Engineering Manager, WorkOS
Dashboard
$250-320k
+ Equity
APIs to make apps enterprise-ready
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APIs to make apps enterprise-ready
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$250-320k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build a toolkit to help startups meet the requirements for bringing on enterprise clients.
Role
Who you are
- Track record of having successfully led product-focused engineering teams in high-performing organizations that shipped real impact
- You've written code at a high level, and you still love to get your hands dirty. You view leadership as an amplifier, not a step back
- Bias for action and scrappiness: You don’t over-optimize for process. You optimize for velocity, customer value, and learning
- You deeply care about the developer experience. You think about UX, APIs, performance, edge cases, and joy
- You ask "why" obsessively, and you push yourself (and your team) to learn constantly
- You build trust, give direct feedback, and create space for engineers to thrive
- You have experience partnering with internal recruiting teams to drive effective and fair hiring processes. You realize that recruiting is a large and important part of your role, and have a track record of recruiting, hiring, and mentoring top engineering talent
- You’re a strong product thinker who connects customer needs, technical possibilities, and business outcomes. You collaborate well with product managers and are comfortable driving product decisions yourself, using customer insight and evidence to make tradeoffs and build alignment
- Experience with onboarding and growth, billing systems, or customer-facing AI products is especially relevant. You do not need prior experience in all three areas
What the job involves
- We’re hiring an experienced Engineering Manager to lead Dashboard, the team helping customers get more value from the WorkOS suite and helping WorkOS grow as a business
- We’re looking for a leader who is excited to manage engineers, but approaches the role as a startup founding member would
- You’ll lead engineers working across customer onboarding and growth, billing and monetization, and AI assistance in the WorkOS dashboard
- The team’s work connects the customer journey from signup and integration through production and expansion
- You’ll partner closely with design, go-to-market, finance, and other engineering teams to make that journey simpler and more effective
- This role offers meaningful autonomy to shape what we build and why
- It’s a great fit for a strong product thinker who enjoys working closely with product managers and taking the lead on product decisions when the opportunity calls for it
- You’ll have room to identify customer problems, propose new directions, and carry ideas from discovery through launch, with ownership of the outcomes
- If you’re excited by the chance to combine engineering leadership with product judgment, there’s a lot to build here
- You’ll also drive technical strategy, empower your team to execute on projects with a direct impact on customer success and the business, and play a pivotal role in scaling the team and recruiting exceptional engineers
- What your team will build:
- Growth and onboarding: help developers move from signing up to integrating and running WorkOS in production. Improve onboarding and next steps, and work with go-to-market teams on timely outreach informed by product signals
- Billing and monetization: build annual-credit capabilities, make billing more reliable and automated, and give customers clearer pricing, usage, and credit information in the dashboard
- AI assistance for developers: bring the Dashboard Agent, WorkOS MCP server, Ask WorkOS, and Support Bot into a coordinated experience, with shared retrieval, evaluations, and quality standards. Help developers get useful, consistent answers and make progress with WorkOS
- Responsibilities:
- Build and lead a high-velocity team that ships product fast and with polish across growth, monetization, and developer assistance
- Be deeply technical and hands-on: read the PRs, write prototypes, and work with technical leads on architecture and project scope
- Shape the roadmap in close partnership with product managers, design, go-to-market, finance, and engineering. Bring your own product perspective, identify opportunities, and drive product decisions directly where needed—from defining the problem and choosing an approach to measuring the outcome
- Help the team improve the customer journey from signup to production and expansion, using product signals and customer feedback to choose what to build next
- Balance rapid product iteration with the reliability and correctness customers need from billing and the quality they expect from AI assistance
- Push for clarity, focus, and high energy in every sprint. Drive urgency without burning people out
- Spend time with customers and engineers alike—digging into pain points, testing assumptions, and improving the craft
- Coach, mentor, and grow a team of curious, driven engineers through direct feedback, clear goals, and meaningful ownership
- Partner with recruiting to attract, hire, and retain exceptional engineering talent
Our take
The inspiration for WorkOS came from the founder’s previous email startup, Nylas, and the difficulties he faced in crossing what he calls “the enterprise chasm.” The challenge of serving enterprise clients, and meeting their stringent security and admin requirements, is one that many B2B SaaS startups face as they start to scale.
WorkOS steps in at this critical stage, providing a single API driven platform which enables its customers to easily integrate with the major vendors that provide enterprise security and admin solutions. For example, rather than building individual integrations with each of the single sign-on (SSO) providers, a customer would only need to integrate with WorkOS in order to support these solutions.
Enterprise features that WorkOS is providing building blocks for include Single Sign-On, Directory Sync, Audit Trail, and more. WorkOS is helping a wide range of SaaS providers break into enterprise channels and was bolstered by substantial Series B funding in 2022. In that same year, WorkOS acquired its first company, UI framework builder Modulz, a deal that's broadening the scope of API products WorkOS can offer.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
47% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2026
$100m
SERIES C
Jun 2022
$80m
SERIES B
Total funding: $195m
Company benefits
- WorkOS pays 90% of premiums for employees and dependents to help keep your family healthy
- WorkOS provides a 3% match of your 401k contributions to help you save for retirement
- Relax and recharge with 20 days of paid yearly vacation. We also offer 12 weeks of parental leave for new parents
- Monthly stipend for gyms, yoga classes, race registrations, or whatever keeps you active
- Monthly stipend for a massage, meditation class, therapy, or activities that enhance your mental well-being
- Outfit your working space with a stipend for equipment that will keep you comfortable and productive
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Michael Grinich
(Founder & CEO)Earned a BSc in Computer Science from MIT. Previously worked in the Engineering team at Dropbox, in the Design team at Nest and was the Founder & CEO of Nylas for 4 years.
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