Director, Product Engineering

🚀 About Pulley

Pulley's mission is to make it easier for anyone to start a company. We believe that more startups should exist and that founder-led companies are more successful in the long term. With Pulley’s cap table management tools, companies can better understand and optimize their equity for the long term. Starting a company is hard enough. Managing equity shouldn’t be. 

We’re a high-performing team looking for passionate, execution-focused, self-starters to help us build equity management tools for founders. Pulley is growing quickly with over 3000 customers including unicorns like Clubhouse, Birdies, and Coda - all within our first year of product launch. Our trajectory is fueled by top investors like Founder's Fund, Stripe, General Catalyst, Caffeinated Capital, 8vc, Elad Gil, among other great angels. All of our growth has been organic, and we’re growing the team to meet the demand.

🌟 Who We're Looking For

We are looking for a seasoned Engineering leader to join our product development leadership team. One key aspect of this role involves working closely with product management to translate user needs into tangible engineering objectives. You'll also be responsible for implementing best practices and enhancing the execution capabilities of our engineering team, thus preparing us for rapid growth while ensuring efficient product development.

Your position will require strategic engagement with executives beyond product development. Initially, you will be a direct sponsor for all initiatives that are driving the expansion of Pulley’s addressable market.

A key element of your role will be nurturing an inclusive team culture that values open communication, collaboration, continuous learning, and development. You will also mentor other Engineering Managers, enhancing the team's overall leadership capabilities and cohesion.

💻 Our stack:

• Frontend: React

• Backend: Go

🛠 Responsibilities

• Ensure the quality of engineering output is consistently at a high bar

• Attract and develop talent within product engineering

• Prioritize ruthlessly: Establish clear goals, manage timelines, and ensure timely delivery against milestones

• Collaborate closely with other teams and departments (e.g. product management, design, and customer success) for collective company success

• Identify and alleviate potential technical and product-related risks

• Lead product engineering to strategize and scale Pulley's products

• Cultivate healthy decision-making environments that consistently lead to efficient and optimal team choices

• Manage resource requirements for your sponsored areas

• Maintain consistent, high-quality engineering output

🙌 Qualifications & Fit

• Strong alignment with Pulley's culture (especially first principles thinking) and a strong team player. You are comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment, where ambiguity is common.

• Proactive and flexible mentality, with the initiative to drive success in a startup setting.

• Deep knowledge of software development and engineering best practices. This includes but is not limited to expertise in software architecture, coding, testing, and deployment.

• A passion for setting teams up for success. You guide your teams to develop valuable skill sets, clarify the significance of their work, and operate autonomously within clear guardrails.

• A seasoned professional with over 10 years of experience in software engineering, including at least 5 years in a leadership or management role.

💚 Benefits

We are a remote-first team with an office in San Francisco. We do an annual team offsite to get the team together!

US-Based Benefits:

• Health, Dental, and Vision insurance

• Unlimited PTO: 10 Days guaranteed

• Pulley Perks: Health & Wellness Stipend, Learning & Development Stipend, WFH Stipend

• 401(k) We'll match your contributions up to 100% on the first 3% deferred and 50% on contributions between 3% and 5%.

✨ Our Culture

TL&DR - Pulley is not a good fit for everyone, and that’s OK. This is a bit about the culture of Pulley. We need people who aren’t just interested in working at a startup; we need people who are excited about building a great company. In addition to function-specific skills, here are some traits that enable our team members to thrive:

• First Principles Thinking -- We believe in breaking down problems into their most basic parts. We don’t reject ideas because they haven’t worked before. We understand “why did certain things work?” and apply it to our situation.

• Ship It & Iterate -- Shipping is the starting line for learning. Ship something, talk to users, get feedback, and iterate. We focus on the inputs - on what we can control - not the outcomes. We take our best bets, and don’t fixate on the finish line.

• Boldly Honest & Aggressively Considerate -- Being boldly honest means we push one another to act from first principles, set and hit goals, and ruthlessly prioritize. Being aggressively considerate means we care about each other as humans to win as a team. We speak up and embrace feedback.

• Default Yes -- We believe that something is possible unless proven otherwise. Hard problems are often solved by people who didn’t know it was impossible.

We’re also inspired by the culture work done at other companies and plan to develop our own playbook here too. One of the concepts that resonate most with us is the importance of stunning colleagues.

If you like the sound of our environment and you’re passionate about joining a team like the one we’ve described, we'd love to talk!

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $200,000 - $250,000 + equity + benefits.

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.