Vice President of Engineering, RedShelf
Digital transitions for publishers, schools, and businesses
Job no longer available
Digital transitions for publishers, schools, and businesses
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help publishers, schools, and businesses transition effortlessly to more affordable and efficient digital textbooks and course materials.
Role
Who you are
- You know how to balance the reliability, usability, compliance and cost of critical systems
- You are deeply technical, but prefer to lean on your leadership and management skills
- You are comfortable planning in quarters, and also have experience planning in years
- You have previously integrated mentorship and professional development into an engineering culture
- You are able to drive execution of high impact work while incorporating feedback from multiple sources
- You are excited about collaborating with teams and executives across RedShelf’s organization
- You are an experienced VP of Engineering who has mentored other engineering managers and leaders
- You have experience using Python for Web Application Development
- You have worked in a Continuous Release cycle with an emphasis on incorporating DevOps and QA into the SDLC
Desirable
- Experience with browser-based Javascript and front-end frameworks such as Ember,
- Experience with Angular, React, or Ember is a plus
- Experience with Python and frameworks like Django is a plus
- Experience building ADA-compliant or WCAG 2.0-compliant interfaces
- Knowledge and appreciation of the advances in higher educational software, course materials, and digital publishing is a plus
- Background and/or experience in educational technology and/or publishing
- Comfort and/or experience in a startup environment
- Ideal candidate is self-sufficient and highly motivated, self-directed and possess high energy and a passion for RedShelf
What the job involves
- The Vice President of Engineering is the executive that grows and manages the engineering team, is responsible for the process for roadmap estimations and long-term technical planning, maintains the productivity of the software development lifecycle, and strives to make everyone in the engineering organization successful
- Recruit great engineers, in collaboration with RedShelf’s recruiting team
- Develop engineers and leaders on our team, helping them advance in their careers
- Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as the leader of RedShelf’s engineering management team
- Communicate and reinforce business goals
- Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes that you and your team may encounter
- Promote and maintain an engineering culture focused on team collaboration and personal growth
- Collaborate closely with the Chief Technology Officer to develop and maintain the technical roadmap for RedShelf
- Maintain clear channels of communication to your engineering team, ensuring understanding of business goals and priorities
- Take ownership of the Agile development process and software development lifecycle to ensure the engineering team is balancing new product development while addressing technical debt
Our take
In the age of remote education and the digitization of learning resources, RedShelf is an EdTech company that helps publishers, educational institutions and students migrate their reading materials online. Addressing the need for more affordable educational resources, RedShelf eases the transition without scrimping on quality.
Through an online rental and purchase marketplace, RedShelf provides students with digital textbooks and integrates them into university systems through its RedShelf Manager platform. With over 10,000 publishing partnerships, RedShelf has a client base of almost 2000 institutions and businesses.
Having raised over $48M in funding, the company is firmly established as a leader in its sector. And in recent years it has experienced impressive growth, with this momentum it will surely continue to build, and it will be an exciting one to watch.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-18% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Mar 2023
$15m
LATE VC
Oct 2020
$10m
LATE VC
Total funding: $58.1m
Company benefits
- Medical (two plans including an HSA with RedShelf contribution), Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Life, AD&D, Disability, and Accident Insurance
- FSA - Including Health, Dependent Care, and Commuter/Parking
- Paid Parental Leave
- Generous Vacation Packages
- Paid Sick Leave
- 401(k) Plan
- Semi-Annual Incentive Pay Program
Company HQ
Chicago Loop, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Rob Holland
(CEO)Initially joined RedShelf as the President in 2023 before becoming CEO in 2024. Prior to this, they were the EVP and GM at DISQO, the COO at Feedback Loop, and an Advisor and COO at Bluecore.
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