Engineering Manager
Hi from Pumpkin!
Pumpkin is a pet care company on a mission to keep pets healthy. We want to revolutionize pet healthcare by making it easier for families to provide their pets with the preventatives and insurance they need to live healthy today and fur-ever. Launched by Zoetis (ZTS), a Fortune 500 company that’s the world’s largest animal health company, Pumpkin is an early-stage startup with big dreams! As a pack, we share agility, guts, collaboration, and a relentless pursuit in creating a happier world for pets and their people.
Pumpkin is looking for an Engineering Manager to oversee and optimize the engineering of our Growth and DTC efforts. Through a partnership with product, technical leadership and line management of a pack of frontend and backend software engineers, you’ll facilitate and make key decisions on how Pumpkin serves Pet Parents and their needs. This role will balance the delivery of a complex, challenging, and high-visibility product roadmap with short term technical and business needs.
What You'll Do:
- Work closely with product and other stakeholders to make sure technical needs are planned for
- Provide process and architectural guidance for engineers to work within
- Break down work for engineers and make sure that engineers time is being utilized efficiently
- Manage performance of engineers on the team
- Be the reasonable voice between PMs and line level engineers, brokering right-sized solutions to problems rather than big builds and bandaids
What We're Looking For:
- Comfortable with shifting priorities of a startup and being able to start work with some ambiguity
- 3+ Years of Experience of Technical Management
- Experience in a DTC startup environment
- Built and delivered products that require research, iteration, and discovery
- Familiarity with A/B testing and web analytics
Bonus Points:
- Experience with distributed or remote teams
- Analytical and data exploration skills
- Experience with Personalization
What We're Offering:
- Be a part of our mission to create a happier, healthier world for pets & their people
- The opportunity to join a team where every team member has the autonomy and support they need to boss their role and make empowered decisions
- Comprehensive health, vision, and dental insurance for you and your dependents
- 401k + company match
- Pumpkin Insurance and preventative care for every pet in your family
- Flexible PTO
Newly hired staff must be fully vaccinated by their start date. Applicants unable to comply with this policy due to an underlying medical condition or sincerely held religious belief may be eligible for an accommodation, unless such an accommodation would be unduly burdensome or present a direct threat to the applicant, our employees, or the members of our greater community.
About Pumpkin:
We are on a mission to ‘Make the best pet care possible fur all’. Pumpkin is a rapidly growing pet care startup disrupting the $1.7B US pet insurance industry. Pet insurance is growing 17% YOY, yet only 2% of dogs and cats in the US are currently insured. We’re looking to change that so that every dog and cat can live the best life pawsible.
Our Culture & Values
Launched by Zoetis (ZTS), a Fortune 500 company that’s the world’s largest animal health company, Pumpkin is led by a team of engineers, product managers, marketers, data experts, designers, and customer care specialists who love and live for our pets – and for yours.
Pets Come First: Put what's best for pets at the center of everything you do
Trust the Pack: Help families make empowered pet care decisions
Jump Fences: If there’s a will, there’s always a way over them
Share Toys: Be generous with your gifts and amazing things will happen
Dig New Holes: Challenge conventions to create the future of pet health care