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The template guides CIOs and HR partners in defining a candidate profile and outlining expectations, including leading cross-functional Agile teams, delivering enterprise and business-unit application solutions, and managing investments, priorities, vendor contracts, and talent recruitment and development. It also provides structured sections covering company and hiring manager context, position summary, key responsibilities, qualifications, location and travel, interview process, and contact information.","The\nUltimate\nVice President of Application Development\nJob Description\nBy\n\u000f\nINTRODUCTION\nAs software makes its way into the revenue stream of every company, today’s application developers are very different than yesterday’s.\nToday’s application development leaders are business-oriented professionals who think “products” –\nnot “projects” – and are as customer-focused as anyone else in the company. Yes, they have a development background, but technical skills are just table stakes.\nSuccessful app dev executives transform their teams from order-taking programmers to highly-engaged members of cross-functional Agile teams who develop solutions in lockstep with their business partners.  When you think VP of Application Development, think “transformational leader” first, and computer scientist second.\nWhy We Created The Ultimate VP of Application Development Job Description\nThe executive search team at Heller Search has created this resource to help CIOs and their HR and talent acquisition partners produce a profile of an innovative professional who possesses the technical, leadership and communications skills to lead application development today. It is our hope that this resource will help you define and attract the best and brightest software development executives available in the talent market.\n\u000f\nTABLE OF CONTENTS\n(Ctrl-Click to jump to a section)\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"Position_Title\" \u0014Position Title\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"About_the_company\" \u0014About the Company\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"About_the_Hiring_Manager\" \u0014About the Hiring Manager\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"Position_summary\" \u0014Position Summary\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"Key_responsibilities\" \u0014Key Responsibilities\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"Qualifications\" \u0014Qualifications\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"Location\" \u0014Location and Travel Requirements\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"Why_this_Opportunity_is_Compelling\" \u0014Why This Opportunity is Compelling\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"Interview_process\" \u0014Interview Process\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"Contact_information\" \u0014Contact Information\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"Additional_resources\" \u0014Additional Resources\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"About_the_authors\" \u0014About the Authors\u0015\nConventions used in this document:\nIndicates an item that applies to most VP of Application Development positions.\nIn consultation with the hiring committee and your external recruiting partner, consider whether this item applies to your application development leader position. Delete those that do not apply, or edit to suit.\n____________________________________  Use this space to add to the list based on specifics of your company, your culture and the goals of the business.\nBracketed text (e.g. [Abcd]) is a prompt to replace the text with your information.\nItalicized text are annotations for the benefit of the template user, meant to be deleted from the final job description.\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \"https://www.hellersearch.com/hubfs/The%20Ultimate%20VP%20of%20Application%20Development%20Job%20Description%20MS%20Word%20Template.docx\" \u0014Here is a link\u0015 to the original MS Word template of\nThe Ultimate VP of Application Development Job Description.\n\u000f\nPosition Title\nWhile ‘Vice President of Application Development’ is the job title most often used by our executive search clients, we have seen many other titles that indicate the most senior person in the software development organization, with the same responsibilities. 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