Director, Industry Solutions

Summary

Join MongoDB's CXO Advisory team as a thought leader and technical expert in a specific vertical (e.g., Financial Services, Telecommunications). This fast-growing, global team works directly with C-suite clients on application modernization and related strategies, collaborating with customer developers. You'll provide expert guidance on legacy modernization and innovation, leveraging generative AI, and support executive sales conversations. The role requires deep technical expertise, strong communication skills, and experience in software development and management. Location is flexible within the US/Canada.

Requirements

• 15+ years in an IT function delivering actual solutions (not “vendor” side)
• 10+ years of software development and architecture experience
• 10+ years of IT management experience including leading a development organization
• Deep experience working with various database products, ETL tools and related as well as database modeling and design
• Experience in transformation legacy environments (with backends such as Mainframe, DB2, Oracle PL/SQL) to modern microservice architectures
• Excellent presentation and communication skills with the ability to visualize and communicate complex information to all levels of an organization - both internally and externally
• Experience with scalable and highly available distributed systems
• Ability to discuss a broad range of data technologies ( non linear list: RDBMS, Java, document, key-value, unstructured, NoSQL, ISM.)
• The ability to travel up to 50% for clients, events, and the occasional team meetup

Responsibilities

• Engage with the most senior leaders of our customers during their transformation journey
• Create buy-in into Modernization Factory
• Advising customers on their transformation strategy
• Design pilots for generative AI augmented transformations
• Partner with our sales team to help ensure success in accounts that are embarking on modernization programs
• Present MongoDB’s position at various events - either in person or digital
• Help oversee and drive customer project delivery teams to success, able to detect and foresee technical problems and provide technical direction to resolve
• Be tightly aligned with our product management organization and communicate requirements from the field requirements to the product management leadership
• Demonstrate resilience and sound judgment in dealing with business challenges and are able to guide more junior colleagues to success
• Proactively seek opportunities to enable other parts of the MongoDB organization on modernization projects and programs
• Have situational awareness and react appropriately in group settings

Preferred Qualifications

• Entrepreneurial spirit to work in a cross functional organization and getting things done
• MongoDB Certifications
• Cloud vendors Certifications in related fields
• Additional language skills in other languages (Conversational is appropriate)

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
• Fertility and adoption assistance
• 401(k) plan
• Mental health counseling
• Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
• Health benefits offerings