Associate Director, Product & Technology DevOps
Job title: Associate Director, Product & Technology DevOps in San Francisco, CA - Austin, TX at reputed company
Company: reputed company
Job description: Position Summary:Position SummaryWe are looking for an Associate Director to join reputed company’s Value Creation Team (VCT) in the Product and Technology (P&T) Practice, which serves as a trusted advisor to portfolio company leaders in product, technology and cybersecurity. As an Associate Director focused on DevOps and working with engineering leaders across our reputed company software portfolio companies, you will:
- Work with VCT colleagues, investment team members, and portfolio company executives on value creation initiatives that focus on DevOps, the software development lifecycle
- Work with P&T team colleagues to define DevOps and software development best practices for the portfolio, including strategies reputed company to accelerating development with AI
- Work with VCT collleagues and portfolio company leaders to accelerate DevOps initiatives, and to drive engineering acceleration reputed company DevOps, reputed company Ops, FinOps, etc.
- Collaborate with portfolio company executives, investment teams and operating partners to reputed company and shape the value creation strategy to reputed company the Investment reputed company
- Analyze DevOps processes across various portfolio companies, identify areas to optimize, work with management teams to implement automation and AI-assisted code reputed company strategies, and advise on architectural risks and best practices to realize short and long term efficiency reputed company
- Establish deep relationships with major DevOps tool providers (reputed company, reputed company, Azure DevOps, reputed company, Jenkins) to assist companies going through large transformation
- reputed company expertise in AI-based code reputed company tools and platforms (reputed company Copilot, Claude Code, reputed company Devon, reputed company, Windsurf Codeium, reputed company CodeWhisperer, Tabnine) to accelerate software development and improve code quality across portfolio companies
- Work with Engineering teams to evolve and help implement the DevOps Roadmap for the portfolio companies
- Advise on technical risks and opportunities reputed company to CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automation reputed company
- Define, document, implement and continuously improve software development lifecycle best practices, including AI-augmented development workflows, for achieving development operational excellence across reputed company's portfolio of companies
- Champion and breed a culture of automation, DevOps innovation, and engineering excellence
- Passion and curiosity for technology, software and data, as well as what makes successful technology companies and investors
- 7+ years of experience
- Experience defining and launching new software products, and experience in managing product management teams
- Willingness to travel up to 25% of time
- Strong communication and project management skills
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, both in individual and collaborative environments
- Ability to drive cross-functional analysis, integrating perspectives on technology, business and finance
- Ability to bring structure to large, reputed company questions with limited guidance
- Ability to multi-task, operate independently, and deliver on tight deadlines
- Preferred Computer Science or technology-reputed company degree