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As a leader of the Search & Recommendation innovation team, you would be responsible for partnering with your Product, UX, and other partner teams to create a long term roadmap to improve the search and recommendation experience in the US and internationally. You would work with leaders across cross-functional areas and SLT (Senior Leadership Team) to help accomplish our mission. You would be responsible for coming up with a strategy for this team in conjunction with your product and UX counterparts to lay down the path for success to accomplish our 2022 goals and beyond.
You would provide technical leadership and guidance and would help facilitate the team to build out new capabilities and/or systems in a manner such that they drive efficiency of execution while solving for scale, resilience, and reliability at the same time. You would coach and grow technical leaders and help them be successful individual contributors or managers at Indeed. You would partner with other technical leaders, drive thought leadership, and help accomplish initiatives outside the immediate scope of responsibility through influence and/or guidance.
In short, you will…
Lead, inspire, and influence to make sure your team is successful
Partner with the recruiting team to attract and retain high-quality and diverse talent
Establish great rapport with other development teams, Product Managers, Sales, and Customer Success to maintain high levels of visibility, efficiency, and collaboration
Ensure teams have appropriate technical direction, leadership, and balance between short-term impact and long-term architectural vision
Lead 4-10 member software engineering team comprising of experts in area of search, recommendation systems and ML
Who You Are
You are someone who is looking for an opportunity to shape the future of an organization. You enjoy working on challenging ideas and are not afraid to jump in and drive those ideas to their eventual conclusion. You have a strong point of view on both technology design and product direction and have had demonstrable successes in the past. You like to take calculated risks based on previous experience and feel accountable for the outcome. You are data-driven and like to base discussions on the merits of data as opposed to personal bias. You enjoy working with teams, are always looking to uplevel their capabilities, and care deeply about their well-being. You like to coach individuals and leaders and help them accomplish their own career goals.
Job Requirements
10+ years managing software engineering teams in consumer Web or eCom and Search Systems
Experience leading a geographically distributed software engineering organization comprising multiple teams
Strong technical background that allows you to advocate for and support your engineers
Experience building strong partnerships with other job functions, like Product, Marketing, and UX, to keep teams collaborating smoothly and working together to improve the product
Strong desire to understand the root cause of issues and details of systems, get hands-on with data and analysis to evaluate how the team and the product are growing
Experience with service-oriented and event-driven system architectures, building high-performance distributed systems
Who we are
We are a rapidly growing and highly-capable Engineering organization building the most popular job site on the planet. With engineering hubs in Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, Tokyo, Singapore, Hyderabad, Dublin, Aberdeen and Vancouver, we are improving people’s lives all around the world, one job search at a time.
Our Mission
As the world’s number 1 job site*, our mission is to help people get jobs. We strive to cultivate an inclusive and accessible workplace where all people feel comfortable being themselves. We’re looking to grow our teams with more people who share our enthusiasm for innovation and creating the best experience for job seekers.
(*comScore Total Visits, September 2021)
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Salary Range Transparency
US Remote 196,000 – 284,000 USD per year
Austin 196,000 – 284,000 USD per year
NYC Metro Area 233,000 – 339,000 USD per year
SF Bay Area 245,000 – 355,000 USD per year
Seattle 236,000 – 342,000 USD per year
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