Vice President of Engineering

About Akili

At Akili Interactive, we're bringing together world-class neuroscience with the latest technology and video game entertainment to create a new class of digital medicines, delivered through captivating video game experiences. To learn more about our flagship product, EndeavorRx, please visit EndeavorRx.com.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Diversity and inclusion are incredibly important to all of us. Akili is, by our very nature, founded on diversity. We are composed of employees from incredibly diverse industries such as gaming, software, clinical research, biotechnology, and the pharmaceutical industry, all coming together with a common mission; to challenge the status quo of medicine. Inclusivity and wellness are 2 of our foundational cultural commitments.

We are committed to hearing all voices. Akili Interactive provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

Role

Akili develops innovative, clinically-validated prescription digital treatments that challenge the status quo of medicine by presenting themselves as engaging gaming experiences. We're looking for a passionate VP of Engineering to lead and grow a team of world-class software engineers, QA testers and data scientists with a culture that emphasizes serving our patients, caregivers and HCPs.

Scope

As the leader of Akili's engineering team, you will:

• Define and communicate the vision for our technology platform and drive the development of our technology roadmap to help us quickly scale our digital therapeutic model
• Partner closely with engineering, product and business stakeholders to align on and refine business needs, requirements, and priorities
• Manage engineering personnel, budgets, and processes, removing roadblocks and continuously improving execution and quality
• Nurture the partnership between Product and Engineering so that there is effective and efficient collaboration at every level of planning and execution.
• Lead the engineering team and strategically add to their ranks to be able to rapidly tackle challenges in a fast pace and evolving environment
• Give the team clear performance objectives and goals, offer effective feedback and coach them in their ongoing development
• Nurture an evolvable architecture that nimbly supports product and business expansion
• Foster a culture of continuous innovation across functions, leveraging expertise throughout the organization and best-in-class technology to bring new product capability to market

You Are

• A learner: you receive feedback easily and incorporate it quickly
• A proactive executor: thoughtful in approach, but decisive in action
• Pragmatic: balancing scrappiness and rigor
• A great translator between technological and business contexts
• An entrepreneur and experimenter at heart
• Willing to get your hands dirty to make sure we deliver
• A master of adapting and evolving processes to keep the factory humming
• A leader of leaders as well as individual contributors

You Have

• 15 years of professional software engineering experience
• 5 years of leading teams of 20 engineers
• Strong organization-building background with a focus on innovation, infrastructure development, and team building & motivation
• Demonstrated track record of recruiting, managing, motivating, and retaining a multi-site engineering team
• High level of executive presence demonstrated by the ability to act as the company's technical representative to cross-functional leadership
• You understand how to build architecture and scale it. Proven record of scaling services
• A track record of execution
• Insight into privacy, security, and accounting implications of architectural/design choices
• Experience developing and implementing procedural and technical controls for compliance with regulatory and industry standards
• Bonus:
• Healthcare experience
• Experience leading game development teams

Compensation:

Cash Compensation: $280k - $330k base salary plus additional incentive compensation

Benefits: Robust benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k employer match, family/medical leave, group term life, Unlimited PTO and 20 paid holidays in 2023 and more.

At Akili, we are committed to:

• Be Bold - We are pioneers. We take risks, embrace discomfort, aim high, and act fearlessly. We break down barriers for our patients.
• Be Creative - We are inventors. Our success is dependent upon thinking beyond the status quo. We are extremely open-minded, take nothing for granted, and create unprecedented solutions for our patients.
• Be Inclusive - We hear ALL voices. We encourage all input, embracing our strengths and leveraging our differences, and treat each other (and our patients) with utmost respect.
• Be Accountable - We own it. We take responsibility for our own work and the success of our colleagues. We make, and keep our commitments. Our patients are counting on us to hold each other to the highest standard.
• Be Well -We improve lives. We are committed and obsessed with the health of our patients, employees, and ourselves. All in service of improving the well being of the world.

Don't meet every single requirement?

Studies have shown that under-represented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Akili we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this role or other opportunities at Akili Inc.

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