Engineering Manager - Remote

Engineering Manager - Remote

We’re looking for people who are passionate about leading and building great teams.

Do you believe culture and craft are best played as a team sport? That being kind to one another is part of the job? Then you will fit right into our fantastic Engineering team. We move quickly but thoughtfully. We're rigorous without ivory tower institutions. We love building and technology, but we're customer obsessed first.

At ProductPlan, we believe in doing what matters—and that begins with the culture we create. Our values are Heart, Humility, and Hustle. Together we work hard, laugh hard, and support one another to build the product roadmap software behind today’s leading companies.

What you'll do

• Be a leader in our evolution from small startup to mid-size company
• Oversee engineering teams and our software development life cycle.
• Support product vision to achieve our strategic objectives
• Enhancing engineering productivity, creating a psychologically safe space for team members, mentoring contributors, and collaborating in shaping work
• Acting as a key contributor for new initiatives, fostering innovation, and ensuring positive cross functional relationships
• Facilitating architectural discussions
• Facilitates and participates in Planning, Shaping, Design Reviews, and Retrospectives
• Collaborates on refining the SDLC process, driving improvements that maximize team happiness and success
• Pairs with Product, Design, and Engineering Leads to assist with the Shaping process
• Establishes accountability by tracking sprint outcomes, engineering metrics, velocity, and post release issues
• Celebrates successes and use setbacks as learning opportunities to drive change
• Engineering-advocate during the development process, subjecting early-stage Shaping and design review offering implementation suggestions from an engineering perspective
• Models cross-functional collaboration
• Participate in the talent acquisition and interview process
• Creates and supports management structures including regular 1:1’s, 360 reviews and annual review processes
• Actively cascades and personifies our Developer Values 
• Fosters innovation where opportunities present themselves
• Responsible for application monitoring and performance for respective squads
• Be a functional participant in the work
• Contribute to written standards that enable successful scaling of ProductPlan’s engineering teams
• Helps in articulating and nurturing career paths for technical growth
• Does not act as a key contributor in squad work

What we look for in you

• You have 8 or more years of leadership experience in engineering roles
• You have the ability to conduct complex data analysis and translate into actionable, deliverables, messages and presentations
• You are the kind of person other humans rally behind. You don’t resort to authority to get things done, you find ways to connect the outcome to individual purpose, and repeatedly drive initiatives to successful ends
• You’ve got positive energy. You are a natural technical leader who is optimistic about the future and determined to get us there! 
• You are a First Principles thinker who knows the difference between pragmatism and systemic corner-cutting - you have a strong bias for the former
• You get excited about figuring out solutions to complex problems and enjoy mentoring others to use those solutions even more!
• You are a strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you. Nobody glazes over when you speak!

Nice to haves

• You’ve been through rapid growth in your career (from 10s to 100s of colleagues)
• You have direct experience with the product development lifecycle (Product, Design, CS in a past life)

Minimum Qualifications

• High level of negotiation skills for team buy-in and commitment
• Strong level of creativity and vision
• Excellent strategic planner with strong project facilitation experience
• Proactive, with ability to self-direct through multiple concurrent projects
• High sense of urgency, driven with ability to understand and prioritize initiatives
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills with ability to interact effectively on both technical and non-technical issues at various levels in the organization.
  

About ProductPlan

ProductPlan was founded in 2013 with headquarters in Santa Barbara, California. Our talented distributed team is now located all over the world.  We are friends, coworkers, trivia nuts, musical wizards, moms, dads, engineers, designers, worm farmers, bee keepers, marketers, support, human beings, and so much more - all of us are unique which feeds into the beauty of our culture and our product. ProductPlan has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture. We share 3 core values that are central to everything that we do - hustle, humility and heart and we look for people who are curious, inventive, and work to be a little better every single day.

Originally, we created ProductPlan to liberate people from building roadmaps using cumbersome tools like spreadsheets and slide decks. It's been amazing to watch it grow into what it is today—a system of record for product-led companies, worldwide.