[Hiring] Director, Engineering @The Athletic Media Company

Role Description

We’re looking for an experienced engineering director to grow and lead our team of engineers working on our products. The team works closely with our other product teams, and we’re looking for an engineering leader who can excel at defining our strategy, translating that strategy into staffing and technical roadmaps, and then grow and manage the team to execute on those roadmaps. Your team will build across all our platforms, including web, iOS and Android. Your team of engineers will be working on every part of the stack: web, backend, API, database, analytics.

• Responsible for hiring additional engineers with a focus on diversity and inclusion.
• Manage your team and help them deliver high-quality software in a fast-paced, agile, high-growth environment.
• Make technology, infrastructure, architectural, and hiring decisions to meet anticipated demands and scale.
• Evaluate trade-offs and effectively prioritize tasks within each team in alignment with strategic initiatives and company goals.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, editorial, data science, and marketing teams to define strategy and execute on roadmaps.
• Brainstorm new product ideas and improvements alongside the design and product teams while also delivering clean, performant code.
• Hold regular 1:1s, evaluate performance, and provide consistent productive feedback.
• Help engineers learn the skills needed to advance in their career.
• Work with engineers and product managers to iterate on and improve team processes and efficiency.
• Contribute to important company-wide initiatives like diversity and inclusion, technical brand, and hiring process.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience managing an engineering team.
• Experience leading a team building both web and iOS/Android products.
• Direct experience scaling a small to medium/large team highly desired (but not required).
• Experience with some portion of our tech stack, and an appetite to learn the remainder: Javascript (React, Next.js, Node.js, Apollo/GraphQL), PHP (Wordpress), MySQL/DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, AWS.

Requirements

• The annual base salary range for this role is $240,000.00 - $260,000.00 USD.
• The total compensation offered for this position may vary based on factors such as education, experience, skills, and location.
• For roles in the U.S., you may be eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock.
• Benefits may include medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.
• For roles outside of the U.S., information on benefits will be provided during the interview process.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision benefits.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s).
• Company-matching 401(k) plan.
• Paid vacation.
• Paid sick days.
• Paid parental leave.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Professional development programs.