Engineering Manager, Product

At Asana, we’re building collaboration and communication software to help every team in the world work together effortlessly and do great things together. Our product engineering team works closely with designers and PMs to continuously improve the Asana experience for all our customers. We’re involved in the entire product process, from conception to post-launch reflection. And we have deep empathy for both our coworkers and our users, to understand how we can work better together to help others work better together.

As a leader on the product engineering team, you’ll focus on developing the excellent engineering team around you. You are passionate about helping others contribute more and develop as software engineers as well as human beings. You enjoy the challenge of balancing speed of execution with quality while building a product that users love. And you should be as enthusiastic about recruiting and building a team as you are about the challenging technical problems that you and your team will solve.

This role is based in our Warsaw office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. 

We offer a Contract of Employment (UoP) for our employees in Poland.

What you’ll achieve

• Build and grow a critical Product Engineering team from seed, as one of the first engineering teams landing in our Warsaw office
• Work closely with recruiting, our site lead, and other managers as we expand the team and grow the office: source & interview candidates, help strengthen our engineering talent brand in the region, and onboard new employees
• Coach engineers in their technical and professional development, ensuring the team maintains a high velocity and technical quality bar
• Collaborate with engineering leaders across the organization and be a key driver for our Warsaw office culture to help keep Asana's workplace balanced, performant, inclusive, transparent, and aligned with our values
• Partner with Product Management, Design, Data Science, and User Research to deeply understand developer needs, and then propose and deliver elegant solutions to those needs
• Master the art of delegation and scale your impact, aided by our strong team and frameworks like Asana’s Areas of Responsibility (“AOR”) system

About you

• 5+ years of experience working in the technology industry, with 3+ years experience managing a technical team
• 3+ years of building user-facing full stack products (integration development preferred)
• Excellent communication skills and experience working cross-functionally with product management/designers/data scientists, as well as cross-timezone with other internal offices
• Focused on maximizing impact for yourself, your team, and Asana as a whole
• Autonomous and comfortable with ambiguity; you enjoy figuring out what needs to be done—and then making it happen
• Care deeply about the happiness, growth, and motivation of your reports
• Equipped with the intelligence, empathy, integrity, and technical chops required to quickly earn the trust of a technically astute team
• Demonstrated curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making

 

What we’ll offer

What we offer

• Generous, transparent and fair compensation system (base salary and generous Restricted Stock Unit for Asana Inc.) 
• Contract of Employment (with 50% tax deductible costs for author’s rights usage for Engineers) 
• Health insurance with dental and travel coverage (Lux Med) 
• Lunch catering on the days that you work from the office
• Career growth budget 
• Home office setup budget 
• Gym/Fitness card
• Fertility healthcare and family-forming support with Carrot
• Mental health support in Modern Health
• Group life insurance
• MacBooks with all necessary accessories

For this role, the estimated base salary range is between 31 000 PLN - 46 000 PLN gross monthly on the contract of employment (UoP). The actual base salary will vary based on various factors and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. The listed range above is a guideline, and the base compensation range for this role may be modified.

Our total compensation consists of base salary and equity (RSUs).

About us

Asana helps teams orchestrate their work, from small projects to strategic initiatives. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named a Top 10 Best Workplace for 5 years in a row, is Fortune's #1 Best Workplace in the Bay Area, and one of Glassdoor’s and Inc.’s Best Places to Work. After spending more than a year physically distanced, Team Asana is safely and mindfully returning to in-person collaboration, incorporating flexibility that adds hybrid elements to our office-centric culture. With 11+ offices all over the world, we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world and a culture where everyone feels that they belong. 

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 provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also comply with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and similar laws in other locations.