Engineering Manager, Zapier
Partner Solutions
$191.5-287.3k
For Canada based: CA$191.5K – CA$287.3K. Offers equity and bonus
Workflow automation service
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Workflow automation service
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$191.5-287.3k
For Canada based: CA$191.5K – CA$287.3K. Offers equity and bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Zapier's mission is to Make Automation Work for Everyone!
Role
Who you are
- If you’re excited about platform products, API design, and working at the intersection of Zapier and its partner ecosystem, this is your role
- You operate with full ownership. You have a proven track record of leading engineering teams with a clear focus on delivery and impact. You support and grow your team while enabling them to drive technical decisions, and you partner closely with product to align your team’s work with company strategy. You lead with clarity and create space for others to lead
- You have strong technical depth and breadth. We span multiple domains within the external platform. You have the technical range to go deep where it matters, provide meaningful guidance across different workstreams, and earn credibility with engineers through substance. You’re comfortable staying technically engaged despite not being the IC
- You understand what it means to build platform products for external partners. Whether from a previous role in a B2B platform, an API product, or a role working directly with partners or enterprise customers, you bring genuine empathy for the partner experience
- You are a proactive cross-functional operator. You independently identify the stakeholders your team’s work affects and build those relationships before they become blockers. You rally the team and partners around cross-functional projects, proactively solicit feedback on team plans, and ensure your team is well-represented across the zone and the org
- You develop your people. You build high-performing teams through consistent, actionable feedback and genuine investment in IC growth and career development
- You have excellent communication skills. Zone and engineering leadership can rely on you for accurate, well-scoped updates on team direction and progress. You regularly work with engineers and stakeholders from various disciplines, balancing engineering concerns with product needs, and you help build understanding around difficult decisions
- You champion frequent deployments and experimentation. You believe in shipping regularly and improving through real-world feedback. You foster a culture of experimentation, rapid learning, and continuous improvement
- You put users and partners first. Your decisions and leadership are guided by the needs of the developers and partners who build on Zapier’s platform. You build relationships across teams and influence technical decisions for the ecosystem’s benefit
What the job involves
- Zapier is on the lookout for a talented Engineering Manager to lead our Partner Solutions team
- This team sits squarely within Zapier’s external platform — the suite of APIs, SDKs, and embedding tools that allow others to extend Zapier’s automation platform beyond zapier.com
- The APIs specifically are at the heart of this team’s ownership; think the public APIs that let an external group embed automation into their own product
- You’ll lead our technical team with a focus on taking full ownership of the team’s engineering strategy — not just executing what’s handed to you, but shaping it
- The team's work directly impacts how partners grow with Zapier, how they retain their own users, and how automation gets embedded into the products millions of people use every day
- Lead and develop a team of 4–7 engineers, providing technical direction, mentorship, and career growth opportunities
- Own the engineering strategy for Partner Solutions; shaping it in collaboration with your PM and zone leadership, then driving its execution with full accountability
- Build deep technical understanding across the team’s domain: the Powered by Zapier API surface, embedding solutions (Workflow Element, Zap creation, Action Runs), Managed Authentication, Zap Templates, Sponsor User Automation, and AI workflow features
- Work with the engineering team to make, evaluate, and advocate for architectural decisions that align with Zapier’s vision and technical standards
- Collaborate across engineering teams to evaluate and inform technical decisions, creating alignment and removing blockers for the team’s roadmap
- Proactively identify stakeholders impacted by the team’s work, including partner-facing and internal teams and build those cross-functional relationships independently
- Champion problem-solving by identifying technical challenges and improving engineering processes
- Be a close partner with product to tackle partner and user problems effectively, and align the team closely to the roadmap
- Communicate effectively to lead your team and keep leadership informed on progress through one-on-ones, team meetings, and leadership updates
- Set clear performance expectations for engineers and support their growth to meet those goals
- Foster a culture of experimentation, rapid learning, and continuous improvement
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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