About Highspot

Highspot helps sales teams improve customer conversations and achieve their revenue goals. From content optimization and performance analytics to in-context training, guided selling, and more, the Highspot platform delivers enterprise-ready features in a modern design that sales reps and marketers love. Using Highspot, marketing leaders have deep insights and analytics into the performance and influenced revenue of content, campaigns, and marketing assets. What makes the solution special? It’s loved by sales reps globally, and is the #1 rated sales enablement platform on G2 Crowd. 

We are committed to diversity as both a moral and business imperative. 

About the Role

Our engineering culture is IC-driven. We favor bottom-up ideation and empowerment of our team. We're looking for early career managers who will help our engineers find creative solutions to challenges.  

As a Manager of Software Engineering at Highspot, you will inspire, lead, and grow a team of creative and talented core engineers within a major product area. You’ll bring your expertise and skills to bear on strategic decisions about our technical ecosystem, team operations, team norms, and engineering culture. You'll also be a key decision-maker with a focus on growing, simplifying, and maintaining our in-app reporting capabilities. Your team will own the underlying reporting infrastructure and query capabilities needed to unlock access to strategic, analytical insights so customers can successfully self-serve an increasing number of data-based questions.

What You'll Do

• Lead, coach, and build a diverse, inclusive, high-performing team where all team members can do their best work
• Successfully deliver project goals for the release, some of these will include research
• Build and share best practices
• Coach, mentor and provide immediate feedback to engineers to help their growth
• Collaborate with technology, Services and product organizations to understand what drives customer joy and ensure your team works to address customer concerns in a timely manner
• Work with architects on technical direction
• Share your passion for staying on top of tech trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external technology communities, mentoring other members of the engineering community, and from time to time, be asked to evaluate code
• Contribute to the recruiting, interviewing and onboarding process of new Engineering Team members
• Have fun, engage with the team as you do the above and celebrate small wins!

Your Background

• 1+ years of experience managing software engineering teams
• Extensive experience developing and scaling cloud-native applications and infrastructure
• Proven success in attracting and retaining top engineering talent from diverse backgrounds
• Proven success as a partner and collaborator who prioritizes the success of the team over individual aspirations
• Entrepreneurial spirit, priding yourself on getting things done with a high level of quality
• Previous experience designing and building software products at scale
• Deep understanding of the SDLC for SaaS applications
• Working knowledge of modern object-oriented and functional programming languages
• Experience with some of the tools we use or plan to use to continue iterating at Highspot include languages like JavaScript, Java, Closure, HTML/CSS, TypeScript, SQL, Python, Ruby or Go, Open Source RDBMS and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of AWS tools and services

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) Matching

Paid parental leave 

Flexible work and vacation schedules

Discounted ClassPass membership

2 volunteer days per year

Transportation benefits

Competitive compensation and stock options

Fully-stocked kitchen

Annual company-wide events

Meaningfully contribute to a compelling vision!

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, citizenship, color, ethnicity, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or invisible disability status, political affiliation, veteran status, race, religion, or sexual orientation.

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