Senior Engineering Manager / Director of Engineering

At Superhuman, we’ve built the fastest email experience in the world — one that's deeply loved and adored by customers who get through their inboxes twice as fast.

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At Superhuman, we have a deep understanding of how to build products that people love. We incorporate fun and play, infusing magic and joy to create experiences that amaze and delight. It all starts with the right team — a team that deeply cares about values, customers, and each other.

We're not solving a small problem, nor are we addressing a small market. We're reshaping the fundamentals of how people work. We're combining premium product craft with enterprise-scale capabilities to rethink how individuals and teams should fundamentally collaborate. We are building a household brand and a worldwide organization. We are here to do our best work, and we hope you are too.

• Oversee and contribute to a multidisciplinary team of software engineers developing amazing user experiences.
• Serve as an engineering leader and technical expert.
• Create plans and processes, and drive execution for the engineering team.
• Hire and mentor a world-class team, including providing coaching and career guidance.
• Advocate for code quality, new technologies, and architectural design within the company.
• Follow projects from inception through implementation to help ensure they are on time and of remarkable quality.
• Support initiatives to improve engineering efficiency, quality, and happiness.
• Collaborate with product and delight teams to ship incredible features and products.

• Experience: You have 10+ years of experience contributing to engineering teams, including 5+ years as a hands-on contributor and 3+ years of leading teams.
• Technical Skills: You’re proficient in backend technologies such as Go, Java/Scala, Ruby, Python, etc.
• AI Enthusiast: You believe AI will revolutionize how we work as well as the experiences that we create for our customers. Driven by passion and curiosity, you leverage AI to dramatically increase your own productivity and the impact of your team.
• Leadership: You have a track record of leading and developing high-performing, inclusive, and mission-driven teams.
• Remarkable Quality: You produce work that is striking, worthy of attention, and a contribution to the state of the art.
• Excellent Communicator: You're able to distill complexity into clear and concise messaging. You’re effective across various mediums and are excellent at working in a remote-first environment.
• Start-to-Finish Ownership: You take 100% responsibility for your own outcomes as well as the outcomes of the company.
• Cares Deeply, Communicates Directly: You discuss and debate ideas openly. You focus on the customer and business, and encourage stakeholders to take impactful action.
• Bias to Action: You value speed. You take thoughtful and prompt steps forward, even in the face of uncertainty, recognizing that action is the catalyst for progress and growth.
• Structured Project Manager: You have honed a systematic way of running your projects. You bring structure to your to-do list and know how to break down large tasks into smaller pieces to get things done.
• Inclusive Facilitator: You build a culture of inclusion as your first priority. You advocate for this as a project facilitator, people manager, and teammate, and are comfortable guiding through an inclusive lens.
• Has a demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal guidance, proactively manages tasks and priorities across multiple projects, analyzes and executes work efficiently, collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams, and thrives in fast-paced, results-driven environments.
• Location: We're considering candidates based in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. We operate in a remote-hybrid model.

Superhuman takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location.

Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined below and may be modified in the future.

• SF: Our starting salaries for candidates based in San Francisco, CA, range from $264,000 - $385,000. 

We value our differences, and we encourage all to apply — especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Superhuman is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US federal E-Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).