Compass Digital
Hybrid Role
Location: Mississauga, ON / Toronto, ON
The Management team at Compass Digital is the core of our culture. While every manager is expected to have sufficient domain knowledge within their specialty, emphasis is placed on their ability to effectively lead not only individuals to their potential, but the department as a whole.
Now, if you were to come on board as one of our Manager, Engineering-, we’d ask you to do the following for us:
- You’re a fast learner who can easily navigate information at both high and low levels, and know when to spend your time at each
- You have a keen eye for critical questions and a deep practice of coaching people through questions
- You believe hierarchy is a concept, least useful when applied to people, and treat everyone as the leader they are
- You’re not afraid to get your hands dirty if it came to it but prefer to spend your time looking at improvements at a domain or system level
- You’re an ideator who has proven follow-through, with a side of appropriate delegation
- You easily articulate technical challenges, risk, and initiatives to non-technical people
- Iterative development, continuous integration & deployment, lean development aren’t just buzzwords to you – and you have the celebratory scars to prove it
- You understand Software Engineering goes far beyond code and proactively build relationships throughout your organization
Think you have what it takes to be our Manager, Engineering?. We’re committed to hiring the best talent for the role.
Here’s how we’ll know you’ll be successful in the role.
- Be responsible for leading & building teams of leaders; leading from the front or from the back as necessary
- Help teams identify best practices for them and for the organization, from processes to technical governance
- Ensuring appropriate technical and product decisions are being made by teams that support an agile mindset
- Work with our management team to identify, launch, and celebrate new initiatives, thinking of tomorrow and leading teams to create an iterative path forward
- Encourage a culture of innovative problem solving, skill building, and bridging teams and our clients
- Work out systemic kinks in the pipeline
- 3+ years in a management role, with direct reports
- 5+ years of direct hands on experience, within software development and a strong understanding of Agile principles and agile development practice
