Join the Rest Revolution
The world is wired and tired. It's plagued by screens, notifications, and the sense that you should always be doing ... something. But hey, you're reading this job application right now, so you probably know exactly what we're talking about.
So here's a bit of good news amidst all the noise: Hatch is a sleep wellness company that's betting on rest in a culture obsessed with optimization. While most technology is designed to keep you engaged, our devices use the science of habit formation to help people unplug, unwind, and recharge. Through genuinely enjoyable routines, habit building, and gentle guidance (no sleep scores or wearables here), we help people build healthier sleep habits and feel the difference in everyday life.
More than a decade ago, we started with a mission to help parents navigate the complexities of newborn sleep. Today, we're helping more than 5 million people (and counting) take care of themselves and the people they love through the power of rest.
We’re open to candidates across the U.S. and Canada. However, please note that Hatch is based in California, so we just ask that you're available during PST/PDT hours.
The Opportunity
Hatch is looking for a Mobile Engineering Director to own mobile engineering across our entire product portfolio consisting of 4 teams: Adult, Kids, Foundations, and Growth. You'll manage our mobile engineering managers, set architecture and technical direction across teams, foster a culture of product-focused engineering, and make sure the org has the resourcing, escalation paths, and cross-team coordination it needs to ship. Engineering Managers own day-to-day delivery, and you own the accountability, direction, and connective tissue that keeps mobile engineering coherent across a broad and growing product line.
What You'll Do
Within 1 month:
Take over management of the mobile engineering managers, and start building the relationships and 1:1 cadence to support them
Establish yourself as the owner of the weekly Mobile Strategy meeting
Get oriented across all four teams - Adult, Kids, Foundations, and Growth - and understand current resourcing, roadmap, and delivery status in each team
Understand existing AI strategy and opportunities on the mobile team
Begin building relationships with Product and Design partners across the pillars, and start to foster a product engineering mindset across the team
Within 3 months:
Own resourcing, escalation, and overall direction for mobile delivery and architecture
Take team-level accountability for cross-platform (iOS and Android) strategy, and for individual mobile delivery across the org
Oversee direction for software quality in partnership with QA
Start shaping architecture governance and the architectural review process, including how staff/principal technical leverage is applied across teams
Own hiring pipeline direction, including interviewing and hiring decisions for open mobile roles
Bring a mobile capacity view into roadmap planning
Begin to set direction for AI adoption and tooling efficiency across the mobile org
Establish strong working relationships and operating rhythms with Product and Design partners across the pillars, and build a product engineering culture across the team
After 6 months:
Lead architecture governance and the ADR process end to end, including calling the bets that affect roadmap or resourcing
Set Mobile Health direction and strategy
Define the approach to AI adoption and tooling efficiency across the mobile org
Own staff development and feedback across the mobile org, including promotion decisions and escalations, and actively develop current and future engineering leads
Champion recognition and culture for the mobile team, and build project management / product-engineering capability across teams
As capacity allows, pick up select mobile IC work off the critical path to stay current
Establish a robust cross-functional operating model for Mobile: how the organization plans, prioritizes,…