Title: Lead Technical Director
Posting Title: Lead Technical Director | Creative Agency
Who we are
The Engine is more than an integrated creative agency. We’re more than the sum of our parts. We’re a tribe of creators and strategists, builders and collaborators, learners and students. Over the past eight years we have built a reputation of collaborating with our clients to push the boundaries and create inspiring work.
We believe the best work comes from an empowered and independent team, free to drive their projects in their own way. We push ourselves to refine processes that bring transparent predictability, but resist the urge to control or confine. We trust each other - knowing each of us is talented, honest, and dedicated. We believe life outside of the studio is a deep source of inspiration, rest, and drive.
We’ve streamlined the typical agency processes. No time sheets. No change orders. Rather, a simple and transparent flow based loosely on the principles of Agile development.
We seek exceptional talent that believes in joining a passionate, egoless team that is building something bigger than themselves. We insist on having fun and aspire to create ground-breaking work together.
Lead Technical Director
Your roots are in the reality of your code and the capabilities of the developers you will have working on the project, but you’re also acutely aware of the strategic implications of your team’s work. You’re excited to lead and mentor other developers as they grow their careers and encounter new challenges, be it technical, logistical, or interpersonal.
You’ve seen your share of tough processes and inefficient projects, and you know that there must be a better way. You are excited to explore new ways of collaborating with creative and client teams to ship better and bolder work, while minimizing the drudges of antiquated approaches.
You believe in clean, lean, and collaborative code that works, while being intuitive and simple. You insist on code that avoids duct tape and redundancy; projects that benefit from smart sys admin and version control work flows and tools. You are excited to continually explore ways to produce exciting work and bring sanity to the process.
You’re a sought out resource by your fellow developers and a trusted advisor by your fellow leaders. You know when to act and when to observe. You’re the next Lead Technical Director at The Engine is Red.
Your day to day.
As Lead Technical Director you will have three key focuses: contributing to advanced projects, collaborating with other department leads on strategy and processes, and investing in the development team. As our team grows, there will be an opportunity to lessen your involvement with project work. Given the breadth of projects in our pipeline, a number of different technical backgrounds could be a great fit. Advanced back-end, database or web app focused, native/mobile application, or even the ever-elusive full stack.
Your Duties.
On Project Level:
- Collaborate with creative and client teams to produce advanced web and native projects
- Recommend project process, approach, budget and timeline
- Work with recruiter to staff and assemble project dev team (Combination of in-house and outsource)
- Be the voice of the dev team as the project grows and progresses
- Establish a solution-focused line of communication for project progress, opportunities, and challenges
- Identify and implement tools, teams, and approaches for all technical considerations, as appropriate (Sys admin, deployment, QA, version control, documentation, SEO, etc.) We are seeking someone who can evaluate and recommend approaches for each, not someone who can do everything
On a team level:
- Coach, support, and guide full dev team
- Identify and implement professional development opportunities
- Create a culture of mutual support and problem solving
- Work with Business Services Group (BSG) to help devs grow their careers
- Coordinate with BSG to recruit, interview, and staff team
- Evaluate performance and provide feedback
On a company level:
- Represent the full dev team amongst other department leaders
- Contribute to company wide philosophies, processes, and values
- Collaborate on company vision, strategy, and direction
- Connect and grow alongside ambitious and growing leadership team
- Review and guide company-wide goals and budgets
Down the road.
We know you have a lot of choices on where to take your career next, and we’re thrilled that you’re considering joining our team. At The Engine, you’ll also have the flexibility to take your skills to the next level. Our company is growing, and we’d love you to grow with us.
As our agency grows in size and reputation, we are tackling more ambitious technical projects and adding ground-breaking dev efforts to improve our core offering. You’d have an opportunity to guide this growth and design our future.
Benefits
The Engine takes pride in our unique and exciting work environment as well as our generous and growing benefits package offered to all employees.
- Talented and passionate team
- Autonomy, respect, and trust
- Flexible, inspiring, and empowering work environment
- Competitive Salary
- Company contributions to:
- Dental Insurance
- Medical Insurance
- Free Vision Insurance
- Free Life Insurance
- 401k matching
- Local craft coffee
- Locally sourced CSA boxes
- Frequent company meals, events, and celebrations
- Performance bonuses
- Paid holidays
- Quarterly inspiration fund
- Paid family week
- Tuition reimbursement program
Next Steps.
We do our best to reach out to applicants within 5 business days. If we think you’d be a great fit for the role, we’ll start the interview process with a brief phone screen from one of our recruiters. After that there are typically 2-3 interviews that explore your technical skills, your approach to work and problem solving, and your vision of success.
If you think you fit the bill, please send us your resume along with some information about yourself and why you would be a good fit to: jobs@theengineisred.com . Please use the email subject Lead Technical Director.