Position: Engineering Program Manager
Company: HOS-Inc
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

In this role, you will be the first non-technical hire in the R&D organization at hOS. Your mission will be to establish structure and processes that make our Engineering one of the most efficient in the world You will work with the CTO and the whole R&D on a daily basis.

About Us:

hOS is an organization where we encourage and empower individuals to become the best version of themselves, achieve their dreams, and pay it forward by helping other individuals to do the same. We strictly focus on maximizing prosperity and minimizing suffering. We are seeking out like-minded individuals who believe in our vision and aspire to join our mission.

We value respect, inclusion, collaboration, integrity and grit. Moreover, we want you to help us make an impact not only for our organization but for your self development too. If you don’t see a role listed that matches your skill set don’t worry! We are always looking to add exceptional people to our team

What we seek out :
- A passion for self development : Our platform is more than just your simple “app”. We are here to help you grow and implement changes across all areas of your life. We want you to believe in our vision just as much as we believe in you.
- An interest in impact: You thrive off of the knowledge that your work makes a difference. With the work we do at hOS every day, you will get the opportunity to affect change in lives for the better.
- A motivation for creation: Progression invigorates you more than perfection. You are eager to learn the tools and skills necessary to move forward on the task in front of you.
- A knack for inspiration: You are someone who inspires others with your own dreams and aspirations, and the determination to make these a reality.
- A clear manner of communication: Not only are you known for communicating effectively and completely, but also an adeptness for seeking context, asking questions, and striving for clarity.
- An ardor for building relationships: You don’t just know your product and vision - you know your coworkers! The sincere, trusted friendships we build at hOS will last you a lifetime.

About the role :

In this role, you will be the first non-technical hire in the R&D organization at hOS. You will be the only one for a while. Your mission will be to establish structure and processes that make our Engineering one of the most efficient in the world while not sacrificing the culture of free expressions of ideas and realizing the full potential of each member of R&D. You will work with the CTO and the whole R&D on a daily basis. You will also collaborate closely with our Head of Product and occasionally with other stakeholders on the Business side.

Responsibilities:
- Measure Engineering Velocity in R&D holistically
- Proactively find bottlenecks that prevent us from building better software faster
- Coach teams on agile processes
- Facilitate sprint planning
- Conduct sprint and incident retrospectives, proactively find opportunities for a retrospective
- Build and own processes end-to-end (for ex. Establishing a firefighting schedule with SLAs agreed with the Business team)
- Work with the Head of Product to create release documentation
- Create necessary documentation and coach teams on writing documentation
- Together with the CTO, manage product roadmap for infrastructure projects
- Build the best in the world R&D machine with amazing culture

Basic qualifications:
- 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
- Experience in coaching engineers and growing people
- Ability to dig into software architecture as deep as lines of code
- Good knowledge of Agile methodologies
- Strong experience setting up processes in issue management systems (for ex. Jira)
- Experience managing engineering teams of total 20 people or more
- 5+ years in leadership positions
- Based in Kyiv or ready to relocate

Preferred qualifications:
- Previous experience working at high-growth startups
- Previous experience working with distributed teams in different time zones