Job Description
Title: Director of Engineering, Partnerships
Location: US / Remote
At a point of major inflection and scale, TaskRabbit is looking for a Director of Engineering to own and drive the engineering strategy to enable TaskRabbit to integrate with other businesses to offer TaskRabbit services to their customers. Partnerships are a critical growth engine for TaskRabbit and one of our top strategic priorities. TaskRabbit is integrated with IKEA, our parent company, and we are building our partnerships platform to unlock more business opportunities through new partnerships. TaskRabbit is looking for a strong leader with experience building a robust and scalable platform to support current and future partners at scale. This leader will be responsible for attracting and retaining high-caliber engineers and engineering managers on a remote-first team, collaborating with Product and other business leaders to define the long-term partnerships engineering strategy to support and sustain hyper growth for TaskRabbit, and leading the engineering team to execute on this strategy. This leader will report directly to the CTO
What You’ll Do:
- Own and execute on the Partnerships Engineering Roadmap at Taskrabbit, leading teams of engineers to build the product capabilities required to enable all business partners to successfully connect with our Taskrabbit ecosystem and deliver a delightful experience for their customers.
- Partner with Product, Data, and Business Development to build the Taskrabbit Partnerships strategy and define the necessary high-fidelity user stories to deliver high-impact business outcomes.
- Collaborate with Engineering leaders and teams on architecture, system design, and technical dependencies.
- Manage multiple product areas, scale teams, and ensure your organization is effective, healthy, and set up for success by establishing clear and measurable goals.
- Communicate roadmaps, priorities, and decisions across a wide spectrum of audiences from engineers, EDDP (Engineering, Data, Design and Product) partners, peers across the business, and executive leadership.
- Build and develop a team of engineers with experience building products and systems for scale.
What You’ll Bring:
- 5+ years experience building products for scale
- Proven track record managing effective engineering teams; 5+ years managing software teams; 2+ years managing managers
- Experience building customer-facing products
- Comfortable with React and Rails application development
- Understand tradeoffs between maintainability, complexity, and speed to market
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Minimum Bachelor’s in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience