Director of Partner Engineering, Media Partnerships, APAC at Facebook (Singapore)

Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities - we're just getting started.

Partner Engineering is a highly technical team that works with our strategic partners to integrate Facebook Platforms into their Web sites, apps, and devices. As the Director of Partner Engineering for Media Partnerships in APAC you will manage the regional team that engages with some of the world's most influential companies in the news, sports, and entertainment verticals and work closely with our world-class engineering and product teams. You will have the opportunity to drive strategy for Media Partnerships throughout the APAC region including strong collaboration with our India based teams. The ideal candidate will combine excellent technical and business skills to make our partner successful and improve Facebook Platform. This position is based in our Singapore office and will report to the Global Head of Partner Engineering for Media Partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Expand and lead the Partner Engineering team regionally
• Deeply understand Facebooks Platforms, the value propositions and how to implement them into both large, multi-national organizations as well as entrepreneurial startups
• Guide our strategic partners to integrate existing and pre-release features within their products by teaching, consulting, and providing code examples
• Manage key internal relationships with Facebook's leadership in engineering, product management and partnerships
• Build and manage processes to drive partner bugs, requirements and feature requests with Facebook's product and engineering teams
• Oversee key relationships with partners technical team and business teams in the region
• Mentor an existing, distributed team while hiring and growing people who will represent Facebooks future leaders

Minimum Qualifications

• 12+ years experience as a software engineer or partner/sales engineer manager and 5+ years leading large software engineering, technical consulting or sales engineering teams
• Proven record of individual technical achievement
• Verbally and cognitively agile enough to communicate with both technical and business executive audiences at both Facebook and our partners
• Deep understanding of the Web technology stack (TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS), and Mobile development (iOS, Android, HTML5)
• Comfortable recruiting and managing a team of bright experienced engineers on projects and at scale unlike any other they've encountered
• Proven software development skills with experience building software developed in (at least one) Python, Objective-C, PHP, C/C++, Ruby, C# or Java
• Proficient in a Unix/Linux environment

Preferred Qualifications

• BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent degree/experience preferred
• The ideal candidate will already have a good understanding of the Facebook Platforms

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