Job Summary

The Opportunity:

To build and scale the world's #1 system for self-improvement. As a VP of Engineering, you'll lead a startup team of world-class engineers to build a GrowthDay product and support its scaling. You'll work closely with our famed CEO and world-class product leads to organize a team of high-performing engineers and product leaders.

What You Will Do In This Role:

Partner with the CTO, Product Leads, and Lead Architect to define technical strategy and the execution of the roadmap to scale a customer-facing, cross-platform app into an international category-defining product.
Get your hands dirty in all the existing code and tools to identify problems and opportunities for immediate infrastructure improvement, security and scalability. The GrowthDay tech stack is built on React Native, React, Java/Spring, AWS, MongoDB.
Grow an in-house engineering team and help attract, retain, and train gifted and passionate engineering talents.
Implement and oversee appropriate Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes.
Work in an interdisciplinary manner with peers in other departments to develop company strategy, product strategy, and own the execution.
Help define and align with the Senior Leadership Team around evolving measurement, forecasting, key metrics, and objectives.
Ensure the team has the resources, information, and processes necessary to deliver effective technical and functional solutions to our members.
Apply agile methodologies to improve product development and optimize engineering productivity and processes.
Make the product so sticky and so loved by our customers that the organic scale metrics rival the best apps in history.

Example Outcomes:

Drive engineering vision and innovation through new technologies and best practices.
Establish engineering plans and systems to optimize teams performance and cohesion.
Monitor and evolve continuous development processes to enhance the team's efficiency and overall satisfaction.
Ensure quality and craftsmanship bar is set, maintained, and managed consistently.
Make the app faster and ready to scale for international expansion.

You Are What We Are Looking For If:

You want to build a category-defining product.
You have a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related technical field and/or 10+ years of software development & architecture experience
You understand the state of technology and roadmaps
You have experience acting as a technical lead, and the ability to mentor and lead other software engineers
You love personal growth as much as you love engineering.
You have experience building and operating large-scale systems
You have a broad knowledge of programming languages and software architecture and design and database systems
You have directly managed engineering teams, with an active role in recruiting, and onboarding new engineers
You have a strong understanding of QA processes and methodologies
You are extremely organized, with a firm grasp on your calendar and priorities

Bonus Experience:

You have coached, mentored, and taught in your career
You have a passion for personal growth and development

About GrowthDay:

GrowthDay is an all-in-one platform for personal and professional development. We empower people in 100+ countries to become happier and higher performing in every area of their lives. Our proprietary self-improvement tools, live classes, virtual coaching, online courses, pioneering research, social media initiatives, and industry leadership has made us the #1 self-improvement system in the world. Led by Brendon Burchard, the renowned high-performance coach and tech entrepreneur, we serve more customers with research-driven personal development tools, courses, livecasts, one-on-one coaching, and virtual group coaching than any other brand in the world.

Why Work With Us?

For one reason: You feel that it's part of your calling and purpose to be part of a team that exists to help people change their lives with real tools and coaching. You want to make a difference and inspire behavior change in measurable ways, at an extraordinary scale.

You want to be inspired by the culture of the company you work with every day, and you want to know your work makes a difference. You love change and figuring new things out. You love the spirit of a startup but want the impact of global reach.

Your daily contributions matter here your work helps inspire millions of people to commit to personal growth and practice better personal, relational and professional habits.

You will collaborate with a team of people who operate at the highest levels in the learning, self-improvement and influencer industries.

You'll join a team that loves being hands on, adjusts to the market, and jumps into problems with enthusiasm and confidence.

You'll be led by our CEO, Brendon Burchard, who Forbes calls the world's leading high performance coach, and whom Oprah named one of the most influential personal growth leaders and online trainers in history. Brendon's energy, research and ethos fuels our desire for high performance, joyful living, strong culture, excellence in communication, and exceptional service for our customers.

We Are GrowthDay. We are:

Deeply Caring: We are friendly, thoughtful, and caring enough to be open, truthful and compassionate.
High Performing: We are selfless and we execute with stunning excellence we care about the details, play like a championship team, get things done on time to spec, and we revel in the demands of seeking greatness.
Role models: We walk our talk and work hard on our own personal growth; we seek to be congruent, self-disciplined, humble, and a positive influence on others.
Candid Communicators: We are honest, professional and respectful in all facets of communication; we actually want and embrace feedback, and we share information openly and proactively even when it hurts.
Creative Thinkers: We continuously look outside and around and through the box, thinking about the look and feel of everything, obsessing about getting the ideas and interconnections of our brand so awesome that they inspire delight and action.
Driven: We show up every day, taking action versus getting stuck or avoiding, and embracing hard work with a smile.
Passionate Advocates For Our Customers' Growth and Experience: The fundamental reason GrowthDay exists. It is our purpose!