Engineering Manager, Cost Optimization

About Us

Since 2016, dbt Labs has been on a mission to help analysts create and disseminate organizational knowledge. dbt Labs pioneered the practice of analytics engineering, built the primary tool in the analytics engineering toolbox, and has been fortunate enough to see a fantastic community coalesce to help push the boundaries of the analytics engineering workflow. Today there are 30,000 companies using dbt every week, 100,000 dbt Community members, and over 4,100 dbt Cloud customers. You can learn more about our values here.  

About the Team

Our team is embarking on a mission to build a cost management solution that helps our customers manage their data platform spend. As part of this incubation effort, you’ll lead a talented, cross-functional team within Application Engineering, collaborating closely with product and field teams to breathe life into a product with incredibly positive early feedback. This role offers the rare opportunity to shape and stabilize a product from inception, directly impacting the customer experience and outcomes.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Build an international team of highly talented and engaged engineers.
• Collaborate closely with product teams to shape a customer-centered cost optimization experience.
• Coach and mentor engineers on the team to help them grow their skills and their careers.
• Manage a vertically integrated team to deliver an end-to-end product experience to customers.
• Cultivate a culture of quality, reliability, and empathy toward user needs within the team.
• Employ both software and data engineering skills to build a robust, production-grade system powering this cost optimization experience.
• Hold 1:1s, quarterly and annual reviews with every member of the team.
• Gather, compile, and clearly communicate performance feedback to the team.
• Actively participate in our recruiting process from sourcing to hiring.
• Foster technical decision-making within the team and across teams.

You are a good fit if you have:

• A background in software engineering with experience leading teams focused on customer-facing products.
• Previous experience in a data-adjacent role, such as data engineering or data engineering management.
• A genuine interest in management as a means to drive engineering excellence.
• A track record of being customer-obsessed, adapting plans based on feedback to continually improve the product.
• Worked asynchronously as part of a fully-remote, distributed team.

You'll have an edge if you have:

• Led engineering teams at rapidly growing organizations.
• Experience working under close executive scrutiny on key initiatives.
• Managed teams across different time zones, especially in a fully-remote, distributed setup.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years experience in Engineering Management roles.
• 8+ years experience in Engineering roles.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field OR
• Completed enrollment in a related bootcamp or equivalent background.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $195,000 - $229,000
• Equity Stake
• Benefits - dbt Labs offers:
  • Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)
  • 401k w/3% guaranteed contribution
  • Excellent healthcare
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Wellness stipend
  • Home office stipend, and more!

What to expect in the hiring process (all video interviews unless accommodations are needed):

1. Interview with Talent Acquisition Partner
2. Interview with Hiring Manager
3. Interviews with the team (4x interviews)
4. Final interview with CTO

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Who we are

At dbt Labs, we have developed strong opinions on how companies should practice analytics.

Specifically, we believe that:

• Code-based transformations offer unmatched flexibility and transparency across various “multi-player” development to power everyone in the organization to collaborate on a common language
• Data analysts should adopt similar practices and tools to software developers
• Critical analytics infrastructure should be controlled by its users as open source software
• Analytic code itself — not just analytics tools — will increasingly be open source

It turns out that a lot of other people believe this too! Today, there are 30,000 companies using dbt every week, 100,000 dbt Community members, and 4,100 companies paying for dbt Cloud. Our customers include JetBlue, Hubspot, Vodafone New Zealand, and Dunelm. dbt is synonymous with the practice of analytics engineering, defining an entire industry. We’re backed by top investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter. 

dbt Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We're committed to building an inclusive team that welcomes a diversity of perspectives, people, and backgrounds regardless of race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, citizenship, veteran status, or any other protected status. We feel strongly that whether or not your experience exactly fits the job description, your passion and skills will stand out and set you apart even if your career has taken some twists and turns.  If you are on the fence about whether you meet our requirements, we encourage you to apply anyway! Please reach out to us directly at recruiting@dbtlabs.com if you need assistance or an accommodation. 

Want to learn more about our focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at dbt Labs? Check out our DEI page here. 

dbt Labs reserves the right to amend or withdraw the posting at any time. For employees outside the United States, dbt Labs offers a competitive benefits package. Equity or comparable benefits may be offered depending on the legal or country limitations.

 

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