Senior Engineering Manager

VSCO•San Francisco, CA

2d•$240,000 - $255,000•Hybrid

About The Position

VSCO is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a team of server, web, and full-stack engineers. This team will focus on building a business management platform tailored for professional photographers. The platform will offer tools for client management, scheduling, invoicing, and workflow automation to help photographers streamline and grow their businesses. The role involves leading and growing engineers through hiring, coaching, and development, structuring the team for optimal impact, and fostering career advancement. The manager will also stay hands-on technically, reviewing code, contributing directly, and maintaining a deep understanding of the team's systems and their integration with the broader VSCO platform. This includes guiding architectural direction and ensuring the delivery of high-quality solutions. The position requires owning outcomes end-to-end, defining and refining roadmaps with the team and cross-functional partners, breaking down work, setting success metrics, and holding the team accountable. A key aspect of the role is removing obstacles for the team and cross-functional partners by escalating issues, adjusting scope, or facilitating difficult conversations. Collaboration with product, design, data science, and other engineering teams is essential to navigate ambiguity, design shared primitives, and shape a unified product vision.

Requirements

10+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time as a hands-on IC building production systems at scale.
5+ years of engineering management or technical leadership experience (including people management without a formal EM title) on user-facing products.
Strong familiarity with Go, TypeScript/React/Node.js, with the ability to write, review, and reason about code across these stacks.
Product-sense that extends beyond management, with the ability to reason about scope, suggest alternatives, and help shape product direction.
Demonstrated hands-on experience applying AI tools and workflows in software development.
A track record of leading team adoption and embedding AI-enabled practices to improve productivity, engineering velocity, and operational efficiency.
Commitment to people leadership with demonstrated outcomes in facilitating team success and fostering technical rigor.
Ownership mentality, including resolving blockers, driving decisions, and accountability for team success.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading large technological migration initiatives.
Experience building business tools like CRM systems.
Experience with distributed systems.

Responsibilities

Leading and growing engineers, including hiring, coaching, and developing the team.
Structuring the team to ensure the right people are in the right roles and maximizing the impact of technical contributors.
Staying hands-on technically by reviewing code, contributing directly, and understanding the systems the team owns.
Guiding architectural direction and helping the team deliver high-quality solutions.
Owning outcomes end-to-end, including defining and refining the roadmap with the team and cross-functional partners.
Breaking down work, setting success metrics, and holding the team accountable for results.
Removing obstacles for the team and cross-functional partners by escalating issues, adjusting scope, or having difficult conversations.
Collaborating with product, design, data science, and other engineering teams to shape product vision and design shared primitives.