Upstart is a leading AI lending marketplace focused on reducing the cost and complexity of borrowing for Americans. The Senior Engineering Manager will shape user growth and engagement through intelligent targeting and strategic product recommendations, while leading a high-performing engineering team to enhance offer generation infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Define and implement an engineering roadmap that supports intelligent and personalized offer and product recommendations to our user base
- Work with cross functional partners including Product Managers, Product Marketing Managers, and Research Scientists to make this a highly impactful program
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing engineering team directly, focused on providing high quality solutions and incrementally enhance systems with each pull request
- Leverage experimentation and data-driven insights to refine growth strategies, optimizing user engagement and conversion through continuous testing, iteration, and personalization
- Create a best-in-class offer generation infrastructure that scales with our user base and all Upstart products
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 8+ years of experience in software development with a minimum of 3 years managing a team directly
- Experience leading product oriented teams with quantifiable user impact
- Ability to convey complex technical information to a variety of audiences
- Experience with growth engineering product stacks (Optimizations, Experimentation, Personalization, Recommendation Systems, etc)
- Experience working on a product with marketplace dynamics
- Proven track record of leading and growing engineering teams
- Success in driving initiatives spanning multiple teams across organizations
- Skilled in scaling systems in both a technical and organizational capacity