Engineering Manager, Enterprise Services Management

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Asana seeks an Engineering Manager for Enterprise Service Management in Vancouver, a 0→1 product focused leadership role guiding a 6–8 engineer team building an AI platform that connects IT HR and Support workflows. You will balance technical depth with rapid product delivery, shape the roadmap, mentor engineers, and partner with product design and user research while staying close to customers. Requirements include 5+ years, 2+ years managing engineers, a track record scaling products, and cross-functional communication with a curious AI mindset. Apply by tailoring your resume to highlight AI workflows and SaaS impact, translating customer pain into MVPs, and demonstrating comfort with ambiguity and hybrid work. The recruiter will discuss compensation.

Asana is building its next major business line: Enterprise Service Management, powered by AI agents and tightly integrated with Asana’s Work Graph. This is a 0→1 opportunity to define how IT, HR, and Support teams resolve work, automate workflows, and connect tickets to projects in a modern, AI-native platform. We’re looking for a hands-on, product-focused Engineering Manager to lead and grow the team and deliver high quality products. This role is ideal for someone who loves ambiguity, builds quickly, learns from customers, and has experience shaping AI agentic workflows, IT/service automation tools, or adjacent enterprise SaaS products.

In your role, you will be instrumental in balancing deep technical investments with rapid product delivery, fostering a culture of collaboration and technical excellence, and ensuring your engineers are closely connected to the needs of our customers. You will play a key role in defining the team’s long-term roadmap, mentoring your group of engineers, and partnering cross-functionally to conceive and deliver delightful products.

This role is based in our 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. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements.

What you’ll achieve:

1. Manage and coach 6–8 engineers, fostering an inclusive culture and establishing team rituals that drive both excellence and professional growth.
2. Partner with product, design, and UXR to translate customer pain points into a reliable, technical MVP and a scalable architectural roadmap.
3. Collaborate with cross-functional partners managers to balance large-scale feature launches with iterative, daily product enhancements.
4. Guide the articulation and execution of the team’s future roadmap and ensure the team’s work ties back into high-level business goals
5. Spend significant time with customers to validate technical feasibility and co-develop workflows that solve real-world problems.

About you:

• 5+ years of relevant experience with 2+ years managing a technical team, and a demonstrated track record of growing engineers across levels
• Earns trust quickly — bringing the intelligence, empathy, and technical depth to go deep on architecture, flows, and tradeoffs alongside a sharp engineering team.
• Has built and scaled new products or incubations before, operating with urgency and resourcefulness, pushing through ambiguity without needing perfect structure.
• Thrives in customer conversations and translates qualitative insights into crisp product decisions, energized by solving real operational pain, not just shipping features.
• Clear, persuasive communicator who can bring structure to ambiguous spaces and align engineering, design, product, and exec stakeholders around a coherent direction.
• Deeply curious about AI and emerging technologies, actively leveraging them to elevate product experiences, sharpen decision-making, and move faster.
• Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making.

At Asana, we're committed to building teams that include a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, as this is critical to helping us achieve our mission. If you're interested in this role and don't meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

What we’ll offer

Our comprehensive compensation package plays a big part in how we recognize you for the impact you have on our path to achieving our mission. We believe that compensation should be reflective of the value you create relative to the market value of your role. To ensure pay is fair and not impacted by biases, we're committed to looking at market value which is why we check ourselves and conduct a yearly pay equity audit.

For this role, the estimated base salary range is between $202,000 - $223,000 CAD. The actual base salary will vary based on various factors, including market and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. The listed range above is a guideline, and the base salary range for this role may be modified.

In addition to base salary, your compensation package may include additional components such as equity, sales incentive pay (for most sales roles), and benefits. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role.

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 

These are just some of the benefits we offer, and benefits may vary based on role, country, and local regulations. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role.

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About us

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. We offer an exceptional office-centric culture while adopting the best elements of hybrid models to ensure that every one of our global team members can work together effortlessly. With 13+ offices all over the world, we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world and a culture where everyone feels that they belong.

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