Quality Engineering Manager, Kojo
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Materials management platform
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Materials management platform
101-200 employees
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More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build sustainable solutions to problems in the construction industry such as creating more housing, upgrading infrastructure, and adapting to climate change.
Role
Who you are
- This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives at the intersection of product quality, technical leadership, and team development
- You’re a systems thinker who gets energy from solving root problems and building durable solutions
- You care deeply about your team’s growth and believe quality starts before the first line of code
- You enjoy balancing short-term delivery with long-term technical excellence—and you’re excited to set the vision for quality at a high-growth company
- Proven success in a QA leadership or management role, including experience hiring, onboarding, and managing performance
- Strong foundation in QA methodologies and hands-on experience building automated test frameworks
- Deep understanding of how customer behavior should inform quality strategies and test plans
- Experience coaching and scaling teams in fast-paced, agile environments
- Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to translate vague issues into structured solutions
- Clear communication skills and the ability to align cross-functional stakeholders around quality goals
- A technical background (degree or practical experience) in software development or testing
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Quality Engineering Manager to lead the QA function at Kojo
- This is a rare opportunity to iterate on the existing systems, team, and culture that will define quality for years to come
- You’ll report to our Director of Engineering and lead a team of three QA Engineers (with potential to grow)
- You’ll serve as both a hands-on contributor and a strategic leader—driving the evolution of our testing infrastructure while coaching your team and embedding a deep sense of customer empathy into every stage of development
- You’ll be responsible for introducing automation, establishing scalable QA processes, and making quality a shared responsibility across our engineering teams
- Manage, coach, and grow a team of 3+ QA Engineers, including hiring, onboarding, performance management, and team development
- Champion a shift-left approach to quality—bringing customer behavior, expectations, and testability into early design and planning discussions
- Design and implement a scalable automated regression testing framework to reduce reliance on manual testing over time
- Act as a player-coach: contributing technically while empowering your team to take ownership of day-to-day execution
- Balance immediate QA needs with longer-term strategic improvements—prioritizing for impact while building sustainable systems
- Partner with Engineering, Product, and Design to proactively identify risk and advocate for quality throughout the product lifecycle
- Build and iterate on processes that support reliability, speed, and learning across the QA function
- Lead triage for customer bugs and internal QA reports, surfacing patterns and driving improvements upstream
- Manage up effectively—keeping key stakeholders informed, aligned, and engaged in QA priorities
Our take
In recent years, the commercial construction industry has faced more volatility than ever. Construction costs are on the increase, there are constraints on supply chains, material and labor shortages have become more common; and manual ordering processes hold companies further back by being timely and prone to error. Kojo, founded in 2018, supplies software for material management that brings supply chains to a single platform, helping to keep construction companies moving efficiently.
Kojo was founded in response to the archaic pen-and-paper material supply chain that was holding back housing construction even in otherwise innovative neighborhoods. Its software brings field, office, warehouse and vendor teams together to manage materials needed from takeoff to closeout, and to ensure visibility across general and specific stock to avoid unnecessary wait times for workers. The company is the leading materials management platform for the construction industry, supplying first-of-its-kind technology.
Named as one of Inc.'s Best in Business for software in 2024, Kojo has received substantial investment and has an impressive list of customers. Funds are cited to go towards continuing to build the platform and add new products that help contractors save money and time. These have included 2025's AI tool to help combat the rise in material costs for contractors.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2022
$39m
SERIES C
Aug 2021
$33m
SERIES B
Total funding: $83.3m
Company benefits
- PPO and HSA medical plans, dental and vision plans, fully-covered disability and life insurance coverage.
- Remote-first workforce: Allows our team to work from anywhere in the US or abroad while on a travel visa.
- Unlimited PTO: Plus ten paid holidays that allow flexibility to heal, recharge, travel, or celebrate.
- Paid parental leave: Guarantees 100% salary for up to 12 weeks for a birthing parent and up to 4 weeks for a non-birthing parent.
- A culture of community: Team building, birthday celebrations, virtual crossword puzzles and demo hours, Lunch & Learns, in-person hub hangouts, and company wide offsite retreats.
- Other perks including equipment for your home office, professional development and wellness programs, and recurring stipend to support the remote work experience.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Maria Rioumine
(Co-founder & CEO)Board Member at Orascom Development Holding. Co-founded Real Capital Innovation. Former Investment Banking Analyst with Goldman Sachs.
Ryan Gibson
(Co-founder)Former CTO of the company. Venture Partner at Eclipse Ventures. Experience as an Engineer with Microsoft and with Google.
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