About Aspire

Aspire.io is the world’s first word-of-mouth commerce platform that leverages your brand’s ambassadors, influencers, affiliates, customers, user-generated content, and social ads to accelerate marketing results across paid, owned, and earned channels. Since 2014, Aspire’s industry-leading software platform, combined with our  award-winning Agency Services team, has served household names such as M&Ms, Keurig, Samsung, HelloFresh, Dyson, and many other high-growth ecommerce companies while paying out $100M to creators around the world.

We’re growing across the board - and we're looking for a VP of Engineering to join our distributed remote team! With a strong focus on growth and personal development, Aspire is the perfect place to develop your skills in a fast-paced, forward-thinking environment.

The Role:

We're looking for an experienced, product-driven engineering leader that will help us build a great team and world class product to support the ongoing success of great brands and their communities across the world. As a director, you’ll report directly to our CTO and will directly manage a team of engineers to improve our product and solve meaningful customer problems. You'll work closely with product managers, designers and other stakeholders while also implementing engineering best practices across the team. You can also expect to play a major role in guiding the direction of our architecture and product while working with an open and collaborative team.

What you'll be working on:

  • Fostering and championing a customer-obsessed team culture that embraces ownership, trust, and collaboration
  • Ensuring your teams are consistently delivering against their roadmaps and achieving the goals and outcomes they have committed to
  • Establishing a high bar for your team, ensuring best practices are followed, and delivering consistent, constructive feedback to help your engineers and managers learn and grow
  • Take ownership of the technical and organizational strategy for the engineering department and aligning it with product leadership to plan out the team’s quarterly roadmaps and goals
  • Identifying and implementing best practices to improve our team culture, product development process and overall development experience

What we're looking for:

  • You have managed a team of 30+ people for web application development at product-centric, customer-obsessed companies, and you have significant remote management experience
  • A history of insisting on the highest standards, hiring bar raisers, coaching managers and engineers to be outcome driven with a customer mindset, and effectively dealing with underperformance
  • Willing and able to dive deep, acting as a head of the engineering team as well as a tech lead and scrum master whenever necessary, ultimately ensuring that decisions are made quickly and effectively at every level
  • You practice servant leadership, setting clear expectations and goals while supporting your teams to take ownership, develop their skills, and be successful
  • Have previously established a technical strategy and roadmap by developing a deep understanding of tech debt and aligning with engineers, product managers and other stakeholders
  • Ability to gather product & business requirements and align and motivate engineers to work towards clear goals. Proven track record establishing and driving technical advances, reducing tech debt and aligning teams around customers

Benefits and Perks

  • Work-Life Balance
    • Flexible work from home policy
    • Unlimited vacation policy
    • 4 months paid parental leave
    • Work from home stipend ($50/month)
  • Growth
    • Personalized career planning sessions
    • Annual education credit of $2500
    • Mentorship program
    • Professional coaching
    • Visibility into operations across the company
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance + 401(k) (where applicable)

Our compensation philosophy: we use a market-based approach to compensation. This means we use a series of compensation tools to help us understand how companies value this role in the U.S. market based on function, level, geographic location, and positions benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. To comply with local legislation and provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Multiple factors, including geographic location, candidate experience, and expertise, determine final offer amounts and may vary from the amounts listed above. We have competitive pay bands for all other countries based on market standards.

Aspire is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all. Please apply to this role if you feel you are a good fit, regardless of your race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other perceived limiting factor. We welcome applicants from all walks of life.

 

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