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Summary

Facebook is looking for a leader to manage a high-performing client-facing team of engineers. As a Director of Applied Research & Development, you will lead the advertising industry by building new solutions and enabling partners to realize the full potential of those solutions while also leading and managing multiple global teams of Solutions Engineers. The Applied Research & Development teams within the Business Innovation Group focus on innovation opportunities to highly complex technical challenges our clients face that require deeper collaboration with multiple cross-functional teams. You will balance building a vision and inspiring a large team of solutions engineers, influencing cross-functional sales and product leadership, and people management. This role will allow you to apply technical problem-solving, leading and consulting clients on creating and executing a business strategy, leading multiple teams of engineers, and growing their careers.

Required Skills

• Recruit, inspire and develop a high performing team that supports all businesses via Facebook family of apps & services
• Help build new products and improve existing ones in collaboration with Facebook Product Engineering Teams
• Understand our client's business and marketing strategies
• Develop strong collaborative relationships with key stakeholders across the company and represent the function in cross-functional teams
• Identify unique problems and unlock opportunities through bespoke technology solutions
• Influence the roadmap and product development of Facebook Ads to meet our client's business challenges and align with Facebook's business objectives
• Be both a technical leader and a thoughtful people manager
• Willingness to travel 25% of the time

• Bachelor in Computer Science
• 12 or more years of experience with software engineering
• 5 or more years of experience as an Engineering Manager
• Proven experience building and shipping software products
• Proven experience communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences

• Master in Computer Science
• Experience contributing to open source projects, shared code repositories, and/or personal projects
• Experience contributing to the development community via blogs, Stack Overflow, Quora, Slack, etc.
• Experience leading multiple high-performing agile development teams
• Experience in delivery of technology innovations
• Creative technologist with a wide range of interests and a builder mentality, continuously creating new ways to improve solutions
• Proven track record of having released software, hardware, or other products to the market based on their original engineering work
• Proven track record of great ideas and even better execution with experience learning and applying new technologies quickly