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Engineering Manager

🌍 San Francisco, California πŸ“… 03/05/2024

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Job Description

### **☎ Community Phone**

Community Phone’s simple mission is to make the phone more powerful, one call
at a time. Our customers include tens of thousands of small businesses and
consumers. They choose us because we are the only reliable and flexible desk
phone provider on the market. And because our customer support is unmatched.
Magic begins when our customers (literally) plug in their phones – our
business customers hit growth milestones and our consumers connect with their
family members seamlessly.

As a Y-Combinator graduate, we’ve achieved product market fit and are growing
our team, which is spread across 15 countries and even more time zones.

### **🌟 About the role**

As our **Engineering Manager** , you will be a key leader on our engineering
team. For the first 6 months of your tenure, you will be the only engineering
manager and report directly to our CEO. You will be responsible for the pacing
and quality of our engineering output, as well as the culture within the
engineering team. You will also push code yourself.

**Our stack**

Typescript/Javascript, React, Python/Django

### **πŸš€ You will...**

* Work with the CEO, the Head of Product, and the Technical Project Manager to solidify our roadmap

* Lead a team of ~10 engineers who are located across the world

* Recruit outstanding engineering talent globally

* Communicate the vision and direction to your team and keep them energized and inspired to do their best work by setting and achieving ambitious goals

* Demonstrate our company values every day - be customer-obsessed, execute with maniacal urgency, maintain an ownership mentality, have a bias towards action, stay efficient and resourceful, and always be kind and transparent with the team

* Articulate and influence requirements for how the product, team, or strategy needs to change to unlock faster and more enduring growth

* Push code yourself to ensure your ongoing understanding of our codebase

* Be evaluated, in the broadest sense by our CEO, by whether you meet your commitments, hire and retain great people, and maintain the energy and morale of those people

### **πŸ† You are...**

* **Experienced** with 10+ years of engineering experience, with 5+ years in engineering leadership. Ideally, you are a former founder.

* **Well-versed** across the stack from using Typescript to Python

* **Collaborative** and enjoy working with multiple teams

* **An Excellent Communicator** with native or close to-native English skills

* **Results-driven** and enjoy a fast-paced environment. _Startup experience is necessary._

* **Passionate About Learning** open to new domains or technology; you're willing to dive into documentation/videos, talk to your teammates, and experiment to become well-versed

### **πŸ’™ Community Phone Culture**

Community Phone has a _customer-obsessed_ culture. We are looking for team
members who love our product and mission and see the remote first environment
as a bonus.

Beyond the job description, here are some traits members of our team share:

We value **Curiosity** and learning in our employees. We promote open-
mindedness, embrace mistakes, and encourage challenging questions for personal
growth. We create a culture of continuous learning to empower our team to
tackle challenges and excel in their roles.

**Efficiency** in everything. We operate lean, optimizing resources to improve
our products and deliver a world-class customer experience. We prioritize
value over excess, embodying a scrappy and resourceful spirit to achieve our
mission and values.

We prioritize taking decisive action over deliberation, recognizing that
building a world-class product requires pushing personal limits and taking
risks. We believe that a **Bias Toward Action** is essential for achieving our
goals and delivering exceptional results to our customers.

We strive for **Transparency** and prioritize open, **Direct** communication.
This helps us resolve issues quickly and build strong relationships with our
stakeholders.

We take our work seriously and see it as a reflection of who we are. We're
always looking for ways to improve and are open to feedback. We approach our
work with a sense of ownership and a desire to deliver the best possible
results. By embodying a **Founder Mindset** , we're able to achieve our goals
and create exceptional products.

We value a **Caring Mentality**. Our customers come first, and we collaborate
to provide exceptional service. We prioritize teamwork over personal
accolades, fostering a customer-focused culture that drives our success and
promotes a supportive work environment.

### **visit**[ **_about us_**](https://communityphone.org/about) **for more
info!**

Community Phone focuses on Mobile, SaaS, Telecommunications, Sales and
Marketing, and Cloud Infrastructure. Their company has offices in Remote. They
have a mid-size team that's between 51-200 employees.

You can view their website at <http://www.communityphone.org> or find them on
[LinkedIn](http://linkedin.com/company/community-phone/).