Director, Mobile Engineering

Description

The role leads mobile engineering across the full product line, which is split into four teams: Adult, Kids, Foundations, and Growth.

The company makes sleep wellness devices that use habit formation research to help people unplug, unwind, and recharge, with no sleep scores or wearables.

Founded in 2014 by Ann Crady Weiss and Dave Weiss, who are parents themselves, the company began by helping parents with newborn sleep and now serves more than 5 million people.

The company is backed by investors and growing fast, and it is certified as a Great Place to Work.

You will manage the mobile engineering managers, who run day-to-day delivery, while you own direction, accountability, and coordination across all teams.

Responsibilities

• Within 1 month: take over the mobile engineering managers, set up 1:1s with each, and take ownership of the weekly Mobile Strategy meeting.
• Within 1 month: learn all four teams, including their resourcing, roadmap, and delivery status, and review the current AI strategy and opportunities on the mobile team.
• Within 1 month: begin working with Product and Design partners across the pillars and encourage a product engineering mindset in the team.
• Within 3 months: own resourcing, escalations, and overall direction for mobile delivery and architecture, including accountability for iOS and Android strategy and individual delivery across the org.
• Within 3 months: direct software quality together with QA, and start shaping architecture governance and the review process, including how staff and principal engineers are used across teams.
• Within 3 months: lead hiring direction, including interviews and hiring decisions for open mobile roles, bring a mobile capacity view into roadmap planning, and start setting direction for AI adoption and tooling efficiency.
• Within 3 months: build working relationships and routines with Product and Design across the pillars, and grow a product engineering culture.
• After 6 months: run architecture governance and the ADR process end to end, including making the calls on bets that affect roadmap or resourcing.
• After 6 months: set Mobile Health direction and strategy, and define the approach to AI adoption and tooling efficiency across the mobile org.
• After 6 months: own staff development, feedback, promotion decisions, and escalations, and develop current and future engineering leads.
• After 6 months: champion recognition and culture for the mobile team, and build project management and product engineering skills across teams.
• After 6 months: as capacity allows, take on select mobile IC work off the critical path to stay current.
• After 6 months: create a cross-functional operating model for Mobile covering planning, prioritization, and coordination with Product, Design, Analytics, and other stakeholders.

Requirements

• Deep background running mobile engineering organizations, including experience managing engineering managers.
• A record of setting technical direction and architecture governance across several product lines or teams at once.
• Comfort leading through delegation, setting direction and holding people accountable without being hands-on in every workstream.
• Strong cross-functional communication, including representing engineering to Product, Design, and executive stakeholders.
• Experience building hiring pipelines and developing engineering leads.
• A builder's mindset, able to work well when things are unclear and priorities compete over a wide scope.
• A product engineering mindset: you help shape the best possible experience for users and take an active part from ideation through implementation.
• Collaboration that makes the people around you better.
• Clear communication that explains complex, cross-team tradeoffs in simple terms.

Conditions

Headquarters are in Menlo Park, California, and the company is open to remote candidates across the U.S. and Canada.

Because the company is based in California, you must be available during PST and PDT hours.

Equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse, inclusive team, welcoming applicants from all backgrounds.

Benefits

• The company pays 100% of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees, and 80% for dependents, including domestic partners.
• Equity in the company, as an owner.
• 401(k) match with no vesting schedule.
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• 16 free therapy sessions for you and one other adult in your life.
• Financial support for family planning.
• Monthly internet reimbursement for your remote office.
• Friends and family discounts on the company's products.
• Discounts on travel, entertainment, and major retail brands.