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Cambridge, Ma, Us

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

* Manage agility, performance, and growth of two engineering teams helping video marketers to easily organize, manage, and centralize their content. Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, and JavaScript/TypeScript React. * Scrum Coach for teams achieving rapid value delivery, reduced dependency risk, and increased time-to-learn* Launch overhauled faceted search realizing 4x performance, filtering, tagging, media archiving, and numerous UX improvements * Attract and hire key senior technical team leadership (Senior II + Staff Engineers) and scaling to two teams with orthogonal and synergizing missions* Coach and develop Tech Lead layer to towards autonomy, prioritization, confidence, communication, and well-being* Manage reduction of ticket cycle time by 41% (rolling average) by coaching work-in-progress limits, identification of bottlenecks, and more atomic ticket scoping. Results saw higher sprint success rate, faster time-to-market, less noise, and cleaner learning from our misses.* Develop trust and confidence within and across the teams. Provide a heartful ear when needed, advise when helpful, and the instinct to know which is most helpful given the situation.

Sheffield, Ma, Us

Cambridge, Ma, Us

* Manage and coach engineering and design leads on authentic leadership principals, team performance management, employee growth outcomes, and maintaining a healthy and proactive workforce* Evangelize and coach agile thinking and Scrum, foster culture of making work visible, track and leverage sprint metrics to provide guidance on scoping and to engage entire company with the work at hand* Partner with People Ops to dissect requisition outcomes and structure interviews most effective for the roles, recruiting, interviewing, and vetting top-level engineering talent* Coach CEO on company-wide messaging and change management initiatives, resulting in higher trust and engagement * Plan and empathetically facilitate humane workforce reduction measures when necessary, factoring budget, allocations for business plans, and workforce performance* Iterate on team organization towards cross-functional product, service, and specialized subsystem teams, maximizing impact per team and managing developer wellness* Manage high-level project and quarterly estimations to align with budget and staffing, increasing focus and demonstrable business value and reducing churn and burnout* Mediation and coaching around organizational conflicts ensuring culture of emotional well-being and healthy outspokenness

Cambridge, Ma, Us

* Manage and mentor a team of ten full-stack software engineers and UI/UX designers to design and develop internal tools used across the incubator. Coach engineers and designers within a flat team to leadership capacity, right-sizing the level of hierarchy and maximizing delegatory efficiency, employee growth, and culture of visible and communicable planning to upper-management* Drive team-led initiatives researching, planning, and delivering internal tools used company-wide to rapidly build audiences engage audiences around test markets. Applications include: content curation and scheduling applications drawing from hundreds-of-thousands of indexed web articles to create custom content streams; rapid website development platform enabling a single team to stand-up dozens of targeted content websites a week; analytics and advertisement/offer management UIs* Develop and run engaging and empathetic customer-onboarding programs, and advocate on behalf of customers and product to achieve successful adoption and development of tools and services produced by the team* Coach team to Scrum adoption as Scrum Master, champion and integrate design-led principles, foster a culture of customer-orientation and usability testing within the team, resulting in high-uptake internal tools* Regularly present at monthly company all-hands to coach leadership principles and champion new technologies/methodologies, examples of great teamwork at the company, resulting in higher engagement* Evangelized, procured training, and helped team transition to test-driven Typescript React, Golang, CI, high-availability databases, Docker, and Kubernetes, drastically increasing maintainability and efficiency collaborating across teams* Facilitate transition of ill-managed flagship internal analytics tooling to modern testing, monitoring, and deployment stack, and transition of product to Platform Team for long-term support

Cambridge, Ma, Us

* Design, develop, document, and advocate for effective adoption of integral features of the company’s flagship proprietary analytics tooling, including SQL & workflow editor and database explorer with nearly 100% adoption rate across the company’s analytics and research teams, running thousands of workflows a day (React/Django)* Charting and reporting tooling, integrating with internal analytics stack, used rampantly in presentations, NOC walls, and sharing via Slack/GitHub (React/D3/Django)

Boston, Ma, Us

Engineered web applications for blockbuster games like Rock Band and Dance Central. More than marketing sites, these applications interfaced with each game's backend services, providing frontends for features like player-vs-player duals, in-game purchases, leaderboards, and unlockables. (React, Django, FB)Harmonix was independently owned, and as such was responsible for securing their own funding. Funding AAA games is no small effort! We built their corporate website from the ground up to convey the studio's phenomenal portfolio and brilliant culture with the purpose of attracting investors by procuring alignment across key stakeholders in Corporate, Marketing, Community, and Product to spec and deliver evergreen features that scale with the company’s mission. (Django/React)