Engineering Manager - Americas

Ashby; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

10-year exercise window for stock options

Unlimited PTO

12 weeks paid parental leave

Generous equipment budget

$100/month education budget

Job summary

Ashby is seeking an Engineering Manager in Boston, MA, to help scale its engineering team. In this role, you will influence product specs, mentor engineers, and improve the team's workflow while maintaining your coding skills. The ideal candidate has a strong engineering background and experience in leadership. Benefits include competitive salary, unlimited PTO, and comprehensive health insurance. Join Ashby to be part of a company with fast growth and innovative products.

Qualifications

• Experience in engineering leadership roles, with a strong track record of building and managing teams.
• Proven ability to influence technical decisions and lead product improvements.
• Hands-on experience in debugging and maintaining codebases.

Responsibilities

• Provide feedback on product and technical specs to influence engineers' decisions.
• Grow engineers to handle large projects with minimal intervention.
• Engage in debugging, fixing bugs, and enhancing developer experience.
• Lead initiatives to improve interview processes and team dynamics.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Product specification feedback

Debugging and coding skills

Coaching and mentoring engineers

Interview design

Education

Relevant engineering degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Hi, I’m Abhik, Ashby’s Co-Founder and VP of Engineering. We’re looking for a great (former) engineer who built impressive products and now builds teams of great engineers. Ashby’s success and ambition mean we’re doubling the Engineering team in the next year, and we need your experience and leadership to do it thoughtfully.

Our product and growth are exceptional. Ashby All-in-One is powerful, easy to use, and replaces several venture-backed companies’ worth of products (often with a better experience). We have notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake. Our growth and retention metrics are best-in-class among our peers: we have tens of millions in ARR, growing >100% year over year, very low churn, and many years of runway.

A big part of our secret sauce is how we run Engineering. We achieve incredible speed and quality by discarding many industry norms and being optimistic about Engineers. We consider what makes exceptional Engineers exceptional, figure out how to hire them, and build an environment that gives them the freedom and agency to actually be exceptional. In other words, if engineers writing product specs, making product decisions, and not breaking down projects into individual tickets excites you, you’ve found the right place.

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll work closely with me, Ben, Colin, and your peers to build out the team and continue scaling this unique culture.

Responsibilities

• Providing feedback on product and technical specs to help engineers identify where to cut scope or improve quality. You don’t make the final decisions, but you’ll influence and coach ICs to reach the right ones.
• 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. Engineering leaders at Ashby are great engineers and enjoy keeping their skills up-to-date (while staying off the critical path).
• Propose and lead department and company-wide initiatives. Examples include:

• Rethink how we (and the industry) do pull request reviews by aligning on goals with the team, sampling a set of PRs to understand how effective they are, and writing a proposal to the team about what we could change to speed up reviews while giving reviewers the time and space to give useful feedback.
• Design and improve interviews based on candidate and team feedback. We pride ourselves on thoughtful interviews that simulate actually working with us.
• Improve how we generate and simulate data in demo accounts. It’s a project off the critical path, but it helps you keep up-to-date on our codebase while immensely impacting the business, from Engineering to QA to Sales.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• 10-year exercise window for stock options.
• Unlimited PTO.
• A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
• $100/month education budget with more expensive items covered with manager approval.
• Top-tier health insurance fully covered for US employees; high-quality supplemental health insurance fully covered for employees in other countries.

Compensation Range: $200K - $275K

Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.