Engineering Management

Maven is seeking an experienced leader to join their engineering management team and play a foundational role in building the Maven platform. The successful candidate will be responsible for cultivating success across the engineering department, building and leading a team of Mavens, attracting and retaining diverse engineering talent, and implementing metrics to measure productivity and engagement. They will also collaborate with product teams to solve challenging problems and ensure the development of scalable and secure systems. Strong leadership, communication, and technical skills are essential for this role.

• Cultivate success across the engineering department through leadership and direction across backend development, frontend development, systems/operations, and quality assurance teams.
• Build and lead a team of Mavens through hiring, mentoring, feedback, and career development.
• Actively attract and retain great and diverse engineering talent.
• Be a key player in strategic workforce planning and hiring/retention processes - recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding new Mavens.
• Drive team satisfaction to retain our people.
• Implement appropriate metrics to measure and motivate productivity and engagement across engineering in partnership with direct reports.
• Partner with engineering management and engineers on career progression and individual development for professional growth at Maven and beyond.
• Empower teams to build scalable and secure systems for Maven's users.
• Foster curiosity and empathy within the engineering department.
• Facilitate collaboration between engineering and product teams in solving problems across the platform.
• Experience in leading, managing, coaching engineering teams to deliver high-quality software.
• Experience building and maintaining a complex set of systems.
• Experience working with product leadership to deliver on time and on target.
• Experience working within privacy, security, or regulatory constraints.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience attracting, hiring, engaging, and retaining diverse talent (preferred).
• Operational experience in workforce planning and creating metrics to monitor and measure productivity and engagement across engineering (preferred).
• Experience working collaboratively across different teams to achieve common goals harmoniously (preferred).

• Experience in leading, managing, coaching engineering teams to deliver high quality software
• Professional software development management, on production-quality products
• Experience building and maintaining a complex set of systems
• Experience working with product leadership to deliver on time and on target
• Experience working within some form of privacy, security, or regulatory constraints
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience attracting, hiring, engaging and retaining diverse talent
• Operational experience in workforce planning, and creating metrics which monitor and measure productivity and engagement across engineering
• Experience working collaboratively across different teams to drive and achieve common goals harmoniously.

• Maven for Mavens: access to the full platform and specialists, including care for mental health, reproductive health, family planning, and pediatrics.
• Whole-self care through wellness partnerships.
• Weekly breakfast, lunch, and get-togethers.
• 16 weeks 100% paid parental leave, flexible time upon return, and $1.5K/mo for 2 months, new parent stipend (for Mavens who've been with us at least six months).
• Udemy, annual professional development stipend, and access to a personal career coach through Maven.
• 401K matching for US-based employees (immediately vesting).