Senior Engineering Manager - Product Development

Symmetry • Scottsdale, AZ

13h • $189,000 - $237,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a seasoned engineering leader for our product development team, passionate about leveraging AI to shape the future of our industry. This role is dual-focused: providing robust support for our existing core payroll products while aggressively advancing the incorporation of AI throughout our entire product portfolio and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). You will be a crucial driver in instilling an AI-native approach at every stage of development. Furthermore, you will lead a critical transformation within our shared services groups (DevOps and Quality Assurance), pivoting their function to actively enable our engineers and act as strategic partners, not merely a downstream output team. The ideal candidate will be an "activator," bringing execution energy and vision to champion truly innovative, smart features and core capabilities through machine learning and generative AI. Your leadership will be integral to our company's growth, ensuring AI is a fundamental component of our product differentiation.

Requirements

• Masters or Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of engineering leadership experience – managing both people and tech stacks.
• Proven ability to lead organizational transformations, specifically within DevOps and Quality Assurance, pivoting these functions from downstream cost centers to strategic engineering enablers.
• Practical experience or exposure in AI native product development leveraging AWS services (Bedrock, Agent Core, etc)
• A proven track record and ability to communicate with cross functional peers, communicating technical concepts to business stakeholders, and communicating business objectives to the technical team.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership on problems and projects and lead them to completion.
• A proven ability to debug and triage critical systems, including team performance.
• Hands-on experience with agile methodologies, and their practical application.
• Strong Experience with web application development, Dev-ops, distributed systems, CI/CD and quality test automation.
• Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Design, Service Oriented Architecture, and Systems thinking.
• Exceptional verbal and written presentation skills, including ability to prepare materials for audiences at all levels of the organization.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong work ethic supported by solid time-management skills.
• A love of your craft and a curiosity and passion to constantly learn new things.
• Ability and passion for helping growing engineering teams and making others better.
• A commitment and drive for quality and building for the long term.
• Ability to respect and handle diversity amongst staff and office environments.
• Ability to get into the nitty gritty of how a product works and clearly communicate its value.

Responsibilities

• Aligning teams to focus on new AI native features, and business goals.
• Taking complete functional ownership of your area including vision for both the platform and product in partnership with product managers and stakeholders.
• Initiating innovation, ideas, or actions by providing the initial energy, inspiration, or motivation needed to get a team started.
• Elevating our engineering practices to be AI-native, driving adoption of tools, processes, and methodologies that leverage AI to increase velocity, code quality, and operational efficiency across the team.
• Aligning and prioritizing the organization deliverables based on the company needs, working closely with the leadership across functional departments.
• Ensuring products and services are performant, available 24x7x365, resilient, and stable.
• Leading the transformation of our shared services groups (DevOps and Quality Assurance), instilling a change agent mindset, and pivoting their function to actively enable our engineers as strategic partners for sustainable operation and continual refinement.
• Evaluating emerging technologies including SaaS systems for opportunities to improve services, acting as technical consultant for the company to champion practical technical solutions.
• Partnering with engineering leaders across the company to architect and champion well-defined sub-systems and continually refining company-wide platform architecture.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager