Engineering Manager, Turo
Traffic Product Team
$192-240k
+Equity
Car sharing marketplace
Job no longer available
Car sharing marketplace
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$192-240k
+Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Turo's mission is to put the world's cars to better use.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of management experience plus 4+ years of engineering experience
- As a passionate and confident leader, you take pride and ownership in the work you and your team do
- You have experience with architectural patterns and anti-patterns of large, high-scale consumer applications
- You bias toward taking action, using the best available data to justify your actions and opinions, and make decisions that move the business forward
- You can effectively hire, mentor, and develop career plans for engineers of all levels
- You lead by example, holding yourself to the same standards you set for your team
- You are a strong communicator: sharing knowledge upward, downward, and across the organization. You relish a regular cadence of one-on-one discussions with each team member
- You have a proven understanding of business metrics and are able to suggest and scope product feature work to maximize the business impact
- You enjoy solving complex problems and helping others meet their goals
- Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, product managers, and engineers is no problem for you
What the job involves
- As engineering manager of the marketing product team, you’ll lead a cross-functional team of talented software engineers that build features to support growth in our global marketplaces
- This team closely collaborates with our marketing teams to develop and optimize the platform that helps Turo acquire and engage millions of guests
- Collaborate extensively with engineers, product managers, designers, data, and marketers to deliver the next generation of product features
- Provide technical mentorship to your team as we balance between building sustainable, high-impact projects and shipping them quickly
- Work with your product manager to build a roadmap based upon key business metrics
- Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members
- We help engineers with their career growth by assigning them to projects tailored to their skill levels, personalities, work styles, and professional goals
- Build plans for prioritizing technical and resourcing challenges in your organization
- Work closely with the Turo recruiting team to hire high potential candidates from diverse backgrounds
Our take
Turo is the world’s largest car rental marketplace. The comparisons with AirBnb are obvious but not unfounded - ‘hosts’ make their cars available to ‘guests’ who benefit from short-term rentals without the cost of purchasing their own automobile.
The startup has reinvented the car-rental marketplace, previously dominated by incumbents like Avis. By allowing users to rent directly from the car owner themselves, Turo is bringing transparency, efficiency, and liquidity to the industry while hosts earn additional income.
Perhaps one of the biggest challenges the company needs to overcome is similar to those that plagued other major sharing-economy companies like Uber - regulation. Specifically Turo faces disputes over bad-faith hosts and from incumbent players, especially regarding airport use. Since its 2022 IPO, Turo has been eyeing further global expansion and targeting a series of strategic acquisitions and partnerships which will expand its product suite for hosts and guests alike.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Feb 2020
$30m
SERIES E
Jul 2019
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $464m
Company benefits
- Dental, and vision coverage
- Time off to volunteer
- Travel credit each month to grab a car and go explore
- 28 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Andre Haddad
(CEO, not founder)Previously worked for 10 years at eBay, holding various positions such as CEO - Shopping.com & Vice President - User Experience & Design.
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