📬 About Stable
Our mission is to make it simple to headquarter any business on the internet. Today, we provide companies with a business address and a dashboard to manage their physical mail online. Over 6000+ companies like Gitlab, Glassdoor, and Indiegogo use Stable to automate their mailroom and act as their permanent business address with the IRS, state, and vendors.
The rules that regulate US entities were written in the 1800s. Stable abstracts these antiquated requirements with tools that empower modern companies to move forward faster.
These rules don't make sense for the way we work today — work takes place in the cloud and businesses are no longer tied to physical proximity or geography.
We’re on a mission to fix the broken system of entity management. Starting with business addresses and mail, we’re abstracting the complex, archaic systems that make company-building painful and turning them into delightful experiences — so that modern businesses have the tools they need to move forward faster.
We're backed by leading Silicon Valley investors like Y Combinator, Craft Ventures, Shakti, Hustle Fund, and founders from companies like Lattice, Apartment List, and FlexJobs.
Our business is at an inflection point. We’re growing quickly with a product people love and we’ve proven we can service companies of all stages and industries — from early-stage startups to mid-market companies in industries like technology, logistics, and property management.
This is an opportunity to join an early-stage startup as one of the first employees and have work that directly impacts the future of how companies are built.
👩💻👨💻 Role
As the first engineering manager at Stable you will have the opportunity to create a product team, process, and culture that will scale with the next stage of our business. You will empower our team to continue to deliver a product our customers love.
We believe great products are built with empathy — your job will be to meet, learn from, and master our customer so you can build solutions that solve their problems.
Here are a few examples of your core responsibilities:
- Build a world-class team — Mentor and empower team members to be effective project drivers and technical contributors while maintaining a high bar for excellence; embody a no task is too small mindset.
- Contribute to the product strategy and product vision — Gain a deep understanding of our users by interacting with them regularly. Use these learning to form product opinions while teaching team members how to conduct customer interviews, user testing, and data analysis.
- Drive long-term technical decisions — Use your understanding of our product strategy, vision, and roadmap to drive architecture, data model, and systems level design decisions. Improve the quality of our code base by setting standards and reviewing technical implementation plans, PRs, and product briefs.
This role is ideal for product minded engineering leaders invigorated by empowering teams, solving difficult problems, and building software with a large impact. You’ll be one of the first engineering managers at an early-stage startup, and should be excited to apply your analytical, hacker-first, mindset towards problems of all types.
😀 What you value
- Be human: Lead with empathy, act with authenticity, and enjoy what you do.
- Stay curious: Invent novel solutions by asking why, listening, and tinkering.
- Act quickly with purpose: Focus on what matters, iteratively improve, and move urgently towards the goal.
- Insist on exceptional outcomes: Strive for excellence and take ownership over the outcomes you deliver.
- Exceed customer expectations: Create delightful experiences with each interaction.
✅ What You'll Do
- Mentor and empower team members to be effective project drivers and technical contributors
- Recruit and retain exceptional talent in line with our company values
- Maintain a high bar for excellence — effectively communicate how each team member is performing against their responsibilities and expectations
- Champion those that are excelling, support those with room for growth
- Directly manage 4 - 7 team members
- Form a deep understanding of our users by interacting with them regularly — sit in on sales, partnership, and CX conversations
- Communicate with customers, triage feedback, handle requests, and set expectations
- Improve the product skill set of the team by teaching how to conduct customer interviews, user testing, and data analysis
- Develop a strong sense for good design and teach others how to spot the same
- Ensure projects have direction and are delivered on time
- Unblock projects and work cross-functionally by taking direction from project drivers to complete non-technical work
- Use your understanding of our product strategy, vision, and roadmap to drive architecture, data model, and systems level design decisions
- Improve our code base by setting standards and reviewing technical implementation plans, PRs, and product briefs
- Help run sprints, maintain and groom our backlog, keep track of technical debt, and advocate for developer improvements
- When possible, join projects as a contributor and deploy code to production
✨ Requirements
- 5+ years of full-stack engineering experience
- 2+ year of experience managing people or teams
- 1+ year of product experience
- A deep desire to empower teams and build a world-class product
🎁 What we offer
- Competitive salary and generous equity 🚀
- Unlimited vacation-time 🏖
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance 🏥
- Home office set-up 🖥
- Work from anywhere within US time zones (GMT-5 to GMT-10) 💻
- Opportunities to shape the future of Stable 💌
