• Co-lead the engineering practice with firm leadership, setting technical strategy, staffing, and standards across the mechanical, electrical, and energy disciplines • Operate as a vesting co-owner — accountable for the practice's profitability, growth, and long-term enterprise value, and personally invested in Oakwell's reputation and people • Recruit, mentor, and develop senior engineers and discipline leads, building succession and deepening the firm's technical bench • Serve as the senior technical relationship owner for Oakwell's largest hospital and university clients, engaging C-suite and facilities leadership directly • Shape multi-decade infrastructure-renewal and decarbonization strategies aligned with each owner's mission, financial constraints, and campus master plan • Represent Oakwell in high-stakes pursuits, presentations, and negotiations, converting senior relationships into long-term partnerships • Own the firm's QA/QC program, ensuring reports, drawings, specifications, and analyses meet Oakwell's higher technical standard before issuance • Establish and maintain the MEP building and sustainability standards used across client engagements • Provide senior technical review and final engineering judgment on the firm's most complex and highest-risk projects

• Manage the deliveries, performance, and growth of each engineer on your team. • Support engineers in their career progression, helping them strengthen both technical and soft skills. • Conduct regular feedback cycles, establish growth plans, and recognize outstanding contributions. Use our structured career-development framework to set clear expectations and help each engineer advance along our engineering ladder. • Build and maintain a strong, collaborative team culture focused on excellence, ownership, and growth. • Lead and guide the development of new features, optimizing for cost-efficiency, scalability, and maintainability. • Oversee technical decisions, ensuring architecture and implementation align with company standards and long-term goals. • Partner with Senior and Staff Engineers to identify and implement technical improvements. • Help administer and maintain your team’s tech infrastructure ensuring healthy uptime, reliability, and performance. • Champion best practices for testing, deployment, and developer experience (DevX). • Establish engineering standards and best practices that scale beyond your team, raising quality and consistency across the organization. • Own the delivery of your team’s projects with clear goals, accountability, and reliable execution. • Partner with Product and Design to scope, prioritize, and plan initiatives. • Monitor processes across the full product lifecycle, from discovery to launch. • Identify bottlenecks, improve workflows, and drive initiatives that increase team velocity and product quality. • Translate technical trade-offs into clear decisions with Product, Design, and stakeholders. • Communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs effectively to keep the organization aligned. • Partner with leadership on planning, resourcing, and technical direction. • Sample Projects: In your first 90 days, assess how the team works and establish the rituals, feedback loops, and delivery practices that help it ship reliably and improve. Lead a cross-functional effort to improve Core Web Vitals and API response times, from instrumentation through the work to hit new targets. Pilot and roll out AI tooling across your squad’s development lifecycle — prototyping, code review, testing, and documentation — with clear guardrails for data protection and output validation, and measure the impact on speed and quality. Audit your team’s test coverage and deployment pipeline, then champion improvements that raise coverage, reduce failed deploys, and improve developer experience.

• Leadership & Coaching: Develop and mentor engineers, support career growth, conduct regular 1:1s, and foster a culture of ownership, inclusion, and continuous learning. • Agile Delivery: Lead and support Agile ceremonies, coach teams on Agile practices, and improve predictability, flow, and delivery quality. • Impediment & Dependency Management: Identify and resolve blockers, manage cross-team dependencies, and remove obstacles to maintain engineering momentum. • Planning & Execution: Oversee sprint planning, estimation, prioritization, and capacity management to ensure timely, high‑quality delivery aligned to business objectives. • Technical Excellence: Participate in code and architecture conversations, champion best practices, and ensure quality, security, and reliability standards are upheld.

• Own and run your team’s rituals — standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and backlog grooming — keeping them tight, purposeful, and actually useful • Partner with your product owner to manage scope, priorities, and trade-offs; translate business context into what the team needs to know to do good work. • Remove blockers for your engineers — whether that’s a dependency, a design ambiguity, or a process that’s getting in the way • Participate in and facilitate technical design reviews; ensure designs meet quality standards and reflect product and business context from your domain • Stay code-active at a senior level: reviewing PRs, contributing to production code, and maintaining the technical credibility to have real conversations with your team • Lead incident triage and response for your product area; own retrospectives that actually improve things • Drive monitoring, observability, and performance health in your team’s product area • Deliver clear, timely feedback to every engineer on your team; conduct regular 1:1s focused on growth, blockers, and wellbeing • Hire well for your team — partner with recruiting, define the bar, and own the process from screen to close • Manage performance proactively — recognize and reward strong contributors; address underperformance directly and constructively • Communicate team status, risks, and blockers upward to engineering leadership on a regular cadence