Far off Head of Engineering at iNaturalist

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iNaturalist seeks a dynamic and skilled Head of Engineering to sign up for our management workforce. This vital position will record at once to the Government Director and will probably be pivotal in shaping the way forward for iNaturalist. The perfect candidate will possess a mix of strategic imaginative and prescient, technical experience, and workforce management abilities to successfully lead our engineering workforce.

Tasks

Organizational Management

Strategic Making plans: Collaborate with the Government Director, Head of Engagement, and Head of Construction to increase and execute organizational methods, targets, and running plans.
Purpose Atmosphere: Give a contribution to atmosphere and reaching targets that concentrate on increasing iNaturalist’s have an effect on on biodiversity, rising the group, improving the product, development organizational capability, and making sure sustainability.
Pass-functional Collaboration: Foster a collaborative atmosphere throughout all departments to make sure alignment and integration of efforts against commonplace targets.

Engineering Group Management

Group Management: Domesticate a tradition of top efficiency coupled with a birthday party of accomplishment inside the engineering workforce. Increase profession paths, behavior efficiency critiques, and arrange recruitment and hiring processes.
Technical Oversight: Overseeing a workforce of 10 engineers, designers, and undertaking managers taken with cellular and internet interfaces, database methods, AI fashions, and backend operations.
Workflow: Coordinate and streamline the control of engineering initiatives, timelines, and launches. Be certain well timed supply of top of the range merchandise.

Enjoy and {Qualifications}

Control Enjoy: In depth revel in managing and rising a workforce of 10+ engineers. Enjoy managing in a faraway atmosphere and revel in with open supply initiatives.
Technical Experience: Enjoy with the next applied sciences: cellular and internet building, database control, AI, and backend operations and tool building processes together with methods structure, tool design, and trying out that quilt all levels of conventional tool building lifecycle. Enjoy with agile/scrum, cloud deployments, and managing main supplier relationships (e.g. Google, Azure, Apple)
Collaborative Spirit: Superb verbal exchange and collaboration abilities, having the ability to paintings successfully throughout departments and with various stakeholders.
Hobby for Nature: A robust dedication to nature and generation in addition to an pastime in science and conservation.

Why Sign up for Us?

Have an effect on: Play a pivotal position in a mission-driven group devoted to biodiversity conservation and group engagement.
Innovation: Main a workforce of builders development state-of-the-art generation that empowers tens of millions of other people to make a favorable have an effect on on nature.
Expansion: Be a part of a rising group with alternatives for private {and professional} building.

In case you are biodiversity, generation, and main gifted groups to reach significant have an effect on, we inspire you to use for this thrilling alternative.

Repayment and Advantages

Why it’s Nice to paintings at iNaturalist

A project that issues.

With species going extinct day-to-day, the desire to give protection to and report biodiversity hasn’t ever been extra very important. iNaturalist has turn out to be the go-to knowledge supply to measure biodiversity conservation and coverage.

An excellent workforce.

Good, hard-working nature enthusiasts make up our small workforce. We are living in international locations far and wide the sector however come in combination on a daily basis to additional our project. For this place, to facilitate collaboration throughout time zones, we require that you just be a resident of and eligible to paintings within the decrease 48 states (i.e., now not Alaska or Hawaii).

Versatile paintings.

We’re a digital workforce, and maximum of this place’s paintings may also be carried out from house or anyplace you’re at ease. You’ll even get some budget to arrange your administrative center and a per thirty days stipend to defray one of the prices. Some trip to conferences and occasions will be required.

Aggressive pay.

The wage for this full-time place is $182,350 in step with yr, non-negotiable.

Nice advantages.

We provide a gorgeous superior advantages package deal, together with scientific, dental, imaginative and prescient and existence insurance coverage, plus an employer-funded well being compensation account and employee-funded versatile spending accounts. There’s a 401k plan with a 5% fit. This place is eligible for limitless non-public day off, and in contrast to some tech corporations, we actually imply it – everybody is predicted to take a minimal of 3 weeks a yr off. Eligible new oldsters stand up to twelve weeks of paid depart and an extra 18 of unpaid.

Software procedure

As an alternative of a canopy letter, we can ask you to reply to two questions that will probably be reviewed (via actual other people, now not AI) and assessed one by one from every different, your resume, and your title. The hiring workforce will overview your solutions and resume in a batch of solutions and resumes from different applicants in randomized orders. Randomization and anonymization of every part within the preliminary overview procedure minimizes bias.

Implemented asks on your demographic knowledge, however we by no means see it in affiliation with you—simplest summarized in combination. We use it to evaluate the whole demographics of the candidate pool.

After preliminary overview of programs on a rolling foundation, advancing applicants will probably be requested to reply to a couple of extra questions inside one week.

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