# Senior Engineering Manager, Distribution Platform

**Company:** [Upstart](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/upstart)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $183k – $270k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Engineering Management, Roadmap Planning, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Team Leadership, Experimentation, Data-Driven Decision Making, Marketing Technology, Growth Engineering, Third-Party Integrations, Scalable Systems
**Posted:** 2026-05-19

> Lead and grow an engineering team building scalable marketing infrastructure for direct mail, digital ads, and partner integrations that drive user acquisition.

## Job Description

## How you’ll make an impact
- Define and implement an engineering roadmap that supports intelligent and scalable outreach to customers via direct mail, digital, and partnerships platform
- Work with cross-functional partners including Product Managers, Performance Marketing Managers, Analytics, and Research Scientists to make this a highly impactful program
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing engineering team directly, focused on providing high quality solutions and incrementally enhance systems with each pull request
- Leverage experimentation and data-driven insights to refine growth strategies, optimizing user outreach and conversion through continuous testing, iteration, and personalization
- Create a best-in-class direct mail and digital infrastructure that scales

## Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics, or a related field (or its equivalent) + 8 years of experience, including at least 3 years of direct people management experience
- Experience leading product oriented teams with quantifiable user impact
- Ability to convey complex technical information to a variety of audiences

## Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working on systems that integrate with 3rd parties and/or ingest, store, expose large amounts of data
- Professional experience working on either Marketing technology or Growth engineering
- Proven track record of leading and growing engineering teams
- Success in driving initiatives spanning multiple teams across organizations
- Skilled in scaling systems in both a technical and organizational capacity

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