Engineering Manager, Replicated

• Demonstrated understanding of the techniques and methods of modern product delivery, especially iteration and validation
• Experience and passion for supporting individuals on your team and partnering with peers
• A champion of remote and distributed first culture which serves as a pillar for a great work culture. It is important to balance asynchronous and synchronous communication to help drive the work while still maintaining flexibility through the week for everyone to focus and contribute
• Strong written and verbal communication. Able to articulate and work collaboratively in documentation
• Startup experience is highly valuable here, we need to continue to improve and adjust as we grow. Engineering managers are key partners through the growth and evolution of the organization. It’s imperative that you are able to support the individuals on your team and the wider organization through change

Desirable

• Managing and working alongside the engineers on one of our development pods
• You will work with the engineers on the team to prioritize and drive toward the pod’s quarterly objectives
• Our product and engineering teams follow practices outlined in the book ‘Inspired’ by Marty Cagan, where we focus on customer validation, prototyping and continuous discovery methods. Our teams, managers and engineers meet regularly with our customers to gain a deeper understanding of their problems
• You will work to foster an engagement with the open source community and you are encouraged to be a representative of the project through meetups, conferences, monthly calls, etc
• You will have a deep understanding and can clearly communicate the problems and opportunities of our users and our customers; advocating for and driving forward solutions
• Assessing incoming customer issues and helping the team determine how best to resolve them
• Collaborating with your product manager partner to ensure your team is highly effective, delivering valuable new capabilities and innovations while also addressing critical bugs and technical debt
• Working cross functionally with other groups needed to successfully implement cross-team initiatives
• Contributing to how we shape and continue to evolve Replicated engineering culture. Hire, support and contribute to the growth of the engineering organization
• In your first 30 days:
• Your goal in the first 30 days is to learn as much as you can about the company, team and product
• You will receive a copy of ‘The First 90 Days’ as a resource to help you outline your 90 days plan
• You will work with your manager to put this plan together which will allow you both to partner on making sure you have all you need to get started
• You will complete hands-on training with the product, complete the onboarding checklist and meet with team members from across the company
• You will spend time with the team understanding their work and current initiatives
• We value learning and growth and this is a great time to outline where you may need to prioritize your learning time. Your manager will support you to make sure you have time for this during the week
• We have 1 day a week set aside as a focus day. This is an important day where everyone in the engineering org is encouraged to prioritize their focus time, including managers
• In your first 60 days:
• Now that you have a baseline of knowledge, it’s time to outline key projects that the team will take on and work on plans for how to break them down into iterative deliverables
• You can start to lead the weekly planning and standups. Working on ways to support your engineers and enable them to be successful
• You will continue to partner with the SVP of Eng and CTO and expand your partnership to the product and engineering org
• You will review metrics and work with the SVP of Eng to define your team’s key indicator of success
• In your first 90 days:
• With context in mind, you now have full ownership of your pod
• Start to drive the longer term plans for the pod
• Drive career development conversations with the engineers on your team with focus on their individual development and growth
• Own your team deliverables toward the pod’s key objective and start to participate in defining the strategy and path to build viable solutions