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VP of Engineering

The world’s leading lab management solution for small- and medium-sized R&D organizations.

Quartzy

Employee count: 51-200

Salary: 220k-250k USD

United States only
Quartzy is seeking a Vice President of Engineering to work collaboratively with the rest of the leadership team to help bring to life our vision for the “Connected Lab,” an integrated platform for the biopharma industry that accelerates the pace of research worldwide.
Quartzy is entering a new stage of profitable growth, and we are looking for an engineering leader who has experience managing agile development teams. You will grow and manage the entire team of engineers including engineering managers, IC software engineers, and platform Engineers. You will partner with our product team on roadmapping and then ensure you have the resources and the structure necessary to hit our timelines. You will ensure the engineers are well mentored and excited to tackle the technical challenges ahead of us.
Quartzy is a 100% distributed team so this role can be done anywhere in the US.

About You

You are an action-oriented engineering leader who has built engineering teams from the ground up. You have worked collaboratively with others on the leadership team to identify growth opportunities for the business, as well as proactively mitigated risk. You have taken part in annual planning processes and influenced the plan and the roadmap. You have learned how to build happy productive remote teams from engineers all over the world. You have start-up experience and love the challenges that come with getting things done with limited resources rapidly.

Why Quartzy

Quartzy is the world’s #1 lab management platform. Every day, hundreds of thousands of scientists from all over the world improve the efficiency of their research by using Quartzy. Our software combines lab resource management and eCommerce, producing unique value in this large market, returning time to researchers who can focus on their next discoveries. Our customers range from wine makers, to food/ag companies, to advanced materials companies. We are humbled every day to serve them.

What you’ll do

  • Work with the executive leadership team to set and execute against the annual plan
  • Lead, manage and mentor a team of engineers
  • Recruit and develop top engineering talent
  • Develop standards and procedures to ensure quality standards are met and maintained
  • Maintain and optimize budgets to meet goals
  • Understand and collaborate on complete product lifecycle from concept to execution
  • Recommend new technology and ideas to improve sprints and efficiency
  • Ensure we are compliant with the security, accessibility, and IT standards our customers require

What we're looking for

  • 15 yrs experience working within high performance engineering organizations
  • Has worked at a startup before and is comfortable with rolling up sleeves and doing what needs to get done
  • 3+ years experience hiring and managing high performance engineering teams of more than 20 engineers and including managers and international engineers
  • You’ve reported to a company officer before and understand how to modulate communication depending on your audience
  • You've coached teams using multiple Agile based SDLC methodologies
  • Experience with web development technologies and architectures ideally in a high availability SaaS based business model
  • Experience managing cloud hosted infrastructures including leading infrastructure teams and managing against service levels
  • Exceptional communication: Your written communication is concise and you can verbalize why certain choices were made and the pros/cons of any alternatives you considered. You motivate and excite people when you communicate
  • You’ve been an IC engineer yourself and coded actively in the past 5 years
  • An open mind - You take feedback without defensiveness and will incorporate other people’s perspectives if they make sense
  • Unwavering work ethic: You can predict problems before they arise and prevent them from happening. You are willing to put in the hours to achieve the company’s goals
  • Experience structuring teams to align with company objectives, and measuring their performance
  • Experience developing engineers to realize their full potential
  • A bias for action: You like to move quickly, and are always iterating on ideas
  • An ownership mentality: You possess a natural tendency to take initiative

What we offer

  • Great Culture - Participate in our fun events like speaker series, virtual happy hours company/department off-sites
  • Remote Team - We’re 100% distributed
  • Transparency - Weekly all company stand ups, monthly town halls, quarterly state of the start ups and anytime access to co-founders
  • Generous Time Off - Take the time you need, when you need it
  • Internet Stipend - Quartzy provides a monthly stipend for your internet service
Quartzy provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. As part of this policy and legal compliance, Quartzy will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant or an employee unless undue hardship would result. Quartzy will also accommodate a religious belief or practice (including religious dress and grooming practices, such as religious clothing or hairstyles) if the accommodation is reasonable and will not impose an undue hardship.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Quartzy, Inc. will comply with any and all applicable local, city, county, state and federal laws, regulations and orders now in effect or which may hereafter be enacted.

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Salary: 220k-250k USD

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The world’s leading lab management solution for small- and medium-sized R&D organizations.

Quartzy is the world’s leading lab management solution for small- and medium-sized R&D organizations. Customers can manage their inventory, streamline purchasing communications, and consolidate ordering all in one place.

Thousands of labs at pharmaceutical/biotechnology companies as well as hospitals hospitals and academic centers use Quartzy every day improve their requisitioning and procurement processes. Because the requisitioning process is linked to the Quartzy inventory, users know exactly where things are and when to order more.

Quartzy also adds value to the suppliers in this large market by helping them reach their customers more effectively.

This combination of a software platform plus a digital distributor results in a powerful and extremely convenient user experience that helps researchers focus on their research and accelerates the pace of scientific discovery.

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