Visible & You

At Visible, we’re building a new, entirely digital way to deliver mobile phone service to fit the needs of people who live their lives on their phones.  With one simple price, we offer unlimited data, messages, and minutes, on America’s best 4G LTE network. Based in Denver, CO, we’re a team of passionate people imagining and building the future of mobile phone service, while creating a new culture and ways of doing business from ground up.  No single day will feel the same, and change is the only constant. If you love all of that, plus the challenge of delivering the best experience to our customers in the simplest ways (and knowing that simple requires a lot of work behind-the-scenes), check us out at https://visible.com.  We are Visible.

This is a full-time position based at the Visible headquarters in Denver, CO, where you will collaborate with team members across functions as well as our executive team.

Your Role at Visible

We are actively searching for a Senior Manager, Software Engineering as part of the technology organization within Visible.  This role will provide technical leadership, vision and direction for the software engineering organization. This individual will oversee multiple software engineering teams which design, develop, and support applications to meet our fast-paced business requirements. This manager will work with engineering, product and design leaders to execute in an agile way against our product roadmap.  The Senior Manager will also provide technical guidance and mentorship with a dedication to deliver product roadmaps on-time and within budget. In this role you will provide vision and leadership to implement latest software practices with a focus on quality and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Ensures all engineering projects, initiatives, and processes are in conformance with organization's established best practices and business objectives

• Plans and directs all aspects of engineering activities and projects within an organization

• Communicate status, risks, and offers mitigation strategies to ensure on-time delivery of all committed projects to cross-functional teams and high-level management

• Prioritize and allocate projects, products, and resources with the assistance of architects and managers.

• Establish world class software teams by hiring and developing top talent.

• Oversees the development, implementation and execution of multiple projects ensuring scope and schedule are established for projects

• Establishes the proper resource allocation for the department, including prioritization and staff deployment; acts based on changed priorities.

• Define and measure Key Performance Indicators (KPI) – drive corrective actions throughout the entire software department based on real data and results.

• Keep Managers accountable, as well as developing their professional growth.

What You Bring to Visible (a.k.a. qualifications)

• BS/Masters in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent work experience

• 12+ years software engineering experience

• 6+ years of software leadership experience

• Experience leading mobile and web teams preferred

• Agile experience necessary

• Proven results oriented person with a delivery focus

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to work well with people and be both highly motivated and motivating

• High attention to detail including precise and effective customer communications

• Ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously

• History of teamwork and willingness to roll up their sleeves to get the job done

• Ability to work well with people and be both highly motivated and motivating

• Experience with solving and operating solutions requiring high availability, highly scaling, low latency solutions

• Proven analytical and quantitative skills and the ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions to develop project business cases and prioritize allocation of resources

More about Visible

We are proud to work at a place free from discrimination. We believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will create a better environment for our team and a better product for our members.  Come join us at Visible and be part of changing the way mobile phone service works for everyone.