Acquia Leadership & Management

Managers at Acquia are expected to lead through coaching, transparency, frequent feedback, and employee empowerment rather than simply directing day-to-day work. The company’s management approach emphasizes regular communication, professional growth, trust, and giving employees the support and autonomy to solve problems and make meaningful contributions.

• Continuous coaching and two-way feedback: Supportive management is one of Acquia’s five employee-experience pillars, with an agile performance approach built around continuous coaching, bi-directional feedback, frequent check-ins, and keeping employees aligned. This creates regular opportunities for managers and employees to discuss performance, priorities, development, and support needs.
• Empowering employees to grow: Managers are positioned as important partners in Acquia’s learning philosophy, alongside peers and mentors. Employees are encouraged to build relationships with managers, pursue stretch opportunities, develop new skills, and take ownership of their careers rather than waiting for development to happen automatically. A director of support described leadership as guiding and supporting teams while empowering “personal and professional growth.”
• Transparency and accessibility from leadership: Acquia identifies trust in executive leadership as another core employee-experience pillar, defining strong leadership around an employee- and customer-first approach, transparency, and honesty. An area vice president, Americas, also described an environment where employees can make their ideas heard and have influence at the executive level, reinforcing a culture of accessible leadership and employee voice.
• Leadership through ownership and collaboration: Acquia’s “leadership from every seat” philosophy encourages employees at all levels to take initiative, while its “Jump In and Own It” value emphasizes agility, action, perseverance, and collaborative problem-solving. Managers therefore operate within a culture designed to combine accountability with employee ownership rather than concentrating leadership only at the top.
• External signals:
  • Manager strength: Employees rate managers as Acquia’s strongest culture category and describe leaders as transparent, employee-focused, knowledgeable, and effective coaches. (Comparably)
  • Supportive leadership: External reviews repeatedly highlight helpful management, mentoring relationships, strong leaders, transparent communication, and opportunities to learn from senior people across the organization. (Glassdoor)
  • Leadership and culture recognition: Acquia’s broader workplace culture has received Great Place to Work and Best Workplaces recognition, reinforcing its external reputation for employee experience. (Great Place to Work)

Bottom line: Acquia managers support employees through ongoing coaching, frequent two-way feedback, transparent communication, career-development support, and a leadership model that gives employees meaningful ownership and a voice in how work gets done.