Location
Bengaluru, KARNATAKA, India, India
Posted on
Jan 24, 2023
Profile
Title
: Head of Engineering - Lookout Life
Location
: Hyderabad or Bangalore, India
Lookout is an integrated endpoint-to-cloud security company. Our mission is to secure and empower our digital future in a privacy-focused world where mobility and cloud are essential to all we do for work and play. Lookout is trusted by millions of consumers, the largest enterprises and government agencies, and partners such as AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone, Microsoft, Google, and Apple. Headquartered in San Francisco, Lookout has offices in Boston, Washington DC, Toronto, London, Amsterdam, and Tokyo,.
Lookout Life is Lookout's Consumer Business Unit. Our goal is to enable our customers to protect their devices, their data, their identity & finances, while protecting their privacy and trust. Our mobile-first solutions are used by hundreds of millions of customers across the world. While we distribute our products to consumers directly, our partners have been, and will remain, very important to our business and success. We pride ourselves on our industry-leading security platform, our customer experience, and our partner execution and support.
Lookout Life is seeking a Head of Engineering with the technical gravitas and business acumen to lead a global engineering organization developing our leading edge consumer security and privacy solutions. This is a leadership position reporting directly to the President of Lookout Life. We have very strong Engineering and Product Management talent, and this is a great opportunity to work with the best to shape the next generation of security products, influence organization practices and culture, and contribute to the acceleration of growth across our core and partner business.
This role requires a combination of strategic thinking and tactical execution. Successful candidates must have a strong technical, full-development-lifecycle background in consumer software. You will have a pragmatic “big picture” orientation, keen attention to detail, high adaptability and comfort with uncertainty, strong leadership skills, and a knack for bringing order and a confident calm to their teams. Your track record demonstrates sound judgment in making or presenting trade-offs to decision-makers; processes you’ve introduced are lightweight but still effectively reinforce best practices; your communications are exceptional, whether chairing meetings or crafting communications that team members and external partners rely on.
With distributed teams globally, ambitious product goals and a platform supporting tens of millions of customers, interesting Engineering management challenges abound. You will be responsible for overseeing and managing multiple complex projects simultaneously. You must be excellent at setting project goals and deliverables, delegating tasks, managing timelines, overseeing the entire engineering team's progress, and reporting progress, updates and trade-offs to executive leadership.
Responsibilities
Partner with product leadership to develop Lookout’s long-term product roadmap
Translate business objectives into engineering plans and deliver on those plans cost effectively
Institute operational excellence by establishing processes and metrics to optimize performance to drive velocity, quality and revenue
Collaborate with partner teams to deliver high quality products within agreed targets
Develop a culture of ownership, accountability, innovation and collaboration.
Hands-on role in the leadership of a distributed engineering organization composed of engineering directors, managers and engineers
Participate in a complete development life cycle starting with understanding various functional requirements, understand/refine functional specification and develop for high throughput and easy to maintain systems
Attract, recruit, hire great engineers. Develop leadership and talent across your organization.
Track metrics, work execution blockers for your teams, recommend process improvements
Influence the features and direction of the product and platform with your own ideas
Single point of contact for Bangalore site. Connect site and organization to Lookout by providing information to your teams via townhalls, passdowns, business context.
You will report to the President of the Lookout Life Business Unit, and dotted line to the Chief Development Officer of Lookout
Management Requirements
10 years of progressive management experience
Interpersonal skills necessary to manage teams of engineers and to collaborate with cross functional stakeholders
Project planning and management skills
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Must have strong communications skills and be able to communicate up, down and across an organization.
Strategic and business minded
Ability to make decisions
Strong work ethic
Requirements:
Experience in consumer software and understanding building applications and technology that delight and engage consumers and foster growth.
Deep understanding of modern microservice architectures, technologies, open source software, agile process for building services and applications
Demonstrated track record of managing high-performing product engineering teams
Passion for innovation, obsession with user experience, and maniacal focus on product quality
Experience developing and launching successful products
Strong CS fundamentals and background
Ability to understand & review code
Experience working in customer support scenarios
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