Engineering Manager

📋 Description

• • Own and scale one or more cross-functional product engineering teams (8-12 engineers) that ship high-impact features for 100,000+ brands on the Maze platform. You will set technical direction, unblock delivery, and ensure every release meets our bar for quality, speed, and user value.
• • Partner shoulder-to-shoulder with Product Managers and Designers to translate ambitious product strategy into an executable roadmap. You will run quarterly planning, break epics into iterative slices, and continuously re-prioritize based on customer feedback and data.
• • Drive the end-to-end lifecycle of AI-powered research capabilities—from participant recruitment to insight generation—ensuring our systems remain reliable as we process 6.5 million research questions per year and support 25,000 product decisions.
• • Establish and evolve engineering practices that scale across a fully remote, globally distributed organization. This includes defining coding standards, testing strategies, on-call rotations, and documentation habits that keep velocity high without burning people out.
• • Coach engineers at every level—from new grads to staff engineers—through weekly 1:1s, career road-mapping, and actionable feedback loops. You will identify growth opportunities, sponsor under-represented talent, and build succession plans so teams can double in size without losing culture.
• • Lead hiring and onboarding for your teams, owning job descriptions, interview loops, and a 90-day ramp plan that gets new teammates productive and connected. You will collaborate with recruiting to hit aggressive head-count goals while maintaining our high talent bar.
• • Step into the fire during incidents or high-stakes launches, providing calm technical leadership and transparent communication to stakeholders. You will run blameless post-mortems and turn every failure into a durable process improvement.
• • Contribute to Maze’s technical strategy by working with peer Engineering Managers and Staff+ engineers on architecture reviews, investment proposals, and long-term platform bets—such as scaling our real-time analytics pipeline or internationalizing the participant network.
• • Champion a people-first culture rooted in psychological safety, continuous learning, and customer obsession. You will model our core values in every meeting, celebrate wins loudly, and ensure every team member feels they belong.
• • Balance empathy with directness in performance conversations, turning under-performance into growth and top performance into outsized impact. You will calibrate promotions, compensation, and recognition so the best engineers want to stay and grow at Maze.