Engineering Director, Openly
$190.8-286.2k
+ Equity
More information about location
Home insurance platform
Job no longer available
Home insurance platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$190.8-286.2k
+ Equity
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower independent insurance agents to deliver a modern, efficient, and superior customer experience.
Role
Who you are
- Typically requires 12+ years of experience in a broad software engineering domain, 5+ years of that within people management, and 2+ years of that as successful experience leading managers
- Sustained track record of building and leading software engineering teams that have created improvements in business-critical systems around functionality, stability, performance, and scalability
- Demonstrated ability guiding teams to deliver multiple complete projects from start to finish in reasonable overlapping time frames
- Experience guiding and growing teams of teams, balancing engineering needs with business requirements
- Experience developing a strategy or roadmap for your teams
- Ability to think strategically and execute methodically
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent related software engineering experience
- Experience or familiarity with Agile methodologies
- Teamwork
- Defaults to a collaborative mindset to work with multiple stakeholders to maximize our resources
- No Egos - focuses on the best outcomes for the engineering organization and the company over ownership of any particular project, process, or people
- Demonstrates high engagement and low attachment
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Accountability
- Comfortable making decisions, and owning and being accountable for results
- A high level of comfort navigating and making decisions and recommendations in environments of ambiguity
- Problem solving
- Bias towards action over perfection
- Investment approach - considers long-term horizons to ensure immediate solutions build towards goals
- Iterative approach - optimizes for a regular cadence of small meaningful iterations
- When presented with a complex problem, process, or existing system you are consistently able to reduce the complexity to get more done with less work
- Hiring & Team Building
- Strong track record for hiring, retaining, and developing talent
- Passion for fostering DE&I
What the job involves
- As an Engineering Director at Openly, you will be responsible for driving alignment with and execution of the engineering strategies for supporting the business within your directorate and across engineering
- You will be leading and developing Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers, and collaborating closely with the VP of Engineering, fellow directors, and other senior leaders across the organization to plan and prioritize milestones, evaluate outcomes, and translate those evaluations into next steps. You will play a vital role helping us build sustainable, high quality technology and teams
- Lead a team of Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers to effectively manage projects and people within Engineering
- Effectively manage time in the following areas:
- Leading, developing, supervising Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers
- Planning & prioritizing milestones for people, projects, & processes
- Evaluate the timing and outcomes of those milestones
- Translate those evaluations into next steps
- Collaborate closely with the VP of Engineering
- Build and maintain strong relationships with the CTO and other senior leaders across the organization
- Partner with Product Managers to staff cross-functional teams to make impactful changes as quickly and autonomously as possible
- Build and maintain awareness and context of the people side of things through 1:1's with the Engineering Managers who report to you, and skip-level meetings with the engineers who report to them
- Build and maintain awareness and context of the technical details of initiatives through 1:1's and architectural discussions with the Staff Engineers who report to you, as well as reviews of their work
- Build and maintain a strong understanding of core insurance concepts across multiple business domains
- Connect the right person or team to the right work
- Identify and develop key talent to promote internal career growth
- Foster a culture of transparent feedback and communication
- Actively seek ways to improve engagement and happiness on the team
- Be curious in the face of uncertainty; gain the necessary knowledge or set up the necessary milestones to resolve that uncertainty
- Partner closely with the management team, HR, and Recruiting to attract, recruit, provide professional development opportunities for, and level-up diverse teams of high-quality engineers
- Our stack
- Backend/Core: Go & Postgresql
- Frontend: Browser-based, VueJS, Webpack, Nuxt &, Tailwind
- Research/Data Science: R, ArcGIS, H2O, & Python
- Infrastructure: Google Cloud, specifically Cloud Run, Cloud Build, and CloudSQL, managed with Terraform. We use GitHub for code hosting and CircleCI for running our CI/CD pipelines
- Remote work tools: Slack, Zoom, Donut
Our take
Openly has responded to a perceived gap in the market: while consumers are increasingly buying home insurance through independent agents, the products those agents can offer have not kept up with what’s possible, resulting in wasted time, wasted money, and outdated risk underwriting.
Openly's homeowner insurance platform sells exclusively through independent agencies. The platform watches and updates more than 19,000 vendor profiles daily across 19 states and 91 different industries, detecting changes to key business information, privacy documentation, terms of service agreements and public records. This increases transparency of the risk between buyers and suppliers, which sets Openly apart from its competitors in the insurtech market.
It has grown in-force premium by more than 500% year over year and has already achieved double-digit new sales market share in the majority of its states. The company is taking huge steps and has even partnered with Mastercard to integrate Mastercard's RiskRecon cyber risk data into its platform so that organizations can better understand their risk profile. It now has plans to expand its home insurance product to more states and agencies and to enhance its technology and insurance product.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2025
$123m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Sep 2023
$100m
SERIES D
Total funding: $360.7m
Company benefits
- Company equity
- Remote-First Culture: With employees in 40 states and counting, we promoted #remotelife long before it was adopted by other companies
- WFH Setup: Day 1, you'll receive a new laptop, a $1,500 allowance to spend on setting up your home workplace, and a monthly internet stipend
- Real Work-Life Balance: Ensuring you can spend valuable time with friends and family is a priority. We offer flexible PTO and a generous parental leave policy
- 401k Company Contribution: We love working here, but who wants to work forever? Take advantage of our 401K plan and generous company contribution
- Health and Wellness: Your well-being comes first. We offer a variety of plans to suit your needs, ranging from the basics to supplemental coverages
Company HQ
Columbus, Boston, MA
Leadership
Ty Harris
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied at MIT before working as a Lecturer at MIT and Northeastern. Went on to spend 12 years at Liberty Mutual Insurance. Co-founded Quote Hopper in June 2017 and, after passing this onto an agency to run, co-founded Openly that August.
Matt Wielbut
(Co-Founder & CTO)Began their career with almost 8 years at Goldman Sachs before co-founding Recitate and Elements Insurance. Used this experience to co-found Openly with Ty.
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