Group Engineering Manager

VEED.IO is an online video editing platform with a simple mission: enabling anyone to create professional-looking videos. For too long, video creation has been inaccessible to so many people — you’ve had to download & learn complicated software, and buy expensive equipment. What if you could create a video in five minutes, right from your browser? That’s what we’re building here at VEED.
 

We're already used by millions of creators around the world — from kids & grandparents, to ambitious YouTubers, to companies like Amazon & Google — all using our products to tell stories, create content & grow their audience.
 

Since we started VEED four years ago, we’ve grown faster than we could have ever imagined. We’ve gone from one user to millions. From no revenue to over $10M ARR. From bootstrapped to backed by Sequoia, one of the biggest VC firms in the world. From a team of two to a team of 150+. And we’re still growing — we’d love for you to be a part of our journey.
 

Who are we looking for?

As you probably know Engineering is a team sport, which is why we’re looking for our first Engineering manager to help us support our talented engineering teams.

We have built a team of amazing engineers that work on a variety of things ranging from React to low-level graphics engineering to QA, DevOps and more, to build these tools. Now we need folks to help us structure and lead those teams. Are you that person? If this challenge excites you, please reach out! We’d love for you to be part of this journey!

Responsibilities

Supporting your Product Teams

• Help teams develop and be accountable for their objectives and key results.
• Lead team changes in your group with Product Leadership and coordinate wider team changes with other engineering managers and Product Leadership to ensure teams have the right mix of skills and number of engineers to deliver their objectives.
• Working with Product and Engineering Leadership in the group to forecast work, including providing technical and delivery insight to roadmap planning.

Line managing direct reports 
 

• Support the personal development and career progression of engineers and Engineering Managers by helping them to decide, set goals and agree on actionable steps towards achieving them.
• Encourage reports to actively learn through self-study, online courses, training and conferences.
• Proactively collect feedback and provide it regularly and promptly.
• Provide pastoral care to reports by listening to their personal needs and problems and addressing them where possible: holiday, time off in lieu, compassionate leave, flexible working, trial etc.
• Manage underperformance including conducting a disciplinary process with support from HR if necessary.
• Conduct regular salary reviews for reports based on a full picture of their performance utilising personal and team objectives as well as feedback from peers.
• Coach and develop Engineering Managers to ensure excellent quality of management throughout the technology team.

Developing the rest of the technology team alongside the leadership team

• Develop and improve structures and processes to support everyone in the technology team: competency framework, engineering ladder, career paths and remote working policy.
• Run and refine the technology team hiring process.
• Encourage an inclusive culture of learning by organising and attending internal events: book/technology clubs, learning hours, talks we love and similar.

Representing the company to the wider world

• Coordinate the placement & sharing of job ads to best attract a diverse range of candidates.
• Attend and speak at relevant events.
• Promote the company's mission, culture and technology strategy.

What is it like to work with us?

We are very flexible!

Want to work from home, with your dog on your lap?

Feel like working in a cafe for a day?

Swapping a weekday for a weekend?

Need a few days off?

Working a half-day?

All of the above is 100% fine with us!

Our entire team is remote and always has been. As long you are happy, we are happy — you will have the freedom and autonomy you need to make decisions and do your best work. Our team is smart, energetic, extremely talented and driven. We don’t take ourselves too seriously, but we all love what we do.