BriefCase
BriefCase

Senior Engineering Manager, Growth Job in Springboard

Senior Engineering Manager, Growth

Springboard 4+ weeks ago
Apply Now
Job Summary The Company
Springboard is on a mission to bridge the skills gap by delivering high-quality, affordable education in new-economy skills like data science, design, analytics, and digital marketing. We ve already helped thousands of students worldwide, offering personalised mentoring and coaching support to maximize learning and help achieve real professional outcomes.
The Opportunity
Springboard s product has evolved significantly over the last 4 years, with the steady addition of features that give our students all they need to succeed in our courses and beyond, in the workplace.We re now looking for an experienced, visionary, engineering manager with strong technical expertise to manage the Growth engineering team that builds, designs, implements and maintains critical services across the entire marketing funnel (user acquisition / organic growth > applications > sales and admissions > enrolments).

Responsibilities:

    • Manage a team of around ten highly talented engineers, guiding them on skills development, setting goals, performance assessment, coaching and career development. The team comprises junior and senior individual contributors as well as another junior manager.
    • Work closely with the Growth Product (business) team and Growth Engineering leads to assess the feasibility and align on requirements, understand business problems and propose solutions, estimate efforts and prepare quarterly plans.
    • Define quarterly OKRs for the team and align the same with leadership as well as the team.
    • Own end to end project delivery for the team by supporting them in interacting with product managers, overcoming blockers, removing dependencies and providing technical guidance.
    • Setup efficient project delivery processes, workflows and schedules. Adapt processes to the changing requirements of the team. Contribute to the definition of project goals/metrics and drive the team towards the same.
    • Influence and establish best engineering practices in the team
    • Technically mentor engineers in the team (depending on your area of expertise, this could be on frontend or backend)
    • Contribute to the architecture of the system, driving the quality and stability of the product by getting hands-on as required with code and design reviews, debugging complex issues, among other things (depending on your area of expertise, this could be frontend or backend).
    • Continually assess, hire and scale the team as necessary
    • Work closely with the Growth Engineering team and technical leadership team to contribute to long term strategies and roadmaps. Prepare and track initiatives that could span multiple quarters.

You have:

    • 4+ years of experience in people management and 5 years of hands-on experience in backend/frontend development
    • Experience working in high-performance software company esp. in startups or startup-like environment, preferable
    • Experience developing and mentoring engineering teams, with a mix of junior and senior members and different roles such as frontend, backend, QA
    • Experience working closely with product and other business teams
    • Extensive architectural experience; understanding of scalable systems and distributed computing with strong frontend or backend domain knowledge
    • Ability to lead with empathy and instil a culture of open communication, ownership, high performance and excellence
    • Outstanding interpersonal and team-building skills
    • Excellent organizational skills, to handle multiple activities and priorities seamlessly
    • Excellent communication and collaboration skills, to drive consensus, work with varied stakeholders, and articulate trade-offs
    • Understand building consumer internet platforms. Working with growth teams, marketing websites, SEO etc. is an added advantage.
    • Passionate about improving education and seriously committed to helping build an organization from the ground up, even if things aren t always easy
    • Frontend domain expertise is preferred
Experience Required :

Fresher

Vacancy :

2 - 4 Hires

Similar Jobs for you

See more recommended jobs