Engineering Manager, Volley
$166.9-208.6k
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3 days a week in office
Voice AI games
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Voice AI games
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$166.9-208.6k
More information about location
3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make everyday life a little more entertaining.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years leading high-performing engineering teams with proven impact
- 6+ years as a developer; bonus for game dev or complex platform experience
- Technical credibility in leading teams and building scalable architectures
- Strong product sense with a track record of cross-functional collaboration
- Creative problem solver who leads execution and thrives in ambiguity
- Passionate about growing teams and fostering an environment for success
Desirable
- Recruited and built diverse, high-performing teams in an inclusive environment
- Passion for gaming and innovation, delivering impactful and creative solutions
- Led growth-focused, experiment-driven teams that iterate and learn from failures
- Worked with audio processing, speech recognition, video data, or entertainment apps
- Thrived in fast-paced, agile environments, demonstrating resilience and leadership
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team creating flagship voice-AI-driven TV experiences
- You will empower a team of full-stack engineers working across platforms like Roku and Fire TV to deliver innovative and best-in-class voice-activated gaming experiences
- You’ll play a pivotal role in driving team ownership and accountability, fostering a collaborative environment with product, design, data, and business partners to define priorities and align on shared strategies
- By establishing robust operational processes and scalable architectures, you’ll ensure the delivery of reliable applications while encouraging experimentation and learning
- With our active expansion of game titles and platforms, this is an exciting opportunity to lead a mission-oriented team shaping the future of voice-activated gaming on connected devices
- Drive strategic and product decisions, empowering your team to contribute to the “what to build.”
- Maintain and prioritize the tech roadmap in alignment with product and business goals
- Manage an inclusive team, fostering motivation, growth, and impactful work
- Use technical expertise to deliver results and raise the bar for excellence
- Recruit and build a diverse, high-performing team aligned with Volley’s goals
- Collaborate with engineering leadership to improve efficiency, innovation, and cohesion
- Your first 90 days
- Build relationships with your team and partners, establishing regular 1:1s
- Gain hands-on experience by shipping a feature or fixing a bug
- Understand team strategy and roadmaps, driving clarity and alignment
- Learn our hiring process and start interviewing to build a strong, diverse team
Application process
- Stage 1 (Preliminary Screen) with our Senior Recruiting Lead
- Stage 2 (Hiring Manager Interview) with our Director of Engineering
- Stage 3 (Onsite Interview) with various partners and teammates
- Stage 4 (Founder Chat) with our Founders
- Stage 5 (Offer)
Our take
Volley is carving a niche in the gaming industry by developing voice-enabled games. By leveraging advanced AI capabilities, Volley provides a gaming experience where players interact with games purely through voice commands.
The success of Volley's games underscores its appeal across diverse demographics, with over 5M people playing its games monthly. Recognizing the transformative potential of AI in gaming, Volley continues to push boundaries by enhancing its AI technologies.
This feat hasn't gone unnoticed by investors, with the company recently securing substantial funding. This infusion of capital will fuel the creation of new voice-controlled games and expand its portfolio to captivate new customers.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company benefits
- Healthcare, dental, and vision plans are fully covered by Volley for both employees and dependents
- Reimbursements for One Medical memberships
- 16 paid holidays
- 4 week vacation, with a 2 week minimum
- Parental Leave: 24 weeks at 100% pay for birthing parent, 12 weeks at 100% pay for non-birthing parent
- 40 hours bereavement leave per year
- Unlimited sick days
- Up to 8 weeks unpaid leave per year
- 4 weeks remote work per year
- Up to $250 per month for commuting (Lyft, BART, muni, gas, parking, etc). You may also use this towards WFH supplies
- Lunch in office M, T, W, & F
- $150 a month to cover Thursday lunches/lunches for other days you are not in the office. For permenetly remote employees, the stipend is $250
- $500 per year to help you grow your career
- You will recieve a Macbook Pro (or computer of your choice) upon starting
- Matched 401k plan through Guideline
Company values
- Best-in-Class: At Volley, we make the best products in the categories we choose to enter
- Play Together: Our products are designed to bring friends and families closer together. We also care deeply about nurturing this same spirit of togetherness in our work
- Shoot Your Shot: At Volley, we take calculated risks in new markets with the potential for massive rewards. We’re betting that the revolution enabled by voice technologies is just getting started and we want to lead the way forward
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Max Child
(CEO)Previously co-founded Streak Trivia where they served as an iOS Developer. They also worked at The Infatuation as a Writer and iOS Developer.
James Wilsterman
(CTO)Previously co-founded Streak Trivia. Prior to that, they were a Senior Analyst at First Manhattan Consulting Group.
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