Senior Engineering Manager
SupersideJob Summary
Superside seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead two key engineering teams focused on enterprise enablement and retention. The role involves driving the technical roadmap, scaling enterprise solutions, and fostering a high-performing culture that adapts to customer needs in a rapidly changing space. As the leader in AI-powered creative services, Superside delivers cutting-edge solutions to enterprise customers like Amazon, Salesforce, and Meta. The Senior Engineering Manager will be responsible for leading teams, delivering predictable engineering projects, partnering with Product Management and Design, coaching engineers, defining the technical roadmap, driving engineering excellence, facilitating cross-team collaboration, optimizing engineering processes, and ensuring security and compliance needs are met. To succeed in this role, candidates must have 6+ years of experience in engineering leadership, a proven ability to build and scale high-performing teams, strong technical acumen, and excellent communication skills.
What you'll be doing:
- Lead two engineering teams focused on leveraging the Superside platform and integrations to make the Superside service feel like a true extension of our customers' in-house teams.
- Deliver predictable and high-quality engineering projects that focus on increasing retention and stickiness in the enterprise segment.
- Partner with Product Management and Design to align technical initiatives with business objectives.
- Coach and mentor engineers, fostering career growth and development through structured feedback and individualized plans.
- Define and maintain the technical roadmap aligned with product and business priorities.
- Drive engineering excellence, setting high technical standards and championing best practices.
- Facilitate cross-team collaboration, fostering a culture of openness, knowledge sharing, and high performance in a fully remote environment.
- Optimize engineering processes, implementing agile methodologies and continuous improvement strategies.
- Act as a key stakeholder for security and compliance needs when working with enterprise customers, owning the entire process from initial contact to final implementations in production.
What you'll need to suceed:
- 6+ years of experience in engineering leadership, including 2+ years at Senior Engineering Manager or Director level.
- Proven ability to build and scale high-performing engineering teams, with a people-first leadership style.
- Strong background in technical mentorship, career growth planning, and team development.
- Experience in enterprise SaaS, integrations, and security/compliance challenges.
- Expertise in aligning engineering goals with business objectives, ensuring impactful product development.
- Strong technical acumen, with the ability to guide discussions, review code, and set technical standards.
- Proficiency in agile methodologies, with a track record of improving engineering workflows.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of leading internal and customer-facing technical discussions. Comfortable explaining complex technical concepts and business priorities to anyone in the organization, including stakeholders at the executive level.
- Experience with server-side Python or JVM technologies is a plus.
- Experience with AI engineering and running LLM-based pipelines in production is a plus.
