Senior Engineering Manager

What You’ll Do

Lead Across Domains

• Own outcomes across multiple teams or workstreams. At this level, your accountability extends beyond a single squad — you are responsible for the health, delivery, and strategic direction of your full domain.
• Develop other managers and senior engineers. Run substantive 1:1s, build succession plans, expose emerging leaders to cross-domain initiatives, and create the conditions for people on your team to grow beyond their current scope.
• Build headcount plans proactively. Anticipate growth needs before they become capacity constraints and bring staffing proposals to leadership with rationale and timing.

Set Technical Vision

• Define the architectural strategy for your domain. You are not just reviewing designs — you are setting the direction, identifying systemic risks, and making trade-offs visible to leadership before they become incidents.
• Mentor other managers and senior ICs on complex technical trade-offs. Your technical credibility earns trust with engineers; your judgment on architectural decisions shapes how the team builds.
• Proactively surface technical debt and infrastructure risk with a prioritized plan to address it — not after escalation, but before it jeopardizes delivery or reliability.

Drive Cross-Functional Alignment

• Manage cross-domain dependencies. Align teams across team boundaries with unified direction. Other teams should initiate collaboration with you — not wait to be pulled in.
• Communicate roadmap priorities and risks proactively to the VP of Engineering and relevant stakeholders. Translate complex technical decisions into business context. Come with recommendations, not status updates.
• Partner with Engineering Leadership and Product on roadmap prioritization. Represent your function’s constraints, opportunities, and risks in planning processes.

Operate with Executive Accountability

• Resolve complex cross-team problems quickly and under pressure. Make decisions in ambiguity without waiting for full information.
• Own your function’s budget, headcount planning, and operational health with minimal guidance.
• Bring roadmap or architecture proposals unprompted. Think about your team’s impact on the broader engineering org, not just your immediate domain.

What We’re Looking For

Required

• Engineering management experience: 5-7+ years managing engineering teams, with at least 2 years at a scope equivalent to managing multiple teams, a large team, or a function with cross-domain accountability.
• Direct ownership of performance management, career development, and hiring — not just running standups or serving as a tech lead.
• Multi-team or cross-domain leadership: You have operated beyond a single squad and navigated dependencies, competing priorities, and alignment challenges across team boundaries.
• Technical depth in your domain: You can set architectural direction, evaluate complex proposals, and earn trust from senior engineers on technical decisions.