WHO ARE WE?

Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 35 million developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster.
The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has an office in Bangalore, where it was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman.
P.S: We highly recommend reading The “API-First World” graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman.

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are investing in a Growth Engineering team at Postman to help developers and teams onboard to a powerful product experience that starts with single-player developers, and grows into teams that collaborate on the artifact of the APIs like how teams collaborate with the artifact of a design file using Figma. We are building this team for a number of reasons, notably:

• Optimize sign-up and onboarding experience for both individuals and teams
• Help users uncover the power of Postman (it’s so much more than “just” an API client), gradually and at the right moment
• Guide users to key activation moments (like creating their first collection, or inviting a member to their team) that lead to expansion and a stickier product experience

In effect: we know we have a product experience and funnel that works quite well. Now we want to optimize, tune, and make it even more amazing (and measure even more). We’re looking for an experienced engineer who has worked on projects that generated measurable business impact. You’ll work closely with Postman’s engineering leadership and our product and design teams to achieve our mission of connecting 100M developers in the world. We specifically hope this person is you, because while the team is small right now, we want an eager, curious engineer who cares about building experiences that delight, convert, and measurably impact the business and work with a team of like-minded individuals who care deeply, too.
We have built a ubiquitous, loved developer product and you’d be joining the solid and growing team in the United States. If you’re curious, see why I joined and hear about my experience in joining the rocket ship of an opportunity that is Postman.

EXPERIMENT AND IDENTIFY WINNERS. WE HAVE A GREAT FOUNDATION OF EXPERIMENTATION ON THE TEAM AND YOU WILL NEED TO LEVERAGE AND IMPROVE THIS FOUNDATION TO SHIP A/B TESTED CHANGES THAT WE KNOW HAVE AN IMPACT ON OUR GOALS.

• Own end-to-end workflows. Own end-to-end and understand core workflows, driving measurable improvements to user experience particularly focused on first-time user experience (sign-up, onboarding, and beyond)
• Deeply understand the user. Collaborate and work with end users (developers!) using Postman to understand their core workflows and then use that knowledge to improve our product
• Learn and grow. Broaden your knowledge of the core product and the domain over time, starting with first-time UX but eventually branching out into driving improvement to deeper experiences on the Postman user’s journey, and
• Collaborate across boundaries and geographies. Collaborate on team processes to streamline collaboration across US and India team members

Execution is key on the Growth Engineering team. We’ll need someone who relentlessly leads by example on execution and ships measurably impactful changes regularly to the user experience of Postman. We’ll progress and continuously improve towards achieving our goals and metrics and most importantly we’ll deliver an increasingly delightful product experience that developers love to use. You should expect to:

• Own and deliver. Deliver improvements to the core product experience that help us achieve our goals around onboarding and activation
• Deliver little big changes. Deliver small, measured changes that meaningfully impact end users and successful activation of these user

To achieve our goals, we’ll need a talented, experienced, and thoughtful engineer with a special interest and aptitude for growth. We are looking for someone who cares deeply about the details and spends time building user interfaces that delight users. We need an engineer who can be somewhat self-directed and who has great taste, judgment, and can iterate (and ship!) quickly to achieve the iterative improvements to our first-time user experience. To quote Frank Slootman (former Snowflake CEO):
“Strategy is overrated and execution is severely underrated. Mostly all companies plan well and mostly all companies fail at execution. Make execution the king in your company.” – Frank Slootman, Amp it Up

Execution is key on the Growth Engineering team. We’ll need someone who relentlessly leads by example on execution and ships measurably impactful changes regularly to the user experience of Postman. We’ll progress and continuously improve towards achieving our goals and metrics and most importantly we’ll deliver an increasingly delightful product experience that developers love to use. You should expect to:

• Own and deliver. Deliver improvements to the core product experience that help us achieve our goals around onboarding and activation
• Deliver little big changes. Deliver small, measured changes that meaningfully impact end users and successful activation of these users