WHO WE ARE

Verkada is a leader in cloud-based B2B physical security. Verkada offers six product lines — video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace and intercoms — integrated with a single cloud-based software platform.
Designed with simplicity and scalability in mind, Verkada gives organizations the real-time insight to know what could impact the safety and comfort of people throughout their physical environment, while empowering them to take immediate action to minimize security risks, workplace frustrations and costly inefficiencies.
Founded in 2016, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 15 offices across three continents, 2,100+ full-time employees and 30,000+ customers across 70+ countries.

OVERVIEW

As the Head of Growth Systems, Engineering, and Operations, you will report to the CMO to build the core systems that are a key part of our go-to-market operation. These are high scale, mission-critical systems and include a combination of homegrown systems and third-party software across marketing and sales stacks including Marketo and Salesforce. We take systems very seriously and are looking for a leader to take our amazing systems team to the next level.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 4-year degree from a top university
• At least 10 years of eng, data, marketing operations or similar experience
• You have a history of recruiting and managing high-caliber engineering talent, ideally with teams of 10 or more
• You have a strong engineering background (must have been an engineer at one point), probably in systems, databases, or related areas
• You’re crafty/hacky and have a very strong first principles mentality
• You’re a good communicator, both written and verbal
• An example project your team would tackle might be scaling a database from 10m to 100m rows. What are all the ways we might do that, and the tradeoffs involved with each approach given the limitations of 3rd party software such as API limits, deduping issues, debates on which database becomes the source of truth and which field value should be prioritized in the case of such deduping and so on.

• Scale revenue and efficiency along the multiple demand generation teams through automation, enrichment, improvement of funnels and building new software tools.
• We have an amazing team of software engineers, growth engineers, marketing operations managers and data scientists. Continue to build the team to the same high-quality standards.
• Own all of the growth systems, including Marketo, core databases, data visualization tools, and dashboards.
• Own integrations of marketing, sales and product databases and sources of truth
• Own evaluation, negotiations, and implementation of the marketing technology stack
• Own the growth systems roadmap by prioritizing projects and architecting solution