Engineering manager, foundations

Posted:
12/5/2024, 4:18:07 AM

Location(s):
San Francisco, California, United States ⋅ California, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Product

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Pay:
$166/hr or $345,280 total comp

About Watershed

Watershed is the enterprise sustainability platform. Companies like Airbnb, Carlyle Group, FedEx, Visa, and Dr. Martens use Watershed to manage climate and ESG data, produce audit-ready metrics for voluntary and regulatory reporting including CSRD, and drive real decarbonization. We are looking for team members who love product-building, want to work hard at a mission-oriented startup, and will collaborate with us in shaping the culture of a growing team.

We have offices in San Francisco, New York, London and Sydney, and remote team members across the US and Europe. We hope that you'll be interested in joining us!

The role

Do you love to build great technology and great teams? Watershed is working to scale a world-class engineering team, and we’re hiring for an experienced Engineering Manager to help lead this work. You will join a team of peer Engineering Managers and technical leads to define the culture and practice of engineering at Watershed.

We’re hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the Enterprise Foundations team, which is responsible for features and infrastructure that cut across our product and enable Watershed to deliver an enterprise-grade product. This team owns and innovates on a wide range of surface area critical to Watershed’s stability and success: think login/auth, granular permissions, API infrastructure, cross-cutting product features like localization, as well as back-of-the-house integrations like demo functionality, support, and pricing enablement. We’re looking for a leader to help set an ambitious and exciting vision for the team, get in the weeds of a diverse range of difficult and interesting problems, and empower each engineer on the team to do the best work of their career to-date. 

As one of the early managers in a fast growing company, you’ll be setting the culture not just for engineering but for Watershed as a whole. You, along with the rest of Watershed’s leadership and people teams, are responsible for building a diverse, inclusive, and hard-working organization. We are excited to work on this together!

In this role, you will:

  • Be the front-line manager leading the Enterprise Foundations team (5+ engineers), through a mix of people, technical, and product leadership
  • Inspire and lead the team through the next phases of growth ($100M+), including recruiting to build the team as the business needs evolve
  • Partner closely with a wide variety of stakeholders, e.g.
  • Product, Design and Go-To-Market teams to build impactful customer-facing features
  • Other platform teams and internal Engineering teams to successfully launch, integrate, and maintain cross-product features that require everyone’s involvement
  • Sales, Solutions Engineering, Finance, and Support to ensure core back-of-the-house business functions are supported in the Watershed product

You might be a good fit if you have:

  • At least 2-5 years of direct engineering management experience
  • 8+ years of overall developer and management experience in total
  • A strong platform engineering background: building business-specific systems that other engineering teams use in a scaling company, with thoughtful interfaces and smart abstractions
  • Experience with the enterprise readiness feature set, including familiarity with API development and management, is a plus
  • B2B experience, and big plus to have enterprise SaaS experience
  • A mix of scrappy startup and big company experience is a plus

This position is required to be in our San Francisco HQ

At Watershed, we strive to design consistent, fair, and competitive compensation programs. The total cash compensation range may be inclusive of several levels at Watershed and final offer will be determined by a number of factors, including the candidate’s skills, capabilities, and location, as well as scope of the role.

The anticipated cash compensation range is in addition to a total rewards benefit package including equity, health/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), unlimited paid time off, paid parental leave, fertility, and mental health programs etc. 

Salary Range
$217,350$275,300 USD

 

FAQ

Where does Watershed work?

We have hub offices in San Francisco, New York and London, and some remote team members in the US and EU. Most of our jobs need to be in San Francisco / New York / London, but certain jobs are open to being remote and will be specifically noted on the jobs page and in the job description.

What’s the interview process like?

It starts the same for every candidate: getting to know the team members through 1 to 2 conversations about Watershed, your experience, and your interests. Next steps can vary by role, but usual next steps are a skill or experience screen (e.g. a coding interview for an engineer, a portfolio review for a designer, deeper experience call for other roles) which leads to a virtual or in person interview panel after that if the screens go well. We prioritize transparency and lack of surprise throughout the process.