Sr. Director of Engineering, Data Platform

Company: ThoughtSpot
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted on: April 5, 2021

Job Description:

Sr. Director of Engineering, Data Platform ThoughtSpot is a fast-growing tech startup that's disrupting the $190B analytics market with the world's first Search and AI-driven analytics platform. The approach has been incredibly successful, helping us land $248M (we have raised over $550 Million) at a nearly $2B valuation, while customers like Walmart, Hulu, 7Eleven, and RollsRoyce continue to expand their investment in ThoughtSpot. ThoughtSpot is looking for entrepreneurial technical leaders for our database team based in Sunnyvale.-- We are a group of innovators and builders on a mission to help each person understand their world better, through data. Our platform based on our pioneering search & AI technology, has already lead to one of the fastest adopted BI products in the global enterprise market. Along the way, we have gained the love and respect of customers as demanding as 20+ of the global Fortune 100, and enabled each one of them to democratize their data internally.

• Lead technical direction, delivery, and execution for ThoughtSpot's MPP in-memory database, geared towards our overall vision.
• Help define product and technical strategy for ThoughtSpot's cloud deployments, data lake connectivity and integrations.
• Collaborate closely with other functions and teams, to continue innovating in user experience and building best-in-class software systems powering them.
• Recruit and build world-class teams. Develop and grow leaders to continue pushing the boundaries of engineering excellence and execution.
• Help evolve a culture of selfless excellence in which each person does the best work of their lives and amplifies everyone around. You know you are the right person, if you:
  • Are an engineer at heart and crave putting imagination in action. You likely have 12+ years of experience crafting world-class products and building robust, high performance and intelligent systems for them.
  • Have expertise in building and managing world-class database teams.
  • Have provided senior technical leadership at the highest levels in a strong engineering culture. Your team members are thankful to you for their impact and growth as engineers and leaders.
  • Love building and leading exceptional teams in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. You have a strong bias for action and being resourceful
  • Are obsessed with customer experience and uncompromising engineering standards If the above sounds exciting (and challenging!), please reach out to us. We'd love to talk. About ThoughtSpot: At ThoughtSpot, we solve some of the hardest, most challenging problems in technology. The kind of problems we solve require diverse perspectives and the team-spirit to see those differences as opportunities rather than roadblocks. It's why diversity isn't a box to check; it's the heart of "Selfless Excellence," our core value we live every day. To make our dent in the universe, we seek employees with unique identities, backgrounds, and perspectives that want to build an inclusive, respectful company culture and truly challenge the status quo. We support our employees with great benefits like 100% company paid medical/dental/vision/life coverage for employees and dependents, equity in a late stage startup backed by top-tier VCs, conveniently located Sunnyvale office with onsite gym, company-provided catered lunch and dinner, and paid holidays and flexible paid time off. ThoughtSpot's Search & AI-Driven analytics platform puts the power of a thousand analysts in every business person's hands. With ThoughtSpot's next-generation analytics platform, business people can use Google-like search to easily analyze complex, large-scale enterprise data and get trusted insights to questions they didn't know to ask, automatically - all with a single click. ThoughtSpot's customers include the world's largest companies, such as Amway, BT, Bed Bath and Beyond, Chevron Federal Credit Union, De Beers, JD Sports, PetCo, ServiceNow, and Scotiabank. ThoughtSpot is helmed by CEO Sudheesh Nair after being co-founded in 2012 by Ajeet Singh and technical co-founders from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle. Backed by investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst Partners, Geodesic Capital and Capital One Growth Ventures, ThoughtSpot has raised over $305 million to date at a unicorn valuation.-- For more information please visit www.thoughtspot.com. U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Information (Completion is voluntary) Individuals seeking employment at ThoughtSpot are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. You are being given the opportunity to provide the following information in order to help us comply with federal and state Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action record keeping, reporting, and other legal requirements. 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