[Hiring] Mobile Engineering Director @Hatch

Role Description

Hatch is looking for a Mobile Engineering Director to own mobile engineering across our entire product portfolio consisting of 4 teams: Adult, Kids, Foundations, and Growth. You'll manage our mobile engineering managers, set architecture and technical direction across teams, foster a culture of product-focused engineering, and make sure the org has the resourcing, escalation paths, and cross-team coordination it needs to ship.

Engineering Managers own day-to-day delivery, and you own the accountability, direction, and connective tissue that keeps mobile engineering coherent across a broad and growing product line.

What You'll Do

• Within 1 month:
  • Take over management of the mobile engineering managers, and start building the relationships and 1:1 cadence to support them.
  • Establish yourself as the owner of the weekly Mobile Strategy meeting.
  • Get oriented across all four teams - Adult, Kids, Foundations, and Growth - and understand current resourcing, roadmap, and delivery status in each team.
  • Understand existing AI strategy and opportunities on the mobile team.
  • Begin building relationships with Product and Design partners across the pillars, and start to foster a product engineering mindset across the team.
• Within 3 months:
  • Own resourcing, escalation, and overall direction for mobile delivery and architecture.
  • Take team-level accountability for cross-platform (iOS and Android) strategy, and for individual mobile delivery across the org.
  • Oversee direction for software quality in partnership with QA.
  • Start shaping architecture governance and the architectural review process, including how staff/principal technical leverage is applied across teams.
  • Own hiring pipeline direction, including interviewing and hiring decisions for open mobile roles.
  • Bring a mobile capacity view into roadmap planning.
  • Begin to set direction for AI adoption and tooling efficiency across the mobile org.
  • Establish strong working relationships and operating rhythms with Product and Design partners across the pillars, and build a product engineering culture across the team.
• After 6 months:
  • Lead architecture governance and the ADR process end to end, including calling the bets that affect roadmap or resourcing.
  • Set Mobile Health direction and strategy.
  • Define the approach to AI adoption and tooling efficiency across the mobile org.
  • Own staff development and feedback across the mobile org, including promotion decisions and escalations, and actively develop current and future engineering leads.
  • Champion recognition and culture for the mobile team, and build project management / product-engineering capability across teams.
  • As capacity allows, pick up select mobile IC work off the critical path to stay current.
  • Establish a robust cross-functional operating model for Mobile: how the organization plans, prioritizes, and coordinates with Product, Design, Analytics, and other key stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience leading mobile engineering organizations, including managing engineering managers.
• A track record of setting technical direction and architecture governance across multiple concurrent product lines or teams.
• Comfort operating through delegation - you set direction and hold accountability without needing to be hands-on in every workstream.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills, including experience representing engineering to Product and Design partners, as well as executive stakeholders.
• Experience building hiring pipelines and developing engineering leads.

Requirements

• A builder's mindset: comfortable with ambiguity and competing priorities across a broad remit.
• A product engineering mindset: we’re building out the best possible experience for our users, and we expect engineers to play an active role from ideation through implementation.
• Collaborative spirit: you make everyone around you better.
• Clear communication: you can explain complex, cross-team tradeoffs simply.

Benefits

• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees (80% for dependents, including domestic partners).
• Meaningful equity. You’re an owner here.
• 401(k) match with no vesting schedule.
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• 16 free therapy sessions (for you and one other adult in your life).
• Financial support for family planning.
• Remote office and monthly internet reimbursement.
• Friends and family discounts on Hatch products.
• Exclusive discounts on travel, entertainment, and top retail brands.