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Ref # 18412
Remote? No
Ally and Your Career
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Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that's more than some cliché people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You're constantly evolving, so shouldn't your opportunities be, too?
The Opportunity
Seeking a visionary Director of Mobile Engineering to lead our talented mobile development team. This role will be pivotal in evolving our mobile strategy, driving innovation, and ensuring the iterative delivery of a high-quality mobile application used by millions of customers.
To read more about what our tech team does, be sure to visit our tech blog at ally.tech
The Work Itself
- Leadership and Strategy: Develop and execute the company's mobile engineering strategy in alignment with overall business objectives. Provide leadership and guidance to the mobile engineering team, fostering a culture of creativity, collaboration, and excellence. Work with engineering teams throughout the enterprise to ensure successful execution of the strategic vision.
- Technical Expertise: Stay current with mobile industry trends, technologies, and best practices. Drive technical discussions, decisions and solutions that enhance product performance, scalability, and user experience.
- Team Development: Recruit, mentor and develop top engineering talent. Create a supportive and motivating environment where team members can grow their skills and careers.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to deliver cohesive and integrated mobile solutions. Enable engineering teams to delivery fully functional experiences through the use of common enterprise platforms.
- Quality Assurance: Implement and maintain rigorous testing processes to ensure the reliability, security, and performance of mobile applications. Champion a culture of continuous improvement and quality excellence.
- Communications: Effectively communicate mobile strategy, progress and challenges to executive leadership, stakeholders, and the broader organization.
The Skills You Bring
- 7+ years of experience preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or other related discipline preferred
- Proven Experience in an engineering leadership role, with a focus on mobile application development
- Experience in leading the development of a mobile platform that serves multiple development teams, demonstrating strong collaboration and communications skills across diverse technical stakeholders
- Deep understanding of mobile technologies, platforms, and frameworks (iOS, Android, React Native, etc.).
- Proficiency in React Native and Expo frameworks, including hands-on experience in developing and deploying applications using these technologies
- Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate complex technical challenges
- Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Experience working in an Agile development environment
- Experience working in a distributed engineering environment, with multiple teams contributing to a single application
- proactively tracks industry trends, emerging technologies and tools and driving innovation across the platform
- A track record of successfully delivering mobile projects from concept to completion (i.e. Google Play store and Apple App store)
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How We'll Have Your Back
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Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. But Ally's total compensation - or total rewards - extends beyond your paycheck and is designed to support and enrich your personal and professional life, including: * Time Away: competitive holiday and flexible paid-time-off, including time off for volunteering and voting. * Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan and 529 educational assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, and other financial well-being programs. * Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including dental and vision, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially. * Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy, and fertility support as well as parental and caregiver leave, back-up child and adult/elder day care program and childcare discounts. * Work-Life Integration: other benefits including LifeMatters® Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs.
Who We Are:
Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com.
Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.
Where permitted by applicable law, must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered, if not currently employed by Ally.
We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at [email protected]. Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.
Base Pay Range:
Emerging: 135000
Experienced: 185000
Expert: 235000
Incentive Compensation: This position is eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan
