Head of R&D, Piano

At Simply were building products that bring joy and learning into millions of homes worldwide. Our apps are consistently top-ranked in their categories and our business is growing fast with a lean high-performing R&D team. With over a million monthly downloads and hundreds of thousands of daily learners around the world were reinventing the way we spend our time at home.

Were looking for a Head of R&D Piano to join us at Simply and help scale our teams technologies and processes to the next stage of this role youll play a key part in building and scaling a high-performing engineering team ensuring alignment between technology and business goals and fostering a strong development culture. This is a unique opportunity to combine technical leadership people management and organizational influence all within a fast-paced high-impact environment.

What Youll Be Doing

• Lead and scale high-performing engineering teams driving execution delivery and growth.
• Partner closely with product design data and business stakeholders to shape roadmap and priorities.
• Bridge product vision and engineering execution making strategy actionable.
• Own key architectural and technical choices that enable scale and continuous product evolution.
• Identify bottlenecks streamline processes and boost team velocity through org and workflow changes.
• Coach and mentor engineers fostering growth ownership and impact.
• Uphold high standards of code quality collaboration and engineering culture.

Who you are and what youve done

• Proven experience leading and scaling teams preferably in high-growth environments
• Strong hands-on technical background in software engineering and system architecture
• Excellent understanding of modern development methodologies
• Love for problem-solving and shaping team culture
• Strong sense of ownership and a drive to get things done
• Ability to balance long-term thinking with immediate delivery needs