Director of Engineering

About GameChanger:

We believe in the life-changing impact youth sports have on and off the field because they encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence—important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches, parents, and volunteers, organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community, we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports.

So if you love sports and their community-building potential, or building cool products is your sport, GameChanger is the team for you. We are a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today.

The Position:

As a Director of Engineering, you will be responsible for leading acquisition and risk mitigation teams which will be responsible for top of funnel growth, reaching new markets, and business risk mitigation. You will manage multiple Engineering Managers who oversee cross functional teams of iOS, Android, and Backend Engineers. You will work closely with cross-functional team members, mainly Product Directors, and report to our VP of Engineering.

What You'll Do:

• Identify and evaluate emerging technologies for adoption and manage vendor relationships. 

• Drive technical strategy on your teams and be accountable for the outcomes.

• Help define and evangelize high engineering standards across the organization.

• Gain a deep understanding of our product, our market, and the economic side of our business; recruit, maintain, and improve excellent personnel to form a world-class, diverse engineering team; explain the company vision to your team to make them feel more purposeful, and foster a culture of trust, learning, and excellence. 

• Create strong connections and cooperate with other leaders in the Engineering team and across other departments.

• You are an expert in contemporary Engineering practices like Lean, DevOps, and Agile and can effectively direct your team in executing these principles. 

• Learn GameChanger’s most successful methods and use your own experiences to help us adjust and improve further. 

• Take part in and contribute to educational activities about modern software design and development techniques.

Who You Are:

• 10+ years of overall engineering experience, with 5+ years of engineering management experience.

• Experience leading in an agile, fast moving, and rapid change environment.

• Expertise working on and leading teams developing iOS and Android apps, and have led teams that contribute to highly scalable server code.

• A highly skilled communicator and empathetic leader who has a track record of developing your team while delivering business results.

• You have a passion for delivering products with a high bar for quality, time to market, and user experience.

• Bachelor or Masters degree in CS or Engineering a plus.

Perks:

• Work remotely or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY.

• Unlimited vacation policy.

• Paid volunteer opportunities.

• WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable.

• Snack stipend - $60 monthly to have snacks shipped to your home office.

• Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA/HRA., and coverage for family/dependents.

• Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.

• Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability.

• Retirement savings - 401K plan offered through Vanguard, with a company match.

• Company paid access to a wellness platform to support mental, financial and physical wellbeing.

• Generous parental leave.

• DICK’S Sporting Goods Teammate Discount.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

The target salary range for this position is between $255,000 and $275,000. This is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes incentive, equity, and benefits for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all teammate pay regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay.

DICK’S Sporting Goods has company-wide practices to monitor and protect the company from significant compliance and monetary implications as it pertains to employer state tax liabilities. Due to said guidelines put in place, we are unable to hire in AK, DE, HI, IA, LA, MS, MT, OK, and SC.