Head of Engineering

Summary

Join Ashby as their Head of Engineering in the Americas and lead a growing team of engineers. You will play a key role in scaling Ashby's unique engineering culture, managing a remote team and expanding it significantly over the next year. The role involves working closely with the Co-founder and VP of Engineering and your EMEA counterpart. Ashby is a fast-growing company with a powerful product and exceptional growth metrics. You will be responsible for maintaining and improving the company's unique engineering culture, which prioritizes minimal process, ownership, collaboration, and diversity. This is a leadership role requiring experience in building and managing engineering teams, defining cultural norms, and making product decisions.

Requirements

• You’ve built impressive products as an IC
• You’ve built a bench of amazing Engineers
• You’ve established the cultural norms and processes of an entire Engineering department

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Co-founder and VP of Engineering and your counterpart in EMEA to continue scaling our unique culture
• Manage our remote team of 20 engineers and 2 EMs, who cover a wide variety of specializations, from Product Engineers to Site Reliability Engineers to Design Engineers
• Over the next year, grow that team to 40 engineers and 5-6 EMs

Preferred Qualifications

• You’ve always been a line manager or middle manager
• You haven’t led the definition and evolution of the culture and processes of an entire Engineering department
• You’ve never managed managers
• You don’t enjoy coding or don’t find time to stay up-to-date on technology
• You went into management because it was the only growth path available
• You're happy with a team of engineers who are predominantly early-career or mid-career or don't thrive with ownership or autonomy
• You believe that with enough guardrails, the team can get things done
• To you, a Staff or Principal Engineer is someone who spends most of their time project managing or conducting architecture reviews
• You don’t believe staff and principal engineers could lead by the example they set or the leverage they create through their work
• You’re not optimistic or convinced that we can build a large engineering team that functions differently from the status quo
• You think, at some size, common processes need to be implemented to ensure consistent product delivery (e.g., sprint planning, product managers writing in-depth specifications)
• You might not say it out loud, but you think, at some size, compromises have to be made for the sake of hiring numbers or consistency

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• 10-year exercise window for stock options
• Unlimited PTO
• A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, covered by Ashby
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget
• $100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval
• If you’re in the US, we offer top-tier health insurance for you and your dependents, with 100% of premiums covered by Ashby
• In other countries, we provide high-quality supplemental health insurance for you and your dependents, also fully covered by us