Senior Director of Engineering, Growth Alliance

About us

HelloFresh has expanded rapidly as a technology organization. As part of scaling as an engineering team, we’ve created a Foundations Alliance to be responsible for unleashing developer productivity across the company. We do so by building the tools, services, systems, and infrastructure that teams across the company (and in turn, HelloFresh customers) use on a daily basis. We are building platforms (cloud, mobile, design systems) for engineers to be able to quickly innovate while providing operational safety, security, and best practices out of the box.

About the role

The Growth Alliance enables HelloFresh to expand by getting more customers to try, recommend, and return back to our products. We build digital customer facing products that are used by customers all over the world. Our teams work at a global scale on services like scalable web mono repo infrastructure, checkout funnel on web and native apps, discounting and wallet services, price experimentation infrastructure, and referral marketing technology. 

Our Engineering, Data, Product and Security teams are critical to what we do. From procurement tools, to conversion rate optimization, live pricing tools, payment services and add-on upselling features, we work on challenging problems and have a high output of building and releasing features and engines that make our business thrive and deliver real financial impact.

You can get a taste of what we've been working on by checking out our tech blog.

This role is based in New York City  and reporting into Cho Hwang (VP Engineering)

What you’ll do

• Lead the tribe which has the aim to empower HelloFresh businesses to convince more customers to try, recommend or return to our products.
• Lead 3 to 5 engineering managers with indirect reports of 100+
• Hire, inspire, manage, and grow cross-functional engineering teams, ensuring every engineer has adequate growth opportunities.
• Work with product and design partners to identify the business areas where their teams can add value,  and drive the team to deliver success in these areas
• Provide valuable and timely feedback to your team, and manage the performance of your organization.
• Set and ensure the upholding of high standards and software engineering best practices for quality, scalability and customer focus.
• Be part of the engineering leadership team and help set strategy and goals across multiple engineering teams.
• Play a key role in ensuring the ongoing alignment of our technology with the overall business strategy for the company

What you’ll bring

• You have solid experience in building customer-facing products at scale and managing multiple engineering teams and individual contributors.
• Relevant engineering experience managing engineering managers in a fast paced dynamic environment. 
• A strong technical background, demonstrated in past engineering leadership roles with a clear impact towards achieving business goals.
• Strong architectural skills and the capacity to design flexible, resilient, and scalable distributed systems.
• Demonstrable past experience with Agile methodologies, with focus on data-driven experimentation, lean thinking and quick iterations.
• Proven track record of creative problem solving and the desire to create and build new processes. 
• Ability to build effective and clear communication in a fast growing engineering organization.
• Proven ability to influence others and facilitate agreement among stakeholders with different interest

What we offer

• Competitive Salary & equitythat vests immediately upon participation
• Generous parental leave of 16 weeks & PTO policy
• $0 monthly premium and other flexible health plans effective first day of employment
• 75% discount on your subscription to HelloFresh (as well as other product initiatives)
• Snacks, cold brew on tap & monthly catered lunches
• Company sponsored outings & Employee Resource Groups
• Collaborative, dynamic work environment within a fast-paced, mission-driven company