- At least 5 years experience both managing engineers and leading an engineering team.
- General Knowledge of AWS and associated managed services.
- Experience collaborating with product and engineering teams to build a high level roadmap & vision for a team.
- An excellent track record of partnering with product to build platform and infrastructure that enable product engineering to build fast and reliably.
- A deep understanding of how cross-functional teams work at a software product company and experience managing such 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 engineering teams.
- Help define and align the unit KPIs
- Collaborate with engineering leadership to create and communicate the vision, high level roadmap & technical strategy for their unit.
- Collaborate with engineering leadership and managers to spin up, spin down and staff teams in their unit as appropriate.
- Ensure every engineer on their teams understands why their project is important to their unit and company goals.
- Guide the architecture of their teams to ensure it fits the goals of their unit and product needs, as well as the best practices set out by the guilds.
- Ensure their unit is focused on the units KPIs
- Ensure their teams are setting aggressive OKRs and delivery goals and executing quickly, effectively, and healthily towards delivering results.
- Monitor engineering 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.
- Manage and coach Engineering Leads to be effective leaders of their teams.
- Manage and coach Engineering Managers to be effective managers of their people.
- Ensure that engineering managers and team leads are mentoring and managing teams effectively towards results
- Help engineering managers create and ensure they’re moving along career development plans for direct reports
- 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.