Engineering Manager, EU

Hi I’m Colin, Director of Engineering, Europe. We’re looking for an engineering manager to help build a different type of engineering team and culture at Ashby.

Responsibilities

In addition to working with engineers you’ll also get to work on projects yourself. Some examples of work our engineering leaders have done:

• Provide feedback on product and technical specs to help engineers identify where to cut scope or improve quality. You don’t make the final decisions, but you’ll influence and coach ICs to reach the right ones.
• Grow engineers to the point where they can take large, loosely defined projects, and deliver them with little intervention. They still ask for help when needed - the difference is that they’re driving.
• Jump into our systems and code to debug a customer issue, ship a small bug fix, or improve our developer experience. Engineering leaders at Ashby are great engineers and enjoy keeping their skills up‑to‑date while staying off the critical path.
• Improve how we generate and simulate data in demo accounts. It’s a project off the critical path, but it helps you keep up‑to‑date on our codebase while immensely impacting the business, from Engineering to QA to Sales.

You’ll focus on building your team, developing their skills to thrive with the ownership they’re given, and creating an environment that empowers them to do their best work consistently, with little distraction.

For junior engineering managers we try to stay within six direct reports, enabling them to spend time observing, correcting, praising, and, yes, coding. We like our managers to be hands‑on while also ensuring they’re not on the critical path.

Qualifications

• You love being technical and can hold in‑depth conversations with direct reports from infra to backend to frontend.
• You enjoy management problems. We want people who get excited about driving people to be their best, giving difficult feedback, and building systems that make this easier.
• You hold your team to a high standard and don’t shy away from getting into the details and giving feedback, even to the best folks on your team.
• You are an excellent and empathetic communicator. Facilitating change at both an individual and organization level requires understanding how to navigate the beliefs, opinions, and past experiences of engineers and figuring out how to both convince them of a new way of doing things while also leaving yourself open to feedback.
• You know what exceptional engineers look like. You’ve thought deeply about what makes them tick, how to recruit them, and how to grow folks into them. We want to see depth here, the industry often regurgitates a vanilla description, but the reality is more nuanced.
• You’re good at thinking about product, business, and maybe even design, but you’re not interested in calling the shots and are more interested in building a team that can make the best decisions without you.
• You thrive in high‑trust, high‑autonomy environments. We’re a young startup where leaders wear multiple hats, and you’ll build your own (high‑speed) on‑ramp through developing strong feedback loops.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• 10‑year exercise window for stock options. You shouldn’t feel pressure to purchase stock options if you leave; do it when you feel financially comfortable.
• Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year.
• Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget. Get what you need to be happy and productive!
• $100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval.

Compensation Range: €76K – €185K.

Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.