Responsibilities
- Serve as people manager for the LX team, setting clear expectations, enabling success and growth, and holding the team accountable
- Defining a vision for how the LX team operates, leveraging industry best practices and personal experience with creative teams to do so
- Identify and implement improvements that increase team capacity and output, making the most of our team, budget, and tools
- Continuously evaluate and adopt cutting-edge tools, particularly AI and automation, to increase the team's pace and throughput
- Partner cross-functionally with the Product Management team to align LX's output with company priorities
Requirements
- Deep experience working in and managing creative teams, particularly in video production
- A track record of high-accountability management, with the ability to get the most out of a high-performing team
- Comfort being scrappy and creative under tight timelines or budgets
- A sharp understanding of constraints: you calibrate quality to the time and resources available
- Expert knowledge of and energy about tools and automation, particularly AI tools, and a drive to bring that energy to the team
- A self-starter who thrives in a hands-off management environment, someone who takes ownership of their work with a "roll up your sleeves mentality," is comfortable with ambiguity, and proactively identifies problems and solutions
- We're an early-stage startup so we're not just looking for someone to run a playbook. We want you to help build it.
- Passion for what we're building here at Ethena and a strong alignment with our core values (which includes an impeccable sense of humor)
Team
Structure: Reports to Anne Solmssen, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Additional Information
- This is sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing in a home office environment.
- Ethena is a fully remote organization.
- All team-wide meetings are scheduled to be inclusive of all North American time zones.
- AI tools (including note takers, transcription tools, or recordings) are not allowed during interviews.
- Unlimited PTO is provided.
