Head of Engineering @ Democratic National Committee (DNC)

INACTIVE

Full-Time

Head of Engineering

Posted on 3/31/2023

Democratic National Committee (DNC)

501-1,000 employees

Elects Democrats by empowering activists, mobilizing voters

Government & Public Sector

Senior

Remote

Required Skills

Data Science

AWS

Data Analysis

Google Cloud Platform

Requirements

A background in politics is helpful, but not essential. If you're coming from the tech industry, having experience as a volunteer and having end-user familiarity with the tools that campaigns use will be a boost for your onboarding, but we've also had people thrive here who were completely new to political tech
Recent hands-on coding experience is similarly helpful but not essential. We have a strong group of staff engineers and tech leads who would welcome a peer to exchange ideas with, but this role is, first and foremost, a strategic people manager
Experience working with Google Cloud Platform and/or Amazon Web Services, including helping teams think through infrastructure decisions and work in multiple cloud platforms
Experience with application security training for engineers. We not only take security seriously, but model it publicly for a broad ecosystem of progressive data teams

Responsibilities

Craft the long term vision for our platforms and infrastructure with a core group of staff engineers and engineering managers
Work closely with your team and our CTO to foster an inclusive and diverse engineering team, which prioritizes developing careers, building a healthy and collaborative culture across engineering, product managers, and data science teams, and running a hiring process valuing diversity of background and experience
Partner with our product, data, and security leads to shape an effective road map framework that delivers the maximum value for our users in line with our vision, and empower our teams to make strategic decisions balancing user research, technical needs and emergent opportunities
Bring a security-first mindset to how we build and support products, including strategies around technical debt management, logging and alerting systems, and minimizing attack surface
Be a senior technical partner to other teams outside of DNC Tech, providing consultative support and advice and help make build-buy-consult decisions on a dynamic range of projects
Drive improvements on our existing processes ranging from tech design to code review to incident response and vendor management to deliver the high quality software projects with an eye towards efficiency, security, and iterability
Multiple years of experience managing engineering teams, including managing and mentoring other managers, and guiding groups through periods of strategic and technical change
A demonstrable track record of partnering closely with product, data science/analytics, and non-technical stakeholders in data-driven, cross-functional, and fast-paced collaborative teams
Experience in modern scaled or cloud-based technology environments, including taking ownership of legacy projects and guiding effective decisions on refactoring technical platforms, or rewriting where appropriate. Thought partnership on systems design and architectural choices with engineers and tech leads is a common aspect of the role!
An ability to rapidly build trust across multiple audiences and teams, providing clear and actionable feedback to peers, direct reports, and partners
A commitment to championing diversity and inclusion within software engineering as exhibited by a concrete history of guiding and enriching the careers of your direct reports
Experience driving large-scale strategic and tactical thinking towards developing and launching major initiatives with a focus on driving clarity and decisiveness across multiple teams

The DNC Tech Team

In its continuing mission to build infrastructure to help Democrats win campaigns up and down the ballot, the Democratic National Committee’s Tech Team is seeking an empathetic, collaborative engineering leader to guide the team in the run up to the 2024 elections. Our BigQuery data warehouse, early voting data pipelines, voter protection software, and security infrastructure were vital in winning countless elections in 2020 and 2022. As we look to the future, we’re excited to build on this foundation and seek a Head of Engineering who will mentor our engineering managers, advise our tech leads, and work with product, data, and security peers on the joint future vision of our work.

Who We Are

We are a fully remote, distributed team living in 23 states and from a variety of backgrounds. Some of us have worked in political campaigns, others in public sector tech, and others in industry. We value diversity in perspective, lived experience, and the many paths one may take towards becoming a software engineer. We believe deeply in the promise of breaking the boom-bust cycle of political tech work and building technology infrastructure that will support campaigns from cycle to cycle and will improve with every iteration.

In this position you will..

Craft the long term vision for our platforms and infrastructure with a core group of staff engineers and engineering managers.
Work closely with your team and our CTO to foster an inclusive and diverse engineering team, which prioritizes developing careers, building a healthy and collaborative culture across engineering, product managers, and data science teams, and running a hiring process valuing diversity of background and experience
Partner with our product, data, and security leads to shape an effective road map framework that delivers the maximum value for our users in line with our vision, and empower our teams to make strategic decisions balancing user research, technical needs and emergent opportunities
Bring a security-first mindset to how we build and support products, including strategies around technical debt management, logging and alerting systems, and minimizing attack surface
Be a senior technical partner to other teams outside of DNC Tech, providing consultative support and advice and help make build-buy-consult decisions on a dynamic range of projects
Drive improvements on our existing processes ranging from tech design to code review to incident response and vendor management to deliver the high quality software projects with an eye towards efficiency, security, and iterability.

What we will look for…

Multiple years of experience managing engineering teams, including managing and mentoring other managers, and guiding groups through periods of strategic and technical change
A demonstrable track record of partnering closely with product, data science/analytics, and non-technical stakeholders in data-driven, cross-functional, and fast-paced collaborative teams
Experience in modern scaled or cloud-based technology environments, including taking ownership of legacy projects and guiding effective decisions on refactoring technical platforms, or rewriting where appropriate. Thought partnership on systems design and architectural choices with engineers and tech leads is a common aspect of the role!
An ability to rapidly build trust across multiple audiences and teams, providing clear and actionable feedback to peers, direct reports, and partners
A commitment to championing diversity and inclusion within software engineering as exhibited by a concrete history of guiding and enriching the careers of your direct reports
Experience driving large-scale strategic and tactical thinking towards developing and launching major initiatives with a focus on driving clarity and decisiveness across multiple teams

What we would be excited to see…

A background in politics is helpful, but not essential. If you’re coming from the tech industry, having experience as a volunteer and having end-user familiarity with the tools that campaigns use will be a boost for your onboarding, but we’ve also had people thrive here who were completely new to political tech
Recent hands-on coding experience is similarly helpful but not essential. We have a strong group of staff engineers and tech leads who would welcome a peer to exchange ideas with, but this role is, first and foremost, a strategic people manager
Experience working with Google Cloud Platform and/or Amazon Web Services, including helping teams think through infrastructure decisions and work in multiple cloud platforms
Experience with application security training for engineers. We not only take security seriously, but model it publicly for a broad ecosystem of progressive data teams.

This position is not eligible for overtime wages, and is a supervisory position.

This position requires up to 15% of travel both in the Washington, D.C. area and across the country to attend and support meetings and events.

The Democratic National Committee (DNC), is committed to diversity among its staff, and recognizes that its continued success requires the highest commitment to obtaining and retaining a diverse staff that provides the best quality services to supporters and constituents. The DNC is an equal opportunity employer and it is our policy to recruit, hire, train, promote and administer any and all personnel actions without regard to sex, race, age, color, creed, national origin, religion, economic status, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity or expression, ethnic identity or physical disability, or any other legally protected basis. The DNC will not tolerate any unlawful discrimination and any such conduct is strictly prohibited.

The DNC requires all employees to be "up to date" on COVID-19 vaccination status as prescribed by the CDC as a condition of employment, unless otherwise prohibited by applicable law. If you seek a reasonable accommodation in relation to the DNC’s COVID-19 policy, you should speak to the HR team prior to reporting to an office location.

Benefits:

The DNC offers a generous benefit package, including:

- More than 30 days of paid time off, including Federal holidays, vacation, and personal days;

- Health and dental insurance for employee and dependents;

- 90% paid by the DNC, 10% paid by employee;

- Supplementary vision plans available to employees for purchase;

- Up to a 4% employer match DNC 401(k) plan;

- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) available to DNC employees and their dependents at no cost to staff;

- Pre-tax Flexible spending account benefits available to employees and dependents.

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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is a robust organization that prioritizes grassroots activism, voter mobilization, and nationwide organization to elect Democrats at all levels. With a focus on investing in the middle class and reducing costs for working families, the DNC is committed to building a stronger economy from the bottom up. Additionally, the DNC's unique position as the only party committee responsible for electing Democrats nationwide offers a competitive advantage in terms of reach and influence.

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Total Funding

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Headquarters

Washington, District of Columbia

Founded

1848

Growth & Insights

Headcount

6 month growth

↑ 0%

1 year growth

↑ 7%

2 year growth

↑ 4%

Benefits

More than 30 Days of PTO

Health & dental insurance

Supplementary vision plans

401(k) plan with 4% match

Pre-tax FSA

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