Engineering Manager, Creator Commerce

About:

Teachable’s mission is to enable the transformative power of knowledge in our world. Our
online platform enables individuals and small businesses (our “Creators”) to build, host and
sell online courses and coaching. (Examples of our Creators and their offerings can be
found here, here and here.) We generate revenue in two ways: (1) from monthly or annual
subscription fees (SaaS) paid to us by our Creators for access to the platform; and (2) from
transaction fees calculated as a percent of the value of courses and services sold by
Creators through our platform.

We're looking to bring on an Engineering Manager to lead a developer team on our Creator
Commerce whose goal is to empower knowledge-based creators and their partners to
increase their income by providing the financial and operational tools, services, and
programs needed to start selling and scale.

As a part of the engineering leadership team, you will help build the team’s technical vision
and direction as well as establish processes and drive initiatives that result in technical,
operational, and cultural improvements across the engineering team.

While you will not be expected to write critical path code, you will spend time on
technical leadership. You achieve results not through micromanagement, but rather by
empowering your team and helping them to run autonomously to deliver great work. You
are a growing people manager who cares about the well-being and growth of your
engineers, you have experience coaching your team members to succeed and develop
their careers.

This role will be part of a highly collaborative team made up of US based technologists
at Teachable and Brazil-based direct reports at Teachable.

We’re looking for someone:

● 5+ years of software engineering experience, with 1-2+ years of combined tech

leadership and people management.
● Previously lead and/or managed a team of 3 or more engineers.
 ● Managed 1-2 teams with a track record of delivering high-quality products in
scalable web applications.
● Proficient at project management; has a track record of making tradeoffs to deliver
projects on time with high quality.
● Experience leading technical initiatives with impact across multiple teams or
domains.
● Thrives in ambiguity and can make forward progress in situations when given minimal
guidance.
● The relentless drive for continuous improvement and ownership with proven ability
to instill in their teams.
● Experience mentoring individual contributors of different seniority levels and
expertise (frontend/backend).
● Has effectively recruited, hired, and led diverse engineering teams.
● Who is Fluent in English and Portuguese

In this role, you will:

● Manage, coach, and mentor 4 software engineers; providing performance feedback,

and helping them develop their careers.
● Establish and improve team processes in all areas including software development,
operational efficiency, and delivery to achieve operational excellence. ● Partner with
engineering leadership to help determine engineering team strategy, tackle team-wide
inefficiencies, and promote a culture of continuous improvement. ● Drive management
initiatives across the technology organization, e.g hiring, career development, policies,
budgets, etc.
● Lead engineering-wide guilds, projects, activities e.g Frontend or Backend guilds,
hackathons etc.
● Collaborate and communicate with other teams (Product, Design, QA, Customer Ops,
Marketing) on cross-functional initiatives.
● Lead successful development and delivery of team projects and operations. ●
Partner with engineering leadership to help determine engineering-wide team
strategy, tackle team-wide inefficiencies.
● Upholds Teachable values, including building and growing as part of a diverse team.