Senior Engineering Manager, Mapbox (San Francisco)

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Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. More than 4 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platforms flexibility, security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers.

What You'll Do

As a Senior Engineering Manager at Mapbox, you will lead a multi-disciplinary team of innovative and high-performing engineers and managers who develop complex navigation, mapping, and search solutions, scaling them to meet operational excellence standards. You will be responsible for organizing your teams day-to-day work, fostering the growth and development of the people on the team, and aligning the teams work with the company's priorities. Thousands of customers rely on Mapbox services to seamlessly handle billions of requests every day and scale in real-time to global events. You will lead the delivery of solutions that remain robust, reliable, and innovative in a fast-evolving technological landscape.

• Deliver complex, high-impact projects while providing technical expertise and mentorship to your team.
• Operate your teams day-to-day and be hands-on in project management and sprint planning.
• Manage operational best practices for on-call and related responsibilities.
• Empathize with internal and external customers delivering features that address their needs.
• Manage and develop the team through hiring, retaining, mentoring, and continually building the teams capabilities.
• Drive company, product, and team objectives, carrying your team and relevant stakeholders along in the decision-making.
• Work with Product and Engineering teams to develop the long-term business strategy driving the teams work.
• Establish, track, and iterate on operational metrics to ensure the team is delivering products that meet or exceed customer expectations.
• Determine best engineering practices and promote them within the team and across Mapbox.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, diversity, and data-driven decisions on the team.

What We Believe Are Important Traits For This Role

• 7+ years of people management experience: You have managed remote engineering teams (40+ in size) leading to product execution and business outcome while growing and developing a team of engineering talent.
• Hire & Develop: You understand the importance of hiring the best diverse talent and creating a culture where your team members can learn & grow with the organization.
• Technical Expertise: You have deep knowledge and experience of building scalable web services in AWS and building data products.
• Operational Excellence: You drive a culture of quality and continuous improvement within your team and personally embody a passion for monitoring, metrics, triage, resolving customer issues, and iterative improvement. You help foster the end to end development of clearly designed interfaces, documentation, thorough test coverage, and effective code reviews.
• Ownership & Execution: You own the vision, lead the strategy, and guide the team to execute towards building the future of your product.
• Customer Focus: You care deeply about your customers and their problems, and you work tirelessly to innovate on their behalf.
• Strong written and verbal communication: You can talk and write about complex ideas concisely to a wide audience.

What We Value

In addition to our core values, which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox leaders:

• We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.
• We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work. We commit to this through supportive health care, parental leave, flexibility for the things that come up in life, and innovating on how we think about supporting our people.
• We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.
• We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.

Our annual base compensation for this role ranges from $238,000 - $322,000 for most US locations and 5% to 10% higher for US locations with a higher cost of labor. Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.

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Mapbox participates in E-Verify to confirm employee work authorization. Please refer to the Notice of E-Verify Participation and Right to Work posters for more information.

We are committed to a fair and equitable hiring process. We do not discriminate against any protected class.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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