About you
You are a product minded-engineering leader, that looks to both create product opportunities, as well as lead the team to execute on them. You know what it takes to get a team of engineers all rowing in the same direction, and are not afraid to roll up your sleeves to turn goals and ideas into reality. You drive a culture of engineering excellence, and work collaboratively across the company to complete the product feedback loop from customers.
About tldraw
tldraw is a London-based startup that creates software for infinite canvas applications. Its commercial product is a software development kit (
tldraw.dev) that customers use to integrate tldraw’s canvas technology in other software products. Its flagship product (
tldraw.com) is a popular zero-friction collaborative whiteboard. Its community is on
Twitter/X,
Discord, and
Github.
You will
- Partner closely with product leadership to scope, plan, resource and design engineering projects, ensuring the roadmap aligns with tldraw’s broader vision.
- Manage the roadmap through to production –setting milestones, allocating resources, and proactively mitigating risks.
- Support, scale, develop, and mentor the growing team of engineers to meet business needs, all while keeping the bar for talent extremely high.
- Lead communications to the team, CEO, and leadership.
- Be hands on and willing to get into the weeds while also contributing to high-level strategy and product/engineering leadership.
- Oversee hiring processes for new team members, attracting and closing high quality candidates.
Profile
- 8-10+ years of experience, at least 5-7 of which were individual contributor work, with 1-3 years of experience as a people manager
- Previous startup experience
- Has managed teams of at least 5, attracting world class talent to grow the team
- Proven track record of developing operational processes and practices that drive scalability, productivity, quality and velocity.
- Exceptional communication and cross-functional collaboration.
