Life360’s mission is to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app and Tile tracking devices empower members to protect the people, pets, and things they care about most with a range of services, including location sharing, safe driver reports, and crash detection with emergency dispatch. Life360 serves approximately 66 million monthly active users (MAU) across more than 150 countries. Life360 delivers peace of mind and enhances everyday family life with seamless coordination for all the moments that matter, big and small. By continuing to innovate and deliver for our customers, we have become a household name and the must-have mobile-based membership for families (and those friends that basically are family). Life360 has more than 500 (and growing!) remote-first employees. For more information, please visit life360.com.
The VP of Engineering for the Location operating group is one of four engineering VP roles at the company and the primary role focused on the core user experience of our mobile app. Together with the VP of Product for Location and the VP of Engineering for Devices, you will be responsible for creating experiences that grow our 66M+ monthly active user base toward our objective of 150M MAU.
Key areas of responsibility include:
Deliver an Exceptional User Experience
This leader consistently champions our customers and looks for creative ways engineering can contribute to deliver magical experiences. While we don’t expect you to be a product designer, we want you to help the team develop strong cross-functional ties to Product, Design, and Marketing so we can collectively find the most creative and efficient ways to bring ideas to life. Success here means engineering feels responsible not just for delivering features, but having a role in defining and creating exceptional user features.
Increase Innovation Speed at High Quality
You will be responsible for continuously looking for ways to increase the speed at which we deliver value to our customers. You will work closely with Product and Design leadership to come up with the quickest and simplest ways to deliver value while also ensuring we keep the highest bar for quality. We make location look easy but under the hood it is a hard problem to ensure location accuracy, timeliness and low battery drain. You will balance longer term foundational improvements with rapid experimentation and new delightful touches on the map and throughout the apps. You will drive the adoption of new technologies and architectures to enable new location experiences at a massive scale.
Build a High Performing Team
Life360’s objective is to be the #1 brand for everyday family life. We have big ambitions as a company, and we want to hire highly ambitious people who work together effectively. This role requires you to build a team of strong players, and to empower, coach, and energize them to work as a world class team delivering a world class product. Because people emulate their leaders, we want someone whose ambition and capability shine through and inspire others.
Who You Are
Leadership
Technical Skills
Bonus Points
Although we are headquartered in SF, we have embraced the remote-first world, so we are open to hiring the right person anywhere in the U.S. or Canada. We know the value of face time, so some travel is required.
We offer competitive benefits and compensation, and are publicly listed on the ASX (Australian Stock Exchange). We chose this non-traditional funding route instead of doing a late-stage private round because you get the liquidity of a public company with the upside of a private one. Our equity is no longer the proverbial lottery ticket — you can sell shares whenever you want. We plan to move to the U.S. market when the time is right.
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