Head of Engineering

About Arcade

Our mission is to empower teams to be great storytellers.

Great storytelling is how products get bought, not sold.

Arcade helps go-to-market teams easily showcase their product through beautiful and interactive experiences.

With Arcade, you can effortlessly create interactive demos by recording with our Chrome Extension or Desktop app. You can provide more context and finishing touches in our editor, including pan and zoom, synthetic voiceovers, and camera recordings. Once ready, your Arcades can be seamlessly embedded or shared across websites, emails, social media, or as standalone links.

More than 14,000 companies are using Arcade, including New Relic, Red Hat, and Zapier. Our intuitive user experience and powerful capabilities are driving rapid adoption across teams looking to create interactive, on-brand content and Arcades are being seen by more than 10M unique viewers per month across properties.

About the role

As Arcade’s Head of Engineering, you’ll be responsible for implementing best practices in order to build a great and fast-paced engineering culture. You’ll partner with the team to identify high-impact initiatives, prioritize technical projects, and manage execution to accomplish our goals. This role reports directly to Caroline Clark, the CEO, and will partner closely with Rich Manalang, founder and CTO.

To date, we’ve been shipping fast: check out our changelog.

Today we are 17 people in total — and half of the team is engineering. We have ambitious plans to grow the business and team.

What you’ll do

• Partner with the CEO and the team on building the next stage of Arcade by exploring intersections of AI and machine learning with applications.

• Build out a world-class engineering team and culture: You will design a rigorous engineering process and foster collaborative working relationships.

• Recruit, develop, and manage a team: You will build a team of diverse, high-performing engineers. This includes sourcing strong engineering talent, building effective interview processes, weekly 1:1s with directs, own career development, and creating stretch goals and performance discussions/processes.

• Own longer-term technical projects: You will contribute to attaining and maintaining SOC2 and GDPR certification, as well as managing regular pen testing and tabletop exercises.

You are someone who

• Partners with the CEO on long term vision: You are able to see the long term vision, and work backwards to today to figure out the right team structures, processes and investments to make it happen.

• Building world class teams: You are a proven engineering leader with a track record of recruiting, developing, inspiring and retaining top technical talent and scaling organizations, ideally from the startup stage through high growth.

• Excellent communication skills: you are strong in written and verbal communication. You're able to distill complex concepts into simple terms and able to clearly communicate with both technical and non technical teams.

• Has a strong sense of urgency: You are regularly looking for ways to accelerate the pace of product development.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity

• Unlimited PTO and sick days

• 401k, and top tier Health, Dental and Vision insurance

• $500 a month remote work stipend

• Remote first and meeting light culture

• Biannual company retreats

• Latest productivity software such as Notion, Linear and Superhuman

• A team that values diversity and inclusion

Our values ❤️

• Be a coach: We want the best for our customers and ourselves. We coach people to help them achieve their best potential. An “Arcader” is both a teammate and a customer. There is a reason that the same word describes both.

• Carry the weight: We act like owners. Let’s empower each other. When we see something that needs change, we lead through it.

• An open book: We are open as a team and as a product. We don’t put walls up unless it’s necessary. We become better when we share information. We are open to diversity of opinion, backgrounds, and thought.

• Play as a team: We play because we’re a creator tool. Life is short. Let’s build something meaningful. We play as a team because great teams build great things together. We keep those standards high.

• Be kind: We can be honest and kind. We can have high standards and be kind. We can say no and be kind. Kindness can vary across cultures, upbringings, and languages - but we try our best to be kind.

Expected comp: $200k-$275k, .5%-1% equity.