VP of Engineering, Calm

• 15+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong organization-building background with a focus on innovation, infrastructure development, and team motivation & building
• Demonstrated track record of recruiting, managing, motivating, and retaining a multi-site global engineering team including contractors
• Ability to set goals for their teams that drive business outcomes
• Ability to track data to measure success, and inform project direction
• High level of executive presence demonstrated by the ability to act as the company’s technical representative to cross-functional stakeholders
• You have managed teams of 50+ for at least 5 years
• You have a proven record and experience in building consumer products (5+ years on the Director or VP level)
• You understand how to build architecture and scale it. Proven record of scaling services
• You have a track record of execution
• You are willing to get your hands dirty, it is a startup after all
• Growth mindset: receives feedback easily and incorporates it quickly
• Proactive executor: thoughtful in approach and decisive in decisions
• Pragmatic: balance scrappiness and rigor
• Ability to attract, manage and develop strong engineers
• Great technical communicator
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong technical architecture, product, and architectural instincts

Desirable

• Lead Consumer Engineering at Calm
• Balance urgency with rigor to deliver clear strategic insights across Calm’s business lines, using analytics, experimentation, and data visualization
• Own the development of end-to-end web and mobile applications to drive user delight and growth
• Ability to understand client (web, mobile) and backend, spearhead architecture changes that will stabilize and optimize the key technology components of the applications while delivering product features
• Partner with cross-functional leaders, including product and business stakeholders to align on the requirements and business needs
• Manage the engineering teams, own the budget for the team, remove roadblocks, own the execution and quality
• Contribute to a technical strategy for shared infrastructure and services that are shared across Calm
• Encourage and grow the engineering organization: You will expand, uplevel, and manage engineers (people managers + individual contributors), including those embedded on other teams. Establish clear performance objectives and goals, offer effective feedback, and coach them in their ongoing development
• Use the engineering processes and tools to make week-to-week execution effective, transparent and predictable. Appoint on ensuring our process works for us — prioritization, estimates, deadlines, expectation-setting, road mapping, and so on
• Identify the open questions in our approach to architecture and technology, and work across Calm engineering to determine and document on effective approach
• Nurture an evolvable architecture that nimbly supports product and business expansion
• Direct on defining and rolling out several engineering organization processes and practices
• Understand the “buy vs build” tradeoff, and make strategic judgements about where to invest the team’s resources architecturally
• Collaborate with senior leadership to gain alignment on company-wide goals, and then use this context to prioritize backend initiatives appropriately
• Collaborate with peers and contribute to the common engineering vision