Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Communications Platform) at Squarespace · LumiJobs

Responsibilities

Run the President's operating cadence. Own end-to-end orchestration of the leadership rhythm: staff meetings, WBRs, MBRs, and QBRs, finance and portfolio reviews, priority updates, and annual operating-plan inputs. Ensure each ritual has a clear purpose, owner, input, output, decision authority, and downstream cascade.
Drive decision quality. Synthesize diverse inputs into concise narratives that make priorities, risks, options, tradeoffs, and recommended decisions clear to the President and leadership team. Document decisions in the room, assign owners and deadlines, track commitments, and escalate unresolved issues with context and a proposed path forward.
Improve execution velocity. Identify alignment and execution risks before they surface as leadership surprises, and facilitate resolution across Product, Engineering, Design, Commercial, Customer Operations, Finance, People, and Business Operations, connecting planning, performance, financial, organizational, and roadmap inputs. Use AI and advanced tooling to make decisions faster and better-informed.
Evolve the operating model. Treat the operating system as a living thing. Establish health measures such as decision latency, action closure, cascade reach, pre-read quality, participation, recurring issue themes, and use them to assess whether rituals, artifacts, and escalation paths are producing the right outcomes. Recommend and implement changes to cadence, governance, templates, roles, and channels as strategy and priorities evolve, codifying what works so the model is easy for leaders to understand and operate.
Lead high-priority strategic initiatives. Drive complex, ambiguous, cross-functional work on behalf of the President, from framing and workplan through decision, implementation, and follow-through, including emerging problems that don't yet have a clear owner. Support annual strategy, goals, headcount, and budget processes by connecting them to the department's operating rhythm.
Represent the President and build transparency. Stand in for the President in meetings, events, and discussions, exercising the remit of the position. Navigate difficult conversations and cross-functional tradeoffs without relying on formal authority. Support two-way access to the President through Town Halls, Roundtables, Office Hours, and written follow-up, using sound judgment about what should be broadly communicated, selectively shared, or handled privately.
Serve as a trusted thought partner to the President and senior leadership team, offering an independent perspective and respectfully challenging assumptions when needed.
Significant experience in Chief of Staff, Product Operations, Business Operations, Strategy & Operations, or management consulting
A track record of owning an operating model, leadership cadence, or portfolio of complex cross-functional initiatives, preferably in tech companies
Knowledge of the product / software development lifecycle
Demonstrated proficiency with enterprise AI tools, such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Glean, Cursor, or comparable approved tools, and experience integrating them into daily workflows to automate repeatable tasks, optimize processes, improve synthesis, and accelerate project delivery.
Exceptional written communication: you can turn a large volume of input into a concise, decision-ready narrative tailored to the audience

Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Communications Platform)

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Squarespace

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