we're doing something unique, unexpected, and beneficial, and it permeates everything we do.

We are dedicated to helping people change their lives through the power of language and literacy education . Join our passionate, energetic, and international team and add your talents to Who We Are!

Rosetta Stone is looking for an experienced Senior Director of Engineering who is passionate about building cutting edge applications, as well as making products that make a social difference. In this role you will be joining a team of experienced leaders and engineers. The team is happy to roll up their sleeves and get the job done; we are looking for a leader that can harness that enthusiasm. We are seeking an engineering leader who has built out, mentored, and led technical teams, and who knows how to develop a culture that encourages both collaboration and innovation. Our leaders are hands-on, and must have strong technical expertise, willing to help design, architect, and review solutions.

If you are interested in joining a world-class team of creative and passionate people who like to pull together and master challenging problems every day, we look forward to hearing from you soon!

We are open to this position being remote, however an ideal candidate would reside in either Harrisonburg, VA, Boulder, CO, or Seattle, WA.

• Build and lead an agile, high performance, and innovative team responsible for the build and delivery of our learning and commerce software solutions.

• Modernize development standards and architecture while maintaining quality of delivery.

• Foster an environment of experimentation and continual improvement through regular Innovation Sprints, technical debt reduction and an architectural vision.

• Be hands on with delivery teams and help guide development practices, architecture decisions, and review solutions for quality and completeness.

• Develop Engineering Directors and Managers for continuous growth in business acumen and delivery excellence.

• Stay in sync with multiple development and product teams routinely reviewing specs and roadmaps to ensure development cycles stay on time and are of the highest quality.

• Work closely with our UI/UX, Product Management, and Curriculum teams to deliver high quality user experiences.

• Convert vision to strategy, and strategy to action. Create an architecture roadmap that achieves our organizational goals now and into the future.

• Demonstrated leadership building out complex service-based Web and mobile applications.

• Experience delivering high-quality, cross-platform applications using technologies such as Java, Javascript, modern JavaScript frameworks (React, AngularJS), Ruby, HTML 5, CSS 3, iOS/Swift, Android

• 10 + years of engineering experience, preferably with 5+ years of increasing leadership responsibilities with experience managing managers.

• Strong background in driving large technical projects from conception to rollout/production.

• Experience managing production incidents with a repeatable process.

• Experience working in multi-team Agile/SCRUM development programs.

• Prior experience working in one or more of consumer, education, enterprise product market segments.

• Excellent communication skills: proven experience in developing relationships, building presence, and commanding respect with C-level

• Track record of introducing and applying best practices for software and tools

• Minimum of BS in Computer Science or related field.

• Ability to travel from time to time.

• Passion for education and language learning.

• Strong dedication to create a vibrant culture of personal growth.

• Obsessive focus on the customer.

We create products that make lifelong aspirations a reality. What do customers need to achieve a lifelong goal? What tools and technologies will teach them to speak a new language? What experience can match the joy of reading with a child? We tackle these questions by focusing on the challenges of learning and the triumph of mastering a new skill. Is your imagination up to the task?

You'll have the best of all worlds. the opportunity to work with passionate, talented people who are the best in their fields. Rosetta Stone and Lexia full time employees also enjoy a generous vacation policy, outstanding health and financial benefits, and much more.

Employee well-being is first and foremost at Rosetta Stone and Lexia - we know that professional success depends on personal health and happiness. That's why we empower you with benefits you can use to succeed in every area of your life, including:

• Comprehensive health care benefits
• 401K with 100% matching up to 4% of salary
• Unlimited vacation policy and 9 paid holidays
• Legal assistance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Parking & transit benefits
• Caregiver & family support
• Adoption assistance
• Pet insurance
  

.and much more!