Engineering Manager, Monetization

Vanta is a company dedicated to helping businesses earn and prove trust by continuously monitoring and verifying security. They are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead their Monetization platform team, focusing on unifying entitlement management, usage tracking, and billing systems to support customer lifecycle infrastructure. This role involves building impactful systems that enhance Vanta's growth while addressing complex distributed systems challenges.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, grow and mentor a talented team of backend and full-stack engineers building our core monetization systems
• Define and execute technical strategy for a unified monetization platform that integrates seamlessly with Finance and GTM Ops, supports multiple sales models (self-serve, direct enterprise, and partner-driven) and establishes shared best practices in data modeling, distributed systems design, and developer experience
• Platformize entitlements, purchasing and billing—enabling other product teams to manage customer access and pricing logic through scalable, well-defined APIs and reusable UX components
• Champion operational excellence, promoting strong engineering practices, sustainable delivery, and high reliability as the team scales

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience managing and scaling technical teams of six or more engineers
• Proven success leading teams that build and scale backend or platform systems in transaction-heavy domains
• Have a track record of guiding product and long term technical strategy
• Be a strong decision maker who effectively balances ambiguity, available data, speed, and quality
• Have experience hiring, managing and upleveling senior individual contributors
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills across engineering, product, and go-to-market stakeholders
• Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact
• Experience leading teams that build or scale enterprise billing, pricing, or financial data platforms
• Background in SaaS monetization, revenue operations, or entitlement management
• Familiarity with self-serve commerce and product-led growth models
• Experience scaling systems and teams through periods of high growth or re-architecture