Senior Engineering Manager - Maps
Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. More than 4 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility, security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers.
What We Do
The Maps teams build and maintain the applications and infrastructure responsible for creating and distributing Mapbox maps. Thousands of customers rely on our services to seamlessly handle billions of requests every day, scale in real-time to global events, and enable designers, developers, and analysts to make and share maps we’ve never dreamed of. Delivering maps means delivering a model of the world that’s changing all the time and needs to automatically support the world’s edge cases – writing systems, fonts, local regulations, and global boundary disputes.
What You’ll Do
As the Senior Engineering Manager for Maps, you will be responsible for leading all the backend services within the Maps division, overseeing product development, strategy, team management, and driving profitability. Maps is the leading solution for map visualization on mobile and automotive today, customers like Strava, BMW, Tableau, and the Weather Company rely on Maps for their to engage consumers and drive business efficiency. You will play a vital role in shaping the future of location-based services and transforming the way people navigate and understand the world.
Provide strategic direction, vision, and roadmap for the Maps engineering teams, aligning it with the company's overall goals and objectives.
Lead an organization of engineers, fostering innovation, collaboration, and excellence in engineering practices.
Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of Maps APIs, ensuring they meet customer requirements, industry standards, and leveraging user feedback and market insights for refinement.
Collaborate with external engineering leaders to drive technical excellence and cultivate strategic partnerships to expand Mapbox's presence, enabling seamless integration of mapping solutions and identifying new business opportunities for strategic growth.
Partner with Product and Sales team across the company to align roadmap, product launches, and customer deliverables
What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role
10+ years of software development leadership experience.
Conceptualized and delivered B2B2C or consumer-facing products.
Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to establish a realistic yet ambitious product roadmap and effectively communicate it to the market and across the organization.
Experience in a high-accountability environment, with the ability to build, operationalize, and scale technically distributed organizations (engineering, product, data scientists, etc.).
Demonstrated ability to drive go-to-market strategies that have resulted in successful product adoption and revenue generation.
Ability to think strategically to grow the Maps business.
Valuable But Not Required Experience
Architect and deliver scalable, reliable solutions on AWS, applying deep knowledge of cloud-native services to balance performance, resilience, and operational simplicity.
Drive infrastructure cost efficiency as a first-class engineering concern, proactively optimizing cloud spend through thoughtful architecture, right-sizing, automation, and disciplined trade-off decisions.
What We Value
In addition to our core values, which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox leaders:
We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.
We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work. We commit to this through supportive health care, parental leave, flexibility for the things that come up in life, and innovating on how we think about supporting our people.
We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.
We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.
Our annual base compensation for this role ranges from $238,000 - $322,000 for most US locations and 5% to 10% higher for US locations with a higher cost of labor. Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.
By applying for this position, you acknowledge that you agree to the Mapbox Privacy Policy which is linked here.
Mapbox participates in E-Verify to confirm employee work authorization. Please refer to the Notice of E-Verify Participation and Right to Work posters for more information.
We are committed to a fair and equitable hiring process. We do not discriminate against any protected class.
#LI-Remote
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Senior Engineering Manager - Maps
Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. More than 4 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility, security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers.
What We Do
The Maps teams build and maintain the applications and infrastructure responsible for creating and distributing Mapbox maps. Thousands of customers rely on our services to seamlessly handle billions of requests every day, scale in real-time to global events, and enable designers, developers, and analysts to make and share maps we’ve never dreamed of. Delivering maps means delivering a model of the world that’s changing all the time and needs to automatically support the world’s edge cases – writing systems, fonts, local regulations, and global boundary disputes.
What You’ll Do
As the Senior Engineering Manager for Maps, you will be responsible for leading all the backend services within the Maps division, overseeing product development, strategy, team management, and driving profitability. Maps is the leading solution for map visualization on mobile and automotive today, customers like Strava, BMW, Tableau, and the Weather Company rely on Maps for their to engage consumers and drive business efficiency. You will play a vital role in shaping the future of location-based services and transforming the way people navigate and understand the world.
Provide strategic direction, vision, and roadmap for the Maps engineering teams, aligning it with the company's overall goals and objectives.
Lead an organization of engineers, fostering innovation, collaboration, and excellence in engineering practices.
Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of Maps APIs, ensuring they meet customer requirements, industry standards, and leveraging user feedback and market insights for refinement.
Collaborate with external engineering leaders to drive technical excellence and cultivate strategic partnerships to expand Mapbox's presence, enabling seamless integration of mapping solutions and identifying new business opportunities for strategic growth.
Partner with Product and Sales team across the company to align roadmap, product launches, and customer deliverables
What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role
10+ years of software development leadership experience.
Conceptualized and delivered B2B2C or consumer-facing products.
Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to establish a realistic yet ambitious product roadmap and effectively communicate it to the market and across the organization.
Experience in a high-accountability environment, with the ability to build, operationalize, and scale technically distributed organizations (engineering, product, data scientists, etc.).
Demonstrated ability to drive go-to-market strategies that have resulted in successful product adoption and revenue generation.
Ability to think strategically to grow the Maps business.
Valuable But Not Required Experience
Architect and deliver scalable, reliable solutions on AWS, applying deep knowledge of cloud-native services to balance performance, resilience, and operational simplicity.
Drive infrastructure cost efficiency as a first-class engineering concern, proactively optimizing cloud spend through thoughtful architecture, right-sizing, automation, and disciplined trade-off decisions.
What We Value
In addition to our core values, which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox leaders:
We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.
We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work. We commit to this through supportive health care, parental leave, flexibility for the things that come up in life, and innovating on how we think about supporting our people.
We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.
We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.
Our annual base compensation for this role ranges from $238,000 - $322,000 for most US locations and 5% to 10% higher for US locations with a higher cost of labor. Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.
By applying for this position, you acknowledge that you agree to the Mapbox Privacy Policy which is linked here.
Mapbox participates in E-Verify to confirm employee work authorization. Please refer to the Notice of E-Verify Participation and Right to Work posters for more information.
We are committed to a fair and equitable hiring process. We do not discriminate against any protected class.
#LI-Remote