Engineering
Series 2024
ICONIQ Growth's Engineering Series examines topics that span the state of modern-day engineering organizations, from the future of engineering and developer productivity to team structure, career paths, and engineering leadership. The series leverages exclusive data and insights from engineering leaders and engineers at enterprise software companies.
About this Series
Research and development (R&D) is increasingly emerging as a significant expenditure and crucial distinguishing factor for companies. It is also frequently the least transparent function within many organizations. Unlike in finance or sales & marketing, engineering leaders often find it a challenge to access relevant or publicly available data against which to benchmark their engineering team performance.
ICONIQ Growth's Engineering Series shares best practices and proprietary benchmarks that can help you scale operations, with a specific focus on engineering-specific metrics and challenges. Each report in the series offers in-depth responses to critical questions about various operating topics, including the future of engineering, the organizational structure of engineering teams, engineering career paths, developer productivity, and engineering leadership.
The series leverages exclusive data and insights from surveys conducted in December 2023 of 200 engineering executives (including CTOs, technical founders, and VPs of Engineering), as well as 100 engineering employees (including engineers, senior engineers, and engineering managers), at Enterprise SaaS companies.1 The perspectives, insights, and best practices of engineering executives in the ICONIQ Growth portfolio and wider community are also woven throughout.
Reports in this Series
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Compensation & Incentives
Compensation & Incentives examines engineering salary, benefits, and career paths. The report details compensation structure for key employees in R&D organizations, with particular focus on individual contributor product and engineering roles.
The Engineering Reporting Guide
Engineering Reporting presents key metrics and frameworks for engineering organizations to track and leverage. The report includes definitions, calculations, and frameworks for key metrics, as well as best practices and templates for best-in-class reporting.
Head of Product $0-$50M ARR
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Head of Product $50M ARR to Post IPO
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Head of Technology $50M ARR to Post IPO
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Head of Technology $0-$50M ARR
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Notes
- This data was collected anonymously by an external survey. Survey responses include some but not all ICONIQ Growth portfolio companies as well as companies not part of ICONIQ Growth’s portfolio.
- Please refer to the Disclosures at the end of this article for more information on BetterUp.
- ICONIQ Growth Tech Employee Survey from October – November 2021 which includes responses from ~70 tech employees; For more details on data source and insights, reference our Future of Work Series Introduction
- Themes, sentiments, and anonymized conversations from ~100,000 BetterUp onboarding sessions and ~128,000 coaching touchpoints
- Data from a survey of ~150 tech employees conducted in March 2022. For more details on data source and respondent make-up, reference our Future of Work Series: Professional Development report
- Themes, sentiments, and anonymized conversations from ~100,000 BetterUp onboarding sessions and ~128,000 coaching touchpoints
- Analysis uses implied gender based on pronouns used by coaches
- Themes, sentiments, and anonymized conversations from ~100,000 BetterUp onboarding sessions and ~128,000 coaching touchpoints
- ICONIQ Growth Tech Employee Survey from October – November 2021 which includes responses from ~70 tech employees; For more details on data source and insights, reference our Future of Work Series Introduction
- Data from a survey of ~150 tech employees conducted in March 2022. For more details on data source and respondent make-up, reference our Future of Work Series: Professional Development report
- Themes, sentiments, and anonymized conversations from ~100,000 BetterUp onboarding sessions and ~128,000 coaching touchpoints
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