Same as Director, but also...
- Experience managing multiple teams inside Engineering department
- A desire to focus on results and delivery, and management of individuals and teams towards delivery of results
- Experience and excellence in communicating with executives, board members, and leaders of other departments
- Experience and a strong desire to focus on leading engineering team-wide initiatives to continuously improve engineering team execution, capacity, delivery of results, process, and culture
- A deep understanding and interest in developing business and product or platform strategy and translating to engineering strategy, roadmap, and priorities for multiple teams across the company
- Experience leading engineering retention, recruiting, branding, and organizational strategy in a growth environment
- Focus on ensuring that all engineering effort is in service of Socialbakers achieving our company key results as fast and as well as possible by coordinating, aligning, and monitoring ongoing engineering execution across product or platform engineering
- Work with Product and Business leadership to understand product roadmaps, requirements, and timelines
- Develop,maintain, and communicate an overall execution plan for engineering teams. Manage team resourcing process and strategic plans to meet future vision, strategy, and priorities
- Design processes for smooth operations, fast execution, and clear decisions, and communicate expectations, decisions, and changes to all stakeholders
- Work with Product and Engineering to ensure that teams are setting aggressive objectives and key results, and that they are delivering on results
- Continuously improve the engineering team’s capacity and capability to deliver by monitoring performance and execution, identifying inefficiencies, eliminating blockers, and working to improve them with directors and managers
- Continuously improve the engineering team’s overall structure, organization, and delivery of results while anticipating future challenges and planning accordingly
- Ensure that directors and principal engineers are mentoring, managing, and directing their teams effectively towards hitting key results.
- Push managers and directors to make and own tough and unpopular decisions when they’re needed to drive impact
- Be prepared to have difficult conversations when others can’t
- Work closely with the CEO to communicate the priorities of the engineering team to company leadership, defining objectives and key results, and ensuring alignment across the company
- Partner with Leadteam, CEO, Product, and Business to help design and clearly communicate a coordinated company vision, strategy, and priorities that every member of the engineering team understands
- Partner with CEO to translate product and engineering vision, strategy, and priorities to clear and actionable platform engineering roadmap, objectives, and key results and frequently communicate out to the engineering team
- Work with Engineering leadership to define, execute, and align on a unified technology strategy
- Ensure engineers are empowered to accomplish technical projects that improve total product or platform health, while simultaneously balancing strategic product and platform engineering priorities
- Advance a “Results First” culture of delivery, transparency, ownership, and learning
- Mentor Directors, Engineering Managers, and Principal Engineers in leadership, technical and non-technical growth, learning, and development
- Through mentorship and management, build strong engineering leadership that's empowered to make and effective at making technical and management decisions
- Be a sponsor for engineering leadership development
- Work with Directors to create and ensure they’re moving along team development and organizational plans that are aligned with company vision, strategy, and priorities
- Manage an engineering resourcing process and strategically plan for the needs of future vision, strategy, and priorities
- Partner with CEO and Recruitment to prioritize and lead engineering retention, recruiting, and branding strategy
- Be an engaged part of the company leadership team setting strategy and results, and owning part of the engineering budget
- Partner with the CEO to continuously improve the engineering team’s overall structure, organization, and delivery of results