[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Zen Educate

Role Description

Hi, I’m Martin, Chief Technology Officer at Zen Educate and I’m looking for an Engineering Manager who can make an impact on the real-world problem of education staffing, and do it by leading a team in engineering excellence.

• Valuing real-world outcomes and shared learning over output
• Product thinking over pure tech - start with the problem, ship quickly and iterate
• Team success and sustainability over individual heroics

We are a small, but mighty team and so every person has the opportunity to make an outsized impact and put their stamp on what excellence looks like in practice. Today we have 21 Product Engineers, all reporting to one Senior Engineering Manager, working in small, dynamic teams across the Zen product.

This role is particularly exciting because you’ll be Zen’s first Engineering Manager in the US, where we’re enjoying rapid growth. You’ll thrive in this role if you’re someone who can build relationships quickly, take strong ownership of problems end-to-end and hire and grow a team around you.

Qualifications

• Experience in engineering management
• Strong ownership of problems end-to-end
• Ability to build relationships quickly
• Experience in hiring and growing teams

Requirements

• Experience managing a large group of Product Engineers (typically 10-15 individuals)
• Ability to contribute to technical conversations and decision making
• Strong communication skills and async habits
• Experience in coaching and providing feedback

Benefits

• Flexible career progression without rigid competency grids
• Investment in long-term growth rather than immediate financial gain
• Celebration of wins and learnings
• Support for diversity and inclusion

Company Description

We are well established in the UK and growing at a phenomenal rate in the US. Our platform supports internal operations teams on filling roles, educators on finding roles via our mobile app, and schools on getting educators in for both short-term and long-term roles.

The more we develop the platform, the more efficient the whole process becomes, which means more money going back to educators and into classrooms (over $65 million globally since 2017).