Engineering Manager, Product
Company Overview
Valimail is a fast growing, venture funded startup and the leader in Email Authentication as a Service. Here is your chance to get in on the ground floor at an important technology innovator and to help build a major business service category. We have built a revolutionary platform on top of open standards — DMARC, DKIM, and SPF — for the first time it makes it possible for any organization to protect itself against email impersonation. Valimail pioneered the notion of automated email authentication, with innovative components like our DNS-based Authenticator (including our patented Instant SPF). We’re committed to building a more trusted email ecosystem.
Frequently cited statistics show that women and underrepresented classes will only apply to roles if they feel they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Valimail, we encourage you to break through that statistic. Roles evolve over time, especially with innovation, and you may be just the person we need in the future. NO ONE ever meets 100% of the qualifications. We hope you're open to learning new skills in order to grow with us. Make our team, your team!
Position Overview
Valimail is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead one of the product engineering teams (Apollo), providing leadership and guidance to this core area of the business. As the Apollo EM, you’ll be responsible for the core existing products that keep our customers happy, as well as helping to build new ones. We are looking for someone who will focus on scaling best practices, reducing and paying down tech debt, helping to oversee new, critical implementations of core features, ensuring the reliability and stability of our system, meeting customer needs effectively, and supporting the teams’ individual growth and development.
The ideal candidate regularly demonstrates our behaviors/values (Be inclusive, Be Trustworthy, Be a Learner and Be Driven) in addition to demonstrating a strong technical acumen.
The application window for this role will close on September 27th, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. This role is open to individuals within GMT-7 (Pacific Time) - GMT-4 (Eastern Time) time zones.
A day in the life of a Product Engineering Manager:
Our team is distributed internationally, although working within the US time zones which means that all of our work happens remotely and to varying degrees of synchronicity. A typical week would include:
- Collaborating with other teams including product and Platform to understand the customer experiences we want to provide and explore how we can solve them
- Discuss and collaboratively solve engineering problems with engineering peers and individual contributors via Slack or Zoom
- Respond to issues or bugs that may be escalated or may need escalation
- Work with your direct reports 1-1 for career development
- Align with fellow engineering managers and leadership tackling cross-department needs
- Create avenues to hear and understand a variety of viewpoints, formulating those into strategies, goals, and project plans.
What You'll Be Doing
- Meet with team members 1:1 regularly to ensure career growth and progression
- Work collaboratively to determine planning and execution milestones ensuring the team ships features and bug fixes regularly
- Create, align, and execute new technical approaches as needed
- Support tech leads and senior engineers in engineering execution and overall technical decision making
- Communicate across teams so others at the company, both inside and outside of engineering, understand the direction of the work and reasoning behind it
- Work with the VP of Engineering to cultivate a culture of technical excellence, communication, celebration, and learning
- Collaboratively define, scope, prioritize, and estimate work demonstrating business need and impact
- Identify capacity planning needs working to provide clarity on not just what is needed now, but what should be considered for the future
About You
- 3+ years experience managing software engineering teams that ship customer-facing features ideally in Go and/or Ruby on Rails
- Excellent oral and written communication skills. Encourages over-communication within teams to reduce inefficiencies and ensure clarity.
- Experience working in a distributed team and with a modern tech stack.
- Comfort and ability to operate in a remote environment while effectively collaborating with others
- A true people manager, exuding confidence and inspiring commitment to assigned tasks, initiatives, and the larger business picture.
- Approachable, organized, accountable.
Who We Are
Valimail is the global leader in zero-trust email security. The company's full line of cloud-native solutions authenticate sender identity to stop phishing, protect brands, and ensure compliance; they are used by organizations ranging from neighborhood shops to some of the world's largest organizations, including Uber, Splunk, Yelp, Mercedes Benz USA, and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. Valimail is the fastest-growing DMARC solution with the largest global market share and is the premier DMARC partner for Microsoft 365 environments.
Valimail is an E-Verify Employer. For more information on E-Verify, review the posters here.
Why Join Us?
- Competitive pay + participation in employee stock option plan. The anticipated salary range for this role is $180,000-$200,000. This role is eligible to participate in our equity incentive plan. Actual title and compensation is commensurate with qualifications and experience.
- Comprehensive health, dental, + vision coverage
- Six weeks of paid parental leave for all parents, and an additional 6 weeks for parents giving birth
- Remote First Company, you can work anywhere within the US
- Unlimited and flexible PTO. We believe balanced, happy, relaxed people do better work
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