Director of Engineering (Remote, Global)

Job Description

The Company Apollo.io 's mission is to help every business to fulfill their full market potential by connecting companies with amazing solutions with those who need them most. We've built a database of 250 million business contacts and 10 million companies, and our software helps sales and marketing identify and convert their most likely potential customers. We've raised over $10 million from Silicon Valley investors such as Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, SV Angel, and Social Capital, and are profitable and continuously growing. We're headquartered in San Francisco, CA with a brilliant worldwide remote team. Apollo is the foundation of your entire go-to-market strategy. Your Mission As a Director of Engineering at Apollo, you will build, sustain, and foster an engineering team centered around teamwork, excellence, productivity, and growth. Competencies - Problem-solving : You are self-motivated and passionate about pursuing excellence, and enjoy adapting to and tackling problems that block you from reaching your goals - Execution : You are able to effectively plan, organize, and execute on initiatives in a timely and efficient manner. - Expectations : You have high expectations for the team's happiness, unity, growth, and level of execution and delivery. - Empathy: As a mentor and as a teammate, you are an intent listener that is compassionate and puts people first, and you are tactful with both accepting and delivering criticism to others - Driving alignment : You have the ability to set goals, align, and drive improvements within the team Daily Adventures and Responsibilities: - Participation in key technical decision-making discussions such as sprint planning, software design, and occasionally code reviews - Help build and scale a world-class engineering team by sourcing and hiring engineering manager candidates - Hold systematic weekly 1:1 touch points with engineering managers to mentor, deliver, and receive quality feedback - Collaborate closely to develop and execute on personalized goals - Conduct objective and helpful quarterly bi-annual performance reviews for engineering managers Skills and Relevant Experiences - 2+ years of hands-on software engineering industry experience - 5-7+ years of engineering management experience Great to have - BS or MS degree from a university in a technical discipline (e.g. CS, Math, Engineering) - Should have fundamentals in software architecture at scale, effective engineering processes, devops, and cross-team functions. - Experience hiring A+ engineering managers Key Outcomes Within the first 1st month: -Begin by inheriting a team of engineers: lay the groundwork for building strong relationships for engineers and other lead counterparts: understanding their strengths, weaknesses, and career ambitions - Understand : Learn, familiarize, and integrate yourself within Apollo's existing engineering strategy, processes, and pain points - Observe: Critically observe and actively make suggestions for improving development and management processes within Apollo engineering. Develop a SWOT for the engineering organization. - Hiring: Begin involvement in the hiring of excellent engineering managers across multiple teams - Work closely with key leadership counterparts such as other engineering leaders, the CTO, Product Managers, and Designers to deliver high quality software at a rapid pace for an ever-increasing user base Within the first 3 months: - Begin upscaling standards and processes by making suggestions based on SWOT analysis conducted in the first month - Vision: Serve as a leader by helping the team define, set, and adhere to goals and expectations - Culture: Drive a consistently high employee cultural satisfaction score, with focuses around teamwork, excellence, learning, and fun Within the 4-6th months - Management: Proficiency with collecting and delivering effective feedback to engineering manager reportees. - Technical: Be a source of technical leadership, especially for complex and large-scale projects - Hiring : Double the headcount of excellent engineering managers across key teams in the organization as well, setting those teams up for autonomous success. This is a remote position available from anywhere in the world. Please apply ONLY if you meet the minimum requirements. What You'll Love about Apollo: As we are scaling our company, we are committed to providing the best possible environment for our engineering team. The less time our engineers spend dealing with cumbersome processes, inefficient systems, and commuting, the more time they have to solve problems and make an impact. We're a technology-first team dedicated to building the greatest engagement software available. We keep in touch with Slack and regular video conferences. You can work from home, a coffee shop or the beach as long as your work is aligned with your goals. If this sounds interesting, we would love to hear from you! Please include whatever info you believe is relevant: resume, GitHub profile, code samples, links to personal projects, etc. Apply for this job