Engineering Manager, Workera
(EU)
Skills intelligence platform
Open for applications
Skills intelligence platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help humanity achieve its fullest potential.
Role
Who you are
- Experience managing teams in a fast-paced environment, with a track record of scaling and growing teams through recruiting and coaching
- The ability to effectively communicate complex ideas and strategies to stakeholders at all levels and achieve alignment on said ideas
- Prior hands-on experience as a developer [Bonus points if you have experience with our tech stack.]
- Proven experience with conflict resolution amongst teams and coaching tactics
- Experience with Shape-Up or other product development methodologies
- An intrinsic motivation to learn and stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends (particularly in AI)
- Proficiency in utilizing AI tools such as ChatGPT or equivalent digital assistants, applying them effectively within your work context
What the job involves
- In this role, you will lead one of our ambitious and talented Product delivery teams based in EMEA
- You will support our growth by leading and scaling an engineering team in close collaboration with Product and Design
- You will empower and mentor the team to achieve ambitious yet exciting delivery milestone goals
- As a company built upon groundbreaking disruptive technology, with teams constantly innovating and pushing the envelope in their development, it’s vital that the person in this role is a champion in communication and has the proven ability to motivate and challenge engineers to be the best versions of themselves
- Facilitating and sustaining a healthy, inclusive culture where everyone is set up to do their best work is a core pillar for the position
- Owning the roadmap (technical, staffing, product)
- Fostering team growth, and the growth of individuals within the team, by means of feedback, 1-on-1 coaching, or projects to boost learning
- Ensuring timely and high-quality delivery
- The team you will manage consists of a mixture of highly skilled frontend and backend engineers and partners closely with a Product Manager and Product Designer in a squad like approach
- While we, as a company, have a global footprint, the majority of your direct team sits in Europe. You will have the opportunity to partner with other “squads” based in LATAM as well
- Within 3 months, you will:
- Organize and allocate projects, together with the Product Manager, shaping incoming initiatives for future build cycles
- Coordinate feature rollouts and incoming requests/questions, with other engineering teams and departments (for example, Support, Sales)
- Identify and drive team improvements (technical projects, learning initiatives, etc)
- Assist and coordinate resolving time-sensitive production issues
- Within 6 months, you will:
- Identifying and organizing growth opportunities for the engineers, coaching them through sometimes-eventful times in an early-stage start-up
- Participate in recruitment processes and staffing discussions
- Drive significant product and technology leaps, based on the latest the AI / Elixir developments
- Within 9 months, you will:
- Partner with GTM teams in client-facing strategic discussions
- Organize and lead team offsites
- Lead engineering-wide initiatives to improve the development experience or platform scalability
Our take
Companies currently struggle to find a learning platform that can upskill and reskill their talent quickly, in accordance with the fast development of the technology used in different key roles such as data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
Workera is an upskilling startup that helps companies evaluate their data and AI capabilities and provide their employees with personalized learning plans to keep them updated on the latest technologies and practices. The company uses AI and machine learning to evaluate the current skillsets within a company and to design a learning plan that will help businesses' workforce reach a particular level of understanding of new technology.
Although Workera is an early-stage ed-tech startup, it is already working with Fortune 500 companies, including Siemens Energy. To help capitalize on the increasing budgets companies are extending to staff skill development, Workera has recently raised $23.5m, which will be invested in expanding its product offerings and growing the size of its developer team.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2023
$23.5m
SERIES B
Aug 2021
$16m
SERIES A
Total funding: $44.5m
Company benefits
- Flexible, remote work
- Unlimited PTO
- Home office stipend
- Learning & development opportunities
- Paid parental leave
- Country-specific health benefits
Company values
- We are Brilliant: We are incredibly good at what we were hired to do and we find ways to help the company get better
- We are One Team: We lead with altruism, lifting others up and investing in our fellow team members
- We are constantly Learning: We embrace hard problems and know discomfort pushes us to grow
- We are Discerning: We approach problems methodically and know the difference between efficiency and effectiveness
Company HQ
Ventura, Palo Alto, CA
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Leadership
James Lee
(Co-Founder & COO)Previously an Investment Banking Analyst at Merrill Lynch. They then went on to co-found both vSide and Onyaraand. They also served as the Vice President of Global Operations at Udacity and are now an Advisor at Polymorphic Capital and an SVP of Revenue Operations at Multiverse.
Kian Katanforoosh
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded Daskit. They are now a Scout at Sequoia Capital, an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University, and a Founding member at deeplearning.ai.
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