At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead an ambitious engineering team to unlock the world's non-public information.
- Company: Join a mission-driven nonprofit focused on social impact and open-source contributions.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible work hours, fully remote options, and competitive compensation.
- Other info: Be part of a dynamic environment with opportunities for personal and professional growth.
- Why this job: Make a meaningful difference while working with cutting-edge technology in a collaborative global team.
- Qualifications: Experience managing remote teams and expertise in Python and AI required.
The predicted salary is between 135000 - 165000 $ per year.
Overview
If we are successful, you will lead the engineering team to build the public internet for the world's non-public information — unlocking 1,000,000x more data in every scientific field and industry, and ensuring it is offered to the world as a part of an open, public information network.
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).
- 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.
- Final signoff on timeline estimates for features and for cultivating a team which can meet timelines.
- Ensure that each member of the engineering team is aligned to the engineering strategy — and to OpenMined's mission overall.
- 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.
- Collaborating with the leadership team to create the organization's strategic plan, including long-term, annual, and quarterly goals.
- Responsible for the quality of the codebase which gets delivered to users.
Qualifications:
- 2+ years experience managing 2+ layers of engineers in a fully remote org.
- 5+ years as a professional software developer.
- 3+ years experience in an org of 25 - 50 people.
- 2+ years of senior leadership experience in a remote capacity.
- 3+ years experience with Python, AI.
- Comfortable with both B2B and C2C software.
- Comfortable balancing rapid prototyping AND production development.
- Experience finding product market fit and then scaling.
- Willingness to travel to off-sites 5+ times a year.
- Willingness to take meetings outside of standard hours.
Benefits:
- Mission-Driven Work: Be part of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, focused on social impact rather than profit.
- Open Source Contribution: Make a real impact by contributing to an Open Source project.
- Collaborative Global Team: Join a dynamic, international team that values collaboration and diversity.
- Flexible Work Hours: Enjoy the autonomy to structure your work hours around what best fits your life and productivity.
- Fully Remote Work: Work from anywhere in the world.
- Results-Driven Culture: Thrive in an environment that values efficiency and results over bureaucracy.
- Flexible Paid Time Off: Take the time you need with flexible vacation days.
- Competitive Compensation: Receive competitive pay, with equity in salary across different regions.
Head of Engineering in Winnipeg employer: OpenMined
As a leading non-profit organization in Canada, we pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative and innovative work culture that prioritizes social impact. Our fully remote environment allows for flexibility and work-life balance, while our commitment to employee growth ensures that team members have access to continuous learning opportunities and the chance to make a meaningful difference in the community. Join us in building an open public network and be part of a mission-driven team dedicated to creating positive change.
