Our vision & mission: Paro is freeing business professionals from the constraints of traditional employment by empowering them to pursue meaningful work on their own terms. In turn, we are democratizing access to the business solutions that companies need. 

What we deliver: 

Paro provides flexible finance and accounting solutions to businesses via its network of highly vetted freelance experts. Through our proprietary AI-powered platform, we match clients with the best-fit experts to solve problems and drive growth. Our carefully curated expert community provides a range of financial services to clients, from basic bookkeeping and accounting to highly specialized corporate development and strategic advisory.

The Role:

We are currently experiencing exponential growth and are scaling. Pivotal to our success, Paro is looking for an exceptional Sr. Manager of Engineering who will play a critical role in charting the path towards future growth and success. You will report to our Chief Product, Technology & AI Officer, and work with our Leadership Team to build a first-class technology stack, powered by AI, that differentiates Paro from its peers.

Paro’s engineering team builds, buys, integrates and manages leading edge technology that offers compelling experience to our clients, freelancers & internal stakeholders. At the highest level, the role requires a good understanding of emerging technologies and modern architectures so that you can deliver on a multi-year technology roadmap that supports the company and product plans. To support the company and product ambitions, you will set a vision and create a transparent strategy that inspires and motivates the talented engineering organization that has a wide variety of experience, backgrounds and perspectives. You will take an active leadership role in building the ongoing technical strategies of Paro, managing a seasoned team of technology experts and continuously attract new talent to the organization. 

In a hyper growth environment you will remain the constant, setting the standards of our Engineering organization, and ensuring that reliability, scalability and trust are at the forefront and back-end of each of our decisions and execution. This role will require you to apply systems thinking to problems regularly and push you to be decisive about technology choices and solutions. You will be curious and leverage data to help identify key areas of opportunity, growth and blockers. 

Core Responsibilities:
Manage & Inspire Teams
Identify key skills and capabilities needed to assess team strengths and weaknesses.
Partner with People team to recruit and retain top-tier talent.
Organize the department and teams to support each product.
Develop engineers to increase productivity.
Communicate effectively up, down, and laterally to ensure alignment of work. Be excellent at enabling asynchronous work.
Provide purpose, context, and direction to members of the Engineering team
Advocate for predictability and continuous learning.
Ensure the realization of the product roadmap through excellence in execution.
Create a framework to accurately size and estimate deliverables to arrive at internal & external delivery commitments.
Organize teams and resources to deliver the product roadmap.
Be able to work with offshore teams located in different time zones, and form virtual, effective teams that transcend the geographical and cultural boundaries.
You will be a pragmatist first and a technologist second, with a high tolerance for ambiguity.
Proactively mitigate risk by identifying and controlling internal and external risk factors.
Supervise work to continuously iterate and improve.
Conduct effective Post Project Reviews to instill effective team learning habits.
Bring technical Leadership
Develop the technical strategy with the CPO, CTO, Product manages, Artificial Intelligence Leads, and business partners.
Build and maintain the technical roadmap.
Define and oversee consistent adoption of software development instrumentation and standards across the Engineering team.
Balance long-term R&D investments with near-term execution.
Represent Paro at relevant technical conferences and speaking engagements with customers.
Provide a voice for the engineering team to influence Paro’s vision and priorities.
How You'll Add Value:
Have a degree in Computer Science or Engineering
10+ years of experience in all aspects of software engineering, including coding, maintenance, architecture and design.
Bring 5+ years of technology leadership
Have experience developing Artificial Intelligence Products.
Bring experience and deep commitment for building and engaging with remote teams.
Have a track record of building a highly engaged Engineering culture.
Have the ability to influence and work cross-functionally.
Continuously raise the bar for quality, in everything you do - from recruiting, hiring, onboarding, decisions, communications, presentations etc.
Have built new, diverse teams to tackle challenging technical problems.
Possess excellent communication and presentation skills, with comfort in blogging, establishing our brand internally and externally.

Who you are:

We’re more interested in how you add to our innovative community than formal education or experience. That said, you will shine in this role if you:

Believe that in order to be successful, you need to be surrounded with others who can be their authentic selves at work while driving forward the future of work with Paro. You value taking smart risks and having your colleague’s backs. You welcome challenges and are rigorous in ensuring all voices are heard. You are open to understanding each other’s experiences and communicating effectively together. At Paro we work hard, but we also want every employee to enjoy the journey. You work collaboratively, do the right thing, never settle and put your best work into everything you do. 

Benefits at Paro:

• Compensation - We offer a competitive base salary and equity options in Paro.
• Benefits - We offer a comprehensive benefits package including: medical (Blue Cross Blue Shield), dental, vision, and a 401(k) plan. Paro currently does not match 401(k).
• Vacation - We offer our employees unlimited vacation, as we believe rest and recharging allows you to bring your full self into work. In addition to unlimited vacation, we observe all federal holidays and offer unique Paro Holidays during months there isn’t a federal holiday
• Office Environment - We have a beautiful, relaxed office space in River North, steps away from public transportation. We love our pets and have a pet-friendly office for your furry friends as well.
• Remote Work - Given our company’s mission to empower professionals to pursue meaningful work on their own terms, we believe we too can accomplish great things while not always together under one roof. Therefore, we accept remote employees in the following states: IL, OH, MI, AZ, WA, PA, NJ, NY, TX, IN

More about Paro 

Join us as we shape the future of finance work. A mass migration to a workforce without boundaries is already underway, with many leading analysts predicting that 50% of the workforce will be freelancing by 2025. We recently raised a $25M Series B funding round led by Madrona Venture Group, with participation from existing investors Revolution Ventures, Sierra Ventures and KGC Capital, so we are ready and excited to invest in even greater growth as we disrupt the $500+bn antiquated finance and accounting industry!

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to building a company that embraces and celebrates diversity and inclusion. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.