Manager of Members of Technical Staff
- Location
- New York, NY (Hybrid)
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Compensation
- $480K – $620K, Offers equity
Benefits. A competitive package designed around the needs of every single employee. Coverage is total.
Compensation is set at the top 1% of the market for the role and location. Final offer amounts are determined by a single factor.
About the role
Califa is hiring a Manager of Members of Technical Staff to lead the company’s technical staff. The role owns hiring, performance, staffing, and career growth for every Member of Technical Staff at Califa.
The technical staff currently has one member. The Manager of Members of Technical Staff is expected to run the full management practice regardless, including weekly 1:1s, quarterly planning, calibration, and promotion cases, and to keep the team’s process documented for the members it does not yet have.
The right candidate has managed large engineering organizations, and is prepared to manage this one with the same rigor.
What you’ll do
- Manage every Member of Technical Staff, including the one.
- Run weekly 1:1s, and keep them the most useful 25 minutes of the week.
- Write performance reviews that are accurate, specific, and calibrated against the rest of the team.
- Own engineering planning, staffing, and the on-call rotation.
- Set technical direction, review architecture, and approve every new dependency.
- Represent the technical staff to design, product, and the executive team.
- Hire the second Member of Technical Staff when the time comes.
What we’re looking for
- 12+ years in software engineering, with 8+ years managing engineers and 4+ years managing managers.
- Has managed an engineering organization of 200 or more, and one of exactly one, and can explain why the second was harder.
- Has run a calibration meeting with a single participant and reached a decision.
- Recent commits to a production codebase, reviewed by someone other than your report.
- Expert in React, TypeScript, and distributed systems, to the point of covering for the team during any absence.
- Has kept attrition at 0% for three consecutive years, at a company of any size.
- Writes clearly enough that the org chart does not need a diagram.
- Available for the weekly all-hands in person.
Nice to have
- Formal coaching or facilitation training.
- Has been a Member of Technical Staff in a previous role.
- Experience building a career ladder with more levels than people.
- A referral from a former report.