Technology with a Purpose. OCLC supports thousands of libraries in making information more accessible and more useful to people around the world. OCLC provides shared technology services, original research and community programs that help libraries meet the ever-evolving needs of their users, institutions, and communities. With office locations around the globe, OCLC employees are dedicated to offering premier services and software to help libraries.

OCLC is seeking a director to lead our frameworks/technology shared services division. OCLC is undergoing an enterprise-wide technology transformation to drive continued innovation for our global academic line of business.

• Successfully driving the execution of complex incumbent programs and managing the portfolio of future investments and work.
• Elevating the division to become a true shared service across all OCLC lines of business.
• Providing essential alignment with your teams in multiple countries across North America and EMEA.
• Providing empowerment and ownership to development teams.
• Developing and extending OCLC’s positive culture to increase velocity and accountability.
• Drive the adoption of new and modern technologies across shared services and OCLC’s global SaaS product (WMS).
• Understanding OCLC’s unique industry and partnering with OCLC’s product and sales teams to encourage technology innovation.
• Promoting and managing the adoption of key OCLC enablement platforms, including DevOps, process transformation, operations, and more.
• Mentoring early-career leaders in the development of their capabilities.

Strategic Alignment:

• Ensures that Project and Program activities are aligned with Portfolio and Organizational priorities across the business unit.
• Coordinates all technology release management activities for projects within the division.
• Designs the target state and strategic roadmap for achieving the goals of the team and company.
• Facilitates the selection of the right project mix and prioritization of the project portfolio in line with strategic goals, and tactical operations on an ongoing basis.
• Assesses, documents, and prioritizes projects across the business unit based on criteria such as Strategic Alignment, Return on
• Investment, Technical Fit, Risk, Scope, and process compliance.

Management and Resource Planning:

• Responsible for resource alignment and allocation throughout the division. Oversees planning, scheduling, resource forecasting, cost estimation, risk and issue assessment, and change management initiatives.
• Designs the target state and strategic roadmap for achieving the goals of the team and the Global Engineering division.
• Ensures timely assessment of technical performance and early identification of portfolio, program, and project issues and risks.
• Coordinates resource forecasting and leveling of shared resource pools and budgets. Responsible for a specific budget within their respective division.
• Is responsible for leadership and team building, measuring and evaluating staff performance, developing and enhancing staff skills, and related routine business activities for the division.

Project Oversight and Monitoring:

• Maintains a direct line of communication with Senior Management, with regular updates on portfolio progress and change impacts.
• Takes ownership and accountability for the project team’s deliverables in all phases of the project management lifecycle.
• Ensures that project plans support company objectives and business unit/department needs.
• Leads group development meetings and updates.
• Ensures that technologies are chosen in a cost-effective manner.

Continuous Improvement:

• Establishes and monitors continuous improvement processes.
• Develops and implements software development lifecycle practices, monitoring, and auditing processes and controls.

Cross-Functional Coordination and Collaboration:

• Manages relationships between Development and Product Management to minimize duplicate efforts, initiatives, or analyses and extends scopes, where possible, to exploit economies of scope and scale.
• Provides technical consultation and feasibility analyses for product management in the analysis of new products and direction.
• Builds relationships and networking groups with business partners, cross-functional teams, IT stakeholders, and external vendors.
• Manages pipeline alignment processes with other OCLC divisions, with an emphasis on development, to increase the quality of the Product Development output.
• Collaborates with various business units to develop criteria for selecting the best technical solution for a given product initiative. The
• Director will work internally with various groups to determine if integrated solutions are in the best interest of OCLC.
• Improves efficiencies in integration with other software groups through collaboration, resource allocation, processes, tools, and continuous improvement.

Product Management Life Cycle/Methodologies:

• Increases awareness and understanding of the Product Management Lifecycle model and project/program management practices and toolkits across the organization.
• The Director is responsible for assisting in corporate-wide product development and project management standards. The director works with peers to help set the corporate direction and strategy for development as well as ensure coordination of product implementation
• across the organization.

Knowledge and Administration Resource:

• Maintaining an understanding of current technology trends and practices and having a familiarity with company business activities, processes, goals, and objectives, acts as the knowledge and administration resource to other key internal stakeholders.
• This person will act as a project sponsor for projects and programs as needed.
• Must possess the technical ability to act as a resource in the software development area. Will act as a technical resource in strategic planning activities and maintain a global perspective, foreseeing the effect of changes and corporate decisions within the division and the effects of actions on OCLC.

• A BA/BS degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education or experience.
• 8+ years of experience in program/project leadership roles in developing software solutions.
• Expected to have broad and solid technical knowledge while being able to demonstrate success in providing support that meets the business needs of OCLC.
• Understanding of product architectures and when they are best suited to a specific product.
• Ability to interact with diverse work teams.
• Ability to organize and prioritize multiple tasks to meet deadlines.
• Strong problem-solving skills; prior experience working with senior/executive management to implement solutions for business needs or challenges.
• Ability to maneuver successfully in a changing environment.
• Experience in driving the strategic direction of initiatives and programs.
• Strong leadership skills and demonstrated ability to manage team members and external business contacts, including consultants and vendors.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering multiple technical projects on time and within budget.
• Experience in full-lifecycle project management methodologies and tools.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and demonstrated ability to interact with all technical and non-technical members of the organization, including senior management.
• A high degree of competency in all phases of project management, including issue and risk identification and management, change management, tracking dependencies and milestones, and communication of overall project status.