Head of Engineering
AgencyAnalytics
Software Engineering
Toronto, ON, Canada · Remote
- Department
- Engineering
- Employment Type
- Permanent
- Location
- Hybrid - Toronto
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
As our Head of Engineering, you will:
- Champion an AI-first engineering culture. We want every engineer at AgencyAnalytics to be thinking about how AI can make them more effective, and we need a leader who drives that. That means embedding AI into how we build, how we work, and how we grow. You will identify the opportunities, set the tone, and make it part of how engineering operates day to day.
- Engineering Operations: Own delivery cadences and the systems that help teams stay accountable and productive. Build the processes and metrics that give us visibility into how teams are performing without creating bureaucracy.
- Role Clarity & People Leadership: Create the conditions in which people leaders and technical contributors can each thrive and do their best work, and remove ambiguity.
- Product & Engineering Alignment: Build a strong working relationship with product leadership. Make sure engineering and product are genuinely in sync on priorities, timelines, and trade-offs, not just in theory but in how teams operate day to day.
- Enable high-velocity product delivery. Enable autonomous, high-performing teams through strong Product and Engineering partnership, clear prioritization, and efficient execution.
- Incident Management & Reliability: Own the processes for preventing and responding to outages. Drive a culture of blameless post-mortems and continuous improvement so we get more reliable over time.
- Keep Tech Debt in Check: Manage the balance between shipping and codebase health. Build the process for identifying, prioritizing, and chipping away at tech debt and bugs before they become problems.
What You'll Bring
- You have 7+ years of engineering leadership experience, with direct experience managing teams of 30 or more engineers, including people leaders who report to you.
- You have a track record of making engineering orgs run better, not just keeping the lights on, but finding what's broken and fixing it.
- You have structured teams and processes before in response to shifting business priorities, and you know how to bring people along through that change.
- You know how to communicate the right thing to the right person. Whether you're in a 1:1 with an engineer, aligning with product leadership, or presenting to the executive team. You bring clarity without over-explaining and know when to listen.
- You build trust quickly - with founders, with engineers, with product partners. People feel heard when they work with you.
- You have a track record of creating real alignment between engineering and product - not just in theory, but in how teams actually work together day-to-day.
- You're comfortable with ambiguity. You don't need everything figured out before you start moving, but you know how to bring clarity to others when they need it.
- You understand how AI tools and workflows can make an engineering org more productive, and you've either already put that into practice or you're actively thinking about how to.
- You have a strong command of engineering metrics and OKRs, and you know how to use data to have better conversations, not just to report on what happened.
Benefits, Compensation & Perks
Beyond salary, we invest in your growth, well-being, and long-term success through:
- Variable compensation
- 4 weeks vacation, 5 personal days, and your birthday off (we want to celebrate with you!)
- Comprehensive benefits from day one, plus an annual HSA/WSA spending account
- RRSP matching to support your future
- Annual learning and development budget, plus a book budget
- Parental leave top-ups
- & many more!!
A Few Things Worth Knowing
- This Posting: This is an active role we're looking to fill now.
- Our Use of AI: AgencyAnalytics uses AI tools to support the screening and assessment stages of our recruitment process. All selection decisions are made by our people. If you have any questions about how AI is used, please get in touch with us at talent@agencyanalytics.com.
- Our Commitment to Inclusion: AgencyAnalytics is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to a fair and accessible hiring process for everyone, regardless of gender identity or expression, race, ethnic origin, creed, place of origin, age, sex, marital status, physical or cognitive ability, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. If you require accommodation at any point during the recruitment process, please let us know.
About AgencyAnalytics
We're a founder-led Canadian success story that started in 2010, and we're over 140 strong today.
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