Senior Engineering Manager - Emerging Products

Dovetail is the world’s leading AI-first customer insights hub, on a mission to improve the quality of every thing. We’re redefining what it means to be connected to your customer, giving everyone on the product team fast and easy access to customer insights at any point in the development lifecycle.

Founded in 2017, Dovetail’s team is 100+ and growing across our offices in Sydney and San Francisco. We’re seeking ambitious problem solvers from a diverse range of backgrounds, who are desired for their experience, passionate about their craft, and excited about the work we’re undertaking. If this sounds like you, read on…

We're all about sweating the details on delightful experiences, tackling ambitious technical challenges, and delivering customer value. We've got ambitious goals for our emerging products and we're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager who will lead and grow the engineering team responsible for developing our next generation of innovative products. We're looking for someone with a product mindset, who shares our values and knows that culture is the foundation of any high-performing team.

What you’ll do

• Lead our Emerging Products engineering team. You'll be responsible for the overall performance of the engineering team behind our emerging products initiatives. You'll help build innovative new offerings through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and supporting your team's growth.
• Build and develop a high-performing team. You'll manage engineering managers and leaders within the Emerging Products group, helping them develop their teams while nurturing a collaborative and high-performing culture.
• Drive innovation and experimentation. You'll create an environment that encourages calculated risk-taking and rapid iteration to identify and validate new product opportunities that align with our company vision.
• Bridge product and engineering. You'll work closely with product leadership to translate strategic product initiatives into engineering deliverables, making difficult scoping decisions while maintaining technical excellence.
• Champion technical quality and scalability. As we develop new products, you'll ensure we build on a solid technical foundation that can scale with our growth, balancing innovation with stability.

What you’ll bring

• You've led engineering teams for new product initiatives. You've experienced the challenges of building and validating new products in the face of ambiguity. You know how to create focus and motivation while building trust in your leadership.
• Experience managing engineering managers. You've managed engineering managers and are comfortable giving and receiving feedback to motivate and steer them to success. You know what good looks like, can confidently identify areas for improvement, provide timely guidance, and motivate them to reach their goals.
• You've balanced innovation with execution. You understand how to create space for exploration while delivering tangible outcomes. You're experienced in moving products from concept to production, making appropriate trade-offs along the way.
• Have a strong product development background. You've managed complex technical projects and know how to build products and features from scratch. You've partnered with product management and design leaders to make difficult scoping and design decisions in order to regularly deliver valuable features to customers.
• You excel at cross-functional collaboration. You've successfully worked across engineering, product, and design to create cohesive product experiences. You're skilled at communicating engineering constraints and opportunities to non-technical stakeholders.

At Dovetail, we’re passionate about building and fostering an environment where every team member feels supported and valued. We celebrate individualism, welcoming everyone to show up as their authentic selves every day. It’s no secret that diversity builds the best teams, large or small, so we highly encourage applications from people who identify as part of an under-represented group.