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Engineering Manager

Location: New York, New York; undefined, England; Toronto, Ontario; undefined, New York

Posted on: 02/17/2022

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Job Description

ABOUT VTS

VTS is commercial real estate’s leading leasing, marketing, asset management,
tenant experience, and data platform where the industry comes to make deals
happen and real-time data comes to life. The VTS platform is revolutionizing
the way that commercial real estate (CRE) is done — disrupting a $15 trillion
industry by becoming the industry's modern operating system.

Our success is shown in our numbers—we hit "Unicorn" status in 2019 and today
we have over 12 billion square feet of commercial space managed on VTS
worldwide, and we’ve expanded to over 700 employees globally. It’s an exciting
time to join the VTS team as we continue to grow rapidly and break records.

VTS maintains offices in New York City, London, Toronto, Chicago, and San
Francisco.

To learn more about VTS and to see our open roles, visit us at vts.com or
follow us on Instagram (@WeAreVTS), Twitter (@WeAreVTS), or LinkedIn.

About the Role

Our mission is to be Commercial Real Estate’s modern operating system, the
place where deals happen, customer relationships are nourished, and real-time
market data comes to life. Our new tenant experience product is growing at an
incredible pace and we are looking for an Engineering Manager to join our
growing team. We are using a no-code approach to create a platform for
building mobile applications that help our customers and users go to and stay
connected to their workplaces and teams, regardless of their location.

The Engineering Manager will be responsible for helping guide a team’s
direction, roadmap, and recruiting while driving efficient engineering
processes and coaching team members.

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What you’ll do

* Grow and develop an incredible team of talented and motivated engineers with high expectations around ownership and impact
* Foster a healthy and collaborative culture that embodies VTS’ values
* Ensure your team delivers extraordinary output and continuously seeks ways to make an outsized impact
* Run and continuously improve an agile engineering process that empowers engineers with the context, autonomy, and tools needed to do their best work, and promotes shipping high-quality products efficiently and predictably
* Jointly own the teams’ execution and delivery of the product roadmap in partnership with the Product Manager
* Partner with product management, design and executive leadership to ensure our engineering organization is well aligned with overall product and company objectives
* Work with leadership to identify strategic technical investments required to support business objectives, and ensure those projects are properly prioritized and delivered
* Partner with our recruiting team to source, recruit and onboard talent to VTS
* Coach and mentor individual team members, creating a structured environment and feedback loop that supports career development and high engagement

About You

* 3+ years of management experience with an engineering team
* Strong technical background with experience building, shipping and maintaining web applications and services as a software engineer
* You have strong experience operating in complex tech organizations making use of agile methodologies and tools to build product for users at scale
* Motivated, self-starter with a passion for building and growing teams
* You have a strong track record leading teams, building and fostering collaborative cultures that deliver complex, high-quality products
* Provide clear, consistent leadership, management and mentoring for direct reports and the broader technology organization
* Inspire, empower and motivate your teams, leading by example
* You have excellent communication, coaching, mentoring, and teaching skills
* You have a technical background. You should be able to dive into technical problems and coach, challenge and lead as needed
* Strong problem-solving skills; adaptable, proactive and willing to take ownership and deal with ambiguity
* The ability to work in a highly collaborative, cross-discipline environment
* Strong customer empathy and a focus on quality
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills. You’ll need to create consensus among passionate stakeholders in a dynamic, fast-paced environment

About our Team

* We have a 140+ person engineering team
* We work in small, cross-functional teams that include product managers, designers, and QA
* We value continuous learning in our everyday work
* We rely heavily on automated testing and CI/CD pipelines
* We use agile development and lean startup principles and practices to deliver products
* Our stack: Typescript / Node.js, React & React-Native, Postgres, AWS, Kafka, and others
* Learn more about us on our [engineering blog](https://buildingvts.com/)

What VTS Values & How We Show It

* **Strive for Excellence** \- We know your potential is unlimited. Take advantage of our executive coaches and our training and career development programs available to all employees!
* **Be Customer Obsessed** \- We’re employee obsessed too! VTS offers competitive compensation, comprehensive health benefits (including dental and vision), pre-tax commuter benefits, and a 401(k) plan. Not to mention the fun stuff - monthly happy hours, wellness events, clubs, and team lunches!
* **Be Curious** \- Benefit from a culture that promotes new learning. VTS offers an education stipend to all employees!
* **Move as One** \- We work in an open floor plan to promote cross-functional collaboration.
* **Take Ownership** \- Be an owner of the company you’re building with our equity packages.
* **Appreciate the Difference** \- VTS embraces and celebrates diversity. We understand the importance of a strong work-life balance. We offer a flexible PTO policy, generous family leave program, and more!

VTS embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are
committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds,
perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will
be.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

VTS focuses on SaaS, Enterprise Software, Real Estate, Financial Services, and
B2B. Their company has offices in New York City, New York, London, and
Toronto. They have a large team that's between 201-500 employees. To date, VTS
has raised $213M of funding; their latest round was closed on September 2022
at a valuation of $1.7B.

You can view their website at <http://www.vts.com> or find them on
[Twitter](http://twitter.com/viewthespace),
[Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/wearevts/), and
[LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/company/view-the-space).

Skills:

Agile
Career Development
CI/CD
Coaching
Communication
Cross-functional Teams
Empathy
Go
Leadership
Lean
Lean Startup
Mentoring
Organization
React
Real Estate
Recruiting
Teaching
Testing
Training
TypeScript
Valuation
Wellness
startup