Computing services director job description

Responsibilities

• Drive the strategic product vision for our platform, hardware, and machine learning teams to delight our customers, deliver business results, and ensure system reliability
• Lead agile product development using data, feedback from the field, interviews with users and experts, competitive analysis, and qualitative and quantitative research
• Design clear requirements and success metrics to align and drive our team's work efforts
• Conduct QA and post-release follow-ups to ensure successful product rollouts
• Identify, track, and solve for issues, bugs, and obstacles impacting our success
• Own product roadmaps, communicate and manage deadlines, and contribute to the vision of the larger product ecosystem
• Understand and decompose complex problems into manageable components
• Build strong relationships with engineers, operations, customers, and executives to lead development efforts, gather feedback, drive adoption, and measure our success

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or related experience
• 6+ years of product management experience
• You have owned multiple significant product initiatives with measurable business impact, preferably with an emphasis on platform infrastructure and reliability across complex technical systems
• Strong working knowledge of modern web technologies, distributed computing, and system design
• Experience with cameras, embedded systems, and machine learning is a plus
• Strong user empathy and a knack for brilliant user-centric design
• Superior written and verbal communication skills
• Entrepreneurial drive and ability to thrive in open-ended environments
• Positive, open, and team-oriented approach to work
• High attention to detail
• Ability to identify, assess, and prioritize trade-offs
• Comfortable using data to shape decision making
• Willingness to travel occasionally.

When you join Metropolis, you'll join a team of world-class product leaders and engineers, building an ecosystem of technologies at the intersection of parking, mobility, and real estate. Our goal is to build an inclusive culture where everyone has a voice and the best idea wins. You will play a key role in building and maintaining this culture as our organization grows.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Overseeing academic operations and management, including curriculum development, recruitment of 10+ staff, 45+ faculty, guest lecturers, visiting artists, 100+ graduate students.
• Responsible for strategic management for preparing, implementing, and maintaining the annual department budget as well as all scholarship, equipment procurement, vendor contracts and negotiations.
• Conduct weekly and monthly meetings with the staff and provide the Chair with updates on departmental activities and operations.
• Manage and maintain the 24/7 operation of a high-end digital art lab consisting of networked Macintosh, Windows, and Mac workstations, editing rooms, network servers and various audio/visual equipment. Work with the systems and facilities staff to coordinate and follow up on repair and maintenance issues.
• Represent the department by participating in major annual industry events and festivals to increase the department's international profile as well as to recruit prospective students, faculty, guest lecturers and visiting artists.
• Managing and supervising the admission process and helping shape the incoming class by conducting tours, application evaluations and interviews to prospective students.
• Provide ongoing guidance and mentorship to assist current students and alumni with their career paths by working closely with the Career Development office.
• Develop strong relationships with global industry professionals and recruiters in order to maximize employment, internship and potential faculty opportunities.
• Maintain the network of 1,000+ alumni by hosting events and activities along with Alumni Affairs, as well as work closely with the staff to raise visibility of the department by tracking alumni's achievements.
• Meet with students, student representatives, faculty, and staff as needed to troubleshoot any class needs, software/hardware issues, and thesis and creative production.
• Assist faculty on course evaluations, schedules, course development, enrollment and promotion on their achievement.
• Oversee, organize and attend special department events including orientation, information sessions, open studios, thesis presentations, commencement, and gallery exhibitions.
• Oversee the development and maintenance of all aspects of the departmental websites and related web projects, including: design, content development, production, programming, and working with the systems staff for server support.
• Work with the Staff on various department projects including any print and online advertising as well as department branded promotional materials.
• Oversee and work with the staff on management of lab assistants and student workers.
• Prepare annual staff performance reviews. Administer department and college policies, rules and procedures as they relate to students, faculty and staff.
• Research new products and services for possible integration into existing systems. Stay abreast of current developments in art, technology, and higher education, as they relate to the department.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• MA/MFA or equivalent degree preferred
• Strong team-based leadership skills are essential
• Extensive knowledge of digital arts is essential
• Previous managerial and 3-5 years administrative experience.
• Computer literacy with Macs and PCs
• Proficient in all Google Drive tools
• Ability to handle multiple projects & priorities simultaneously
• Strong organizational skills and detail-oriented
• Very complex budget management skills
• Excellent writing and proofreading skills
• Ability to effectively interact with all levels of staff and students

School of Visual Arts has been a leader in the education of artists, designers and creative professionals for nearly seven decades. With a faculty of distinguished working professionals, dynamic curriculum, and an emphasis on critical thinking, SVA is a catalyst for innovation and social responsibility. Comprised of more than 6,000 students at its Manhattan campus and 35,000 alumni in 100 countries, SVA also represents one of the most influential artistic communities in the world.

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The School of Visual Arts is an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusion is a core principle of the College. SVA enjoys a community that represents a significant number of historically underrepresented communities, ethnic and religious backgrounds, gender identities, diverse abilities, and foreign countries, and all are encouraged to apply.

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