Vice President of Engineering, Zen Educate & Zen Locum
4+ days a week in office (Oval, London)
Education and healthcare recruitment platform
Be an early applicant
Education and healthcare recruitment platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
4+ days a week in office (Oval, London)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make a positive impact and bring about meaningful change within the education recruitment sector.
Role
Who you are
- Top performer that wants to be part of a high-performing, motivated team
- Growth mindset – dedicated to improving your skills as a professional
- Passion for building great products and companies that have a positive social impact
- Strong bias to action
- Excellent people skills for working with both our customers and teams at Zen
- 10+ years of relevant experience
- Deep technical experience combined with strong communication skills. Comfort presenting to the team and senior executives and able to translate a business strategy into a compelling mission for their engineering teams
- Moves with ease between big picture, strategic thinking and complex, technical details
- Experience working with executives to build a technology strategy aligned with business strategy and priorities
- Strong leadership and prior experience leading high performing teams
- Strong analytical and technical skills in data collection and analysis
- History of creating products with strong user experience and high-quality code
What the job involves
- You’ll be joining Zen in a key position leading an engineering organisation of 30. Product is at the heart of how we deliver for schools and teachers and you’ll play a key role in leading our engineering function to build high quality and robust products
- We’re still young and you’ll play a significant role in the development of the company and team. The product delivery team is a crucial part of how Zen will help both transform the supply and recruitment experience for schools and generate the savings the education system needs. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to apply themselves for a great cause and with great responsibility and autonomy to shape the tech for years to come
- Technology roadmap: Developing and communicating Zen's technical roadmap aligned with vision, business goals and priorities
- Infrastructure: Identifying long and short-term infrastructure needs, and overseeing system designs and changes
- Technology management: Responsibility for Zen's tech stack and tech-related processes
- Develop our high-performing engineering team through effective collaboration between product managers, design and development, and enhancing our development processes
- Work with the CEO and other Executives defining, clarifying and reviewing key product objectives as we improve our existing product and launch in new areas
- Hire, train, and manage, engineers, and tech leaders, including our existing high–performing team
- Select and manage third party tools and vendors on which the product depends
- Managing cybersecurity and data privacy
Salary benchmarks
Our take
With UK schools under immense financial pressure, Zen Educate is providing a smarter approach to education staffing. Recruitment in schools often relies on inefficient and expensive practices. Zen Educate is focused on tackling the pain points in the industry and providing a way to ensure schools get the best teachers possible.
It provides an online platform as an alternative to recruitment agencies, which is the only online platform accredited by the UK's Department of Education, helping schools fill staffing needs quickly and cost-effectively. Schools using the platform have reportedly saved 20-30% on supply cover costs. Zen Educate aims to save the education system £14 million per year by 2024 with its smarter approach.
Zen also operates Zen Locum, a service aimed at solving similar problems for pharmacies and opticians. Offering higher rates and greater flexibility than bigger locum health services such as Tesco Pharmacy, it has already seen high uptake with over 500 new joiners a month.
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40% female employees
62% employee growth in 12 months
Company
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"I'd always wanted to be a part of a business where the culture was taken as seriously as the work. With all of our teams, as we've grown, we've had..."
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2024
$37m
SERIES B
Oct 2022
$25.2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $84.3m
Company benefits
- Macbook and tech equipment provided 👩💻
- Regular "lunch 'n' learns" every month on a range of topics
- Investment in your professional development📈
- Regular socials🥳
- Ownership in the company🚀
- Pension scheme
- 25 days of holidays + all UK public holidays off☀️
- Central London dog-friendly office with perks like fresh fruit, bike parking, showers, and an on-site gym and café ☕️
- Life insurance
- Vitality health insurance and benefits
- Cycle to Work Scheme 🚲
- Electric Car Scheme 🚙
Company values
- Commit to the mission- We commit to our mission, our customers, and our teams. We work hard because we care more
- Choose greatness over comfort- Greatness and comfort rarely coexist. We seek greatness. We understand success takes grit & determination so we seek colleagues that possess it
- Act like an owner- We all take responsibility for driving the company forward and making it a success. If we see something that could be better, we fix it. We offer stock options to all employees
- Help each other be better- Every person at Zen is someone we can respect and learn from
- A culture of trust- We hire people who are great at their jobs and we let them get on with it while being there to lend a hand when needed
- Challenge the status quo- We take action when we can see opportunities for improvement. We are in it to make our customers' lives better and to fix a broken system
- Embrace learning over perfection- We make decisions quickly and we don't hesitate. We may disagree with a decision, but we support the team and the mission by committing to it. We embrace making unknowable mistakes and learning from them
Company HQ
Lambeth, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Slava Kremerman
(CEO)Previously a member of the Leadership Team at Nutmeg a FS startup, they also worked at Barclays and Aon.
Oren Cohen
(CCO)Ran the UK office of Optimizely, a Silicon Valley tech company. Prior to this, they worked at G-STAT and Intel.
Diversity & Inclusion at Zen Educate & Zen Locum
- At Zen, we strive to build a culture of equity and inclusion, where everyone is respected, valued and appreciated for their unique traits, experiences and perspectives. We are committed to creating a safe, inclusive and equitable environment where our team can thrive, regardless of age, ethnicity, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, disability, religion or beliefs. We value our differences and believe that practices of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion help us create a fairer, more compassionate environment for all
- We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and different experiences and perspectives — just like the staff who teach through Zen and the children at the schools we work with. We believe in hiring the best people from the widest pool and creating an inclusive culture where people’s voices are heard and all our team can look forward to coming to work
- We are committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of our community and promoting an equitable and inclusive environment for all. We seek out diverse opinions, beliefs, and experiences because they collectively make us stronger; we’ve had former teachers, pilots, fundraisers, engineers, lawyers, marketers, social media experts and more join our team
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