Head of Engineering
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The Role
We’re looking for an Engineering Leader who can align, structure, and scale our engineering org while staying deeply technical. We’re looking to build an org that runs at the speed of physics. You’ll:
Translate the product roadmap into engineering execution.
Drive velocity by parallelizing work and unblocking constraints.
Get into the code when it matters.
Hire, mentor and grow top engineers into leaders.
Partner with product and design to ship with taste and speed.
What You’ll Do
Scale engineering culture – Build and lead an org that operates at extreme velocity.
Own architecture decisions – Balance speed, scalability, and reliability.
Spec product work – Work directly with the CTO, founders, and product leads to scope, prioritize, and ship.
Manage velocity – Remove bottlenecks, shorten iteration cycles, and accelerate shipping.
Grow the team – Attract and level up world-class engineers who thrive in this environment.
What We’re Looking For
Consumer product experience – Built and scaled consumer-facing apps with taste and user obsession.
Startup leadership – Been through 0→1 and 1→100 at a high-growth consumer company.
Engineering leadership – Scaled beyond the founding team without losing velocity.
Technical depth – Strong coding background, comfortable reviewing and making architecture calls.
Velocity mindset – Moves at an extreme pace, unblocks, parallelizes, and accelerates work.
Based in San Francisco – Thrives in a fast-moving, in-person culture.
Archetypes We Like
Engineering leader at a high-growth startup.
Technical product leader with deep engineering background.
Deeply product minded who understands product + engineering tradeoffs.
Former startup CTO or founder.
Compensation
- Top percentile salary .
- Top percentile equity ownership – this is one of the most important hires to unlock speed at Superpower.
Investors
Forerunner Ventures (tier 1 US-based VC)
Susa Ventures (tier 1 US-based VC)
Cyan Bannister (first investor into Uber, early at SpaceX, former part at Founder’s Fund, regarded as one of the top angels in the world)
Balaji Srinivasan (ex-Coinbase CTO and angel, ex-General Partner at a16z)
Arielle Zuckerberg (active angel, tech leader, relatively famous brother)
Long Journey Ventures (investor in Uber, Notion, Loom, Affirm etc.)
Shaan Puri (angel and podcast host of my first million)
Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss
Evan Moore (Founder of Doorash; Partner at Khosla Ventures)
Justin Mares (Founder of TrueMed)
Dr Jordan Shlain (Founder of Private Medical, America's top concierge medicine service)
Cementing the opportunity
The world’s biggest company will be in consumer healthcare
Solving longevity – the most important problem of our time
A mayo clinic executive program 2.0 in the cloud
Company Philosophies
We are all here to genuinely do our life’s best work.
Insanely high talent bar, never settling. A players only ( see steve jobs )
We live to work as much as we work to live. But we sustainably espouse the superpower ethos of putting health first.
We aim to set the gold standard for team health culture on the planet - live the ethos!
About Superpower
Consumer health-technology company providing members 100+ biomarker tests, personalized protocols, AI guidance, and care-team access.
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