Job description
Virta Health is on a mission to transform type 2 diabetes and weight-loss care. Current treatment approaches aren’t working—over half of US adults have either type 2 diabetes or prediabetes, and obesity rates are at an all-time high. Virta is changing this by helping people reverse their metabolic condition through innovations in technology, personalized nutrition, and virtual care delivery reinvented from the ground up. We have raised over $350 million from top-tier investors, and partner with the largest health plans, employers, and government organizations to help their employees and members restore their health and take back their lives. Join us on our mission to reverse diabetes and obesity in one billion people.
About the Role
As Virta enters its next stage of growth, helping members adopt metabolic changes that lead to better health outcomes has become a key focus area. The Adoption team combines AI innovations with human judgment from our coaches and clinicians to ensure members feel supported and ready for success as they begin their Virta journey. We’re seeking a strong engineering manager to help deliver on this mission while developing engineers’ careers, driving positive team culture, and partnering with product, engineering, design, and analytics teams on experimentation and delivery excellence.
Responsibilities:
People Management & Team Dynamics. Mentor, guide, and support the team members towards healthy dynamics by fostering a positive and collaborative environment.
Career Development & Growth. Create individualized development plans, identify & facilitate training, workshops, and other growth opportunities. Recognize & reward outstanding performers. Provide performance feedback.
Cross-functional Collaboration & Communication. Bridge the gap between engineering and other departments ensuring clear communication. Work closely with product, design, AI, and analytics functions along with various stakeholder groups. Advocate for what the team needs for success.
Process Management & Improvement. Drive continuous improvement of engineering processes through feedback, retrospectives, iteration, best practices, and prior experience. Help refine our methodology towards the sweet spot between the team’s needs and the company’s goals.
Technical Strategy & Decision-making. The focus is on management, but understanding the technical landscape is essential to ensuring key technical decisions are in alignment with business objectives and broader technical strategy. Inform individual team members technical growth.
Requirements:
3+ years of experience managing software engineering teams
Experience delivering value to end users and internal stakeholders
Proven ability to define and track engineering metrics to quantify team health
Able to understand business metrics (KPI, OKR) and put them in context to the team
Experience building collaborative, high performing teams in a remote environment
Bonus Points For…
Experience delivering impactful Gen AI features
Building and delivering multi-platform applications in React Native or similar
Experience with Go or Python, Monolith-to-microservices patterns, event driven architectures
Familiarity working in a regulated industry, particularly healthcare
90 Day Plan
Within your first 90 days at Virta, we expect you will do the following:
Familiarize yourself with the team and its stakeholders. Understand roles, responsibilities, strengths and improvement areas, aspirations. Get a pulse on team dynamics, understand expectations, and collaborations, with an eye towards what to safeguard and where enhanced coordination is needed.
Enhance team processes. Review the current process, intended outcomes, and methodology of your team and the teams in the group. Bring your expertise to identify inefficiency, risk, and ways to enhance delivery or team health.
Align the learnings from above with the product roadmap and technical roadmap to start building a strategy for your team that melds the short-term and long-term goals of the team with that of the larger organization or the business. Have a plan to iterate on this strategy over time.
Values-driven culture
Virta’s company values drive our culture, so you’ll do well if:
You put people first and take care of yourself, your peers, and our patients equally
You have a strong sense of ownership and take initiative while empowering others to do the same
You prioritize positive impact over busy work
You have no ego and understand that everyone has something to bring to the table regardless of experience
You appreciate transparency and promote trust and empowerment through open access of information
You are evidence-based and prioritize data and science over seniority or dogma
You take risks and rapidly iterate
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Virta has a location based compensation structure. Starting pay will be based on a number of factors and commensurate with qualifications & experience. For this role, the compensation range is $174,537 - $225,413. Information about Virta’s benefits is on our Careers page at: https://www.virtahealth.com/careers.
As part of your duties at Virta, you may come in contact with sensitive patient information that is governed by HIPAA. Throughout your career at Virta, you will be expected to follow Virta’s security and privacy procedures to ensure our patients’ information remains strictly confidential. Security and privacy training will be provided.
As a remote-first company, our team is spread across various locations with office hubs in Denver and San Francisco.
Clinical roles: We currently do not hire in the following states: AK, HI, RI
Corporate roles: We currently do not hire in the following states: AK, AR, DE, HI, ME, MS, NM, OK, SD, VT, WI.
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