Responsibilities
- Providing feedback on product and technical specs to help engineers identify where to cut scope or improve quality.
- Grow engineers to the point where they can take large, loosely defined projects and deliver them with little intervention.
- Jump into our systems and code to debug a customer issue, ship a small bug fix, or improve our developer experience.
- Propose and lead department and company-wide initiatives.
Requirements
- You don’t enjoy coding or don’t find time to stay up-to-date on technology.
- You follow the rules and accept the hand you’ve been dealt.
- You went into management because it was the only growth path available.
- You're happy with a team of engineers who are predominantly early-career or mid-career or don't thrive with ownership or autonomy.
- You believe that with enough guardrails, the team can get things done.
- You think, at some size, common processes need to be implemented to ensure consistent product delivery (e.g., sprint planning, product managers writing in-depth specifications).
- You might not say it out loud, but you think, at some size, compromises have to be made for the sake of hiring numbers or consistency.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity.
- 10-year exercise window for stock options.
- Unlimited PTO.
- A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, covered by Ashby.
- Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
- $100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval.
- Top-tier health insurance for you and your dependents, with 100% of premiums covered by Ashby.
Team
Team size: 50 engineers. Structure: multiple teams and a variety of specializations, from Product Engineers to Site Reliability Engineers to Design Engineers
Additional Information
- You’ll be an important part of figuring out how to scale these methods from 50 engineers to 100 and beyond.
- You’ll first do that through grassroots leadership. You’ll manage three to five Engineers and hire three to five more.
- You’ll also propose and lead department and company-wide initiatives.
- You’ll meet in person at least twice a year, once as a department and once as a company. You also have a small budget to meet up with folks in your city/region.
- You’ll be an important part of figuring out how to scale these methods from 50 engineers to 100 and beyond.
