Head of Engineering, Visualist

£85-120k

React
Python
Senior level
London
Visualist

Helping creatives to scale their businesses with no code

Job no longer available

Visualist

Helping creatives to scale their businesses with no code

1-20 employees

B2CProductivityDesign

Job no longer available

£85-120k

React
Python
Senior level
London

1-20 employees

B2CProductivityDesign

Company mission

Visualise helps fashion, design and interiors creatives to automate workflows and scale their businesses with no code.

Role

Who you are

  • You have prior experience in a senior technical leadership position
  • You have strong people management and leadership skills
  • You are at your best when untangling conceptual problems and drilling down into the details
  • You enjoy wearing multiple hats and thrive in a startup environment
  • You don’t mind getting into the fine details of complex engineering efforts
  • You can clearly communicate decisions and the rationale behind them
  • You are a team player and organised, but also enjoy working with autonomy
  • You apply a product-driven approach to solving problems and enjoy leading a technical team that is striving towards commercial goals
  • You have broad technical experience across back-end, front-end, data and analytics, infrastructure, CI/CD
  • You love building new innovative products from scratch
  • You are flexible—we’re a young startup and you’ll be building lots of fun things, proof of concepts, MVPs and experiments!

What the job involves

  • Work with the Founder to define our product and technology strategy
  • Drive our overall engineering strategy and implement engineering best practices
  • Hire, build and retain a growing team of software engineers
  • Manage and execute project plans and delivery commitments
  • Build strong cross-team relationships between Product, Design and Engineering
  • Communicate with the team, including non-technical team members, about the status of development, quality, operations and system performances

Application process

  • Apply via Otta with your CV (PDF only please) and a short blurb on why you're interested.
  • Phase 1 (Screening call): We'll get back to you within 2 days for a 30-min intro (video) chat if it feels like a good fit
  • Phase 2 (90-min video call): We’ll schedule another video call to chat about your experience and past projects, particularly when it comes to senior/managerial roles
  • Phase 3 (In-person meeting): We'll invite you for an in-person meeting for the final round and for you to meet other members of the team. It's also a chance for you to get a sense of the team and our office environment
  • If all goes well, we'll make you an offer conditional upon reference checks

Salary benchmarks

Otta's take

Sam Franklin headshot

Sam Franklin

CEO of Otta

Many creatives can be slowed down by repetitive processes, such as organizing visual sources, gathering resources and making moodboards. Visualist leverages AI and machine learning to solve this problem.

Visualist targets designers, artists and creatives who have traditionally been underserved by productivity tools. The platform helps users to automatically organize their libraries, and to accelerate the creation process. What’s more, Visualist’s no-code interface ensures that it is accessible and easy to use. The company is now investing in developing this interface, while introducing automated workflows that will allow creatives to scale their businesses at pace.

With demands on creatives increasing rapidly, there is a growing need for tools such as Visualist’s. The company has committed to diversifying and expanding its technology significantly, for example developing its own colour detection algorithm with the support of Leeds University. This sort of innovation should ensure that Visualist maintains its enviable market position.

Insights

60% female employees

Company

Funding (1 round)

Jun 2022

$1.1m

GRANT

Total funding: $1.1m

Company benefits

  • ClassPass membership
  • Wellbeing + personal development budget
  • Flexible working
  • 25 days holiday + birthday off
  • Health insurance

Company HQ

Farringdon, London, UK

Founders

Former product/brand strategist for fashion/premium brands (LVMH, Chanel, De Beers, Christie's, etc.) and corporate lawyer in NYC & London

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