Engineering Manager, Editorial Platforms

Summary

Join The New York Times Editorial Platforms team as a manager, leading a team of 6+ platform engineers. You will be responsible for the team's roadmap, performance, and professional development, fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment. Collaborate with product partners and stakeholders to set direction, prioritize tasks, and communicate progress. Build cross-functional relationships and contribute to engineering-wide projects. Demonstrate understanding of journalistic independence and commitment to the company's mission. This role reports directly to the Director of Platform Engineering and requires 5+ years of software engineering and infrastructure experience, along with 2+ years in team leadership and stakeholder management.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering and infrastructure
• 2+ years of experience advocating for technical needs and team members and partnering with product teams to steer multiple stakeholders when needed
• 2+ years of experience leading and facilitating decision-making for technical teams
• 2+ years of experience solving the challenges of maintaining and extending internal platform tools relied on by different stakeholders
• 2+ years of experience experience developing a high-performance team and growing its skills over time
• 2+ years of managing or working with distributed, or hybrid, teams

Responsibilities

• Recruitment, performance management, professional development, and overall health of a diverse team of 6+ platform engineers
• Cultivate an inclusive team culture with a respectful and collaborative environment
• Accountability and co-development of the roadmap, prioritization and re-prioritization decisions, celebrations, process, and end results of the team in collaboration with the other team leads
• Build cross-functional relationships by communicating scope, trade-off, timing, uncertainty, and prioritization decisions to direct reports, leadership, and other partners
• Contribute to and advocate for the team through engineering-wide projects
• Persuasively convey information and ideas, both verbally and in writing
• Demonstrate an understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world