Engineering Manager

o1Labs’ vision is to create an internet where developers use programmable cryptography to create more powerful applications. We have successfully incubated the Mina Protocol and are now in the next stage of our journey as the world’s premier zero-knowledge tooling provider. o1Labs is seeking an empathetic and caring Engineering Manager to guide and uphold our engineering culture on this quest. The successful candidate will be a great communicator who can effectively prioritize, socialize and establish culture and process norms that empower our remarkable team of cross-functional engineers.  As an o1Labs’ Engineering Manager, you will manage and care for engineers across multiple teams, providing a stable and consistent base of support. You will attend team meetings and work closely with technical Team Leads to evaluate and propose practices that best support an autonomous and empowered team.

About the team

At o1Labs, our engineering teams are structured to place decision-making responsibility with those who have the best context. Engineers at o1Labs are empowered to make meaningful decisions about the scope and priority of their work, with guidance from technical and engineering leads. We avoid knowledge silos by working cross-functionally on multiple codebases, and encourage engineers to periodically move between teams to gain and exercise greater domain knowledge. Our Engineering Managers hold a special place in this setup, providing continuity and a stable source of support, regardless of which team their reports are currently working in. As such, Engineering Managers are not scoped to a specific team. They work with multiple technical team leads and hold a wide perspective on overall engineering practice and culture.

Responsibilities

• Manage, support and grow a team of talented engineers.   
• Represent the needs and sentiment of the team to inform decisions pertaining to structure and process within the engineering department.
• Participate in these structural and process decisions by proposing and monitoring specific changes and solutions.
• Observe team ceremonies and develop best practices in collaboration with technical Team Leads.
• Manage performance through objective observation, assessment and feedback.
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive environment that enables engineers to do their best work.
• Attend to and champion the wellbeing of the team.
  

Requirements

• Strong leadership and problem-solving skills.
• A clear and solid grasp of the merits, pitfalls, and guiding philosophies of various engineering methodologies, and a lack of dogma in applying them.
• Experience managing engineering teams alongside technical leads.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a collaborative leadership approach.
• A sufficient grasp of technical architecture and system design to understand the working context of the team.

About Us

o1Labs is the team that incubated, launched, and contributed to Mina Protocol. This Layer 1 blockchain compresses the blockchain from hundreds of gigabytes down to the size of a few tweets and can scale to millions of users while remaining decentralized enough for cell phones to be fully verifying nodes. o1Labs recently announced [Project Untitled], a new project that aims to solve the state management problem for web3.

We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive company. People of color, LGBTQ individuals, women, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.