Senior Engineering Manager

Job Title: Sr. Engineering Manager

Location: Remote - US

WHY YOU’LL LOVE SALESLOFT:

At Salesloft, we're not just a company, we're a community built on values. 

We put our customers first, prioritize our team over ourselves, lead with humility and respect, earn customer trust, redefine what’s possible, and deliver big results. You will have an opportunity to make a difference. 

Salesloft helps sales teams drive more revenue with the only complete Sales Engagement platform available in the market. Salesloft is the one place for sellers and managers to go to execute all their digital selling tasks, communicate with buyers, understand what to do next, forecast with accuracy, and get the coaching and insights they need to win more deals. Thousands of the world’s most successful sales teams, like those at Google, 3M, IBM, Shopify, and Square, drive more revenue with Salesloft.

Since our founding in 2011, we have grown into a global, award-winning organization with Lofters based all over the world. 

In addition to our stand-out organizational health, we were named a leader in the 2024 Forrester Wave!

We’re redefining an age-old industry, now with a new AI-centered approach! This is challenging work, but our team of brilliant creatives makes the journey thrilling. We’re fast-paced, innovative, and collaborative. We pursue excellence in everything and have a lot of fun along the way. Come join us!

Check us out on Glassdoor and see what people LOVE about working for Salesloft!

THE OPPORTUNITY:

Although we’re proud of our history, we’re just as excited about the future.  We want to create a world-class culture and company that attracts, develops, engages, and retains elite talent.  

At SalesLoft, our Engineering Managers are pivotal to our company’s success.  As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will be a key member of our fast-growing and high-performing Engineering team working on new technologies in an environment that supports your technical and professional growth.

In addition to working with amazing colleagues who exemplify our ‘team over self’ core value, you will also have the opportunity to manage teams that create impactful and revolutionary software that is changing the way sellers sell.  You will have an opportunity to make a difference. 

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

We are seeking managers who exemplify our cultural core values: Lead with humility and respect, earn customer trust, put team over self, redefine what’s possible, and deliver big results, and will lead teams of engineers in our long term goals of delivering the best product to customers in the market.  We believe in servant leadership.  We empower team members to do their best while holding them to a higher standard of growth, accomplishment, and results.  

As a senior manager, you will have six to 10 direct reports that can be a mix of individual contributors and managers.  You will be responsible for conducting weekly or at least twice a month one on one meetings with your direct reports, where you provide feedback, mentor/coach them, and help them grow in their careers and competencies.  You will conduct quarterly reviews with your direct reports and provide feedback to the other managers about any of their direct reports that you have worked with.  As your team members grow, you will be the one to guide them through the promotion process and for those who are struggling, create a performance improvement plan. You will be a key part of the recruiting, hiring and onboarding process and will provide input for merit increases. 

In addition to your people management responsibilities, you will be asked to assist with customer escalations.  We have a strong customer first focus so we have aggressive internal service level agreements to respond to customers quickly.  We expect managers to help drive the urgency of customer issues and for severe issues, we look to managers to support the response team.

As a member of the management team, you will be asked to lead one or more department initiatives.  We are always looking for ways to improve ourselves as a management team and our department as a whole.  It is important that we create a supportive and collaborative environment where relationships matter more than “being right”.

You may also be asked to lead multiple development teams.  As part of that responsibility you are expected to drive a strong sense of accountability and ownership within the team as we grow and face new challenges. We look to you to execute on delivering value to customers by managing expectations, committing to timelines, and adjusting priorities in a cross-functional collaborative environment.

As a member of the Platform and Governance engineering group, you will be challenged to understand our platform ideals, goals, and definitions. You will then challenge your teams to share this vision of a scalable, reliable, and consistent platform. Enabling ownership and the application of platform patterns across teams within the organization.

THE TEAM:

Our SalesLoft’s Engineering team is comprised of seasoned and up-and-coming Software Engineers, QA Engineers, and Architects who are all aligned on one vision and  mission:

• Vision: To fundamentally transform the way buyers and sellers drive repeatable outcomes.
• Mission: Help the world’s most demanding B2B organizations unlock growth efficiency and gain a performance force multiplier in the new economic era of agentic AI.

The Engineering team consists of Full Stack engineers, Front End Engineers, and Architects who work in all areas of the product, with the opportunity to develop in-depth expertise in an area of the platform. They are also the epitome of our core values - Lead with humility and respect. Earn customer trust. Put team over self. Redefine what’s possible. Deliver big results.

THE SKILL SET:

• 2+ years of Software Engineering Management (people leadership)
• 7+ years working in the Software industry 
• Experience working on scaling or mature B2B / consumer software (and familiarity with SaaS platforms) - you understand what it takes to build & maintain systems that work at scale
• Strong understanding of APIs, governance and compliance, security and permissions, and localization
• Experience developing people and teams, including performance management, career development, and coaching
• Strong emotional intelligence, with the ability to build trust, navigate difficult conversations, and resolve conflict
• Leverage your experience in building and maintaining highly scalable and reliable software systems to guide the teams to iteratively deliver quality software. 
• Lead the team through complicated product and technical road maps, and partner with an Engineering Director to align on the strategy for your teams and support its execution. 

WITHIN ONE MONTH, YOU’LL:

• Attend SalesLoft’s New Hire Orientation
• Attend an Engineering Department orientation
• Begin 1:1’s with your manager, understand your 30-60-90 plan
• Learn your team’s mission, vision and how to communicate it effectively
• Take on the responsibility of at least one delivery team

WITHIN THREE MONTHS, YOU’LL:

• Review your 30-60-90 day plan
• Begin 1:1’s with your team members
• Set your OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) with your manager and develop an action plan to achieve them

WITHIN SIX MONTHS, YOU’LL:

• Continue to focus on your OKRs through to drive results
• Drive technical excellence through collaboration
• Contribute to the mission vision

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WHY SHOULD YOU WORK AT SALESLOFT:

• You will become part of an amazing culture with a supportive leadership team and smart teammates who actually care
• You will work with an amazing team you can learn from and teach
• You will experience joining a high-growth/high-traction organization
• You will hear “Yes, let’s do that!” and then have the opportunity to successfully execute on your ideas
• You will build community with Lofters of many cultures and backgrounds through ERGs and DEI initiatives
• You will grow more here than you would anywhere else, that is a promise

SalesLoft is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.