Engineering Manager, Growth

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Engineering Manager leading Growth engineering across Buffer’s social media and brand-building software. Driving acquisition, activation, retention, and AI-enabled product development.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead engineering for Growth across product and marketing surfaces
  • Support engineers through regular coaching, clear feedback, and meaningful career conversations
  • Shape priorities with Product, Design, and Marketing based on customer needs and data
  • Stay close to technical decisions and product details
  • Help build clear, accessible, responsive customer experiences
  • Connect customer insights, product changes, and measurement to assess impact
  • Shape Buffer’s approach to building with AI through experiments, judgment, and effective systems
  • Contribute to the wider Engineering team through hiring, shared practices, and workflow improvements
  • Participate in the hiring process and wider team collaboration

Requirements:

  • Experience managing engineers
  • Ability to coach engineers, provide clear feedback, support career growth, and address performance concerns
  • Strong engineering background and comfort with technical details, including code review, architecture exploration, prototyping, and technical trade-offs
  • Experience using AI in engineering work and ability to evaluate and guide AI outputs
  • Clear written communication
  • Ability to take ownership and collaborate across disciplines and time zones
  • Understanding of product growth, including acquisition, monetization, retention, and experimentation
  • Personal connection to making and sharing things, such as writing a newsletter, sharing work online, building a side project, or running a small business

Benefits:

  • Equity offered
  • Paid two-day final collaboration period
  • Fully distributed/remote work
  • Travel to work together in person once or twice per year
  • Transparent, fair, simple, and generous approach to salary, equity, and benefits