Experience successfully managing teams of 4+ engineers through career growth and multiple large projects, or experience as a senior engineer on multiple large projects involving 3+ engineers and heavy cross-team collaboration
Exceptional ability for cross-team collaboration, managing escalations, and shaping an impactful roadmap in an environment with multiple competing demands on your team’s time
Deeply product-oriented mindset with a track record leading the development of polished, user-centric features and interfaces. Successful candidates will be comfortable thinking like a product manager as well as an engineering manager.
Evidence of unusually high interest in user experience, and demonstrated ability to convert that interest into effective production features at scale
Nice to Haves
Experience speaking directly with users and converting your takeaways into user research or product requirements documents
Experience managing geographically distributed teams
What You'll Be Doing
Be the editor-in-chief of the team’s plans, execution, and ultimate output
Work tightly with designers, product managers, engineering leaders, and cross-team partners to build and continually refine the team’s strategy and execution
Build a team culture of high agency, fast execution, and the psychological safety to always have “the real conversation”
Define day-to-day processes that set the team up for success in planning and execution
Learn from users often — sometimes by speaking with them directly and sometimes by metrics and indirect means — distill takeaways, and continually bring a deep awareness of user experience into the roadmap
Recruit and develop excellent engineers and coach them in doing the best work of their careers so far