Senior Manager of Engineering, StyleSeat
$180-210k
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Platform for finding and booking local beauty professionals
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Platform for finding and booking local beauty professionals
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-210k
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To connect consumers with independent beauty professionals. Its online platform offers individuals great services while empowering beauty brands to grow.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of engineering management experience leading product-focused teams
- Proven ability to build strong, effective teams and drive measurable performance improvement
- Experience partnering with product managers to balance ambition with feasibility
- People-first leadership style with a focus on clear communication, team health, and psychological safety
- Strong technical background with credibility in architectural and implementation discussions
- Willingness to move quickly, make decisions with imperfect information, and iterate forward in partnership with product and design
- Experience managing cross-functional stakeholder relationships and navigating competing priorities
- A continuous improvement mindset with a track record of optimizing team efficiency and delivery processes
What the job involves
- We're seeking a Senior Manager of Engineering to lead our consumer-facing product engineering team during a high-growth, high-impact phase. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll rebuild and strengthen a 5-person team, while partnering closely with a dynamic product manager to deliver exceptional, high-quality user experiences
- You’ll step into a high-leverage inflection point—helping expand the team, reshape delivery practices, and set a new standard for excellence across our most important consumer surfaces. You will own consumer journeys that directly drive revenue—such as discovery, booking, personalization, and new user conversion. These flows touch millions of users annually and are central to our marketplace flywheel
- We’re building with AI at our core—from smarter booking experiences to internal tools that multiply team velocity. As part of this team, you’ll help drive how we responsibly use AI to personalize consumer journeys, enhance experimentation velocity, and streamline development workflows. You should be able to leverage AI to boost team productivity, streamline engineering workflows, and drive responsible adoption. You’ll also identify opportunities for AI integration in both internal tools and product features
- Build and lead a high-performing team - Recruit, mentor, and retain top engineering talent while fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Partner closely with Product - Collaborate with an ambitious product manager to translate vision into realistic roadmaps and consistently deliver high-impact features
- Drive execution excellence - Establish lightweight yet effective engineering processes that balance quality with velocity and ensure predictable, high-quality output
- Be an advocate for your team - Create a safe and inclusive environment that supports sustainable delivery, technical growth, and strong morale
- Raise the technical bar - Champion best practices for code quality, testing, documentation, and deployment. Coach engineers across all levels to grow in craft and impact
- Collaborate cross-functionally - Partner deeply with a design-led product culture and a strong data team to make informed, elegant decisions that balance craft, usability, and impact
- Contribute strategically - As a leader in a lean organization, you’ll help guide technical decisions, process improvements, and long-term planning
Our take
StyleSeat provides a digital marketplace for users to discover and book beauty professionals in their local area for home visits. The service lists services for hair, nail, eyelash, eyebrow and facial care. The platform also offers information regarding beauty trends to recommend appropriate services, in addition to providing a direct-to-customer salon product delivery service.
Whilst the idea was initially laughed at in Silicon Valley, the marketplace trade has become increasingly dominant, reflected in StyleSeat's success. The company has around 200 million beauty appointments in the US, generating over $10B in revenue for small businesses.
The company has seen exponential growth and progress has now developed to a point where the platform can analyze how a professional's business operates. Subsequently, it can deliver solutions that maximize a business's revenue, with businesses using StyleSeat typically finding they double their revenue after one year on the platform. Ongoing partnerships with Klarna Bank have delivered even more tools for beauty businesses to utilize, indicating StyleSeat's continued strength.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2015
$25m
SERIES B
Jan 2014
$10.2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $40.7m
Company benefits
- Large company medical, dental and vision coverage
- Subsidized beauty and grooming services
- Monthly credit towards your favorite beauty product
- Monthly fitness credit
- “Paw”-ternity
- 100% Paid Family Leave
- Generous PTO
- Free Spotify account
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Melody McCloskey
(CEO & Founder)They studied at UC Davis before spending over a year as Manager of Online Content at Current TV. They then founded StyleSeat in May 2011, and have been CEO since then.
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