Director, Engineering

Vidyard is the online video platform built for business. Our free video creation and hosting solution is trusted by thousands of organizations across the globe—from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises—to get their business videos online. Backed by powerful video analytics, security features, and integrations with other business tools, Vidyard makes video easy for marketing, sales, support, and communication teams. We’re passionate about helping companies grow their business through the power of video.

This is a remote position, see remote @ Vidyard for details!

Vidyard is looking for a Director, Engineering to join our engineering leadership team. We are building the next chapter of our product-led growth story, and you are an engineering leader who will help us craft that strategy from a technical/feasibility standpoint. You will enable our developers to make the product customer journey as self-serve and delightful as it could possibly be, resulting in engagement loops driving more productivity and usage. Together, we will scale our ability to help companies succeed through the strategic use of online video.

About the Team

Our engineering team consists of ~70 developers across multiple product streams and a platform infrastructure team, led by a strong and accountable group of leads and directors. We are passionate about developer and employee experience and making Vidyard an amazing place to learn and ship. 

About the Role

In this role, reporting directly to the VP of Engineering, you will develop and lead several of our high-performing remote teams, with an engineering ethos that focuses on technical innovation, continuous improvement, and team collaboration. You will partner with our Design and Product organizations to plan and deliver the growth of our world-leading video sales and marketing platform along with the rest of our engineering leadership group.

Your First 90 Days at Vidyard

• You meet your team and begin to establish trust
• You are learning about our broader organizational goals, processes and conventions
• You are learning our products, architecture and tech stack
• The first collaborations with your peers across the company have started 

Your First Year at Vidyard

• You are fully accountable and trusted to deliver awesome user outcomes with your teams, balancing strategic investments and other opportunities uncovered by your teams in partnership with Product Management.
• You are helping to evolve a performance culture of empathy, energy and ambition that empowers your teams
• You are an key part of establishing our long-term strategies against our organizational and technology vision
• You will have helped build an employee development program and strategy, showing clear successes in recruiting and the career/skill/diversity progression of your staff

What You’ll Bring to this Role and Your New Team:

• You have 5 years experience as a manager, ideally as a “lead of leads”
• You are proud of your track record of developing engineering talent through mentorship and leadership
• You have a history of accountability, ownership and leading amazing outcomes in high-growth companies utilizing product-led growth strategy.
• You are focused on customer value, with experience in dual-track development approaches to ensure a culture of ongoing learning and human impact in the Engineering group.
• You have a background in software engineering
• You are very experienced in collaborating effectively with roles outside of engineering

Our tech stack

• Vue
• React
• Ruby on Rails
• Node.JS

What You’ll Love about Vidyard:

You will have the opportunity to create your own destiny in your role by generating and managing your own projects and seeing the impact of your work. At Vidyard you will work alongside the best and brightest in the industry. We hire carefully for technical expertise and values alignment, and are proud of our team!

On top of competitive pay, we offer generous subsidies for health & wellness and continuing education. We also offer three flexible benefit plans to suit your unique needs, so choose what’s best for you/your family and your coverage starts as soon as you do. 

Along with the health benefits and health/lifestyle spending accounts, additional benefits include unlimited vacation, RRSP match programs, ESOP and learning and development spending accounts.

Vidyard also offers paid volunteer opportunities! At Vidyard, giving back is in our DNA. No matter where we are, we always want to be committed to giving back as part of our commitment to our communities. So choose a cause that is important to you within your own community and give back, on us!

Finally, our teams never miss an opportunity to have fun! Be prepared to enjoy virtual parties (often paired with special deliveries, special guests and sometimes surprises!) and take part in internal communities based on your interests/hobbies! 

Remote @ Vidyard

As a video-centric organization, Vidyard mastered the art of remote work long before the pandemic forced businesses to adapt. So, whether you are located close to one of our collaboration spaces in Vancouver, BC,  Kitchener, ON, or if home is anywhere else, you will be an integral part of the team.

In order to ensure an enjoyable work experience for all employees, Vidyard is dedicated to ensuring all Vidyardians have an opportunity to:

• Level up their home office/workspace, 
• Socialize meaningfully within teams as well as across the organization, 
• Enjoy a flexible work schedule (We know your time is valuable! Own your work in a way that best suits your lifestyle)

We believe that working remotely shouldn’t cause any barriers to a great employee experience, so from onboarding to day to day operations, when you work remotely at Vidyard your colleagues and leaders are only as far as a *virtual* tap on the shoulder away.

We thank all applicants for your interest in Vidyard. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Agency calls will not be accepted.

Vidyard is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants who require reasonable accommodation to complete the application and/or interview process should notify the Talent Acquisition Team.