Director of Engineering

About the role

Drive hiring strategy and close top engineering talent
Motivate and communicate across multiple levels of their department
Have successful peer partnerships with other department leaders in Engineering, and cross-functionally (product, sales, marketing, etc)
Partner closely with Product leadership to translate roadmap into executable engineering plans, including running prioritization and trade-off conversations
Development, measurement, and management of key metrics for team performance

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills
• Expert hiring manager skills and experience
• A well developed people management philosophy for managers and engineers
• Experience managing managers and engineers
• Experience supporting enterprise customers (Fortune 500 or regulated industries) with high-touch deployments and uptime expectations
• Experience leading distributed teams across multiple time zones (e.g., US plus Europe or LATAM)
• Has directly owned performance management cycles, including coaching, leveling, and exiting underperformers
• Preferred: experience scaling an engineering org through Series B to C growth
• Agile/kanban project management skills
• Commitment to understand, communicate and improve the quality of multiple teams
• Humble, servant leader

Minimum qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• 5+ years of leadership experience
• 5+ years production operations experience
• Strong debugging skills across distributed systems and microservices architectures

Benefits & Culture

• Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Cutting-edge work in an emerging field with huge growth potential
• Competitive compensation packages designed to reward top talent
• A modern, newly renovated HQ right on Main Street in El Segundo, CA
• 401(k) with a 4% company match to help you invest in your future
• Flexible paid time off so you can recharge when you need it
• Additional benefits include ClassPass credits and a discount on pet insurance
• A family-friendly, compassionate culture that values balance and belonging