Director of Engineering (Product)

The role

The Director of Engineering (Product) will take ownership of multiple product squads. You will provide leadership to deliver squad goals, manage team members, and shepherd key architecture and engineering decisions.

What you will do

• Partner with Product and stakeholders to define squad goals and align engineering priorities.
• Develop a staffing strategy by balancing company and squad goals with business constraints.
• Identify and advance key technical decisions for squads.
• Multiply squad impact through culture, process, tooling, and technology.
• Establish practices to bake quality into the development process.
• Encourage continuous learning from production errors or incidents.
• Raise the bar for security, testing, and scaling practices.
• Operate as the escalation point for major production issues.
• Recruit, hire, and manage team members across multiple squads.
• Own the retention, growth, and performance management of team members.

Required qualifications

• Prior experience in technical leadership roles driving business, product and technical outcomes.
• Hands-on development and design experience with demanding architectures.
• Ability to onboard to a variety of tech stacks including React, Python, AWS, and MongoDB.
• Successfully managed and scaled multiple teams.
• Previously shepherded engineering organizations through major technical decisions, changes in scale, and maturation of technology platforms.
• Represented your organization and company in internal and external settings in high stakes conversations.
• Comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
• Ownership mentality with a commitment to delivering exceptional results for customers.

Nice to have

• prior experience or interest in educational technology products

Benefits

• health insurance
• parental leave
• 401(k)
• unlimited PTO
• access to coworking
• equity in a fast-growing startup

About the company

Timely builds tools to help schools create high quality schedules using AI technology. They serve districts and charter school organizations across 20+ states.