Head of Engineering, Sharing & Permissions

Overview

Asana is seeking an experienced engineering leader to own and scale our sharing and permissions infrastructure—one of the most critical and complex areas of our platform. As Head of Engineering for Sharing and Permissions, you'll lead the team responsible for Asana's permissions model across all objects, roles and custom roles systems, and our sophisticated sharing architecture that enables secure collaboration at scale.

This role sits within our Enterprise Group and reports directly to the Head of Engineering, Enterprise. You'll be responsible for building and maintaining the foundational systems that enable millions of users to collaborate securely while ensuring enterprise-grade access controls and compliance requirements are met.

What you’ll achieve :

• Lead the Sharing and Permissions engineering organization as we scale to some of our largest enterprise customers, building teams that balance security requirements with the user experience that makes Asana special
• Own the technical strategy and architecture for Asana's permissions model across all objects, role systems, and sharing mechanisms, creating scalable solutions that serve both individual users and large enterprise organizations with complex access requirements
• Partner closely with Security, Compliance, and Legal teams to ensure our permissions architecture meets enterprise security standards, regulatory requirements, and audit needs while maintaining the performance and user experience our customers expect
• Build platform capabilities that enable other engineering teams to implement consistent, secure access patterns through well-designed APIs and clear integration patterns
• Grow engineering leaders by hiring and mentoring senior engineers and engineering managers who will drive technical decisions across distributed systems and security architecture
• Represent Asana's technical capabilities to strategic enterprise customers and partners, building relationships that inform our permissions roadmap and demonstrate our commitment to enterprise-grade security and compliance

About you

At Asana, we're committed to building teams that include a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, as this is critical to helping us achieve our mission. If you're interested in this role and don't meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

What we’ll offer

Our comprehensive compensation package plays a big part in how we recognize you for the impact you have on our path to achieving our mission. We believe that compensation should be reflective of the value you create relative to the market value of your role. To ensure pay is fair and not impacted by biases, we're committed to looking at market value which is why we check ourselves and conduct a yearly pay equity audit.

For this role, the estimated base salary range is between $353,000 - $415,000. The actual base salary will vary based on various factors, including market and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. The listed range above is a guideline, and the base salary range for this role may be modified.

In addition to base salary, your compensation package may include additional components such as equity, sales incentive pay (for most sales roles), and benefits. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role.

We strive to provide equitable and competitive benefits packages that support our employees worldwide and include :

These are just some of the benefits we offer, and benefits may vary based on role, country, and local regulations. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role.

About us

Asana helps teams orchestrate their work, from small projects to strategic initiatives. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster.

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