Engineering Manager, Volley
Cocomelon
$180-247.5k
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2-3 days a week in office
Voice AI games
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Voice AI games
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-247.5k
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make everyday life a little more entertaining.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, ideally in fast-paced consumer product environments
- 3+ years managing engineering teams, with a proven record of cultivating productivity and team satisfaction
- Deep experience working in growth engineering, focusing on activation, onboarding, retention, engagement, or monetization
- Hands-on experience with experimentation frameworks, A/B testing infrastructure, and feature flagging systems
- Strong cross-functional collaborator, with excellent communication skills and a bias toward action
- Bring product and user empathy to engineering decisions, striving to deliver real value to players. Comfortable with data-informed decision making
Desirable
- Experience with 3D game development
- Experience with gaming, interactive media, or AI-powered consumer applications
- Prior work on cross-platform products across mobile, smart TVs or voice assistants
- Prior experience working on educational software for young children
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the CoComelon team. You will lead a team of full-stack engineers working across connected TV platforms to deliver a best-in-class voice-activated game to our users
- CoComelon is an IP beloved by millions of children around the world. The team is responsible for developing and evolving a singing-along game for young children that incorporates educational components, allowing them to learn while having fun
- You will work closely with partners in product, design, data, and marketing to prioritize and drive our shared strategy. You will identify impactful opportunities, rapidly ship new features, and evolve our user engagement strategy using a data-informed, experiment-driven approach. This is an opportunity to play a pivotal role in creating an innovative, fun experience in voice-activated gaming across connected devices
- Partner closely with Product, Design, and Data Analytics to define the roadmap, set priorities, deliver delightful and impactful features
- Build and scale user-facing features that sit at the intersection of game discovery, player engagement, personalization, and cross-platform continuity
- Guide the team through an iterative development process using A/B tests and other experimentation frameworks
- Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to identify upstream and downstream dependencies, align delivery schedules, and streamline release processes
- Foster a culture of ownership, continuous learning, and product thinking within the team
- Ensure the technical excellence of the team by providing feedback, promoting best practices, and helping remove roadblocks
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of talented engineers working across the stack
- Our Stack:
- Unity3D
- Typescript & Node.js
- React, React Native
- DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis
- AWS GameLift Streams
- Kubernetes
- DataDog, Amplitude, Sentry, Snowflake, Tableau
Application process
- Stage 1: (Preliminary Video Call) with a member of our recruitment team
- Stage 2: (Hiring Manager Chat) with Senior Director of Engineering
- Stage 3: (Technical Screen) with an Engineering Manager
- Stage 4: (On-site Visit) with various partners and teammates
- Stage 5: (Founders Chat) with our co-founders (CTO/CEO)
- Stage 6: Offer
Our take
Volley is carving a niche in the gaming industry by developing voice-enabled games. By leveraging advanced AI capabilities, Volley provides a gaming experience where players interact with games purely through voice commands.
The success of Volley's games underscores its appeal across diverse demographics, with over 5M people playing its games monthly. Recognizing the transformative potential of AI in gaming, Volley continues to push boundaries by enhancing its AI technologies.
This feat hasn't gone unnoticed by investors, with the company recently securing substantial funding. This infusion of capital will fuel the creation of new voice-controlled games and expand its portfolio to captivate new customers.
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Company
Company benefits
- Healthcare, dental, and vision plans are fully covered by Volley for both employees and dependents
- Reimbursements for One Medical memberships
- 16 paid holidays
- 4 week vacation, with a 2 week minimum
- Parental Leave: 24 weeks at 100% pay for birthing parent, 12 weeks at 100% pay for non-birthing parent
- 40 hours bereavement leave per year
- Unlimited sick days
- Up to 8 weeks unpaid leave per year
- 4 weeks remote work per year
- Up to $250 per month for commuting (Lyft, BART, muni, gas, parking, etc). You may also use this towards WFH supplies
- Lunch in office M, T, W, & F
- $150 a month to cover Thursday lunches/lunches for other days you are not in the office. For permenetly remote employees, the stipend is $250
- $500 per year to help you grow your career
- You will recieve a Macbook Pro (or computer of your choice) upon starting
- Matched 401k plan through Guideline
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Max Child
(CEO)Previously co-founded Streak Trivia where they served as an iOS Developer. They also worked at The Infatuation as a Writer and iOS Developer.
James Wilsterman
(CTO)Previously co-founded Streak Trivia. Prior to that, they were a Senior Analyst at First Manhattan Consulting Group.
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