Engineering Manager, Growth (Remote - Worldwide)

Candidates can apply from anywhere; the team works across many time zones. A fully distributed company that builds marketing and social media software for small businesses, creators and individuals is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead engineering for its Growth area. The role covers both product and marketing surfaces, with focus on acquisition, activation and retention. You will work closely with Product, Design, Marketing and Data to set technical direction and help the team decide what to build next and how to measure whether it helped customers.

What you'll do

• Coach engineers through regular 1:1s, clear feedback, career conversations and performance support.
• Set priorities with Product, Design and Marketing, grounding decisions in customer needs and data.
• Stay close to technical decisions and product details, including reviewing code and weighing architecture trade-offs, and judge when to keep refining versus ship and learn.
• Connect customer insights, product changes and measurement so the team understands the impact of its work.
• Lead the team's experiments with AI tools and help build sound practices for using AI effectively in engineering.
• Contribute to hiring and shared engineering practices across the wider team.

What you need

• Experience managing engineers, with concrete examples of growing people and handling feedback and performance issues.
• A strong software engineering background and comfort working in technical detail.
• A clear eye for user experience, noticing friction in flows and explaining design trade-offs.
• Hands-on use of AI in your own engineering work, with the judgment to check its output.
• Strong written communication and the ability to work across disciplines and time zones.
• Understanding of how a product grows, from acquisition to retention, ideally through growth work, experimentation or early-stage product experience.

Open to applicants anywhere in the world.

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