Role in brief
Wynd Labs is building a platform for decentralized web data access for AI. This role involves bridging communication between management and engineers, providing technical guidance, and managing documentation. It suits an engineer or technical product manager with cloud experience and strong communication skills who thrives in a fast-paced, autonomous startup environment.
About the role
This role focuses on operational efficiency within the engineering organization, ensuring smooth communication and project coordination. Key responsibilities include troubleshooting process issues, optimizing onboarding for new team members, and maintaining comprehensive developer documentation. The successful candidate will act as a central point for technical guidance and support across various project teams.
The Technical Chief of Staff will also contribute to the product roadmap by collaborating with leadership and customers, bringing developer perspectives to strategic discussions. This involves understanding product needs and helping to prioritize features. Additionally, the role includes external communication through newsletters, blog posts, and release notes, keeping the audience informed about product updates.
Wynd Labs operates as a lean, highly motivated startup with a flat organizational structure, emphasizing autonomy and initiative. The team is driven by ambitious goals to democratize AI by providing universal access to public web data through their product, Grass. Success in this role means effectively supporting the engineering team and contributing to the product's strategic direction within this dynamic environment.
The compensation for this role is between $150,000 and $220,000 USD.
Skills that matter here
- Software Engineering: A background in software engineering is required to provide technical guidance and understand engineering processes.
- AWS: Experience with cloud platforms like AWS is necessary for understanding the infrastructure and contributing to technical discussions.
- Go: Experience with Go is relevant for contributing to code discussions and understanding the technical stack.
- ReactJS: Familiarity with ReactJS is beneficial for understanding front-end development aspects of the product.
- JavaScript: Proficiency in JavaScript is important for understanding the codebase and supporting development efforts.
- Typescript: Experience with Typescript is valuable for working with the existing codebase and contributing to technical documentation.
Who this role suits
- You have a background as an engineer or in a cross-functional technical role, ideally at an early-stage company.
- You are comfortable in customer-facing or stakeholder-facing situations and can communicate complex technical ideas clearly.
- You are self-motivated, autonomous, and enjoy balancing multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
- You possess a strong product sense and can think critically about prioritization, contributing to strategic discussions.
From the employer
- Act as a bridge between management and engineers, ensuring clear communication.
- Provide technical guidance and support to project teams when needed.
- Troubleshooting engineering process issues, and optimizing the onboarding process for new team members.
- Owning and maintaining our developer documentation, ensuring clarity, comprehensiveness, and overall excellence.
- Being a thought partner for our product roadmap by collaborating with the CEO, CTO, and customers, bringing insights and highlighting developer needs.
- Contributing to newsletters, blog posts, and release notes to keep our audience informed about new features and product updates.
- Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.
- Background as an engineer, or in a cross-functional technical role such as a technical product manager at an early-stage company.
- Experience in a customer-facing or stakeholder-facing role.
- Experience writing code, either professionally or as a hobby/side project.
- Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure, including networking, security, and automation.
- Experience with Go, NextJS, ReactJS, JavaScript (ES6+), Chakra UI, RESTful APIs, Git.
- Experience with developing applications in Typescript/Javascript, Python, and/or Go.
- Bonus points for managing external-facing developer docs.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
- Strong product sense and ability to think critically about prioritization.
- Ability to manage and balance multiple tasks in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Self-motivated and autonomous, with a passion for problem-solving and continuous learning.
- Opportunity to work at the forefront of developing a web-scale crawler and knowledge graph that allows ordinary people to participate in the process, and share in the benefits, of AI development.
- Culture of a lean team working together to achieve ambitious goals of improving access to public web data and distributing the value of AI to the people.
- Competitive salary, equity package, and generous benefits.
Questions about this role
What is the remote work policy for this role?
This is a full-time remote position.
What is the salary range for this position?
The salary for this role ranges from $150,000 to $220,000 USD.
What kind of technical background is expected?
Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience, with a background as an engineer or in a cross-functional technical role, and experience writing code.