Engineering Manager

The role

This role manages the Authorization team, which builds customer-facing data control features and internal platform capabilities used by other Asana product areas. The team covers the full development lifecycle, from data model design through fine-grained interaction details, and ships both large features and frequent small enhancements via continuous deployment. The manager works with design, product, and infrastructure partners across the product process.

What you would do

• Coach and grow engineers on the team's technical and professional paths
• Recruit and onboard engineers so the team can scale in an orderly way
• Shape the team's forward roadmap and link its work to top-level company objectives
• Set the team up to deliver several technically demanding, high-stakes projects
• Drive adoption of shared foundations by working closely with owners of adjacent product areas
• Balance dependable global performance against a fast cadence of change
• Advocate for maintainable, performant code and sound engineering practices
• Balance delivery speed against business commitments

What they asked for

• 4+ years of experience managing a technical team
• Able to go deep on technical problems and system designs
• Works well with design and product on large features and small iterative improvements
• Track record of delivering high-leverage platform work that benefits other teams
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and driving work to completion
• Curious about AI tooling and willing to adopt it to improve productivity and decisions
• Strong judgment, empathy, and integrity sufficient to earn trust from a technical group