Engineering Manager (Frontend) - Productivity Group

Job Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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About the Group The Productivity Group encompasses the product vertical teams that make up the Visual Suite: Docs, Email, Sheets, Presentations, Whiteboards, and Websites. It helps drive our product offerings in this space, making them cohesive and productive tools for our customers. Each of the teams are largely Frontend specific, with some BE/MLE resources consolidated into a platform team helping the verticals with their feature work.

While we have shipped world class products, there is still much to be done. We have a packed upcoming schedule of features that will take the Visual Suite to new heights. Expect a strong focus on both AI/ML integration, interactivity, and other power user features.

What you’ll do (responsibilities)

• Build alignment & momentum towards a common goal across teams, groups, and timezones

• Partnering with product and design for road mapping, planning resourcing and goal setting. Taking the vision of the product and making it happen

• Grow a team vertically & horizontally - invest in our people & add new ones

• Coach up and coming coaches to further develop leadership capability across the team

• Creating a collaborative & open team environment, where everyone can do the best work of their lives

• Keeping situational awareness across multiple complicated workstreams & keeping the broader company informed.

• Connect the dots from now to our long term product vision

• Ruthlessly prioritise - keep us focused on the critical problems, and keep the noise away.

• Design, develop and deploy solutions and hands-on software development – working closely with leads, designers, and product managers to deliver features and experiments to our customers worldwide

• Facilitate knowledge sharing and optimally advocate for engineering needs

• Models initiative and ownership in achieving goals, improving processes and solutions

• Finds opportunities for cross-team collaboration to work on new insights and improvements that help achieve our goals

Qualifications

What we're looking for

• Ability to rally a wide range of people, teams, and groups across the organisation towards a common goal

• Balancing short-term pragmatism with a steadfast commitment to building the right thing for our long-term goals.

• A strong technical background

• Ability to lead, coach & grow a strong, senior, engineering team

• Track record of empowering other leaders and building a diverse team

• Experience delivering a product from early stages to a full launch in a tightly constrained environment

• Commercial experience in a software development environment, ideally with experience in building internal/external SDKs or APIs.

• Our frontend stack consists of JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React, TypeScript, MobX, etc.. Experience in some of these would be valuable but is not required.

• Firmly grounded computer science and engineering fundamentals including asynchronous programming, data structures, solution design, architecture, and design patterns.

• Previous experience in working collaboratively with team members and communicating effectively.

• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to break large projects down into smaller ones and deliver on them through others.

• Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking

• Good written and verbal communication skills.