Director of Quality Engineering (Remote)

We're looking for a Director of Quality Engineering with proven leadership experience. You will work with engineering leadership and the broader engineering team to set a vision for quality engineering and build our quality engineering practices. You will also work with counterparts on the product team to help build and deliver a high-quality service for our users.

Our ideal candidate is someone who has prior experience leading, growing, and managing distributed quality engineering teams that comprise both automation and manual testing efforts.

About us

Fleetio is a modern software platform that helps thousands of organizations worldwide manage their fleets. You can learn more about our platform here. Transportation technology is a hot market and we're leading the charge, with raving fans and new customers signing up daily. We raised a $21M Series B in late 2020 and are on an exciting trajectory as a company.

More about Fleetio

• Fleetio overview video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlvIbwZT3oU
• Fleetio Go overview video: https://www.fleetio.com/go
• More about the Fleetio platform: https://www.fleetio.com/features
• API docs: developer.fleetio.com
• Test drive Fleetio to get an even better feel for what we're building: https://www.fleetio.com/register
• People love working here - check out our 4.8 Glassdoor rating: https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Fleetio-EI_IE1745407.11,18.htm

What you'll be doing

As the Director of Quality Engineering, you will:

• Develop, monitor and improve release quality and operational practices necessary to deliver high-quality releases
• Implement practices and drive behaviors that factor in quality early in the software development lifecycle
• Define quality engineering metrics and KPIs and drive team performance utilizing those metrics
• Provide strong leadership, support and rally the quality engineering team towards enabling product engineers to deliver high-quality software
• Collaborate with the product team to plan, test and ship quality releases
• Establish operational objectives and plans, and assign them to the appropriate team members
• Forecast hiring based on product needs and skillset gaps
• Recruit and retain top talent to continue growing our quality engineering initiatives and culture
• Develop team members by identifying potential and providing necessary growth opportunities and support
• Recommend organizational structure changes as necessary based on needs
• Represent Fleetio in relevant industry conferences as a speaker

What's in it for you

• Be a part of an incredible team of “A” players who go above and beyond to make Fleetio a successful company. You will build software used by people all around the world. So many different companies and organizations operate a fleet each day, and Fleetio is a good fit for most of them (it's a huge market).
• Work remotely (within the United States) or at our Birmingham, AL HQ. Over 80% of our Engineering Team works remotely (including our CTO), and we have promoted a strong remote working culture since the beginning (2012).
• We place great emphasis on work/life balance. We have families and hobbies and know you do, too.

Our team

Our Engineering and Product teams are structured as autonomous tribes & squads that execute within one focal area toward a defined product vision. We're hardcore believers in easy-to-use software, and our main goal as Product Engineers is to quickly and continuously deliver meaningful value to our customers. Crafting a delightful user experience is hard work, but we welcome the challenge and are