Director of Engineering

About Aspire

Aspire is the influencer marketing platform empowering ecommerce brands to build and cultivate influential communities of influencers, ambassadors, affiliates, customers, and more. Brands using Aspire can discover authentic partners, streamline relationships, scale their programs, and measure true business impact — regardless of where they are in their influencer marketing journey.

Aspire is trusted by Glossier, Dyson, Newell, Outer, Brooklinen, and over 400 additional customers. Investors include Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Pear.vc, and more. For more information, visit www.aspire.io.

We’re growing across the board and we're looking for a Director of Engineering to join our distributed remote engineering team! With a strong focus on growth and personal development, Aspire is the perfect place to develop your skills in a forward-thinking, customer oriented environment.

Residents outside of the US/Canada may be eligible for visa sponsorship to relocate to Canada.

The Role

We're looking for an experienced, product-driven engineering leader that wants to help us build a great team and world class product to support the ongoing success of great brands and their communities across the world. As a director, you’ll report directly to our CTO and will directly manage a team of engineers to improve our product and solve meaningful customer problems. You'll work closely with product managers, designers and other stakeholders while also implementing engineering best practices across the team. You can also expect to play a major role in guiding the direction of our architecture and product while working with an open and collaborative team.

What you'll be working on:

• Working closely with product managers, product designers, and engineers to effectively develop major features and improvements across multiple parts of our platform
• Fostering and championing a customer-obsessed team culture that embraces ownership, trust, and collaboration
• Establishing a high bar for your team, ensuring best practices are followed, and delivering consistent, constructive feedback to help your engineers learn and grow
• Holding your scrum team accountable to delivering on goals, acting as scrum master, and taking ownership of your team’s quarterly roadmap
• Contributing to a significant part of the technical and organizational strategy for the engineering department to ensure that we're set up for long term success
• Identifying and implementing best practices to improve our product development process and development experience

What we're looking for:

• You have managed people for 3+ years and have remote management experience for web application development at product-centric, customer-obsessed companies
• A history of insisting on the highest standards, consistently coach engineers to be outcome driven with a customer mindset, and experience managing out and effectively dealing with underperformance
• The ability to act as both a tech lead and scrum master for an engineering team, so that decisions are made quickly and effectively regarding both the technology and product areas that your team works on.
• You practice servant leadership, setting clear expectations and goals while supporting your teams to take ownership, develop their skills, and be successful
• Have previously established a technical strategy and roadmap by developing a deep understanding of tech debt and aligning with engineers, product managers and other stakeholders.
• Ability to gather product & business requirements and align and motivate engineers to work towards clear goals. Proven track record establishing and driving technical advances, reducing tech debt and aligning teams around customers.
• Track record of hiring engineers and managers who raise the bar and a track record of quickly managing underperformers up or out

Benefits and Perks

• Work-Life Balance
• Flexible work from home policy
• Unlimited vacation policy
• 4 months paid parental leave
• Work from home stipend ($50/month)
• Growth
• Personalized career planning sessions
• Annual education credit of $2500
• Mentorship program
• Professional coaching
• Visibility into operations across the company
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance + 401(k) (where applicable)

Our compensation philosophy:

we use a market-based approach to compensation. This means we use a series of compensation tools to help us understand how companies value this role in the U.S. market based on function, level, geographic location, and positions benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. To comply with local legislation and provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Multiple factors, including geographic location, candidate experience, and expertise, determine final offer amounts and may vary from the amounts listed above. We have competitive pay bands for all other countries based on market standards.

The salary for this role is between USD $175,000 - $225,000 annually.

Our Commitment to Diversity

Aspire is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all. Please apply to this role if you feel you are a good fit, regardless of your race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other perceived limiting factor. We welcome applicants from all walks of life.