Head of Engineering

About the Company

Mimica's mission is to empower enterprises, teams, and individuals to reclaim their most precious resource — time and work more efficiently, with greater purpose and impact. Our AI-powered task mining observes employee actions across the desktop and categorizes them into detailed process maps to highlight inefficiencies and recommend automation.

Responsibilities

• Introduce scalable engineering processes and practices while preserving a culture of ownership and psychological safety
• Define and evolve the Engineering Strategy and North Star to support 10x usage growth
• Facilitate organization-wide engineering planning and manage investments in headcount, vendors, and infrastructure
• Partner with the CTO and function leaders to develop product, business, and talent strategies
• Align hiring strategy with organizational goals and improve talent attraction and retention
• Drive the development and enablement of Engineering Managers through coaching and career progression support
• Collaborate on maturing the SDLC, QA practices, and SLOs
• Enable teams to monitor engineering health and efficiency through metrics and risk mitigation

Requirements

• Experience as Head of Engineering, Director of Engineering, or VP of Engineering in a scale-up environment
• Expertise in designing processes for rapidly scaling organizations
• Track record of coaching managers and Senior+ Engineers
• Knowledge of distributed systems, cloud architecture, reliability engineering, CI/CD, and observability
• Experience collaborating in international, multicultural, fully-remote environments
• Excellent written and verbal English skills
• Ability to translate business goals into technical priorities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data-intensive architectures
• Strong skills in conflict resolution and achieving alignment in ambiguous environments