🛠️ Maternity Cover — Technical Product Team Lead - 6 months

As the Technical Product Team Lead, you will oversee our product development efforts, working closely with a Product Manager and Designer. Your primary responsibility will be to ensure the successful delivery of our existing product roadmap and drive the team towards achieving our goals. This position is a 6-month engagement to cover for maternity leave.

Reponsibilities​

Report to CEO

As part of this role you will:

Team Collaboration:​

• Partner with the Product Manager and Designer to drive product development.
• Foster a positive and productive team environment.
• Ensure the team is organized and efficient to meet project deadlines.

Roadmap Management:​

• Oversee the successful delivery of our existing product roadmap.
• Adjust the scope and reprioritize roadmap items as needed in response to evolving business needs.

Stakeholder Communication:​

• Report directly to the CEO, providing regular updates on product progress, challenges, and successes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders in Client Engineering and Remote Engineering to ensure new projects and features align with team and company goals.
• Work with Engineering to ensure solutions are technically sound and delivered on time.

Active Product Usage and Dogfooding:​

• Lead the team in actively using our app to identify areas for improvement and ensure a high-quality user experience.
• Utilize in-house GitStart teams as clients to accelerate development efforts.
• Continuously monitor metrics to identify and address areas for improvement.

You have​

• Proven experience as a Technical PM Lead
• Excellent leadership and team management skills.
• Strong understanding of product lifecycle, software development lifecycle
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, especially in an async culture

Backed By the world’s best​

We are supported by the best investors in our field, Neo, YC, Bonfire VC, and the world’s best engineering leaders:

• Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott
• Google VP Parisa Tabriz
• Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi
• Instagram VP Maria Zhang
• Director of Google Bard Jack Krawczyk
• Circle CTO Li Fan
• Airbnb founder Nate Blecharczyk
• Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi
• Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo
• Andela founder Iyinola Aboyeji
• Gigster founder Debo Olaosebikan
• Replit CEO Amjad Masad
• Former Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer
• And more

Join An Amazing team​

Team includes:

• 🔥 >50% former founders, many of mission driven organizations like mPharma (Africa’s best health tech startup, 1k people $100m raised) and CodePhenix (Europe’s largest coding bootcamp for inmates)
• 🧑‍🔬  Patents holders
• 🧠 A national math olympiad winner and former Typescript team member
• 🌍  ~16 nationalities for ~19 people
• 🤫 And more: a published poet, a sailing world champion, a cricket team coach, two musicians drawing hundreds for concerts, etc.

Also, the number one thing newcomers notice is that people are truly kind 😇. More on this when we meet!

Perks and Benefits​

Non-standard stuff

• 🛂 Visa Sponsorship: Dream of living somewhere new? We'll help sponsor your application and help with the visa.
• 👋 "We Got Your Back" Budget: Life's little necessities shouldn't be a hassle. Need daycare, new glasses, or a taxi ride? Consider it covered.
• 🌱 Growing You Budget: Your personal and professional growth is our priority. Are you continuing your studies, studying something new or want to learn a new skill. We will help!
• 🌎  We are a fully remote company — We hire the best people in the world without restriction. Work wherever and in whichever timezone you want, and travel around the world to meet the team during quarterly onsites.

Standard stuff

• 🌏 Onsites
• 🏝 Unlimited Paid Time Off
• 🖥️ WFH Budget
• 🍽 Meals with fellow GitStarters
• 📞 Something missing? Tell us

Finally, we offer competitive compensation and meaningful equity along with a chance to make a significant contribution to changing the lives of millions of engineers across the world.

Hackweek Based recruiting​

We are weird about hiring. We’re skeptical of resumes and we don’t trust interviews (we’re happy to talk though!). Since nothing beats working together, we love inviting people for a hackweek (or hackweekend) - come hack on a problem with us and see if you like it!

It’s compensated, of course. And fast: we typically extend offers within 3 working days, starting from the end of the hackweek.

Not sure whether this is for you? Read this candidate's feedback!

See, I've been in the industry for quite a long time. And I had lots of interviews and interviewers throughout my career. Some were good, while some sucked big time; as usual. HOWEVER, and I'm not even exaggerating when I say this - interview experience with GitStart was not even ONE OF the best, but absolutely THE BEST I ever had in my 15 years career. Every person that I spoke to in the process was EXTREMELY charismatic, really eager to learn about myself and, what's more, it was absolutely obvious that they LOVED GitStart. I have NEVER EVER EVER seen anything even remotely like this. So how was the process? Amazing! I actually enjoyed it and was looking forward to more of it :D

How to apply​

We'd love to meet you! If you’re interested, head here!

If you want to read more about the team first, you'll find more at Humans of GitStart.