Senior Engineering Manager

Flodesk is one of the world’s fastest-growing email marketing companies, built to help creators sell online and design emails that people love to get. Our commitment to small business owners is to create simple and intuitive tools that help them grow, nurture, and monetize their email list.  

We’re a remote-first company headquartered in San Francisco, California, with a team that reflects the diversity and creativity of the people we serve. Join our mission to level the playing field for small business owners through good design!

The Senior Engineering Manager Role

As we scale, we’re looking for our first management hire in engineering: a Senior Engineering Manager who will play a key role in shaping the future of our team and products. Your mission is to build a world-class team, collaborate on product strategies with key stakeholders, and execute a technical roadmap to meet our ambitious goals.

Your Key Responsibilities

Planning

• Partner with Product and Design teams to define product specifications and concepts.
• Build and maintain a product roadmap that ensures we achieve our business and product goals.

Resourcing

• Determine headcount needs and lead recruitment efforts to grow the team.
• Build a high-performance, high-velocity, and highly autonomous engineering team.

Management

• Understand the strengths and weaknesses of individual team members.
• Develop and grow engineers to maximize their potential.
• Lead performance reviews and, when necessary, have hard but constructive conversations.

Delivery

• Collaborate across departments to ensure projects stay on track.
• Proactively unblock the team and ensure delivery of commitments.

Innovation

• Foster a culture of innovation and continuously push the technical boundaries of our platform.

Who You Are

We’re looking for someone with:

• A strong growth mindset—you’re always looking to improve and learn.
• An innovative spirit—you challenge the status quo and inspire others to think outside the box.
• A proven ability to build and lead high-performing, autonomous teams.

This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing startup at a pivotal moment and make a lasting impact. Together, we’ll build the future of email marketing.

Flodesk is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Flodesk is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email people@flodesk.com

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