Growth Operator
AirOps
Python
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
Python
About the role
- Growing our engineering team from 10 to 15-20 within the next year
- Fostering the culture of the engineering team (special challenges: fully remote, distributed, non-profit, open-source, ambitious, mission-driven organization which is pre-product market fit)
- Mentoring tech leads
- Working with the engineering team to cultivate an engineering vision and strategy which can deliver on the Chief Product Officer’s product roadmap and OpenMined’s overall mission
- Final signoff on timeline estimates for features and for cultivating a team which can meet timelines (and manage expectations when timelines need adjusting)
- Ensure that each member of the engineering team is aligned to the engineering strategy — and to OpenMined’s mission overall
- Own the long term robustness and security of the software built by OpenMined
- Manage the tradeoff between the forward advancement of the codebase and the accumulation of technical debt
- Managing uncertainty and people experiencing uncertainty
- Collaborating with the leadership team to create the organization’s strategic plan, including long-term, annual, and quarterly goals
- Responsible for the quality of the codebase delivered to users — expected to write some code while also performing management duties
Requirements
- 2+ years experience managing 2+ layers of engineers in a fully remote org — we’re looking for experience managing managers
- 5+ years as a professional software developer (or similar) — we’re looking for people who can empathize and guide software engineers
- 3+ years experience in an org of 25 - 50 people (can be cumulative across multiple orgs)
- 2+ years of senior leadership experience in a remote capacity (i.e. reporting to the CEO/ED)
- 3+ years experience with Python, AI
- Comfortable with both B2B and C2C software
- Comfortable balancing rapid prototyping AND production development
- Experience finding product market fit and then scaling
- Willingness to travel to off-sites 5+ times a year
- Willingness to take meetings outside of standard hours — our team is remote and our customer base is global
