Engineering Director, Quizlet

Subscriptions

$220-300k

+ Company stock options

Senior and Expert level
Denver
San Francisco Bay Area
Quizlet

Learning tools for students and teachers

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Quizlet

Learning tools for students and teachers

201-500 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceEducationLearningSaaS

Be an early applicant

$220-300k

+ Company stock options

Senior and Expert level
Denver
San Francisco Bay Area

201-500 employees

B2CArtificial IntelligenceEducationLearningSaaS

Company mission

Quizlet's mission is to give every student the tools and confidence to succeed, no matter their motivation or what they’re striving to achieve.

Role

Who you are

  • 3+ years experience in a highly collaborative, growth-driven environment centered on subscriptions and payments
  • 5+ years experience successfully leading, managing, and coaching multiple engineering teams
  • 8+ years of hands on software development experience
  • You will be responsible for strategically developing and implementing plans to drive the success of the subscriptions Engineering organization
  • Strong interest in developing technical and people leaders, supporting career development
  • Infectious enthusiasm about building a highly successful and growing consumer business
  • Experience leading teams of 15+
  • Ability to develop a results-driven culture focused on core values of ownership and accountability

Desirable

  • “Freemium” or ads experience

What the job involves

  • In this critical leadership position, you'll be reporting to our VP of Product Engineering
  • You will work closely with your Business, Product, and Design counterparts as well as Data Science and Data Engineering peers to deliver a world-class consumer internet subscription experience (Quizlet Plus) that drives our large and growing business
  • Lead the cross functional engineering team responsible for critical user facing features, back-end services, and infrastructure
  • Prioritize short- and long-term goals, along with architectural trade-offs to ensure the team is able to deliver quality results while meeting the team’s deliverables
  • Collaborate and build strong cross-functional partnerships with Product Management, Design, and Business Operations
  • Ability to communicate and collaborate with across different functions and levels of the organization, including executive leadership team
  • Hire, coach, and promote a diverse and talented team of full stack engineers and managers
  • Be a critical leader contributing to Quizlet’s broader success

Our take

Quizlet has built a large-scale business around simple-to-share and simple-to-use products. Its free flashcard maker helps students prepare for exams. Those insights fuel Quizlet Plus, the startup’s subscription product that charges an annual fee for access to more features, including tutoring services.

After a long period of runaway growth, during which the company achieved a $1 billion valuation, Quizlet has been somewhat buffered by the general market downturn affecting the tech sector in 2022, which hit EdTech particularly heavily. It has responded by a shakeup of its leadership team, appointing AirBnB and Starship Technologies veteran Lex Bayer.

With an entrepreneurial management team and a strong user base of over 60 million students and teachers, Quizlet seems likely to weather the current economic situation and resume its growth in the near future.

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Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

75% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

May 2020

$30m

SERIES C

Feb 2018

$20m

SERIES B

Total funding: $62m

Company benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, vision and disability plans for you and your family. 100% paid premiums for employees, 75% for dependents
  • 20 days of PTO, 10 paid holidays, and 5 volunteer days
  • Generous family leave plan
  • $1,000 stipend each year for professional development
  • $100/month reimbursement towards wellness, plus memberships to physical & mental health resources
  • Stock options
  • 401k match
  • Free lunch and dinner, healthy snacks & drinks daily
  • Commuter Benefits - we'll help cover 50% of your public commuter & parking costs, plus pre-tax FSA.

Company values

  • Help students learn
  • Be curious
  • Move with purpose
  • Be an owner
  • Be tough on ideas

Company HQ

China Basin, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Dave Margulius

(Board Member)

Currently Advisor at Law Students for Climate Accountability. Previously on the Board of Directors at Churchill Club and Founder at Enterprise Insight.

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