Director of Corporate Systems

Director of Corporate Systems
Essential Functions:

• Provides guidance, support, career development and mentoring to a mid-size Team
• Define, deliver and have technical oversight for Corporate Systems products and solutions within this vertical. These include but not limited to: Workday, Oracle - Fusion, Anaplan, CoStar, Learning Management Systems, Lease Accounting/Administration application, Sharepoint , Content Management systems
• Champion and drive large strategic and complex projects, with executive visibility and many critical dependencies

• Continuously prioritizing a portfolio of programs and projects to drive strategy.
• Pragmatically build a roadmap to delight our Stakeholders and end users. Help them achieve more using our technical capabilities.
• Drive and execute the Product Roadmap. Will be responsible for prioritizing what we build in order to achieve the strategic goals and initiatives of the company.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate friction and solve end-user problems.
• Create and nurture right partnerships and alliances to expand Red Robin's product footprint and speed up time-to-market for end users.
• Own the execution of software product development lifecycle and deliverables.
• Orchestrate business priorities while staying in alignment with company vision and goals
• Foster strategic vendor partnerships to drive value, ensure service excellence and align with organizational goals
• Develop project plans and timelines that cover development, testing and deployment of new products
• Working across other technology verticals to ensure alignment on architectural decisions (e.g., infrastructure, data, restaurant technology)
• Apply technical strategy for current/future technological developments and serve as point of contact for technical guidance to the business and vendors.
• Staying up to date on emerging technologies; providing direction on which new technologies should be assimilated, integrated, and introduced
• You will discuss technical implementation details with Product Managers and Engineers and make trade-offs to strike a balance between meeting the customer/end user needs and hitting deadlines and company goals.
• Evangelizes product vision to Senior Leadership and diverse Stakeholders through deep systems knowledge, customer research, hands-on data analysis, and industry expertise.

Leadership

• Supervise professionals both directly and indirectly through subordinates to achieve the company's and the department's goals. To that end, support professional development and create opportunities for professional growth.
• Ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.
• Develop a deep understanding and empathy of the Stakeholder
• Be a leader in understanding, testing, and scaling new technologies
• Responsible for People Management and driving a positive team culture that continually encourages creativity, ownership and accountability.
• Bridges multiple teams together to ensure overall business objectives are being met. This includes within and outside of IT.
• Motivate and provide leadership to team and ensure the proper allocation of Team Members to the highest priority deliverables; ensure TMs have the appropriate structure, tools, resources, and training required to perform their job at the highest levels
• Persuades and influences others through communication skills; must be able to negotiate with external parties/vendors.
• Exercises independence of judgement and autonomy.
• Mentor, find and retain a best in class team to enhance our capabilities and deliver our solutions.
• Ability to develop and communicate a Product centric vision that inspires and motivates Team Members.
• Building and maintaining relationships with IT Leaders and Stakeholders to develop a clear understanding of business needs, ensuring cost-effective delivery of IT services to meet those needs, and responding with agility to changing business priorities.
• Identifying and providing feedback through 1:1s, effective use of personal development plans and provision of coaching & development opportunities for all Team Members within direct span of control.
• Understands how to work in an agile environment and know what it takes to iterate quickly. Recognizes this is crucial to the success of the business
• Re-Imagine: Bring new ideas, methods, and approaches to Red Robin and this role.

Other Functions:

• Financial Acumen
• Shares responsibility with VP for budget management (developing and controlling annual budget/cost center) which directly impacts Restaurant Technology.
• Responsible for delivery of end results and resource planning
• Confident and experienced in contract management including negotiations with vendors of all levels (large and small).

Oversees:

Manager of Product Management

Manager of Product Engineers

Compensation Range: $143,000.00 - $196,625.00

Red Robin is an Equal Opportunity & E-Verify Employer