Engineering Director, Otter.ai
Infrastructure
$260-310k
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Voice-first team collaboration app for meetings and conversations
Job no longer available
Voice-first team collaboration app for meetings and conversations
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$260-310k
Office located in Mountain View, CA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make all voice conversations accessible and searchable through Ambient Voice Intelligence™.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of leading large-scale infrastructure projects, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration, and ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems
- This role requires a strategic thinker with strong leadership abilities who can drive continuous improvement, mentor team members, and align infrastructure initiatives with the company's overall vision
- Holds a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Has 7+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering, with 5+ years in a leadership or management role
- Demonstrates a proven track record of successfully delivering complex infrastructure projects on time and within budget
- Possesses a strong technical background in infrastructure, systems architecture, and cloud technologies
- Exhibits excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate teams to achieve common goals
- Has experience implementing agile methodologies and tools such as Scrum, Kanban, Jira, etc., in an infrastructure context
- Thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapts to changing priorities and business needs
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Engineering Director to lead our Infrastructure team, composed of Engineering Managers and Software Engineers
- Provide strategic direction and leadership to the infrastructure engineering team, setting clear objectives and priorities aligned with the company's long-term goals
- Navigate and resolve ambiguity, setting priorities for multiple projects and teams, and hold individuals accountable for delivering impactful results
- Mentor and coach team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and professional growth, with a focus on building a strong leadership pipeline within the team
- Lead by example, promoting a positive, inclusive, and resilient work environment where team members feel empowered to innovate and excel
- Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of infrastructure projects, ensuring adherence to timelines, budget, and quality standards
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, design, data, and quality assurance, to define project requirements and priorities that support our infrastructure needs
- Identify and mitigate risks proactively, making data-driven decisions to ensure the stability and scalability of our infrastructure
- Champion the adoption of best practices in infrastructure management, including automation, monitoring, and security
- Stay abreast of industry best practices, emerging technologies, and trends in infrastructure engineering, and incorporate them into the team's technical roadmap
- Provide deep technical guidance and expertise to the team, leading technical reviews, architectural reviews, and performance evaluations as needed
- Foster a culture of innovation and experimentation, encouraging team members to explore new technologies and approaches to solving complex infrastructure challenges
- Drive initiatives to enhance system reliability, performance, and scalability, ensuring that our infrastructure can support future growth
- Continuously evaluate and improve infrastructure processes and methodologies to increase efficiency, quality, and scalability
- Implement agile practices and tools tailored to infrastructure projects to streamline workflows, improve collaboration, and enhance transparency
- Drive initiatives to automate repetitive tasks, optimize resource utilization, and reduce the time to deploy infrastructure changes
- Ensure that the infrastructure team's processes align with the overall engineering organization's best practices and objectives
Our take
Otter specifically thought of business professionals who are running from one meeting to the next, while juggling multiple projects with various teams. The company's technology integrates with platforms like Zoom, providing a way to record meetings and convert speech to text in real-time. It then streamlines communications for smarter, more collaborative, and more productive meetings—the first use of conversational AI to turn meetings into an actionable workflow.
This allows people to benefit from captioning, as well as teams to have a written record of the conversation, which can be edited and shared. Its AI can also highlight and comment on important sections of a meeting transcript, and automatically tag action items. In addition to businesses, students and universities – including UCLA, Tulane, and Western Kentucky – use the tool to increase accessibility.
The platform is used in more than 230 countries and has transcribed over 100 million meetings. Otter is far from alone in the audio transcription market, estimated to be worth nearly $41.89 billion by 2030, with Google’s free transcription tool posing a potential threat, as well as competitors such as Rev.
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Company Specialist
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2021
$10m
CONVERTIBLE
Feb 2021
$40m
SERIES B
Total funding: $73m
Company benefits
- Stock and equity package
- Parental leave benefits
- Retirement savings program 401(k)
- Boundless snacks and free catered lunches
- Team lunches and social events
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive package that includes health care (medical, dental, vision, life, disability) and mental health support
- $500 home office stipend
Company values
- Set Audacious Goals
- Work with Passion
- Engage with Authenticity
- Build with Ingenuity
- Operate with Speed
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
Articles
Leadership
Sam Liang
(CEO)Earned a PhD from Stanford and then joined Cisco as a Senior Software Engineer. Worked as a Tech Lead at Google and is a member of the Forbes Technology Council.
Yun Fu
(CTO)Has a PhD in Computer Science from Duke. Worked as Yahoo's Principal Software Engineer and was Head of Infrastructure at Particle Media.
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