# Inside Asana | Role Spotlights

> Learn more about the teams and the people dedicated to helping the world's teams work together effortlessly.

Source: https://asana.com/inside-asana/role-spotlights

### Role Spotlights

Learn more about the teams and the people dedicated to helping the world's teams work together effortlessly.

- [Why Asana is switching to TypeScript](/inside-asana/asana-switching-typescript)

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#### Tech Lead

Single-Page Applications are a powerful way to build rich applications in the browser but as the application grows, so does the code complexity. Asana has a code base with hundre ...

- [What is an Area Tech Lead at Asana?](/inside-asana/what-is-an-area-tech-lead-at-asana)

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Since joining #teamasana 4 months ago, it’s become clear to me that successful areas (groups of engineering teams with a shared goal) tended to have many things in common, includi ...

- [Security and Compliance: Better Together](/inside-asana/security-and-compliance-better-together)

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#### Head of Security

Many security practitioners have been frustrated by bad compliance audits, where an auditor wants something that is impossible, or nonsensical, or simply not worth implementing. O ...

- [What our interns built this summer: Meet our 2021 intern class](/inside-asana/what-our-interns-built-this-summer-meet-our-2021-intern-class)

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Every summer, we host a group of interns on our Design, Data, and Engineering teams, who work alongside full-time Asanas to do everything from contributing to highly visible featu ...

- [Asana Voices: Felix Steinke, Corporate Sales Team](/inside-asana/felix-steinke-sales-job-asana)

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Felix Steinke grew up in the cradle of the automobile: Stuttgart, Germany. The city is home to Mercedes-Benz and Porsche and is where Bosch and Mahle auto parts are produced. Most ...

- [Asana Voices: Meet Yasmin Kothari, Product Team](/inside-asana/asana-voices-yasmin-kothari-product)

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Meet Yasmin Kothari, a thoughtful leader on Asana’s Product team. Yasmin joined Asana in April 2020, just one month after the company transitioned to remote work. Now, she’s looki ...

- [Asana Voices: Meet AJ Kamara, Commercial Sales Team](/inside-asana/asana-voices-aj-kamara-commercial-sales)

Role spotlights

Welcome to our blog series, Asana Voices! With each post, we’ll feature one-on-one interviews with the talented individuals on our global team. You’ll get to know the people insid ...

- [Asana’s Tech Stack: How we build a collaborative app for teams of all sizes](/inside-asana/asana-tech-stack)

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I talk to a fair number of software engineers about working at Asana. They’ve usually heard a lot about how it’s a great place to work, and they want to know more about the tech s ...

- [Data retention and cleanup in Asana’s Data Lake](/inside-asana/data-lake)

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Having configurable data retention is an important aspect of any data storage system, but there are a number of factors to consider in order to make it happen. Data retention is i ...

- [How we built Asana’s Marketing Measurement Capabilities to power global customer growth](/inside-asana/marketing-measurement-capabilities)

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Growing a customer base at scale effectively and efficiently through paid advertising is challenging in the modern digital world. It requires robust and holistic marketing measure ...

- [Asana Voices: Meet Sebastian Gibson, Customer Success Team](/inside-asana/asana-voices-sebastian-gibson-customer-success)

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Welcome to our blog series, Asana Voices! With each post, we’ll feature one-on-one interviews with the talented individuals on our global team. You’ll get to know the people insid ...

- [Team Spotlight: How Asana’s Growth & Impact team shapes company culture globally](/inside-asana/team-spotlight-growth-impact-team)

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Welcome to our Team Spotlight series, where we take a look inside how teams at Asana work together, grow in their careers, and make an impact.At Asana, we build work management so ...

- [Asana Voices: Meet Aoife Minihan, People Partner Team](/inside-asana/asana-voices-aoife-minihan-people-team)

Role spotlights

Welcome to our blog series, Asana Voices! With each post, we’ll feature one-on-one interviews with the talented individuals on our global team. You’ll get to know the people insid ...

- [Team Spotlight: How Asana’s Product Management team is solving hard problems with the best critical thinkers](/inside-asana/team-spotlight-product-management)

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Welcome to our new Team Spotlight blog series, where we take a look inside how teams at Asana work together, grow in their careers, and make an impact.Not many teams can say they ...

- [Validate your iOS and Android translations with Locheck](/inside-asana/locheck-open-source)

Role spotlights

When mobile apps need to ship in multiple languages, the developer often hires a contractor or external service to translate all the strings. The people doing these translations a ...

- [Asana Voices: Meet David Jackson, Enterprise Sales team](/inside-asana/asana-voices-david-jackson-enterprise-sales)

Role spotlights

Welcome to our new blog series, Asana Voices! With each post, we’ll feature one-on-one interviews with the talented individuals on our global team. You’ll get to know the people i ...

- [Using Envoy to route internal requests](/inside-asana/route-internal-requests-services-envoy)

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When Asana users interact with the web app, their browser makes requests to Asana’s backend servers to get the data the user needs. But plenty of data needs to be moved between ba ...

- [Asana Voices: Meet Jocey Karlan, Product Management team](/inside-asana/asana-voices-meet-jocey-product-manager)

Role spotlights

Welcome to our blog series, Asana Voices! With each post, we’ll feature one-on-one interviews with the talented individuals on our global team. You’ll get to know the people insid ...

- [Asana Voices: Meet Monique Sudirgo, Talent Acquisition team](/inside-asana/asana-voices-monique-sudirgo-talent-acquisition-team)

Role spotlights

Welcome to our new blog series, Asana Voices! With each post, we’ll feature one-on-one interviews with the talented individuals on our global team. You’ll get to know the people i ...

- [Q&A with Asana’s Head of Product: How Asana is building a navigation system for the future workplace](/inside-asana/qa-with-asanas-head-of-product)

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The past year has seen flexibility and adaptation in the face of large-scale changes—with companies investing in tools like chat, content, scheduling, and more to collaborate. Tha ...

- [Scaling Scala: How we chose our backend language and tooling](/inside-asana/scaling-scala)

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We’ve been using Scala at Asana since 2013. Since we started using Scala, the number of engineers writing it has increased from a single team to almost every engineer at Asana (an ...

- [Why I joined Asana: Kalina Bryant, Head of Customer Advocacy](/inside-asana/why-i-joined-asana-kalina-bryant-head-of-customer-advocacy)

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Kalina Bryant is the Head of Customer Advocacy, based out of our San Francisco office. The most valuable part of her job is bringing customers together, understanding their needs, ...

- [Celebrating 2,000 members and counting: Looking forward to 2021 with Asana Together](/inside-asana/2000-asana-together-members)

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Last January, the Asana Together community celebrated 1,000 members. Less than a year later, the community has doubled in size and continues to grow around the globe. If you’re no ...

- [Three tips to effectively use the Asana API](/inside-asana/klientboost-api)

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Editor’s Note: This post is written by Richard Uruchurtu, Vice President of Operations at KlientBoost.KlientBoost is a digital marketing agency that primarily focuses on direct re ...

- [Why I joined Asana: Anna Vossschulte, Enterprise Account Executive](/inside-asana/why-i-joined-asana-anna-vossschulte-enterprise-account-executive)

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Anna Vossschulte is an Enterprise Account Executive, based out of our Munich office. She loves working closely with customers to help them work together more efficiently. The mome ...

- [Meet our 2020 summer intern class](/inside-asana/2020-summer-interns-engineering)

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Every summer, we have a class of interns join our Design and Engineering teams. They work on important and impactful projects, contribute to feature launches, site stability and m ...

- [Why I joined Asana: Patricia Sugi, Nonprofits Operations Specialist](/inside-asana/why-i-joined-asana-patricia-sugi-nonprofits-operations-specialist)

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Patricia Sugi has always been passionate about giving back to others. Now she’s thriving on the Asana for Nonprofits team as an Operations Specialist in San Francisco. Get to know ...

- [Seven insights for building hypergrowth products from Asana’s Head of Product, Alex Hood](/inside-asana/alex-hood-product-tips)

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Every product leader’s dream is to build a hypergrowth product. But how do you get from a great idea to something your customers can’t get enough of? Recently, Asana Head of Produ ...

- [Why I joined Asana: Juan Ballinas Rangel, Sales Renewals Executive](/inside-asana/why-i-joined-asana-juan-ballinas-rangel-sales-renewals-executive)

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Juan Ballinas Rangel is a Renewals Executive based out of San Francisco. The opportunity to learn and grow immensely in his career, while working with coworkers who have become fr ...

- [Part 1 – WorldStore: Distributed caching with Reactivity](/inside-asana/worldstore-distributed-caching-reactivity-part-1)

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#### Platform Engineer

This post is the first in a two-part series on how we implemented distributed caching in a fully reactive framework.As part of our application framework overhaul [1] a few years a ...

- [Why I joined Asana: Cristina Gavin, Employee Onboarding Lead](/inside-asana/why-i-joined-asana-cristina-gavin-employee-onboarding)

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Cristina Gavin is our Employee Onboarding Lead, based out of San Francisco. The Onboarding team is responsible for setting the stage for every new Asana’s journey, inspiring and e ...

- [Why I joined Asana: Marie Tomasi, Community Program Manager](/inside-asana/why-i-joined-asana-marie-tomasi)

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Meet Marie, a Community Program Manager originally from France and based in Dublin. Marie initially moved to Ireland to get out of her comfort zone and become a teacher. It was me ...

- [The faces behind the Asana interview](/inside-asana/asana-interviews)

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As a growing company, we share a lot about the fact that we’re hiring. Almost every team and every region of Asana is looking for enthusiastic collaborators to join us and help im ...

- [Why I joined Asana: Kshitij Grover, Software Engineer](/inside-asana/why-i-joined-asana-kshitij-grover)

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Welcome to our monthly “Why I joined Asana” series! Every month, we talk with Asanas across teams and offices to learn who they are and why they chose to pursue careers at Asana.K ...

- [Why I joined Asana: Maria Wu Kiskis, Head of Business and Corporate Development](/inside-asana/why-i-joined-asana-maria-wu-kiskis)

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Welcome to our monthly “Why I joined Asana” series! Every month, we talk with Asanas across teams and offices to learn who they are and why they chose to pursue careers at Asana.M ...

- [Why I joined Asana: Catt Small, Product Designer](/inside-asana/why-i-joined-asana-catt-small-product-design)

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Welcome to our monthly “Why I joined Asana” series! Every month, we talk with Asanas across teams and offices, to learn who they are and why they chose to pursue careers at Asana. ...

- [Why I joined Asana: Lily Guy, Customer Success Manager](/inside-asana/why-i-joined-asana-lily-guy-customer-success)

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Welcome to our monthly “Why I joined Asana” series! Every month, we talk with Asanas across our teams and offices—from Dublin to Sydney—to get to know the people inside the compan ...

- [Why I joined Asana: Thi Dang, Product Manager](/inside-asana/why-i-joined-asana-thi-dang-product)

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Welcome to our monthly “Why I joined Asana” series! Every month, we talk with Asanas across our teams and offices—from Dublin to Sydney—to get to know the people inside the compan ...

- [How I advanced my career through AsanaUP](/inside-asana/how-i-advanced-my-career-through-asanaup)

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Achieving our mission to help humanity thrive by enabling the world’s teams to work together effortlessly requires building an inclusive product. To do this, we need to have a div ...

- [TypeScript’s quirks: How inconsistencies make the language more complex](/inside-asana/typescript-quirks)

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The engineers at Asana have been TypeScript fans from very early on. We started using TypeScript version 0.9.1 in 2013, blogged about it in 2014, wrote the first TypeScript bindin ...

- [To 1,000 Asana Together community members and beyond](/inside-asana/1000-asana-community-members)

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Last year on Valentine’s Day, we launched our community program, Asana Together. Love was truly in the air as early members shared the program with their local communities around ...

- [Why I joined Asana: McKenna Farrar, Enterprise Account Executive, Asia-Pacific](/inside-asana/mckenna-farrar)

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Welcome to our monthly “Why I joined Asana” series! Every month, we talk with Asanas across our teams and offices—from Dublin to Sydney—to get to know the people inside the compan ...

- [Welcome to Asana Engineering](/inside-asana/eng-hello-world)

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We’re so glad you’re here! At Asana Engineering, we aim to build, operate, and scale the most useful software for the world’s teams. We’re fascinated by productivity and thrive on ...

- [What our interns built this summer: Meet our 2019 intern class](/inside-asana/meet-our-2019-interns)

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Every summer, we have a class of interns join our engineering team. They work on important and impactful projects, contribute to feature launches, site stability and making the co ...

- [Analysis of recent downtime & what we’re doing to prevent future incidents](/inside-asana/downtime-what-were-doing-to-prevent-future-downtime)

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Asana recently had downtime due to a single shared database, lasting at least 92 minutes on July 29, 51 minutes on August 1, and 34 minutes on August 13. While we’ve significantly ...

- [Why I joined Asana: Trish Tormey, Product Marketing Manager](/inside-asana/why-i-joined-asana-trish-tormey-marketing)

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Welcome to our monthly “Why I joined Asana” series! Every month, we talk with Asanas across our teams and offices—from Dublin to Sydney—to get to know the people inside the compan ...

- [One second a day: My first 30 days at Asana](/inside-asana/onboarding-my-first-30-days-at-asana)

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When I started my role as an Engineering Manager at Asana just a few months ago, it was clear to me that Asana creates a truly memorable onboarding experience.In their book, Momen ...

- [Why I joined Asana: Rishika Dhody, Data Scientist](/inside-asana/rishika-dhody)

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Welcome to our monthly series, “Why I joined Asana”! Every month, we talk to Asanas across our teams and offices—from Dublin to Sydney—to get to know the people inside the company ...

- [Asana Together in London: The 3 biggest challenges facing modern marketing teams](/inside-asana/asana-together-world-tour-london)

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Last week, the Asana team arrived in London as part of the Asana Together World Tour to speak with customers about managing modern marketing teams. As always, the crowd was buzzin ...

- [Asana Together in Berlin](/inside-asana/asana-together-world-tour-berlin)

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This week the Asana Together World Tour landed in Berlin where we hosted nearly one hundred customers for a night of learning and storytelling around managing modern marketing tea ...

- [Why I joined Asana: Mark Arnoldy, Head of Customer Success](/inside-asana/why-i-joined-asana-mark-arnoldy-customer-success)

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Welcome to our monthly series, “Why I joined Asana”! Every month, we talk with Asanas across our teams and offices—from Dublin to Sydney—to get to know the people inside the compa ...

- [Why I joined Asana: Krista Plano, Experience Researcher](/inside-asana/krista-plano)

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Welcome to our monthly series, “Why I joined Asana”! Every month, we talk with Asanas across our teams and offices—from Dublin to Sydney—to get to know the people inside the compa ...

- [Why I joined Asana: Terri Burden, Customer Success Manager](/inside-asana/terri-burden)

Role spotlights

Welcome to our monthly series, “Why I joined Asana”! Every month, we’ll be talking with Asanas across our teams and offices—from Dublin to Sydney—to get to know the people inside ...

- [Why I joined Asana: Kate Reading, Engineering Manager](/inside-asana/kate-reading)

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Welcome to “Why I joined Asana”: a monthly series where we talk with Asanas across all our teams and offices—from Dublin to Sydney—to get to know the people inside the company and ...

- [Why I joined Asana: Sara Kremer, Product Design Manager](/inside-asana/sara-kremer)

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Welcome to our new series, “Why I joined Asana”! Every month, we’ll be talking with Asanas across all our teams and offices—from Dublin to Sydney—to get to know the people inside ...

- [Asana Together in New York: 4 Tips for achieving your goals as a team](/inside-asana/asana-together-new-york-4-tips-achieving-goals-team)

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For the past few weeks, the Asana Together World Tour has been making its way around the world, from New York to São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro to Berlin. At each stop, we’ve had th ...

- [Leading cross-team changes](/inside-asana/leading-cross-team-eng-changes)

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There comes a time in every software company’s life where you need to make a large change to your application. This can mean introducing internationalization, improving performanc ...

- [The Asana Engineering team: Meet Justin Churchill](/inside-asana/meet-team-justin-churchill)

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From individual contributors to managers and program leads, every engineer at Asana is encouraged to pursue a path to success that leads them to be most successful in their role. ...

- [How product managers and engineers at Asana develop great relationships](/inside-asana/product-managers-engineers-develop-great-relationship)

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A healthy relationship between Product Management and Engineering is critical to building successful products. It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to wo ...

- [Sales at Asana: More than just hitting monthly targets](/inside-asana/oliver-jay-interview-working-asana-sales-team)

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When we first launched Asana in 2011, the product was free for all teams and we had zero salespeople. It wasn’t until a year later in 2012 that we launched a paid version of the p ...

- [What Product Managers do at Asana: An intern’s perspective](/inside-asana/what-product-managers-do-at-asana-an-interns-perspective)

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Each year, we welcome a couple product management interns to join our team. They, like our engineering and business interns, take on core work and spend their summer contributing ...

- [Treating performance as a product: The technical story of Asana’s arduous rewrite](/inside-asana/performance-asana-app-rewrite)

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The origins of LunaAsana product visionWhen developing the initial Asana application, cofounders Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein imagined a web app that was as easy to use ...

- [Summer recap: Asana’s first business intern class](/inside-asana/asana-internships-business-team)

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Every year, we bring on a class of summer interns to roam our San Francisco office and provide fresh perspectives, extra energy, and excuses to organize quirky off-sites (trampoli ...

- [Developer environment: Achieving reliability by making it fast to reset](/inside-asana/developer-environment-making-it-reliable-by-making-it-fast-to-reset)

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We all know that engineers are most productive when they can fully customize their developer environment, but all too often, customization means multiplying the number of ways thi ...

- [Asana server deployment: A pragmatic approach to maintaining our legacy deployment system](/inside-asana/asana-server-deployment-pragmatic-approach-maintaining-legacy-deployment-system)

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When we—the Stability team—talk about our jobs, we spend a lot of time discussing “setting things on fire.” Our job is to keep Asana up no matter what, planning for possibilities ...

- [Bridging art and business: Meet the Comms Design team at Asana](/inside-asana/asana-designer-fund-bridge-program-summer-2017)

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Behind every illustration, photo, webpage, illustration, and video that Asana puts into the world is a team of talented designers, illustrators, and animators.That team is the Asa ...

- [Getting to zero: how Asana Culinary minimizes food waste](/inside-asana/asana-culinary-team-reduce-food-waste)

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At Asana, our mission is to help teams be more effective at achieving their goals. But our work doesn’t stop with our product. We constantly strive to make our own teams more effi ...

- [Designing Asana: A day in the life of a product designer](/inside-asana/what-product-designer-do-asana)

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Meet Adam, Greg, Paul, and Ryo:The Product Design team at Asana works cross-functionally with engineers, researchers, customer operations, and many other teams to bring our produc ...

- [Asana Culinary: meet the team that feeds productivity](/inside-asana/asana-culinary-team-productivity)

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Ask an Asana employee what their favorite time of day is, and you’ll probably hear “breakfast, lunch, and dinner.” After all, meals are an opportunity to step away from work and s ...

- [Why I decided to continue my career at Asana](/inside-asana/continue-engineering-career-asana)

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Two years ago I was looking for a new opportunity, so I began my most recent job search by exploring a number of companies across a range of sizes and types. To help this process, ...

- [Helping customers’ success, through data: Rebuilding Asana’s Account Health Score](/inside-asana/data-science-account-health-score)

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Three years ago, Asana created a critical metric that changed the way our Customer Success (CS) team did its work. The Account Health Score (AHS) is that metric, and it does exact ...

- [Putting the “fun” back in funnel: the Asana Marketing team](/inside-asana/putting-the-fun-in-funnel-asana-marketing)

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This week, we’re digging into how marketing teams use Asana, and we thought it could be interesting to talk to Asana’s own Marketing team. They’re the folks who write this blog, r ...

- [The people behind Asana’s efficient sales model](/inside-asana/asana-sales-model)

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Fly-fishing versus flywheelFrom design to engineering to recruiting, we’re known as a company that approaches things as mindfully as possible. Our sales team is no exception: walk ...

- [Asana’s summer internship program: from our 2015 intern class](/inside-asana/asanas-summer-internship-program-from-our-2015-intern-class)

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For the past three months, there’s been a bit of extra buzz around the office–lots of energy, fun outings, and great ideas aplenty. With that buzz, we’ve also checked off some hug ...

- [Meet the parents of Asana](/inside-asana/meet-the-parents-of-asana)

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Just a few of Asana’s parents. From left to right: Prashant, our Engineering Lead, Amanda, our Head of Product Design, Andy, our Talent Lead, and Devon, our Product Marketing Mana ...

- [Building Asana’s team one relationship at a time: Farbod Forouzin](/inside-asana/building-asanas-team-one-relationship-at-a-time-farbod-forouzin)

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Over the last few months, we’ve shared how Asanas spend their days, what drives them, and how they’re shaping our company, product, and the future of work. Today we’re handing the ...

- [Breaking the sales mold at Asana: Frank Mayfield](/inside-asana/sales-frank-mayfield)

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We recently shared a peek inside the day-to-day life of Yev, a member of our Customer Success team. Today we’d like you to introduce you to Frank Mayfield, a member of the Asana S ...

- [Meet Yev: helping customers succeed with Asana](/inside-asana/meet-yev-helping-customers-succeed-with-asana)

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We hear from a lot of users and candidates that they want to know more about the day-to-day lives of Asanas: what a typical workday looks like, what drives us…what we eat for lunc ...

- [Why designing for enterprise vs. consumer products isn’t as different as you think](/inside-asana/designing-enterprise-vs-consumer-products-isnt-different-think)

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In a recent article titled The Distinction Between Designing for Enterprise vs Consumer Customers, graphic designer and author John Maeda explains why designing for enterprise is ...

- [How to build stable, accessible data infrastructure at a startup](/inside-asana/stable-accessible-data-infrastructure-startup)

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Data is a core part of building Asana, and every team relies on it in their own way. Our growth team relies on event data to analyze experiments (A/B tests). We build many quick e ...

- [Developing our design principles](/inside-asana/design-principles)

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A few years ago, we began creating Asana with the goal of improving the way teams work together, but exactly how this would manifest in the product design was unclear. This is how ...

- [Marketing with Asana: The Tools We Use](/inside-asana/marketing-with-asana)

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Startup marketing is all about leverage – finding ways to reach new audiences and spread your company’s message, with limited resources in a world full of noise.Marketing teams, e ...

- [Release the Kraken! An open-source pub/sub server for the real-time web](/inside-asana/release-the-kraken)

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🐙Today, we are releasing Kraken, the distributed pub/sub server we wrote to handle the performance and scalability demands of real-time web apps like Asana.What problem does Krak ...

- [DesignerFund Bridge: Be a Designer-in-Residence at Asana](/inside-asana/designerfund-bridge-apply)

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We’re thrilled to announce that we’re participating in DesignerFund Bridge, a program that offers a three-month design residency to people outside the startup world. We’re joining ...

- [A product manager’s perspective on product polish](/inside-asana/polish-week-a-product-managers-perspective)

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Last week, we wrote about Polish Week at Asana from the perspective of the changes we made to the product: the new features we launched and the bugs we squashed in one intense wee ...

- [Design Town Hall: Skeuomorphism vs. Simplicity](/inside-asana/design-town-hall)

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Designers are a fun bunch: we’re people-people at heart (our job is to understand exactly how you guys are feeling every moment you’re using our product and how to communicate wit ...

- [A Day at Asana](/inside-asana/a-day-at-asana)

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Welcome to Asana.We’re excited your first day has finally arrived! Here’s your desk – it’s the sit-stand kind. Right now we put you next to your onboarding buddy, but in a couple ...

- [Introducing Kenny Van Zant](/inside-asana/introducing-kenny-van-zant)

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Justin and I are excited to welcome Kenny Van Zant as the newest member of the Asana team. Kenny will be leading functions outside of product and engineering, and serve as a key d ...

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### Why I joined Asana: Patricia Sugi, Nonprofits Operations Specialist

### Seven insights for building hypergrowth products from Asana’s Head of Product, Alex Hood

### Why I joined Asana: Juan Ballinas Rangel, Sales Renewals Executive

### Part 1 – WorldStore: Distributed caching with Reactivity

### Why I joined Asana: Cristina Gavin, Employee Onboarding Lead

### Why I joined Asana: Marie Tomasi, Community Program Manager

### The faces behind the Asana interview

### Why I joined Asana: Kshitij Grover, Software Engineer

### Why I joined Asana: Maria Wu Kiskis, Head of Business and Corporate Development

### Why I joined Asana: Catt Small, Product Designer

### Why I joined Asana: Lily Guy, Customer Success Manager

### Why I joined Asana: Thi Dang, Product Manager

### How I advanced my career through AsanaUP

### TypeScript’s quirks: How inconsistencies make the language more complex

### To 1,000 Asana Together community members and beyond

### Why I joined Asana: McKenna Farrar, Enterprise Account Executive, Asia-Pacific

### Welcome to Asana Engineering

### What our interns built this summer: Meet our 2019 intern class

### Analysis of recent downtime &amp; what we’re doing to prevent future incidents

### Why I joined Asana: Trish Tormey, Product Marketing Manager

### One second a day: My first 30 days at Asana

### Why I joined Asana: Rishika Dhody, Data Scientist

### Asana Together in London: The 3 biggest challenges facing modern marketing teams

### Asana Together in Berlin

### Why I joined Asana: Mark Arnoldy, Head of Customer Success

### Why I joined Asana: Krista Plano, Experience Researcher

### Why I joined Asana: Terri Burden, Customer Success Manager

### Why I joined Asana: Kate Reading, Engineering Manager

### Why I joined Asana: Sara Kremer, Product Design Manager

### Asana Together in New York: 4 Tips for achieving your goals as a team

### Leading cross-team changes

### The Asana Engineering team: Meet Justin Churchill

### How product managers and engineers at Asana develop great relationships

### Sales at Asana: More than just hitting monthly targets

### What Product Managers do at Asana: An intern’s perspective

### Treating performance as a product: The technical story of Asana’s arduous rewrite

### Summer recap: Asana’s first business intern class

### Developer environment: Achieving reliability by making it fast to reset

### Asana server deployment: A pragmatic approach to maintaining our legacy deployment system

### Bridging art and business: Meet the Comms Design team at Asana

### Getting to zero: how Asana Culinary minimizes food waste

### Designing Asana: A day in the life of a product designer

### Asana Culinary: meet the team that feeds productivity

### Why I decided to continue my career at Asana

### Helping customers’ success, through data: Rebuilding Asana’s Account Health Score

### Putting the “fun” back in funnel: the Asana Marketing team

### The people behind Asana’s efficient sales model

### Asana’s summer internship program: from our 2015 intern class

### Meet the parents of Asana

### Building Asana’s team one relationship at a time: Farbod Forouzin

### Breaking the sales mold at Asana: Frank Mayfield

### Meet Yev: helping customers succeed with Asana

### Why designing for enterprise vs. consumer products isn’t as different as you think

### How to build stable, accessible data infrastructure at a startup

### Developing our design principles

### Marketing with Asana: The Tools We Use

### Release the Kraken! An open-source pub/sub server for the real-time web

### DesignerFund Bridge: Be a Designer-in-Residence at Asana

### A product manager’s perspective on product polish

### Design Town Hall: Skeuomorphism vs. Simplicity

### A Day at Asana

### Introducing Kenny Van Zant
