TrovaTrip is a trip management platform dedicated to making travel safer and more accessible to all. Our mission is to enhance lives via meaningful connections, learning, and exploration. Our team of travel enthusiasts lives out our mission daily.

Our determination is to make TrovaTrip one of the best places to work by building trust, respecting personal boundaries, valuing work-life balance, promoting diversity, and inclusiveness. While instilling a true sense of ownership and belonging among every employee that will transcend to delighting customers to creating true market value. We believe in an environment where creativity, curiosity, and continuous improvement are encouraged and nurtured. 

If you are looking to develop your career and thrive off of a fast-paced, collaborative culture where you can make an impact, you may be a fit for this position .

About the position:

We are looking for an Engineering Director to lead a fast growing engineering team, with the challenge of transforming our platform into one of a kind, world-class digital product to serve our ecosystem of clients and partners, to continue transforming the group travel industry.

Main responsibilities includes:

• Oversee and develop engineering managers and their teams, looking for high-impact contributions to the product roadmap.
• Define and evolve team structures and working dynamics according to the company's goals and objectives.
• Ensure reliability and performance of all internal and external systems.
• Build high-performance teams, and manage their career development and performance.
• Clarify and communicate difficult concepts to internal and external business stakeholders as well as communicate business objectives to their team.
• Ensure compliance with security and legal regulations.
• Work in collaboration with Product and other departments to define and manage the Roadmap, its goals and timelines. Play an active role in their development and completion.
• Design implementation strategies for current and future initiatives based on the company’s overall objectives and resources.
• Provide expert guidance and support to Engineering Managers. Monitor training needs for them, to make a positive impact on their career development
• Analyze market trends in order to incorporate new tools, technologies and best practices.
• Review and update policies relevant to the engineering department.
• Manage leaders that work in distributed teams, from different regions, with different time zones and cultures.
• Reports directly to the CTO.

Products:

• Marketplace web application connecting travelers, hosts, and international tour operators.
• Digital assets supporting hosts to market and sell trips to prospective travelers online.
• Mobile applications to connect travelers and hosts more closely to each other and to their destinations.

Qualifications: 

• 7 years of experience directly managing engineers.
• 5 years experience in a technical role (developer or architect) working on distributed systems or cloud services that require high availability.
• Experience with managing global leaders and global teams, along with the ability to pivot and adjust as per dynamic business needs.
• Leadership and demonstrated people management abilities with a strategic mind.
• Experience creating and maintaining a continuous deployment development process
• Action-mindset. Ability to make decisions quickly.
• Up-to-date knowledge of the industry.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Extensive technical knowledge of engineering practices and product development.
• ​​Experience managing the software development lifecycle using agile methodologies. 

Benefits:

• Generous Paid Time Off
• Volunteer Paid Time Off
• Trip perk credit vouchers for use on any TrovaTrip anywhere in the world with additional PTO!
• Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parent
• Up to 4 weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing parent
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401k program with a company match!
• Great office location on the waterfront in the Pearl District, Portland, OR
• Flex Work Environment

TrovaTrip is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. TrovaTrip considers equal opportunity, diversity, and inclusion to be fundamental to the mission of the company