About Cognite and Cogniters

Cognite is a global leader in industrial software with our Industrial DataOps platform, Cognite Data Fusion®, at the core. We were awarded the 2022 Technology Innovation Leader for Global Digital Industrial Platforms. 

The Product team is the team responsible for developing Cognite Data Fusion as a robust and scalable platform for solving industrial data problems at Cognite. The industrial data problem is at the heart of transforming asset-intensive industries to be safer, more sustainable and more profitable. Cognite’s Cognite Data Fusion makes the operational data available at scale and adds value to the data through data processing. This enables asset-intensive industries to make data-driven decisions. Our platform is built on many different technologies, each good at solving various challenges.

To build the best possible product, we believe in autonomous teams with developers, designers and product managers working closely together. Our teams are working on building the next-generation industrial data platform and applications across many different industries, such as Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, and Power & Utility. This includes enabling all types of workflows, including analytics, to assist in making better decisions. We are a good mix of engineers, products, and design. What we have in common is that we care deeply about the user experience and create products that users really want to use.

Our work environment is exciting, dynamic and intense. You will work with the best domain and industry experts: designers, product managers, backend developers, ML engineers, 3D developers and business leaders. We support one another, ask good questions, and give each other constructive feedback. Our goal is to leverage our diverse set of strengths and backgrounds to build innovative products, to think outside the ordinary, and grind through and nurture a great culture.

As our Director of Engineering, you will have a unique opportunity to shape and lead our engineering team in Austin. With a well-established and thriving engineering team of over 150 engineers in EMEA, we are expanding our production in AMER and are seeking a talented individual to spearhead this growth. Joining our team as the Engineering Manager provides a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of our expansion efforts. You will have the chance to work closely with EMEA, leveraging their expertise and collaborating on exciting projects. Together, we will build a strong, cohesive engineering organization that drives innovation and delivers exceptional results.

A typical day as a Cogniter will contain the following tasks & responsibilities

• Manage a team of 10-15 engineers, developing services and applications for Cognite Data Fusion - a robust, state-of-the-art SaaS for industrial data.
• Interact with a cross-functional team consisting of designers, product managers and program managers to ensure the team builds maintainable software that the customer loves on time. 
• Continuous work as a collaboration catalyst across products, ensuring the team provides excellent results with great quality. 
• Coaching your teams to ensure a delightful user experience with high-quality products that help the user solve complex real-world problems that have yet to be solved before.
• Coaching all of your engineers with variable backgrounds, seniority and understanding of the domain they are solving to have good professional development. 
• Working with your team to understand the users' problems and domain, and you foresee and mitigate potential problems in plans. 
• Collaborate in a fast-paced environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Be actively involved in setting product and technical direction.
• You might do some coding yourself. 
• Dogfooding our products to try to put yourself in our users’ shoes.

• You have a background in a SaaS company
• You are an experienced people manager today. The added experience of having worked as a tech lead, project manager or product manager is an advantage, but not a requirement. 
• You have a genuine and keen interest in building the competency of engineers in a company and can do so emphatically. 
• You have a collaborative mindset, and have a drive to always look at the greater good.
• You have experience in building data-driven applications. 
• Have the motivation to work in a high-paced environment
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Have a good story about a time you created, small or large, digital impact
• Are reliable and focused
• Around 5 yrs in the IT or asset-heavy industry

• Join us in making a real and lasting impact in one of the most exciting and fastest-growing new software companies in the world. 
• We have repeatedly demonstrated that digital transformation, when anchored on strong DataOps, drives business value and sustainability for clients and allows front-line workers, as well as domain experts, to make better decisions every single day. 
• We were recognized as one of CNBC's top global enterprise technology startups powering digital transformation! 
• And just recently, Frost & Sullivan named Cognite a Technology Innovation Leader!

• Competitive Compensation including base plus bonus
• 401(k) with 4% employer matching
• Health, Dental, Vision & Disability Coverages with premiums fully covered for employees and all dependents
• Unlimited PTO flexibility to enjoy it
• 18 Company Holidays including the week between Christmas & New Years
• Paid Parental Leave Program
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Employee Referral Program
• Company Paid Friday Lunch via DoorDash Fully Stocked Fridges in the offices
• Join a team of 70 different nationalities 🌐 with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) in focus 🤝.
• A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture across the organization, follow us on Instagram @cognitedata 📷 to know more
• Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries
• Join our HUB 🗣️ to be part of the conversation directly with Cogniters and our partners.
• Paid mobile phone and WiFI
• A pet lover? Get the chance to meet Spot 🐶!

Cognite is a global industrial SaaS company that was established with one clear vision: to rapidly empower industrial companies with contextualized, trustworthy, and accessible data to help drive the full-scale digital transformation of asset-heavy industries around the world. Our core Industrial DataOps platform, Cognite Data Fusion™, enables industrial data and domain users to collaborate quickly and safely to develop, operationalize, and scale industrial AI solutions and applications to deliver both profitability and sustainability. Visit us at www.cognite.com and follow us on Twitter @CogniteData or LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognitedata

Equal Opportunity

Cognite is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment at work and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive the same level of consideration for employment; everyone we hire will receive the same level of consideration for training, compensation, and promotion. 

We ask for gender as part of our application because we want to ensure equal assessment in the recruitment process. Your answer will help us reach this commitment! However, the question about gender is optional and your choice not to answer will not affect the assessment of your application in any way.