Engineering Manager

CoLab Software

2d•Remote

About The Position

At CoLab, we want to help mechanical engineering teams bring life-changing products to market years sooner. CoLab is a cloud based platform for engineering design review. We make it easy for subject matter experts (SMEs) across your business to access, evaluate, and comment on 2D drawings and 3D models. Our built-in AI peer checker, AutoReview, scans designs for common errors or non-compliance with your standards and guidelines. AutoReview creates markups and comments on your files, in context – just like a human checker. With CoLab, human SMEs and AI work together to help you make better decisions and improve designs faster. We automatically capture knowledge from across your global business that would otherwise be buried in emails, spreadsheets, slide decks, and unknown locations in Sharepoint or PLM. Then, we make sure every lesson learned and every design guideline is applied exactly when it matters. Companies like Johnson Controls, Komatsu, Schaeffler, and Polaris have launched products 40% faster, cut BOM costs by 50%, and reduced quality escapes by 15% in 1 year. We’re currently on the hunt for our next Engineering Manager to own our Build Engage team. As the EM, you’ll be responsible for CoLab’s Reviews feature set, one of the most visible, heavily used, and business-critical parts of the product. Reviews are where engineers collaborate remotely: viewing CAD models, leaving feedback, iterating together, and ultimately making better design decisions. It’s the connective tissue between collaboration, feedback, and our AI-powered review workflows. You’ll lead a team of ~10 engineers who are ambitious, deeply engaged, and proud of what they ship. They care about craft, about each other, and about not wasting time. Your job is to help them grow, stay healthy, and continue delivering high-quality UI/UX-heavy work. You’ll partner closely with a strong PM, design, and product leadership. You won’t be asked to blaze a brand-new frontier alone — but you will be expected to make good product calls, manage tradeoffs, and keep the team grounded when priorities shift.

Requirements

Experience managing and developing engineering teams in a product-focused environment
Strong communication skills with engineers, product managers, designers, and leadership
Technical fluency, especially in frontend or UI-heavy systems
Experience navigating changing priorities while protecting team health

Nice To Haves

Lead with warmth, empathy, and clarity — and genuinely enjoy the people side of management
Come from a frontend or UI-leaning background and can still dive into technical discussions when needed
Are product-minded and pragmatic, not dogmatic
Know how to push a high-performing team to grow without pushing them over the edge
Are comfortable managing a large team (~10 direct reports) with varying strengths and needs

Responsibilities

The health, growth, and performance of the Build Engage engineering team
Delivery and evolution of core reviews functionality, including feedback loops, collaboration workflows, and visibility into CAD models
UI/UX-heavy roadmap areas like reviews, notifications, and shared ownership of navigation and related surfaces
Clear communication up, down, and sideways — especially in a product area that’s always in the spotlight