Engineering Manager

Decisive Point; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 264,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mental health benefits

Career coaching

Family building benefits

Long-term savings plans

In-office culinary options

Job summary

Asana is seeking an empathetic and technically experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Authorization team in our San Francisco office. You’ll advocate for engineering best practices, balance velocity with quality, and hire and grow engineers while partnering with Design and Product to deliver high-impact features.

Based in SF with a hybrid schedule (in-office Mon Tue Thu; optional Wed; Fri depending on work), you’ll drive the roadmap, mentor engineers, and ensure a reliable global user

Qualifications

• 4+ years managing a technical team and ability to deep dive on technical issues.
• Collaborate with Design and Product on large features and daily enhancements.
• Experience rolling out high leverage platform investments.
• Focus on maximizing impact for team, Asana, and the organization.

Responsibilities

• Manage and enable the growth of engineers on the team.
• Hire engineers and scale the team effectively.
• Articulate and execute the team roadmap aligned to business goals.
• Coach engineers in technical and professional development.
• Foster collaboration with other areas of Asana to adopt foundational investments.

Skills

Engineering management

Team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Hiring engineers

Technical depth

Job description

The Authorization team builds features at the intersection of product and platform, ensuring Asana’s customers have precise control of their Asana data while helping other Asana teams build experiences that are delightful end-to-end while still being well controlled. The team works across the full range of the R&D lifecycle, from designing our data models to implementing the subtle interaction behaviors that differentiate good software from great software. We work closely with UI designers and are supported by our infrastructure team. We aim to delight users with both large new features and smaller, daily product enhancements—thanks to our continuous deployment architecture. We want to create a superlative user experience, down to the smallest details.

We’re looking for an empathetic and technically experienced Engineering Manager to lead this team in our San Francisco Office. The engineering team works closely with cross functional partners throughout the entire product process, from conception to post-launch reflection. You’ll advocate for engineering best practices that lead to highly performant code that is easy to maintain, while balancing team velocity and business commitments. You will build effective team practices and be a strong driver for hiring talented engineers while supporting the individuals’ and team’s growth and impact.

This role is based in our San Francisco office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements.

What You’ll Achieve

• Manage and enable the growth of the talented engineers on the team
• Hire talented engineers and enable the team to scale smoothly
• Guide the articulation and execution of the team’s future roadmap and ensure the team’s work ties back into high-level business goals
• Set the team up for success to own several technically challenging and critical projects
• Coach engineers in their technical and professional development
• Ensure adoption of the team’s foundational investments by sponsoring deep collaboration owners of other Asana surface areas
• Ensure a great, reliable experience for Asana users around the globe while simultaneously enabling a rapid pace of development and iteration
• Work and learn alongside great peer managers with a strong sense of team

About You

• 4+ years of experience in managing a technical team and able to deep dive on technical issues and designs.
• Excited to partner with Design and Product on both large new features and daily, small product enhancements.
• Experience finding and rolling out high leverage platform investments that make other teams better.
• Focused on maximizing impact for yourself, your team, and Asana as a whole
• Equipped with the intelligence, empathy, integrity, and technical chops required to quickly earn the trust of a technically astute team
• Comfortable with ambiguity; you enjoy figuring out what needs to be done—and then doing it
• Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making

At Asana, we're committed to building teams that include a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, as this is critical to helping us achieve our mission. If you're interested in this role and don't meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

What We’ll Offer

Our comprehensive compensation package plays a big part in how we recognize you for the impact you have on our path to achieving our mission. We believe that compensation should be reflective of the value you create relative to the market value of your role. To ensure pay is fair and not impacted by biases, we're committed to looking at market value which is why we check ourselves and conduct a yearly pay equity audit.

For this role, the estimated base salary range is between $264,000 - $300,000. The actual base salary will vary based on various factors, including market and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. The listed range above is a guideline, and the base salary range for this role may be modified.

In addition to base salary, your compensation package may include additional components such as equity, sales incentive pay (for most sales roles), and benefits. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role.

We strive to provide equitable and competitive benefits packages that support our employees worldwide and include:

• Mental health, wellness & fitness benefits
• Career coaching & support
• Inclusive family building benefits
• Long-term savings or retirement plans
• In-office culinary options to cater to your dietary preferences

These are just some of the benefits we offer, and benefits may vary based on role, country, and local regulations. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role.

About Us

Asana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named to Fortune's Best Workplaces for 7+ years and recognized by Fast Company, Forbes, and Gartner for excellence in workplace culture and innovation. We offer an exceptional office-centric culture while adopting the best elements of hybrid models to ensure that every one of our global team members can work together effortlessly. With 13+ offices all over the world, we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world and a culture where everyone feels that they belong.

We believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive. Our goal is to ensure that Asana upholds an environment where all people feel that they are respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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