Job Description

About us:

Gravity Sketch is the category leader solving the challenges faced by teams that design 3D products. Our platform enables teams to create and communicate 3D ideas in the quickest and most intuitive way possible - whether they are globally distributed or in the same geography.

The platform is changing the way companies like Adidas and Ford carry out their day-to-day design work, helping to increase creativity, productivity, collaboration and compressing time to market. We take a B2C approach to B2B, nurturing a large community of highly engaged design and engineering professionals using the product to redefine their digital design workflow.

The Gravity Sketch platform is accessible across VR, tablet, and web-based applications allowing users to integrate GS seamlessly into their workflow.

Our Culture

We\'re a lean but ambitious team of 100+ spread across the globe. We may be geographically spread out, but we\'re tied by our mission to radically change how teams communicate ideas spatially and expressively from anywhere!
Our focus is on output and getting the work done, not counting the hours you work. We appreciate that everyone has their own optimum setup, so provide flexibility in terms of when and where you get work done.

Our Values

Impact

Ownership

Team on A Mission

Our values are at the heart of our culture, we encourage everyone to experiment, bring new ideas to the table, and challenge one another in order to arrive at the best solutions for our users.

Trust is another fundamental, which is echoed through autonomy of our work. We rely on each other to be resourceful, make decisions quickly, give honest feedback, ask for help, or do whatever needs to be done in order to make a positive impact on the team, users, or business.

We work hard, and know how to have fun too; with company trips, socials, sports, gaming sessions and more. We welcome you to share your hobbies with the team so we can all try something new!

What you\'ll be doing

We\'re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager with a strong technical background to help us to support our engineers in one of our product teams!

As an Engineering Manager at Gravity Sketch, we expect you to coach and guide our engineers\' growth. Help them and the collective team to understand their performance and outcomes, work with them to help them learn from mistakes and maximise their outcome and impact.

As a manager within our Engineering function, you will become a Subject Matter Expert on our product and will need to have a deep understanding of our tech stack. We are customer obsessed and so this needs to truly resonate with you!

As Gravity Sketch grows, so will your team. We will look to you to hire, onboard and subsequently mentor your team to support them with their personal development and growth. Impact is one of our values at GS, so being able to drive, execute and measure your team\'s impact and set clear goals and expectations are all part and parcel of this role. Impact is not limited to engineering impact but also product impact. GS is customer-centred and product oriented. You will collaborate with EMs and other stakeholders to understand what matters the most and how to help our engineers to maximise their impact.

Responsibilities

Help our engineers and leadership team to understand our engineers\' strengths, weaknesses, performance, and growth

Keep engineers motivated and engaged.

Help engineers to be aligned and set expectations for them. Help them to understand their goals and identify/escalate the problems if it\'s difficult for engineers to meet their goals

Understand our hiring needs, hiring standards, and being hands on to help with our hiring.

Demonstrate a clear comprehension of our engineering onboarding requirements and assume responsibility for closely supervising and managing the performance of newly hired engineers during their probationary period.

Be a best practice evangelist but also understand the balance between the best engineering practices vs get things done and delivered. Coach our engineers to focus on outcome over output

Requirements

Experience building and scaling high-achieving engineering teams

Experience building and leading a software engineering team(s) within a scaling organisation driving hiring and directly managing the employee careers

Excellent communication and collaboration skills to partner closely with users, other technical teams, and senior management to understand the needs of the business, vision and roadmap so that you could sharpen our engineers and hiring to meet the demands of our growing business.

Experience with large scale desktop or mobile application development with an appreciation for professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Experience with performance assessment and team building in a tech domain which was out of your comfort zone

Bonus points

Extensive experience coding in C++, C#, and Unity

Knowledge of 3D modeling, sketching, art, design

Industry design experience

Benefits

Uncapped holidays: The startup world is busy, we encourage taking time off to recharge and rest.

Remote Flexible working: we appreciate that everyone has their optimum setup and things to work around in life. We support remote and hybrid working as well as varying hours.

\xc2\xa350 month personal wellbeing budget

Private healthcare

\xc2\xa31,000 personal budget per year for professional development. You will learn a lot here but there may be more want or need. With this budget, we aim to support you in your career growth.

Team lunch Wednesdays: out together in person, or virtually with food delivery credit.

Socials, ski trips & a biannual global meet up: we are passionate about bringing everyone together whenever we can, this helps build tighter bonds and alignment.

Enhanced parental leave policy (maternity and paternity)

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Chance to work at a fast growing start-up changing how the products of the future are designed, and exposure to a transparent startup journey

Real work ownership - you drive your own initiatives and have an opportunity to take your work all the way through to launch.

Opportunity to work with some of the world\'s leading design companies

Transparent insight into the startup journey, plus unparalleled learning if you\'re up for the challenge!

Gravity Sketch