Amy Gebhardt

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Senior Engineering Manager at 1Password

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area, United States

Overview

Amy Gebhardt is a Senior Engineering Manager at 1Password with over 15 years of experience in software engineering and leadership. A graduate of Gordon College, she leads the SaaS Manager teams, focusing on the intersection of humans and code. Colleagues describe her as compassionate, inspiring, and having deep technical expertise.

Outside of work, Amy is a public speaker, an amateur baker who enjoys "debugging" macarons, a self-described terrible ultimate frisbee player, and a mom. She identifies as deeply extroverted and occasionally writes about the intersection of technology and motherhood.

In a recent tech talk, she creatively compared password-based authentication to skinny jeans.

Personality Overview

Assertive

Value Driven

Example Seeker

They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing.  They are generally good communicators and can be hard to convince. They are likely to ask many questions and look heavily for supporting information.

Topics They Care About

Engineering Leadership
Passionate about compassion-driven leadership and setting up new engineering managers for success, drawing from over eight years of experience in management roles.
Passwordless Authentication
Has developed a recent passion for the passwordless authentication world through her work leading the Passage engineering teams at 1Password.
Public Speaking
A frequent speaker at tech conferences like Open Source North, presenting on topics ranging from navigating organizational change to technical subjects like authentication.

Media Appearances

Let's Explore Shell Plugins with 1Password's Engineering Team. Featured in SecuritySenses

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Work History

3-2026
Senior Engineering Manager at 1Password
1-2024 - 3-2026
Engineering Manager at 1Password
10-2022 - 11-2023
Director of Engineering at Zeera
7-2022 - 10-2022
Software Engineering Manager at Zeera
8-2021 - 6-2022
Senior Software Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering at Code.org

Education

2008 - 2012
Bachelor of Science from Gordon College

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Insights For Selling To Amy

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Help them realize that there is no personal risk in making this decision
  • Focus on immediate action-items rather than the larger goals
  • Help them understand the risk aspect fully while inspiring confidence

DONT's

  • Don’t try to rush them into a decision, provide all necessary information first
  • Don’t brush off any concerns, take all questions seriously
  • Don’t rely excessively on your relationship with them to win the deal

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Amy is

  • Proven value, strong testimonials are important to them, relationships will have some weightage.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Amy

  • They are practical and friendly, don't expect a clear-cut response often.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Amy move?

  • They like to be detailed and take their time to arrive at decisions.
  • Can Amy take some risk or not?

  • They evaluate their decisions systematically and are less likely to take risks.

You And Amy

Personality Compatibility


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