Salesforce Senior Director Engineering Quip 

United States, California, San Francisco 

877481429

Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

We are seeking a Senior Director of Engineering to oversee our Quip Product Engineering team within the Productivity engineering organization. Quip works with and supports through our Slack organization. This critical role will lead a team focused on developing and maintaining essential features that enable Quip's most significant and active customers to effectively collaborate and operate their businesses. The ideal candidate will excel at:

• Providing strategic direction and support to help the team address crucial business challenges
• Mentoring engineering managers and engineers in their professional development
• Making informed decisions to optimize project priorities, team engagement, technical sustainability, and customer satisfaction

Our goal is to create an AI-powered integrated productivity suite that helps people bring more work into Slack. We'll bring together meetings, documents, tasks and email from all of your tools into one simple, pleasant, first-party experience in Slack. The experience will be thoughtful, simple, and easy to use that exceeds the bar for craft and quality.
Key Responsibilities:

• Create and execute plans to improve how we support our engineering teams through both immediate solutions and long-term strategies
• Foster an environment where team members can openly discuss and learn from technical issues
• Find and address ways to help engineering teams improve their system reliability, performance, and efficiency
• Plan and deliver system improvements that enhance features, scalability and dependability for our customers while making it easier for engineering teams to deploy code safely
• Work across departments to complete major projects successfully
• Maintain clear communication with team members and leadership at all levels
• Help other engineers and teams adopt best practices for system reliability through mentoring and guidance
  

Required Qualifications:

• Engineering management experience of 15+ years, with preference for those who have led frontend, backend, and infrastructure teams
• Proven experience collaborating with customers, executives, and business stakeholders
• Track record of successfully managing multiple teams and direct reports simultaneously
• Experience owning a product or product feature from zero to launch
• Strong technical foundation enabling effective mentorship and team leadership
• Demonstrated success in setting and tracking team objectives (OKRs) and metrics
• Commitment to and experience with inclusive hiring and team-building practices
• Superior critical thinking and communication abilities
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to effectively manage competing priorities and make clear decisions
• Comfortable operating at both strategic and tactical levels
• Strong business acumen and ability to balance technical and business considerations
• Proven track record managing production SaaS environments

Preferred Qualifications:

• Cloud platform experience, particularly with AWS
• Expertise in continuousintegration/deploymentand system observability
• Experience developing development platforms and services (e.g., microservices, APIs)

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