Same as Manager, but also...
- Experience managing engineers and leading multiple teams
- Experience and a deep interest in leading initiatives for improving Meetup engineering culture, values, process, speed, quality, execution, and delivery.
- Experience leading recruiting initiatives, as well as growing and organizing multiple engineering teams.
- A desire to navigate and lead teams through ambiguous situations, tackle complex issues, and align strategy with company priorities,
- A desire to manage managers and manage engineering leads
- A desire to tackle complex issues involving multiple stakeholders
- Experience balancing competing priorities across more than one team
- Guide engineering leads to create & communicate the vision, high level roadmap & technical strategy for their business unit. Use data and analysis to align their strategy with company priorities.
- Work with engineering leads and managers to allocate resources in their control, and advocate with company leadership for needed resources.
- Work with engineering leads & engineering managers to create & improve process for prioritizing, breaking down, estimating, and assigning tasks. Coach engineering leads & engineers to deconstruct problems into executable action.
- Coach their teams’ leaders to ensure every engineer on their teams understands why their project is important to their business unit and company goals.
- Guide the engineering leads to ensure the architecture of their teams fits the goals of their business unit as well as the best practices set out by the collectives.
- Seek an understanding of what other teams do, share knowledge, and encourage others to do the same.
- Guide the quality & testing strategy on their teams
- Guide their teams to set OKRs and realistic delivery goals
- Monitor engineering execution and delivery across teams, identify risks and solutions, and drive improvements with engineers, leads & managers.
- Collaborate and communicate across teams to drive projects to completion
- Guide teams to balance cross-team priorities
- Model bringing solutions to problems (not surfacing problems alone) and coaches others how to do the same
- Guide teams to provide maximum, user-focused impact. Push team to demonstrate greater sense of urgency. Constantly experiment with ways to become more efficient.
- Find ways to replicate & scale successes
- Guide Engineering Leads & Engineering Managers to stay focused on the most important tasks at hand, while mentoring and managing teams effectively towards results. Navigate and lead teams through ambiguous situations, enabling them to make progress.
- Manage and coach Engineering Leads to be effective communicators & leaders of their teams.
- Manage and coach Engineering Managers to be effective communicators & managers of their people.
- Guide engineering managers to create and ensure they’re moving along career development plans for direct reports. Identify future leaders and align resources to develop them.
- Partner with the Employee Experience team to continuously improve strategy and vision for recruitment efforts as well as retention in business unit. Lead recruitment efforts by finding recruitment opportunities and motivating individuals to speak, do presentations, and write blog posts.