Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

Join GlossGenius as a Senior Engineering Manager and lead a team of engineers in building and improving our product. You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and other cross-functional teams to define the technical strategy and roadmap. This role requires significant experience in software engineering and people management, with a proven ability to deliver new products and features. The position offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to work remotely or in a hybrid environment in NYC. GlossGenius is committed to creating a supportive and empowering workplace for all employees. We are looking for a strong leader with a customer-centric mindset and excellent communication skills to help us continue to grow and innovate.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with 4+ years of experience as a people manager
• Experience leading through other leaders; this can be through technical leads or people managers
• Proven ability to collaborate with product/program managers, designers, and peers to build plans, set expectations, and successfully deliver new 0 to 1 products and features
• A strong business acumen and customer-centric mindset, backed by data analytics skills
• Solid technical foundations, while this is not a hands-on coding role, you should still show sound foundational system design knowledge and be able to guide a team through a technical discussion
• Ability to recruit and build high-performing teams to build the next generation of GlossGenius products!
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow a team of talented senior and staff engineers; holistically view your team and understand how to best utilize their skill sets, empowering them to deliver on their day-to-day engineering responsibilities as well as their long-term career aspirations
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other cross-functional teams to establish the long-term technical and product vision and the steps needed to get there
• Prioritize, plan, and ensure alignment across your team and other cross-functional business teams to execute on key initiatives and drive business impact
• Implement new and effective engineering processes that emphasize quality and progress on key product initiatives
• Partner with recruiting to build a high-performing engineering team; understand how to attract and retain top talent

Preferred Qualifications

Previous experience as leading cross full-stack engineering teams

Benefits

• Flexible PTO
• Competitive health & dental insurance options, with premiums partially or fully covered by GG
• Fertility and adoption benefits via Carrot
• Generous, fully-paid parental leave policy
• 401k benefit - employees are eligible to contribute starting day 1 of employment
• Professional Development - employees receive a yearly stipend for approved learning and educational-related expenses
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Dependent Care FSA
• Home office support
• Team Bonding opportunities - as a distributed team, being able to build meaningful bonds both virtually and in person is incredibly important to us! We are constantly evaluating how we accomplish this and currently, teams are given opportunities to gather in person throughout the year