What you'll do

• Guide engineering strategy as part of the Engineering Leadership team
• Manage managers, leads, and engineers and invest in their career growth
• Help create a healthy culture to make Skillshare a happy and productive place to work
• Regularly assess the technical state of teams, and advocate for best practices, and provide focused mentoring to team members
• Help ensure that our solutions are scalable, sustainable, architecturally sound
• Recruit and hire new engineering team members

Why we're excited about you

• You have 10 years of experience, with around 3 years managing engineers for microservices based cloud-native web and backend applications at scale
• You’re a seasoned manager, comfortable recruiting, coaching, and mentoring highly talented engineers and managers
• You're able to build support for strategic initiatives and to make well informed strategic decisions
• You have the ability to influence and establish engineering best practices through solid design decisions, processes, and tools
• You have strong organization and prioritization skills along with outstanding communication skills
• You'll have empathy for Skillshare end-users and the ability to collaborate with product teams to define a strategic vision for an engaging user experience - bonus points for experience with mobile!
• As another bonus, you might have startup experience at similarly sized companies with a remote team culture

Why you're excited about us

• Impact: You’ll play a key role in growing the team and shaping the strategic direction of our future
• Growth: You’ll have the opportunity to wear a lot of hats and take on more responsibility over time
• Our team: We have a passionate, talented team that is a lot of fun to work with
• Our mission: We’re doing work that matters – connecting lifelong learners around the world and empowering them to pursue their creativity
• Flexibility: We believe that doing your best work means living a full life. That means different things for everyone, so we optimize for trust, invest to support remote teams, have an unlimited vacation policy (with a required minimum!), and encourage work-life balance