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 rapidly growing company with a powerful and user-friendly product, boasting impressive customers and strong growth metrics. This leadership position requires experience in building and managing engineering teams, establishing cultural norms, and making product decisions. The ideal candidate will have a passion for coding and staying up-to-date on technology.

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
• Managing other leaders is a very different ball game, and not everyone enjoys it or thrives in it – the seniority of this role won’t let you explore that
• You don’t enjoy coding or don’t find time to stay up-to-date on technology
• We believe great leaders are folks who were great engineers themselves. That starts with loving the craft and never giving it up
• You went into management because it was the only growth path available
• We want folks who could have been Principal engineers (or were one!)
• 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

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

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• 10-year exercise window for stock options
• You shouldn’t feel pressure to purchase stock options if you leave Ashby —do it when you feel financially comfortable
• Unlimited PTO
• A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, covered by Ashby
• For folks outside the US, it may be longer to be in line with regional requirements
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget
• Get what you need to be happy and productive!
• $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