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**Director Distributed Fabrics**VMware is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility. Built on VMware's industry-leading virtualization technology, our solutions deliver a brave new model of IT that is fluid, instant and more secure, so that Customers can innovate faster by rapidly developing, automatically delivering and more safely consuming any application. With Fiscal 2021 revenues of almost $12 billion, VMware has more than 500,000 customers and 75,000 partners.At its best, VMware is a place, where we are valued for the complete people we are, where extraordinary progress is achieved for ourselves, our teams, our company, our customers, and our communities – and where even more progress is desired and expected. VMware is a powerful platform for all of who we are – individual, colleague, pioneer, citizen – a place where empowerment, accountability, and responsibility become the traits of ownership, and where each of us can own our future and achieve success through our own actions, on our terms. With 35,000+ employees we are a passionate, innovative and driven group inspired to make a difference in the industry and our communities.**The Elevator Pitch: Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?**As service providers proceed with ongoing 5G deployments, the research community continues to unravel the more complex challenges hampering full scale deployment of open 5G systems. At VMware, we think it's critical that someone like us—a company that has one foot in the world of service provider networks and the other foot in the cloud—help lead this new chapter of 5G evolution. VMware Distributed Edge team in the Office of the CTO leads this charter in partnership with VMware Service Provider Edge BU. This is a highly visible, high-impact, industry shaping opportunity within the Distributed Edge team.**What is the primary need, technical challenge, and/or problem you will be responsible for?**We are seeking a seasoned professional to lead our Distributed Fabrics Research and Advanced Development team. The successful candidate will have significant experience in system architecture, design and optimization of distributed cloud systems. This candidate must have strong credentials for creating intellectual property through research results, patents, systems design and prototyping. They will have worked with data center providers to identify and solve problems and they will have been successful in creating techniques, tools and/or platforms for federating heterogenous cloud systems spanning multiple geographies, that have become best-practice or been adopted as industry defacto and/or open reference design.As part of the OCTO Distributed Edge organization, you will be leading an elite team of developers, architects, and researchers responsible for research and development of Cloud Communications Fabrics leading the industry through the next chapter of 5G evolution, while defining a path for 6G. You'll have an opportunity to co-innovate with our industry partners, niche startups and the top talents at VMware as part of an industry shaping ecosystem**Success in the Role: What are the performance goals over the first 6-12 months, you will work toward completing?**We are aiming to build a team almost from scratch. With that, you are expected to drive recruiting, onboarding, organizing, ramping up, and nurturing team members. The first 3-4 months will be busy recruiting and ramping up team members while also establishing initial grounds in various industry communities this team will be driving. We expect most of the team to be productive and start delivering by the end of the six months. By the end of the first year, we expect the team to contribute delivery of multiple outcomes with exceptional quality. The success of these outcomes will be measured by the breadth and depth of industry adoption of open architecture approaches for Cloud Communications Fabrics in ongoing 5G deployments as well as industry specifications charting B5G/6G evolution.**What type of work will you be doing? What assignments or requirements will you be performing on a regular basis?**This is a technology leadership role overseeing a small team responsible for research and advanced development for Cloud communications Fabrics expected to underpin beyond 5G systems, leading into 6G. We expect hands-on, pulling up the sleeves when needed, but not micro-managing leadership. This will require a deep expertise in wireless communications systems and complex distributed systems, fundamentals of computer science, and experience in design and specification of distributed systems architectures. Experience in managing distributed teams for a global technology company is a plus.Major responsibilities and duties:+ Chief Technologist: Partner with BU peers to establish VMware technology direction and strategic roadmap of Cloud Communications Fabrics underpinning Beyond 5G Systems while also preparing for evolution of such systems for 6G.+ Crowdsourced Incubation: Drive multi-lateral partnerships and incubation ecosystems bridging across hyper scale cloud providers, wireless service providers, industry trailblazers, niche start-ups, academia, and governments to establish VMware's leadership in NextGen Cloud Communications Systems.+ Partner Co-creation: Engage with partners for co-creation of differentiated lab POCs and possibly also field trials leading to high value business opportunities aligning with broader ecosystem engagements.+ Industry Leadership: Represent VMware by taking leadership positions to drive technology development and specifications through ATIS NextG Alliance, 5G Americas, Open Grid Alliance and other B5G/6G communities across the globe. Work closely with BU peers to ensure VMware strategic roadmaps are aligned with the general industry direction.+ Team Development: Recruit, coach, motivate, grow and lead a talented team of architects, researchers and advanced developers to deliver the program objectives.+ D&I: Develop a diverse, inclusive, transparent, and trusting work environment.**What is leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?**We have a strong research and development culture at VMware. Distributed Edge team is part of the Office of the CTO (OCTO) organization that drives research and innovation charter across VMware. You are expected to embrace the culture of platform and systems thinking and be comfortable with co-development with other engineering leaders. In addition, you are expected to provide technical leadership while mentoring/coaching technology leaders in your team and creating a safe environment for learning and growing.**What are the benefits and perks of working at VMware?**You and your loved ones will be supported with a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. Below are some highlights, or you can view the complete benefits package by visiting www.benefits.vmware.com .+ Employee Stock Purchase Plan+ Medical Coverage, Retirement, and Parental Leave Plans for All Family Types+ Generous Time Off Programs+ 40 hours of paid time to volunteer in your community+ Rethink's Neurodiversity program to support parents raising children with learning or behavior challenges, or developmental disabilities+ Financial contributions to your ongoing development (conference participation, trainings, course work, etc.)+ Wellness reimbursement and online fitness and wellbeing classes**Category :** Engineering and Technology**Subcategory:** Product Dev Management**Experience:** Business Leadership**Full Time/ Part Time:** Full Time**Posted Date:** 2022-04-01VMware Company Overview: At VMware, we believe that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. We look beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make technologies work together seamlessly. Our cloud, mobility, and security software form a flexible, consistent digital foundation for securely delivering the apps, services and experiences that are transforming business innovation around the globe. At the core of what we do are our people who deeply value execution, passion, integrity, customers, and community. Shape what's possible today at mware.com.Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: VMware is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: VMware is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. 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