Director of Engineering

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AlphaSights is looking for an experienced Director of Engineering to run several development teams in our New York office.

At AlphaSights, we search through more than 500 million professionals working in the world today to find the small handful of experts qualified to answer our clients needs. They use these insights to drive amazing progress within their organisations. Our mission is to provide access to dispersed, hidden, and underutilized knowledge.

We’ve made terrific progress working in this new space, but there is still an incredible amount of work to do. We’ve only just scratched the surface on how we can apply technology to this problem.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Working in coordination with senior tech leadership to ensure global alignment of policies, standards, staffing, and expectations.
  • Ability to represent Tech in communicating strategy and working with stakeholders to ensure needs are being met.
  • Streamlining the efficiency and effectiveness of the Engineering team and continually driving and exceeding high standards for Engineering at AlphaSights.
  • Managing the delivery of your teams, instilling confidence and teamwork. Ensuring that your team understands AlphaSights vision and tech strategy.
  • Creating a team environment of collaboration and continuous improvement and allowing for appropriate levels of autonomy and accountability.
  • Owning the recruiting functions and staffing plan for your team. Ideally able to leverage local network to staff up current teams.
  • Bringing forth new ideas on how to help the business grow.
  • Ability to serve as a mentor to the rest of the team.

 Key requirements are: 

  • Experience leading and managing a function of around 10 - 15+ people.
  • Technical skills sufficient to gain respect of the team and challenge assumptions and estimates when appropriate.
  • Experience building, mentoring and leading technical teams.
  • Proven experience implementing good Agile and Technical practices.
  • Strong performance metrics and analytical skills / report writing / monitoring skills.
  • Strong KPIs – ability to deliver a meaningful message to employees and direct reports.
  • Strong team builder with superb communication skills and powerful influencing skills.
  • Experience in web development and understanding the latest web tech stacks and trends.

Who you would work with:

  • You would join a dynamic, multinational, and diverse team who enjoy solving interesting problems in a collaborative environment
  • We have self-taught engineers as well as graduates from top Computer Science and Engineering schools
  • Your co-workers will include motivated recent graduates as well as experienced industry leaders from companies such as Google and Amazon
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Since 2011, our New York team has grown to ~700 employees across two offices, both located within a 5-minute walk of Grand Central Station.

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