Technical Engineering Manager, Asana
CA$211-269k
2-3 days a week in office
Organizing work in one connected space
Open for applications
Organizing work in one connected space
1001+ employees
Open for applications
CA$211-269k
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable the world's teams to work together effortlessly.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of software development experience with expertise in full stack development
- Technical mastery in programming languages and frameworks such as JavaScript, TypeScript, and React
- Experience in managing a technical team or a handful of engineers and able to deep dive on technical issues and designs
- Passion for mentoring and fostering a collaborative and psychologically safe team environment
- Excited to partner with Design and Product on both large new features and daily, small product enhancements
- Focused on maximizing impact for yourself, your team, and Asana as a whole
- Comfortable with ambiguity; you enjoy figuring out what needs to be done—and then doing it
What the job involves
- The Product team builds features end-to-end
- 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
- As a Tech Lead Manager on the product engineering team, you’ll focus on developing the excellent engineering team around you
- You are passionate about helping others contribute more and develop as software engineers as well as human beings
- You enjoy the challenge of balancing speed of execution with quality while building a product that users love
- And you should be as enthusiastic about recruiting and building a team as you are about the challenging technical problems that you and your team will solve
- You will directly manage 4 other engineers (a mix of senior and mid-level engineers) and will be responsible for technical vision & strategy on the team, execution & delivery along with growth of your reports
- This role is based in our Vancouver 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
- Manage and enable the growth of the talented engineers on our Sharing & Permissions team
- Hire and lead a team full of talented full stack 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
- Develop and execute a technical strategy that aligns with the team's roadmap
- Set the team up for success to own several technically challenging and critical projects while providing expert technical guidance and feedback on cross-team initiatives
- Coach engineers in their technical and professional development
- Ensure a great, reliable experience for Asana users around the globe while simultaneously enabling a rapid pace of development and iteration
- Represent Engineering in roadmap discussions and contribute to strategic decisions
- Work and learn alongside great peer managers and tech leads with a strong sense of team
Our take
Asana is a web and mobile application designed to help teams organize, track, and manage their work. Acting as a unified hub, it empowers teams to effortlessly generate projects, delegate responsibilities, set deadlines, and foster direct task-related communication, transcending the inefficiencies of traditional email-based coordination.
Despite facing competition from established players like SmartSheet in its market, Asana has navigated its path, bolstered by a successful Initial Public Offering in 2020 and a track record of startup triumphs. This strategic prowess has propelled Asana to amass a robust clientele exceeding 100,000 organizations, boasting notable entities such as Uber and Air France among its ranks.
Since its inception, Asana has undergone exponential growth, with its reach extending to offices sprawled across four continents worldwide. This expansion not only underscores its global footprint but also signifies its commitment to fostering diverse talent pools and catering to a broad spectrum of clients.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jun 2020
$200m
CONVERTIBLE
Nov 2018
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $414.4m
Company benefits
- Benefits - From comprehensive health benefits including mental health programs and coaching to our in-house culinary program and supportive parental leave policies, our benefits are intentionally designed to ensure that you are energized, focused, and thriving
- Growth - We know that growth isn’t always linear, so we’ll support you in achieving your personal and professional goals. You’ll have the opportunity to take on big responsibilities that impact our success as a company and challenge you in new and fulfilling ways
- Development - We believe in providing everyone with coaching and mentorship. You’ll have access to Conscious Leadership training, success guides, free executive coaching, and our manager training and enablement program
Company values
- Mission: We are purpose-driven people, dedicated to serving something beyond ourselves. Having mission as a value also allows us to continually ground ourselves in why we’re building Asana
- Do great things, fast: We commit to being great at the things we do and doing them fast, without sacrificing one for the other
- Clarity: Our product and culture aim to ensure that teams know who is doing what, by when, and why, which unlocks the best work experiences and outcomes
- Co-creation: Great achievements are almost always the result not of one, but many. We bring our best, let go of egos, and work with empathy and trust to do great things together
- Give and take responsibility: Having integrity around our commitments means seizing exciting opportunities, and also owning it when we have to deprioritize something. We accept full ownership of our commitments, and empower and trust others to achieve theirs
- Mindfulness: We focus on the present and aim to give ourselves time to reflect and space to integrate what we learn. These practices allow us to collectively learn from and improve in all that we do, and to continually evolve our culture
- Reject false tradeoffs: We stay curious, creative, and open to new perspectives. Choosing between two sides of an extreme results in losing the benefits of one, so we commit to searching for a third way that incorporate the truths of both
- Be real (with yourself and others): We know that our best work is tied to authenticity, which allows for growth and collaboration. We bring our whole selves to work and commit to building an inclusive environment in which all people feel safe and excited about being their full selves
- Heartitude: We embrace what makes us human, take time to play and have fun, and create meaningful experiences for their own sake. Why do we have a unicorn flying across our product when we mark a task complete? The real question is - why not?
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Dustin Moskovitz
(Co-Founder & CEO)A Harvard economics graduate, Dustin co-founded Facebook in 2004 before branching off in 2008 to found Asana. They are also the co-founder of Open Philanthropy Project and Good Ventures.
Justin Rosenstein
(Co-Founder)Previously Engineering Manager at Facebook and a Product Manager at Google. Currently Co-Founder of One Project.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Asana
- We celebrate and support our individual identities
- Our employee resource groups are thriving communities that foster trusted, safe spaces for underrepresented groups and allies
- Our ERGs consist of AsanaWomen and AsanaWomen EMEA, Team Rainbow for LGBTQIA+ Asanas, our multicultural ERG Gradient, Blacsana for Black Asanas, and Asanapac for Pan Asian and Pacific Islander Asanas.
- Ask Me Anything sessions: Our leadership team and external thought leaders hold open AMAs that forge connection and bring unique perspectives to the table
- Real Talk event series: Asanas come together to discuss hard, often uncomfortable topics, such as experiences around identity and workplace challenges, through these candid, open conversations.
- Gender-inclusive spaces: From gender-neutral restrooms in nearly every office, to gender pronouns in our product, we recognize and embrace all identities.
- Asana Acts Against Racism: In our continued efforts to be anti-racist, we are taking a harder look at our programs and policies that support diversity, equity, and inclusion. We’re taking action along these lines: Take care, take responsibility, take action
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