Machine Learning (ML) Engineering Manager

About us: EvolutionIQ’s mission is to improve the lives of injured and disabled workers and enable them to return to the workforce, saving billions of dollars in avoidable costs and lost productivity to the US and global economies and make insurance more affordable for everyone. We are currently experiencing massive growth and to accomplish our goals, we are hiring world-class talent who want to help build and scale internally, and transform the insurance space. We’re backed by First Round Capital, FirstMark Capital, Foundation Capital, Brewer Lane Ventures, and have been named as Inc.’s top places to work! Our headquarters is in NYC and we are also remote friendly.

Our Team: We are founded by a senior Google AI expert and a Bridgewater Associates Algorithmic Investor & Stanford MBA. We’re not looking for employees. We’re looking for partners in work, partners in culture-building, and partners in the future of data-driven insurance. The development team consists of world class engineers and leaders from companies like Google and Bloomberg. Each individual has had great success building large scale enterprise software and is now excited to try their hand at transforming the insurance industry. 

Your Role: Who are you? An experienced engineering manager with a track record of building and managing highly productive ML engineering teams. You take pride in delivering customer value quickly while maintaining a high technical standard. You'll lead a team of cross functional engineers including people with front-end, backend, data pipelines and ML/AI experience. We are building an AI native product and embedding ML/AI engineers along with other skill sets into one team focused on delivering product value has been hugely beneficial for us.

Outcomes:

• Build the technical vision and direction for your team
• Partner with your Product Manager to execute on your team charter
• Hire and grow the  engineering team
• Setup a reliable continuous product delivery infrastructure and processes with high focus on Quality

Role Competencies:

• Designed interview processes, hired and managed data software engineers with cross functional skills
• Strong system and architecture design skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Extreme creativity and resourcefulness, appetite to solve previously unsolved problems 
• Experience in deploying systems on GCP or AWS 

Other:

• Extreme self-starter and self-motivator 
• Holds self to extremely high standards, and inspires others to do the same 
• Open to giving and receiving critical feedback 
• Able to handle a fast paced startup environment
• Enthusiasm for team work and pair work 
• Kind, empathetic, polite and professional 

Work-life, Culture & Perks: 

• Compensation: Specific compensation and equity varies with experience level. The compensation range for this position is $210 - $250K based on experience
• Well-Being: Full medical, dental, vision, short- & long-term disability, 401k matching. 100% of the employee contribution up to 3% and 50% of the next 2%
• Work/Life Balance: Work from home / work from NYC (whether you’re local to NYC or visiting us on a company-paid trip), or join us at our annual company offsite
• Home & Family: Flexible PTO, 100% paid parental leave (4 months for primary caregivers and 3 months for secondary caregivers), sick days, paid time off. For new parents returning to work we offer a flexible schedule. We also offer sleep training to help you and your family navigate life schedules with a newborn
• We also have a flexible vacation policy and are closed for winter break at the end of the year 
• Office Life: Catered lunches, happy hours, and pet-friendly office space. $500 for your in home office setup and $200/year for upgrades every year after your initial setup
• Growth & Training: $1,000/year for each employee for professional development, as well as upskilling opportunities internally
• Sponsorship: We are open to sponsoring candidates currently in the U.S. who need to transfer their active H1-B visa

EvolutionIQ appreciates your interest in our company as a place of employment. EvolutionIQ is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees