Engineering Manager

Posted Jul 31

Pitch is the collaborative presentation platform for modern teams. With a focus on real-time collaboration, smart workflows, and intuitive design features, we make it fast and delightful for teams to create and deliver beautiful presentations. Our presentation and template galleries give everyone the ability to publish their own standout work, learn from one another, and find the creative spark for their next presentation. Tens of thousands of teams have made the switch to Pitch, including top brands like Intercom, Superhuman, and Notion. We’ve raised over $135 million to date, and have been recognized by FT-backed Sifted as Europe's Top B2B Soonicorn in 2022. And we’re just getting started.

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to join our team onsite in Berlin or remote. As the leader of one of Engineering Foundation teams, you'll be responsible for sustainable growth of the team and providing the structures and guidance which drive improvement of team performance and wellbeing.

Curious about our engineering culture? Our CTO and co-founder Adam Renklint contributed a blog post that dives deep into our technical foundation, our iterative approach to development, and our philosophy on building a sustainable engineering culture that's all about joyful work. For further reading on our team's values, check out our Engineering Principles.

What you will do:

  • Implement strategies and processes which help engineers work effectively together, maintain a sustainable flow of work, and ensure the stability of the live systems.
  • Provide leadership on collaborative ways of working.
  • Provide feedback and set goals for your team to help them develop and grow.
  • Improve team performance by removing bottlenecks, minimising waste, optimising processes and reducing feedback loops.
  • Contribute to an effective and diverse recruiting pipeline, identify and develop the engineering talent of tomorrow.
  • Working with Product Management and Customer Experience to ensure your team has a suitable strategy to serve its business objectives
  • Own the roadmap for your engineering team and help the team drive technical initiatives to improve the efficiency, scalability, and maintainability of the codebase.
  • Guide the evolution of the practices and culture in the team, applying modern agile ways of working to help maintain a sustainable pace of work and foster a culture of self-improvement.

Who we're looking for:

  • You are an experienced manager of people and teams, with an established track record in software delivery, creating high performing teams, and supporting the growth of the people reporting to you. Bonus points for having done so in a fast-paced startup environment and having successfully solved many of the tough organisational challenges this environment poses.
  • You are product-oriented, combining thoughtfulness with pragmatism and a will to get stuff done.
  • You are calm and focused under pressure, and consider work-life balance essential for long-term happiness and productivity.
  • Having some experience with backend systems and/or cloud infrastructure would help you understand the work the team is doing.

Curious what it's like to work at Pitch? Find out more about how Pitch operates as a remote-first company through using powerful collaboration tools and dogfooding our own products!

Pitch was founded in Berlin, but as a remote-first company, our team works together from all over the world. With that mindset, we're building an inclusive workplace that invites diverse perspectives, and values talent from diverse personal and professional backgrounds. For more specifics on how we honour our commitment to diversity in our hiring process, check out our Recruiting D&I Pledge.

Sounds like a good fit? Join us on our mission to enable every team's best thinking - we look forward to hearing from you!

Not quite sure whether that's a role for you? No problem! If you can't find any open role that caught your eye, but are interested in working at Pitch, you can always submit your resume here. We will follow up as soon as we open up a position that matches your skillset and aspirations!