Director of Engineering, ZOE
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Understanding unique responses to food
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Understanding unique responses to food
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
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201-500 employees
Company mission
To improve the health of millions
Role
Who you are
- Have a successful track record in an engineering leadership role. This role is not a hands-on position, but you consider yourself a software engineer and builder at heart
- Are passionate about leading a distributed team, in a fast-paced environment. You have managed 15+ indirect reports before, preferably more
- Have exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate at all levels of the organization
- Are a strategic thinker with the ability to translate high-level goals into actionable plans
- Enjoy taking ownership and being comfortable with ambiguity. You provide clarity and make things happen
- Have an appetite to understand the business in depth and work closely with other teams to quickly test and release new ideas
- Have a data-driven mindset. You challenge teams to measure impact and demonstrate added value
What the job involves
- ZOE is looking for an Engineering Director who will play a pivotal role in shaping our engineering culture, driving technical excellence, and leading our talented teams
- We value leaders who are as passionate about technology as they are about people management
- Leading and mentoring a diverse team of engineering managers and engineers, fostering an inclusive and innovative environment
- Partnering with group product managers and design directors to build roadmaps and ensuring teams deliver high-impact initiatives to our members
- Driving technical strategy and architectural decisions, ensuring alignment with business goals
- Championing engineering best practices and continuous improvement
- Overseeing the performance and development of direct reports
- Leading projects that do not fit well into existing team boundaries
Application process
- Talent Acquisition Screening: Selected candidates will be contacted for an initial phone interview with our Talent Acquisition Partner. This conversation will help us assess your qualifications, experience, and your fit for our team. Duration 45min
- Hiring Manager Screening: Selected candidates will be moved forward in the process and meet our CTO. This conversation will focus on diving deeper in regards to your qualifications, experience, and your fit for ZOE. Duration 60 min
- Technical Interview: You will be asked to complete a system design interview to assess your knowledge and experience in this field. Duration 90min/each
- Behavioural Interviews: You will be asked to complete three behavioural interviews, which evaluate your present and past experience from a behavioural standpoint. Duration 45min/each
- Expected Timeline: The entire hiring process typically takes around 3-4 weeks from the Talent Acquisition Interview to the job offer. We understand the importance of your time and aim to provide timely feedback and updates at each stage
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Zoe was started when the three founders were trying to improve their health, by changing their diets. They were overwhelmed by the number of fad diets and the amount of conflicting nutritional advice.
Zoe combines machine learning algorithms with world-leading nutritional studies from Kings College London, Stanford University, and Harvard University. To provide personalised recommendations for food and recipes based on users' unique metabolic responses.
The ZOE personalised nutrition app was released which features tools to help users understand their metabolism better and choose foods better suited to them.
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
54% female employees
68% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2023
$2.5m
SERIES B
Dec 2022
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $84.5m
Company benefits
- Share options
- Flexible working
- Remote-first
- Enhanced parental leave
- Life insurance
- Remote yoga classes
- Mental health support
- Employer pension contribution
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- We are diverse and build upon each other positively - We are a collaborative team working toward a common goal. We are positively intended & respectful, intentional in our active listening and seeking diverse perspectives, and we make space for all to participate.
- We ❤️ to create moments of joy whenever possible - We create moments of joy whenever possible and encourage meaningful balance, recognizing our mission is a marathon, not a sprint. It all starts by us being intentional in building great relationships with each other.
- Always start by understanding our members - We always start by understanding our members’ needs and work backwards to deliver delightful solutions that exceed their expectations and have their health top of mind, with a commitment to ethics, education, privacy, and simplicity
- Take a scientific, evidence-based approach - As a health company, science comes first. We utilize a scientific approach, starting with a hypothesis and seeking evidence to assess and iterate. We stay open-minded, learn from our mistakes and strive to keep improving every day
- We are transparent, especially when it is hard - By having a bias to share publicly and openly, we build a transparent culture that empowers participation from everyone. We value feedback, communicate openly, voice the truth (even when it’s hard) and explain “the why” to help each other grow
- Act fast, we’ve got your back - As a startup, speed is crucial to our success. Many decisions and actions are reversible. We are scarce with our time, not reinventing the wheel or seeking perfection and act on 70% evidence so we can learn and iterate. We encourage all our team members to take risks, change course when necessary, and go for it—we have their backs, always
- Dive deep - We operate at all levels, caring about the details that matter and being able to connect them to the bigger picture with coherent logic. As such, we are able to quickly distinguish between “feel-good” metrics or “seemingly good” ideas from the ones that truly matter or capture the truth
- Empower ZOEntists to act as owners - We are intentional in empowering more ZOEntists to act as owners on behalf of the entire company without interdependencies and we continuously set up new systems, frameworks & principles to enable this. We also back them in their decisions, even when we disagree
Company HQ
Waterloo, London, UK
Founders
Tim Spector
(Head of Research)Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King’s College London, director of the Twins UK study and one of the world’s leading researchers. Author of 'The Diet Myth', focusing on nutrition and the microbiome.
Jonathan Wolf
(CEO)Studied physics at Oxford University. Previously Chief Product Officer for Criteo.
George Hadjigeorgiou
(President)Studied Mechanical Engineering at Tufts & MIT. Previously CEO of HouseTrip (acquired by TripAdvisor) and co-founder of efood (acquired by Delivery Hero).
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