As a Director, you’ll be one of the few team members who is not on billable client work. You’ll partner with our Creative Director, Director of Project Delivery, and Director of Business Development to support our project teams, define the strategy of the studio, and lead internal projects to help us achieve our vision. You’ll help cultivate a culture of intellectual curiosity and continuous improvement that empowers us to push the boundary of our technical projects year-over-year.
Responsibilities:
- Culture: Cultivating a high-performance engineering culture rooted in accountability and ownership (e.g., conducting ad-hoc 1:1s as needed; facilitating hiring, performance improvement, and terminations).
- Quality: Empowering our senior developers to uphold project code quality and technical architecture work.
- Pragmatism: Establishing processes and training that enable our team to practice value engineering that positions our team as trusted collaborators for clients.
- Developer satisfaction: Designing work processes that enable us to balance utilization rates with developer well-being (e.g., team members across multiple projects, code reviews that uphold quality without impacting velocity)
- Profitability: Ensuring that our team can reliably estimate and story point forthcoming work; ensuring that teams are delivering at an acceptable velocity to meet communicated delivery dates and protect our profit margins.
- Strategy: Collaborate with Studio Leads to determine where we invest the studio’s time and efforts across training, service offerings, tech & tooling, and integrating new opportunities (e.g., AI, IoT, web3). What activities will we pursue and what tradeoffs are we willing to make?
- Coaching: Training and supporting the apprentice Studio Lead in the craft-focused Studio Lead role
- Business: Joining our business-focused Studio Lead on new business calls as a charismatic, trusted technical consultant; contributing technical expertise to the drafting of proposals.
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