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Engineering Manager - Product
4 years ago
Discord is looking for a highly technical, creative, hands-on and mission-driven Engineering Manager to pair with Product lead new teams. You will own the creation and organization of your new teams to support our growth and revenue plans, including recruiting for the ICs and managers of those teams and ensuring their success.
Everyone who's life could be improved by Discord should know about it, and those millions who use it every day should invite their friends and get more from the product. Our revenue products will align with the interests and needs of our users and offer things of real life value for sustainable prices. This will require creativity, collaboration, and invention.
If that sounds exciting to you, read on!
What you'll do
- Build exceptional teams of highly-engaged engineers by hiring, coaching and instilling a sense of ownership and impact.
- Work with Product, Design and Marketing to define your team’s vision and roadmap by thoroughly understanding your customers’ needs.
- Leverage your technical expertise to constantly raise the bar and ensure your team delivers extraordinary results at the high technical level we set.
- Adjusting team composition, and creating new teams, to adjust to changing needs or tuning team dynamics
- Making sound first-principle decisions around resourcing, and making the rationale clear to partners and team members
- Partnering with director on strategic planning and to continuously improve the Engineering organization and uphold our workplace philosophy.
Who you are
- You have 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
- You have 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager and successfully managed at least 5 Software Engineers.
- You have strong communication skills and the ability to work well cross-functionally.
- You thrive in ambiguous environments and get excited about figuring out solutions to complex problems, and then executing on them.
- You are a first principles thinker that is able to work with others to come up with pragmatic solutions.
- You have have a strong product sense and take pride in understanding your customers.
- You love experimentation and get excited when numbers move by 1%.
- Code does not scare you, you are still an engineer even if you don't do it all the time.
- You keep up with the industry trends and and can assess new technologies that can help us better solve problems.
About Us
Gamers, nerds, moms, dads, engineers, designers, marketers, support. We created Discord to help people come together around games. It's been amazing to watch it grow into what it is today - a place where millions of diverse communities exist and people connect with old friends and new. Diversity and inclusiveness are a critical part of how we get to what's next. We believe that with diversity comes a better product, better decisions, and a better work environment. As we continue to grow, our values keep us dedicated to building a company that is representative of the world we live and play in.
Discord is an equal opportunity employer committed to promoting an inclusive work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We value diversity, inclusion, and aim to provide a sense of belonging for everyone.
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