Head of Engineering

SUPERHUMAN 👉

• The fastest email experience in the world
• Loved and adored: see what our customers say
• Our customers get through their inbox twice as fast; many see inbox zero for the first time in years.

Come shape the future of email, communication, and productivity!

BUILD LOVE 💜

At Superhuman, we deeply understand how to build products that people love. We incorporate fun and play; we infuse magic and joy; we make experiences that amaze and delight.

It all starts with the right team — a team that deeply cares about values, customers, and each other.

CREATE MASSIVE IMPACT 🚀

We're not solving a small problem, and we're not addressing a small market. We're going after email; the one activity that consumes more of our work day than any other.

Our ambition doesn't stop there. Next: calendars, notes, contacts, tasks. We are building the productivity platform of the future.

DO THE BEST WORK OF YOUR LIFE 🌟

We have created the frameworks for how to build product market fit and redefined the narrative of how to onboard customers successfully. We have shown the world it’s possible to build a premium productivity brand. Our investors include Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, IVP, Tiger Global Management, Sam Altman, and the founders of Gmail, Dropbox, Reddit, Discord, Stripe, GitHub, AngelList, and Intercom.

Our latest financing was led by IVP, and we welcomed Ajay Vashee to our board. Our prior financing was led by Andreessen Horowitz, and we welcomed Marc Andreessen and David Ulevitch to our board.

This time, we’re swinging beyond the fences and fundamentally rethinking how individuals and teams should collaborate. We are building a household brand and a worldwide organization. We are here to do the best work of our lives, and we hope you are too.

ROLE 👩🏽‍💻👨‍💻

Mission

Lead engineering to deliver delightful and remarkable customer experiences and accelerate the entire Superhuman mission. Lead our Engineering team to be the best in the industry.

Major Outcomes

Rapidly and consistently deliver experiences to our customers that are delightful, of remarkable quality, and have substantial business impact.

• We are here to build the most delightful and remarkable experiences possible. An experience is delightful when it evokes pleasant surprise. An experience is remarkable when it is so impressive that it compels people to talk about it.
• Simultaneously, we are on a journey to change work communication at scale. This is a highly competitive industry where we need to out-innovate and out-pace other players. This means we need to be at the forefront of fast and iterative delivery for a service that millions of people depend on for their daily work.
• To achieve this outcome, the Head of Engineering will:
  • Build technology to drive remarkable customer-facing experiences at all levels.
  • Keep a high pace of innovation and delivery.
  • Manage scope, timeline, and budget to support the team's mission.
  • Deliver consistently high performance and reliability to our customers.

Build and lead a high-performing Engineering organization.

• Inspire our team of world-class technologists to do the best work of their careers.
• Hire, coach, and retain a diverse, distributed, and talented team.
• Lead the organization with coaching, prioritization, clear communication, and modeling Superhuman values.

Define our technology strategy.

• Collaborate with our founding and executive team, notably product and design, to define how technology can reinforce our competitive advantage and overall strategy.
• Define a clear and well-articulated technology strategy that unlocks focused delivery.
• Lead the execution of that strategy, anticipate roadblocks, and enable the team to succeed.

Serve on our executive team to define our future acts and achieve our vision: a productivity and collaboration ecosystem used by — and loved by — millions of professionals!

Ideal Qualifications

12+ years of professional experience, with 8+ years of experience leading distributed engineering teams.

• Leader of leaders: Develops, hires, and retains high-performing leadership teams.
• Start-to-Finish Ownership: Acts with 100% responsibility for their outcomes as well as the outcomes of the company.
• Bias for action: Speed matters. Takes rapid and decisive steps forward, even in the face of uncertainty, recognizing action is the catalyst for progress and growth.
• Async Communicator. Communicates effectively across various mediums (especially Slack, notion, and email). Can produce and consume detailed written materials as needed without sacrificing speed.
• Cares deeply, challenges directly: Discusses and debates ideas openly. Focuses on the customer and business ‘so what’ and challenges stakeholders to take impactful action.
• Delivers remarkable quality at scale: Leads organizations to deliver remarkable quality experiences to millions of customers.
• Change Agent: Evolves organizational structure, processes, and culture from 50 to 100+; experience with globally distributed engineering teams.
• Technology Strategist: Oversees complex technical deployments in mission-critical environments.

SALARY 💸

The Head of Engineering role may span a range of experience and expertise. During our interview process, we will review your background and local market data and use a mix of technical and qualitative assessments to determine where you fall in our range. We will discuss compensation in our first conversation and be transparent throughout the process about which level we think is the best match for you in our organization. 

Our starting salaries for this role range from $300,000-$350,000.  The salary range does not reflect total compensation, which includes base salary, an Executive Team Bonus, benefits, and company stock options.

BENEFITS 🎁

Taking Care of Your Future 🙏

• Medical, dental and vision insurance: 100% coverage for you, 75% coverage for all your dependents.

• Voluntary insurance: short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.

• 401(k) plan (we match 75 cents per dollar, up to 4% of your salary).

• Free access to Northstar, a financial wellness platform that provides financial advisors + personal finance tools.

Generous Time Off 🏝

• Flexible Time Off and 13 additional company holidays, plus your own Care Days, Flexible Holidays and a company-wide Winter Break.

• Generous parental, caregiver, healthcare, and compassionate leave policies.

Investing in Your Growth ✍️

• $3,000 per year towards your professional development.

• Free access to Calm and Taskhuman.

• Allyship education program to help build your best self.

Setting You Up For Success 🧑🏻‍💻👩🏾‍💻

• Custom MacBook Pro.

• $1,000 budget for workstation setup.

• $60/week for your lunches, groceries, or whatever nutrition you need to stay fueled up!

• Flexible spending accounts for commuter costs, dependent care, and healthcare expenses.

At Superhuman, we value diversity.  We are an equal opportunity employer: we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.