Senior Engineering Manager, Web Platform
About The Position
As a Senior Engineering Manager for Web Platform, you will be responsible for leading and growing the engineering team through people development, strategic planning, and close partnership with Engineering Leadership, Product, and Design. You will play a leading role in defining the team's roadmap, making a clear and well-supported case for platform investment across the organization, and ensuring the team's work directly enables Headway's product and business goals. This role requires strong organizational leadership and strategic communication: the platform only delivers its full value when the rest of engineering understands what it makes possible.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager
- 10+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, with depth in modern frontend and web technologies
- Experience leading platform, infrastructure, or developer experience teams and understand how to make the case for foundational work in an organization driven by product outcomes
- Strong strategic communicator who can translate platform investments into clear business value for non-technical stakeholders and executive leadership
- Track record of building alignment across multiple product teams, navigating competing priorities, and driving a shared roadmap forward
- Proactive in creating organizational visibility for your team's work through documentation, metrics, and stakeholder engagement, not just through the work itself
- Able to build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships with Design and Product, keeping platform and product roadmaps in sync
Responsibilities
- Leading and growing the engineering team through people development, strategic planning, and close partnership with Engineering Leadership, Product, and Design.
- Playing a leading role in defining the team's roadmap.
- Making a clear and well-supported case for platform investment across the organization.
- Ensuring the team's work directly enables Headway's product and business goals.
- Building alignment across multiple product teams, navigating competing priorities, and driving a shared roadmap forward.
- Creating organizational visibility for your team's work through documentation, metrics, and stakeholder engagement.
- Building and maintaining strong cross-functional relationships with Design and Product, keeping platform and product roadmaps in sync.
Benefits
- Employee equity
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
