Responsibilities
- You’ll manage our remote team of 20 engineers and 2 EMs, who cover a wide variety of specializations, from Product Engineers to Site Reliability Engineers to Design Engineers
- Over the next year, you’ll grow that team to 40 engineers and 5-6 EMs
Requirements
- You’ve built impressive products as an IC
- You’ve built a bench of amazing Engineers
- You’ve established the cultural norms and processes of an entire Engineering department
Nice to Have
- You haven’t led the definition and evolution of the culture and processes of an entire Engineering department
- You’ve never managed managers
- You enjoy coding or don’t find time to stay up-to-date on technology
- You believe great leaders are folks who were great engineers themselves
- You could have been Principal engineers (or were one!)
- You're happy with a team of engineers who are predominantly early-career or mid-career or don't thrive with ownership or autonomy
- You believe that with enough guardrails, the team can get things done
- You think, at some size, common processes need to be implemented to ensure consistent product delivery (e.g., sprint planning, product managers writing in-depth specifications)
- You think, at some size, compromises have to be made for the sake of hiring numbers or consistency
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- 10-year exercise window for stock options
- Unlimited PTO
- A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, covered by Ashby
- Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget
- $100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval
- Top-tier health insurance for you and your dependents, with 100% of premiums covered by Ashby
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Team
Team size: 20. Structure: remote team of 20 engineers and 2 EMs
Additional Information
- You’ll be a critical part of figuring out how to scale these methods from 50 engineers to 100 and beyond
- You’ll do 30-day, 60-day, 90-day, and 6-month reviews to calibrate on our unique culture and how you, I, and the team will work together
- You’ll ship some product changes and features
