Director of Engineering
Company: Tbwa Chiat/Day Inc
Location: New York
Posted on: March 4, 2025
Job Description:
Understood is a nonprofit focused on shaping the world for
difference. We raise awareness of the challenges and strengths of
people who learn and think differently. Our resources help people
navigate challenges, gain confidence, and find support and
community so they can thrive.Having a shared commitment to our
values is a key factor in any hire we make. We have five core
values:
- Continuously learn.
- Act with intention.
- Grow together.Come be part of an organization with an
entrepreneurial spirit that's helping to shape the world for
difference. Together, we can build a world where everyone can reach
their full potential.To advance Understood's mission and to further
our impact, we're hiring a Director of Engineering, reporting to
our Co-President/CTO. The ideal candidate will have the emotional,
technical and operational chops necessary to strategize, build,
motivate, innovate, and lead teams to create, deliver and maintain
high quality direct to consumer products.We seek a passionate,
intrinsically motivated, curious and mission-driven Director of
Engineering to come on as a driving force behind the organization's
technology strategy. As a member of the Engineering leadership team
reporting directly to the CTO, you will lead engineering efforts
for Understood's backend, mobile, and data functions. You will own
the building of scalable products, psychologically safe
environments, healthy teams, and processes. You are a strong
communicator and relationship builder, and take pride in building
high trust relationships with your stakeholders and leaders to
achieve company goals collectively.This is a hybrid role that
requires a minimum of three (3) days a week in our NYC office, with
a focus on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.What you'll do
- Own and develop a high-level strategic vision for engineering
at Understood.
- Partner with product and business stakeholders to translate
high-level strategic vision into a clear and actionable development
roadmap.
- Collaborate across functional areas to define, prioritize and
execute initiatives that improve core technology in support of
business needs, efficiencies and revenue.
- Translate technical concepts to non-technical business
stakeholders and translate business objectives to the engineering
team.
- Participate in recruitment, performance assessments, training,
and career development; you are responsible for all headcount
planning and personnel evolution for multiple areas within the
engineering organization.
- Build and evolve a healthy, happy and motivated engineering
team.
- Be metrics and performance driven; define healthy SLOs and
maintain SLIs and coach the team to be data driven.
- Support technical research, innovation and lead the creation,
continual refinement, and active enforcement of our development
standards in order to ensure that our technology can be leveraged
as a sustainable competitive advantage.
- Be willing and able to jump in to help debug and triage
critical systems as needed.
- Elevate technical architecture by asking the right questions to
ensure architecture matches business needs for the area.
- Manage vendor and external relationships for the organization,
make build v/s buy decisions, participate in the budgeting process
and own your department's budget.Must-haves
- 10+ years of demonstrated experience working in software
engineering.
- 5+ years of demonstrated experience working as an individual
contributor.
- 3+ years of experience recruiting and managing a team of
engineers.
- Ego-free and highly collaborative; mostly acts in a coach
leadership role and open to flexing into the player role when need
be.
- Clear communicator with an ability to effectively convey
strategic risk, opportunities and tradeoffs to executive team and
stakeholders; serve as a bridge between business and
technology.
- A natural leader; a "lead by influence" team player with the
ability to inspire confidence in others and connect business goals
to the work.
- Empathetic with your approach; you understand and value the
differences in people and are invested in people's growth.
- "All hands on deck" and roll-up-your sleeves attitude; you
wholly own your squads outputs.
- Qualities of an entrepreneur who can operate and scale
effectively in a high growth and cross-functional environment to
take products from zero to one.
- Committed to embodying and being a steward of our commitment to
diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.Nice-to-haves
- Experience with React Native.
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience with both iOS and Android native ecosystem.
- Experience with data warehousing concepts and
technologies.
- Experience collaborating with data science teams to integrate
ML models.The base salary range for this role is minimum
$220,000-$270,000 maximum, depending on years of experience and
qualifications. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that
supports wellness for our team members and their
families.Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusionUnderstood
encourages individuals of all learning styles and ethnic, racial,
and socioeconomic backgrounds, including those whose life
experiences may include the challenge of access due to a
disability, to apply for this position. We are committed to
maximizing the diversity of our organization, as we want to engage
all those who can contribute to supporting this work.Understood is
an equal opportunity employer and considers all applications
without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, national
origin, ancestry, age, alienage or citizenship status, marital or
familial status, domestic partnership status, caregiver status,
sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, change
of sex or transgender status, genetic information, medical
condition, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions,
physical or mental disability (where the applicant or employee is
qualified to perform the essential functions of the job with or
without reasonable accommodation), any protected military or
veteran status, or status as a victim of domestic or dating
violence, sexual assault or offense, stalking, or any other
characteristics protected by federal, state, or local law or that
of persons with whom that individual associates, or any other
legally protected characteristics.
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