• Responsible for ensuring revenue recognition is in compliance to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• Perform, analyze and summarize accounting research related to revenue recognition
• Serve as technical reference by analyzing and preparing accounting conclusions related to revenue recognition
• Research and advise on changes in accounting literature and their application within the company’s business environment
• Analyze and understand new product and discount offerings to ensure proper revenue recognition
• Ensure revenue accounting policies are documented and applied consistently on a worldwide basis
• Liaison with Sales, Marketing, FP&A and other business groups to understand and resolve revenue recognition issues; provide training and guidance as needed
• Manage VSOE, BESP and other revenue estimate processes
• Support monthly revenue close process as needed
• Prepare revenue related SEC disclosures
• Prepare quarterly and annual revenue accounting documentation
• Support quarterly earnings process for revenue-related issues
• Manage and review compliance with SOX for revenue and A/R-related areas
• Liaison with external auditors for quarterly and annual audits

• Ability to remain flexible and change priorities in a challenging and fast-paced environment.
• Ability to identify key risks areas, contemplate alternatives, draw and support conclusions and recommend and implement changes to drive improvements while mitigating risks
• Help manage resources within the Revenue group
• Build relationships with cross functional team members to influence changes and gather support.
• May take on additional responsibilities or projects, as needed.

• Excellent verbal, written, and listening skills as well as ability to effectively use accounting knowledge to collaborate, guide and interact professionally with a wide range of personnel at various levels within the organization to drive sound business decisions
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and ability to work cross-functionally with a divergent group of people.
• Ability to train and develop employees
• Strong presentation and documentation skills
• Strong organization and leadership skills
• Ability to prioritize the divergent set of tasks required in the role
• Detail orientated with excellent analytical skills, interested in identifying and fixing problems
• Ability to gather information from ERP and reporting tools

• Mix of 5-8 + years of relevant revenue experience working in a publicly traded company and accounting experience at a Big 4 accounting firm (or regional firm with SEC clients)
• Accounting experience with high tech companies a plus
• Strong working of US GAAP knowledge, with emphasis on SOP 97-2, EITF 08-01 and 09-03 and other revenue recognition accounting literature
• Experience with Order to Cash cycle in an ERP system, JD Edwards, preferred
• Experience with Business Intelligence tool
• Strong working knowledge of Sarbanes-Oxley 404
• BA/BS in Accounting or equivalent experience
• CPA preferred
• LANGUAGE SKILLS: Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group. Ability to communicate and resolve issues in a direct and concise manner with poise and tact. Written communications should be detailed and thorough.



• MATHIMATICAL SKILLS: Candidate should be detailed oriented and have a solid understanding of financial statements and integrated financial systems. The candidate should be proficient in Excel, Word and PowerPoint.



• REASONING ABILITY: Ability to understand and effectively apply technical accounting guidance centered around revenue recognition as it relates to hardware and software sales, as well as services and distributor arrangements.

• Develop, maintain, and administer Global Travel Policy allowing for cultural and regional differences with cross functional coordination as needed.
• Monitor travel policy compliance and provide strategies to increase compliance.
• Complete Global Travel Agency implementation including program management, review, and analysis.
• Oversight of the travel management company(ies) including all operational issues, SLA’s, management reporting systems, and adherence to policy.
• Develop, implement and manage all travel vendor relationships and programs (agency, air, hotel, car rental, executive sedan, and other travel related services ensuring compliance to service level agreements.
• Must have strong ability to use various automated travel technology tools including travel management reporting tools and self- booking tools.
• Lead a cross functional team to design, review, analyze, select, and implement a global credit card program and car rental bid.
• Develop and maintain credit card administrator program with the Global Travel Manager as the main administrator with regional support.
• Identify savings opportunities and service enhancements, initiate process improvements and deployment of benchmarking-generated best practices.
• Benchmark, analyze, monitor, and report on travel expenditures and compliance.
• Provide monthly and quarterly reports for corporate travel expenditures against budgets and forecasts.
• Work with Risk Management on Duty of Care issues, car accidents, and other incidents relating to business travel.
• Develop strong internal working relationships with all departments especially Finance, Meetings/Events, Marketing, Sales, Purchasing, Executive Admins, IT and International locations.
• Design and implement travel training/seminars for travelers and travel arrangers.
• Maintain travel intranet.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Compelling and persuasive communicator with excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to establish organizational objectives and relevant metrics
• Ability to draw strategic insight from analysis, and to effectively summarize and present insight based on the needs of the audience
• Management experience in both small and large corporate environments
• Proficient with Excel, PowerPoint and other MS Office products
• Accountable, takes responsibility
• Experience giving presentations to senior executives
• Strong influence/negotiation skills
• Works well under pressure/stress
• High attention to detail
• Results oriented
• Certified Travel Expert (CTE) preferred
• Membership with Silicon Valley Business Travel Association and/or National Business Travel Association is preferred

• Bachelor's degree required; Masters preferred or equivalent combination of experience and education.
• 10+ years of experience as a corporate travel manager with global travel experience.
• Experienced in creation, negotiation, and administration of contracts and corporate credit card.
• Strong travel industry knowledge and relationships.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain effective working relationships across functions, organizations and suppliers/vendors.
• Demonstrated ability to resolve complex process/systems problems through the utilization of decision/financial models and project management skills.
• Demonstrated project management skills, project planning, scheduling and tracking.
• Ability to travel.

• Manage the development, prosecution and maintenance of the US patent portfolio;
• Manage US outside patent prosecution counsel;
• Manage the US patent program and provide IP strategy;
• Budget and manage US Patent Portfolio expenses;
• Provide training on company IP related matters;
• Co-Manage Patent Review Committee;

• Assist in managing International Patent Portfolio and outside patent prosecution counsel;
• Assist in managing Submitted Idea Program;
• Assist with Competitor watch and portfolio analysis;
• Assist in managing and providing advice on possible, threatened and actual IP related litigation or other adversarial situations;
• Assist with IP due diligence in support of litigation and acquisition;
• Assist with aspects of patentability, validity, infringement, freedom-to-operate;
• Assist in advising and consulting on IP transactional matters.
• Research and present on new patent law rule changes;
• Advise and maintain Patent Program policies;
• Travel outside of the US on occasion.

• 7-10 years experience as patent practitioner preferably with both in-house and law firm patent prosecution experience
• BS in mechanical or electrical engineering preferred. Experience in dental or orthodontics, software, optics, and/or digital imaging a plus.

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Align Technology is a global medical device company that pioneered the invisible orthodontic market with the introduction of the Invisalign system in 1999. Today, we develop innovative, technology-rich products such as Invisalign aligner treatments, iTero ® intra-oral scanners and OrthoCAD digital services to help dental professionals achieve the clinical results they expect and deliver effective, cutting-edge dental options to their patients.

Align is looking for a Technical Senior Program Manager with a successful release record. You will bring global cross functional teams to implement changes for IT, software engineering, and research. You should be comfortable driving multiple making plans and commitments for multiple projects/releases and managing your project team to meet these commitments.

You will be responsible for project coordination, communication, risk management and act as a liaison between Development, SQA, Finance, Marketing and Operations to ensure smooth delivery and successful rollout of software releases to our internal customers.

• Work with cross functional team and globally distributed team
• Support of release planning and portfolio management
• Accountable for all project commitments, deliverables, release scope, quality and schedule
• Gather project requirements from finance, engineers, operations, manufacturing, SQA and coordinate cross functional initiatives towards project completion
• Establish direction and accountability for the project team
• Establish and use metrics to measure success of the product delivery and for the product itself
• Maintain and publish project schedule and plan including prioritization, key issues, changes, and decisions
• Provide status reports and facilitate status meetings with users and management
• Develop and maintain project plans, diagrams and cutover documentation.
• Mediates projects issues amongst team as necessary
• Organizes the project team for effective implementation and delivery
• Builds capability within the project team to accomplish the project goals
• Manage and mitigate project risks
• Ensures completeness and quality of all project deliverables

• Experience with ERP finance and distribution modules
• Experience with CRM systems
• Experience working with distributed (virtual) international teams
• BS or BA degree in engineering/science or a related field
• 5+ years of project management experience preferably for CRM/ERP
• 3+ years of technical experience in ERP or CRM software development or a related field
• Practical and theoretical understand of managing the life-cycle of major projects and programs.
• Experience using a variety of software life cycle & development methodologies (Waterfall, Agile (SCRUM), PMP etc.)
• Risk Management: ability to identify analyze and mitigate risk
• Accounting or finance background preferred
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Demonstrated leadership experience
• Experience with JDE a plus
• Experience with SalesForce a plus
• Ability to work on multiple projects concurrently
• Must be acquainted with data analysis, presentation and word processing software such as Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Visio and Word

• Manage the North America Service Desk team based in San Jose, Costa Rica and Moscow, which supports, computers, desk phones, mobile phones and cloud-based end-user services, such as client backup, eFax, and etc.
• Build and manage a follow-the-sun support model for IT services based on ITIL practices
• Manage the enterprise infrastructure tool team who oversee many critical backend systems, such as email, active directory, monitor, PKI, encryption, SCCM, and etc.
• Manage a global IT OPS leadership from Costa Rica, Mexico, The Netherlands, Israel and Russia to maintain conformance of global IT processes, frameworks and standards
• Manage a global IT and SOX compliance personnel and processes to assure the company is in compliance with SOX and IT requirements.
• Manage a global change control process for all enterprise production changes, which includes ensuring all changes, are properly reviewed, communicated and have the appropriate approval.
• Assure video/audio equipment in all conference rooms are in good shape and operational at all time.
• This position is also the first escalation point for all production issues and will be on-call 24x7x365 unless otherwise notified.
• Initiate, participate and lead quality, obsolescence and security initiatives that will ensure SLAs are met or exceeded.
• This is also a technical management position which will require good knowledge of the existing production application stack, the interdependencies between the various application layers as well as an understanding of the business functions supported by each application layer.
• Train and mentor the staff that supports the production environment and is responsible for all focal reviews.

• Undergraduate Degree in Computer Science or Computer Information Systems
• 10+ years of experience working as a technical individual contributor
• 5+ years of managing a technical Operations support staff

• Cloud Proficiency
  • Firm knowledge of virtualization technologies such as Amazon AWS, OpenStack, VMware, Xen and/or KVM
  • Proficiency with AWS services ( EC2, S3, VPC, OpsWare, Route 53,...)
  • Knowledge of AWS API
  • Hands on use of cloud frameworks such as AsGuard, RightScale, Scalr or similar
• Proficiency in modern scripting languages and OO software development
• Monitoring systems expertise: Nagios, Nimsoft, CloudWatch, etc.
• Understanding of Continuous Delivery process and familiarity with CI systems: Bamboo, Jenkins, TeamCity etc.
• Familiarity with configuration management, Chef, Puppet, CFengine or similar industry-standard CM solutions

• Chef Administration/Development: Provide technical guidance for the initial rollout of Chef across multiple Test and Production environments; train team members to expand and maintain the Chef infrastructure
• Software Deployment: Deploy new software builds from Development into Test Environments while actively transitioning our legacy deployment process into Chef
• Linux/Windows Systems Administration: Troubleshoot problems related to networks, systems integration, and various types of client/server applications in active Test and Production environments; recommend system-wide reliability improvements; manage configuration and patching of more than 800 test and production servers.
• Task Automation: Author customized scripts (in Ruby, Python, and/or your favorite Shell) and software applications to automate repetitive tasks, monitor system health, create and update real-time inventories and reports, and improve existing processes.
• Cloud rollout: Pioneer the movement towards AWS-based hosting and architecture, work on a platform that allows development teams to push their changes into fresh EC2 instances in mere minutes.
• Shape and improve SDLC proceses and document them in Standard Operating Procedures.

• Experience in managing, implementing or maintaining test and production environment deployments that leverage Chef, Puppet, CFengine or similar industry-standard CM solutions
• Strong Linux/Windows system administration skills
• Proficiency in modern scripting languages and shells
• Monitoring systems expertise: Nagios, Nimsoft, CloudWatch, etc.
• Understanding of Continuous Delivery process and familiarity with CI systems: Bamboo, Jenkins, TeamCity etc.
• Database management expertise: MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL.
• Passion for improving software development processes and desire to automate any repetitive work you ever do.

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Align Technology, Inc. is looking for a visionary leader to drive our global SQA team toward new heights of creativity, productivity & technology. Reporting to our Director of Software Quality & Business Services, the Director of SQA will have the charge of delivering high paced improvements in our unique environment. Align Technology is a world renowned leader in both high-volume build-to-order designed-by-software dental aligners and the creator of the top intra-oral scanner in the industry. With expertise and product ranging from high precision scanner custom designed hardware to high volume 3D modeling in a global environment, Invisalign is a unique opportunity for someone looking to expand his/her scope and apply his/her knowledge to a wide variety of problems.

The SQA director will manage a core team of 60+ engineers distributed between San Jose, CA, Moscow, Russia & Tel Aviv, Israel. Additionally, there are some SQA resources directly working on the floor with our internal customers in Juarez Mexico and San Jose Costa Rica.

In order to be selected for this opportunity, the qualified candidate will need to act as an evangelist of continuous improvement & change, with an initial goal of shaping the organization into a modern & distributed team able to ingest and apply the best SQA software & hardware practices, including: advanced unit, component, and systems test automation; follow-the-sun regression testing; an organizational shift toward quality analysis instead of fault detection; improved use of automated documentation tools; expanded unit testing adoption; instrumentation of production systems to gain post-deployment quality metrics; enforcement of development processes and coding conventions achieved through upgraded and solid SQA processes; process and technology guidance across the entire SDLC (Agile methodologies/implementations). You will also be responsible for actively comparing Align’s SQA technology stack against current industry best-practices on a regular basis, presenting evaluations of cutting-edge SQA technology offerings, and then executing plans to update the SQA organization’s skills to adopt those processes identified as having the most positive impact on our business plans.

Additional qualifications include: Deep knowledge of modern SQA technology and practices, and evidence of successful application of those practices in an SQA organization; demonstrated ability to effectively communicate process changes across an entire organization; proven track record of building teams; prior experience of successful technology stack upgrades.

This position requires very close interaction with team members at every level (above and below your own position) and at multiple sites around the world. Travel to several international sites each quarter will be required. (33%+ travel)

• Transform existing Align’s global SQA organization from a mostly manual execution team into an automated execution team. The overall goal is to reduce testing cycle times and provide a repeatable automated process in testing our software. It applies to all forms of testing such as but not limited to:
  • Application Testing
  • Functional Testing
  • System Testing
  • Integration Testing
  • Performance Testing
  • Load Testing
  • Regression Testing
• Define, introduce, and measure global set of standards as well as KPIs within the SDLC to increase automation, productivity, and measure performance
• Create, maintain, and report out global SQA vision and global roadmap. This will be done in conjunction with our other sites in Moscow and Tel Aviv
• Present to upper management on a quarterly basis results of global SQA team accomplishments and roadmap deliverables as well as new automation initiatives
• Work with development Directors in bringing Agile best practices to the SQA teams and Align
• Travel to Moscow, Tel Aviv, and other locations required

• Managing large-scale technical (software, skills) upgrades
• Assessing new technologies and presenting executive-level overviews to senior management
• Proven implementations of Agile methodologies: SCRUM, XP, etc
• DevOps hand experience
• Proven record and implementation of how to transform SQA testing from black box to white box testing
• Responsible for Global Quality Metrics and KPIs
• Working within a globally distributed team
• Influencing cross-functional team members
• Deep understanding of Software Development, Continuous Integration, Software Automation, and SQA processes and functional interactions
• Ability to talk intelligently about technical aspects of software languages
• Hands on experience with some of the following tools: Rally, Greenhopper, Jira, Chef, Puppet, Hudson, Sonar, EC2
• Implementation of Cloud based solutions in relation to SQA
• Travel is required

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, other technical engineering field, or equivalent experience required
• Master of Science in Computer Science, other technical engineering field, or equivalent experience requiredt
• 5+ years management experience
• 7+ years software engineering or SQA experience
• Prior experience with any of the following languages: C/C++, C#, Java

• Assist material and biomechanical engineers in laboratory bench testing
• Work independently on summer research project and create a final presentation to share with the team.
• Work in a fast paced environment and meet critical deadlines.
• Follows all departmental and company procedures as indicated in quality, administrative, or other systems.
• Comply with all safety policies, practices and procedures. Report all unsafe activities to supervisor and/or Human Resources.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Self-motivated with hands-on approach to laboratory studies
• Team player, strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent problem-solving skills, thoroughness, attention to detail.

• Bachelor’s degree (in progress) in Mechanical Engineering preferred. Other scientific and engineering disciplines considered.
• Laboratory experience
• Experience with 3-D modeling using SolidWorks.
• Experience with Geomagic, Matlab preferred.
• Experience with rapid prototyping processes and material characterization testing preferred.

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Align Technology is a world renowned leader in both high-volume build-to-order designed-by-software dental aligners and the creator of the top intra-oral scanner in the industry. With expertise and product ranging from high precision scanner custom designed hardware to high volume 3D modeling in a global environment, Align Technology is a unique opportunity for someone looking to expand his/her scope and apply his/her knowledge to a wide variety of problems.

This intern position is responsible for developing 3D software in the Product Innovation group. The intern will work closely with Sr. Software Developers, as well as mechanical and materials engineers. The intern will be responsible to support the development of the next generation of Invisalign predictability features, by developing tools to process and measure 3D dental models, as well as exporting models between company applications and Solidworks CAD software. The successful candidate is a creative and innovative thinker, motivated by curiosity.

• Analyze needs and derive precise requirements.
• Propose a solution and review with the team.
• Develop 3D software in C++ under Visual-Studio, interface homegrown software and Solidworks API.
• Work in a fast paced environment and meet critical deadlines.
• Create a final presentation to share with the team, deliver tested finished product.
• Follows all departmental and company procedures as indicated in quality, administrative, or other systems.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Solid background in math required, solid mechanics a plus.
• Knowledge of computer science fundamentals (data-structures, algorithms).
• Demonstrable knowledge of C++.
• Good communication skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, thoroughness, attention to detail.

• Bachelor’s degree (in progress) in Computer Science preferred. Other scientific and engineering disciplines considered.
• Experience in C++ development under Windows (Visual-Studio) preferred.
• Experience with 3D software development preferred.
• Development of plug-ins for CAD or 3D modeling software a plus.