Senior Engineering Manager

Job Description

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you lead a multi-team organization through a layer of engineering managers. You translate company and department strategy into clear direction for your teams, while building the leadership capability, culture, and operational health that enables sustained high performance. You are accountable for both what your organization delivers and how it grows.

Impact

  • Influence relationships, culture, recruiting, and operating models across Engineering pods.
  • Align roadmaps with company priorities and ensure timely, quality outcomes.
  • Accelerate delivery of high-impact, cross-team initiatives.
  • Surface high-impact project opportunities and ensure risks and scope are well understood and managed.
  • Ground delivery and quality decisions in data, using metrics and team health signals to drive continuous improvement.
  • Champion automation and sustainable engineering practices across your teams — ensure that manual toil doesn’t accumulate unchecked.

Reach

  • Leadership Reach
    • Cross-Team
  • Technical Reach
    • Department

Influence spans multiple engineering teams and touches on broad areas of the company’s technical ecosystem. Engage with leadership in Product, Design, and Delivery to shape how initiatives are defined and executed.

Knowledge

  • Maintain a strong understanding of architecture, system design, and current technologies across your teams.
  • Understand areas of risk, trade-offs, scalability, and maintainability, and how they affect delivery and team health.
  • Develop awareness of how engineering investments connect to business outcomes, including resource planning and headcount decisions.
  • Build knowledge of organizational dynamics, team health indicators, and what it takes to develop effective engineering managers.

Communication

  • Distill complex ideas for both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Proactively share context and clarity with your teams, write effectively, and create alignment through transparent updates and thoughtful documentation.
  • Proactively communicate questions, status, risks, outcomes, metrics, and team health to leadership.
  • Facilitate conversations that empower managers and teams to create solutions and alignment, guiding rather than dictating outcomes.

Leadership

  • Foster a healthy, collaborative, and high-performing culture across your organization.
  • Coach and develop engineering managers, helping them grow as leaders, make better decisions, and build healthier teams.
  • Operate effectively through layers of leadership, empowering managers to own outcomes while ensuring their teams have the support and clarity they need.
  • Help set the bar for performance, accountability, and team ownership across your organization.
  • Hold managers accountable to their own growth, helping them recognize and address gaps in leadership, process, or team health.
  • Lead talent strategy for your organization — recruiting, retention, performance management, and building a strong leadership bench.