Senior Engineering Manager, Growth

The Opportunity

We are investing in a Growth Engineering team at Postman, to help developers and teams onboard to a powerful product experience that starts with single-player developers and grows into teams that collaborate on the artifact of the API like teams collaborate with the artifact of a design file using Figma. We are building this team for a number of reasons, notably:

1. Optimize sign-up to delight, for both individuals and teams
2. Help users uncover the power of Postman (it’s so much more than “just” an API client), gradually and at the right moment
3. Guide users to key activation moments (like creating their first collection, or inviting a member to their team) that lead to expansion and a stickier product experience

In effect: we know we have a product experience and funnel that works and it works quite well. Now we want to optimize, tune, and make it even more amazing (and measure even more). We’re looking for an experienced engineering leader who has previously led an engineering team within a highly scalable, fast-growing business to lead this charter at Postman. You’ll work closely with Postman’s engineering leadership and our product and design teams to achieve our mission of connecting 100M developers in the world. We specifically hope this person is you, because while the team is small right now, we want a seasoned engineering leader who has built small teams into great, outsized outcomes.

We have built a ubiquitous, loved developer product and you’d be joining the solid and growing team in the United States. If you’re curious, see why I joined and hear about my experience in joining the rocket ship of an opportunity that is Postman.

PS: If you’d like to know more about my leadership style, give this a once over. Hopefully we’re compatible because we will be working together a whole heck of a lot.

Who are we

Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 30 million developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster.

The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has an office in Bangalore, where it was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X (formerly Twitter) via @getpostman.

P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman.

What You’ll Do

• Lead a diverse team. Lead a team of diverse engineers in the United States and collaborate well with a globally distributed team
• Collaborate cross-functionally. Partner with peers in Product, Engineering, Design, and Data Analytics to deliver experiments that span across the entire Postman product
• Help shape strategy. Define and evolve the team’s strategy and staffing aligned with leadership
• Hire the best. Participate in the end-to-end recruiting process, hiring, and onboarding exceptional engineering talent
• Measure and iterate. Define, measure, and own key metrics for the performance of your functional area
• Motivate and communicate across multiple levels. Bring out the best in the individuals on your team by enabling them to do the best work of their lives
• Cultivate a growth mindset. Help engineers develop new skills and advance in their careers
• Make change, across teams. Lead technical initiatives to solve problems across teams and be responsible for the adoption and success of the initiatives by working closely with other teams.
• Improve the system. Advocate for best practices that improve the productivity and quality of the team.

About you

Must-have:

• 4+ years of experience serving in an engineering management role, either building customer-facing products or developer-facing products.
• 5+ years of prior experience as a full-stack developer (preferably JavaScript)  in a hyper growth engineering environment.
• Measure twice, cut once. Experience managing the delivery of experiments (A/B, Multivariate, etc) that drive measurable impact.
• Top-tier communicator. You possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• You must be a builder. While we don’t expect you to be hands-on coding, we expect you to be regularly using the product and able to speak the same language as the team building the tool.
• Detail oriented. We have to care about the details, and while we don’t expect you to be a designer, you need to care about the product experience that our teams are shipping.
• Customer obsession. As we are a core product with years of muscle memory, we need a leader who is able and willing to leverage the voice of the customer to expedite decision making, develop conviction, and most importantly delight our user.
• Experience managing engineering teams that deliver impactful results as quickly as possible but do so safely and with appropriate guard rails around a mature product experience that our users depend upon us to just work
• Based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Nice to have:

• Experience building and working with hybrid teams.
• Experience working on a SaaS developer tool product.
• Experience in building applications in multiple platforms - such as web, desktop, mobile.
• Experience with at least one Javascript front-end framework/library such as React.

Our values

At Postman, we create with the same curiosity that we see in our users. We value transparency & honest communication about not only successes, but also failures. In our work, we focus on specific goals that add up to a larger vision. Our inclusive work culture ensures that everyone is valued equally as important pieces of our final product. We are dedicated to delivering the best products we can.

What else?

If the role is based in the greater San Francisco area, and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $216,750 to $293,250, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition to our pay-on-performance philosophy, we offer a comprehensive set of benefits, including full medical coverage, flexible PTO, wellness reimbursement, and a monthly lunch stipend. Salaries will vary outside of the listed metropolitan areas & the U.S.

Equal opportunity

Postman is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Postman does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Postman will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Postman.