About the Experience Team:
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the teams building our cloud-based developer experiences, including our IDE and cloud CLI. In this role, you will work with engineers, designers, and product managers to create delightful and powerful tools for development in dbt based workflows. Data engineers, analytics engineers, and business analysts across the globe will use your tools to create knowledge and empower their business decision-making.
In this role, you can expect to:
- Build, lead, and coach a team of engineers to deliver delightful developer experiences
- Empower your team with business context. Support their ownership of the team roadmap, product development lifecycle, and technical excellence
- Partner with Product and Design to create a long-term vision for data practitioner workflows
- Coach engineers in product thinking, quality, and system design. Build individualized growth plans and match interests and capabilities to available work.
- Work with peer managers to evolve organizational processes like hiring, onboarding, and project execution.
- Address customer needs and concerns in partnership with our Customer Support team.
Qualifications:
- 3+ years in people management with a product engineering team
- Experience leading teams through all parts of the product development lifecycle. You’ve lived design, implementation, end-to-end testing, observability, release strategies, and incident management.
- Experience in complex cloud-based workflows, including web and command-line based applications. You have earned wisdom about best practices in frontend architecture, API design, and developer experience.
- Success partnering with in-house recruiting to hire and retain senior engineering talent
You are a good fit if you have:
- Worked asynchronously as part of a fully-remote, distributed team
- You have strong written communication skills. You can communicate complex engineering tradeoffs to stakeholders with differing levels of technical fluency.
- You have startup or scaleup experience. You may be asked to wear many hats, and agility in shifting roles and scopes will contribute to your success.
- You’re open to a variety of languages and technologies. Today dbt Labs engineering works in TypeScript, React, Python, Go, and Kubernetes across cloud providers.
- You have an opinion on what constitutes high-performing and clear direction on arriving there with your team.
Compensation and Benefits:
- Salary: $223,000 - $262,000
- Equity Stake*
- Benefits - dbt Labs offers:
- Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)
- 401k w/3% guaranteed contribution
- Excellent healthcare
- Paid Parental Leave
- Wellness stipend
- Home office stipend, and more!
*Equity or comparable benefits may be offered depending on the legal limitations
What to expect in the hiring process (all video interviews via Zoom unless accommodations are needed):
- Interview with a Talent Acquisition Partner
- Interview with the VP of Engineering
- Team interviews (1:1s) with team members and other stakeholders
- A values interview with the CTO
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