WHO WE ARE:
Talend, a leader in data integration and data governance, is changing the way the world makes decisions. In order to compete and win, IT and business leaders need data that they can trust and understand instantly. Talend Data Fabric is the only platform that seamlessly combines an extensive range of data integration and governance capabilities to actively manage the health of corporate information. This unified approach is unique and essential to delivering complete, clean, and uncompromised data in real-time to all employees. It has made it possible to create innovations like the Talend Trust Score™, an industry-first assessment that instantly quantifies the reliability of any data set.
Over 7,250 customers have chosen Talend to run their businesses on healthy data. Talend is recognized as a leader in its field by leading analyst firms and industry media.
We pride ourselves in our values of Passion, Agility, Team Spirit, and Integrity. Every one of our 1,400 employees brings a certain je ne sais quoi that makes Talend special.
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Private Equity Ownership:
Talend is currently a private company; Thoma Bravo acquired Talend in Q3 2021.
Thoma Bravo is a leading private equity firm focused on the software and technology-enabled services sectors. With a series of funds representing more than $35 billion in capital commitments, Thoma Bravo partners with a company’s management team to implement operating best practices, invest in growth initiatives and make accretive acquisitions intended to accelerate revenue and earnings, with the goal of increasing the value of the business. Since 2003, Thoma Bravo has completed over 200 software and technology transactions (over 60 platform companies and over 140 add-ons) with an aggregate value of about $57 billion.
Opportunity:
For Talend to achieve our next phase of growth, exceptional leadership is paramount. Talend is seeking a strategic and innovative Senior Vice President of Engineering to deliver high impact, high quality products to our customers while leading a growing team of engineers. The Senior Vice President of Engineering will report directly to the CTO, and serve as a key contributor on Talend’s senior leadership team in driving growth at scale and cultivating a high performance, innovative culture.
What you’ll be doing:
·Setting a vision and ensuring our roadmaps align with it
·Developing a vision in collaboration with engineering team and other stakeholders.
·Ideating and driving strategic initiatives to improve processes and organization.
·Developing a deep understanding of Talend’s markets, customers, their needs, their go-to-market activities, and advocating for them.
·Innovating and disrupting on behalf of our customers and offering a differentiated solution.
·Developing and maintaining a high performing engineering organization
·Reinforcing a culture that puts the customer first, sets a high bar for performance and promotes innovation.
·Recruiting and developing talent that makes our organization stronger, with improved cross-engineering team collaboration to be better aligned with our long-term priorities.
·Ensuring the retention of top talent, addressing all aspects of employee engagement and satisfaction.
·Developing processes, systems and modern architectures and frameworks that enable faster development, higher quality, better reliability, rational retirement of technical debt to improve developer productivity; collaborating effectively with operations group to accomplish these goals.
·Collaborating with engineering team to reinforce feedback loops and improve effectiveness of product development process.
·Managing relationships with vendors and ensuring the team adopts the right tools and technologies.
We’re interested if you have:
·12+ years of relevant work experience in engineering management, of which 5 years were leading large engineering team, preferably at a B2B SaaS company.
·Direct experience with data infrastructure software or infrastructure software is desired, as is experience with products offered both via SaaS and self-service.
·Creative, strategic, innovative, and not afraid to take chances, with a strong ability to execute and deliver bottom line results.
·Experience in engaging and evangelizing domain areas with external customers, analysts, and partners in large forums.
·Experience of growth, transition, and innovation within a mid to large organization
·Comfortable working in a distributed, global team with the ability to foster a culture of innovation and collaboration with all parties while creating an environment of continuous improvement.
·Curiosity and an open mind together with empathy, transparency, and a good sense of humor
·Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. An accomplished presenter who can successfully articulate the vision, product and strategy, as well as the critical issues and priorities.
·You should have strong leadership skills, collaboration skills, vision, design, marketing and evangelizing skills.
·Demonstrated experience hiring, managing, developing, and retaining highly technical and globally distributed staff.
·Outstanding people skills: a driver personality with EQ, cultural awareness, executive acumen, and presence – ability to fit with strong personalities and a leader.
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AND NOW, A LITTLE ABOUT US:
Talend has received some pretty impressive accolades along the way:
- 7,250+ global customers rely on Talend for their data health
- Named a Leader for Data Integration Tools by Gartner (for the 7th year in a row)
- Named a Leader for Data Integration Tools by Gartner (for the 4th year in a row)
- Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Data Fabric (for the 2nd time in a row)
- CEO named a 2020 Top Diverse Leader by the National Diversity Council
- Ranked in the DBTA “100 Companies that Matter Most in Data”
We are passionate about helping companies become more data driven; and, if we can be honest, we are all geeks at heart who pride ourselves on the vibrant company culture that we have built.
Some Cool Perks With Working Here
- An opportunity to work with an international, highly collaborative, and entrepreneurial company with great coworkers who enjoy having fun and working hard
- Competitive salaries and quarterly bonuses for full-time employees
- Comprehensive health insurance available (medical, dental and vision) for you and your family for full-time employees
- Paid time off, sick time, and company holidays, in addition to paid parental leave, bereavement leave, and jury duty leave for full-time employees
- Employer-matching 401K plan for full-time employees
- Choice of MacBook or Windows laptop
As a global employer, Talend believes our success depends on diversity, inclusion and mutual respect among our team members. We want to look like our customers, and we recruit, develop and retain the most hardworking people from a diverse candidate pool. We are committed to making all employment decisions on the basis of business need, merit, capability and equality of opportunity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us via email to request an accommodation at [email protected]. We appreciate your interest in Talend.
Notice to Recruiters and Staffing Agencies
Talend SAS and its affiliates ("Talend") have an internal recruiting, or talent acquisition, department (“TA”). Talend may supplement this internal capability from time to time with assistance from temporary staffing agencies, placement services, and professional recruiters ("Agency"). Agencies are hereby specifically directed NOT to contact Talend employees directly in an attempt to present candidates. To protect the interests of all parties, Talend will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Talend, including unsolicited resumes sent to a Talend mailing address, fax machine, email address or any other means, directly to Talend employees, or to Talend’s resume database will be considered Talend property and therefore will NOT be liable for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume.
Agency agreements will only be valid if in writing and signed by an officer of Talend or his or her designee. No other Talend employee is authorized to bind Talend to any agreement regarding the placement of candidates by Agencies. Talend hereby specifically rejects, and denies any liability under, any agreement purporting to be accepted based on negative consent, negotiation with a candidate, performance, or any means other than the signature of a Talend officer.
