Director of Growth Engineering

Slack is a messaging app for teams that is on a mission to make your working life simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. We believe everyone deserves to work in a welcoming, respectful, and empathetic culture. We live by our values and hire accordingly.

Slack is looking for an experienced director of engineering to lead Slack’s Growth Engineering team. The team helps drive the growth of Slack by using a metrics-focused and highly iterative process to both find new Slack users as well as make our current users more successful. This person will work alongside our engineering management team.

* Use data to make decisions about prioritization and impact, and have a passion for experimentation * Have opinions about how to make complex application experiences simple * Mentor and coach the managers and engineers on the team, helping them to develop as leaders * Work closely with Product, Design, Data, and Marketing to conceive features that will help our users to successfully build their teams * Build roadmaps and long-term team vision in partnership with the Product team * Be accountable for driving project execution * Define company goals, strategy, and vision to help grow the business * Evaluate resourcing needs and help fill them through sourcing and interviewing * Build an organizational structure that keeps engineers empowered and managers informed * Weigh several, and often conflicting, constraints and make rapid decisions * Anticipate future technical needs and craft plans to realize them * Collaborate with other engineering leaders on priorities, processes, and policies * Represent Slack in industry events, and help promote the Slack Engineering brand

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience * You have at least 5 years of engineering management experience, at least 2 of which should include managing managers * You have contributed to product strategy within a multi-functional leadership team * You have lead a growth team at a high-growth company * You have enough technical experience to be able to talk to engineers about architecture and product decisions * You have a proven history of shipping products with multi-functional teams * You have built new product development teams and driven them toward a big vision and consistent execution * You possess extraordinary written and verbal communication skills * You are highly organized. With many people doing many things in a fast-moving company, strong organizational skills both for yourself and for the team will be required