Vice President of Engineering, dbt Labs
$313-379k
+ Equity Stake
Data transformation tools
Job no longer available
Data transformation tools
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$313-379k
+ Equity Stake
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower data practitioners to create and disseminate organizational knowledge.
Role
Who you are
- Experience as a Senior Director, VP, or other executive of Engineering in a B2B SaaS company
- Experience in the Analytics ecosystem is a major plus: building tools with data practitioners as your end users, supporting the analytics development life cycle
- Experience managing multiple engineering managers and directors; groups of 100+ engineers and coordinating delivery of projects across multiple teams
- Demonstrated ability to work across a team of engineering managers and directors in a collaborative fashion to share resources and collectively drive quality and operational excellence
- Background and deep interest in technology. You lead and bond with all the engineers on your team and also have the technical depth to gain the respect of and lead our most senior engineers
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Desire to work with our GTM teams and product management to understand how our products are delighting and disappointing customers
- Eagerness to get into details, and the experience to know when your managers should solve problems independently
- Consistent demonstration of using data to test assumptions and drive decision making processes
- You optimize for long-term value, with a pragmatic point of view on bringing near-term solutions when business goals require
- You have experience supporting the growth and learning of your teams
- You thrive in fast-paced and rapidly changing startup environments
What the job involves
- We’ve been successful at becoming the standard in data transformation. Now, we’re expanding to power the entire Analytics Development Life Cycle. And we’re growing. To power that growth, we’re looking for a VP of Engineering to join us and lead the teams that will be building and scaling dbt into the future
- In this role, you will manage and develop all of our engineering teams, oversee execution, and build an organization dedicated to delighting data practitioners and data analysts. You will work on projects at every stage of the pipeline, improving our quality and reliability from discovery through operations. You can expect to work with autonomy, advocate for best-in-class practices, and collaborate with teams across dbt Labs
- This is a pivotal year for us, and you will have the opportunity to create exciting new customer experiences for all data practitioners
- You’ll build a great engineering team, partner across our Tech org with Product, Design, and Developer Experience. You’ll also be the face of Engineering to the rest of the company, building relationships, taking feedback, and delivering high quality products to our customers
- Report directly to the CTO
- Manage all of our engineering leaders who have broad responsibilities across multiple products and technologies, including operations, developer productivity, shared services, data engines, cross platform, and applications
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Build and develop the organization through technical guidance, coaching, mentoring, hiring, and rolling up your sleeves when you find gaps. You’ll be technically deep and learn about and adjudicate technical decisions throughout the org
- Champion our values and mission. We have equitable recruiting practices, a diverse team, and a healthy environment where people have a sense of belonging and the support they need to succeed. We're looking for a leader who shares those goals and has experience in actualizing them
- Create a technical roadmap for a company; align the mission and vision of the business with the technical framework to achieve those goals, cooperating with the Product and Design teams to put it all together
- Identify, recommend, and implement new technologies and systems to improve organizational processes and decision-making
- Ensure technical excellence across the entire organization, including architecture, tech debt management, tooling, quality, reliability, and overall velocity
- Understand our engineering processes and strike a balance between efficiency and quality to provide the best outcomes for a business, as well as building developer practices and tooling for a high-morale and effective engineering team
- Collaborate with the executive team and senior engineering leadership to define and achieve key engineering and business metrics and objectives
- Build strong relationships with peers in product management and customer facing teams in our go to market (GTM) organization
- Effectively communicate the technical vision and progress to stakeholders around the company
Application process
- Interview with a Talent Acquisition Partner
- Interview with the CTO
- Team Interviews (1:1s) with team members and other stakeholders
- Technical panel presentation on a topic of your choice
- A values interview with the CEO
- All video interviews via Zoom unless accommodations are needed
Our take
In 2018, dbt Labs founder Tristan Handy was running an analytics company and created a data build tool (or ‘dbt’) to help transform data for analysis. Fast forward one year and dbt Labs was born, offering its tools to help companies everywhere transform their data workflows.
Raw data comes in myriad forms and dbt Labs’ software allows data specialists to manage the data transformation layer making its use for analysis much easier. It offers consulting services on top of the software, and has ridden a wave of companies embracing digital transformation more as their services and workplaces become more online.
Seen as the de facto standard for modern analytics engineering by many, it reached unicorn status within 2 years of launch and is focusing future efforts on expanding reach to more markets outside of the US. Its 2023 acquisition of Transform, an analytics engineering company, will aid in further developing its product's data transformation capabilities.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2022
$222m
SERIES D
Jun 2021
$150m
SERIES C
Total funding: $414.4m
Company benefits
- Equity Stake
- Unlimited vacation
- 401k w/3% guaranteed contribution
- Excellent healthcare
- Paid parental leave
- Home office stipend
Company HQ
West Poplar, Philadelphia, PA
Leadership
Tristan Handy
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as a Senior Consultant at Deloitte, Director of Operations at Squarespace, COO at Argyle Social and Vp of Marketing at RJMetrics.
Connor McArther
(Co-Founder & CTO)Former Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at RJMetrics and Stitch.
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