Director of Engineering – Product

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🕒 September 11

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $210k - $240k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🖥 Software Engineer

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Timely

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

📚 Education

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Early Stage VC on 2022-12

Education • SaaS • Artificial Intelligence

Timely is an AI-powered scheduling platform focused on K-12 education. Timely combines AI optimization with educator-led support to build district master schedules that reflect priorities, constraints, and student needs more quickly and precisely. The company is built by former educators and district leaders and markets its platform to school districts, claiming deployments in 22 states, 90+ districts, and supporting roughly 500,000 students. Timely emphasizes systemwide visibility, smarter staffing, FTE reallocation, budget savings, and higher rates of students with complete schedules.

📋 Description

• Own multiple product squads within the engineering organization • Independently lead squads and deliver all squad goals • Manage team members across squads while driving results and retention • Shepherd architecture, engineering decisions, and development priorities in alignment with product and business goals • Establish healthy, sustainable, efficient, and high-quality teams • Partner with Product and cross-functional stakeholders to define squad goals and align engineering priorities • Develop staffing strategies while balancing company and squad goals with business constraints • Advance technical decisions that improve delivery quality and efficiency • Multiply squad impact through culture, process, tooling, and technology • Own critical relationships with internal and external stakeholders • Establish quality practices across squads and engineering • Facilitate continuous learning from production errors and incidents • Improve security, testing, and scaling practices • Escalate major production issues and establish processes to reduce escalation needs • Recruit, hire, and manage team members across multiple squads • Own team-member retention, growth, performance management, feedback, and guidance • Ensure teams operate with high velocity and clear goals • Unblock cross-team and cross-functional challenges • Monitor sprint retrospectives, project progress, and team reflections to improve operations • Take hands-on ownership of challenging or critical needs when necessary • Identify improvements for the overall engineering organization • Support team members through pairing, review, and related activities • Represent the team and organization internally and externally

🎯 Requirements

• Prior experience in technical leadership roles driving business, product, and technical outcomes, such as tech lead, manager, or director • Hands-on development and design experience with demanding architectures involving scale, security, and product considerations • Ability to onboard to a variety of tech stacks • Experience with React, Python, AWS, and MongoDB, or demonstrated ability to onboard effectively to comparable stacks • Successfully managed and scaled multiple teams • Experience shepherding engineering organizations through major technical decisions, changes in scale, and maturation of technology platforms powering mission-critical products • Experience representing an organization and company in internal and external high-stakes conversations • Comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-paced environments, especially startups • Proactive and solutions-oriented • Ownership mentality with a commitment to delivering exceptional results for customers • Willingness to answer whether work authorization sponsorship in the United States is required

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Parental leave • 401(k) • Unlimited PTO • Access to coworking • Equity in a fast-growing startup