About Foursquare:

Since our inception in 2009, Foursquare has been a leading force in changing how location information enriches our real-world and digital lives. As a location intelligence company, Foursquare is comprised of two well-known consumer apps, Foursquare and Swarm, as well as thriving media and enterprise products. Our B2B offerings include Places (for developers), Pinpoint and Attribution (for marketers), and Place Insights (for analysts, based on the world's largest foot traffic panel). With more than 200 people across our offices in New York, San Francisco, and in sales offices around the globe, we’re dedicated to our trailblazing mission—enriching consumer experiences and informing business decisions with location intelligence.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and coach multiple teams of talented engineering managers, leads, software engineers and machine learning engineers
• Manage the projects, workflows, and roadmap of the team, including Agile cadence and organization
• Organize and manage R&D, architectural design, and execution
• Manage the development of scalable and robust systems
• Identify and track critical diagnostic metrics for the health and growth of our core technologies
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies, processes, and policies when necessary
• Partner with senior technical leaders to drive the quality and direction of Foursquare’s Places Database, both as a standalone product and as the dataset underpinning Foursquare’s core visit detection technology, developer API and other enterprise product offerings
• Work with product teams and other department stakeholders to align on and drive forward broad engineering and company initiatives
• Grow and build a diverse and effective team by recruiting for the team, establishing hiring goals, interviewing norms, and evolving the onboarding process for new team members
• Work closely with external strategic clients to grow partnerships, learn about the market, and advance our technical capabilities

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of proven experience in software engineering/development
• 4+ years experience managing people, people managers, and projects on a product or engineering team
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to convey intricate systems and logic to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Track record of shipping and scaling high-quality software systems as an individual contributor and manager
• Motivational skills and the ability to align teams toward company goals and vision
• Strong desire to tackle large-scale problems and big-data problems

Bonus Skills

• Experience working with geospatial datasets and/or on data quality problems