Director, Mobile Engineering

The Opportunity

Hatch is looking for a Mobile Engineering Director to own mobile engineering across our entire product portfolio consisting of 4 teams: Adult, Kids, Foundations, and Growth. You'll manage our mobile engineering managers, set architecture and technical direction across teams, foster a culture of product-focused engineering, and make sure the org has the resourcing, escalation paths, and cross-team coordination it needs to ship. Engineering Managers own day-to-day delivery, and you own the accountability, direction, and connective tissue that keeps mobile engineering coherent across a broad and growing product line.

What You'll Do

Within 1 month:

Take over management of the mobile engineering managers, and start building the relationships and 1:1 cadence to support them

Establish yourself as the owner of the weekly Mobile Strategy meeting

Get oriented across all four teams - Adult, Kids, Foundations, and Growth - and understand current resourcing, roadmap, and delivery status in each team

Understand existing AI strategy and opportunities on the mobile team

Begin building relationships with Product and Design partners across the pillars, and start to foster a product engineering mindset across the team

Within 3 months:

Own resourcing, escalation, and overall direction for mobile delivery and architecture

Take team-level accountability for cross-platform (iOS and Android) strategy, and for individual mobile delivery across the org

Oversee direction for software quality in partnership with QA

Start shaping architecture governance and the architectural review process, including how staff/principal technical leverage is applied across teams

Own hiring pipeline direction, including interviewing and hiring decisions for open mobile roles

Bring a mobile capacity view into roadmap planning

Begin to set direction for AI adoption and tooling efficiency across the mobile org

Establish strong working relationships and operating rhythms with Product and Design partners across the pillars, and build a product engineering culture across the team

After 6 months:

Lead architecture governance and the ADR process end to end, including calling the bets that affect roadmap or resourcing

Set Mobile Health direction and strategy

Define the approach to AI adoption and tooling efficiency across the mobile org

Own staff development and feedback across the mobile org, including promotion decisions and escalations, and actively develop current and future engineering leads

Champion recognition and culture for the mobile team, and build project management / product-engineering capability across teams

As capacity allows, pick up select mobile IC work off the critical path to stay current

Establish a robust cross-functional operating model for Mobile: how the organization plans, prioritizes, and coordinates with Product, Design, Analytics, and other key stakeholders

What You'll Bring

The Essentials

Substantial experience leading mobile engineering organizations, including managing engineering managers

A track record of setting technical direction and architecture governance across multiple concurrent product lines or teams

Comfort operating through delegation - you set direction and hold accountability without needing to be hands-on in every workstream

Strong cross-functional communication skills, including experience representing engineering to Product and Design partners, as well as executive stakeholders

Experience building hiring pipelines and developing engineering leads

The Mindset We Love

A builder's mindset: comfortable with ambiguity and competing priorities across a broad remit

A product engineering mindset: we’re building out the best possible experience for our users, and we expect engineers to play an active role from ideation through implementation

Collaborative spirit: you make everyone around you better

Clear communication: you can explain complex, cross-team tradeoffs simply