Engineering Manager, Etsy
UX AI Enablement
$213-289k
+ Equity package & annual performance bonus
More information about location
Office located in Brooklyn, NY
eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
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eCommerce platform for handcrafted goods
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$213-289k
+ Equity package & annual performance bonus
More information about location
Office located in Brooklyn, NY
1001+ employees
Company mission
To keep human connection at the heart of commerce.
Role
Who you are
- 1+ years of experience directly managing engineers who ship user-facing software, including providing leadership, mentorship, feedback, and investing in their career growth
- A track record of shipping user-facing software to customers, with hands-on depth in native app development (preferred) or web front-end development, enough to guide design and make engineering tradeoffs based on problem and context
- You have experience building products that use generative AI and understand good systems design
- You can make engineering tradeoffs based on problem and context
- You can collaborate effectively with both junior and senior team members
What the job involves
- The UX AI Enablement (UXAI) team is part of the User Experience Platform (UXP) group. We build the tools, workflows, and quality standards that help Etsy’s product teams use AI across product development
- We work closely with Design, Product, Research, Engineering, and Design Systems to make it faster to go from an idea to a high-fidelity prototype that’s aligned with the Design System, and then move that prototype toward validation and production
- We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team of four engineers building an internal Mac app that Etsy designers, product managers, and engineers use to create and edit interactive prototypes in our Design System
- Users start from an existing Etsy experience and change it by describing what they want to an AI assistant, with no coding required. At Etsy, engineering managers have a limited role in the hands-on process of building software, but a very large role in orchestrating and coaching engineers to achieve results together
- This is a full time role reporting to the Director of Engineering, UX Platform
- We build an AI-assisted prototyping tool, a native Mac app, that helps teams explore and test web and iOS experiences faster and with more confidence. Android is coming soon
- We sit in the User Experience Platform group and partner daily with Design, Product, Research, Engineering, and Design Systems
- We work in the product model: teams own outcomes rather than a fixed feature list, and we keep testing ideas with users through continuous discovery and prototyping. We value people who can shape direction as we learn from users and prototypes
- Lead your team as they build and maintain our AI-assisted prototyping tool and bring it to Android, helping designers, product managers, and engineers prototype faster and stay aligned with our design systems. At Etsy, engineering managers have a limited role in the hands-on process of building software, but a very large role in orchestrating and coaching engineers to achieve results together
- Serve as a coach, mentor, and advocate for the engineers on your team, giving regular feedback and investing in their career growth
- Own the team’s roadmap with product, design, and research, prioritizing against outcomes such as adoption across Etsy teams. Sequence the staged plans your engineers bring you and balance them against the team’s capacity
- Partner with your product manager on adoption of the tool across Etsy: help set adoption goals, work with Design Systems and product teams on rollout, and make room for your team to bring user feedback back to the roadmap
- Set the quality bar for the tool with your team, including how we measure the quality of its AI output
- Participate in the end-to-end recruiting process, hiring, and onboarding, and foster a culture of learning, collaboration, and thoughtful delivery
- Of course, this is just a sample of the kinds of work this role will require! You should assume that your role will encompass other tasks, too, and that your job duties and responsibilities may change from time to time at Etsy’s discretion, or otherwise applicable with local law
Our take
Created as an alternative to more corporate eCommerce sites, Etsy is a peer-to-peer (P2P) website where users buy and sell handmade crafts, vintage items, art and photography. The online marketplace works similarly to Amazon and eBay, only with an emphasis on unique items rather than mass-produced merchandise.
Since its IPO in 2015, it has managed to hold its own in an increasingly competitive eCommerce industry, including from Amazon's handmade section that launched in 2015. Further, by providing sellers with ownership over pricing and branding, the site is attractive for those wanting to set up a business on an established platform.
However, the seller-side of Etsy is not without problems. A hike in transaction fees and the introduction of mandatory marketing fees for artists with high turnovers created significant discontent amongst sellers. Despite this, Etsy continues to connect artists and consumers, attracting shoppers with its message of extraordinary, handmade and affordable products.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2012
$40m
LATE VC
Aug 2010
$20m
SERIES E
Total funding: $91.7m
Company benefits
- Equity (offers vary by country)
- Performance bonuses
- Paid gender neutral parental leave
- Adoption and family planning
- Back-up care
- Volunteer time off
- Donation matching
- Employee resource groups
- Global virtual events
- Employer paid health benefits
- Fitness benefits
- Wellness programming
- Mental health benefits
- 401K matching/Pension contributions
Company HQ
Downtown Brooklyn, NY
Leadership
Josh Silverman
(CEO)Previously senior executive at eBay, CEO of Shopping.com, CEO of Skype and President of Consumer Products & Services at American Express.
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