We're a small, high-performing, diverse, tight-knit team with a mission to radically improve mainstream science education at schools. By creating the best science lessons in the world, coupled with intuitive tools that allow teachers to take advantage of the latest pedagogies, we’ve already helped millions of students in Australia get excited about science.
Young people all over the world deserve a world-class science education. Stile is on a mission to ensure that students are able to critically evaluate what they see in their social media feeds, and feel confident using science and technology to solve the big issues of tomorrow. Every week over 250,000 students and their teachers use Stile’s web platform to explore and analyse the science behind the big issues facing us globally, a number we expect will more than double in the next couple of years as we expand internationally.
Stile is used in 1 in 3 Australian secondary schools, with around 45% of year 7-10 students subscribed. That’s quite some reach, and it’s a responsibility we take extremely seriously. When you join our small team, you have a unique opportunity to have a massive impact on the future of science education.
We’re looking for our new Head of Product Engineering. Working directly for our Head of Product, and closely collaborating with our CTO, you’ll be responsible for delivering awesome science education in Australian (and increasingly American) schools. You'll embrace and improve our excellent engineering practices, delivering delightful, reliable, maintainable tools for teachers at a high cadence. This is a fantastic opportunity for team leaders and senior technical leaders to step up into a high level technical director role.
At the most basic level, it’s to get kids thinking again. Thinking critically about the world around them, and making evidence-based decisions for themselves and their community. It’s definitely worth a look at why we do what we do. We replace what kids learn in their science classrooms with something far more modern, engaging and relevant. Our platform is held in high esteem in schools, but we’re busting to ship new features we can see will meaningfully help teachers support their students, far beyond anything they can do with classroom technology today.
You'll be in charge of how we build our most critical new features. In your first year, you'll help us:
We make sure that our engineers time isn't wasted. We provide:
You'll responsible for leveraging our existing strengths, and establishing new standards and systems that take our engineering to the next level.
You’ll have a high degree of autonomy: expect to be managed to agreed outcomes, using the resources and team at your disposal.
We know a person’s immediate boss has a massive impact on their work experience, so we’re looking for someone dedicated to building and maintaining strong teams. We have a strong focus on management practice, using one-on-ones, feedback, coaching and delegation to elevate the performance and accelerate the growth of team members. We suspect it’s at least a small part of why our average tenure is around 5 years. You'll have opportunities to learn and practice using these techniques and others as part of our ongoing leadership training program. Pre-existing management experience isn’t required — this is a great opportunity to step up into a management position with tons of support — but a strong desire to be a great leader is essential.
Requirements
We’re a together-first company. There is so much benefit to in-person collaboration when you’re trying to build Cool New Stuff. Practically, this means we like our teams in the office at least once a week, and preferably more. As a leader, we’d really like you in the office 3 days per week on average (though we don’t mind people working remotely for short stints) so that you’re available to your and other teams. Beyond this, we’re flexible - work from wherever suits you.
Your team will have a dedicated team office within our newly renovated CBD headquarters that you can set up as you wish, so you won’t need to hotdesk, and you'll always have a meeting room available. With our US business growing rapidly, there will also be opportunities to work out of our Portland, Oregon office from time to time.
Part of leadership at Stile is our periodic in-person leadership offsites, where, we dive deep into different aspects of people management and learn from each other’s experience. You have our commitment that they won’t be a waste of your time.
We’ll proactively discuss remuneration when we first chat. Broadly, this position will start at our Staff Engineer level and scale upwards based on your experience. Our engineering salaries are benchmarked against major tech industry players every six months.
Sound interesting?
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