Head of Engineering, Growth

Head Of Engineering, Growth

Designed with simplicity in mind, Verkada's six product lines video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace, and intercoms provide unparalleled building security through an integrated, cloud-based software platform. Over 33,500 organizations, including 96 companies in the Fortune 500, across 93 countries worldwide trust Verkada as their physical security layer for easier management, intelligent control, and scalable deployments. Founded in 2016 with more than $700M in funding raised to-date, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 15 offices and 2,200+ full-time employees.

About The Role

As the Head Of Growth Engineering, you will report to the CMO to build and scale the core systems that fuel our go-to-market success. These are high scale, mission-critical systems that include a combination of homegrown applications and third-party software across various marketing and sales stacks. We are looking for a leader to take our amazing team to the next level, deploying next-generation software that redefines our go-to-market strategies and helps us make critical business decisions using the most accurate data possible.

What You'll Do

Oversee automation, data enrichment, experimentation, funnel optimization, and GTM software, with the core goal of scaling revenue and efficiency across our many growth channels.

Lead and grow an amazing team of 20+ software engineers, growth / data engineers, web engineers, data scientists, analytics engineers, and marketing technology / operations experts. You will have directors and managers reporting to you to oversee Frontend, Backend, Data Science, Analytics, and Marketing Technology / Operations teams.

Own evaluation, negotiations, and implementation of the marketing technology stack

Own the growth systems roadmap, including project prioritization and architecture of next-generation solutions

What You Bring

4-year degree from a top university

At least 10 years of engineering, data, marketing operations or similar experience

Your teams have driven mission-critical user growth, revenue growth, or other related monetization initiatives

You have a history of recruiting and managing high-caliber engineering talent, ideally with teams of 20 or more

You have a strong software engineering background, ideally in data, business systems, or related areas

You're comfortable reporting to and working very closely with both technical and non-technical C-level executives

You expertly balance both technical responsibilities, being hands on as needed, as well as high-level people management responsibilities

You're crafty / hacky and have a very strong first principles mentality

You're a good communicator, both written and verbal

Nice To Have

If you've worked with business systems like Hubspot or Marketo, Salesforce, or related middleware in the past.

If you've tackled challenging data initiatives across cross-functional teams, both technical and non-technical.

US Employee Benefits

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to :

Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans

Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage

Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options

Expanded mental health support

Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits

Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time

Professional development stipend

Fertility Stipend

Wellness / fitness benefits

Healthy lunches provided daily

Commuter benefits

Additional Information

We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.

Estimated Hourly Pay Range

$200,000 - $280,000 USD

Estimated Annual Pay Range

$250,000 - $400,000 USD

Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.