Engineering Manager, Developer Efficiency

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We are looking for someone who is passionate about helping others contribute more and develop not just as engineers, but also as human beings. As an engineering manager, you will focus on developing the team around you. You are as enthusiastic about recruiting and building a team as you are about challenging technical problems that your team will solve.

The Developer Efficiency team is focused on putting the flow into workflow for Asana product engineers, and ensuring that we have fast, useful, and reliable tools for all parts of our edit-compile-test cycle. We architect solutions involving a set of complex and interrelated systems: builds and bundling, compilation speed, testing and debugging, continuous integration, git workflow, environment setup, and more. And the team needs a dedicated manager in order to grow!

What you'll achieve

  • Manage and enable the growth of the talented engineers on the developer efficiency team
  • Partner with the team to set a roadmap and vision for the ideal developer environment and workflow for Asana engineers
  • Solve upcoming scalability problems related to our developer environment, build system, and continuous integration system
  • Modernize our testing tooling, tighten iteration loops, and polish frequent cycles in the developer experience 
  • Recruit for and grow the Developer Efficiency team
  • Define how the team evolves and interacts with the rest of Asana
  • Work with other Asana NYC engineering leaders to guide and shape the culture and growth of the NYC office

About you

  • You are deeply passionate about the developer experience and excited by the impact your work has on every product engineer.
  • 1+ year of engineering management experience
  • Can rapidly earn the trust of a technically astute team through your rare mix of intelligence, charisma, integrity, and technical skills
  • Focus on maximizing impact, for yourself and your team
  • Ability to provide valuable input to any technical or product discussion such as design documentation and white-boarding sessions
  • Kind and intellectually mature

About us

At Asana, we're building a better way to work, fueled by transparency, inclusion, and technology that is a force for positive change. Asana is a work management platform that helps teams orchestrate their work, from daily tasks to strategic initiatives, so they can move faster and accomplish more with less. For the past 5 years, we've been named a top workplace, including top 10 Great Place to Work Best Small & Medium Workplaces, #1 Fortune Best Workplaces in the Bay Area, #8 Fortune Best Workplaces for Women, and one of Ireland's Best Workplaces. With offices all over the world, we are always looking for curious, collaborative, and mission-driven people to help us enable the world’s teams to work together effortlessly.

We believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive, and building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company is core to our mission. Our goal is to ensure that Asana upholds an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We welcome applicants of any educational background, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, citizenship, socioeconomic status, disability, and veteran status.


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Technology we use

  • Engineering
  • Product
  • Sales & Marketing
  • People Operations
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Location

Asana's New York City office is located at 3 World Trade Center in Manhattan's Financial District and includes a seasonal outdoor space. The office is easy to access as it's right by major access hubs.

An Insider's view of Asana

David is a Software Engineer at Asana

What’s the vibe like in the office?

Asana allows me to do my best work by creating a positive, inspiring environment for all employees. Our leadership team cares about mental health and creates a safe space to talk and bring up ideas. This has put me in a good headspace and allowed me to consistently put my best foot forward at work.”
David is a Software Engineer at Asana

David

Software Engineer
Eileen is a Product Marketing Manager at Asana

How do you collaborate with other teams in the company?

Our Areas of Responsibility system distributes ownership across the company & empowers everyone to completely own their areas of work. I have AoRs that apply to my core job responsibilities, but some that go beyond that as well. It’s a great way to collaborate with teams I wouldn’t otherwise work with, and continue to gain new skills and knowledge!
Eileen is a Product Marketing Manager at Asana

Eileen

Product Marketing Manager
Kenan is an Engineering Manager at Asana

How does the company support your career growth?

Building our software gives me a feeling of joy and accomplishment in putting all the pieces together and seeing the seamless final creation. I love that feeling of seeing things come together, but recently I’ve been more and more invested in the process. the opportunity to build that is what lead me to be a product engineer at Asana.
Kenan is an Engineering Manager at Asana

Kenan

Engineering Manager

How do you empower your team to be more creative?

We believe that creativity is borne of autonomy and clear responsibility. We have a company commitment to taking and giving full responsibility. This means we like to be explicit about who owns what and what that entails. This empowers team members to be creative with their solutions because they own the outcomes.

Scott

Site Lead

What’s the vibe like in the office?

The ongoing support from my team and manager has been essential for me working remote and onboarding virtually these past few months. We are constantly checking in on each other, and creating an open environment where we can share ideas and have transparent conversation together.

Greg

Diversity Talent Sourcer

What are Asana Perks + Benefits

Asana Benefits Overview

The work you do at Asana will be challenging, and the pace will be fast. Our benefits programs are designed to ensure that you are energized, focused, and thriving. At Asana, we provide you with comprehensive health benefits, flexible time off, mental health resources, free executive and life coaching and our in-house culinary program, where you can fuel up on healthy, organic snacks and three meals a day, made by our Culinary team.

Culture
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Employee-led culture committees
Hybrid work model
In-person all-hands meetings
In-person revenue kickoff
President's club
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity employee resource groups
We have 5 thriving communities that foster trusted, safe spaces for underrepresented groups and allies: AsanaWomen, Team Rainbow, Blacsana, AsanaPac, and Gradient for Asanas of color.
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Dental insurance
We pay 100% of dental benefits premium and 60% for eligible dependents.
Vision insurance
We pay 100% of vision benefits premium and 60% for eligible dependents.
Health insurance
We pay 100% of health benefits premium and 60% for eligible dependents.
Life insurance
We offer basic life and AD&D insurance for beneficiaries at 1x an employee's annual salary, up to $170,000.
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Employee stock purchase plan
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
We provide 16 weeks paid parental leave for parents and caregivers, and global employees on all paths to parenthood have free access to Cleo to support their journey.
Adoption Assistance
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Fertility benefits
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Generous PTO
Sabbatical
Paid holidays
We offer 10 paid days to observe major holidays throughout the calendar year.
Paid sick days
Flexible time off
Bereavement leave benefits
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free daily meals
Free snacks and drinks
Company-sponsored happy hours
Pet friendly
Fitness stipend
Asana covers up to $100 per month for health and fitness memberships and classes.
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Meditation space
Mother's room
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Virtual coaching services
Apprenticeship programs

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