Senior Engineering Manager, Nitro

Discord•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, and we are focused on making it easier and more fun for people to hang out before, during, and after playing games. We're looking for a technical, hands-on, and mission-focused Senior Engineering Manager to join our Consumer Revenue team. You’ll be responsible for building and scaling our Nitro product and organization. You will lead a team of engineers working across platforms to build revenue driving products and services at Discord.

Requirements

5+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager
Strong communication skills and the ability to work well cross-functionally.
Motivated to help your team members succeed and have experience developing engineers of multiple levels.
Approach problems from first principles.
Comfortable with ambiguity and get excited about working collaboratively to figure out solutions to complex problems, and then executing on them.
Strong product sense and take pride in understanding your customers.
Use experiments to make data informed decisions and are excited when numbers move by 1%.
Code does not scare you, you are still an engineer even if you don't do it all the time.
Keep up with the industry trends and can assess new technologies that can help us better solve problems.

Responsibilities

Build highly-engaged teams by hiring, coaching, and instilling a sense of ownership and impact in your engineers.
Work cross-functionally with our Finance, Customer Experience, Product, Design and Marketing teams to define your team’s vision and roadmap by thoroughly understanding the customer and business needs.
Use your technical expertise to constantly raise the bar and ensure your team delivers extraordinary results at the high technical level we set.
Develop insights into issues slowing down the team and use it to develop processes that enable the team to deliver its goals.
Mentor and guide the careers of the engineers through coaching and finding opportunities that support their technical skillset and goals.
Make sound decisions around resourcing, and make the rationale clear to partners and team members.
Partner with Revenue leadership on strategic planning and continuously improve the Engineering organization while upholding our workplace philosophy.