We don't have titles at Asana, but these are roughly the people we're looking for right now:
As knowledge workers, we and our loved ones spend most of our time living in programs (email, calendar, document editors, IDEs, etc.) that help us move and manage data. This is your opportunity to make that environment better, faster, and more humane.
We're working on hard engineering problems in everything from algorithms to programming languages, compilers, databases, web technologies, sync, human-computer interaction, scalability, and systems architecture. We've worked on challenging projects in the past, but this one has consistently pushed our intellectual capabilities to the limits. We think this makes it more fun to come to work in the morning, and makes a programmer feel more like a craftsman than a mechanic.
We're focused on disciplined application of best practices. We want a codebase and an engineering culture that are a joy to work in. Both founders are engineers, and Asana will remain a product/technology-focused company.
Requirements:
- Capable of "great feats of software"
- Deriving joy from abstracting and refactoring
- Eagerness to roll up your sleeves and tackle the elusive, dirty problems
- Sound judgment for balancing between idealism and pragmatism
Desirable:
- Deep knowledge of front-end Web technologies
- Passion for programming languages, compilers, databases
- Experience with functional or declarative programming languages
- Interest in both the nitty gritty and the big picture
- Interest in both coding and leadership
- Have built task managers before out of fun and/or frustration
A versatile leader who can oversee operations internally and represent
Asana at an executive level externally.
You will be the primary advisor
to the founders on strategy and point-person for execution, freeing
them to focus on product and technology.
You will be responsible for helping with
everything from high-level brand strategy to tweaking marketing copy,
from closing early deals to building the sales team, from recruiting
world-class talent to developing a culture in which they can thrive,
from galvanizing the press to inspiring passion in your teammates.
Requirements:
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- Significant experience in making companies successful
- Monomaniacal execution ability
- Contagious excitement
- Ability to translate broad vision into decisive action
- Capacity to understand others and make them feel understood
- Software engineering background
Desirable:
- Held senior positions in (enterprise) software companies
- Broad personal network of potential coworkers, customers, and partners
- Strong product intuition
Great technology, great design, and even great revenue are ultimately means toward an end: delivering a great product that delights our users and solves their information management problems. Asana is, and will remain, a product-driven company.
The product manager is the glue of the organization and the nexus of its communication.
As Asana's first PM, you will be responsible for maintaining the product roadmap and shepherding its execution, including:
- Working closely with customers to understand their desires, frustrations, and language intimately, and to serve as their representative in internal conversations.
- Working closely with the design team on everything from high-level workflows to keyboard shortcuts.
- Working closely with the engineering team, from leading sprint meetings to triaging bugs.
- Working closely with the founders to hone and articulate the product strategy.
- Caring about the little things
that turn a product people need into a product they love.
- Doing whatever it takes to make the Asana product useful, successful, and inspiring.
Requirements:
- Deep inuition and passion for product
- Ability to communicate and translate across diverse types of people
- Careful attention to detail
- Ability to translate broad vision into decisive action
- Enthusiasm for the art of project management
- Have pulled an all-nighter writing code
- Capacity to understand others and make them feel understood
Desirable:
- Significant experience in making product teams successful
- Contagious excitement
- Thoughtfulness on and experience with a variety of project management methodologies
Asana seeks to hire peers who are the absolute best at what they
do. We approach finding individual contributors with the thoroughness
typically reserved for executive hires.
As Asana's first in-house recruiter will be responsible for designing
and implementing creative strategies to find exceptionally talented
people (primarily engineers), and then get them excited to explore finding a home at Asana.
Because we're looking for a few rare people rather than processing a
large pipeline, this is more of a "headhunter" position than a
block-and-tackle recruiting coordinator role.
Requirements:
- Resourcefulness
- Persistence
- Contagious excitement
- Tact
- Experience sourcing candidates through a variety of channels
- Excellent interpersonal skills, grounded in sincerity rather than slickness
- Ability to understand people and what they value quickly and intuitively
- Ability to understand and explain new technologies and a nuanced product vision
Desirable:
- Broad personal network of potential hires
- Software engineering background
In addition to the above role-specific requirements, we have expectations
that apply to all of our team members.
General Requirements:
- Passion
- Earnestness
- Honesty
- Deep care about users and the user experience
- Fearlessness working outside your comfort zone
- Love of work as an end in itself, not just as a means toward an end
- Ability to admit when wrong
- Patience with others
- Impatience with technology
- Meta skills
Generally Desirable:
- Obsessed with systems for personal
(and
team) productivity
- Renaissance person who can wear many hats
- Intellectual breadth, beyond software
- Eloquence
- Entrepreneurial (we hope Asana will serve as a first-class entrepreneur apprenticeship program)
- Many people would describe you as the best coder/designer/businessperson they know
- Sense of humor
We are passionate about changing the world through great software, and
are looking for exceptional people to join us. We're taking an unusual
approach to building the company: assemble a relatively small, tightly
knit collective of extraordinarily talented peers, while pursuing
impact and revenue goals typically associated with large hierarchical
enterprises. By keeping the company small, communication overhead costs
are reduced, individual contributors can have greater ownership and input
into decisions than is possible in traditionally-structured corporations,
and life is generally more pleasant.
We aim (to paraphrase Masaru Ibuka) to "establish a place of work where creators can feel the joy of technological innovation, be aware of their mission to society, and work to their hearts' content." You should be ready to make Asana a primary focus of your life. We will be working together, eating together, and playing together, so you must be in or willing to relocate to the Bay Area. (We will help cover moving costs.)
Interested?
Email us at jobs@asana.com and tell us a little about yourself.
Know someone else who'd be a great fit? If your referral is hired, we offer unusually large rewards.
Perks
- Small company with respectful, rational, chill peers. We are as dedicated to building a great culture as we are to building a great product.
- Medical, dental, vision and life insurance coverage.
- In-house yoga. Every week we do yoga as a group, including +1s, with a private instructor. (Optional, but pretty awesome.)
- Organic homecooked meals twice a day.
- Three 30" monitors. Actually, we let you spend up to $10K on your setup, however you think best.