[Hiring] Head of Engineering - Protect @RWS Group

Role Description

RWS Protect helps the world’s leading businesses protect their most valuable ideas, supporting the full intellectual property lifecycle from patent filing through to renewals, search and brand protection. We are modernising the Protect technology estate: building new products on a modern AWS stack, with AI embedded into both our products and the way we build software, while running and rationalising the systems that serve our customers today.

We are hiring a Head of Engineering to share leadership of this estate. A significant part of your remit will be new development:

• Forming and growing the teams that build the next generation of Protect products.
• Owning your share of the existing estate, driving the deliberate decline and decommissioning of legacy systems as new capabilities take over their workloads.
• Working in close partnership with an established engineering leader.

This is a leadership role, not a hands-on coding role. But you will be technically credible, opinionated about modern software product development, and confident in spinning up the systems and making an assessment yourself when required.

The role reports to the VP of Engineering. You will inherit a small organisation and grow it: the expectation is several new teams formed over your first couple of years, alongside the existing estate you take on.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and grow new engineering teams.
• Deliver new products and services.
• Drive legacy decline and decommissioning.
• Champion AI-native engineering practice.
• Connect engineering to product and commercial outcomes.

Qualifications

• A track record of leading software product engineering organisations through significant change: building teams from scratch, scaling them, and retiring what they replace.
• Deep, genuine experience of agile product development done well.
• A strong, demonstrable interest in applied AI development tooling.
• Experience with modern cloud-native architecture, ideally on AWS.
• Strong hiring instincts.
• Comfort with ambiguity and pace.

Life at RWS

If you like the idea of working with smart people who are passionate about growing the value of ideas, data and content by making sure organizations are understood, then you’ll love life at RWS.

Our purpose is to unlock global understanding. This means our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong. We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career.

In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us:

• To partner, putting clients first and winning together.
• To pioneer, innovating fearlessly and leading with vision and courage.
• To progress, aiming high and growing through actions.
• To deliver, owning the outcome and building trust with our colleagues and clients.

RWS Values

Get the 3Ps right – Partner, Pioneer, Progress – and we´ll Deliver together as RWS.

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