Rebecca D. Murphey
Durham, NC
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I'm a senior technical leader with demonstrated product savvy and proven experience in growing teams, growing people, identifying high-value problems, and conceiving and delivering impactful, innovative solutions. I have a knack for blending strategy, technology, people, and process to achieve remarkable results.
I'm looking for a remote role at a successful, growing company where I'll have the autonomy to identify and execute on opportunities to bring transformative value to the business.
Indeed
Austin, TX (on-site and remote)
February 2016 – November 2020
Senior Technical Product Manager
Senior Engineering Manager
Engineering Manager
Secured VP support to form the Front-End Core organization to develop and own a comprehensive suite of modern front-end capabilities, and proceeded to drive business impact and platform-wide technical improvement and innovation during a period of significant company growth. My organization eventually comprised five teams on two continents with more than 30 cross-functional team members, and several engineering managers who reported to me. Together, we:
- Conceived and launched a Global Navigation platform, enabling consistent navigation and rapid experimentation across more than 95% of external page views. PMs across the business used this capability to run game-changing experiments, including reducing SMB customer support calls by 20%, increasing subscriptions to the resume search product by 6.7%, and increasing new account creation by 10% (to name a few).
- Established Node.js as a first-class development runtime, championed an internal npm registry, and promoted patterns and practices for Node.js development. Today, approximately 25% of new web apps at Indeed use Node.js, and Node.js powers a range of business-critical functionality.
- Created tooling to support a massive migration toward modern front-end practices, including standardized approaches to compilation, logging, performance SLOs, unit and functional testing, CI/CD, TypeScript, static analysis, and the first Indeed design system. Some portion of this tooling is now used by more than 80% of Indeed software engineers at least once a quarter.
- Designed, delivered, and popularized an internal micro-frontend platform that eliminated massive bottlenecks in releasing UI code, which enabled rapid, autonomous development of composable user interfaces. Time to release new features to flagship products was reduced from nearly three weeks to sometimes less than a day.
- Led the way in shaping customer-centric product practices for internal platform teams, including repeatable playbooks, detailed marketing and communications strategies, and tooling for tracking customer engagement.
- Received two Innovation Awards, which honor ~5 projects per year that are novel, transformative to the business, and broadly applicable. One project was then nominated and accepted to the Recruit Engine Forum, the Indeed parent company's innovation program.
- Gained organizational alignment on the need to hire front-end specialists within and beyond the Front-End Core organization. Developed new interview questions and rubrics, recruited numerous engineers, and represented the impact of this specialization at quarterly performance management panels. Secured the promotion of three of these front-end engineers to the Principal level.
Coaching & Mentoring