Engineering Manager, Growth Platform

At Vanta, our mission is to secure the internet and protect consumer data. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. 

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll be responsible for setting strategy, leading your team to deliver results consistently and sustainably, growing and developing talented engineers, and cultivating a healthy, results-driven culture on your team to deliver significant value to our customers and enable our business to scale.

Vanta’s business, technology surface, and team are growing—this provides a career-defining opportunity for you to grow as an engineering leader. It’s essential that we accelerate Vanta’s product and revenue growth and invest in the right abstractions and systems to enable us to scale to more customers and product lines. You’ll leverage your past experience and play a crucial role in laying the groundwork for a successful engineering organization, contributing to developing foundational processes that enable our entire team to scale. Our business has an incredible product-market fit and effectively monetized since the day we signed our first customer.

In this role, you’ll be leading Vanta’s Growth Platform team, focusing on driving customer activation, engagement, and retention by building features and tools that make it easy for users to adopt our product, realize value quickly, and build habits using it to achieve their compliance and security goals. You’ll also partner with other product teams to develop systems that drive deeper product adoption and engagement both within the core product and emerging business lines. Finally, you will maintain and evolve the quantitative definition of customer success and leverage product analysis to inform future decisions.

What you’ll do as an Engineering Manager at Vanta:

• Oversee the development and maintenance of scalable growth systems leveraging modern frameworks and tooling (TypeScript, React), getting hands on when necessary.

• Lead your team in identifying and addressing opportunities to improve customer activation and engagement, to support Vanta’s core product and unlock new opportunities for the business.

• Drive significant impact for our customers and business by leading your team to deliver results consistently and sustainably.

• Develop and hire teams of talented and kind engineers.

• Set direction and guide technical strategy, ensuring that your team is delivering value aligned with Vanta’s business priorities with a sustainable …