Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

The job is for a Senior Engineering Manager, Consumer Experiences role at Babylist, focusing on expanding the company's core product, the registry. The role requires experience in end-to-end software development, building complex consumer-facing solutions, and leading high-functioning teams.

Requirements

• Before becoming a leader, you were a high-performing engineer with a track record of end-to-end software development of production systems
• Ideally, you have done this in a Ruby on Rails environment
• You have experience building complex consumer-facing solutions
• You have experience in experimentation and a/b testing, leading to high-performing, well-loved consumer tech products
• You have led high-functioning teams and meaningfully built and maintained engineering culture
• You’ve successfully led teams through growth and change, which means you know how to adapt and set and maintain standards for your team that scale with the business
• You are a great coach of engineers with experience hiring, developing talent, and giving feedback
• You have an exceptional understanding of your team’s coding abilities and know when projects need extra support
• You have the experience to help the team make the right architectural decisions that balance business value and system stability
• You’re skilled at testing, monitoring, and running a production software system
• You have worked effectively with senior leadership in setting a strategic 6+ month direction
• You have 5 or more years of experience as an Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• Define, build, and maintain a high-performance, results-driven, collaborative culture aligned with Babylist's core values
• Capitalize on Babylist’s foundation and our highly engaged customer base to create a more impactful experience
• Own the tactical planning and execution for your team while partnering with other Engineering and Product leaders on shared goals against Babylist's strategic imperatives
• Be a thought leader and expert in understanding our users and product by prioritizing the highest value areas
• Empower and inspire your team to achieve their highest potential. Play the key role in onboarding and mentoring your team
• Serve as a thought leader for the technical roadmap. Provide guidance on processes, tooling, and systems to help the team with key technical decisions
• Be accountable for your team. Help them to ship high-quality software that meets the business needs
• Own communication across the product development team and company regarding key milestones, providing frequent, transparent updates on progress towards our goals

Benefits

• We invest in the infrastructure you’ll need to be supported and successful: tools, opportunities to connect with colleagues, and a stipend to help you set up your office
• We build products that have a positive impact on millions of people’s lives
• We work at a sustainable pace which means work/life balance is a real thing here
• We believe technology and data can solve hard problems
• We believe in exceptional management
• We are an antiracist organization and doing the work to support differences of all kinds
• We offer competitive pay and meaningful opportunities for career advancement
• We have great benefits like company paid medical, dental, and vision, a generous paid parental leave policy, and 401k with company match
• We care about employee wellbeing with perks for physical, mental and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning