I18n/L10n Career Opportunity at Sun Microsystems, Inc.

PLEASE POST:

To anyone looking for a change of employer in I18n/L10n, please consider the 
following opportunity:


			DIRECTOR, GLOBAL PRODUCT ENGINEERING
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This director position includes responsibilities within the Solaris Products 
Group, and responsiblities across all of Sunmicrosystems, Inc. (SMI).  Within 
the Solaris Products Group, Global Product Engineering (GPE) is responsible for 
product development, sustaining, and marketing of international software 
products.  In addition to delivering localized Solaris products, the group also 
architects, designs, and delivers the internationalization infrastructure for 
Solaris and is responsible for the evolution of Solaris as a multilingual 
computing environment.  Responsibilities include determining product 
localization and internationalization requirements for product teams in the 
Solaris Products Group.  

Across SMI, the Director of Global Products Engineering is responsible for 
establishing SMI standards for internationalization and localization, providing 
consulting and educational services relevant to these standards, serving as a 
conduit from field marketing and sales organizations to product development 
groups, providing localization services to all of SMI through a service center 
business model, and for chairing the Global Software Council.  GPE is designed 
to be the center of localization and internationalization expertise and services 
within SMI.

GPE is a highly-leveraged organization with localization centers for Europe, 
Asia, and Japan managing a worldwide vendor base.  Vendors provide translation, 
linquistic, testing, and other localization services.  The organization consists 
of 80 employees in Engineering, Program Management, Business Planning and 
Marketing.

Suitable candidates must have the following:

* Strong business and process management skills (with technical insight)
* Strong leadership and organization skills (large orgs. within large cos.)
* Superior communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills
* Proven engineering management skills

In addition, candidates must be effective in managing diverse, multicultural 
employees as a global work team.  This position requires 10+ years of management 
experience in engineering and product development, preferably involving 
significant responsibility for internationalization and localized product 
delivery.

IF INTERESTED IN APPLYING FOR THIS POSITION, PLEASE FORWARD YOUR RESUME TO:

			Deirdra E. Kearney
			Corporate Employment Group
			SunSoft Recruiting
			Phone:  (415) 336-2503
			Fax #:  (415) 336-4888
			Email:  deirdra@corp.sun.com
			
NOTE:  Other I18n/L10n engineering positions are available in this organization 
as well (in case you feel you don't qualify for Director level position!)

Received on Monday, 11 August 1997 19:32:56 UTC