About HqO

As the leader in workplace experience technology, HqO is revolutionizing how people connect with each other and the places they work — right from the palm of their hands. Composed of an award-winning app, analytics suite, hybrid work tools, and a flex space management system, the HqO Workplace Experience Platform empowers top employers and commercial property teams to create personalized experiences that engage and delight the people at their properties and inform data-driven decision making. Active in over 200 million square feet and across 25 countries, 57% of the Fortune 100 rely on HqO to build meaningful relationships with the people in the workplace every day.

We’re backed by some of the world’s most prominent VC and real estate companies, and growing rapidly across the world. We’re driven by our core values of Let’s Go (Learning, Excellence, Truth, Speed, Goodness, Ownership) which define our culture and push us to do our best work every day. If you want to join a stable, fast-growing, and highly collaborative and supportive team that is at the forefront of workplace transformation, we’re the company for you.

We are obsessed with championing our customer’s needs to elevate physical office spaces.

You will be responsible for leading HqO’s global Engineering team and managing outsourced flex resources as well. Strong leadership skills and proven accountability systems to develop the team and unlock hidden talent and potential are imperative. Accurate scoping of development projects and on-time delivery of roadmap commitments are both crucial for success in the role. You’ll partner closely with the Vice President of Product to negotiate the roadmap commitments and ensure that we are building technology that drives value for customers. You will be responsible for helping shape strategic vision for HqO’s mobile, web and data products. This high-visibility role reports directly to the CTO, and will give you the opportunity to make a significant contribution to the company’s growth and success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive a results-oriented Engineering culture of business value delivery and excellence

• Manage, motivate, and mentor local engineers and offshore contractors, comprising multiple scrum teams, to maximize delivery velocity and quality

• Own, facilitate, and continuously improve our Agile/Scrum development process

• Track and drive key performance metrics, objectives, dependencies, status, and results of a project portfolio spanning internationally distributed engineering teams

• Understand our market and customer needs

• Talk to consumers who use (or may use) the HqO platform to gather feedback and identify needs and opportunities

• Empower Engineering teams to make data-driven decisions in order to drive product growth and stickiness

• Oversee the success of multiple Engineering teams. You will ultimately be responsible for the delivery and quality of our products

Qualifications:

• 10+ years experience in an Engineering leadership role, preferably mobile (iOS and/or Android)

• Proficiency with ReactNative and NodeJS

• Excellent problem solving, organizational, and analytical skills

• Strong communicator - you thrive in the intersection of product, engineering, customer success and marketing

• You are a strategic thinker with strong execution skills and a "roll-up-your-sleeves" entrepreneurial attitude

• You are a natural collaborator who leads by influence

• A proven track record of on-time delivery

• Experience with agile development processes and rapid product release cycles

• Proven ability to lead a team of Engineers, mentor next level down leaders, and build Engineering teams in a high-growth environment

• You have Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

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