Senior Software Development Manager, Vidyard
Nova
CA$165-205k
+ Stock options
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Video tools for virtual sales & marketing teams
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Video tools for virtual sales & marketing teams
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
CA$165-205k
+ Stock options
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help businesses deliver exceptional buyer experiences.
Role
Who you are
- 5-7 years experience leading a development team in a cross-functional environment
- 10+ years of functional experience in Software Development, SaaS experience considered a plus
- Hands-on familiarity with AI concepts relevant to SaaS product development (agents, LLMs, prompt design, model evaluation tradeoffs) to engage substantively with your team's technical decisions and ask the right questions
- Proven track record of delivering great solutions to complex problems while balancing technical and product concerns
- Have effectively hired, onboarded, and managed a team of developers reporting to you
- You invest in your people's growth with the same rigor you apply to technical problems — setting high expectations, giving direct feedback, and creating real development opportunities
- You build team environments where people do their best work — psychologically safe enough to take risks, accountable enough to deliver
- You follow through on your commitments, overcome blockers, navigate disagreements and take responsibility for your work and your team's work
- You are comfortable in technical conversations, and supporting your team as they explore tradeoffs and make technical decisions
- You connect engineering decisions to customer and business outcomes — your team knows why the work matters, not just what they're building
What the job involves
- Vidyard is looking for a Senior Manager, Software Development to join our Nova team - the team behind our AI Video Agent and Vidyard's most experimental product bets
- Reporting directly to our CTO, you'll guide a high-performing team building one of our most critical and fast-moving platforms, while contributing to how great engineering gets done across Vidyard
- Through your technical coaching and guidance, you will create a supportive and challenging environment for your team to thrive, and participate in broader initiatives to help level up our engineering team as a whole
- Our Nova Team is composed of 5 developers, a Designer, a Staff Product Manager, and a Staff Software Developer
- We are dedicated to creating and enhancing Vidyard’s Video Agent feature, continually improving and expanding its functionality
- You'll play an active role in evolving how our Engineering team works including helping the department build fluency in AI-assisted development practices so teams ship faster, experiment smarter, and stay ahead of how the craft is changing
- Stay close to the evolving AI landscape so your team makes informed decisions on architecture, tooling, and experimentation — and bring that context into how Nova builds
- Help shape AI-assisted development practices across Engineering, modeling curiosity and responsible use so teams ship faster and the broader department stays ahead of how the craft is changing
- Refining your team’s charter and direction to maximize Vidyard’s growth
- Fostering strong cross-functional business and technical decisions, with Product Managers and Designers, influencing broad and impactful decisions
- Growing and developing an incredible team of hardworking and motivated developers with high expectations around individual ownership and impact
- Ensuring the delivery of team projects and outcomes to drive forward business goals
- Partnering with other leaders and the team to craft technical and product strategy
- Developing a healthy and collaborative culture that embodies Vidyard's values
- Our Tech Stack
- Managers at Vidyard come from technical backgrounds but may be unfamiliar with the technologies our teams use daily
- We primarily use Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Vue.js, React, MySQL and AWS. Experience with some of these is a plus, experience with all of them is not necessary
Our take
Vidyard is a leading video platform for business, offering a comprehensive suite of tools for video messaging and hosting to drive more effective engagement with customers and prospects across sales, marketing, and customer service. Empowering businesses to deliver personalized video communications that boost interaction and conversion rates.
In recent years, Vidyard has experienced rapid growth, benefiting from the surge in remote work. Its customer base expanded by over 300% annually, and the platform now sees more than 4,500 new user sign-ups every day, marking a 60% year-over-year increase in user acquisition.
It continues to solidify its position as a leader and recently secured new funding. This funding will support its expansion of AI-powered tools like its hyper-realistic AI avatars. Alongside this, the company's recent integration with Salesloft highlights its growing focus on enhancing sales engagement, while its continued innovation positions it for future growth, with the goal of becoming a billion-dollar business.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2024
$15m
LATE VC
Jan 2016
$35m
SERIES C
Total funding: $75.9m
Company benefits
- Collaboration Center: Our downtown Kitchener location is a converted historical building, close to public transit.
- Community Care: Community is a key stakeholder at Vidyard. We founded Plugin to host charitable events to support local groups and, as a company, we provide more than 2,000 volunteer hours in the community every year.
- Vidyardians: You’ll work alongside passionate team members and always have access to our leadership team. Together, we want to help our customers succeed.
- Working Well: We believe that people know what works best for them and should take the time they need to refresh, so we offer flexibility and wellness programs.
- Benefits: We offer RRSP matching, a health and wellness subsidy, professional development fund, access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and more.
- Stock Ownership: We want our people to be invested in our exciting future and benefit from their own hard work.
Company HQ
City Commercial Core, Kitchener, ON
Leadership
Michael Litt
(Co-Founder & CEO)Alongside Vidyard they are the co-founder and General Manager of Garage Capital as well as a Board Member at Quantum Valley Ideas Labs and an Advisor at Maropost.
Devon Galloway
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously co-founded Redwoods Media, and is currently General Partner at Garage Capital.
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