Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Honeycomb's Explore team as a Manager or Senior Manager and lead a high-performing team of full-stack engineers. You will collaborate with design and product teams, prioritize projects based on business impact and user value, and foster a respectful, inclusive team culture. Responsibilities include coaching engineers, developing growth plans, and ensuring effective communication. The ideal candidate possesses experience leading engineering teams, understands the value of diversity and inclusion, and thrives in a fast-paced startup environment. Honeycomb offers competitive salaries, equity, unlimited PTO, remote-first culture, benefits coverage, parental leave, and a development allowance.

Requirements

• You have some experience leading a high-performing team of engineers, including managing and shipping cross-functional or multi-team projects
• You set people up to ship iteratively and are excited to support and grow empowered teams through a blend of psychological safety and positive accountability
• You live and breathe collaboration with product and design to understand the larger business context and frame projects and prioritization around impact to the business and users
• You structure work around tight feedback loops with customers
• You have demonstrated experience with balancing priorities that complement, or conflict, with one another
• You understand the value of a diverse, equitable, and inclusive team and bring that lens to your work as a leader in hiring, team culture, and beyond
• You’re practiced at helping your team grow and build their career paths
• You are comfortable with the pace and trade offs of a growth stage startup (meaning: know how to take care of yourself and your team, get your work done without working around the clock, prioritize ruthlessly, be able to tolerate a little uncertainty and sometimes wear different hats)

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with your design and product peers to develop an impactful team strategy grounded in data and customer feedback
• Frame projects and prioritization around impact to the business and value for the users
• Lead with a sense of urgency and uphold high standards and expectations for your team by modeling them yourself
• Prioritize building a respectful, high-achieving, inclusive culture on the team
• Build systems that allow the team of 5-8 full stack engineers to be greater than the sum of their parts
• Coach and mentor engineers to own and achieve business impact as well as grow their technical skills
• Model and maintain a high functioning team culture of mutual respect that promotes open dialogue
• Empower people to be effective by explaining beneficial impact as well as delivering timely feedback
• Know how to pick the right communication tool for the problem at hand (chat, video, email, etc.)
• Value diversity, equity, and inclusion, and understand how good communication practices intersect with efforts to build a diverse and inclusive culture
• Develop thoughtful and ambitious growth plans for each engineer that align with where they want to go in their career
• Support midlevel engineers transition into senior and staff roles
• Gain a clear understanding of company priorities, and communicate those to the team, helping them prioritize and balance investments
• Foster a belief in your team that we all come to the table with positive intent towards Honeycomb’s overall success
• Cultivate new, relevant ideas by ensuring the team has enough context and agency to know where it’s worth being creative

Preferred Qualifications

• A strong candidate for this role would be familiar with triad-based collaboration and design thinking
• Bonus points if you are familiar with the Product Management philosophies of people like Marty Cagan and Teresa Torres

Benefits

• Base pay (range) of $195,000 - $210,000 USD, CAD $256,716 - CAD $288,446 (Manager); $215,000 to $235,000 USD, CAD $295,313 - CAD $322,784 (Senior Manager)
• A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program
• It’s not about how strong of a negotiator you are - our pay is based on transparent levels relative to experience
• Time to Recharge - In addition to our Unlimited PTO policy, we have a company wide break at the end of the year
• A remote-first mindset and culture (really!)
• Home office, co-working, and internet stipend
• 100% employee/75% for dependents coverage for all benefits
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood
• Annual development allowance