Engineering Manager, Retool
Self-Serve
$188.4-251.9k
Low-code internal tools building software
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Low-code internal tools building software
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$188.4-251.9k
201-500 employees
Company mission
Retool's mission is to create the future of internal software by making software development for engineers simpler and more accessible.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of experience successfully leading and managing product engineering teams; teams that ship rapidly and embrace experimentation is a huge plus (think: Growth or New User Experience teams)
- Strong product sense, and the ability to take input and drive to decisions quickly
- While you're not expected to write code daily, your strong technical skills enable you to navigate our codebase and engage deeply on design and architecture
- Ability to manage stakeholders, communicate in a structured manner, and drive maximal accountability
- Successfully recruit, build, and scale teams: we expect our engineering managers to roll up their sleeves, whether it's jumping in to help with sourcing, crafting a job description like this one (hello from a fellow EM!), or selling candidates, it's on you to build your team
- Ability to operate as a business-owner, prioritizing business needs first-and-foremost, and making sure your teams deeply understand the business context in which they operate
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an Engineering leader to take full ownership of a critical piece of Retool’s strategy: our self-serve product experience
- At Retool, we expect a lot from our engineers: breaking down projects, making product decisions, and maintaining a relentless focus on shipping impactful work—and your primary responsibility will be in empowering, coaching, and rewarding your teams to do their best work
- Day one on the job will see you managing the existing team and hiring alongside recruiting partners to tackle business needs in tandem. You’ll also step into shaping key business and product decisions for Retool, where the line between PM and EM is intentionally blurred
- We'll expect you to prioritize requests, talk to customers, keep the energy and tempo up, and partner with ICs making technical decisions. But one thing is squarely your responsibility: people
- This isn’t your traditional 'growth' engineering team focused on making incremental changes or relying primarily on experiment results to inform decisions
- Yes, you will drive our experimentation culture here, but you’ll also be expected to leverage your product taste every step of the way to figure out how to show the power of Retool in just a few minutes tinkering with the product. And your ownership extends far beyond just onboarding
- This is foundational work, dedicated to the entire new user experience —from when a customer onboards to when they deploy their first application
- Manage and coach a fullstack team of engineers; support the team by identifying growth opportunities, providing continuous feedback, and performance management as needed
- Define your team ownership and boundaries to most effectively achieve outcomes for the business. You’ll work with the broader EM team to make sure your team is always positioned and staffed to do its best work
- Collaborate with product managers and product designers. We don’t do many “handoffs”—we expect you to build a deep partnership with your peers that is collaborative from idea to shipping to following up with customers
- Meet directly with our customers to better understand their needs, and partner deeply with our data teams
- Introduce scalable, repeatable processes that help engineering and product teams deliver a successful product
- Partner closely with recruiting to strategically scale your team, prioritizing the hiring of a diverse and driven group of engineers
Our take
Retool allows developers to build internal applications quickly using a complete set of ready-made building blocks. These internal applications can be used to display company data from a range of sources, including Redis, Salesforce, Google Cloud, and Slack.
For a monthly fee, the platform enables companies to save time that they would have otherwise spent on developing their own internal applications. Retool brands itself as 'low-code,' meaning that it is easy to use and customize. There is a huge demand for systems that allow teams to analyze the data they already have. Retool already counts brands such as Amazon, Philips, Peloton, NBC, and Mercedes-Benz as customers.
Retool was founded in 2017, and the company is now valued at over $1 billion. Founded by Oxford graduate David Hsu, the management team includes ex-Stripe and ex-Airbnb employees with plenty of experience in taking a company from a start-up to a global brand. Retool was awarded $45 million in Series C in 2022, which it is using to expand its workforce, tweak its platform, and develop new products.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2022
$45m
SERIES C
Dec 2021
$20m
SERIES C
Total funding: $165.2m
Company benefits
- Competitive healthcare, dental and vision benefits
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner at our San Francisco and New York offices
- $1,200 annual stipend for anything learning-related (books, conferences, classes, etc.)
- $1,000 work-from-home-setup stipend
- Flexible PTO
- Family planning support and paid parental leave
- 401(k) Matching
- Mental health and wellness benefits
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
David Hsu
(CEO)David studied Philosophy and Computer Science at the University of Oxford, before founding Retool in 2017. He has served as CEO ever since.
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