- Experience in both managing engineers and leading an engineering team.
- Experience collaborating with leaders and stakeholders across the company to build a high level roadmap & vision for a team.
- A deep understanding of how cross-functional product teams work at a software product company and experience managing such teams.
- A desire to focus on managing other engineering managers, engineering leads, and staff engineers
- Experience and a deep interest in leading initiatives for improving Socialbakers engineering culture, values, process, speed, quality, execution, and delivery.
- Experience leading recruiting initiatives, as well as growing and organizing engineering teams.
- A deep understanding of engineering teams and architecture best practices across multiple disciplines (especially machine learning, analytics, data pipeline, core platform, and infrastructure engineering)
- An excellent track record of partnering with product to build products that delight users
- Extensive knowledge of product development methodologies, like Scrum, Kanban and HCD
- General knowledge of technologies used in product development
- An excellent track record of partnering with product to build platform and infrastructure that enable product engineering to build fast and reliably.
- Experience communicating the importance of platform and infrastructure to intelligent non-technical audiences
- General knowledge of cloud platforms and associated managed services
- General knowledge of data processing infrastructure in Socialbakers
- Collaborate with engineering and cross-discipline leadership to:
- develop and communicate the vision, high level roadmap & technical strategy for their business unit based on company goals
- spin up, spin down and staff teams in their business unit as appropriate.
- Ensure every engineer on their teams understands why their project is important to their business unit and company goals
- Delegate parts of large projects to others and keep teams collectively focused and on track
- Guide the architecture of their teams to ensure it fits the goals of their business unit as well as the best practices set out by the collectives
- Ensure that all decisions are in service of Socialbakers’s members and organizers
- Guide the quality & testing strategy of their biz unit
- Ensure their teams are setting aggressive OKRs and delivery goals and executing quickly, effectively, and healthily towards delivering results
- Monitor performance, impact, execution and delivery across all their teams, identify risks and solutions, and drive improvements with engineers and managers
- Build a culture rewarding strategic failure as well as success.
- Regularly provide clear, actionable feedback in all directions, and find the appropriate group venues to do so
- Build consensus and drive forward big decisions within their business unit and across the organization
- Challenge their team to demonstrate greater sense of urgency
- Manage and coach Engineering Leads to be effective communicators and leaders of their teams.
- Manage and coach Engineering Managers to be effective communicators and managers of their people.
- Ensure that engineering managers and engineering leads are mentoring and managing teams effectively towards results
- Help engineering managers create and support career development plans for direct reports
- Be a sponsor for engineers development
- Be an exemplary model for optimism, bring solutions to surfaced problems, and coach others to do the same
- Be an engaged part of the company leadership team setting policies, goals, and budgets
- Partner with the Employee Experience team and lead strategy and vision for recruitment efforts for their business unit