💰 $192,000 - $258,000 📅 06/30/2023
Apply**About us**
In the last few years, remote and hybrid work has had an explosion in
popularity, giving workers an unprecedented level of access to opportunity and
an increase in quality of life. However, our existing tools were not set up to
do remote work well. Work can be isolating, transactional, and void of the
camaraderie that makes everyone feel like they’re in it together.
To solve this, Gather builds virtual offices that bring the best of in-person
work to remote. We’ve already seen success with our approach, with over 10,000
remote-first companies using our spaces every day.
And yet it’s still the early days for our broader vision of the Metaverse.
We’re excited about how the Metaverse can break down physical constraints that
exist today, not just in where you can work, but which friends/family you can
see, or what educational opportunities you can have access to.
Join us in this mission!
**Role overview:**
As a Principal Product Engineering Lead, you will lead one of the crucial
teams that ultimately determines our success or failure. Our product's
innovativeness and quality, as well as our engineering execution, play a big
part in whether we become the indisputably best way to work remotely.
There are several challenges that make product engineering at Gather uniquely
tough yet rewarding. For example, the design challenge of “how do you
replicate a real-life office in a virtual world” requires engineers to
prototype extremely quickly and draw on the best ideas from game design to
social apps to VR, if not invent new UX paradigms altogether.
On the other hand, using virtual worlds for work for 8 hours a day is a
foreign concept to our users, so shipping with a high degree of quality is
important to make users feel delighted and understood, not confused. Often, we
need to go the extra mile on polish (or game feel) to make the experience
work.
We are looking for engineers with a high level of craft, product sense, and
pace to help us create our next-generation product. You will tackle some of
our hardest problems at the intersection of product and engineering and then
help mentor the rest of the team on how to hit a higher bar of excellence.
This role can potentially have formal management responsibilities over a small
team, depending on your preference.
Bonus: if you have read Creative Selection, you felt like the author described
your dream job.
**Where you will make an impact:**
* Solve some of our hardest problems at the intersection of product and engineering
* Uplevel the team in pace, product sense, and quality, and mentor other members of the team to improve their craft
* Drive high-quality technical decision-making for your team
* Work closely with product and design to shape large parts of the company’s strategy and direction
* Identify opportunities in the development process or technical bottlenecks to make the team more efficient
* Help foster a culture with high agency, accountability, and camaraderie
* _What you bring: *_
* Extremely high technical proficiency in full-stack engineering
* Strong product sense and ability to quickly navigate the creative process of creating entirely new product experiences from scratch
* A keen intuition for well-designed software and beautiful, usable interfaces
* Intrinsic motivation and the drive to solve difficult problems without guidance
* An open and growth mindset when giving and receiving feedback
* You are resourceful, have a bias towards action, and love moving fast
* You enjoy spending time understanding customers and are adept at getting to the root problems that your product is uniquely positioned to solve
**US Salary Range**
At Gather, compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number
of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and
experience, and location. The base salary range for this position in the
selected city is $215,000 - $265,000 annually and we encourage candidates
outside of this salary range to apply.
Base pay is one part of the total package provided to compensate and recognize
employees for their work, and this role will be eligible for a stock reward
reflective of an early-stage startup.
**Benefits**
* Work remotely out of a state-of-the-art virtual office!
* Competitive compensation, benefits, and meaningful equity
* Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their dependents
* 401k and matching program
* Generous PTO policy and mental health days to recharge
* Meal stipend twice a week to keep you nourished
* Remote work, education, and health & wellness stipend
* Support for family planning & gender-affirmation
* The opportunity to join a passionate team in building something that actually makes peoples' lives better, every single day
_Gather is committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace for
individuals of all backgrounds. We strive to build a workplace where employees
feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work, everyday. Qualified
applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,
color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or
identity, national origin, age, marital status, pregnancy or parental status,
protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis prohibited by
law. Additionally, we 're committed to providing access, equal opportunity and
reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment. If
reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or
interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other
benefits and privileges of employment, please notify the recruiter you are
working with. We also ask that all applicants consider answering the voluntary
demographic questions on our job application to help us track the inclusivity
of our recruiting efforts and programs. Answering these questions is entirely
voluntary and your answers will not be shared with the hiring team and will
not impact the hiring decision._
