Engineering Director, Alloy Automation
eCommerce automation platform
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eCommerce automation platform
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make automation accessible to all business owners, since eliminating repetitive work is the key to freeing more people to be creatives, innovators, & exceptional employees.
Role
Who you are
- Been an engineering and product leader at an early stage startup from Series A to B and beyond, with track record as a technical and people leader, growing and building engineering and product teams
- Over 10 years of relevant engineering experience building web applications at scale with Node, React, Typescript, Javascript, etc
- Cross functional leadership, helping liaise across teams and convey the inner workings of their teams to the broader company
- Excellent communication, organizational and leadership skills, not only leading the teams to ship products and oversee projects, but also manage budgets, planning and people management of the EPD org
- Have excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze complex issues, identify root causes, and implement effective solutions
- Strong opinions and willingness to voice them
- Exceptional leader who’s great at hiring, onboarding, coaching, helping the team grow, and getting them excited to go fast
- Able to juggle and not just bring ideas to the table but execute on it in the earlier days
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a talented engineering leader to lead, manage and mentor the EPD organization of the engineering, product, design and QA teams as we gear up to scale in the next 12 - 18 months
- You’ll work with the leadership team to strategically plan and execute on the product roadmap, organizing the team to execute with greater efficiency, set standards for performance and quality and foster a high performing engineering team and culture
- Own multiple product lines (SLG led: Flow Embedded and PLG led: Self-Serve motions) and demonstrate versatility. So you’ll quickly understand current product and engineering capabilities, team structure, skillsets and resourcing requirements
- Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) for growth, track progress against these metrics, and report on performance to senior leadership. Hire and re-organize teams and processes as needed to ensure we have the right structures and people in place to execute
- Spearhead strategic initiatives in 2025 including an on-prem offering, self serve apps, Alloy OAS and workflow builder overhaul, significant changes to our infrastructure and subsequent cloud costs, accelerating our ability to build connectors, etc
- Have a keen sense of business goals and be a close partner to the revenue team. Own the product roadmap and ruthlessly prioritize to meet demands (while being able to stand your ground when needed) from the founder, sales org, etc
- Help us ship faster. Release features 2-3x faster with less bugs and regressions. Decrease the time to build net new connectors to less than 1 week. Build repeatable, scalable processes across EPD to ensure speed and quality are maximized across the board
- Ensure the leadership team has the right level of visibility into engineering productivity, velocity, performance and customer insights based on product usage and insights
- Ensure we have the right management layers and operating mechanics in place to keep our squads organized and team motivated and supported by the right leaders
- Improve talent density across the board, leveraging your engineering leads as well as making personnel changes as needed to make sure we build and foster a high performing culture
Our take
Automation is great at two things in particular: eliminating repetitive drudge work, and ensuring nothing is missed. Both cover a lot of ground in the field of eCommerce, where monitoring and responding to customer behaviour is the name of the game. Alloy Automation is a platform helping automate precisely this.
The Alloy platform allows companies to link together apps to create automated workflows. A Shopify payment, for example, could trigger the sending of a customer text message, a discount code, and a team slack notification. These templates can be custom-built, or selected from a marketplace of prefabricated ones.
The automation and eCommerce marketplaces are both hotly competitive and cluttered, which means Alloy’s model is a smart one. It doesn’t need to beat the field; it just needs to integrate with the rapidly growing number of SaaS platforms and tools eCommerce companies are leaning on. Alloy has been rewarded with strong funding to rapidly upscale this concept - and there’s a lot of market demand to grow into.
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Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2022
$20m
SERIES A
Feb 2021
$5m
SEED
Total funding: $30m
Company benefits
- Health coverage - We provide you with a health reimbursement account (HRA) with a built-in, yearly stipend to cover insurance, prescriptions, and copays
- Virtual social activities - We do virtual Airbnb experience, founder-hosted cooking classes, poker games, & more to feel like a team despite being far apart
- Flexible PTO - We want to make sure our teammates keep themselves mentally and physically healthy, and celebrate the important holidays in their lives
Company values
- We Are Owners - Our north star will always be the impact we will have on our customers and partners
- Hone Your Craft - What we do doubles as a medium to exercise out passions and hone our professional crafts
- Work In The Open - We default to working asynchronously. We aim to share openly, and stay honest about our misses and learnings
- Teams Win Championships - We win and lose together. We offer help before it's asked and we help each other get better
- Mind Wide-Open - We have strong opinions, loosely held and invite ourselves to be challenged with different perspectives and by data
- Ship It - We work with urgency because speed makes us different and we value iterating on projects over being perfect the first time
- A Little Fun Never Hurt Nobody - We throw a party once in a while to celebrate each other and the work we do
Company HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Sara Du
(CEO & Co-Founder)Originally studied at Harvard, before dropping out to spend time as a Wish Product Designer, a Snap Software Engineer, and a Fellow at 8VC.
Gregg Mojica
(Co-Founder)Worked on software at Cornell, then as a Technical Writer at AppCoda, and an Application Architect with Fiserv. Also worked as an Angel Investor / Scout with Bain Capital Ventures.
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