Director of Engineering at ConsenSys

About the role

• We are looking to hire our first ever Director of Engineering to lead our engineering organization towards the above goals.
• We are looking for someone with empathy, humility and self-awareness to provide leadership and oversight to our engineering management practices and processes.
• They will be accountable for overall health and growth of our engineering organization.
• This will be achieved by directly supporting other engineering leaders as a manager, mentor, facilitator, advisor, and advocate, and empowering them to provide such support to engineers they manage. In addition, the Director of Engineering will help guide MetaMask’s teams to improve their engineering processes in areas such as releases and deployments, code review, technical planning, quality assurance and testing.
• This person will be an enabler of other engineering leaders and will not be a technical/architectural decision-maker.

Specific responsibilities will include:

• Initiating and/or cultivating proposals for improvements to our engineering structures, processes and culture
• Facilitating conversations and decisions among our engineering leaders about changes and improvements to our engineering structures, processes and culture
• Driving execution on projects/initiatives aimed at improving our engineering team structures, processes and culture
• Overseeing technical hiring and supporting those responsible for technical recruiting and onboarding
• Collaborating with both HR and Marketing to develop and deliver successful engineering talent attraction and retention strategies
• Advocating for and supporting strategies for growing a diverse and inclusive engineering team
• Being the direct manager for engineering leaders (this includes both individual contributors at the senior/staff level, and engineers who are primarily responsible for managing others). This role will have 8-10 direct reports.
• Mentoring other managers in the practice of people management
• Facilitating decisions among the team’s engineering managers related to workforce planning, hiring priorities, promotions and internal transfers
• Establishing practices and processes to foster learning and growth among engineers
• Advising and soundboarding with engineering leaders about their key challenges, and supporting them by removing blockers, getting them resources and facilitating relationship development with key collaborators
• Work with engineering leaders to identify and implement process changes aimed at improving the quality and velocity of our product releases/delivery
• Collaborate with MetaMask leadership in other functions (product, design, operations, etc) on the structural/organizational changes necessary to properly support a fast growing team
• Helping establish systems for monitoring the health of our engineering organization

The ideal candidate will have experience managing software engineering teams in the following areas:

• Cross-cultural and multi-cultural teams 
• Cross-timezone, global distribution
• Remote working
• Agile environment
• Rapidly changing and brand new technologies
• Fast growing teams

And will have experience with:

• Mentoring/advising others in the practices of engineering management
• All stages of the “employee lifecycle” as it pertains to engineers: recruitment, interviewing, onboarding, offboarding
• Building diverse teams
• Release/Delivery Management
• Maintaining open source projects
• Building software for both desktop browsers and mobile devices
• Deep experience with blockchain technology is not required, but we are looking for someone who will be excited to help realize our vision and believes in our values