Engineering Manager, Growth/Activation

Summary

Join Brightwheel's core app team as an experienced Engineering Manager, focusing on Growth and Activation functions. This role requires leading full-stack engineering teams, partnering with various stakeholders, ensuring project delivery, and fostering a supportive team culture. You will be responsible for team development, process improvement, and contributing to broader engineering initiatives. The ideal candidate possesses strong technical skills, project management experience, and excellent communication abilities. Brightwheel offers a competitive compensation package including base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• You have 3+ years of experience managing a full-stack product engineering team of 4+ engineers, and have a track record of shipping critical customer-facing features
• You have experience delivering improvements via A/B testing and data-driven iteration and optimization
• You have experience hiring engineers at various levels including Sr Engineers and above
• You have a pragmatic approach to developing and evolving right-sized processes that help teams operate effectively
• You have experience working with 3rd party vendors to deliver customer-facing solutions
• You have strong technical depth and can participate in, as well as influence, technical architecture and design discussions, especially as it pertains to scalability and reliability
• You work very well cross-functionally and are able to make hard decisions and trade-offs while incorporating a diversity of perspectives
• You’re an empathetic listener with strong verbal and written communication skills, and have the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences and different levels within the company
• You encourage a healthy work environment that is both supportive and challenging

Responsibilities

• Lead our Growth and Activation pods
• Partner with Product, Design, and business stakeholders to deliver against pod goals and roadmaps
• Maintain accountability for the architecture, development, testing, and reliability of for featuresets within the pod’s ownership
• Develop and grow the team by mentoring and coaching engineers, as well as through performance management and hiring
• Drive process improvements to increase product velocity while simultaneously raising the bar for quality and operational excellence
• Contribute to engineering-wide initiatives as a member of Brightwheel’s engineering management team

Preferred Qualifications

Ideally, you are strong at project management and have experience managing multiple small teams or simultaneously managing multiple high priority work streams

Benefits

• Premium medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Generous paid parental leave
• A flexible paid time off policy
• A monthly wellness and productivity stipend
• A Learning & Development stipend