Senior Engineering Manager - Product-Led Growth

Octopus Deploy sets the standard for Continuous Delivery empowering software teams to deliver value in an agile way. Over 4000 organizations globally –  including Ubisoft ASOS Xero monday.com Stack Overflow NASA and Disney – rely on our Continuous Delivery GitOps and release orchestration solutions.

Founded in Australia in 2012 our team of over 300 Octonauts now spans the globe. We combine high growth and big ambitions with a sustainable balanced working environment. Our revenue has grown consistently between 30–50% every year for the past 8 years and we’ve been profitable for 10 out of the past 11 years.

We’ve been remote-first since 2015 and work with an uncommon level of transparency. You can read our public handbook to learn how we work. We have a transparent approach to compensation that ensures people doing the same work with the same skill get paid the same with well-defined career pathways. We foster a supportive collaborative and high-trust environment. We leave our job titles at the door and focus on doing what’s best for our customers and team. Our leaders never shy away from answering the tough questions at our all-hands calls or in 1:1s. We conduct interviews and onboarding virtually as part of being a remote-first company.

The Opportunity to Make Your Mark

As the Senior Engineering Manager you'll use your leadership skills and empathy to build a new team focused on Product-Led Growth. With the support of your Product Manager and Product Marketing Manager you'll help set the team's goals and direction. You'll work closely with teams across the company including Sales Marketing and Data to run experiments and find the best ways to succeed together.

Why this job is exciting:

• You’ll have the opportunity to create a sustainable high-performing team of autonomous workers holding them accountable for their results and letting them manage how they get there.

• Your team will focus on improving our product-led growth motion a strategically important part of our growing and profitable company.

• We offer great benefits including generous laptop and home office allowances plus stock options!

• We value transparency and fairness in every aspect of our business. For example our executive leadership team shares monthly updates on company performance and our pay structures are designed to pass the printer test.

• Trust and autonomy. Octonauts are treated like adults and are trusted to find the best way to work for the task at hand without managers looking over their shoulder.

• You’ll join a high-growth company with numerous opportunities to learn and advance your career.

• Remote first: work from wherever you feel most productive.

• We are a supportive company where everyone’s contribution is valued.

• We respect and encourage work/life balance.

A typical day might include:

• Working flexibly in your home office using a device of your choice with or without music in an atmosphere you create for yourself.

• Clarifying the goals roles development and execution plans for your team.

• Helping your team understand our strategy and how they contribute to the big picture.

• Proactively coaching people remotely accelerating them along their personal growth trajectory.

• Contributing positively to how we approach people and culture in the engineering team including attracting and growing talent supporting those who are thriving and also those who are struggling building our culture and fostering great career growth.

A typical day might include:

• Has a well-equipped managerial toolbox and experience leading a large team of engineers delivering business impact.

• Has a technical background in software engineering or a deep understanding of low-level technical concepts like networking application architecture and/or databases.

• Thrives on exploration and experimentation to discover iterative improvements that will have a lasting impact.

• Can independently identify and tackle projects that solve open-ended ambiguous problems that are often beyond the scope of your immediate team.

• Will take accountability for the people in your team the way they work and the results they deliver.

• Can identify and diagnose problems and proactively create solutions to ensure a team performs at its best.

• Will autonomously guide your team to the sustainable delivery of business impact.

• Can confidently coach developers at any level to reach their full potential.

• Can confidently help your team navigate their way through large organisational change.

• Gives and receives 'radically candid' feedback that challenges and demonstrates care.

• Is or strives to be a champion for diversity equity and inclusion.

Compensation

Octopus has an internally open and transparent system for compensation . Any Octonaut can view the compensation for any role at any level. This ensures people doing the same work with the same skill get paid the same.

The compensation for this role is:

Level 5 (Senior Engineering Manager): Maturing: $205k AUD / $220k NZD Performing: $215k AUD / $230k NZD

Benefits include a minimum of 25 days annual leave up to 10 days of paid sick and carers leave 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave with flexible return options and stock options. Learn more .

Interview Process

Below is the interview process you can expect for this role. We know interviewing can seem daunting but rest assured we designed our interview process to move quickly while still getting you all the information you need.

Step 1 [30m] – 👋 Introduction and Recruiter Screen

Step 2 [90m] – ☕️ Cultural Interview with 2 senior engineering leaders at Octopus where we delve into your management experience – you will receive a preview of the questions we might ask in advance. We will also take time to answer your questions.

Step 3 [40m] – 💻 Technical Interview with a Principal Engineer and the Technical Lead from the team you will be joining. You will not be required to write code. Instead they will be looking to see that you can understand and communicate technical concepts clearly. We are hoping to simulate a real-life discussion of the sort that you may have with the engineers in your team to ensure that everyone can understand each other and work well together. The discussion will centre on one or more of the products or teams you have led in the past.

Step 4 [30m] – 👥 Final Team Interview – we introduce you to some of our cross-functional team members. This interview allows our engineers to build a sense of agency over who will be leading and managing them. It is also another chance to ask us questions on top of your mind and learn from various perspectives and experiences of folks on the team.

Our public employee handbook is the best place to learn more about life at Octopus. It includes our values how we structure teams career progression leave and benefits and much more.

If you're enthusiastic about this position even if you don’t meet all the criteria above we wholeheartedly encourage you to submit your application. Our talent team is in-house and we recognize that every individual brings something unique. We take the time to review every application and consider how you might add to the team.

We know your time is precious. If you apply we promise to update you at least once per week about the status of your application and to give you clear expectations for each step in the journey.

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• Poor spelling and grammar in emails or official-looking documents.

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• Pressure to act quickly or threats of losing the opportunity if immediate action is not taken.

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