VP Engineering

Socialtext is changing the world by selling web-based social software — wikis, blogs and more — to businesses around the world. We are a 4-year old startup based in Palo Alto. We created the enterprise social software space, and we’re backed by top-tier investors and some of the largest software and hardware companies in the world.

Socialtext is seeking an entrepreneurial, hands-on executive to join us to manage and recruit our best and brightest web software developers. The mission of our engineering team is to build superior products, on quality and on schedule. Your mission will be to enable and facilitate the engineering team to deliver on their excellence. You must be passionate about this aspect of your job; it is the primary focus of the VP Engineering role.

You will be coming into an established and fast-growing startup company. Our software development team is geographically distributed over North America (and a few points east and west). Our management team works out of Socialtext headquarters in Palo Alto.

We feel that we are inventing the workplace and information sharing tools of the future. Socialtext is on the cutting edge of a number of software business trends:
- enterprise social software
- agile software development methods
- geographically distributed software development team
- self-organization and co-working
- personal responsibility and accountability
- commercial open source software

If you find these trends exciting, there is a good chance you’re the kind of person we’re looking for.

Successful candidates will have knowledge and experience in:
- managing agile software development teams made of skilled and creative developers
- working with a geographically distributed software development team
– web-based software architecture and design, especially with Perl, Python, Ruby, or PHP
– recruiting and retaining the best and the brightest software developers
– organizing resources, establishing priorities, and managing projects
- collaborating with your peers on the management team to build great company culture and hit metrics and goals
– communicating with people in all parts of the company to ensure your team’s success
– making board-level presentations and communicating with investors

Please send your resume in Plain Text or HTML to:

jobs@socialtext.com.