Engineering Manager, Zapier
Tables
$184.1-276.1k
CAN Min/Mid/Max: $184,100 - $230,100 - $276,100 CAD
Workflow automation service
Job no longer available
Workflow automation service
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$184.1-276.1k
CAN Min/Mid/Max: $184,100 - $230,100 - $276,100 CAD
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Zapier's mission is to Make Automation Work for Everyone!
Role
Who you are
- You’re an effective team builder. This isn't your first rodeo. You have at least two years of experience managing teams of at 4-6 engineers across seniorities and stacks. You know how to hire, train, and develop engineers from all backgrounds. You understand the benefits of building a diverse and inclusive engineering team
- You’re a customer-centric product thinker. As an Engineering Manager, you’ve worked in conjunction with product partners to set the strategy for your team, supported by metrics and goals. You help your team understand how their work impacts the customer and connects to company strategy. You can advocate for engineering-driven projects (e.g. addressing tech debt) and work with your product partner to prioritize them
- You have excellent communication skills. You can communicate with technical and non-technical folks alike to broadcast information, make decisions, and build bridges
- You’re a strong technical leader. Although hands-on coding isn't required day-to-day, you’re an asset to the team for any technical matters and can draw upon industry experience to improve decision-making. You have a proven track record of coaching and growing a team of Engineers
- You're adaptable. You've been in fast-growing companies and know how to build, change, and adapt to the needs of a company as it grows
- Bonus: You have experience in building a customer-facing database product. You’re familiar with the concerns of building an extensible database-like product at scale
What the job involves
- We're looking for an Engineering Manager to join the team at Zapier. We’re on a mission to make everyone more productive at work. Zapier has helped millions of people build businesses through the power of automation
- New Products is a cross-functional group dedicated to expanding Zapier’s core business by bringing new ideas to market through rapid iteration, working directly with customers. We’re investing in new ways for people to build data and UI solutions through Tables, Interfaces and Canvas, and are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Tables team
- Work closely with your product and design partners to create a trio that sets strategy and executes against it
- Effectively mentor and lead your team through weekly one-on-one and team meetings
- Communicate team progress upward and around through weekly/monthly business reviews and organizational-wide updates
- Drive continuous improvement through agile processes and workflows
- Ensure your team produces technical solutions that align with Zapier security requirements, architectural guidelines, system design principles, and engineering best practices
- Recruit, onboard, and train new engineers
- The team’s primary objective is to build customer engagement and value within the Tables product by:
- Improving and maintaining its scale, performance, reliability, and security
- Expanding its functionality to meet customer needs, including the evaluation and application of AI
- Integrating and enhancing the value of other products within the Zapier ecosystem, such as Interfaces and Zaps
Our take
Even before remote working became the "in thing", freelancers, small business owners, and large organisations have found themselves needing more and more software platforms to serve their operational needs. As people used more software services, Zapier founders saw the need to connect the actions between these software and save everyone some time.
Zapier is the largest integration and automation tool for businesses. Since its founding, Zapier has grown its suite of automation offerings across almost every mainstream software service. The company is one of the most successful to come out of Y Combinator and has also been a pioneer of remote working.
Zapier has so far been able to capitalise heavily on its advantage as one of the first entrants and has had very little actual competition. Software services aren't going anywhere anytime soon, and organisations are only going to need more of them. This puts Zapier in a strong position for growth, but also opens up room for bolder companies to get in on the action. Companies like Airtable and Integromat are already preying on more niche segments of Zapier's market share.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
38% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2012
$1.3m
SEED
Sep 2012
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $1.5m
Company benefits
- Work from anywhere
- Bonus program
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Great healthcare + dental + vision coverage*
- Retirement plan with company match*
- Stock options for every Zapien**
- 2 annual company retreats to awesome places
- 14 weeks paid leave for new parents
- Home office setup stipend
- Professional development allowance
Additional info
- As a fully remote company with 800+ team members across 40+ states, 38 countries, and 18+ timezones, we’ve adopted a culture of asynchronous work. This work style allows teams to collaborate effectively across locations, time zones, skills, and each individual’s energy levels, and empowers employees to work in a setting that fits their needs. In practice, we live on Slack, with most conversations in public channels. It mimics the open-office feel and allows everyone to search the chat logs if they need to find something that happened when they weren’t around
Leadership
Wade Foster
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Zapier, wasEmail Marketing Manager with Veterans United Home Loans, and Customer Development Lead at The Idea Works.
Bryan Helmig
(Co-Founder & CTO)Was previously Product Dev/Manager at Veterans United Home Loans.
Mike Knoop
(Co-Founder)Was CPO and Head of Labs at Zapier before becoming President. Previously was a Graduate Research at the University of Missouri.
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