IT Director
On-site · Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan
Taipei, Taiwan, TaiwanOn-siteFull TimeSenior LevelMasters DegreeUnknown
Type
Full Time
Level
Senior Level
Education
Masters Degree
Company size
Unknown
Job Summary
IT Director responsible for defining and executing the technology roadmap, enabling AI transformation, and transforming the engineering organization into an AI-first capability engine. Lead a distributed engineering organization (~35 engineers across Taiwan and APAC), oversee IT activities, ensure delivery quality, drive AI adoption, and manage budget and compliance while partnering with global technology and executive leadership.
Required Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems or related field
- 15+ years of relevant work experience in international organization interfacing with executives and leading IT teams
- Strong AI user and advocate in the field of helping software development, product definition, architecture review and definition, code refactoring, etc.
- Hands-on experience with “vibe coding” is mandatory
- Excellent communication with senior leaders, peers and staff in multicultural environment
- Excellent financial management understanding and capability of managing the IT budget
- Business understanding and ability to communicate the IT agenda in business terms
- Strong knowledge of project management with the experience of bringing projects in on time, within budget and to the stakeholder’s satisfaction
- Strong business and technology alignment skills
- Ability to develop & improve a large IT organization including implementation of a new IT strategy (in-house development vs outsourced development)
- Exposure to Agile Methodologies
- Should have: Experience with SaaS/platforms
- Experience in enabling AI at scale
- The ability to lead knowledge workers, to focus the team on the outcome wanted and to energise the team to achieve more than they thought they could
- Curious and hands-on (roll up your sleeves), collaborative style of working
- Passionate and able to bring energy and enthusiasm to the job and organization
- Proven record of taking smart, calculated risks and aggressively leading through change
- Proactive attitude and desire to work in a results-oriented environment
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to drive operational excellence
- Nice to have: Experience with electronic payment technologies and/or innovation FinTech experience
- Soft Skills: Excellent communication, Confidence and independence to express opinions to Group and local management, Leadership that energises the team, Coaching teams, Open mindedness, Agile, Autonomous decision-making, Business orientation with passion for building the business
- Languages: Advanced verbal and written English and Mandarin are required
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