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Fixed Term Contract - Engineering Lead
1 year ago
The SuperAwesome Mission
SuperAwesome is building a safer internet for the next generation. We’ve pioneered the tech sector for youth audiences: creating solutions that enable brands and developers to engage safely and at scale with kids and teens. SuperAwesome technology powers over 12 billion digital touchpoints with young audiences across rich media and video ads, creator content, social communities, gaming, and parental consent. We are the biggest youth-focused tech team on the planet, solving the challenges of engagement with the under-20 audience. At the intersection of technology, law, media and policy, working with us gives you a chance to shape what the internet of the future looks like. As a part of Epic Games since September 2021, together we’ve opened up a whole new window of opportunity to create responsible, immersive digital experiences for kids and teens. It’s a unique, challenging, and rewarding environment.
What You'll Do
You come from an engineering background, and this is not your first gig as an Engineering Manager or Team Lead. You have plenty of stories to tell about how you established strong bonds with Product Managers, Tech Leads and Engineers and about how you prefer to manage stakeholders.
You are comfortable with managing a team of engineers (5-7 people) both at an individual level and in a group setting. You love to coach each of them to their next level of growth and provide them with honest and actionable feedback. You actively work to enable the best outcomes by managing the team dynamics, resources, and skills.
In this role, you will
- You will manage one of our Ads product teams . These teams are responsible for building and scaling our privacy-first ad serving solution that allows publishers and advertisers to interact with kids and young teens online in safe and suitable environments
- You will own the team’s people strategy , and translate business objectives and product roadmaps into sound resourcing, training and delivery plans.
- You will work closely with engineers, your tech lead and product manager to define the ideal processes and team configuration to deliver innovative and forward thinking products
- You will establish a strong relationship of mutual trust with each of your direct reports, and you’ll coach and mentor them to get them to their next level of growth.
- You will help the team to embrace a culture of measurement and transparency where data is collected, updated and shared regularly, so as to enable everyone to make informed decisions.
- You will champion this culture, and distil your own and your teams’ outcomes into the appropriate KPIs
What we're looking for
- You care about building great products and the teams that build them - Our Ads products are unique in the industry with a laser focus on making sure that anything we build makes the internet a safer place for the next generation. As we expand into new areas we want to make sure that we build products that delight both our customers and users while living up to our standards for privacy and safety
- You’ll passionately tackle the team’s problems and care deeply about their health and wellbeing - the tools and practices you’re experienced with are secondary to having the mindset to improve how things are done
- You’re a natural problem solver and you drive changes and improvement with passion
- You love making data-driven decisions - and you drive the right outcomes for your team with a combination of qualitative and quantitative metrics
- You communicate clearly - and will be working with various stakeholders across the business to drive impactful outcomes for your product and team
- You love developing people - and really enjoy coaching and supporting both the emotional and professional needs to help them become the best version of themselves
- You think about things critically - we’re at the forefront of what we do in this industry, so you’ll come across new problems every day
EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE
We pay 100% for benefits except for PMI (for dependents). Our current benefits package includes pension, private medical insurance, health care cash plan, dental insurance, disability and life insurance, critical illness, cycle to work scheme, flu shots, health checks, and meals. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.
Our people are at the heart of what we do and the driving force behind our growth and success. We value individuality and understand the importance of building a workplace where everyone can truly belong. We believe that supporting everyone to be their full selves helps them to reach their potential, that’s why we offer competitive benefits, perks and learning opportunities. We have employee resource groups in place for mental health and DEI helping to ensure everyone can truly be ‘SuperAwesome’, helping us to build a safer internet for the next generation!
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