Join Affinity as we redefine how professionals manage and leverage their
networks, transforming relationships into meaningful opportunities. You'll be
part of a team focused on improving our core product and platform, making
relationship intelligence indispensable through advanced data analytics. With
our growing user base and expansion into new markets, we're more committed than
ever to delivering relationship intelligence to professionals everywhere.
Your role and impact:
As the Sr. Director of Engineering at Affinity, you will report to the CTO and
lead the development of our innovative CRM and Sourcing products. Your strategic
vision will ensure we build strong foundations that drive outstanding customer
outcomes.
Key responsibilities:
- Shape Product Roadmap: Collaborate with product and design leaders to
establish a compelling future vision for our product, crafting a strategic
roadmap that seamlessly integrates product, design, and engineering.
- Lead Engineering Execution: Lead engineering execution, ensuring quality
software and a delightful user experience through continuous, iterative
development practices, while driving initiatives to refine our overall
development approach and delivery processes.
- Develop Teams: Guide and develop a high-performing team through leadership,
coaching, and mentoring, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous
improvement while ensuring inclusive development opportunities for all team
members.
- Craft Technical Strategy: Drive and execute toward a technical strategy that
aligns with Affinity’s business and product needs, focusing on delivering
high quality, great usability, and fast performance across applications and
APIs.
Qualifications
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of
color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every qualification. At
Affinity, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic
workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience
doesn’t perfectly align with the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply
anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Desired experience:
- B2B SaaS enterprise company experience, with a proven track record leading
engineering within complex, customer-focused product environments.
- 8+ years of experience building scalable web applications with large volumes
of data and rich visualizations.
- 8+ years in an engineering leadership role, with experience leading multiple
teams through managers and team leads.
- You’re excited about practical applications of AI, both to enhance
productivity internally, and to delight your customers.
- Experience developing, coaching and managing engineering leaders, such as
Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers.
- Care personally about the people you work with, and about helping them to
grow and develop in their careers, while also challenging them when
necessary.
- You build talent density on your teams, from recruiting to investing in the
growth of your team members.
- Balance thoughtfully between short-term business priorities and long-term
investment and strategy.
- Take pride in delivering an exceptionally high-quality product, ensuring
outstanding functionality, while maintaining the platform’s overall
performance and reliability.
- You're excited to work collaboratively within engineering and across
functional teams.
- Articulate, confident, and persuasive communication skills, coupled with the
ability to listen and represent diverse perspectives.
Tech stack
Our platform is built with React and TypeScript on the front end, and with Ruby
and PostgreSQL on the back end. Our infrastructure is hosted by AWS and runs on
Kubernetes.
How we work:
Our culture is a key part of how we operate as well as our hiring process:
- We iterate quickly. As such, you must be comfortable embracing ambiguity, be
able to cut through it, and deliver incremental value to our customers each
sprint.
- We are candid, transparent, and speak our minds while simultaneously caring
personally with each person we interact with.
- We make data-driven decisions and make the best decision for the moment based
on the information available.
Join us in enabling every professional on the planet to succeed by harnessing
the power of their relationships.
If you’d want to learn more about our values click here
[https://www.affinity.co/company/careers].
What you’ll enjoy at Affinity:
- We live our values: As owners, we take pride in everything we do. We embrace
a growth mindset, engage in respectful candor, act as playmakers, and "taste
the soup" by diving deep into experiences to create the best outcomes for our
colleagues and clients.
- Health Benefits: We cover both you and your dependents' extended health
benefit premiums and offer flexible personal & sick days to support your
well-being.
- Retirement Planning: We offer an RRSP plan to help you plan for your future.
- Learning & Development: We provide an annual education budget and a
comprehensive L&D program.
- Wellness Support: We reimburse monthly for things like home internet, meals,
and wellness memberships/equipment to support your overall health and
happiness.
- Team Connection: Virtual team-building activities and socials to keep our
team connected, because building strong relationships is key to succes.
Please note that the role compensation details below reflect the base salary
only and do not include any equity, or benefits. This represents the salary
range that Affinity believes, in good faith, at the time of this posting, that
it will pay for the posted job.
A reasonable estimate of the current range is $180,000 to $270,000 CAD. Within
the range, individual pay depends on various factors including geographical
location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the
applicant.
About Affinity
With more than 3,000 customers worldwide and backed by some of Silicon Valley's
best firms, Affinity has raised $120M to empower dealmakers to find, manage, and
close more deals. How? Our Relationship Intelligence platform uses the wealth of
data exhaust from trillions of interactions between Investment Bankers, Venture
Capitalists, Consultants, and other strategic dealmakers to deliver automated
relationship insights that drive over 450,000 deals every month. We are are
proud to have received Inc. and Fortune Best Workplaces awards as well as to be
Great Places to Work certified for the last 5 years running. Join us on our
mission to make it possible for anyone to cultivate and fully harness their
network to succeed.
We use E-Verify
Our company uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly
hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and
responsibilities, please visit www.dhs.gov/E-Verify
[http://www.dhs.gov/E-Verify].
