Staff Software Engineer, Growth (Self Serve)
About The Position
Vanta’s Growth group helps prospects evaluate and try Vanta, helps new customers reach value faster, and supports existing customers as they expand. The group improves discovery, trials, onboarding, purchasing, upgrades, and renewals, including the path to a customer’s first compliance milestone. It also builds shared capabilities that allow other product teams to own and improve customer journeys. The team uses customer feedback and product data to identify where changes can have the greatest impact. As a Staff Software Engineer in Growth, you will turn important customer and business goals into working product and platform capabilities. You will own technical direction for major initiatives, shape architecture, scope, sequencing, and dependencies, and align partners on goals and tradeoffs. You will lead multi-team work from problem framing through launch and adoption, build foundational components hands-on, and give other engineers meaningful ownership so the work continues to improve after launch. Staff Software Engineers at Vanta lead strategically important technical work and deliver meaningful customer and business outcomes. They combine deep technical contribution with cross-team influence by clarifying ambiguous problems, setting direction, and helping others build effectively.
Requirements
- Demonstrated Staff-level technical leadership turning ambiguous goals into shipped, adopted results across multiple teams.
- Ability to show technical decisions owned, hands-on contributions, and how the work continued to deliver value.
- Strong product judgment and experience building customer-facing SaaS products.
- Ability to use customer insight and quantitative signals to assess product outcomes and guide iteration.
- Ability to develop other engineers through ownership, coaching, and feedback so they can lead important work independently.
- Comfort working through ambiguity, learning unfamiliar domains, and making progress with a bias toward action.
- Uses AI in day-to-day work to amplify skills and strengthen outcomes, experiments to build fluency, and applies sound judgment to ensure AI-assisted work meets a high quality bar.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building across growth, onboarding, activation, or self-service journeys.
- Interest in learning about security and compliance; prior experience is not required.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve reliable customer-facing software and shared platform capabilities using TypeScript, React, and Node.js.
- Use customer research and product analytics to identify friction across evaluation, trials, onboarding, first value, purchasing, and expansion, and prioritize changes likely to improve customer outcomes.
- Lead complex, multi-quarter initiatives from technical roadmap and architecture through delivery and adoption.
- Sequence work across teams and use measures such as conversion, activation, time to value, retention, and expansion to understand impact.
- Give engineers ownership of important work and coach them on scope, technical choices, and collaboration with partners.
- Own technical direction for major Growth product and platform domains, balancing customer value, delivery speed, reliability, and long-term flexibility.
- Partner with Product, Design, Customer Success, Sales, and other engineering teams to connect customer needs to technical solutions.
- Clarify decisions and dependencies across teams, resolve disagreements, and communicate technical approaches so others can build on them.
Benefits
- Industry-competitive salary and equity
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
- 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
- Health and wellness stipend
- Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
- Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
- Family planning benefits
- Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
- Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
- 11 company-paid holidays
- Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
