Director of Engineering

Ubiety • Chicago, IL, United States • $200k - $250k / year • 1m ago

Engineering

Leadership

Summary

Ubiety Technologies, Inc. has developed an AI engine (Eckleburg) that can passively listen to cellular, wifi and bluetooth signals enabling us to sense, categorize, and identify people by the devices they carry with them. Our firm's commitment to seamlessly integrating Radio Frequency (RF) data with cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) empowers us to deliver invaluable, world-first, actionable insights based on human presence and situational awareness.

We offer afast-paced, highly collaborative startup environment where you will be inventing and developing transformative products to improve the lives of our customers. You will be working alongside extremely talented engineers, designers, and product leaders from inception through delivery of a revolutionary product.

The Director of Engineering’s principal responsibilities will be to level up Ubiety’s engineering team, and be responsible for setting and executing against Ubiety’s strategic technical vision and roadmap. The ideal candidate will be an experienced technology leader with demonstrable track record scaling at least one engineering organization from 5-10 to 50+, and will have delivered a technology-backed product to market that serves 1M+ users. The ideal candidate will also be an effective “player-coach” of engineering teams, with the ability to make scalable architectural and system design decisions as well as coach and mentor junior Individual Contributors as well as Engineering Managers.

What you'll need

Experience growing a technology team from 5-10 people to 50+
Experience leading a technology team that delivered a product in production to 1M+ users
A strong technical architecture background, with experience ensuring that underlying technology, architecture, and design decisions will support our needs at scale
Ability to attract top-tier talent, as well as inspire, mentor, and develop in-house Engineers and Engineering Managers
A strong Strategic Technical Vision - ability to define and execute a technology roadmap that aligns with business goals
Awareness of emerging technologies and industry trends, and technical skills to do deep research and make informed decisions about technology stacks, infrastructure, and tooling
Experience working with Executive Leadership Teams and collaborating effectively, including an ability to navigate ambiguity and make sound decisions under pressure
Experience driving operational excellence for an engineering team, including installing ceremonies and/or practices where useful, team member goal setting and performance tracking, making accurate scope projections, and installing best practices for code reviews, testing, and continuous integration / continuous deployment
A desire to “wear multiple hats” and handle diverse responsibilities
A strong desire to take on a significant leadership role and make a difference for Ubiety’s Engineering team and the organization as a whole.

What you'll be doing

Suggest and implement improvements across all aspects of Ubiety’s engineering team, including attracting top-tier talent, building and fostering a collaborative, high-performing team culture, and inspiring, mentoring, and coaching other Engineers and Engineering Managers.
Lead design and architectural decisions for Ubiety’s most mission-critical technology components, writing feature requirements, suggesting and reviewing technical designs, and working across teams to craft innovative solutions for complex problems.
Build, maintain, and evolve a strategy for Ubiety’s technology offerings, and own the execution of various engineering work streams towards delivering a cohesive technology offering.
Partner with stakeholders and contributors (including business development, marketing, GTM, developers, project/program managers, data science, and product design) to design and own technology products, engineering roadmaps, and goals.
Implement effective team topologies and organizational best practices to ensure excellent operational efficiency of the engineering team. Set goals, delegate tasks, and ensure that the team is working efficiently to achieve them.
Create and implement Objectives and Key Results and/or Key Metrics for the technology stack and for the engineering organization. Maintain individual and organizational accountability against those metrics.
Draft documents to describe plans, goals, and solutions including annual and quarterly plans, feature requirements, resourcing tasks, and more.
Identify and elevate technology and engineering opportunities while identifying and mitigating major risks.
Work closely with product leaders and design counterparts to identify and document business requirements, measuring and sharing progress against goals, and championing adoption with customers and partners.
Analyze data, develop actionable insights, and be a resident expert in engineering growth and landscape.
Advocate for the appropriate resourcing to maintain sustainable workload for product, design, and engineering. Create and update hiring plans based on an ever-changing partnership landscape.
Collaborate with business leadership to develop and maintain technology educational and marketing materials, supporting GTM strategies, press releases, patent opportunities, and more.

What we'll do for you

A small, tightly-knit team that cares about each other, and cares about leveling everyone up together!
A high level of autonomy, and opportunity to take as much of a leadership role as you are interested in
A highly collaborative environment with an extreme level of transparency and visibility at all levels of the company
Significant ownership over Ubiety’s mission-critical technology roadmap and architecture
Significant ownership of the operation and standards for Ubiety’s engineering team - everything is up for improvement and change. It’s a “green field” for coming in and improving the organization!
Opportunity to set your own metrics and goals for the engineering organization and the technology stack, and to work towards delivering on those goals as a team
A true meritocracy, we care about deliverables. We’ve got too much to do!
Opportunity to lead a team of hand-selected, highly talented, hungry, driven engineers
A brand new technology stack purpose-built from scratch over the last 4 years using the latest and greatest technologies - no old, ugly “legacy” systems
Equity ownership in a fast-growing company
Continuous learning courses and training offered for free to all employees
Subsidized healthcare coverage for all employees
Flexible schedule
Unlimited PTO policy - Work hard, deliver on your goals, and then take the time to play hard, disconnect, and recharge

An Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/ Disabled

Ubiety Technologies, Inc is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. Ubiety Technologies does not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability or any other protected characteristic in accordance with federal, state and local law.

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