Head of Revenue and Growth Engineering, Zapier
$269.4-404.2k
Workflow automation service
Job no longer available
Workflow automation service
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$269.4-404.2k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Zapier's mission is to Make Automation Work for Everyone!
Role
Who you are
- You look for opportunities to have a significant impact, first and foremost. You prefer to work on a variety of different projects with a high degree of responsibility as long as you are clearly contributing to critical business objectives
- Your impact is measured by stakeholder satisfaction, organization morale improvement, impactful customer value delivery and growth opportunities for people in your org
- You thrive in grey space– part of the fun for you is figuring out what is happening, what needs to be done, and gaining insights from multiple sources to form an opinion on what happens next. You seek out opportunities to create clarity for others
- You first look to context and data to understand a challenge. You like to jump in to make sense of a situation– strategy, performance, culture, etc– and determine the clear opportunities to support the team to thrive
- You navigate cross-functional partnerships and dotted-line reporting lines with ease. Building relationships and influencing others is a key strength of yours, and you can build credibility with new colleagues and teams quickly
- You are self-aware, and know that you have a lot to learn from others. Feedback is a gift, and you appreciate a sparring partner, especially when you can learn something new. You operate with a high degree of empathy over ego
- You have managed, coached, and developed senior leaders as well as through multiple layers of management. You can help others grow their ability to prioritize, get strategic, and lead their teams through change
- You have outstanding verbal and written communication skills and are adept at compelling storytelling
- Experience: The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of experience as an engineering leader across multiple teams and focuses. We’re not looking for particular experience in one discipline but rather that you are an engineering generalist focused on impact
What the job involves
- By definition, this role will have varying responsibilities and the scopes and spans of control will change based on business needs. The below is not a comprehensive list and you might do some or all of these types of things. This role is for someone who thrives in ambiguity and can quickly hone in on the highest impact needs
- Strategic Leadership: You will focus on 1-2 areas of engineering at a time, based on business needs, and become the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) associated with those areas. This role requires a deep understanding of diverse business needs with the ability to set clear expectations, create a plan of action for immediate execution, and hold folks accountable to the work
- People Management: After successfully upleveling team leadership, you will move on to another area of focus, either keeping the previous team in your reporting structure or transitioning it to another leader. You will lead teams of varying sizes and layers of leadership pending need. Some of our engineering teams are as large as 40 folks
- Change Management: You will collaborate with the executive team to roll out change, ensuring that the new roadmap is internalized and adopted across the engineering organization. This role relies on your ability to build trust and navigate cross-functional partnerships in tandem with keeping our customers’ needs top of mind
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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