Job description
The Role
Hive is looking for a Head of Engineering to lead the engineering side of our Research and Development (RND) team through its next chapter of scale. Reporting into the CTO and working hand in hand with our VP Product, you’ll play a key role in evolving our team structure, strengthening our technical foundation, and driving delivery across multiple pods. We’re looking for a people-first leader with a proven track record of delivering real value to customers through great products.
Our RND Team
RND at Hive consists of four pods – Product, Reliability/Platform, Integrations/Data, and Ads. Product, design, engineering and management resources are embedded across all of our pods. Our development philosophy is to build minimum viable products and deliver them as quickly as possible to market, then iterate based on real user feedback. Using this approach we’ve built a growing, profitable business - and the scale and complexity of the technical problems we’re solving is large and growing, too.
What You’ll Do:
Grow and develop a high performing team
Lead and support the Engineering Managers and individual contributors across multiple pods.
Set clear expectations, coach for growth, and build a culture of accountability, autonomy, and continuous learning.
Champion hiring, onboarding, and leveling frameworks that ensure we’re bringing in and developing top talent.
Drive Engineering strategy and execution
Partner with the CTO and VP Product to shape and execute on a long-term technology roadmap aligned with our business objectives.
Design engineering org structures that scale as we grow, while keeping communication tight and priorities aligned.
Build operational maturity: define and implement the right rituals, tools, and processes to enable delivery at scale.
Raise the bar on performance and reliability
Own key KPIs across reliability, latency, scalability, and engineering velocity — and drive initiatives to improve them.
Cultivate a strong engineering quality bar: thoughtful architecture, technical rigor, and a bias for shipping meaningful impact.
Take pride in how our infrastructure and product perform for customers — and hold the team to those same high standards.
Be a key player in driving Hive’s success:
Collaborate deeply with product-facing teams (the rest of RND) and customer-facing teams (sales, customer success) to ensure engineering is aligned with customer needs and company goals.
Bring a constructive, systems-thinking lens to cross-functional discussions — always pushing us to move faster and smarter.
Be a cultural leader: model our values, advocate for our people, and help build a company where great engineers do their best work
Who you are
You’ve led engineering teams for 5+ years and have spent at least a year in a Director (or equivalent) role. You’ve built, scaled, and evolved engineering orgs before — and carry those lessons with you.
You understand the tension between process and moving fast, and work with your teams to make sure we’re operating efficiently and effectively for the scale we’re at.
You communicate with clarity and precision. You collaborate with humility and lead with influence.
You are a people-first leader. You coach, inspire, and give clear, actionable feedback.
You have a systematic approach. You understand that strong teams, clear principles, and the right technical architecture all reinforce each other.
You are a builder of teams, systems, and operating models. You always think a few quarters ahead, and proactively shaping the team we’ll need in the future.
How you show up
You deliver and build credibility by doing. Your execution is reliable, your judgment is sound, and your standards are high.
You act with urgency. You care deeply about the team’s success and act accordingly.
You challenge the status quo. You’re always looking for ways to raise the bar and push Hive forward.
You’re a peer to the leadership team. You surface risks early, solve problems collaboratively, and actively support your fellow leaders.
Lastly, you know what matters. You manage your time with intention, direct energy where it counts, and focus on outcomes over optics.
Technologies we use & teach
Frontend: React, Typescript
Backend: Python, Django
Databases: Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Clickhouse
Infra: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
Experience with these is a plus, but we know smart people are quick learners!
Comp/Benefits Package:
Meaningful salary and equity. You’re rewarded based on impact.
Work fully remote in Canada or the US: where you’re most productive whether that be from your house, or elsewhere. We just ask that you have legal work authorization in the country you reside in.
Flexible work hours: Choose your 9–5 as long as it’s not disruptive to your role, team, and Hive
Health Insurance: Comprehensive health & dental coverage with a parental leave top-up program
Open vacation/PTO policy: So you can be happy and healthy!
About Hive
Hive is the industry-best marketing platform for event marketers. Our platform powers marketing for 1500+ of the most iconic event, festivals, venues, promoters, and event-centric brands across North America.
We help our clients sell out their shows and make their events unforgettable - by helping them grow their customer base and personalizing and automating their email, SMS, and ad campaigns.
Hive integrates with 25+ partners like Ticketmaster and Shopify, ingesting rich customer data in real-time. With this data, event marketers can segment their audiences in powerful ways and send timely, customized messages to their customers.
Hive was founded in a University of Waterloo computer lab and graduated from Y Combinator in 2014. Today, we’re a remote-first team spread across Canada and the US, building a product and a culture that values clarity, ownership, and real customer impact.
To learn more about our team, check out the About Us and Careers pages on our website.
