About you

You are a product minded-engineering leader, that looks to both create product opportunities, as well as lead the team to execute on them. You know what it takes to get a team of engineers all rowing in the same direction, and are not afraid to roll up your sleeves to turn goals and ideas into reality. You drive a culture of engineering excellence, and work collaboratively across the company to complete the product feedback loop from customers.

About tldraw

tldraw is a London-based startup that creates software for infinite canvas applications. Its commercial product is a software development kit (tldraw.dev) that customers use to integrate tldraw’s canvas technology in other software products. Its flagship product (tldraw.com) is a popular zero-friction collaborative whiteboard. Its community is on Twitter/X, Discord, and Github.

You will

• Partner closely with product leadership to scope, plan, resource and design engineering projects, ensuring the roadmap aligns with tldraw’s broader vision.

• Manage the roadmap through to production –setting milestones, allocating resources, and proactively mitigating risks.

• Support, scale, develop, and mentor the growing team of engineers to meet business needs, all while keeping the bar for talent extremely high.

• Lead communications to the team, CEO, and leadership.

• Be hands on and willing to get into the weeds while also contributing to high-level strategy and product/engineering leadership.

• Oversee hiring processes for new team members, attracting and closing high quality candidates.

Profile

• 8-10+ years of experience, at least 5-7 of which were individual contributor work, with 1-3 years of experience as a people manager

• Previous startup experience

• Has managed teams of at least 5, attracting world class talent to grow the team

• Proven track record of developing operational processes and practices that drive scalability, productivity, quality and velocity.

• Exceptional communication and cross-functional collaboration.