Senior Engineering Manager
Discord- Base salary
- $304k–$380k Published base salary range · Top quartile for Engineering (817 listings)
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area Remote eligibility
- Employment
- Full-time Senior
About the job
About Discord
Discord is a voice, video and text platform that helps friends come together to hang out, play games and have fun. Founded in 2015, Discord has grown into a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users. Discord plays a uniquely important role in the future of gaming, focused on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out before, during, and after playing games.
About the Role
We're looking for a technical, hands-on, and mission-focused Senior Engineering Manager to join our Consumer Revenue team. You’ll be responsible for building and scaling our Nitro product and organization. You will lead a team of engineers working across platforms to build revenue driving products and services at Discord.
What you'll be doing
- Build highly-engaged teams by hiring, coaching, and instilling a sense of ownership and impact in your engineers.
- Work cross-functionally with Finance, Customer Experience, Product, Design and Marketing teams to define your team’s vision and roadmap.
- Use your technical expertise to constantly raise the bar and ensure your team delivers extraordinary results.
- Develop insights into issues slowing down the team and use it to develop processes that enable the team to deliver its goals.
- Mentor and guide the careers of the engineers through coaching and finding opportunities that support their technical skillset and goals.
- Make sound decisions around resourcing, and make the rationale clear to partners and team members.
- Partner with Revenue leadership on strategic planning and continuously improve the Engineering organization.
Who you are
- You have 5+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager.
- You have strong communication skills and the ability to work well cross-functionally.
- You are motivated to help your team members succeed and have experience developing engineers of multiple levels.
- You approach problems from first principles.
- You are comfortable with ambiguity and get excited about working collaboratively to figure out solutions to complex problems.
- You have a strong product sense and take pride in understanding your customers.
- You use experiments to make data informed decisions.
- Code does not scare you, you are still an engineer even if you don't do it all the time.
- You keep up with the industry trends and can assess new technologies that can help us better solve problems.
Compensation & Benefits
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $304,000 - $380,000 + equity + benefits. Salary ranges are determined by role and level. Individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Application Instructions
Apply through the provided Greenhouse link. Discord is committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process.
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