Manager, Software Tools & Infrastructure

At Wisk, we're transforming the future of urban mobility through safe, all-electric, autonomous flight. We are a passionate team working together toward a sustainable future, solving high-impact problems that have never been solved before. By delivering everyday flight for everyone, we're making it possible to spend less time getting there and more time being there. If you want to be part of shaping the future of mobility, then read on!

We're seeking a Manager to lead our critical Software Tools & Infrastructure team. This team is responsible for developing, integrating, deploying, and maintaining internal software tools, simulation infrastructure, and data infrastructure. These tools and capabilities are foundational to the enterprise and are relied upon to enable the development, validation, and certification of Wisk’s autonomous eVTOL aircraft. The retained candidate will be a key leader that ensures the efficiency, scalability, availability, and reliability of mission critical tools and infrastructure.

This is a hybrid work opportunity. At Wisk, this means working onsite at our Mountain View office 3 days per week with flexibility for the remainder of the days. 

As the leader of our Software Tools & Infrastructure team, you will have a unique opportunity to shape the core infrastructure that enables our product development. You will manage a talented team and foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, productivity, efficiency, and accountability. You will guide the team through technical challenges and competing priorities. You will work with modern software technologies and sit at the intersection of diverse engineering and research disciplines across the company.

What you will do:

• Lead, scale, and develop a high-performing software and infrastructure team

• Provide mentorship, coaching, and performance management to a team of 10-15 software and infrastructure engineers

• Provide technical guidance and oversight for the development, deployment, validation, and sustainment of software products and vital infrastructure

• Ensure that the Software Tools & Infrastructure team is appropriately resourced to meet program technical, budgetary, and schedule objectives

• Cultivate and maintain the functional excellence of the Software Tools & Infrastructure team, particularly in the domains of cloud infrastructure, data infrastructure, and simulation frameworks

• Ensure that the Software Tools & Infrastructure team adheres to Wisk standards and industry best practices

• Lead the definition and management of software and infrastructure requirements, product roadmaps, and backlogs for Software Tools & Infrastructure team’s products through collaboration with leaders and SMEs throughout the enterprise

• Assist in the definition and management of software and infrastructure requirements, product roadmaps, and backlogs for the greater organization

• Assist in the establishment and management of budgets and schedules for the Software Tools & Infrastructure team as well as the greater organization 

• Assist in the maturation of prototype software into full fledge, enterprise production applications

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.

• 12+ years of total professional experience with hands-on experience developing software applications, infrastructure, or tooling 

• 5+ years of experience in program management and/or technical leadership roles with a minimum 2 years of experience managing direct reports

• Strong understanding of modern software development lifecycles, agile methodologies, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CICD), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and DevSecOps practices

• Demonstrated ability to balance and prioritize tasks effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with rapidly evolving circumstances and conflicting constraints/priorities

• Proficiency in and understanding of technical implementations related to Cloud infrastructure (i.e. AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Proficiency in and understanding of technical implementations related to Data infrastructure (i.e. data warehousing, data lakes, ETL/ELT pipelines, big data technologies like Spark, Hadoop, Kafka)

• Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to effectively articulate complex techni