Splice is a creative platform for people who make music. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead a full stack team of engineers to bring amazing new capabilities to music creators, reporting directly to the Director of Engineering for Splice Sounds.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, coach, and grow the engineering team responsible for building and evolving our DAW plugin and Desktop application, furthering Splice’s mission of empowering music creators
- Demonstrate a product and user-centric mindset towards engineering and product development
- Collaborate with stakeholders to drive a culture of empowered teams, fostering ownership, collaboration, and initiative across the organization
- Guide your team through adopting the AI tools which are bringing acceleration to the software development process
- Define clear outcomes for the team and lead them in achieving those goals
- Establish and maintain efficient processes to facilitate the team's productivity
- Stay current on the latest technologies, preferred practices, and industry trends in software development
- Provide mentorship and guidance to engineers and early-career managers to support their technical and professional growth
- Collaborate with senior and staff engineers to shape technical strategy and secure buy-in across the organization
- Foster a culture of innovation, feedback, and continual learning
- Show curiosity about our customer outcomes and our business, identifying higher-level insights and opportunities across departments to elevate Splice to the next level of performance and growth
Requirements:
- Proven expertise in technical leadership within a cross-functional and distributed team environment
- Outstanding communication, organizational skills, and a user-centric mindset
- Experience implementing agile methodologies, particularly Kanban and/or Lean
- Proficient in technical project management and stakeholder management
- Demonstrated expertise in guiding senior engineers and identifying growth avenues for their continuing development
- Proven track record of mentoring and coaching early-career engineers in both personal development and business impact
- Technical competency in C++, DAW plugins and digital signal processing (DSP)
- Experience delivering desktop experiences built using web-based front-end technologies
- Experience working on AI/ML-powered products
- Experience playing an instrument, singing, or using music creation software