Position: Walnut - VP RnD
Company: SD Solutions
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate

Responsibilities:

Build and maintain a world class remote first engineering culture that balances between quality and speed.
Drive recruiting of a world class team at all levels.
Help their managers and engineers grow their skills and experience.
Measure and improve the happiness of Engineering.
Define and measure project management processes.
Implement and measure process improvements that are causal to most critical needs.
Participate and support a psychological safety of the department.
Build a cultural foundation of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.
Drive quarterly OKRs around company goals.
Be accountable for product quality, security, and performance.
Work across departments within engineering.
Work closely with Senior leaders of Product Management to provide a consistent/successful interface between Engineering Development and Product Management.
Work with company leadership to make sure Engineering Development is aligned with company wide goals.
Support constantly changing priorities between product features, availability, performance, security and reliability.
Support process for incident management including quality control of RCAs.

Requirements:

Experience working in a fully distributed/remote environment.
Experience scaling R&D from 20 to 100 people.
5+ years experience managing teams in mid/small size companies.
5+ years experience managing managers.
Amazing verbal and written communication skills.
Strong understanding of the challenges of managing teams globally without offices and in fast-growing companies. 
SaaS industry experience. 
Leadership capabilities.
Highly mature, independent.

Performance Indicators:

Sales Renewal CSAT
Hiring Actual vs. Plan
Accelerate metrics(MTTR etc)
R&D OKRs


About the company:

Walnut is an up-and-coming startup in the sales automation space, backed by top-notch investors. We 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. We are a young company that values culture, transparency, and achievements, and put our founding members at the very heart of our company.

Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DIB) are fundamental to the success of Walnut. We want to infuse DIB in every way possible and in all that we do. We strive to create a transparent environment where all team members around the world feel that their voices are heard and welcomed. We also aim to be a place where people can show up as their full selves each day and contribute their best.