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Asana Inc
Asana Inc
Develops enterprise focused collaboration software.
| Year Established: | 2009 |
| Funding: | 10.2 |
| Address: | Menlo Park, CA 94025 |
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| Company URL: | http://www.asana.com |
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jobs@asana.com Joining the Team
We are passionate about changing the world through great software and were looking for exceptional people to join us. Were taking an unusual approach to building the company: assemble a relatively small tightly knit collective of extraordinarily talented peers while pursuing impact and revenue goals typically associated with large hierarchical enterprises. By keeping the company small communication overhead costs are reduced individual contributors can have greater ownership and input into decisions than is possible in traditionally-structured corporations and life is generally more pleasant.
General Requirements:
- Passion
- Earnestness
- Honesty
- Deep care about users and the user experience
- Fearlessness working outside your comfort zone
- Love of work as an end in itself not just as a means toward an end
- Ability to admit when wrong
- Patience with others
- Impatience with technology
- Meta skills
Generally Desirable:
- Obsessed with systems for personal (and team) productivity
- Renaissance person who can wear many hats
- Intellectual breadth beyond software
- Eloquence
- Entrepreneurial (we hope Asana will serve as a first-class entrepreneur apprenticeship program)
- Many people would describe you as the best coder/designer/businessperson they know
- Sense of humor
We dont have titles at Asana but these are roughly the kinds of people for which were looking:
| Developer | Designer | Businessperson |
As knowledge workers we and our loved ones spend most of our time living in programs (email calendar document editors etc.) that help us move and manage data. This is your opportunity to make that environment better more usable and more humane.
The Asana product goals present design challenges that are complex and exciting. Designing systems that are at once abstract enough to accommodate a large variety of data models yet specific enough to be usable for accomplishing individual user goals is challenging. To achieve flexibility you may need to design entire pattern languages interface elements that can be recombined recursively to accommodate user-constructed data worlds.
Asana recognizes the critical role of design as an equal partner to coding in the creation of computer artifacts.
Requirements:
- Skill and passion for a large portion of the design spectrum (information architecture interaction design graphic design)
- Ability to hand-code HTML/CSS with ease
- Enough JavaScript ability to simulate the experience of your design in detail
- A thirst for critical feedback and the ability to really listen to it and incorporate it into designs
- Ability to tell a story and build consensus around it
Desirable:
- Solid foundation in computer science
- Interest in visual arts outside of UI design
- Experience conducting usability studies
- Interest in ethnography
As knowledge workers we and our loved ones spend most of our time living in programs (email calendar document editors IDEs etc.) that help us move and manage data. This is your opportunity to make that environment better faster and more humane.
Were working on hard engineering problems in everything from algorithms to programming languages compilers databases web technologies sync human-computer interaction scalability and systems architecture. Weve worked on challenging projects in the past but this one has consistently pushed our intellectual capabilities to the limits. We think this makes it more fun to come to work in the morning and makes a programmer feel more like a craftsman than a mechanic.
Were focused on disciplined application of best practices. We want a codebase and an engineering culture that are a joy to work in. Both founders are engineers and Asana will remain a product/technology-focused company.
Requirements:
- Capable of "great feats of software"
- Deriving joy from abstracting and refactoring
- Eagerness to roll up your sleeves and tackle the elusive dirty problems
- Sound judgment for balancing between idealism and pragmatism
Desirable:
- Deep knowledge of front-end Web technologies
- Passion for programming languages compilers databases
- Experience with functional or declarative programming languages
- Interest in both the nitty gritty and the big picture
- Interest in both coding and leadership
- Have built task managers before out of fun and/or frustration
A versatile leader who can oversee operations internally and represent Asana at an executive level externally. You will be the primary advisor to the founders on strategy and point-person for execution freeing them to focus on product and technology.
You will be responsible for helping with everything from high-level brand strategy to tweaking marketing copy from closing early deals to building the sales team from recruiting world-class talent to developing a culture in which they can thrive from galvanizing the press to inspiring passion in your teammates.
Requirements:
- Significant experience in making companies successful
- Monomaniacal execution ability
- Contagious excitement
- Ability to translate broad vision into decisive action
- Capacity to understand others and make them feel understood
Desirable:
- Held senior positions in (enterprise) software companies
- Broad personal network of potential coworkers customers and partners
- Strong product intuition
- Software engineering background
We aim (in the words of Masaru Ibuka) to "establish a place of work where engineers can feel the joy of technological innovation be aware of their mission to society and work to their hearts content." You should be ready to make Asana a primary focus of your life. We will be working together eating together and playing together so you must be in or willing to relocate to the Bay Area. (We will help cover moving costs.)
Interested? Or curious enough that you want to learn more even if you already like what youre doing? Email us at jobs@asana.com and tell us a little about yourself.
Know someone else whod be a great fit? If your referral is hired we will thank you in the form of cash or equity.
Perks
- Small company with respectful rational chill peers. We are as dedicated to building a great culture as we are to building a great product.
- Medical dental vision and life insurance coverage.
- In-house yoga. Every week we do yoga as a group including +1s with a private instructor. (Optional but pretty awesome.)
- Organic homecooked meals twice a day.
- Three 30" monitors. Actually we let you spend up to $10K on your setup however you think best.
Andreessen Horowitz,Benchmark Capital
Dustin Moskovitz is the co-founder of Facebook and was a key leader within the technical staff, first in the position of CTO and then later as VP of Engineering. Dustin attended Harvard University as an Economics major for two years before moving to Palo Alto, California to work full-time at Facebook.
Justin Rosenstein last worked at Facebook as a tech lead and engineering manager on projects from presence solutions for businesses to back-end site-performance to front-end abstractions. Prior to that, he was a product manager at Google for three years, leading projects in Google's communication and collaboration division. Before that, he majored in math and got part way through a master's in computer science at Stanford.
Malcolm Handley worked at Google on Android, focusing on its support for syncing data with the Internet, after working on Google Earth and Mobile Maps. Prior to that he studied computer science in New Zealand and then worked at There.com.
Greg Slovacek worked at Google on vertical search experiences within Calendar and Maps, in addition to working on Flu Trends and the accounts system. He was previously an engineer at There.com and studied computer science at Brown University.
Jerry Phillips is Asana's office manager, administrative assistant, and part-time muse, bringing comfort, creativity, and efficiency to both our physical and intellectual space. Jerry holds a B.A. in Psychology from Stanford University.
Jack Stahl was a Yelp team member prior to joining Asana. There, he helped foster the search and data team and coded on such projects as search quality, Review Highlights, and Yelp's infamous Review Filter. At Stanford, Jack majored in math before sticking around for a master's in computer science.
Avital Oliver worked in a great variety of environments since he started coding as a child, including a large-scale re-implementation of the Israeli Air Force tactical information system. As a life-long lover of mathematics, he founded the School of Mathematics in Brooklyn, an environment where anyone can study, discuss, explore and experience mathematics. He holds a bachelor's in computer science and a master's in mathematics.
Kris Rasmussen most recently was the chief architect at Aptana where he led engineering and product efforts on a new set of developer services. He is also the co-founder of Rivalmap, an enterprise collaboration company, and has worked for a number of other software companies in leadership and engineering roles including Microsoft. Kris studied computer science and math at UCLA.
Geoff Schmidt previously was CEO of Mixapp, which writes realtime social music software. He was one of the inventors of audio fingerprinting; co-wrote Miro, the open-culture video platform; and was a principal at Auburn Quad, which designed and managed a $100 million online political fundraising platfrom. Extracurricularly he's organized everything from political campaigns to underground artist cooperatives. Geoff studied at MIT and has a background in artifical intelligence.