VP of Engineering, Work Management
ClickUp is the world's only all-in-one productivity platform that flexes to the way people want to work. It replaces all individual workplace productivity tools with a single, unified platform including project management, document collaboration, spreadsheets, chat, goals, and more. On a mission to make the world more productive, ClickUp is headquartered in San Diego and scaling remotely and internationally. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in the world, ClickUp helps millions of users to be more productive and save at least one day every week. 🦄
ClickUp is on a mission to make the world more productive. We're saving thousands of individuals one day a week with the fastest-growing productivity app of 2020. We're the breakout momentum leader in every G2 category we're in and ready to take off! Our app is the first of its kind to work for everyone from families to Fortune 500 companies.
ClickUp is looking for an exceptional leader to lead ClickUp Core Product Engineering group that is responsible for our work management product lines including Project Management, Docs, Whiteboard, Goals and Chats. This is an opportunity to build a suite of products that bring the vision of all-in-on productivity platform to life from ground up for one of the fastest growing SaaS companies in the world.
You are an expert technical leader in building customer facing software with a very high degree of passion for user experience. You thrive when leading a team that collaborates as a community and is distributed across the globe. You are comfortable with scaling engineering and organizations.
You are passionate about joining our community that loves to learn, work, build, and operate a platform that is redefining how we work.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders to build products with the best in class user experience
- Develop and drive the technical vision and strategy
- Make final decisions regarding design and direction of new tech architectures.
- Thorough understanding of cloud infrastructure and environments (public/private) and able to lead the team through the strategic architectural decision making and technical challenges in implementation
- Make and meet commitments. Communicate change in plans whether they be design or timeline modifications honestly and transparently
- Ensure the engineering team is scheduled and working efficiently with each other, and the rest of the departments, such as product management and design.
- Build a world class engineering team:
- Foster and facilitate the professional growth and development of our engineering staff as well as lead effective multi-functional teamwork across groups within the organization
- Build organizational capability within these teams by recruiting and retaining outstanding talent and providing mentoring, training (internal and external), and other opportunities for professional growth and development.
- Partner with peer functions and organizations to deliver the training and enablement the team requires
- Implement best engineering management and organizational development practices:
- Lead through organizational scale and priority changes
- Streamline and deliver greater efficiency in the engineering organization, both in software development and operational activities
- Drive continuous systems improvement for leading, documenting, staffing, and reviewing engineering projects and services
- Reflect best practices back into our products and recommendations for customer implementations
Key Requirements:
- 10+ years experience as a hands-on software development leader leading geo-distributed enterprise scale engineering teams. We are looking for individuals with demonstrated repeat business growth or exit successes in high profile startups, specifically with experience building products with great user experience
- 5+ years experience as a leader in leading organizations of 50+ engineers
- Ability to operate effectively in both tactical and strategic capacities - You can comfortably adjust your altitude and roll-up your sleeves as needed
- Experience with rapid scaling of engineering organization by hiring and retaining exceptional talent
- Experience with operating Cloud Scale Services - deep understanding of industry best practices and the ability to operate a cloud-scale service
- Leaders who have seen scale with Product Led Growth companies are a plus!
ClickUp was founded on a culture of hard work, consistent growth, and a desire to break norms. We’re a values-driven company and hire based on ambition, merit, and a willingness to do what it takes to succeed. We don’t care where you’re from, what you look like, or who you’re in a relationship with—we hire the best people for the job, and create an environment that supports employees on their journey to do the most exciting work of their lives! ClickUp is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.