Director, Engineering

Vidyard is the video platform that's built for business. Sales reps, marketers, and corporate communicators use Vidyard to record and share videos that grab attention and deliver their message in a personal, impactful way. It's the video tool of choice for Microsoft, LinkedIn, and thousands of other companies. We're passionate about elevating our customers, our teammates, our communities, and ourselves.

This is a remote position, see remote @ Vidyard for details!

Vidyard is looking for a Director, Engineering to join our engineering leadership team. We are building the next chapter of our product-led growth story, and you are an engineering leader who will help us craft that strategy from a technical/feasibility standpoint. You will enable our developers to make the product customer journey as self-serve and delightful as it could possibly be, resulting in engagement loops driving more productivity and usage. Together, we will scale our ability to help companies succeed through the strategic use of online video.

Our engineering team consists of ~70 developers across multiple product streams and a platform+infrastructure team, led by a strong and accountable group of leads and directors. We are passionate about developer and employee experience and making Vidyard an amazing place to learn and ship. 

In this role, reporting directly to the VP of Engineering, you will develop and lead several of our high-performing remote teams, with an engineering ethos that focuses on technical innovation, continuous improvement, and team collaboration. You will partner with our Design and Product organizations to plan and deliver the growth of our world-leading video sales and marketing platform along with the rest of our engineering leadership group.

• You meet your team and begin to establish trust
• You are learning about our broader organizational goals, processes and conventions
• You are learning our products, architecture and tech stack
• The first collaborations with your peers across the company have started 

• You are fully accountable and trusted to deliver awesome user outcomes with your teams, balancing strategic investments and other opportunities uncovered by your teams in partnership with Product Management.
• You are helping to evolve a performance culture of empathy, energy and ambition that empowers your teams
• You are an key part of establishing our long-term strategies against our organizational and technology vision
• You will have helped build an employee development program and strategy, showing clear successes in recruiting and the career/skill/diversity progression of your staff

• You have 5+ years experience as a manager, ideally as a “lead of leads”
• You are proud of your track record of developing engineering talent through mentorship and leadership
• You have a history of accountability, ownership and leading amazing outcomes in high-growth companies utilizing product-led growth strategy.
• You are focused on customer value, with experience in dual-track development approaches to ensure a culture of ongoing learning and human impact in the Engineering group.
• You have a background in software engineering
• You are very experienced in collaborating effectively with roles outside of engineering

• Vue
• React
• Ruby on Rails
• Node.JS

Job descriptions can be overwhelming. We are all aboard at Vidyard and deeply value the unique experiences, abilities and opinions you possess, so if this role sounds like your next adventure, but you don’t feel entirely qualified, apply! We value candidates who own it, and if you’re relentlessly resourceful too, you might be exactly who we are looking for. 

As we also value direct and transparent communication, you can expect to hear from our team even if you are not selected to move forward.

• Competitive pay
• Comprehensive benefits on day one, where available
• Wellness allowance to spend on what's important to you 
• Flexible hours + unlimited vacation + programs to support travel while working, enabling you to live your best life
• Vidyard-sponsored employee assistance program to support your personal and mental well-being
• Allowance to support your ongoing growth and development
• Parental leave top-up
• Paid volunteer hours
• Employee resource groups to empower and drive change at Vidyard and in our communities
• Stock options
• Flexible holiday program

As a video-centric organization, Vidyard has mastered the art of remote work. Whether you are local to our collaboration space in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, or you join us from elsewhere, you will be an integral part of the team.

Vidyard is dedicated to ensuring all Vidyardians have an opportunity to:

• Level up their home office/workspace. 
• Socialize purposefully within teams as well as across the organization. 
• Enjoy a flexible work schedule. We know your time is valuable, so own your work in a way that best suits your lifestyle.

We believe working remotely shouldn’t cause any barriers, so from onboarding to day-to-day operations, your colleagues and leaders are only as far as a *virtual* tap on the shoulder away.

We thank all applicants for your interest in Vidyard. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Unsolicited resumes from Agencies will not be accepted.

Vidyard is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants who require reasonable accommodation to complete the application and/or interview process should notify us at [email protected].