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Senior Engineering Manager, Core Media
Loom (View all Jobs)
United States
Interview Process
1. Google Hangouts resume dive on past experience 2. Take-home project OR architectural phone screen 3. On-site interviews (2 technical architecture related to work, 1 or 2 non-technical)
Loom is the video communication platform for async work that helps companies communicate better at scale. Loom makes it easy to record quick videos of your screen and camera and instantly share them with a link. More than 14M users across more than 200k companies around the world trust Loom to share feedback, updates, intros, training, and more – every day. Founded in late 2015, Loom has raised $203M from world-class investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Iconic, and Coatue.
The Role
Loom is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a mission-critical team of engineers working to continue improving the quality and value of our media platform. This person will be an empathetic, technical, and collaborative leader focused on maximizing customer and business value.
The Core Media team lives at the heart of Loom’s product development, providing a set of libraries, services, and APIs used across our systems to power recording, editing, and playback. As the manager for this team you’ll become a domain expert and partner with engineering and product colleagues across core product to help improve existing products while blazing the trail for new ones.
Responsibilities
- Lead our Core Media team in delivering high-quality libraries and services supporting our full breadth of recording, editing, and viewing products
- Define quarterly roadmaps and ensure successful delivery
- Collaborate cross-functionally across our core product engineering teams to align our core media roadmap with product initiatives
- Support our highly-skilled team in their career goals and aspirations
- Foster a healthy, supportive, and inclusive work environment within the team
- Lead efforts to continuously improve performance and reliability within our recording, editing, and viewing experiences
- Advise and support the team on architecture, technical design, and debugging
What We're Looking For
- Managed a team of 4 or more engineers while continuing to find ways to contribute technically, outside the critical path as a technical program lead
- Strong ability to continuously balance important / urgent, short / long term work with strong reasoning rooted in business impact
- Strong technical ability — can rubber duck with teams on technical solutions rooted in deep understanding of effective software development practices
- Managed remote engineers distributed across multiple timezones
- Track record of hiring, retaining, and growing senior engineering talent
- 6+ years of professional full-time experience as a software engineer
- 2+ years of engineering management experience
- Experience leading platform teams is a plus
- Previous experience managing a team focused on media technologies is a plus
Perks at Loom
- Competitive compensation and equity package
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents (for US employees)
- 14 paid company holidays plus Summer Break in July and Winter Break in December
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DCFSA)
- Healthcare reimbursement (for International employees)
- Life, AD&D, Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- 401(k) with 4% company matching
- Wellness stipends
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
- Remote work opportunities
- Professional development reimbursement
- Home office & technology reimbursement
How We Work
Loom = Equal Opportunity Employer
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