Senior Director of Software Engineering

About OmnidianOmnidian is building a more sustainable future for the planet. We assure that IoT-enabled distributed energy assets perform at their best through our passionate teams, our innovative technology, and by creating an amazing customer experience. We're a well-funded, growth-stage, B Corps certified company offering the potential for enormous impact, both on our products and on the world.

While we have employees across the country, we are looking to fill this particular role with someone based near our headquarters in Seattle who can commit to a hybrid schedule for more face-to-face interactions with team members.

The Job We are looking for an experienced Engineering leader to drive our software engineering efforts across multiple teams, in a rapidly growing technology-backed company. Reporting to the SVP of Engineering, you will be instrumental in providing strategic direction and technical oversight, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. Your mission is to deliver high-impact, scalable software solutions that drive business value and enhance customer experience. Balancing immediate priorities with a long-term vision, you’ll ensure our technology strategy aligns with business goals and keeps us at the forefront of the industry.

What You’ll Do

• Leadership: Set clear priorities and strategic direction to build a high-performing, accountable team. Foster collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. Mentor leaders to promote growth, accountability, and impactful results.
• Business-Driven Solutions: Leverage deep understanding of the business and customers to drive effective technology strategies.
• Prioritize and Execute: Lead the team to deliver high-quality solutions aligned with strategic goals, balancing speed with sustainability to minimize technical debt.
• Innovation and Optimization: Promote best practices and continuous improvement to enhance performance, efficiency, and scalability.
• Communication: Ensure clear, transparent communication within the team and across the company, maintaining transparency and aligning everyone on goals, priorities, and progress. Articulate the "what" and "why" behind initiatives, ensuring everyone understands goals, priorities, and progress.
• Process Improvement: Optimize development processes, tools, and methodologies to improve efficiency, quality, and agility.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with product management, UX/UI design, and other stakeholders to define requirements, prioritize initiatives, and deliver high-quality products.
• Technical Oversight: Oversee the design, development, and implementation of scalable software solutions, ensuring adherence to best practices and architectural standards.
• Technology Strategy: Define and execute the technology roadmap, incorporating emerging technologies and industry trends to maintain a competitive edge.
• Risk Management: Identify and mitigate technical and operational risks, ensuring robust and reliable software solutions.
• Change Management Communication: Communicate the rationale behind changes, addressing concerns to ensure smooth transitions, particularly in fast-evolving industries like tech and solar energy.

Who You Are

• Strategic Thinker: You see the big picture and can balance short-term needs and execution with a vision for future growth. You anticipate trends and align the technology roadmap with strategic goals.
• Solutions-Oriented and Curious: You are excited by challenges and thrive on solving complex problems, constantly exploring new ideas and methodologies to deliver impactful solutions.
• Business and Customer-Centric: You have a deep understanding of our business and customers and can leverage technology to bridge both, ensuring we deliver solutions that maximize business and customer value.
• Experienced Leader and Mentor: You lead with empathy and accountability, cultivating a culture of professional growth. Ability to inspire and guide multiple engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation, and ensuring that engineering practices contribute to the overall strategic objectives of the business.
• Execution-Driven with a Bias for Action: You have a track record of driving results and meeting objectives, maintaining pace and adaptability in a fast-evolving environment. You push for progress, maintaining pace and adaptability in a fast-evolving environment.
• Technical Visionary: You have strong technical acumen and ensure architectural standards, scalability, and best practices in software design, development, and implementation.
• Strategic Communication: Ability to communicate a clear, consistent vision that aligns with the company’s goals. This involves translating complex information into simple, actionable messages and ensuring that communication supports strategic initiatives.
• Executive Presence: Exhibits confidence and credibility in interactions with senior leaders, executives, and key stakeholders. Can present to the board, senior leadership, and large teams with clarity, authority, and influence.
• Transparency and Consistency: Builds trust by communicating openly and regularly with teams about goals, changes, and performance metrics. Provides updates on progress and maintains transparency on challenges and changes to keep everyone aligned.

Experience You’ll Need

• Extensive experience with cloud technologies and hands-on experience in back-end and front-end development
• Demonstrated in cross-functional leadership
• Strong communication and analytic skills

Experience That’s a Plus

• BS/MS in Engineering, Computer Science or relevant field
• Experience in a high-growth environment

Work-Life and Culture

• All of our roles offer the opportunity to work remotelyIf you are in the Seattle, WA area, we offer a vibrant and creative co-working space in the heart of downtown Seattle
• We prioritize applicants near one of our employee clusters and offer one or more local gatherings per year
• We provide outstanding benefits that we are continually improving upon, including family medical, dental, vision, disability, parental leave, 401(k) administration, thoughtful PTO, and paid sabbatical leave after four yearsWe offer a competitive total compensation package that includes monthly health insurance premiums, quarterly bonus and long-term stock options for every employeeWe love to lift each other up through company-wide slack channels such as #puppiesandpets, #omnidian-wellness, #praiseandbooms and #sustainablefuture
• We have affinity groups to help employees feel seen and supported, such as Rainbow Array, BIPOC, Thriving Survivors, Vets at Omnidian, Black Lights Matter and Neurospicy R UsWe are a passionate, mission driven team that believes in collaboration, mutual respect and trust. For examples, check out our posts What Makes an Ethical Company? and Why We’re Proud to Be a Certified B Corp

Grow With Us

• We mentor and invest in our employees and prioritize them for future opportunities. Check out our Instagram reels to see a few career journey examplesInternal candidates: Check out our advice on Internal Transfer: Job Application Process
• Here are the roles in this career track:
• Director of Software Engineering
• Senior Director of Software Engineering
• Vice President of Software Engineering
• We’re a fast-growing startup, which means we’re constantly reinventing processes, adding new products, and asking people to use all of their skills and talents. That means there’s gonna be a lot of opportunities for you to grow, which also means you will likely be stretched in ways you’ve never experienced in a job before. If you are resilient, determined, and not afraid of a big challenge, come apply.