Engineering Manager, Workera
(EU)
Skills intelligence platform
Job no longer available
Skills intelligence platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower individuals and organizations to thrive by understanding, measuring, and improving their skills - across any skill - at any time.
Role
Who you are
- Experience managing teams in a fast-paced environment, with a track record of scaling and growing teams through recruiting and coaching
- The ability to effectively communicate complex ideas and strategies to stakeholders at all levels and achieve alignment on said ideas
- Prior hands-on experience as a developer [Bonus points if you have experience with our tech stack.]
- Proven experience with conflict resolution amongst teams and coaching tactics
- Experience with Shape-Up or other product development methodologies
- An intrinsic motivation to learn and stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends (particularly in AI)
- Proficiency in utilizing AI tools such as ChatGPT or equivalent digital assistants, applying them effectively within your work context
What the job involves
- In this role, you will lead one of our ambitious and talented Product delivery teams based in EMEA
- You will support our growth by leading and scaling an engineering team in close collaboration with Product and Design
- You will empower and mentor the team to achieve ambitious yet exciting delivery milestone goals
- As a company built upon groundbreaking disruptive technology, with teams constantly innovating and pushing the envelope in their development, it’s vital that the person in this role is a champion in communication and has the proven ability to motivate and challenge engineers to be the best versions of themselves
- Facilitating and sustaining a healthy, inclusive culture where everyone is set up to do their best work is a core pillar for the position
- Owning the roadmap (technical, staffing, product)
- Fostering team growth, and the growth of individuals within the team, by means of feedback, 1-on-1 coaching, or projects to boost learning
- Ensuring timely and high-quality delivery
- The team you will manage consists of a mixture of highly skilled frontend and backend engineers and partners closely with a Product Manager and Product Designer in a squad like approach
- While we, as a company, have a global footprint, the majority of your direct team sits in Europe. You will have the opportunity to partner with other “squads” based in LATAM as well
- Within 3 months, you will:
- Organize and allocate projects, together with the Product Manager, shaping incoming initiatives for future build cycles
- Coordinate feature rollouts and incoming requests/questions, with other engineering teams and departments (for example, Support, Sales)
- Identify and drive team improvements (technical projects, learning initiatives, etc)
- Assist and coordinate resolving time-sensitive production issues
- Within 6 months, you will:
- Identifying and organizing growth opportunities for the engineers, coaching them through sometimes-eventful times in an early-stage start-up
- Participate in recruitment processes and staffing discussions
- Drive significant product and technology leaps, based on the latest the AI / Elixir developments
- Within 9 months, you will:
- Partner with GTM teams in client-facing strategic discussions
- Organize and lead team offsites
- Lead engineering-wide initiatives to improve the development experience or platform scalability
Our take
Companies are struggling to find a learning platform that can upskill and reskill their talent quickly, in accordance with the fast development of the technology used in different key roles such as data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
Workera is an upskilling startup that helps companies evaluate their data and AI capabilities and provide their employees with personalized learning plans to keep them updated on the latest technologies and practices. The company uses AI and machine learning to evaluate the current skillset's within a company and to design a learning plan that will help businesses' workforce reach a particular level of understanding of new technology.
Recently, the company strengthened its enterprise footprint through a partnership with Udemy. The collaboration brings together Workera's AI-powered skills assessment with Udemy's global learning marketplace, creating an end-to-end solution that allows organizations to identify capability gaps and deliver more targeted training.
As demand for GenAI and advanced technical skills continues to grow, this partnership puts Workera at the centre of a more integrated, data-driven approach to workforce development, helping enterprise move beyond just one-off courses and toward continuous upskilling.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
52% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2023
$23.5m
SERIES B
Aug 2021
$16m
SERIES A
Total funding: $44.5m
Company HQ
Ventura, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Kian Katanforoosh
(Co-Founder & CEO)Alongside Workera, Kian is an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University and a Scout at Sequoia Capital. Previously he co-founded Daskit.
Adam Lavezzo
(COO)Prior to joining Workera in 2023, Adam spent nearly 6 years at BetterUp as a VP of Operations/Revenue Strategy & Operations. He also spent 6 years at Bain & Company as a Consultant and Manager.
Tim DaRosa
(CRO)Tim joined Workera in 2024 as CMO, moving into the role of CRO in 2026. Previously, he was the Head of Marketing at Airkit.ai and CMO at Zadara.He also spent over 3 years at HackerOne as VP, then Senior VP of Marketing.
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