Senior Engineering Manager

Role Overview

• Lead a team of senior and staff engineers, you’ll oversee the core Medium product experience, foster the long-term health and growth of your team, elevate best practices across the engineering organization, and partner with leaders and cross-functional stakeholders across the company to bring Medium’s product vision to life for millions of readers and writers around the world.
• Drive scope, impact, and strategic alignment: Shepherd multi-quarter plans that align technical work with organizational goals and product strategy, while holding teams accountable for high-quality outcomes end-to-end.
• Operate as a key cross-functional voice in prioritization, product strategy, and technical direction to turn high-level strategy into clear direction engineers can act on.
• Own your team's hiring strategy end-to-end: attract great engineers across a broad range of backgrounds, represent Medium's mission and culture throughout the process, and think about long-term team composition.
• Create an environment of genuine psychological safety where dissenting opinions are valued and people can do their best work.
• Attend Medium’s twice-yearly, in-person offsites to collaborate with the team (hosted in locations around the U.S.).
• Lead complex tradeoff conversations and decisions, such as velocity vs. tech debt, innovation vs. operational burden, and ambition vs. resourcing constraints, while always staying grounded in impact.
• Guide the adoption of AI best practices and fluency while ensuring engineers remain accountable for code clarity, correctness, and the ability to reason about their systems.

Requirements

• You're product-minded at your core with experience shipping high-quality user-facing products at scale.
• You understand your users deeply and you care about the craft of building experiences that people actually love.
• You think in systems and give deep consideration to things like team structure, how work is planned, and how culture is built and reinforced.
• Most importantly, you focus on outcomes over output.
• As an organizational engineering leader, you’ll need robust product and technical judgement to assess whether your teams are building the right thing, the right way, for the humans who depend on it.
• You should be experienced leading through people and systems, even if you aren’t expected to be hands-on in the code.
• You're a builder of inclusive, high-trust team cultures where people feel supported and challenged in equal measure.
• You have demonstrated experience leading product engineering teams with broad scope and end-user impact.
• You have strong product instincts and know which levers to pull to drive meaningful results, and you understand the cross-functional implications of your team's work.
• You love crafting high quality user-facing products, and ideally have experience with consumer product, a social platform, or SaaS subscription business at scale.
• You have a genuine point of view on responsible AI use in engineering, and you can articulate where it creates leverage and where accountability must stay human.
• You communicate with honesty and directness, and you build trust through consistent follow-through.

Benefits

• Working with a fully distributed team: We’re fully remote and have teammates across the U.S. & France.
• Healthcare benefits covered at 100% for employees and 70% for dependents.
• Generous parental leave policy.
• Mental health support through Talkspace.
• Financial wellness support through Northstar.
• Stipends for co-working, professional development, wifi, and a one-time home office bonus.
• Unlimited PTO and standard company holidays.
• A discounted Medium membership!