Director, Technology
About Vistaprint
We are Vistaprint, a member of the Cimpress family (NASDAQ: CIMPR), the world leader for mass-customized marketing products, serving almost 20 million small and medium sized businesses locally in 20+ countries. Working across the globe in a truly international team, we are shaping the digital revolution in printing and mass customization. Over the past 25 years, we grew from startup to $2.75 billion in annual revenue and are confident that we still have a huge, multi-year growth opportunity ahead of us. Our confidence is driven by two primary factors: firstly, ~80% of the market segment for small businesses’ marketing materials is still served through traditional offline channels, often lacking the convenience and cost advantages from greater scale that we can offer our customers. Secondly, there is a significant opportunity to accelerate our activity in adjacent product segments such as packaging, apparel, signage, or corporate line of business accounts. We are a profitable business with an entrepreneurial mindset, and throughout our history we have proven our commitment to investing for long-term horizons.
Since our inception, Vistaprint has sought to disrupt our market and to build a transformational and enduring business. Over the past 20 years, we have reinvented ourselves frequently in service of this mission. Change is in our DNA.
The Opportunity
It is an exciting time to join Vistaprint as our founder and CEO, Robert Keane, recently returned to lead Vistaprint as CEO and is building out a new executive team. Together with all employees, we are renewing the company’s focus on delighting customers, fostering an entrepreneurial culture, and accelerating our world-class capabilities.
We have a tremendous opportunity in front of us. Vistaprint’s vision of helping small business owners live their dreams is exciting and inspirational. In order to capitalize on our opportunity, we have embarked on a transformational journey to deliver “jaw-dropping customer value”. This will lead us to achieve world-class technology, services, and innovation, while creating an environment where our team members are inspired and enabled to do their best work.
Position Summary
The Director of Technology for our Corporate Solutions business will be responsible for the technology vision in this domain. Responsibilities also include the technology strategy, hands-on solution architecture, team management, and being able to bridge the gap to other technology teams in the Vistaprint Technology organization. The Director of Technology will handle the day to day operations, budget, headcount, and have full control over the business technology organization. This individual will lead multiple globally distributed technology teams and product managers to develop products in the corporate solutions domain. The position reports to the VP of Technology and matrix to the GM of Corporate Solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and implement a technology roadmap that aligns with the business strategy and delivers both short-term and long-term results
- Be the technology steward for the corporate solutions domain by developing a sustainable architecture to support business growth
- Be a trusted advisor to the business supporting the high level and very tactical vision - making good trade-off decisions along the way
- Build an engaged, motivated and driven team that can execute and perform at the highest levels
- Implement security best practices and Vistaprint standards (RFCs)
This role will be based in our office in Waltham, with travel to Tunis and India periodically.
Candidate Profile
We are looking for a technology leader who is a self-starter and self-motivated to deliver world-class capabilities for e-commerce, manufacturing, marketing and customer care organizations. The individual is adept at building a vision, managing a team and being a technologist. Critical analytical thinking, customer focus, and execution are key traits for success.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Solution architecture and critical thinking in cross-functional teams
- Demonstrated ability to make good technology trade-off decisions, i.e. managing technical debt
- Microservices JSON, javascript, node.js, react, Amazon web services are all important
- Be an excellent communicator both inside your organization and with the other Vistaprint Technology teams
- Ability to travel internationally
Ideal Experience
- 10+ years of progressive technology experience as an engineer, an architect, and project manager
- 2+ years leading cross functional teams
- 2+ years with full-stack software development including newer front-end frameworks
- Has successfully launched/brought a product to market or led a team in successful delivery of large technology projects
- Hands-on product management and software development life-cycle experience with Agile methodologies
Equal Opportunity Employer
Vistaprint, a Cimpress company, is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, national or ethnic origin, nationality, age, religion, citizenship, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender presentation, legal or preferred name, marital status, pregnancy, family structure, veteran status or any other basis protected by human rights laws or regulations. This list is not exhaustive and, in fact, in many cases we strive to do more than the law requires.