OpenMined · 4 months ago
Head of Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/ExecutiveOpenMined is dedicated to building a public internet for non-public information, aiming to unlock vast amounts of data across scientific fields. The Head of Engineering will lead the engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation and ensuring alignment with the company's mission while managing the complexities of a remote and ambitious environment.
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Responsibilities
Growing our engineering team from 10 to 15-20 within the next year
Fostering the culture of the engineering team (special challenges: fully remote, distributed, non-profit, open-source, ambitious, mission-driven organization which is pre-product market fit… 1000 ways to not make a lightbulb type culture)
Mentoring tech leads
Working with the engineering team to cultivate an engineering vision and strategy which can deliver on the Chief Product Officer’s product roadmap and OpenMined’s overall mission (special challenges: tech transfer, integration science, cross-disciplinary across distributed systems, cryptography, and deep learning; pre-product market fit, many rapid pivots while also gaining progress over time — constantly calibrating software stability and speed of innovation)
Final signoff on timeline estimates for features and for cultivating a team which can meet timelines (and manage expectations when timelines need adjusting)
Ensure that each member of the engineering team is aligned to the engineering strategy — and to OpenMined’s mission overall (special challenges: our vision doesn’t have widely recognized buzz words, we’re still discovering how to describe different facets, balancing short-term vision with long-term vision focus, translating across technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating for both internal and external audiences)
Own the long term robustness and security of the software built by OpenMined
Manage the tradeoff between the forward advancement of the codebase and the accumulation of technical debt along the way
Managing uncertainty and people experiencing uncertainty (special challenges: tech transfer, pre-product-market fit, ambitious goal, many pivots)
Collaborating with the leadership team (fellow department leads and the executive director) to create the organization’s strategic plan, including long-term, annual, and quarterly goals
At the end of the day, you are responsible for the quality of the codebase which gets delivered to users — as a function of the culture, tradeoffs, and architecture you steward. This will probably be hard to do if you don’t write some code — but also it’s a management role
Qualification
Required
Experience leading engineering teams in a remote and distributed environment
Strong background in software engineering and development
Ability to mentor and grow tech leads
Experience in cultivating an engineering vision and strategy
Proficiency in managing timelines and expectations
Ability to align team members with the engineering strategy and organizational mission
Experience ensuring software robustness and security
Ability to manage technical debt while advancing the codebase
Experience in collaborating with leadership to create strategic plans
Strong problem-solving skills in uncertain environments
Experience in balancing short-term and long-term vision
Company
OpenMined
OpenMined is a community focused on building open-source technology for the decentralized ownership of data and intelligence.
Founded in 2017
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
unknown2017-10-19Non Equity Assistance
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