Senior Engineering Manager, Consumption Based Billing & Licensing

Asana Asana · Enterprise · Vancouver, BC · Product Engineering

Engineering Manager for Consumption Based Billing & Licensing team at Asana. This role involves leading a team to build and maintain systems for licensing, entitlements, and usage-based billing, directly impacting business growth and customer experience. Requires strong engineering management experience, preferably in fintech systems like billing or monetization, and the ability to drive execution across various projects.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and grow a team of engineers working across backend systems, platform services, and customer-facing experiences.
  2. Set technical direction and help shape the roadmap for licensing and billing capabilities.
  3. Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Finance, Sales, and other engineering teams to turn ambiguous business needs into shipped solutions.
  4. Drive execution on projects such as: - licensing and access control - usage tracking and billing - admin dashboards, alerts, and controls - bulk and automated license assignment - trial and add-on provisioning flows
  5. Make thoughtful trade-offs across scalability, reliability, correctness, and speed of delivery.

Skills

Required

  • Strong engineering management experience
  • Experience working on fintech systems
  • Ability to lead through ambiguity
  • Strong technical judgment
  • Track record of hiring, coaching, and developing engineers
  • Clear, practical communication style
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills
  • A product mindset

Nice to have

  • Experience with usage-based or consumption-based pricing models
  • Experience with SaaS billing, licensing, or entitlement systems
  • Experience building admin tools or customer-facing operational dashboards
  • Background in platform, backend, or distributed systems work
  • Experience working in a fast-moving product environment with evolving requirements

What the JD emphasized

  • Experience working on fintech systems with real business impact, such as billing, monetization, entitlements, payments, or other infrastructure-heavy domains.