R&D Director
About The Position
Are you ready to make a monumental impact on some of our newest products at Elementor? We're searching for an exceptional R&D Director to lead multiple development teams, build teams from the ground up, and drive innovation and excellence in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. Join us at Elementor, where we lay the foundation for unprecedented growth and nurture a culture of ownership and collaboration. Here, every team member is empowered to take responsibility and deliver outstanding results.
As a pivotal part of our engineering management team, you will shape our vision and culture, working closely with stakeholders across Product, Data, DevOps, and other Business departments to optimize our key performance indicators (KPIs). Your leadership will be crucial in steering our teams toward success.
Join Us
At Elementor, your role as an R&D Director is more than just a job—it's an opportunity to lead, innovate, and inspire. If you're passionate about technology and thrive in a collaborative, fast-moving environment, we want to hear from you. Join us in shaping the future of web development.
Apply now and let's build something amazing together!
Work Environment
What do we do?
Elementor is the leading website building platform for WordPress professionals.
Our vision is to empower web creators - developers, designers, and marketers, with the ability to create their future one pixel at a time. We provide our users with everything they need to succeed.
A new website is created every 10 seconds using Elementor!
Since we launched in Israel in 2016, we have expanded to more than 180 countries, with more than 17M websites powered by Elementor. About 11% of all websites around the world are built using Elementor!
How do we do it?
At Elementor, we’re building the future of web creation.
We believe in empowering our employees and our users, enabling people to grow.
Creativity, professionalism, curiosity, motivation, and friendship are the driving force behind our journey, and we take great pride in the people of Elementor who lead the company’s constant scaling.
Responsibilities
- Inspire and Lead: Mentor and manage team leaders and software engineers, cultivating a balanced and supportive environment where everyone can excel.
- Talent Magnet: Recruit, hire, retain, and mentor top engineering talent, continuously enhancing team capabilities and deliverables.
- Visionary Leadership: Shape our engineering culture, vision, and cross-department processes.
- Architectural Excellence: Evaluate architectural options, contribute to solution design, set technical direction and quality standards, and oversee implementation.
- Drive Accountability: Ensure product delivery, quality, and timelines are met throughout the development lifecycle.
- Scale for Success: Own team scalability, meeting growth demands through effective planning and recruitment.
- Innovative Development: Plan and develop new user-facing products and features, building robust and scalable software components and services.
Requirements
- Leadership Prowess: Proven experience as a VP R&D in startups, Head of R&D or R&D Director, with extensive experience managing individuals, teams, and projects.
- Problem-Solving Attitude: Demonstrated ability to tackle challenges with a proactive "I can move a mountain" approach.
- Technical Expertise: Over 10 years of hands-on experience as a Full-Stack developer, including proficiency in Node.js, JavaScript, CSS, and React.
- Lifecycle Mastery: Deep understanding of web application development lifecycle and best practices.
- Framework Creator: Experience in creating frameworks and APIs is an advantage.
Podcast
Our shiny podcast “Elementalks” will give you a glimpse behind the scenes of the various teams at Elementor!
Who are the people working here? What is the best way to integrate into a specific team? Click here for all the episodes and find out.