Engineering Manager, Pigment
$180-250k
More information about location
2-4 days a week in office
Enterprise business planning platform (EMP, CPM)
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Enterprise business planning platform (EMP, CPM)
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-250k
More information about location
2-4 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable people and businesses to make better decisions.
Role
Who you are
- Senior-level experience as a software engineer working on production systems (typically 7–8+ years)
- 2–3+ years of people management experience
- Proven experience designing object-oriented software using languages such as C#, Java, C++, Golang, Rust, Python, or Ruby (non-exhaustive)
- Strong soft skills: communication, empathy, coaching, and leadership
- Demonstrated experience working with distributed or remote teams
- Knowledge of the local Canadian market and practices
- A strong cultural mindset: you care about people, collaboration, and building healthy teams
- A problem-solving attitude, humility, and a desire to keep learning
- Fluent English
What the job involves
- As Pigment continues to grow internationally, we are opening a Tech Hub in North America
- We are looking for an Engineering Manager based in our Toronto office who will play a key role in developing our AMER engineering hub, working across distributed teams in Europe (France and UK)
- This role is both people-focused and hands-on, with up to 50% of time spent on software engineering, depending on team needs and maturity
- With a growing customer base in AMER, building our engineering presence is a strategic priority. Our vision is ONE team. Engineers across France, UK, Canada (and more locations in the future) belong to interconnected hubs that share the same project opportunities, individual growth paths, and leadership
- In addition, we create a local management structure to conciliate market knowledge, closeness to individual people needs, and cultural championship across regions
- Develop our product alongside talented engineers locally and overseas, in the same distributed team
- Take ownership of the reporting lines within a community, managing engineers located across Europe and North America
- Ensure strong collaboration and alignment for teams across France, UK and Canada/US
- Act as a culture carrier for Pigment in the AMER region and particularly the Toronto office, fostering our values, ways of working, and engineering standards
- Support the growth, performance, and engagement of engineers bringing local context to the international setup
- Ability to translate functional requirements into simple, scalable, and elegant designs
- Deliver high-quality, production-ready code
- Understand product and customer needs deeply, and contribute ideas that maximize user value
- You will remain close to the code to support technical credibility and team ramp-up
- All engineers follow the philosophy of “you build it, you run it”. Teams are in charge of developing functionality according to our production standards, of maintaining operational conditions (e.g. alerting, observability), and of providing incident response upon technical support escalation
- At Pigment, Engineering Managers do not own a specific technical domain, this responsibility lies with Team Leads. This ensures independence between technical decisions and people management
- Engineering Managers are distributed inside a group of teams that we call Community, and report alongside Tech Leads to the Engineering Manager Lead of that Community. Tech Leads and Engineering Managers work hand-in-hand to align team delivery and people management
- Hire, coach and manage both Europe and North America-based software engineers (primarily in Toronto, and potentially remote in Canada or in the US in the future)
- Define clear expectations, provide continuous feedback, and support performance
- Build and follow career development plans using our skill leveling matrix
- Participate in performance and compensation discussions with other managers (including under-performance remediation when needed)
- Help onboard and ramp up new hires in a fast-growing environment
- Lead cross-team or cross-location initiatives to improve engineering practices, culture, or processes
- Engage in hiring, branding, and developing our local office culture
- A major part of the role is succeeding in a distributed and multicultural environment:
- Collaborating daily with teams based in France and in the UK
- Navigating time zone differences with pragmatism and empathy
- Building trust, alignment, and strong communication across locations
- Contributing with your team as an integral part of Pigment’s global engineering culture
Our take
In an ever-changing world, demand for more effective and accessible planning tools is rising. Pigment is meeting this demand with its business planning platform.
Pigment’s platform is disrupting a market that has long been dominated by generic spreadsheet programs like Excel. Its primary focus lies on forecasting and planning, enabling businesses to model and test outcomes. This is designed to improve the efficacy and reliability of decision making.
Taking on incumbents such as Excel, which boasts around one billion users, is no easy feat. However, Pigment’s innovative forecasting tools, ease-of-use and significant funding should give it a fighting chance in a market that is continuing to make space for disruptors. They have attracted impressive clients including Figma, PayFit, and Gong.
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Insights
83% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2024
$145m
SERIES D
May 2023
$80m
SERIES C
Total funding: $388.9m
Company benefits
- Healthcare including dental
- Brand new offices in the heart of Paris, London (Liverpool Street), New York and Toronto
- One company offsite every year in Paris
- Generous maternity (16 weeks full pay) /paternity leave (5 weeks full pay + 4 weeks half time work but fully paid)
- 50% home work stipend covered by Pigment
- Free Lunches
- Monthly office socials. Quarterly team socials
Company values
- Thrive together - We can only win as a team. We are all founders and do the right thing for our peers, Pigment, customers, partners, and the planet
- Never settle - Aim to become the best at what you do by delivering with rigor and ambition every day. Delivering for us means to build a passionate Pigment community
- Go for it - We are biased towards action. Every action leads us to learning and these learnings get us one step closer to our mission
- Be real, be humble - We are generous with our feedback, open to change our views and we approach it with empathy, knowing everyone is trying to do the best for Pigment
Company HQ
Arts-et-Métiers, Paris, France
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Leadership
Romain Niccoli
(Co-CEO)Previously founded Criteo, where they served as CTO for 11 years. Went onto co-found LESS in 2017. Is an Advisor for Remeniz and Ledger.
Eléonore Crespo
(Co-CEO)Worked at Google for 3 years, first as Product Analyst and then as Financial Analyst. Has been a Board Observer at Slite, Spendesk, and Alan.
People progressing
Tania joined as a CSM and was amongst our first London hires! She quickly impressed and today holds the role of Team Lead for our CSMs in EMEA. She also Co-leads our DEI Council.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Pigment
Tania Pennick (CSM Team Lead, EMEA)
- Company commitments and policy relating to DEI, including commitments regarding Next40
- All Pigmenauts go through annual unconscious bias training
- We have a dedicated employee run DEI Council, and bi-weekly meetings for this team
- We pass our job adverts through gender indexing to ensure they are neutral in content style
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