About the Position

Engineering Manager - Americas

Ashby is on a mission to revolutionize Talent Acquisition (TA) software. We're looking for a seasoned engineering leader to join our team and help us scale our unique engineering culture. If you're a former engineer who has built impressive products and now excels at building teams of great engineers, we want you on board.

Location

Remote - US
Ann Arbor, United States
Atlanta, United States
Austin, United States
Boston, United States
Boulder, United States
Chicago, United States
Denver, United States
Los Angeles, United States
New York, United States
Portland, United States
Raleigh, United States
Salt Lake City, United States
San Francisco, United States
Seattle, United States

Employment Type

Full time

Compensation

SF or NYC: $220K – $275K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
US Average: $200K – $255K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
Canada: CA$210K – CA$280K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus

Responsibilities

As an Engineering Manager, you will:

Provide 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

Engineering Management: 5+ years of experience.
Leadership: Proven track record of building and leading high-performing teams.
Technical Expertise: Strong technical background and hands-on coding skills.

Nice to Have

Experience with AI-powered tooling.
Familiarity with CI/CD processes.

We Offer

Competitive salary.
Equity options.
Comprehensive benefits package.
Remote work flexibility.

About the Company

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.

Engineering Culture

Our engineering culture is motivated by Benji’s (my Co-founder and CEO) and my belief that a small, talented team, given the right environment, can build high-quality software fast (and work regular hours!). We do it through:

Minimal Process & Lots of Ownership: Engineers take on the rest: they research the problem, write product specs, build wireframes, and implement their solution end-to-end.
Natural Collaboration & Deliberate Communication: Our engineering team consists of lifelong learners who are talented but also humble and kind.
Increase Leverage, not Team Size: We’ve done this through investment in great developer tooling, building blocks to create powerful and customizable products fast, and AI-powered tooling.
Put Effort into Diversity: Diverse teams drive innovation and better outcomes.
Work-Life Balance: The intensity of work at Ashby should feel like a marathon, not a sprint.

Interview Process

This is an important role and our interview process reflects that both in challenge and length (5h 15m):

Introduction call with Ben (30m, live)
A technical screen where you and Ben pair in our actual codebase (1h, live)
An interview with Ben to explore your past experience as a leader (1h, live)
Interview with Abhik, VP of Engineering (45m, live)
Interview with Colin, Head of Engineering EMEA (30m, live)
Final round where you meet Engineers and other Engineering Managers (90m, live)

Depending on my bandwidth, we may start with an additional 30m screen with a recruiter. Near the end of the process, we’ll do reference checks.

This is also an important decision for you, so I’m always happy to have coffee chats in person or over Zoom to get to know each other. If we don’t move forward, we’re happy to share feedback.

Your First Six Months at Ashby

Your first three months at Ashby will be spent learning about Ashby Engineering and easing into leadership by being an IC. What better way to learn how ICs work than to be one! Don’t worry if you don’t know our technologies. The team is really helpful, and our dev environment is pretty awesome: it sets up in a single script, and you’ll be able to push your first product change on day one.

You and I will do 30-day, 60-day, 90-day, and 6-month reviews to calibrate on our unique culture and how you, I, and the team will work together.

Engineering Manager - Americas

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