Duties
Organizational Management
- Strategic Planning: Collaborate with the Government Director, Head of Engagement, and Head of Improvement to develop and execute organizational methods, objectives, and working plans.
- Aim Setting: Contribute to setting and attaining objectives that target increasing iNaturalist’s influence on biodiversity, rising the neighborhood, enhancing the product, constructing organizational capability, and guaranteeing sustainability.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Foster a collaborative atmosphere throughout all departments to make sure alignment and integration of efforts in direction of widespread objectives.
Engineering Group Management
- Group Management: Domesticate a tradition of excessive efficiency coupled with a celebration of feat throughout the engineering staff. Develop profession paths, conduct efficiency evaluations, and handle recruitment and hiring processes.
- Technical Oversight: Overseeing a staff of 10 engineers, designers, and challenge managers concerned in cellular and internet interfaces, database programs, AI fashions, and backend operations.
- Workflow: Coordinate and streamline the administration of engineering tasks, timelines, and launches. Guarantee well timed supply of high-quality merchandise.
Expertise and {Qualifications}
- Administration Expertise: In depth expertise managing and rising a staff of 10+ engineers. Expertise managing in a distant atmosphere and expertise with open supply tasks.
- Technical Experience: Expertise with the next applied sciences: cellular and internet improvement, database administration, AI, and backend operations and software program improvement processes together with programs structure, software program design, and testing that cowl all phases of conventional software program improvement lifecycle. Expertise with agile/scrum, cloud deployments, and managing main vendor relationships (e.g. Google, Azure, Apple)
- Collaborative Spirit: Wonderful communication and collaboration abilities, with the power to work successfully throughout departments and with various stakeholders.
- Ardour for Nature: A powerful dedication to nature and know-how in addition to an curiosity in science and conservation.
Why Be a part of Us?
- Impression: Play a pivotal function in a mission-driven group devoted to biodiversity conservation and neighborhood engagement.
- Innovation: Main a staff of builders constructing cutting-edge know-how that empowers thousands and thousands of individuals to make a constructive influence on nature.
- Development: Be a part of a rising group with alternatives for private {and professional} improvement.
Compensation and Advantages
Why it’s Nice to work at iNaturalist
A mission that issues.
With species going extinct every day, the necessity to defend and doc biodiversity has by no means been extra important. iNaturalist has develop into the go-to knowledge supply to measure biodiversity conservation and safety.
A terrific staff.
Sensible, hard-working nature lovers make up our small staff. We dwell in international locations everywhere in the world however come collectively every day to additional our mission. For this place, to facilitate collaboration throughout time zones, we require that you simply be a resident of and eligible to work within the decrease 48 states (i.e., not Alaska or Hawaii).
Versatile work.
We’re a digital staff, and most of this place’s work may be carried out from residence or wherever you might be comfy. You’ll even get some funds to arrange your workplace and a month-to-month stipend to defray a number of the prices. Some journey to conferences and occasions will be required.
Aggressive pay.
The wage for this full-time place is $182,350 per 12 months, non-negotiable.
Nice advantages.
We provide a fairly superior advantages bundle, together with medical, dental, imaginative and prescient and life insurance coverage, plus an employer-funded well being reimbursement account and employee-funded versatile spending accounts. There’s a 401k plan with a 5% match. This place is eligible for limitless private time without work, and in contrast to some tech firms, we actually imply it – everybody is predicted to take a minimal of three weeks a 12 months off. Eligible new dad and mom rise up to 12 weeks of paid depart and an extra 18 of unpaid.
Software course of
As a substitute of a canopy letter, we are going to ask you to reply two questions that will likely be reviewed (by actual individuals, not AI) and assessed individually from one another, your resume, and your identify. The hiring staff will evaluate your solutions and resume in a batch of solutions and resumes from different candidates in randomized orders. Randomization and anonymization of every factor within the preliminary evaluate course of minimizes bias.
Utilized asks in your demographic data, however we by no means see it in affiliation with you—solely summarized in mixture. We use it to evaluate the general demographics of the candidate pool.
After preliminary evaluate of purposes on a rolling foundation, advancing candidates will likely be requested to reply a number of extra questions inside one week.
Course of Abstract:
- Software (July)
- Written comply with up (July/Aug)
- First spherical interview (Aug)
- Second spherical interview (Aug)
- Provide (Sept)
- Superb begin date: October 1