Logitech: Senior Manager, Software Manager

Logitech is still looking for what they’ve redundantly labeled Senior Manager, Software Manager (also Higher Bracket, if you have a subscription):

Logitech Harmony is seeking the best and most passionate senior team members. He/She will be responsible for building a high performance, agile team of software engineers. This senior role is a member of the Customer and Platform Services group building leading edge internet-based customer services for the Logitech Harmony Remote product lines. He/She thrives in a high energy entrepreneurial environment, lead-edge technologies, and complex multi-disciplinary projects.

Requirements:
– Proven past history of building excellent, agile teams of software engineers.
– Excels at building cross disciplinary teams.
– Strong project management knowledge and experience.
– Experience building Agile/Scrum/XP teams.
– Experience leading Agile/Scrum/XP adoption into an organization.
– Strong thought leadership and technology experience building solutions using:
o .NET 3.0+ (including WCF, WF, WPF).
o Silverlight.
o Highly scalable, secure, and maintainable web applications, business services, and data services.
– Keen business acumen.
– Extreme about execution, teams, and the customer.

The Good
Agile methods.  Build your team.  Work on media-centric consumer devices, likely to be a strong growth area but with an established market leader.  Introduce Agile to a well-known organization.  The salary might go as high as $150k.  Wait, why haven’t I applied?

The Bad
Oh yeah, I remember.  It’s .NET.  It’s in mississauga at Eglinton/427.  The compensation details are not in all of the listings, and may be subject to interpretation.   It’d be nice to know a little more about the work and the genesis of this initiative.

YMMV
If you’ve got .NET experience, your mileage may well vary from mine.  If you’re highway commuting, and/or living in Brampton or Mississauga, this location may not seem completely unfortunate.   If your mileage does vary, then … 

Questions to Ask
Is there already a team?  What process are they used to?  What processes is the company used to?  Is this greenfield development, or does it replace existing systems, built in what technology?  Why the new technologies, team and process?  What are the success metrics and timetables?  Can Logitech move downtown?

In Summary
The opportunity to be well-paid to build the agile team of your choosing to work on consumer devices in new technology seems pretty rare, as long as you can live with the location and the technology.  Still, seems like a sweet deal for the right person.

Rewind: Logitech: Senior Manager, Software Program Management

Apparently Logitech hasn’t found the Senior Manager, Software Program Management they were looking for.  The position has re-appeared on dice.com, and in addition to the previous information, has compensation listed at $120k, which seems reasonable for the role.  Unfortunately, my best guess still puts this in Mississauga and doing .NET.

Logitech: Sr. Manager, Software Program Management

Logitech is looking for a Senior Manager, Software Program Management, and apparently feels strongly about Scrum:

He/She will be responsible for building a high performance, agile project management and engineering services organization. This senior role is a member of the Customer and Platform Services group building leading edge internet-based customer services for the Logitech Harmony Remote product lines.

The Good
It’s a chance to work closely with a large company on a successful product line. It sounds like a serious and transformative role where you may get the opportunity to really drive Scrum at Logitech, or at least at this location. Assuming you do so successfully, this seems like a good resume-builder.

The Bad
As far as I can tell, you’d have to work in an industrial park in Mississauga. I’ve worked in that area before, and it’s a bit of a wasteland. You’d have to be a vehicle-commuter, and you’d probably want to be coming from the west or northwest.

If you’re willing to work out there, you might also want to ask yourself if you’d rather work for Wishabi, or RIM.

Then there’s the usual lack of detailed information. The role, process and technology have some definition, although not tons. The work, compensation and location are almost completely undefined, although I’ve obviously guessed about the location.

YMMV
There’s a .NET reference in there. Some of you might be enthused about .NET, some not.

If you’re coming from the west or northwest, possibly even the north, this might be a convenient, if dull, location. For the rest of us this location is both very inconvenient and dull.

I don’t imagine there’s much hands-on development in this role. For some, that might be a concern.

In Summary
If you believe strongly in agile processes, know a bit about Scrum and .NET and live in the west, north or northwest, this may be just the thing for you.