Director of Engineering - Growth
Director of Engineering - Growth
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Job Description
BitGo is the leading infrastructure provider of digital asset solutions delivering custody wallets staking trading financing and settlement services from regulated cold storage. Since our founding in 2013 we have focused on enabling our clients to securely navigate the digital asset space. With a global presence and multiple Trust companies BitGo serves thousands of institutions including many of the industrys top brands exchanges and platforms and millions of retail investors worldwide. As the operational backbone of the digital economy BitGo handles a significant portion of Bitcoin network transactions and is the largest independent digital asset custodian and staking provider in the world. For more information visit.
This role will require being fulltime onsite at our Toronto office to support collaborative team dynamics and innovative problemsolving.
The Opportunity:
BitGo is seeking an experienced Director of Engineering to lead and scale our Growth Engineering division. This is a pivotal leadership role focused on spearheading initiatives to expand our user base (new and active users) boost retention and ensure the foundational tools powering our client experiences are truly worldclass.
You will be responsible for guiding the Growth Engineering teams by directly managing and developing a team of Engineering Managers. Your role will involve fostering a culture of excellence mentoring the next generation of engineering leaders within BitGo and empowering your direct reports to build and scale highperforming autonomous teams. While this role emphasizes leadership and strategy over daily coding a deep technical understanding and the ability to guide architectural decisions ensure technical excellence and contribute to our overall technical strategy are crucial. You will be a key partner in shaping the future of our growthfocused offerings in a dynamic and rapidly evolving industry.
What Youll Do (Responsibilities):
- Strategic Leadership & Vision for Growth: Partner closely with Product Sales Marketing and other executive stakeholders to define and champion a compelling technical vision and roadmap for our Growth platform and initiatives. Translate this vision into actionable strategies and drive successful execution across your engineering teams.
- Team Development & Mentorship: Lead mentor and empower a distributed organization of Engineering Managers and their teams within the Growth division. Coach your managers to become exceptional leaders fostering an environment where engineers can do their best work and grow their careers.
- Drive User & Platform Growth: Directly oversee the Growth Engineering divisions efforts to significantly increase new user acquisition improve active user engagement and enhance client retention. Own the strategy and execution for building and maintaining worldclass foundational tools and services that deliver a seamless scalable and reliable client experience.
- Champion an Exceptional Client Journey: Be accountable for the overall quality reliability and user experience across all our platforms web and mobile that are driven by the Growth division. Ensure we deliver intuitive robust and bestinmarket products by working closely with the teams responsible for the underlying client experience infrastructure.
- Foster Our Engineering Culture: Actively cultivate and champion an engineering culture that embodies BitGos core values: open communication radical collaboration unwavering accountability meticulous craftsmanship and a clientfirst mindset. Promote best practices in software development agile methodologies and operational excellence within the Growth Engineering teams.
- CrossFunctional Collaboration: Build strong collaborative relationships across the organization ensuring tight alignment and effective communication between Growth Engineering and other departments to deliver on shared goals.
- Talent Acquisition & Growth: Play a key role in attracting hiring and retaining toptier engineering talent including Engineering Managers to scale the Growth Engineering teams effectively in a competitive global market.
- OutcomeDriven Execution: Establish clear objectives and key results (OKRs) for the Growth division driving accountability and measuring success through tangible outcomes that align with BitGos strategic priorities.
What Youll Bring (Required Skills & Experience):
- Extensive Leadership Experience: 12 years of progressive experience in software engineering with at least 6 years in a people management role and a minimum of 3 years leading and coaching other Engineering Managers in a rapidly scaling environment ideally within a growthfocused context.
- Technical Depth & Strategic Acumen: Proven ability to provide technical leadership for complex software systems. While not a handson coding role you should possess the technical credibility to guide architectural decisions challenge assumptions and ensure sound engineering practices especially concerning scalable platform infrastructure and userfacing applications designed for growth.
- Growth Expertise: Demonstrated experience leading engineering teams towards successful outcomes tied to user acquisition retention and engagement.
- Passion for Crypto/Fintech: A demonstrable passion for or deep professional experience in the cryptocurrency blockchain or fintech space. You understand the unique challenges and opportunities in this domain.
- Building & Scaling Teams: A strong track record of successfully sourcing attracting hiring and developing exceptional engineering talent including managers in a distributed and competitive environment.
- Product Partnership: Demonstrated history of effective collaboration with Product Management to define prioritize and deliver impactful product roadmaps that balance innovation with pragmatic execution particularly for products focused on user growth.
- Stakeholder Management: Exceptional ability to build trust and influence a diverse range of stakeholders including executive leadership business partners and technical teams. You can articulate complex technical concepts to nontechnical audiences.
- Driving EngineeringWide Initiatives: Proven success in defining leading and delivering complex engineeringwide strategic initiatives that result in measurable business outcomes and improvements in engineering practices.
- Adaptability & Impact: Experience successfully onboarding into new organizations and quickly making a tangible impact particularly within dynamic highgrowth technology companies.
- Educational Foundation: Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
- Exceptional Communication: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with the ability to articulate a clear vision inspire teams and foster a transparent collaborative and inclusive environment across a globally distributed organization.
Why Join BitGo
Disrupting an industry takes vision innovation passion technical chops drive to deliver collaboration and execution. Join a team of great people who strive for excellence and personify our corporate values of open communication collaboration accountability craftsmanship and a client first approach. We are looking for new colleagues who bring innovative ways of thinking and problem solving and who want to be part of the team that changes the worlds financial markets.
Here are some of the benefits* of working at BitGo:
- Competitive base salary bonus and stock options
- 100% company paid health insurance for employee partner and dependents
- 4% 401k company match
- Paid parental leave paid vacation
- Free commute and parking pass
- Free custom lunches dinners and snacks
- Computer equipment and workplace furniture to suit your needs
- Great colleagues and inspiring startup environment
*Benefits vary based on location
Cryptocurrencies are the most disruptive change the financial services industry has seen in years. Join us and youll be able to look back and say you were part of the team that transformed finance.
Pay Transparency Notice: Depending upon your leveling and location the compensation for this role averages between $280000 CAD $360000 CAD base salary. Equity and an annual performance bonus are also a part of this roles package.
Benefits vary based on location.
Cryptocurrencies are the most disruptive change the financial services industry has seen in years. Join us and youll be able to look back and say you were part of the team that transformed investing.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full Time
