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RAZR · 1 month ago

Vice President of Development

Minnetonka, MN

Full-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

8+ years exp

RAZR is a fast-growing marketing technology company headquartered in the Twin Cities, seeking a Vice President of Development to align technology initiatives with the company’s goals. This role involves leading the development and execution of the technology roadmap, ensuring data security, improving operational efficiency, and fostering internal partnerships to support RAZR’s growth.

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Responsibilities

Develop technical aspects of the company’s strategy to ensure alignment with business goals and be able to clearly communicate that technology vision and strategy along with opportunities and risks

Maintain a consumer-focused outlook, bringing innovative ideas to the product and development teams to deliver industry leading solutions in our markets

Analyze and monitor competing technologies and companies to understand the competitive landscape and evaluate technological advancements to drive continuous product improvement

Partner with other business units to deliver customer solutions through new products, ongoing platform enhancements and tailored solutions, optimizing the profitable use of technology

Review timeframes and budgets, collaborating with the product organization to create timelines for development and deployment of technology services

Define company standards for systems, equipment, software and software development practices

Provide strategic leadership and oversight of the Development team, ensuring effective management of resources, monitoring key utilization metrics, and driving initiatives that optimize team productivity and overall performance

Ensure that all team processes related to company tools—such as StandOut, Bloom, Kolbe, and the Engagement Management (EM) survey—are effectively implemented across the teams and consistently maintained to support team development and organizational alignment

Study current and new industry trends, technologies, and software development, ensuring all technology practices adhere to regulatory requirements, laws and standards and that security controls and monitoring processes are best in class

Represent the company at conferences and networking events

Other duties as assigned

Qualification

Client relationship managementStrategic thinkingLeadershipFinancial acumenSoftware development lifecycleDependabilityCommunicationProblem solvingAttention to detailOrganizational skills

Required

Strategic thinking and strong business acumen are essential to direct key development release opportunities, providing insight along with calculated direction to continue our growth trajectory

Demonstrated leadership, managing and holding teammates accountable with a positive, productive attitude, inspiring others to follow direction

Experienced in managing large engagement, platform-based programs

Competent in the fundamentals of promotion strategy and delivery

Ability to communicate technical requirements and tie to client requests

Self-starting problem solver with extremely strong attention to detail

Strong decision-making skills

Financial acumen with experience managing budgets and meeting financial targets

Ability to foster an open dialogue among all stakeholders that encourages respectful, honest, and challenging debate

Thrives in a fast-paced environment with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously

Excellent written and oral communication skills

Well organized, highly dependable, and efficient

4-year degree in business, marketing or a related discipline