Director of Engineering, LaunchDarkly
Monetization
$199-322k
Salary is inclusive of 10% Bonus Target. + RSUs
Feature management for software teams
Be an early applicant
Feature management for software teams
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$199-322k
Salary is inclusive of 10% Bonus Target. + RSUs
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower all teams to deliver and control their software.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of experience in engineering leadership roles, including at least 3+ years leading managers or multiple engineering teams
- Strong architectural understanding of billing and usage platforms, backend services, and cloud-native infrastructure
- Experience defining monetization strategies and modeling business impacts to metrics like ARR, NRR, and ACV
- Experience operating a usage-based billing model at scale
- Experience working with third-party billing platforms like Orb and Stripe for capabilities such as SKU management, plan enforcement, entitlements, billing integration, and usage metering
- Demonstrated success scaling teams through multiple phases of company growth
- The ability to track and drive metrics, and the wisdom to understand what they can and can't tell you
- Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- A thoughtful, empathetic approach to leadership and collaboration
- Prior experience at a product-led SaaS or DevTools company is a plus
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Director of Engineering to lead our Monetization group. Our Monetization group consists of two teams:
- The Billing and Internal Systems team drives LaunchDarkly’s monetization strategies and invests in areas such as pricing and packaging, account management and provisioning, usage-based billing, and quote-to-cash systems
- The Growth Team drives the trajectory of the business’s leads and revenue by inflecting its top-of-funnel acquisition and trial activation
- In this role, you’ll be able to drive our monetization-focused teams while defining their strategy and driving their execution
- You’ll balance technical leadership, business acumen, and people management as you drive the teams towards successful outcomes alongside your cross-functional peers
- Execution: Guide engineering strategy and execution across our Monetization teams, including collaboration with other cross-functional stakeholders and GTM partners (like AEs, Finance, PMM, and execs) to deliver great outcomes for our business
- Cross-functional communication and stakeholder management: Translate technical concepts to GTM partners, engage in strategic business discussions around pricing and monetization, and represent the engineering team with clarity and business awareness
- Engineering decisions that scale with the business: Understand how engineering decisions impact revenue and business strategy, and how common SaaS business metrics like ARR, NRR, and ACV can inform engineering planning and prioritization
- Organizational building: Manage and mentor senior leaders, cultivate high-performing, high-agency, inclusive teams, and scale the org to meet evolving product needs
- Recruiting and retention of top talent: Own the hiring strategy — spanning decisions on new locations to changing interview loops to building a diverse pipeline and inclusive culture that also embraces experimentation with AI-tooling
- Principled values: Model and evangelize a leadership style rooted in transparency, ownership, curiosity, and a bias for action
Our take
Feature flags are a powerful software development tool, allowing teams to modify system behavior without changing code, therefore minimizing risk. If a business has a new feature they want to test, they can then roll it out to a small set of users before letting it go live. These companies can, for example, get quick feedback on the new feature and fix any bugs, or roll back any changes.
LaunchDarkly allows companies to run tests like this by activating the new code for only a small set of users prior to launch. Typically running these tests requires lots of developer time - a daunting and expensive prospect for most rapidly growing businesses - and can risk disruption to the user experience if testing takes place on the live product.
The platform is used by more than 1,500 customers, including the likes of IBM, Intuit and Atlassian. Signalling a change in strategy, the company shook up its management in 2023 and is now aiming to scale its already strong growth under the leadership of Dan Rogers, a product and marketing specialist with an impressive track record at Rubrik, AWS and Microsoft. It is now well poised to develop into a leading business in the feature management space.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Aug 2021
$200m
SERIES D
Jan 2020
$54m
LATE VC
Total funding: $330.3m
Company benefits
- Full Vision
- Full Dental
- Full Medical
- Flexible Schedule
- Healthy Lunches & Snacks
- Conference & Meetup Access
- Education Stipend
- Personalized Work Station
- Close to Public Transportation
- Bike Parking
- Team Activities
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Lakeside, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Edith Harbaugh
(Executive Chair)Worked as a Product Manager at Vignette, Monster Worldwide, and PlantSense. Previously Product Director at TripIt.
John Kodumal
(CTO)Prior to co-founding LaunchDarkly was Software Development Manager at Atlassian and Bytecode Anaylsis Architect for Coverity.
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