Head of Engineering

About Osmind

Osmind is dedicated to transforming mental health care through cutting-edge technology. We strive to enhance patient outcomes and advance treatment through our innovative solutions.

Role Overview

We’re seeking a Head of Engineering to lead our engineering team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality software while improving development velocity. This role involves strategic planning, team leadership, and cross-functional collaboration to align engineering efforts with our company goals. This leader will report directly to our co-founder/CEO.

As Head of Engineering, you’ll lead the entire engineering organization to represent engineering’s voice among our functional leadership. Your decisions will influence company strategy and enable us to meet our goals and drive to achieve our mission to revolutionize mental healthcare.

What You'll Do

• Technical Strategy and Execution for Product Development
• Lead engineering team and work with Product to determine the product roadmap of our EHR (electronic health record) product line and other life sciences data and network products, to translate that into the engineering execution plan
• Anticipate changes, challenges, and efficiencies to steer the organization on track and on time
• Healthcare is complex: you thrive off navigating such complexity, making difficult tradeoffs to improve development velocity and maintain high-quality standards
• Given our product is mission-critical for healthcare providers and their patients, you’ll ensure system uptime and meet targets for critical bugs
• Develop and implement plans to address technical, operational, and product debt while balancing business need
• You’re data-driven and can assess and enhance engineering processes to boost efficiency, leveraging engineering KPIs to help improve team performance
• Oversee information security and incident response




• Team Leadership and Development
• Mentor and inspire our high-performing engineering team, fostering a culture of both excellence and collaboration
• Hire top talent to fill open roles and build a strong engineering culture to engage, motivate, and develop the team




• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Build strong relationships with leaders in Product, Operations, Data Science, and more
• Actively contribute to company-level strategy

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience: 6+ years as a software engineer, 6+ years of management experience (reaching Director level)
• Experiences with Series B or earlier startups, ideally in the most recent role
• You've managed managers with a total team size of at least 15
• Proven experience with critical application architecture and modern AWS technologies
• Ability to manage complex applications with high uptime and stability requirements
• Track record of high-quality and high-velocity software delivery
• Experience in attracting, retaining, and developing top engineering talent and building a motivated engineering culture. Experience building and managing nearshore teams via both augmentation and agencies
• Strong communication skills with the ability to navigate complex tradeoffs and make difficult decisions

Preferred

• Healthcare IT experience, including HIPAA, healthcare-specific information security
• Mission-driven: passion for revolutionizing mental healthcare
• You've reported into a CEO / co-founder

About Us & More

• The tl;dr: we're a tight-knit group of intellectually rigorous, highly collaborative, deeply caring, and fun team members. We take the work that we do very seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. Sometimes you’ll catch us singing karaoke, making memes, or going out for a run together.
• Our company values are: putting the patient first, team above self, honesty and transparency, and hustle and grit
• Our co-founders, Lucia and Jimmy, made it to the Forbes 30 under 30 list 

Some candidates may see the list above and feel discouraged because they don't match all the items. Please apply anyway: there's a good chance you also have important skills we’ve missed! We are committed to diversity and building an equitable and inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and experiences, and we're taking steps to meet that commitment. We especially encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, underrepresented people of color, LGBTQ+ people, veterans, and people with disabilities.

Osmind is a public benefit corporation and platform for clinicians and researchers advancing new life-saving mental health treatments. We recently published our first Public Benefit Report that chronicles how our team of scientists, technologists, and psychiatrists have been working to help solve the worldwide mental health crisis, advance responsible innovation and research, and help ensure robust access to care for patients of all backgrounds. Read the report here: https://www.osmind.org/pbc.