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Exos is a leader in the field of human performance, a category it created more than 20 years agoFor two decades we’ve stood side by side with the very best, coaching individuals, teams, and communities to higher levels of performanceAnd we’ve done it all by pioneering and leveraging sports science and proprietary tools across mindset, nutrition, movement, and recoveryToday, exos employs more than 4,000 people in over 400 locations worldwideWith award-winning facilities, sports medicine clinics, technology, and services, exos connects people to the solutions they needWe provide comprehensive game plans, regardless of skill and sport, based on time-tested fundamentals and research in order to help people take control of their health and performanceExos is trusted by hundreds of clients including leaders in business, technology, health, community organizations, and world champions in sportsNow we’re leaning into our rich heritage to move the brand forwardIn 2020, exos founder and president mark verstegen brought on industry vet sarah robb o’hagan as ceo to lead the company into its next chapterCulturally, we promote and reward humility, one team and tenacity as some of our core values and we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment where all of our team members feel empowered to grow and bring their whole selves every dayWe celebrate the diverse voices and perspectives of our team members, knowing that diversity of age, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran status and national origin, among other social identities, drive innovation, belonging and fuel our workJob summary: this role is highly cross-functional and sits at the intersection of our product, design, data, strategy, marketing, and human performance teamsAs the vp, engineering, you will lead the engineering strategy for the company, the virtual coaching technical platform strategy, and the execution and delivery of our multiple d2c and b2b2c virtual coaching products.
This position reports to the chief technology officer and will be able to immediately grow, coach, and mentor a team of engineers to successfully deliver customer and business valueJob description: day-to-day responsibilities develop the strategy
Create, communicate, and maintain an inspiring and clear strategy, roadmap, and architecture for our engineering practice and virtual coaching technology platform.
Define and execute a strategy that brings together our international d2c and b2b2c virtual coaching products under one technology platform.
As part of the cross-functional leadership team reporting to the cto, collaborate with other leaders on defining and growing team culture, quality standards, and practicesFunctions that report to the cto are: engineering, product & design, data & machine learning, infosec & tech support
Collaborate with the:
Data & machine learning team to develop practices, engineering culture, and technology that supports personalized coach and member experiences and aligns with overall technical and product strategy and roadmap(listen to jerrold jackson, our vp, machine learning & data, talk about using data to amplify human performance)
Product and design teams to develop the people, process, and technology that enables high performing, empowered, problem solving teams that are continuously delivering customer and business value.
Performance and programming teams to enable the exos methodology and programs to be brought to life in software and highly engaged with by customers.
Strategy, sales, and marketing teams to more deeply understand the market opportunity, customer, and go to market plans, and continuously build those into the engineering strategy.
Finance and operations teams to more deeply understand the business models and financial results and continuously build those into the engineering plans.
Develop an engineering culture and strategy that enables for continuous experimentation, learning, iteration, and measurement so that engineers are empowered to drive customer and business value(listen to yvette pasqua, cto, talk leadership, culture, and tech)
Provide leadership to co-develop business cases for technology investment, resource / cost allocation, as well as organizational design and growth.
Execute the strategy
Collaborate with other leaders to establish clear performance metrics (i.eKpis, okrs) and reporting to evaluate engineering and cross-functional team success and impact on business goals.
Coach, mentor, and motivate product and platform engineers to deliver high quality technology that internal and external customers value on roadmap-driven timelines.
Collaborate with other cross-functional leaders to instill a sense of purpose and goal setting process (i.eOkrs) that motivates cross-functional teams to deliver on their goals.
Collaborate with cross-functional leaders, especially product and design, to define team processes and practices that lead to high performing and efficient teams.
Use qualitative and quantitative data and feedback to make decisions that continuously improve the products and technology platform.
Lead the team to create a high quality technology platform and infrastructure that delivers on the company and product strategy and roadmapThis includes international expansion of our products starting in 2022.
Ensure that all products meet the standards expected by the exos equity, diversity and inclusion commitments.
Develop, manage, and forecast the budget for the engineering team talent and vendors.
Identify and develop relationships with strategic software and technology partners.
Empower the team
Lead, coach, and motivate the engineersPush decisions and accountability down onto your team.
Create and build a high-performance team and team environment to maximize the potential of each individual, and the output of the collective team.
Collaborate with the cross-functional leaders to develop high performing teams that prioritize customer-centricity, quality, and delivering business resultsEmpower those teams with clear expectations and autonomy.
Build a culture rewarding strategic, early failure and learning and iterating quickly, as well as team success.
Identify and plan for new roles, capabilities, and technologies needed to achieve exos business goals and future engineering and product vision.
Qualifications the ideal candidate:
Has 10+ years engineering experience, including proven experience leading the strategy and execution for consumer-facing software products, ideally during early growth stagesSince most of our products are native mobile apps, experience shipping mobile apps is preferred.
Has a strong interest in collaborating with others to continuously improve engineering culture, practices, values, process, speed, quality, execution, and delivery.
Has experience working across an entire engineering team to ensure that architecture and other decisions are efficiently made and clearly communicated so that engineers have clear paved roads on which to efficiently build product.
Is committed to recruiting, leading, and retaining diverse, inclusive, empathetic, and high-performing teams that deliver value to customers and business resultsIs excited to partner with an executive leadership team who is just as committed.
Is passionate about managing people, mentoring, and coaching themYou’ve managed other managers before and you want to be the engineering leader for the company and a strong manager of managers in your next role.
Has recent experience architecting and building distributed systems, including leveraging open source and cloud managed services to accelerate development and resultsWe use aws and default to using aws services whenever it makes sense, so aws experience is preferred.
Has built and operated a technology platform and products as they scale while strategically managing cloud costs..
Has effectively led engineering teams building products that deliver business results, while clearly communicating engineering progress, techniques, and processes to technical and non-technical colleagues.
Is excited about working at an early stage/growing org and getting hands on to manage and lead building high quality software and teams that deliver results.
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you`ll enjoy your career with us! we are an equal opportunity employer
Exos is proud to be an affirmative action / equal opportunity employerAll qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, creed, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected under local, state, or federal lawsExos provides reasonable accommodation to employees and applicants for employment who have disabilitiesYou may request reasonable accommodation, in writing, by reaching out to our people operations department at: attention: people operations, accommodations 2629 eRose garden lnPhoenix, az 85050 learn more here:
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