Engineering Manager, Virta Health

• 3+ years of experience managing software engineering teams
• Experience delivering value to end users and internal stakeholders
• Proven ability to define and track engineering metrics to quantify team health
• Able to understand business metrics (KPI, OKR) and put them in context to the team
• Prior experience building collaborative, high performing teams in a remote environment

Desirable

• People Management & Team Dynamics. Mentor, guide, and support the team members towards healthy dynamics by fostering a positive and collaborative environment
• Career Development & Growth. Create individualized development plans, identify & facilitate training, workshops, and other growth opportunities. Recognize & reward outstanding performers. Provide performance feedback
• Cross-functional Collaboration & Communication. Bridge the gap between engineering and other departments ensuring clear communication. Work closely with product, design, AI, and analytics functions along with various stakeholder groups. Advocate for what the team needs for success
• Process Management & Improvement. Drive continuous improvement of engineering processes through feedback, retrospectives, iteration, best practices, and prior experience. Help refine our methodology towards the sweet spot between the team's needs and the company’s goals
• Technical Strategy & Decision-making. The focus is on management, but understanding the technical landscape is essential to ensuring key technical decisions are in alignment with business objectives and broader technical strategy. Inform individual team members technical growth
• Within your first 90 days at Virta, we expect you will do the following:
• Familiarize yourself with the team and its stakeholders. Understand roles, responsibilities, strengths and improvement areas, aspirations
• Get a pulse on team dynamics, understand expectations, and collaborations, with an eye towards what to safeguard and where enhanced coordination is needed
• Establish and enhance team processes. Review the current process, intended outcomes, and methodology of your team and the teams in the group
• Bring your expertise to identify inefficiency, risk, and ways to enhance delivery or team health
• Align the learnings from above with the product roadmap and technical roadmap to start building a strategy for your team that melds the short-term and long-term goals of the team with that of the larger organization or the business
• Have a plan to iterate on this strategy over time