Engineering Manager, Academia

• Minimum of 4 years of experience managing engineering teams
• Proven experience managing a team of at least 5 engineers for 1+ years
• Ability to define and prioritize engineering efforts aligned with product outcomes
• Strong hands-on engineering background and technical competency. You will monitor project progress, conduct code reviews, do data analysis, guide, and mentor engineers
• Although our standard core hours are 10 am-4 pm PT, for this role, you must be available during early morning hours to attend meetings with European team members, to ensure the strategy and alignment of the team
• Effective communicator across time zones, cultures, and skill levels—especially:
• With non-native English speakers
• For non-technical stakeholders
• In asynchronous environments
• While coaching ICs to improve communication

Desirable

• As the Engineering Manager - Publishing at Academia.edu, your people management skills will shine, both through mentoring and coaching the members of your team, and also through designing people processes for the wider engineering organization.
• You will lead a team of talented engineers to success, collaborating closely with other stakeholders to shape the product trajectory.
• At Academia.edu, rather than following narrowly defined requirements, you’ll collaborate across functions to help align engineering efforts with broader business objectives, sometimes shaping priorities yourself, other times supporting execution.
• When your team gets stuck, you’ll use your experience and problem-solving skills to get them unstuck. You’ll also help to hire and grow our organization with talented and motivated software engineers
• Academia.edu Journals / Publishing is a rapidly growing business unit with the goal of building the world’s highest-impact open-access journals. Your team will build software to support that aim
• People Management: Lead and mentor engineers, conduct weekly 1:1s, and build scalable people processes (e.g., leveling, career paths). Hire, develop, and retain a high-performing team
• Technical Management: Provide technical leadership through code reviews, data analysis, and occasional coding, while guiding architectural decisions and collaborating with teams to implement innovative solutions
• Operational Leadership: Oversee deliverables, optimize workflows, and collaborate on project prioritization
• Strategic Alignment: Ensure engineering efforts align with business objectives through regular cross-timezone meetings (2–4x/week between 7 am–10 am PT). Implement systems and processes that support a dynamic roadmap