• Great executive managers and leaders who will ensure we reach our vision for the best engineering and product teams in Canada
• Community-builders who are passionate about people being together and growing in-person teams here on the prairies: building trust, creating close ties, nurturing communication and fostering strong relationships
• Motivating leaders who spend time contextualizing and sharing the company’s strategic goals to help others feel connected and involved
• Driven, performance-focused leaders who don’t just run teams, but who constantly push them to achieve and level them up
• Startup innovators who understand that we can’t move faster or win by creating endless processes, approvals, checkpoints, policies, or rules
• Flexible leaders who can hop onto a ship in motion: you’re excited to help us improve a spotify-team model, continuous delivery, kanban, and more
• Aligned partners who value what we value (e.g. ownership, winning, & diversity)
• Confident managers who can hold others accountable, and who speak out against mediocre or sub-par results anywhere at Sequestr.
• Highly ambitious, big-picture thinkers who can imagine what Sequestr can be and can execute on our plan to get there in an impossibly short time

Responsibilities

• Directly supervise, mentor, and collaborate with engineering managers who are in the thick of it with their teams every day
• Collaborate with our Product Management team and leaders to help map our product roadmap onto small, agile engineering teams
• Help achieve a strong balance between immediate business needs and doing the right thing from a tech or engineering perspective
• Look for trends, root causes, or long term improvements we can make (even if our managers and technical leads are focused on immediate problems or fires)
• Engage with technical leaders on the team to ensure we’re pursuing technical excellence; coach them to build technology roadmaps and hold leaders accountable for hitting milestones
• Lead people/recruiting team efforts to find, recruit, interview, onboard and grow our tremendous pool of talent; ensure we can hit near-impossible growth goals by taking an active approach every day
• Motivate the whole team to be involved in the tech community to bolster Sequestr’s presence and reputation; encourage others to step up but show them the way
• Work with business stakeholders at Sequestr or other companies, often serving as a connection point for relationships, partnerships or initiatives
• Figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context and expectations, rather than by trying to control, set policies, or dictate directions

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering experience in a medium or larger software company including 3+ years managing high performance teams
• Demonstrated ability to hire and grow senior leaders and managers
• Strong technical craft mastery and engineering discipline
• Deep organization capabilities, especially in regards to influence, collaboration and communication
• Growth or business experience and focus is a plus

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