Director of Engineering, ZOE
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Personalised nutrition company
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Personalised nutrition company
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
+ Equity
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To improve the health of millions.
Role
Who you are
- Have a successful track record in an engineering leadership role. This role is not a hands-on position, but you consider yourself a software engineer and builder at heart
- Are passionate about leading a distributed team, in a fast-paced environment. You have managed 15+ indirect reports before, preferably more
- Have exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate at all levels of the organization
- Are a strategic thinker with the ability to translate high-level goals into actionable plans
- Enjoy taking ownership and being comfortable with ambiguity. You provide clarity and make things happen
- Have an appetite to understand the business in depth and work closely with other teams to quickly test and release new ideas
- Have a data-driven mindset. You challenge teams to measure impact and demonstrate added value
What the job involves
- ZOE is looking for an Engineering Director who will play a pivotal role in shaping our engineering culture, driving technical excellence, and leading our talented teams
- We value leaders who are as passionate about technology as they are about people management
- Leading and mentoring a diverse team of engineering managers and engineers, fostering an inclusive and innovative environment
- Partnering with group product managers and design directors to build roadmaps and ensuring teams deliver high-impact initiatives to our members
- Driving technical strategy and architectural decisions, ensuring alignment with business goals
- Championing engineering best practices and continuous improvement
- Overseeing the performance and development of direct reports
- Leading projects that do not fit well into existing team boundaries
Application process
- Talent Acquisition Screening: Selected candidates will be contacted for an initial phone interview with our Talent Acquisition Partner. This conversation will help us assess your qualifications, experience, and your fit for our team. Duration 45min
- Hiring Manager Screening: Selected candidates will be moved forward in the process and meet our CTO. This conversation will focus on diving deeper in regards to your qualifications, experience, and your fit for ZOE. Duration 60 min
- Technical Interview: You will be asked to complete a system design interview to assess your knowledge and experience in this field. Duration 90min/each
- Behavioural Interviews: You will be asked to complete three behavioural interviews, which evaluate your present and past experience from a behavioural standpoint. Duration 45min/each
- Expected Timeline: The entire hiring process typically takes around 3-4 weeks from the Talent Acquisition Interview to the job offer. We understand the importance of your time and aim to provide timely feedback and updates at each stage
Salary benchmarks
Our take
ZOE was born from the frustration of its three founders, who were trying to improve their health by changing their diets but found themselves overwhelmed by an endless stream of fad diets and conflicting nutritional advice. Seeking a clear path to better health, they set out to create a solution that could cut through the noise.
Combining cutting-edge machine learning with groundbreaking nutritional research from world-renowned institutions like King's College London, Stanford University, and Harvard University, ZOE offers personalised food and recipe recommendations tailored to each user's unique metabolic responses. This scientific approach aims to empower individuals to make informed choices based on their individual needs, not one-size-fits-all trends.
The result of its efforts is the ZOE personalised nutrition app, which provides powerful tools to help users understand their metabolism and make smarter, more informed decisions about their food. With ZOE, nutrition becomes as unique as the individual, guiding users to a healthier, more personalised approach to eating.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2024
$15m
SERIES B
Mar 2023
$2.5m
SERIES B
Total funding: $99.5m
Company benefits
- Stock Options: We want our team to be a part of our success and offer all permanent team members stock options
- Flexible Working: We all have an optimum rhythm and the values of ownership, responsibility and autonomy are ones we hold dear. We support flexible working and will always do our best to accommodate
- Enhanced Parental Leave: Available to team members with 12+ months tenure, we offer enhanced parental leave at this exhausting (but rewarding!) time in your life - plus transition coaching when you return!
- Remote First: Save hours of commute time, sleep a little extra, be at the dinner table with your family on time, go for that run at lunchtime. We are evolving our remote-first principles to ensure the best results, aiming to work asynchronously and ensuring enough focus time for all
- Time to restore and recharge: We encourage you to take regular breaks and take annual PTO in full, offering an additional day of leave for an important life event of choice and two company-wide reset days
- YuLife Health (US & UK): Benefit from rewards through a gamified approach to health & well-being and join our leaderboard if you enjoy a good competition
- Resources to Succeed. Learn via regular Lunch & Learns, get involved in Engineering showcases or utilise our online resources and talks
- Smart Health & Medicash (UK). Access to the SmartHealth app for UK team members, their partners and dependents including 24/7 GP service, nutrition consultations, mental health support and an opt-in Medicash cash-back scheme
- Tools and Technologies. We'll ensure you are using the best technologies, and latest tools
- Employee Assistance Program - EAP (US & UK). Access career coaching, confidential mental health support and financial advice
- Growth & Development. Enjoy a healthy budget to support learning and professional development
- Enhanced Sick Pay. Have peace of mind through enhanced sick leave - just in case you ever need to get that extra time to properly recuperate
- Remote Yoga. Take a break from work and revitalise your mind by joining our weekly yoga classes
- Health Insurance. Access to private medical insurance for UK team members and in the US it’s dental, vision and long-term disability cover, as well required state-specific benefits
- ADD & LT Disability Benefit (US). For added peace of mind, US team get ADD & Long Term Disability Insurance
- Life Insurance (US & UK). We hope you won’t ever need it, but just in case, we provide you with life insurance cover
- 401(k) / Pension Schemes (US/UK). In the UK, we will pay into your pension, and in the US we’re enrolled via Guideline for 401(k)
- Referral Scheme. A generous bonus for every successful referral we hire. Get recommending!
- Budget to set up home workspace. We will contribute to your optimal remote-work setup
- Workplace Nursery Scheme (UK). Save on nursery costs, including tax and NI on your full monthly fee
- Cycle to Work Scheme (UK). Save up to 39% on bikes and accessories, paying out from your salary over a period of 12 months
Company HQ
South Bank, London, UK
Leadership
Jonathan Wolf
(Co_Founder & CEO)Graduated from the University of Oxford with an MA in Physics. Previously worked at Criteo as Chief Buying Officer/Chief Product Officer, at Yahoo! as Senior Director and at Atlas Venture as a Principal.
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