OpenSesame is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to champion the development of Extreme Programming (XP) practices within a fully-remote engineering team. You will provide the context, skills, and processes necessary for your team to deliver valuable work with high quality, accuracy, and reliability.
What You'll Do
- Develop a plan for team improvement in collaboration with the VP of Engineering.
- Form rapport with team members, stakeholders, product/UX representatives, and management peers.
- Understand team processes, stakeholder needs, and team member needs and career goals.
- Collaborate with team leads on team members' career development spreadsheets.
- Identify team members' strengths and weaknesses.
- Hire contractors and full-time employees as appropriate.
- Understand the team's vision, mission, and how their work fits into the organization.
- Work with product managers to track mission indicators and collect estimates.
- Establish a division of labor with the other manager on the team.
- Work with the Engineering VP to establish a plan for improving team capability and capacity, focusing on XP skills.
- Fulfill organizational governance requirements, including budgeting and reporting.
- Set up a development environment and understand the team's code design at a high level.
- Maintain awareness of team dynamics and interpersonal relationships.
- Develop team members' intrinsic motivation and provide/source training for weak spots.
- Provide coaching and mediation to improve team dynamics.
- Develop team members' skills to expand the company's bench strength and future leadership.
- Ensure the team has context to make excellent decisions without active involvement.
- Balance shielding the team from distractions with enabling direct stakeholder collaboration.
- Provide insights on how the team's work is perceived by internal stakeholders.
- Develop team capability to independently take ownership, share leadership, and deliver value.
- Remove yourself as a bottleneck to team decision making.
- Identify paths for improving developer experience and internal quality.
- Create opportunities for cross-team pollination and growth.
- Advise the Engineering VP on systemic improvements across the engineering organization.
- Work with management peers to understand other teams' needs and opportunities.
- Mentor less-experienced managers, focusing on the other manager on your team.
- Be a resource other managers turn to for advice and guidance.
- Take the lead in implementing systemic improvements across teams.
- Work with product management to improve execution of cross-team initiatives.
- Advise the Engineering VP on improving internal business stakeholder relationships.
What We're Looking For
- Experience as an Engineering Manager.
- Ability to work an early Eastern US schedule, such as 7am-4pm Eastern time.
- Location in Latin America or Canada.
- Track record of delivering excellent results as a self-starter.
Team & Environment
You will be the senior of two managers for a fully-remote team of 14 engineers across North America, South America, the UK, and India. Team members in the western hemisphere will report to you, while team members in India report to the other manager located in India. You will report directly to the VP of Engineering.
Work Mode
This is a fully global remote position, open to candidates based in Canada or Latin America.
OpenSesame is an equal opportunity employer.
