About us

Share Local Media, or SLM, is a rapidly growing startup reimagining the world of offline marketing for tech and e-commerce companies. We started as e-commerce marketers ourselves, and launched SLM with a goal of turning direct mail into a high performing, scalable channel for a digitally native client set. To do so, we’ve taken an inputs based-approach to the space, and re-engineered the channel from the ground up to make it easier to test, faster to execute, more measurable, and ultimately, more effective for e-commerce and tech clients of all types.

So what does SLM actually do? We’re a full-service direct mail agency, media program operator, and technology platform, serving some of your favorite e-commerce and tech brands (think Casper, Lyft, Grubhub, etc.). We live and breathe direct response marketing, and strive to delight clients with high performing campaigns built around fast, data-driven client service, and premium, unique branding.

What are we like at SLM? We’re passionate, humble, and kind. We value data-driven thinking, speed, persistence, creativity, and teamwork. We love helping clients grow and scale through a tactile medium that has long term brand value. And finally, we get excited about transforming an old-school channel into something new through data, product, technology, and a service-driven mentality.

Share our excitement? Great - we’d love to hear from you!

The role

We are looking for an experienced Director of Engineering to build out our client facing agency digital experience team. This is a new team within the organization focused around providing tools and technology solutions to support our clients, internal account management, and data teams.

The team's portfolio bridges and brings together mailfiles, customer data, USPS scan tracking, reporting, and attribution into a seamless easy to use experience.

You will be responsible for building a diverse and talented engineering team, and working together with our product team to ensure that we are able to deliver and scale solutions to meet the growing demands of our clients across all four of SLM business lines. The role includes getting hands on with product planning and prioritization.

Once the team is up and running, we expect you to be a coach and enabler for your team. Helping the team build and develop their skills and providing actionable, timely and constructive feedback.

We also expect that a successful candidate will enjoy solving problems, getting hands-on, and become an expert in our business.

Core responsibilities

• Build out and lead our agency experience platform team, with responsibility for recruiting, hiring and nurturing top-class talent.
• Work closely with product managers and other internal stakeholders to identify opportunities and provide an engineering perspective, translating business requirements into technical solutions.
• Provide day-to-day management for your team. Coaching,mentoring and providing feedback.
• Drive technical projects and provide leadership, while also contributing technically.
• Work with our leadership to support and grow the culture of our company and the engineering team.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
• At least 2 years of hands-on experience in a Lead or Engineering Management role.
• Fluent in at least one mainstream programming language. We primarily use Ruby.
• Proven track record of building and scaling complex applications.
• Technical chops and desire to help drive architectural decisions, coding standards and processes for your team.
• Great communication skills. You should be able to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.

What we offer

• Full-time role based in our NYC office / Remote option for this role
• Ownership and growth opportunities
• Flexible vacation policy
• Robust benefits package
• A fun culture including: team events, happy hours, and trips
• The opportunity to work with a group of passionate, humble, and kind team members

If you’re looking to be part of something new that is transforming an industry, this is the role for you. You will be empowered to think like an entrepreneur by coming up with new ideas, testing them, implementing them, and then scaling them quickly.