About the company
Asana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named to Fortune's Best Workplaces for 7+ years and recognized by Fast Company, Forbes, and Gartner for excellence in workplace culture and innovation.
Responsibilities
- Translate overarching company strategy into actionable engineering and operating plans in close collaboration with cross-functional partners.
- Design and build lightweight operating models, frameworks, and processes to optimize engineering execution and delivery, integrating evolving AI agentic engineering workflows.
- Hire, mentor, and lead a high-performing, global team of engineering operations professionals and Technical Program Managers to steer complex horizontal programs.
- Oversee financial and resource governance, including budget management, program spend, headcount strategy, and vendor/tooling allocations across public cloud and LLMs.
- Define and own the engineering metrics program (KPIs covering delivery, quality, reliability, efficiency, and capacity) to deliver data-driven insights to leadership.
- Serve as a trusted proxy and connective tissue for the CTO and R&D leadership, driving clear engineering communication strategies, roadmap reviews, QBRs, and all-hands forums.
- Cultivate engineering enablement by overseeing robust onboarding programs, learning initiatives, and knowledge-sharing opportunities.
Requirements
- Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making.
- Bring 8+ years of experience in engineering operations, technical program management, chief-of-staff, or strategy & operations roles, ideally supporting a large software engineering organization.
- Possess a proven track record of driving complex, cross-functional initiatives to successful completion within a fast-paced environment.
- Exhibit strong financial and analytical fluency, with comfort owning a budget, building headcount models, and transforming complex data into clear, actionable dashboards.
- Demonstrate exceptional technical fluency with an understanding of the software development lifecycle and the ability to quickly master emerging tools and new domains.
- Show outstanding written and verbal communication skills, capable of tailoring messaging seamlessly from executive summaries to deep operational reviews.
- Operate with exceptional organization, strong judgment, and the independent drive necessary to navigate ambiguity successfully.
Conditions
- This role is based in our San Francisco or Vancouver office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays.
- For this role, the estimated base salary range is between $250,000 - $330,000.
- In addition to base salary, your compensation package may include additional components such as equity, sales incentive pay (for most sales roles), and benefits.
- We strive to provide equitable and competitive benefits packages that support our employees worldwide and include: mental health, wellness & fitness benefits; career coaching & support; inclusive family building benefits; long-term savings or retirement plans; in-office culinary options to cater to your dietary preferences.