Senior Engineering Manager, Thumbtack

Marketing Tech

$214.2-308k

Salary dependent on location

Expert level
Remote in US
Thumbtack

Local services marketplace app

Job no longer available

Thumbtack

Local services marketplace app

1001+ employees

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Job no longer available

$214.2-308k

Salary dependent on location

Expert level
Remote in US

1001+ employees

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Company mission

Thumbtack's mission is to help homeowners care for their homes, all the way from minor retouching to fundamental remodelling projects.

Role

Who you are

  • Experience in a senior engineering management role
  • 10+ years experience building software at scale
  • Good knowledge of growth strategies and experience building and scaling growth teams
  • Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills
  • Passion for leading teams, setting vision, developing leaders and building highly functioning organizations
  • Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to achieve results
  • Stay up to date with innovation, able to guide technology evolution and not afraid to write code

Desirable

  • Experience at a growth-stage consumer tech company
  • Experience with a marketplace business
  • Experience in building marketing technology (martech)
  • Experience managing managers is a plus but not a must-have

What the job involves

  • In this role you will be leading the Marketing Tech engineering team that is directly responsible for Thumbtack’s customer growth
  • The team is highly interdisciplinary, encompassing engineers with a variety of skill sets including frontend engineering, backend engineering, data engineering and machine learning/optimizations
  • In this role, you’ll not only partner with product, design, data science and marketing leads to develop and execute on a growth strategy for Thumbtack, but also help build critical infrastructure and systems that power that growth and enable the team to move fast
  • Build and grow an amazing engineering organization with a strong culture of balancing excellence with moving fast. The team is currently at 10 engineers and will grow quickly
  • Hire and support senior technical leaders within the team to scale the organization in the coming months to achieve aggressive growth goals across existing and emerging channels
  • Partner closely with marketing leads to understand their needs and priorities, and work with engineering, product, design and analytics teams to craft a compelling vision and long term strategy for growth
  • Set the team up for excellence in execution and anticipate and plan ahead for infrastructure the team needs to build for long term success. This infrastructure could be backend systems, machine learning models, frontend infrastructure for fantastic pagespeed, or experimental infrastructure to enable rapid testing and prototyping of onboarding flows within our native apps
  • Work closely with other engineering leaders to evolve and continually improve Thumbtack’s engineering culture in a high paced growth environment

Otta's take

Theo Margolius headshot

Theo Margolius

COO of Otta

ThumbTack is a local services marketplace app that pairs customers with skilled professionals. Instead of simply searching for a professional, users provide ThumbTack with details of the job they need completing and the professionals then pitch their services to the potential customer using credits. ThumbTack makes its money by charging the professional for these credits.

It positions itself as something a little different in a saturated local services space that is dominated by companies like Angie’s List, TaskRabbit, Yelp, eBay, and Amazon. It also focuses on a broad range of professionals, from traditional home services like electricians and painters to photographers, personal trainers, and birthday party magicians.

The COVID-19 pandemic saw a boost in business for ThumbTack as more people stayed at home and made changes to their properties, increasing the demand for home professionals. In fact, after 2019, the company doubled in value to $3.2 billion with its 2021 raise. Now its updated app has 30 new features, and the company is partnering with the likes of trade-powering platform and Unicorn ServiceTitan, indicating Thumbtack's sustained sway in the market.

Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-5% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)

Jun 2021

$275m

LATE VC

Jul 2019

$150m

SERIES F

Total funding: $699.4m

Company benefits

  • Parental leave
  • Health insurance
  • Community matters | Sure, our ways of connecting have changed. But we haven’t missed a beat, from virtual concerts to “TTversary” celebrations to weekly catch-ups
  • Always be improving | We bring out the best in our colleagues — and our product — by pushing each beyond what we believe we’re capable of. We give honest feedback, even when it’s hard
  • Wellness is a way of life | We promote balance with generous PTO and company-wide holidays — and find our centers every Wellness Wednesday with yoga featuring a Thumbtack pro
  • A worthy mission | In a world where tech is often seen as eroding good jobs, we’re helping small business owners thrive. Our product makes entrepreneurship accessible to everyone
  • Driven by our values | Our values are the compass by which we make all our decisions. Each one matters: Lead with why, Make it count, Own it, Choose teamwork, and Say what you mean
  • Plus, amazing benefits | All the benefits you’d expect, plus a few more: generous parental and fertility benefits, $1800 for Thumbtack services per year and a $1200 remote work stipend
  • Virtual-first working model coupled with quarterly in-person events and Camp Thumbtack
  • 20+ company-wide holidays including two week-long shutdowns
  • Libraries (collaborative workspaces) in San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Toronto, and Manila
  • Cell phone and WiFi reimbursements
  • Subscriptions and Employee Assistance Program for mental health and well-being

Company values

  • Purpose - lead with why
  • Impact - make it count
  • Responsibility - own it
  • Collaboration - choose teamwork
  • Communication - say what you mean

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

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Founders

Having studied at Columbia University, Marco co-founded Thumbtack in August 2008. He has served as CEO since January 2009.

Jonathan started his career creating financial market reports for the White House before co-founding Thumbtack in 2008. Currently Founder at Powerset and Athena.

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