Head of Engineering (Remote, US)

United States
Engineering /
Full-Time /
Remote
At Collective[i], we value diversity of experience, knowledge, backgrounds and perspectives who share a commitment to building a company and community on a mission to help people be more prosperous. We recruit extraordinary individuals and provide them the platform to contribute their exceptional talents and the freedom to work from wherever they choose. Our company is a wonderful place to learn and grow alongside an incredible and tenacious team. 

Collective[i] was founded by three entrepreneurs with over $1B of prior exits. Their belief in the power of Artificial Intelligence to transform life as we know it and improve economic outcomes at massive scale drove the decision to invest over $100m in the company which has created a state-of-the-art platform for prosperity that helps companies generate sales and people expand their professional connections. In the last decade, Collective[i] has grown into a powerful community of scientists, engineers, creative talent and more, working together to help people succeed in business. 

We are seeking a Head of Engineering who will be responsible for leading application development, enhancing product features and scaling an engineering organization focused on delivering a highly available, scalable, secure application and network. 

Responsibilities:

    • Oversee Front and Back End Engineering, Data Engineering, and Infrastructure teams, fostering a collaborative engineering culture
    • Recruit, hire and manage high performing teams
    • Design and build systems for scale, quality and security
    • Budget management
    • Collaborate with Product on roadmap
    • Keep up to date on latest technology trends

Qualifications:

    • Providing technical guidance to team leads related to architecture and design
    • Prepared to do some hands-on coding work as needed
    • Managing, mentoring and communicating business and performance objectives to a large team
    • Strong communication skills and ability to interact with our business, product, and development teams
    • Working well with time sensitive delivery deadlines
    • Team player mentality and a sense of pride and ownership for your quality of work

Technical Requirements:

    • Progressive engineering management and experience with enterprise/analytical software development
    • Knowledge and experience with AI/ML systems
    • Experience with agile development methodologies with Test Driven Development (TDD) and Continuous Delivery (CD)
    • Mastery of modern web programming standards and best practices: experience architecting and designing complex systems across a wide range of technical disciplines
    • Experience with and knowledge of React, Angular, NodeJS, and Python
    • Passion for delivering and scaling highly-available business critical systems and a strong understanding of the core tenets and practices of microservices architecture
    • 3rd party integrations experience: API-based integrations, data pipelines and transformations systems
    • Experience with Snowflake is a plus and so is experience with graph database (such as Neo4j)
    • Experience with implementation of distributed computing systems and architecture for large scale data systems
    • Familiarity with cloud computing infrastructure (e.g.AWS, GCP) and considerations for scalable, distributed systems
Who you are working for - About Collective[i]:


Collective[i] is passionate about using ML, RPA and other AI technologies along with a network to automate the myriad of tasks that distract sales professionals from selling and provide timely intelligence that helps to grow revenue. Our revenue optimization engine is one of the most transformative technologies to hit the enterprise since CRM. Founded and managed by the early teams behind LinkShare (purchased for $425m) and Overstock (NASDAQ:OSTK), Collective[i] is a private 100% remote company.


Our core values help shape our culture: We are curious. We are direct. We deliver. We succeed together. We strive for the extraordinary. If you enjoy a challenge, thrive in an innovative environment and welcome the opportunity to work with amazing humans operating on the bleeding edge of technology, Collective[i] is the place for you. 


Recent press:
Forbes: Stephen Messer: Amazon Missed The AI Boom 
CNBC: Harvard professor on A.I. job risks: We need to upskill ad update business models 
ZDNet: Why open source is essential to allaying AI fears



Information about the founders:
Tad Martin
Stephen Messer
Heidi Messer