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Location: Bangalore, India
Department: Engineering
Reports To: Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO)
About ABBYY: ABBYY is a global leader in intelligent document processing (IDP) and process automation solutions, empowering organizations to achieve operational excellence through AI-driven technologies. As part of our growth strategy, we are establishing a new engineering hub in India to drive innovation for a new set of products.
Role Overview:
ABBYY is seeking a visionary VP of Engineering to build and lead an engineering team in India, focused on developing a new suite of cutting-edge products. This is a unique opportunity to shape the engineering organization from the ground up, define the technology roadmap, and deliver impactful solutions in collaboration with global teams.
Key Responsibilities:
Team Building & Leadership:
- Build, lead, and scale a high-performing engineering team in India to develop a new set of ABBYY products
- Foster a culture of startup innovation, intense collaboration, and technical excellence
- Mentor and develop engineering leaders and individual contributors
Product Development & Technical Execution:
- Drive the end-to-end development of new products, ensuring high-quality, scalable, and timely delivery
- Define and implement best practices for architecture, development, DevOps, and security
- Collaborate with product management and design teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions
- Drive long-term research and innovation strategies to maintain the company's competitive edge in technology
- Ensure the availability, scalability, performance, and security of products
Strategy & Collaboration:
- Shape the technology strategy and roadmap for products, aligning with ABBYY's product vision and strategy
- Partner with cross-functional teams, including global engineering, product, and leadership, to ensure seamless execution
- Represent the India engineering center in executive meetings and planning sessions ensuring an effective workforce delivering on the ABBYY Product Strategy and Roadmap
Qualifications:
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, including 7+ years in senior leadership roles (SD/VP, or equivalent)
- Proven experience in building and scaling new engineering teams for product-driven SaaS organizations
Technical Expertise:
- Strong background in enterprise software, SaaS platforms, or AI/ML-driven products
- Proven expertise in modern software development practices, cloud infrastructure, and microservices architecture
- Familiarity with artificial intelligence systems, intelligent document processing, process automation, or related technologies is a plus
- Success in using generative AI technologies to augment software development significantly increasing developer productivity
Leadership & Collaboration:
- Exceptional leadership, people management, and mentoring skills with teams exhibiting high eNPS
- Ability to work effectively with global stakeholders and cross-functional teams across time zones
- Excellent communication, decision-making, and problem-solving abilities
- Organize and lead internal educational initiatives, sharing best practices and technical innovations
- Represent the company at industry events, conferences, and forums to showcase technical leadership
Here are some of our local benefits:
- Comprehensive medical, accidental, and life insurance
- Weekly wellness sessions to support your physical and mental well-being
- A generous paid time off policy
Join ABBYY, and you will:
Love how you work
- We provide remote and hybrid working options to fit all lifestyles.
- We use flexible hours across most of our teams to allow you to find your own definition of balance.
- Encouraging a culture of giving, we provide two paid volunteering days off every year so you can take time to contribute to the causes you care about.
- To ensure your family is cared for, we offer paid parental leave in all our locations.
Love whom you work with
- We are a global team of 600+ colleagues, spread across 15 countries on four continents.
- With colleagues representing 30+ nationalities, our workforce reflects the world.
- Innovation and excellence run through our veins. Our teams gather the expertise which has garnered ABBYY more than 140
technology patents. - We are guided by the values of respect, transparency, and simplicity.
- "Team Environment" is in the top three highest-scoring drivers of engagement across all of our departments.
Love what you work on
- We are a company with more than 35 years of experience in the technology market;
- Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY, including many Fortune 500 ones, with names such as DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, DMV, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R BLOCK;
- We have modernized the capture market by creating the first low-code/no-code IDP platform.
- Our Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision Technologies, and a marketplace built with AI, can transform any document in any process;
- Top Analyst firms recognize ABBYY's market leadership, including Gartner, Everest PEAK Matrix ® Assessment, ISG Intelligent Automation Lens, and NelsonHall, amongst others.
ABBYY is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. To learn more about our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, check out the careers section on our website.
