VP of Engineering
Drift is looking for an experienced vice president to lead and grow our engineering team based in Boston, MA.
Drift’s engineering team will cover different product areas and disciplines—from teams owning and building out features at Enterprise scale to horizontal efforts within our security, infrastructure, and training teams. Our expectation is that you will grow the engineering team as Drift product grows to 500+ people over the next 2 years. Our ideal candidate has lead and managed teams (including managing managers) to tackle ambitious growth challenges as teams scale.
We are a customer-centered company that is moving fast within a crowded market.
Help us work with people we otherwise wouldn't have a chance to. Together, we'll draw in talent that expands our capabilities and the depth of our experience. We deeply believe that diverse teams build better software and so we’ve released our diversity numbers each year.
This is a strategic role that requires strong partnership with other functions across the company. You'll partner with other senior leaders across the company to translate technology capabilities into strategic business decisions. You'll build several technological and organizational strategies that aligns with our Drift Leadership Principles and influences the overall company direction.
You'll drive accountability and metrics ownership to translate strategy into results. And you'll align and inspire your organization by effectively communicating and engaging the team in the strategy. This Position reports to the CTO and co-founder.
You will:
- Lead and coach a diverse set of engineering managers and engineers tasked with development covering a wide range of product, infrastructure, and ops/service engineering efforts.
- Weigh tradeoffs and have in-depth discussions with engineers on the nuances of complex engineering systems.
- Continue your path of personal and professional growth along with the team
- Develop a simple, powerful offering to our customers and our growing business. Make both our customers and engineering team successful.
- Bring considerable experience in the development of several large-scale distributed applications
- Work in close partnership with Product and Design to build best in class experiences for our users.
You may be fit for this role if you:
- Coach and grow other engineering managers and leaders
- Pay utmost attention to team culture, and foster collaborative, inclusive teams in which people are empowered to do the best work of their careers.
- Have managed multiple teams that have designed and operated a range of systems or features, particularly with user-facing and product implications.
- Build scalable products in fast-paced environments.
- Are a champion of continuous learning
- Communicate clearly and leave people feeling excited and focused
- Network well with your peers to understand their product and technology needs while also representing your own.
We help companies build better pipeline faster by connecting them now with the people who want to buy now. Drift is changing the way businesses buy from businesses by building software tools that make conversational commerce accessible to anyone. We want the world to revolve around the customer, and we lead by example.
Drift hires people who want to make a difference in the lives of others. In product, we have engineers, PMs, and designers with broad sets of skills (from a variety of backgrounds) who are ready to tackle some of the most meaningful problems in the industry—from building adaptive AI for bot-supported conversations, to designing next generation chat experiences, to bridging the gap between old and new ways to buy—through this work, we're changing the global buying experience.
We look at Drift as a constantly-adapting learning experience; for all of us, we believe we're at the forefront of an enormous opportunity. We support one other in our curiosity and creation—which we pursue through small, frequent releases to see what works for our customers. We are enormously reflective as a team and knowledge-sharing across disciplines powers our day-to-day work.
Product teams at Drift are small by design. We want you to feel like you're part of a successful garage band. These teams are supported by centralized groups that build tooling and train on topics like UX, security, compliance, and leadership so we can get better as we grow larger.
We want to work in a company of positive, hardworking people who treat their colleagues exceptionally well. The kind of people who are committed to going out of their way to succeed in their work, and to help other Drifters improve over the long term (by helping them get better at what they do).
We celebrate wins as a company. Whether it's sales bonuses, trips for team MVPs, or the most "high-fives", we celebrate one another as much as possible. We also have a culture of transparency that we carry on with extraordinary alignment, executive reports, and automated stats for everyone.
In both our products and our people, we aim to share the pains and successes of our customers. We are building a company that is abnormally successful. To do that, we need to both embrace tradition, and seek success that goes far beyond "the way we've always done things".
