Job description

Engineering Manager

For the past five years, Hive Learning has helped some of the world's most influential organisations create and embed culture change digitally and at scale. And in the past 18 months, our mission has become even more urgent.

Companies that can't continuously adapt and evolve their cultures for today's world won't be able to compete in the talent marketplace, won't be able to innovate fast enough, and ultimately just won't survive.

That's why we specialise in accelerating culture change in areas like inclusion, mental health, sustainability, and leadership development –– areas that today are more critical today than they have ever been.

Our unique approach is quite different to the traditional methods most people use to implement change programs –– and for good reason.

We're not creating massive content libraries or bland e-learning that either attract 'the woke few' or learning resources to die in the LMS never to be seen again. We're not creating running large, expensive face-to-face training programs that mean change gets stuck in siloes and learners fall victim to the forgetting curve.

Instead, we've found a formula that works –– 88% of our learners change their behaviour, we see monthly engagement of up to 90%, and learning retention is 50% higher than that of face-to-face training.

Our four part formula is made up of technology, learning programs (including content and campaigns), measurement tools, and customer success expertise and delivery support.

Our whole approach combines network science and nudge theory. Everything we do is underpinned by a five-pillar methodology developed from studying over 20,000 change programs and real-world social movements.

In short, we're on a mission to disrupt the outdated and ineffective world of corporate learning and help corporate learning teams overcome one of their biggest challenges — holding every person in their organisation accountable for their behaviours and making sure change sticks.

About the role

The engineering teams at Hive are responsible for developing innovative features that drive engagement and peer learning.

We use techniques like Shape up, atomic design, 12 factor and the agile manifesto which help us ensure that our teams are given the right level of autonomy and ownership to deliver exciting, innovative and effective products.

Your main goals will be to:

Ensure our engineering teams are happy, well staffed, performing and delivering effectively and to high technical standards. You will help to create an environment that empowers our teams, helps them grow and learn and works closely with product and the wider business.

You will be responsible for team health, performance and best practices, along with recruitment, outreach and engineering diligence.

Your roles and responsibilities will include:

Grow people and the team through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback, process development and continuous improvement - including line management.

Supporting the engineering community through each cycle, helping to remove blockers, make prioritisation calls along with participating in and challenging engineers' trade offs based on quality, scalability, performance and cost.

Improvement of engineering quality through implementation and continuous iteration of a data led approach to best practice.

Working closely with the product team to resource cycles, assess pitches and feedback into the product development life cycle.

Co-ordinating and comparing technical events and hackdays with the team.

Some words that describe you, your skills, and your experience

You'll have a growth mindset celebrating challenges and failures, you're motivated by delighting customers and have a track record of developing and growing engineers and understand how coaching and mentoring can help.

• You'll care deeply about people, teamwork and collaboration, able to coach and mentor software engineers to create high performing software teams
• You will have a good understanding of how processes and systems impact people and performance and how they can be used to help guide a better result having experienced engineering communities in a number of roles.
• You will have experienced a range of agile approaches, having worked in a software development team but be agnostic of framework, understanding the principles of agile and how they can be used to help deliver iteratively.

Location & travel requirements

Hive has Offices in London, Tampa and Peterborough. The majority of our product and engineering teams work day to day on a UK timezone, remotely, but enjoy travelling and spending time together in the UK. This means in practice some of the team choose to meet for lunch occasionally or learn together over a specific topic in an office throughout the week. More formally we all commit to meeting up once every 6 weeks usually for a learning, practice or technology day together, sometimes as a team and sometimes as a whole company. This role requires you to take a leading role in these events.

What we'd like to offer you

• An exciting and meaningful challenge with the opportunity to play a pivotal role in the next phase of our growth
• The chance to grow with us - there are no limits to how far this role could take you
• A supportive and inclusive environment in a forward-thinking and energetic team
• Be part of the broader Blenheim Chalcot family - connect and be mentored by some of the incredible people that work in the 20+ other start-ups in our ecosystem

• Competitive salary negotiable around £65,000 - £75,000 per annum.
• 25 days annual leave
• Your birthday off
• Life assurance
• Pension scheme
• Up to £800 flexible benefits package – you pick a combination from a list including medical insurance, dental cover, gym membership and much more.

We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to making Hive Learning an inclusive and supportive workplace.

In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on characteristics including race, colour, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status and chronic illness. Above and beyond discrimination/harassment based on protected characteristics, Hive Learning also strives to prevent subtler forms of inappropriate behaviour (like bias and stereotyping). Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place here at Hive Learning.