VP of Engineering

Summary

Join Quartzy as their Vice President of Engineering and contribute to the development of their 'Connected Lab' platform for the biopharma industry. This leadership role involves managing and growing a team of engineers, collaborating with product teams on roadmapping, and ensuring the team's success in meeting timelines. The position requires extensive experience in engineering leadership, agile development, and building high-performing remote teams. Quartzy offers a fully remote work environment, competitive salary, and a comprehensive benefits package. The ideal candidate will be an action-oriented leader with a proven track record of success in a startup environment. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on a company that is experiencing profitable growth.

Requirements

• >15 yrs experience working within high performance engineering organizations
• Has worked at a startup before and is comfortable with rolling up sleeves and doing what needs to get done
• 3+ years experience hiring and managing high performance engineering teams of more than 20 engineers and including managers and international engineers
• You’ve reported to a company officer before and understand how to modulate communication depending on your audience
• Exceptional communication: Your written communication is concise and you can verbalize why certain choices were made and the pros/cons of any alternatives you considered. You motivate and excite people when you communicate
• You’ve been an IC engineer yourself and coded actively in the past 5 years
• An open mind - You take feedback without defensiveness and will incorporate other people’s perspectives if they make sense
• Unwavering work ethic: You can predict problems before they arise and prevent them from happening. You are willing to put in the hours to achieve the company’s goals
• Experience structuring teams to align with company objectives, and measuring their performance
• Experience developing engineers to realize their full potential
• A bias for action: You like to move quickly, and are always iterating on ideas
• An ownership mentality: You possess a natural tendency to take initiative

Responsibilities

• Work with the executive leadership team to set and execute against the annual plan
• Lead, manage and mentor a team of engineers
• Recruit and develop top engineering talent
• Develop standards and procedures to ensure quality standards are met and maintained
• Maintain and optimize budgets to meet goals
• Understand and collaborate on complete product lifecycle from concept to execution
• Recommend new technology and ideas to improve sprints and efficiency
• Ensure we are compliant with the security, accessibility, and IT standards our customers require

Benefits

• Great Culture - Participate in our fun events like speaker series, virtual happy hours & company/department off-sites
• Remote Team - We’re 100% distributed
• Transparency - Weekly all company stand ups, monthly town halls, quarterly state of the start ups and anytime access to co-founders
• Generous Time Off - Take the time you need, when you need it
• Internet Stipend - Quartzy provides a monthly stipend for your internet service
• $220,000 - $250,000 a year
• All regular full-time employees are also eligible for excellent Medical, Dental and Vision coverage with generous premium contributions for both employees and their families, the option of a Health Savings Account with Employer Match, Company paid disability and life insurance with opportunity to add additional coverage for you and your family