Director, HYSTA IT & Membership Services
We are seeking for a high caliber Director to lead the IT and membership services. For consideration, please submit a personal statement and resume to volunteer_program@hysta.org including the title of this position. Thank you!
Job Responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership and guidance for the entire organization as a strong team player.
- Manage HYSTA's existing IT properties and processes in support of the HYSTA's operation.
- Be a champion of membership satisfaction to serve HYSTA's prodigious members.
- Guide and develop critical public and internal Web IT applications across the organization.
- Provide strategic guidance in order to determine key investment areas in applications, infrastructure and platforms.
- Lead the design of a scalable automation infrastructure that sustains HYSTA's rapid growth.
- Lead the design of the next generation of HYSTA Web applications, leveraging Web 2.0 technologies.
- Guide prototyping, testing, and evaluation of tools, applications and platforms.
Key Benefits:
- Opportunities to closely interact with HYSTA senior management and board
- Great leadership opportunities to manage a team
- Opportunities to build up your consultation and project management skills
- Great opportunities to meet people from different organization and industry
- Free passes to attend all HYSTA events, including exclusive private Executive Club, Venture Capital Group events
Minimum Job Qualifications:
- Direct or in-direct experience managing teams containing critical engineering talent.
- Deep understanding of conceptual models, and engineering frameworks.
- Excellent development skills and experience in Perl, PHP, and MySQL.
- In-depth understanding of Web 2.0 technologies and Web applications.
- In-depth understanding of UNIX and Linux systems, performance engineering, and design.
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills.
- Strong research, investigation and evaluation skills.
Preferable Job Qualifications:
- Experience with open source and community development.
- Unix System administration experience or equivalent knowledge (Solaris, Linux, BSD).
- MySQL experience.
- PHP experience.
- Consulting and outsourcing experience.
Interviewing Process:
To apply to this volunteer position, please submit a personal statement and resume to volunteer_program@hysta.org with including the title of the position in subject line. Thank you!
- Work with stakeholders across HYSTA to define roadmap for its public and internal web portal
- Work with outsourcing team to execute the overall roadmap for HYSTA IT Applications
- Use web analytics, site usage, study groups, and competitive analysis to drive decision making
- Drive preliminary design concepts, communicating ideas via mockups, building consensus on ideas
- Develop detailed use cases and test plans to ensure features and functions accomplish core
- Ojectives and standards for quality and usability
- Develop taxonomy and functional specifications for Web site flow
- Collaborate with designers to convert product ideas into beautiful works of art
- Apply web 2.0 technologies and features to design and feature development
- Create, publish and maintain documentation on features or project related work
- Answer questions from yahoo users and troubleshoot problems
Basic Requirements
- BS/BA degree or equivalent work experience
- Minimum 4+ years of web site product management experience, with experience driving overall
- Product strategy and optimization
- Prior experience working with outsourcing firms.
- Strong understanding of web portal design principles, usability, navigation, content organization,
- Web 2.0 features and related web site development processes.
- Well grounded technical background and ability to speak with and understand developers
- Ability to prioritize among competing requests, balance stakeholder needs with business priorities, and articulate the rationale behind decisions
- Demonstrated ability of taking a product concept through all states of definition and development through to launch
- Capability to execute rapidly and efficiently in an unstructured environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Superb self-management skills
- Willing to learn new web trends and technologies
- Desire to work closely within a team environment
Preferred Job Qualifications:
- Years of experience in Web/Software product management and familiar with PRD.
- Years of experience in outsourcing vendor management and familiar with RFQ.
- Enthusiasm and ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment with tight deadlines
- Exceptional problem-solving expertise and attention to detail
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
- Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS
- Prior experience designing portals
- Experience in software or internet services outsourcing industry
