Position: Director of Engineering ( Walnut )
Company: SD Solutions
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

You are a perfect match for us if you are technically credible and know the details of what engineers work on. We expect you to help us hire a world-class team, and put them in the best position to succeed, coordinate across departments to accomplish collaborative goals. Keep reading, if you are ready to own the delivery of product commitments and are always look to improve productivity.

**Responsibilities**
Prioritization of hiring efforts to focus on areas of most need and quickly recruit top engineering talent
Motivate and communicate across multiple levels of their department
Develop strategies and new initiatives with their team to advance on an organizational and technical level both the department, the company and the product
Have successful peer partnerships with other department leaders in Engineering, and cross-functionally (Product Management, sales, marketing, alliances, etc)
Provide a consistent/successful interface between Engineering Development and Product Management
Develop leadership skills within the organization and mentor other leaders
Development, measurement, and management of key metrics for group's performance
Drive high throughput and all connected key metrics on a strategic level
Standardize the development process where needed, allow local differences where advantageous

You also be often given ambiguous, ill-defined problems with the implicit goal of gaining clarity and driving execution/direction.

**Requirements**
Excellent written/verbal communication skills
Expert hiring manager skills and experience
A well developed people management philosophy for managers and engineers
Experience managing managers, senior managers, or directors
Impact driven, KPI oriented
Demonstrated
Agile project management skills
Commitment to understand, communicate and improve the quality of multiple teams
Understanding of how to successfully manage a remote-first company
Humble

**Benefits**
Equity
Flexible Paid Time Off
Remote first work environment
Training & Development
Remote Office Budget
Private Health Insurance
Pension Plan

**About the company**
Walnut is an up-and-coming startup in the sales automation space, backed by top-notch investors.

They help some of the best sales teams in the world to dramatically perform better, by easily creating a failure-free, codeless sales demo experience that’s personalized to any type of client. This is a young company that values culture, transparency, and achievements, and put our founding members at the very heart of our company.