Director, Engineering

Company Background:

Maven is the largest virtual clinic for women's and family health, offering continuous, holistic care for fertility, pregnancy and parenting. Maven’s award-winning digital programs are trusted by leading employers and health plans to reduce costs and drive better health outcomes for both parents and children. Founded in 2014 by CEO Kate Ryder, Maven has supported more than 10 million women and families to date. Maven has raised more than $200 million in funding from leading investors including Sequoia, Oak HC/FT, Dragoneer Investment Group and Lux Capital. 

Recent awards include:

• FORTUNE Best Place to Work in Health Care (2021)
• FORTUNE Best Place to Work in New York (2021)
• PARENTS@WORK Best Places to Work for Parents (2021)
• ROCK HEALTH Disruptive Founder of the Year (2021)
• GREAT PLACE TO WORK Certified (2021)
• FAST COMPANY #1 Most Innovative Company in Health (2020)
• CB INSIGHTS Digital Health 150 (2020)
• INTERBRAND Breakthrough Brand (2020)

Maven is looking for an experienced Engineering Director in our New York City office to lead a talented and passionate group of engineering managers and engineers. As a Director, your leadership will play a pivotal role in developing an area of Maven’s engineering organisation.  You will work with strong cross-functional teams between engineering, product, design, care advocates, and our provider operation teams. Your ability to synthesize technical requirements, dive into detail to set  teams up for success, and lead through complex engineering tradeoffs is vital for success.

As an Engineering Director at Maven, your core responsibilities include: 

• Cultivate success across the engineering department through leadership and direction across backend development, frontend development, systems/operations and quality assurance teams
• Build and lead a team of engineering managers and engineers, through hiring, mentoring, feedback and career development
• Actively attract and retain great and diverse engineering talent
• Be a key player in strategic workforce planning and hiring/retention processes - recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding new Mavens. Drive team satisfaction to retain our people. 
• Partner with engineering management and engineers on career progression and individual development for professional growth at Maven and beyond
• Empower your teams to build scalable and secure systems for Maven's users, both medical professionals and patients
• In partnership with your direct reports, implement appropriate metrics to measure and motivate productivity and engagement across engineering. 
• Foster curiosity and empathy of your area
• Facilitate collaboration between engineering and product teams in solving exciting and challenging problems across the platform

We’re looking for someone to bring core capabilities to our team: 

• Experience in leading, managing, coaching engineering teams to deliver high quality software
• 8 years of professional software development management, on production-quality products
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience building and maintaining a complex set of systems
• Experience working with product leadership to deliver on time and on target
• Experience working within some form of privacy, security, or regulatory constraints

Helpful experiences and backgrounds: 

Maven is built with: 

• Python
• Flask
• SQLAlchemy
• ReactJS
• Kotlin
• Swift
• Google Cloud Platform (Kubernetes)

At Maven, we believe that a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences enrich our teams and allow us to achieve above and beyond our goals. If you do not have experience in all of the areas detailed above, we hope that you will share your unique background with us in your application and how it can be additive to our teams.  

Benefits & Perks: 

Mavens are united in their quest to improve the health and well-being of women and their families in our community. We seek to empower all of our team members to fulfill that mission and reach their full potential regardless of function, geography or experience level. That’s why we invest in our Mavens, who are our most important asset in achieving our mission. To that end, we offer:

• Choice of great medical, dental, and vision insurance plan options, including a plan for which the premium for Mavens is 100% covered by Maven
• Access to the Maven platform service and free Maven appointments for Mavens and generous credits for family & friends
• Free One Medical membership
• 401(k) plan
• Unlimited paid time off
• Monthly stipend for your choice of wellness benefits
• Weekly stipend for a *free* lunch
• One-time stipend to enhance your work from home experience (We will be working remotely until sometime next year!)
• A variety of virtual team events such as musical performances, game nights & happy hours
• 12 weeks parental leave and 2 weeks flexible time upon return
• Annual professional development stipend
• 1 month paid sabbatical after 5 years