Staff Software Engineer

Asana

The AI Retrieval team powers the intelligence behind Asana's AI features by finding relevant work graph content and delivering it to LLM context windows. Our work enables AI features that truly understand your work—both within and outside of Asana—and use that understanding to take action. We also own Asana's traditional search experience. As a Staff Software Engineer on the AI Retrieval team, you'll build the systems that make Asana's AI smart and responsive. You'll tackle challenging problems in search and retrieval, working to improve the speed, cost-efficiency, and quality of our systems while expanding their capabilities to new data sources. This role is based in our Warsaw office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do, and your recruiter can share more about the in-office requirements. We offer a Contract of Employment (UoP) for our employees in Poland. What you'll achieve * Reduce the latency and cost of our retrieval system, making Asana's AI features faster and more efficient * Improve the quality and relevance of search results to help users find exactly what they need * Expand the retrieval system's capabilities to query new Asana objects and third-party data sources * Build and optimize search infrastructure using OpenSearch/ElasticSearch * Contribute to ML-powered features like embeddings-based retrieval and semantic search * Collaborate with cross-functional partners in New York City while building strong relationships with your Warsaw-based peers About you * 6+ years of experience writing code in a production environment  * Demonstrates curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making * Hands-on experience in search engineering, including with OpenSearch or ElasticSearch * Experience with embeddings and machine learning approaches to search and retrieval * Experience in an Applied AI role is a plus We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. That's because these teams reflect a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences. If you are excited about this role and feel your experience can make an impact, please don't be shy - apply today. 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 * Generous, transparent and fair compensation system (base salary and RSUs) * Contract of Employment (and the option of 50% tax deductible costs for author’s rights usage in respect of applicable roles )  * Health insurance with dental and travel coverage (Lux Med)  * Breakfast and lunch catering on the days that you work from the office * Vacation allowance * Career growth budget  * Home office setup budget  * Gym/Fitness card * Fertility healthcare and family-forming support with Carrot * Mental Health Support in Modern Health * Group life insurance * MacBooks with all necessary accessories For this role, the estimated base salary range is between 40,750 - 46,333 PLN gross per month (subject to all taxes and necessary deductions). 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 and sales incentive pay (for most sales roles), and benefits. If you're interviewing for this role, speak with your recruiter to learn more about the total compensation and benefits for this role. #LI-Hybrid About us Asana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named to Fortune's Best Workplaces for 7+ years and recognized by Fast Company, Forbes, and Gartner for excellence in workplace culture and innovation. We offer an exceptional office-centric culture while adopting the best elements of hybrid models to ensure that every one of our global team members can work together effortlessly. With 13+ offices all over the world, we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world and a culture where everyone feels that they belong. Join Asana’s Talent Network to stay up to date on job opportunities and life at Asana.

Asana

The Product Management team drives Asana’s product strategy and execution, translating customer needs and opportunities into a compelling roadmap and working cross-functionally to deliver impactful solutions for team productivity and collaboration. We’re helping to define the Work Management category and inventing new ways for teams to work more efficiently together and see the larger purpose behind their work. Our team works directly with Engineering, Design, Experience Research, and Data Science, as well as with Sales, Support, and Marketing to ship great products. You’ll take part in every type of product work here — from strategy to product to process improvements — conceptualizing, launching, and iterating on Asana itself for millions of teams around the world.   Joining our recently formed team in Warsaw, you’ll contribute to the product direction for Asana’s new product for the agentic software development lifecycle—our bet on what the next $100M+ line of business looks like. As a Staff Product Manager, you’ll work from first principles to define how modern teams plan, sequence, and ship work in an AI-native world.   You’ll partner closely with design, research and engineering to turn ambiguous problem spaces into sharp, opinionated workflows that feel fast, minimal, and “obviously right” to high-performing teams. You’ll validate your bets directly with demanding customers—from hypergrowth startups to global enterprises—and be accountable for turning those insights into a focused roadmap and real business impact.   This role is based in Warsaw with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.    Our employees in Poland are employed under a contract of employment.   What you’ll achieve * Deliver a high-craft product to a new kind of customer for Asana  * Build product with strong passion and operational maturity * Create a product strategy to balance multiple priorities and use cases across customers, product teams, and enterprise-level compliance * Negotiate with partner teams and deliver a compelling roadmap * Maximize clarity by bringing a data-driven mindset to setting concrete goals and milestones   This role is for someone who wants to build a category-defining product from the ground up - not optimize an inherited roadmap. You should be comfortable saying “no” often, shipping with strong opinions, holding the quality bar at the level of the best modern SaaS tools and innovating beyond it.   About you * 6+ years of experience in Product Management. Background in building in environments with complex data models, human-centric UX, and B2B SaaS experience preferred. * Systems thinker: You feel just as comfortable modeling data relationships in a technical diagram, just as well as you can partner with Design to walk stakeholders through a holistic UX flow.  * Strategic: You inspire the company by creating bold, intuitive work connections within the platform and scoping them to solve the most critical customer problems. * Get Stuff Done: You create, flex, and evangelize a roadmap; thoughtfully break down projects to MVPs + subsequent iterations and ship with high velocity for business impact.  * Customer-centric: You analyze our top customer personas; dig into the roots of customer needs; synthesize research to gain a deep understanding and narrow definition of a problem. * Communication and collaboration: You partner with cross-functional teammates to deliver high-quality results. You speak with clarity and write sharp product specs. You are highly comfortable getting into deep technical discussions with engineers about the pros and cons of different approaches, and you pair with design on complex user flows. * Grow Team Asana: You are a mentor for others; create great team morale among other functions and PMs; and share PM best practices you’ve cultivated to date. * Growth Mindset: You lead with curiosity and are open to feedback in order to learn.   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 * Generous, transparent and fair compensation system * Contract of Employment (and the option of 50% tax deductible costs for author’s rights usage in respect of applicable roles)  * Health insurance with dental and travel coverage (Lux Med)  * Meals reimbursement on the days that you work from the office * Career growth budget  * Home office setup budget  * Gym/Fitness reimbursement * Fertility healthcare and family-forming support with Carrot * Mental Health Support in Modern Health * Group life insurance * MacBooks with all necessary accessories For this role, the estimated base salary range is between 37,000 - 46,000 PLN gross per month (subject to all taxes and necessary deductions). 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 and 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.   About us Asana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named to Fortune's Best Workplaces for 7+ years and recognized by Fast Company, Forbes, and Gartner for excellence in workplace culture and innovation. We offer an exceptional office-centric culture while adopting the best elements of hybrid models to ensure that every one of our global team members can work together effortlessly. With 13+ offices all over the world, we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world and a culture where everyone feels that they belong. Join Asana’s Talent Network to stay up to date on job opportunities and life at Asana.

Asana

THE PRODUCT MANAGEMENT TEAM DRIVES ASANA’S PRODUCT STRATEGY AND EXECUTION, TRANSLATING CUSTOMER NEEDS AND OPPORTUNITIES INTO A COMPELLING ROADMAP AND WORKING CROSS-FUNCTIONALLY TO DELIVER IMPACTFUL SOLUTIONS FOR TEAM PRODUCTIVITY AND COLLABORATION. WE’RE HELPING TO DEFINE THE WORK MANAGEMENT CATEGORY AND INVENTING NEW WAYS FOR TEAMS TO WORK MORE EFFICIENTLY TOGETHER AND SEE THE LARGER PURPOSE BEHIND THEIR WORK. OUR TEAM WORKS DIRECTLY WITH ENGINEERING, DESIGN, EXPERIENCE RESEARCH, AND DATA SCIENCE, AS WELL AS WITH SALES, SUPPORT, AND MARKETING TO SHIP GREAT PRODUCTS. YOU’LL TAKE PART IN EVERY TYPE OF PRODUCT WORK HERE — FROM STRATEGY TO PRODUCT TO PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS — CONCEPTUALIZING, LAUNCHING, AND ITERATING ON ASANA ITSELF FOR MILLIONS OF TEAMS AROUND THE WORLD. We are looking for an experienced product manager to join the team responsible for key elements of Asana’s work platform strategy. Over the next 2 years, a critical piece of Asana’s strategy is to continue building out a platform that can support many different types of workflows. You’ll be responsible for understanding how customers’ need to structure work to enable their workflows and build out the features to meet those needs directly, and enable other Asana R&D teams to incorporate structure into their features. You’ll work with a large set of cross-functional partners across both our GTM and internal teams to learn about how internal and external customers of all sizes need to customize their core Asana experience to support their workflows, and how your work fits within the entire customer lifecycle so that we customers feel confident in structuring their work in the right way at the right time to power. This role is perfect for a product manager with deep customer empathy for the complexity of mapping messy work to a structured tool, has an end-to-end ownership mindset, and drives for results. We are looking for someone who has experience building software in partnership with enterprise customers, strong product intuition, and can marry qualitative insights with quantitative data to deeply understand the customer experience. You thrive on learning from customers, and are excited to partner with engineering, design, user research, sales, and the rest of our amazing PM team. This role is based in our Warsaw office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements. What you’ll achieve Define and deliver a compelling roadmap to ensure customers have the structure they need to power their end to end workflows.Synthesize input from customers, user research, data science, and business partners, ensuring we are continuously investing in the right ways to structure work, and shifting quickly when an area is no longer leveraged.Take new initiatives from 0 to 1, and then scale them up, as we validate product market fitPartner closely with design, engineering, marketing, and customer success to co-create a cohesive end to end journey and execute on the roadmap with velocity.Collaborate across the R&D organization to support other R&D teams in achieving their goals. About you * 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager, with at least 1-2 years experience on B2B SaaS. * Customer-centric: You spend time directly with customers to understand their nuanced challenges and synthesizing research to identify and solve problems.. * Communication and collaboration: Demonstrate strong communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams, clarifying complex concepts and writing precise product specifications. You pair effectively with design, engineering, and our business teams. * Systems thinker: Think systemically, creating solutions that simplify complex use cases for customers. * Strategic: Provide strategic insights and create intuitive connections within the custom field & types features and platform to address critical customer issues. * Get Stuff Done: Execute projects with high velocity, breaking them down into MVPs and iterative stages for impactful delivery. * Grow Team Asana: Foster team morale and share best practices in product management. * Growth Mindset: Embrace a growth mindset, welcoming feedback and maintaining curiosity in learning. 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 29,000 - 31,935PLN. 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: * Mental health, wellness & fitness benefits * Career coaching & support * Inclusive family building benefits * Long-term savings or retirement plans * In-office culinary options to cater to your dietary preferences    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. Asana has been named a Top 10 Best Workplace for 5 years in a row, is Fortune's #1 Best Workplace in the Bay Area, and one of Glassdoor’s and Inc.’s Best Places to Work. After spending more than a year physically distanced, Team Asana is safely and mindfully returning to in-person collaboration, incorporating flexibility that adds hybrid elements to our office-centric culture. With 11+ offices all over the world, we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world and a culture where everyone feels that they belong.  We believe in supporting people to do their best work and thrive, and building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company is core to our mission. Our goal is to ensure that Asana upholds an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued, whether they are applying for an open position or working at the company. We provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also comply with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and similar laws in other locations. #LI-Hybrid About us Asana is a leading platform for human + AI collaboration. Millions of teams around the world rely on Asana to achieve their most important goals, faster. Asana has been named to Fortune's Best Workplaces for 7+ years and recognized by Fast Company, Forbes, and Gartner for excellence in workplace culture and innovation. We offer an exceptional office-centric culture while adopting the best elements of hybrid models to ensure that every one of our global team members can work together effortlessly. With 13+ offices all over the world, we are always looking for individuals who care about building technology that drives positive change in the world and a culture where everyone feels that they belong. Join Asana’s Talent Network to stay up to date on job opportunities and life at Asana.