Engineering Leadership Director

4 weeks ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia AirTree Ventures Pty Full time
Job Title: Engineering Director

Company Description: AirTree Ventures Pty is a leading venture capital firm that invests in innovative startups. We are seeking an experienced Engineering Director to lead our engineering organization and drive technical strategy across the company.

Job Summary:

The Engineering Director will oversee the entire engineering organization, setting and driving technical strategy, collaborating with engineers, and delivering engineering efforts across the company. This role will be responsible for setting, coordinating, and delivering engineering efforts across the entire Content group, working closely with the Content triad and the subsequent group engineering leads.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Set and drive the technical strategy across the Content group in a fast-paced, innovation-focused environment.
  • Collaborate with talented engineers across BE, FE, MLE, and DA to scope and solve complex problems that are highly impactful across the business.
  • Drive planning and refinement of group goals, ensuring there is alignment between the company, group, and teams.
  • Drive delivery of large, cross-team, and cross-group initiatives and projects from ideation to completion.
  • Champion innovative tech projects that utilize ML/AI to accelerate delivery toward Canva's mission.
  • People manager across engineering in the Content group, coaching and supporting group leads, team leads.
  • Create high-performing and highly engaged teams of world-class engineers who are building for billions of users.
  • Nurture the progression of current members within the team, identifying and developing emerging leaders within the group to create a team for the present and future needs of Canva.
  • Coordinating and communicating across various specialties and parts of the business to understand the impact and feasibility of strategic goals within the group.
Requirements:
  • Experience running large engineering organizations of 50+ engineers, setting a clear strategy, aligning groups, and guiding the delivery of company missions and goals.
  • Track record of working with engineers and leaders on growth and development opportunities, having previously created high-performing and psychologically safe teams that continually strive for improvement.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work with a diverse range of individuals from different backgrounds, with different expertise, and with different professional and personal needs.
  • Previous experience as a Software Engineer, while not necessarily shipping much code, this role still needs to be technically capable in driving/coordinating/reviewing engineering projects and ensuring appropriate consideration of engineering tradeoff decisions.
  • Comfort in combining big-picture thinking with sweating the details of execution.
  • An attitude of being a constant learner who relishes global-scale challenges and solutions.
  • The ability to inspire others to achieve their full potential and enable the leaders within your organization to build diverse, high-performing teams.
What We Offer:
  • Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too.
  • Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers.
  • An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more.
  • Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and supports you personally.

We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva, so even if you don't feel like your skills quite match what's listed above, we still want to hear from you. Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.

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