Backed by 500 Global.
About the role
We are seeking a Director of Engineering (Product) who can take ownership of multiple product squads within our engineering organization. You are expected to provide independent leadership for these squads with key outcomes being: Managing team members across squads and driving both results and retention for them within the context of company and team goals.
What they're looking for
- Prior experience in technical leadership roles driving business, product and technical outcomes: tech lead, manager, director, etc
- Hands-on development and design experience with demanding architectures (in terms of scale, security, and product considerations)
- Ability to onboard to a variety of tech stacks as needed. Ours consists of React, Python, AWS, MongoDB. We don’t expect exact overlap, but a demonstrated ability to onboard effectively
- Successfully managed and scaled multiple teams and balanced your own impact in the process
- Previously shepherded engineering organizations through major technical decisions, changes in scale, and maturation of technology platforms powering mission-critical products
- Represented your organization and company in internal and external settings in high stakes conversations
More about this role
School scheduling is a hard problem, one that technology was meant to solve. Yet for decades, the master schedule has been built by hand, consuming educators’ valuable time while delivering a sub-optimal result for students. We started Timely to build the tool we wish we had when we were in schools. And today, we are changing how schools create high quality schedules for teachers and students. Timely combines groundbreaking AI technology with support from a team of expert school schedulers: saving schedulers’ time, and surfacing opportunities for leaders to unlock staff potential. Timely delivers optimized master schedules that are more efficient, accommodate diverse educator needs, and enable student access to courses and pathways that impact their lives.
Our district and school partners agree: scheduling is a key opportunity for educational innovation, and that Timely is the indispensable partner in addressing the challenge. We’re experiencing exciting growth as a company, while doubling down on our mission and people-centered approach to leveraging powerful technology. We serve districts and charter school organizations across 20+ states, growing (and renewing) at rates that...
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