SonderMind is a VC-backed digital health company redesigning behavioral health through covered and timely access, increased utilization, and data-validated quality outcomes. We are a team of Explorers, Builders, and Change Makers democratizing the complicated world of behavioral healthcare for therapists and clients alike.
How you'll make an impact
As an Engineering Manager, you will lead one of our full stack agile teams working to expand the capabilities of our platform. You will act as mentor and coach to the team for career growth, goal setting, and personal development. You will also lead by example and work with other Engineering department leaders to maintain best practices, continuously improve, and promote innovation. As our ideal candidate, a strong technical background and proven leadership experience. You are flexible, yet confident, in taking action with imperfect and evolving information, always striving to improve and not settling for the status quo.
Success looks like

• Build rapport, schedule 1:1s with team members, & work to understand technical product area focus.
• Partner with product management and other stakeholders to comprehend current and future product roadmap and upcoming feature details.
• Establish team performance measures of success. Provide feedback into short-term and longer-term strategic SDLC goals.
• Foster on-going career progression discussions with all team members and provide regular guidance on how they can accomplish their goals.
• Leading a high performing engineering team while striving to continue advancing SonderMind's mission

What you'll do

• Work closely with product management and design teams to ensure the team has clear direction, deadlines, and priorities
• Manage the performance and support the career growth of the team
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to improve development process
• Be an advocate of agile development

What you'll bring with you
Key Competencies

• Building Relationships: Builds genuine relationships of trust and loyalty. Demonstrates appreciation, understanding, and consideration for the feelings and needs of others, and the interconnectedness of people and teams.
• Communication: Articulates thoughts and ideas clearly and succinctly, adjust style to fit the audience and message. Engages and actively listens to others.
• Managing Performance: Exhibiting the courage and maturity to effectively and thoughtfully lead, motivates and inspire others to achieve results.
• Developing Others: Further the learning or development of others by understanding their goals, challenging them, giving them timely feedback, and offering them support.
• Plans & Aligns: Aligns objectives with broader organizational goals, breaking down objectives into app
• Resilience & Adaptability: Flexible in handling change, adapts to new situations with fresh ideas or innovative approaches.

Required Experience

• 8+ years experience in a technical role and 2+ years in management or technical leadership
• Demonstrated success in building, managing, and motivating a team of five or more
• Experience defining and steering delivery team goals, including fostering a culture of quality via test automation
• Proven ability to prioritize needs effectively, orchestrate complex ideas, and influence positive decision making processes
• Calm under pressure and capable of comfortably leading a team through rapid pace company growth stages
• Takes ownership of their own learning and professional development
• Strong experience in an agile development environment

Preferred Experience

• In depth knowledge of a few of the following: Ruby on Rails, Angular, Elastic Search, Service layer/ API test automation
• Experience in healthcare services, insurance, and/or healthcare technology
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams (front-end, back-end, SDET)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

What we value

• Transparency: We say what we mean and mean what we say
• Bucketworthiness: We can be relied upon to not let our bucket leak
• Ownership: We take initiative to act before being asked
• Courage: We move fast, take calculated risks and (sometimes) fail
• Empathy: We treat others with respect and assume their best intentions
• Passion: We loosely hold strong opinions, debate and then commit forcefully

Our Benefits
The anticipated salary range for this role is $125,000-$145,000. This role is eligible to participate in our equity incentive plan. Actual compensation is based commensurate with qualifications and experience.
As a leader in redesigning behavioral health we are walking the walk with our employee benefits package. We focus on meeting SonderMinders wherever they are and supporting them in all facets of their life with both mental and physical aspects in mind.
Our benefits include:

• Therapy coverage benefits to enable our employees to get the care they need
• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage with plans to meet your needs including HSA and FSA options.
• A flexible PTO policy, 8 holidays, and end of year company shutdown
• Employer-paid disability & AD&D to cover life's unexpected - not only that, we cover the difference in salary for up to Eight weeks of short-term disability leave
• Eight weeks of paid parental leave (if the parent also qualifies for STD, this benefit is in addition )
• Competitive market salary, up-to 4% salary company match on 401K, professional development and advancement opportunities as we rapidly scale, and so much more.

Mental wellness impacts people of every community. At SonderMind, building and supporting a diverse workforce is foundational to our goal to redesign behavioral healthcare to be more approachable and accessible. SonderMind is a committed equal opportunity employer and provides a workplace that will not tolerate discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status.