Engineering ManagerVerified as a real position

Who we’re looking for

• 2+ years in team management , able to grow and improve both the individuals and the team as a whole.
• A strong technical background. Our managers not only focus on people, but they care and drive the technical roadmap of their respective domain. You read code, join design reviews, and can explain how your systems are built, perform, and scale without scheduling a meeting.
• A proven track record of execution — you have driven at least one meaningful product or technical initiative with real impact. You can pick the right problem, cut scope before deadlines slip, and kill work that isn't working.
• You bring options and recommendations, not just status. When you raise a problem, you come with a view on what to do about it.
• You value direct feedback, both given and received. We embrace the approach of Radical Candor. Always with good intent, always constructive.
• Great communication is expected. Fluency in English—our team consists of 14+ nationalities in different Geos.
• An experience building complex B2B SaaS admin experiences is a plus.
• Embrace AI as a daily tool in your own workflow. You use AI coding assistants, iterate on prompts, and constantly look for ways to move faster.

What you’ll do

• Work with your Product Manager and Designer to align on the most valuable work to be done.
• Drive high-impact cross-functional initiatives from first principles, making decisive calls based on evolving evidence.
• Provide clarity in their execution model, optimizing for your team to be in the flow, getting rid of blockers, identifying risks in advance.
• Own your team's product surface end-to-end — architecture, on-call, runbooks, debt rhythm — and keep domain health solid even while driving initiatives.
• Drive at least one product or technical initiative with full ownership of outcome — pick the right problem, cut scope before deadlines slip, and kill work that isn't working.
• Bring problems to leadership with two or three options and a clear recommendation; be honest about uncertainty and what would change your mind.
• Collaborate with other Engineering managers to optimize inter-dependencies.
• Work closely with senior ICs on technical direction — attend design reviews, run incidents, explain how your domain is built without scheduling a meeting.
• Own the team's AI-first system: machine-readable contracts, maintained context, executable runbooks, and AI used across planning, coding, review, debugging, and on-call.
• Hire, onboard, mentor and coach your engineers, guiding their career development.
• Make the success of your team visible and create a sense of pride for the achievement done.
• Actively drive the hiring process, with support from TA to ensure your team is well-staffed.
• Act as a knowledge multiplier, sharing what you learn across and beyond your team to raise the bar for everyone.

About the position

Only the best engineers are being built here. At Productboard, we're building the place where AI-first engineering gets defined. Removing every bottleneck as it surfaces, we are fundamentally reimagining what's possible when AI becomes a first-class partner, not a tool. This is where product engineers learn to operate at their highest level in the AI era. Our target is one number: turn an idea into validated learning twice as fast as we do today. You would lead the architecture work that makes that possible.

Benefits

• 💰 Stock options
• 💻 MacBook + 34″ monitor
• 📚 Budget for online courses, books, and conferences
• 🏝 5 weeks of vacation + sick days
• ❤️ 1 Volunteer Day per year for you to help causes close to your heart
• 🍲 Free snacks, drinks, and yummy catered lunches every day
• 💚 Soulmio mental health program
• 🏋 MultiSport card to access sports facilities
• 🍹 Team events, such as happy hours, off-sites, and retreats
• ⏱ Flexible working hours and home office
• 🧒🏻 Parental benefits
• 🎓 Language lessons
• 🍀 Mental Wellness Program to support your well-being and self-caree
• 🥕 Carrot Fertility Program