Guild needs to build and maintain products and experiences that directly impact students, partners, and internal teams by leading a Product Engineering squad. The company aims to foster a high-performing, engaged team and ensure the delivery of scalable, high-quality solutions while balancing business needs.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a formal people management role, leading high-performing engineering teams.
- Proven experience leading agile product engineering teams, with a strong track record of delivering high-quality, scalable, and resilient software solutions.
- Deep understanding of engineering best practices related to system design, reliability, security, and performance.
- Experience managing cross-team projects, with strong skills in stakeholder management, project planning, and communication.
- Familiarity with driving a culture of continuous improvement, including process optimization and minimizing distractions for engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Ensure system reliability, security, and performance, proactively addressing risks and guiding best practices.
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement, proactively identifying and addressing opportunities for growth.
- Promote knowledge-sharing and maintain clear, up-to-date documentation.
- Optimize workflows and minimize distractions, shielding the team from unnecessary context switching.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, Staff and Principal Engineers to scope and deliver solutions that are scalable and resilient while balancing Guild's business objectives, practical timelines and addressing the ongoing requirements of the Engineering Team.
- Drive execution and squad accountability, ensuring predictable delivery timelines and well-scoped projects.
- Align team work with broader engineering and business strategy, ensuring efficient trade-offs and investments.
Other
- Foster a high-performing, engaged team by providing mentorship, coaching, and clear growth opportunities.
- Ensure your team(s) are diverse in skills, facilitate access to necessary resources for their development, mitigate single points of failure and help them understand how their contributions fit into the broader goals of Guild.
- Guide performance management, setting clear expectations, evaluating individual and team outcomes, and addressing personnel concerns proactively.
- Lead through ambiguity, making informed decisions to adapt to shifting priorities while keeping the team focused.
- Skilled in collaborating cross-functionally with Product Management, Design, and senior technical leaders to align on strategy, scope, and execution.
- Strong decision-making abilities in ambiguous, fast-paced environments, with a focus on business value and pragmatic trade-offs.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including clear documentation and knowledge-sharing practices.
