Engineering Manager, Patreon
Core Payments Experience
$246-369k
+ Equity
In office Monday and Wednesday
Funding platform for creatives
Open for applications
Funding platform for creatives
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$246-369k
+ Equity
In office Monday and Wednesday
1001+ employees
Company mission
To put creators in control of their work and their futures by strengthening the bond between them and their communities.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of software engineering experience and at 3+ years of experience managing an engineering team
- Proven track record shipping high‑impact, end‑to‑end product work in complex domains (ideally payments, fintech, or other mission‑critical systems)
- Comfortable people managing but stepping in and identifying when more hands on effort is needed to drive the right outcomes
- Deep commitment to building high craft user experiences for both creators and fans
- Experience working with experimentation driven approaches to optimize product surfaces and use of data to inform roadmap decisions
- Skilled at building healthy, trusting relationships across Product, Design, business partners, and other engineering teams
- If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t match with every bullet point outlined above, we strongly encourage you to apply anyway. If you’re a creator at heart, are energized by our mission, and share our company values, we’d love to hear from you
What the job involves
- We're continuing to invest heavily in building the best creator platform with the best team in the creator economy and are looking for an Engineering Manager to support our mission
- Payments Core Experience aims to create delightful user experiences for all things Payments
- Our goal is to create the most reliable, creator-friendly payments tools for creators to run their businesses
- We want our platform to be so safe, reliable, and seamless that users look for the Patreon logo on checkout, when purchasing creator media & services around the internet
- As an Engineering Manager of Payments Core Experience, you will be partnering with product, operations, design, and data to craft a vision and roadmap to deliver a high quality payments product for our creators and their fans
- You will be overseeing a team of software engineers to realize that vision
- Set a high engineering bar and support a team of software engineers to achieve it
- Partner with the Payments Platform team to ensure the right engineering foundations are set for not only the team’s product goals but also for payments needs of the rest of Patreon
- Delegate or be hands on when necessary, ensuring key outcomes are achieved while bringing visibility to the team’s work
- Partner with Product and Engineering leads to define Payments north stars, success metrics, and roadmap sequencing for H1/H2
- Use research, product data, and support signals to inform priorities and iterate on designs
- Ensure the core journeys your teams own feel clear, trustworthy, and modern across web and mobile
- Collaborate with other teams so payments experiences feel cohesive across Insights, Creator Success, and other surfaces product areas
- Help the broader company understand the “why” behind the Payments roadmap and the creator and fan problems we’re solving
- Get out ahead of the near-term roadmap and discover future opportunities through product vision initiatives that you propose and manage
Our take
Creatives face two major struggles in the online space: getting eyes (or ears) on their work, and getting paid for it. Patreon was founded to solve both problems with a platform that would provide a space for creators to host and promote their work, and offer supporters a way to show their support through a regular paid subscription.
Patreon has been a leader in the content subscription space since its founding, but recently has come under pressure from newer rivals such as Substack and Ko-fi. It has maintained its position by shifting its focus from being primarily a marketplace for supporters to find creatives that interest them to being a toolbox for content creators to promote their work. While the site's creatives value this approach it remains to be seen whether Patreon will be able to return to the growth it was enjoying in previous years.
Despite the inroads made by competitors and a troubling global economic outlook making finances tougher for content creators and their supporters, Patreon is still a leader in its space, with over 250,000 active creators having made $3.5B through the platform.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2021
$155m
SERIES F
Sep 2020
$90m
SERIES E
Total funding: $352.1m
Company benefits
- Health Coverage: Medical, dental, and vision plans are available to our US employees and their dependents. Our plans have a nationwide network and we also cover a primary care concierge membership.
- Balance & Wellness: We offer a generous Flexible Time Off policy, in addition to days throughout the year where everyone takes the same day off to recharge our batteries. Employees and their dependents also have access to therapy, coaching, and Employee Assistance Programs services.
- Family Planning: We provide 20 weeks of paid parental leave, fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits, as well as an annual stipend for new additions to your families (including pets!).
- Lifestyle & Learning: You’ll have stipends to fund your personal lifestyle and to support your favorite creators on Patreon, as well as an annual stipend for learning and development.
- Hybrid Work: Our offices are in San Francisco, New York, and Porto. Plus, we have more teammates working remotely around the world.
- Financial Support: We offer employer matching for our retirement plans and Health Savings Account (HSA), as well as access to 1:1 financial guidance with a Certified Financial Planner.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jack Conte
(Co-Founder & CEO)Graduated from Stanford with a degree in Music. Created musical content on Youtube as Pomplamoose before founding Patreon.
Sam Yam
(Co-Founder, CTO & President)Worked in Analytics and Engineering roles at Yahoo, Ning and Loopt. Previously founded mobile advertising company AdWhirl, which was acquired by Google.
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