VP, Engineering - DTC

What We Do:

Calm’s engineering organization's mission is to build a global, trusted, mental health, technology platform. Our platform is: 

• Accessible – anytime, anywhere, on any device
• Engaging – intuitive, friendly, robust
• Flexible – fast, easy to use, easy to deploy

What You’ll Do:

As a member of Calm’s engineering organization leadership team, you will:

• Lead Consumer Engineering at Calm
• Balance urgency with rigor to deliver clear strategic insights across Calm’s business lines, using analytics, experimentation, and data visualization
• Own the development of end-to-end web and mobile applications to drive user delight and growth
• Ability to understand client (web, mobile) and backend, spearhead architecture changes that will stabilize and optimize the key technology components of the applications while delivering product features.
• Partner with cross-functional leaders, including product and business stakeholders to align on the requirements and business needs
• Manage the engineering teams, own the budget for the team, remove roadblocks, own the execution and quality
• Contribute to a technical strategy for shared infrastructure and services that are shared across Calm
• Encourage and grow the engineering organization: You will expand, uplevel, and manage engineers (people managers + individual contributors), including those embedded on other teams. Establish clear performance objectives and goals, offer effective feedback, and coach them in their ongoing development
• Use the engineering processes and tools to make week-to-week execution effective, transparent and predictable. Appoint on ensuring our process works for us — prioritization, estimates, deadlines, expectation-setting, road mapping, and so on
• Identify the open questions in our approach to architecture and technology, and work across Calm engineering to determine and document on effective approach
• Nurture an evolvable architecture that nimbly supports product and business expansion
• Direct on defining and rolling out several engineering organization processes and practices
• Understand the “buy vs build” tradeoff, and make strategic judgements about where to invest the team’s resources architecturally
• Collaborate with senior leadership to gain alignment on  company-wide goals, and then use this context to prioritize backend initiatives appropriately
• Collaborate with peers and contribute to the common engineering vision

Who You Are:

• 15+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong organization-building background with a focus on innovation, infrastructure development, and team motivation & building
• Demonstrated track record of recruiting, managing, motivating, and retaining a multi-site global engineering team including contractors
• Ability to set goals for their teams that drive business outcomes
• Ability to track data to measure success, and inform project direction
• High level of executive presence demonstrated by the ability to act as the company’s technical representative to cross-functional stakeholders
• You have managed teams of 50+ for at least 5 years 
• You have a proven record and experience in building consumer products (5+ years on the Director or VP level)
• You understand how to build architecture and scale it. Proven record of scaling services
• You have a track record of execution
• You are willing to get your hands dirty, it is a startup after all

Skills & Qualifications:

• Growth mindset: receives feedback easily and incorporates it quickly
• Proactive executor: thoughtful in approach and decisive in decisions
• Pragmatic: balance scrappiness and rigor
• Ability to attract, manage and develop strong engineers
• Great technical communicator
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong technical architecture, product, and architectural instincts

Nice-to-Haves: 

• Healthcare experience
• Startup experience

The anticipated salary range for this position is $325,000 - $375,000. The base salary range represents the low and high end of Calm’s salary range for this position. Not all candidates will be eligible for the upper end of the salary range. Exact salary will ultimately depend on multiple factors, which may include the successful candidate’s skills, experience and other qualifications. This role is also eligible for equity + comprehensive benefits + 401k + flexible time off.