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Babylist · 2 days ago

Senior Engineering Manager, Consumer Experience

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$171K/yr - $256K/yr

5+ years exp

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Kristin Phillips

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Responsibilities

Define, build, and maintain a high-performance, results-driven, collaborative culture aligned with Babylist's core values

Capitalize on Babylist's foundation and highly engaged customer base to create a more impactful experience

Own the tactical planning and execution for the team while partnering with other Engineering and Product leaders on shared goals against Babylist's strategic imperatives

Be a thought leader and expert in understanding users and product by prioritizing the highest value areas

Empower and inspire the team to achieve their highest potential. Play the key role in onboarding and mentoring the team

Serve as a thought leader for the technical roadmap. Provide guidance on processes, tooling, and systems to help the team with key technical decisions

Be accountable for the team. Help them to ship high-quality software that meets the business needs

Own communication across the product development team and company regarding key milestones, providing frequent, transparent updates on progress towards goals

Partner closely with product owners to design, implement, and deploy systems to support and scale the growing business

Qualification

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Ruby on RailsSoftware developmentConsumer-facing solutions/b testingHiringTalent developmentCoding abilitiesArchitectural decisionsTestingMonitoringStrategic planningProduction software systemLeadershipTeam buildingAdaptabilityCoachingCommunication

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Before becoming a leader, you were a high-performing engineer with a track record of end-to-end software development of production systems. Ideally, you have done this in a Ruby on Rails environment

You have experience building complex consumer-facing solutions

You have experience in experimentation and a/b testing, leading to high-performing, well-loved consumer tech products

You have led high-functioning teams and meaningfully built and maintained engineering culture

You’ve successfully led teams through growth and change, which means you know how to adapt and set and maintain standards for your team that scale with the business. You are a great coach of engineers with experience hiring, developing talent, and giving feedback

You have an exceptional understanding of your team’s coding abilities and know when projects need extra support. You have the experience to help the team make the right architectural decisions that balance business value and system stability

You’re skilled at testing, monitoring, and running a production software system

You have worked effectively with senior leadership in setting a strategic 6+ month direction

You have 5 or more years of experience as an Engineering Manager