Jetzt bewerben: Director of Engineering, Data bei Picsart, Standort Berlin

By joining Picsart as a Director օf Engineering, Data, directly reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will help us take our internal data platform to the next level. It includes crucial projects such as A/B tools, data tracking solution, self service data desk and much more.

In this role, you will help us scale our engineering team to a world-class level, manage multiple EMs across 4-5 teams and be responsible for the delivery of a very ambitious roadmap.

By joining us, you will benefit from

• An honest, open culture that emphasizes feedback and promotes professional and personal development

• Remote friendly setup— our team is distributed worldwide, from Armenia to US, UK, Germany, Spain and Romania

• Wellbeing benefits (including a monthly wellbeing fund)

• Growing opportunities — based on your preference you can grow in the company as a people manager or as a individual contributor.

• An environment that fosters innovation and creativity, a culture with the ability to pilot new trends

You will

• Own Picsart data pipeline and infrastructure

• Work closely with Product Managers, Analysts, Data Scientists to develop and own data-driven systems

• Partner with Product Management to collect requirements from stakeholders and transform them into actionable parts of your strategy and roadmaps

• Own Roadmap planning and execution of Data Infrastructure domain delivery

• Be responsible for shaping how we acquire, collect and leverage data

• Ensure effectiveness of the teams in the Data Infrastructure domain

• Establish and maintain effective collaboration with Data Science & Analytics

• Mentor, empower and grow the Data Infrastructure Group through effective headcount planning, hiring, on-boarding, retention, and performance improvement

• Own the technology plan for your area by facilitating discussions, aligning with senior/staff engineers to help with the creation, implementation of the plan and making the best architecture decisions

• Assist development team in troubleshooting, coding, testing, implementation, and documenting solutions

• Manage a team of 3-5 Engineering Managers and Senior/Staff/Principal Software Engineers

• Partner with your peers and leadership on organisational design, change management, compensation, talent development, performance management, hiring strategy and employee engagement/experience

• Collaborate and drive a vision that enables your teams to execute on a strategy that delivers platforms capable of handling terabytes of data in real time

• Engage with multiple teams both inside and outside the Data Infrastructure to work on the execution of the technical vision

• Have an eye for challenges arising out of our various different technologies and address them proactively

About you

• You have 5+ years of engineering management experience

• 2+ years experience managing managers

• Track record of creating teams from scratch and scaling up existing teams

• Strong technical leadership skills and ability to work in cross functional teams

• Strong data engineering experience with Kafka, Kafka Streams/Connect, Spark, Airflow with cloud based services (AWS S3, EMR, Glue, Hive), Databricks and Looker

• Hands-on experience in creating and managing an enterprise-scale Data Platform, while setting best practices for security, privacy, monitoring & alerting

• Track record of coaching and mentoring junior and senior team members

• Track record of managing senior stakeholders in complex organizations and changing environments

• Experience leveraging data to prioritize your work and to influence others

• Willingness to implement change and improvements when seeing an opportunity

• Proven ability to listen, interpret, and incorporate feedback (clear and vague) from colleagues and senior leaders on the purpose, vision, roadmap, and software solution designs

• Experience designing, building and operating robust distributed systems

• Previous experience in leading change in an organization

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