Senior Engineering Manager, Superhuman
$200k
+ Equity
Speedy email experience
Job no longer available
Speedy email experience
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$200k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To provide the fastest email client in the world.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: You have 10+ years of experience contributing to engineering teams including 4+ years as a hands-on contributor, and 3+ years of leading teams
- Technical Skills: You’re an expert in Javascript and React, and proficient in backend technologies such as Go, Java/Scala, Ruby, Python, etc
- Management: You have a track record of managing and developing high-performing, inclusive, and mission-driven teams
- Async Communication: You can communicate effectively across various mediums (especially slack, notion, and email). Can produce and consume detailed written materials as needed without sacrificing speed
- Execution: You can take large, complex problems and break them into manageable pieces. You are a model of dependability
- Attention to Detail: You exercise astonishing attention for detail in everything that you do
- Bias for Action: Speed matters. You take rapid and decisive steps forward, even in the face of uncertainty, recognizing action is the catalyst for progress and growth
- Efficient: You move quickly and effectively, and always find ways to achieve more
- Growth Mindset: You embrace challenges, welcome feedback, and see effort as the path to mastery. You believe that you and others can always learn and grow
- Start to Finish Ownership: You act with 100% responsibility for your outcomes as well as the outcomes of the company
- Proactively Positive: You demonstrate care and awareness for how your actions and words make others feel. You find ways to move forward from challenges stronger and happier. You chose to interpret situations positively rather than negatively
- Grit: You pursue challenging goals with passion and courage
- Cares Deeply; Challenges Directly: Discusses and debates ideas openly. Focuses on the customer and business ‘so what’ and challenges stakeholders to take impactful action
What the job involves
- Oversee and contribute to a multidisciplinary team of software engineers developing amazing user experiences
- Serve as an engineering leader and technical expert
- Create plans and processes, and drive execution for the engineering team
- Hire and mentor a world-class team including providing coaching and career guidance
- Advocate for code quality, new technologies, and architectural design within the company
- Follow projects from inception through implementation to help ensure they are on time and of remarkable quality
- Support initiatives to improve engineering efficiency, quality, and happiness
- Collaborate with product and delight teams to ship incredible features and products
Our take
We spend a staggering upwards of 3 hours a day buried in our emails. The majority of us are used to legacy giants like Gmail or even Hotmail. Superhuman recognizes that our email UX could just be a lot more beautiful and efficient, and have integrated smart features like “unsend” so we never have to suffer the embarrassment of another typo.
Although standing out in a market of free services (they charge a $30 per month fee), Superhuman commanded a waiting list of over 250,000 during its beta testing phase.
With more than $100 million in overall funding from firms like Andreessen Horowitz and First Round Capital, Superhuman is setting trends in emerging enterprise software with both its design and go-to-market strategy. They’ve managed to steal an audience from the big players by giving users something beautiful and more streamlined to work with. Its 2024-released feature is a testament to this, which generates instant reply suggestions for emails that are smart, context-aware and efficient.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
37% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2021
$75m
SERIES C
May 2019
$38.2m
SERIES B
Total funding: $113.2m
Company benefits
- Friday wins: a weekly event where entire teams gather to share what they have accomplished during that week
- Super buddies: in your first week you are paired with an experienced team member outside your team to help you settle and show you the ropes
- Lunch roulette: Every Wednesday, teams are split into random groups of two or three to grab lunch outside the office
- 401k
- Flexible parental leave
- $3000 per year towards your professional development
- Allyship education program to help build your best self
- Custom MacBook Pro
- $3000 budget for workstation setup
- All your lunches catered or expensed
- Flexible spending accounts for commuter costs, dependent care, and healthcare expenses
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Rahul Vohra
(CEO & Co-Founder)Before founding Superhuman, Rahul was a Technical Advisor for BOLDstart Ventures, which provides seed and first-round funding to early-stage internet companies. Rahul has also been an investor in Partender, sendwithus, EasyPost, Placer and YesGraph.
Conrad Irwin
(CTO & Co-Founder)After founding Rapportive, which added context and transparency to emails, Conrad worked as a Senior Software Engineer for Linkedin. Before co-founding Superhuman, they were the VP of Engineering for Bugsnag, an automatic crash detector for web and mobile apps.
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