VP Engineering

Job Description

✨ About us ✨

Photoroom was launched in 2020 after being accepted into Y Combinator and has become the world's most popular AI photo editor over the past four years. Our mission is clear: to create the best visuals for your commerce.


Photoroom puts the power of great images into more people's hands through our powerful and innovative features, from our best-in-the-world background remover to our generative AI model and tools: AI Images, AI Backgrounds and Shadows, AI Expand, and many more.


Processing over 5 billion images a year and downloaded over 200 million times, Photoroom is now the world's #1 AI photo-editing app, available across mobile, web, and via an API in over 180 countries.


Photoroom is a profitable, remote-friendly company headquartered in Paris with a global team of over 100 world-class deep learning, product, and marketing experts with backgrounds at the world's best companies. We are a diverse team of entrepreneurs building for entrepreneurs.

TL;DR

🇪🇺 We are flexible: you can work from anywhere in Europe within a 3-hour flight from Paris (HQ) and come to our office once a month (fully reimbursed) or more often. This ensures effective collaboration and supports our commitment to reducing our carbon footprint. However, in leadership positions, we expect you to visit the Paris office more regularly.

✈️ We offer substantial support for relocation (up to 10k€), including finding an apartment in Paris and supporting you with the visa procedure.

🛂 We currently sponsor visas for individuals relocating to France or already based here. We are unable to sponsor visas for remote positions outside of France at this time.

💻 Technology - new MacBook Pro, monitor, keyboard, etc.

🏖️ Socials - Biannual company retreats, weekly Happy Hour & Game Time

🇬🇧 Photoroom is an international team and we work in English. We offer language lessons for those who need them (English & French).

✨ About the role ✨

As VP engineering, you’ll own the 4 following pillars:

  • Team organisation: Manage and mentor team leads, owning performance and career development.

  • Hiring: Strategy and execution, ensuring that you and your reports hire outstanding engineers

  • Delivery: Own the delivery and shipping speed of your teams. Implement best practices in software development and processes. Push and lead strategic initiatives

  • Strategy: You’ll co-develop the technical strategy with the CTO, prioritise with the product team and ensure execution is world-class

✨ About you ✨

  • You’ve successfully scaled at least one engineering team from 50 to 100 engineers

  • You’ve grown teams to extreme level of engineering excellence: shipping speed, complexity of the topics serving the business, talent density

  • You have a track record of actively hiring (from sourcing to closing) exceptional engineers

  • You’ve collaborated with other executives to align on product roadmaps

  • [Bonus] You have experience with AI-powered products

If you think you have what it takes but don't meet every single point above, please still apply. We'd love to chat and see if you could be a great fit.

Hiring Process

  • Introductory interview with the CTO

  • Technical interview with the CTO

  • Collaborative working session with CTO, VP Product, and Engineering Manager

  • Meet the team with other Engineering Managers

  • Culture fit interviews

  • Reference check & Offer

Support - If you have a medical condition or an individual need for an adjustment to our process, and you believe this may affect your ability to be at your best - please let us know so we can talk about how we can best support you and make any adjustments that may be needed.

🌈 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging

We are committed to enabling everyone to feel included and valued at the workplace. We believe both the company and its culture are strongest when composed of diverse experiences and backgrounds.

That's why:

- We have flexible working hours

- We trust people to work remotely

- We extended the length of the parental leave

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, family, gender identity, marital status, national origin, physical or mental disability, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.

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About the Job

Company
Photoroom
Posted
5 days ago
Job Type
Full time
Location
Paris |
Skills

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