Senior Director of Engineering, Places

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Foursquare is the leading independent location technology company, powered by our deep understanding of how people move throughout the world. Our solutions help businesses make smarter decisions, developers create more engaging experiences, and brands build more effective marketing strategies.

Foursquare’s platform includes Attribution, Audience, Pinpoint, Proximity, Places, Pilgrim SDK and Visits. As the industry’s first and only accredited company for location data from the Media Rating Council (MRC), this foundation powers all our solutions — those that exist today and those we have yet to build. Over 14 billion consumer-verified place visit confirmations help us keep our map and models fresh and up-to-date, building a phone’s-eye-view of the world with 105 million unique places of interest worldwide.

About the Team

The Places Team is responsible for building and curating Foursquare's Places Database. We combine billions of individual pieces of information into a comprehensive dataset of hundreds of millions of places around the world. The database spans every type of point-of-interest across the world with over a thousand different types of places such as restaurants, stores, parks, hotels, and colleges. In addition to powering our branded products, Places powers customer applications ranging from maps, navigation, analytics and everything in between for tens of thousands developers, including Apple, Microsoft, Uber and many more. Users, including software engineers, data scientists, analysts, and product managers, mix real time precision edits with a git-like branch and merge model for large scale changes. 

About the role:

Foursquare is seeking a Senior Director of Engineering to lead our Places team, responsible for the backend software engineering, data science, and infrastructure that produces and maintains our POI datasets for internal and external stakeholders. This person will be responsible for their team’s execution and ability to ship high quality software in a fast paced environment. They will also be responsible for setting the team technical direction and roadmaps, collaborating with stakeholders and partners in product, engineering, and go to market teams and making sure the right processes and tooling is in place to help the team deliver. They will help to cultivate the growth of the engineers on the team and their career paths at Foursquare as well as be a part of the engineering leadership team having an impact on engineering-wide policies and processes.

Responsibilities of the role:

  • Manage and coach multiple engineering teams focused on the Places product, consisting of Software Engineers, Data Scientists, and Analysts.
  • Responsible for the team's technical roadmap and direction, working closely with Product Management, downstream engineering teams, as well as the Infrastructure Engineering team to achieve company goals.
  • Manage and ensure the health of the scalable and reliable data generation and update process we use for building and maintaining our POI datasets.
  • 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 other engineering and product teams and department stakeholders to align on and drive forward broader engineering and company initiatives
  • Grow and build a diverse and effective team by recruiting for the team, establishing hiring and retention goals, interviewing norms, and evolving the onboarding process for new team members

Qualifications:

  • 7+ years of proven industry experience developing and operating software solutions
  • 5+ years experience managing cross functional engineering teams of 25+
  • Exceptional communication skills with the ability to convey intricate systems and logic to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Proven ability to maintain and improve employee engagement, aligning teams toward company goals and vision
  • Proficient in capacity planning and quarterly roadmapping, working alongside Product Management to set the direction for the team
  • Strong product mindset and perspective, able to evaluate decisions from stakeholders’ point of view
  • Track record of reliably shipping and scaling high-quality products as an individual contributor and manager
  • Excellent problem solving and large-scale systems design and debugging skills with analytical skills to find answers

Nice to have:

  • Experience with the geospatial and/or digital advertising solution space 
  • Experience in the hadoop ecosystem or other distributed computing background
  • Background or strong experience with Data Science
  • Experience being a player-coach, with the ability to jump into an IDE and help get a feature shipped, in addition to helping the team to do their best work

Foursquare is proud to foster an inclusive environment that is free from discrimination. We strongly believe in order to build the best products, we need a diversity of perspectives and backgrounds. This leads to a more delightful experience for our users and team members. We value listening to every voice and we encourage everyone to come be a part of building a company and products we love.

Foursquare is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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