Senior Engineering Manager, Superhuman
$115-210k
+ Company stock options
More information about location
Speedy email experience
Job no longer available
Speedy email experience
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$115-210k
+ Company stock options
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To provide the fastest email client in the world.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: You have 10+ years of experience contributing to engineering teams including 2+ years of experience leading teams
- Hands-on Leadership: Our managers act as CTOs
- You are hands on
- You sometimes take the player/coach role
- You drive technology choices, you review PR on a daily basis, you occasionally jump and code yourself
- You drive incidents may they arise
- You drive ceremonies: grooming, sizing, planning and execution
- You have the ability to work at different altitude
- Technologist: You're naturally curious and your curiosity is not limited to a specific stack
- You embrace technology as a wide space
- Enthusiast or cautiously optimistic, you know AI is revolutionizing both how we work and the experiences we create for our customers
- Driven by passion and curiosity, you embrace technology to up-level your team's productivity and impact, creating delight, delivering exceptional quality, and embracing the extraordinary in everything you do
- User Empathy: You don’t just build software that works — you build experiences that feel magical
- You sweat the small stuff, especially the details that shape how our product looks, feels, and performs in the hands of our users
- You understand that micro-interactions, visual polish, and perceived speed are not “nice to have,” they are core to the experience
- You work closely with Design and Product to uphold a high-quality bar — from pixel-perfect UI to graceful edge-case handling
- You push for elegant solutions, even when they require extra effort, because you know the user will feel the difference
- Grit: Competition won't wait and strong execution makes a significant difference
- You have high level of decisiveness and you do not wait to get things done
- You have courage, passion, and the ability to persevere towards challenging goals
- You are comfortable in a fast-paced environment and are agile enough to shift your focus to what is most important for our customers
- Your work ethic stands out
- Bias to Action: You move with urgency — not recklessness
- You understand that speed compounds, and that forward motion beats perfect planning
- You take decisive steps even when the path isn’t fully clear, trusting that momentum fuels clarity
- You break inertia, test assumptions, and ship to learn
- You don’t wait for perfect data or perfect alignment — you act, learn, and iterate quickly
- As an engineering leader, you model a culture where action unlocks insight
- You empower your team to move fast and own the consequences, creating fast feedback loops between idea, execution, and outcome
- When progress stalls, you unblock
- When ambiguity reigns, you narrow the decision space
- Because at Superhuman, velocity isn’t a nice-to-have — it’s how we win
- Start-to-finish Ownership: You take full responsibility — not just for the code your team ships, but for the outcomes it drives
- You think like a CTO: zooming out to see the business impact, zooming in to notice when the details are off
- You don’t stop at “done” — you stop when it works, when it’s shipped, when it’s adopted, and when the result moves the needle for our users and our company
- You don’t hand off problems
- You don’t assume someone else will catch what you missed
- You chase ambiguity, collapse blockers, and hold the bar high until the last mile
- You know that great teams don’t just build features — they deliver results — and you make sure that happens
- At Superhuman, your ownership is visible in the confidence we have in you: when something is in your hands, we know it will get done, and get done right
- Cares deeply, challenges directly: You bring radical candor to every interaction: direct, clear, and always in service of excellence
- You push hard on ideas, not people — because you care deeply about the craft, the customer, and the company
- You speak up early and often, surfacing dissent, probing assumptions, and sharpening decisions through thoughtful debate
- You hold your peers and stakeholders accountable to impact — not activity — and challenge them to aim higher when needed
- You also know when the conversation is over
- When your point has been heard, you align behind the decision with full commitment, even if you disagreed
- You create a culture where tension is healthy, feedback is expected, and psychological safety is preserved — because you know that true collaboration happens when people feel safe and challenged
What the job involves
- Deliver a best-in-class Calendar product that sets a new standard for how professionals manage time — driving increased customer delight, adoption, and retention
- Accelerate Superhuman’s business growth by identifying, building, and scaling calendar features that unlock deep customer value and differentiation
- Foster a high-performing engineering culture rooted in technical excellence, ownership, ambition, and psychological safety — making the Calendar pod a magnet for top-tier talent
- Hire, onboard, and retain exceptional engineers who raise the bar for quality, velocity, and product thinking
- Coach and develop engineers to reach new levels of impact in their careers — through regular feedback, career growth planning, and deep technical mentorship
- Drive architectural and executional excellence by setting clear technical direction and holding a high bar for design reviews, system design, and code quality
- Lead through influence across Superhuman, collaborating with Product, Design, and other Engineering Managers to shape strategy, resolve cross-team challenges, and scale engineering practices
- Champion continuous improvement, challenging existing processes and assumptions to improve speed, product quality, and developer experience
- Contribute to Engineering leadership’s vision and operating model, helping define how Superhuman scales and evolves its product and engineering org
Our take
We spend a staggering upwards of 3 hours a day buried in our emails. The majority of us are used to legacy giants like Gmail or even Hotmail. Superhuman recognizes that our email UX could just be a lot more beautiful and efficient, and have integrated smart features like “unsend” so we never have to suffer the embarrassment of another typo.
Although standing out in a market of free services (they charge a $30 per month fee), Superhuman commanded a waiting list of over 250,000 during its beta testing phase.
With more than $100 million in overall funding from firms like Andreessen Horowitz and First Round Capital, Superhuman is setting trends in emerging enterprise software with both its design and go-to-market strategy. They’ve managed to steal an audience from the big players by giving users something beautiful and more streamlined to work with. Its 2024-released feature is a testament to this, which generates instant reply suggestions for emails that are smart, context-aware and efficient.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
37% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2021
$75m
SERIES C
May 2019
$39m
SERIES B
Total funding: $114m
Company benefits
- Friday wins: a weekly event where entire teams gather to share what they have accomplished during that week
- Super buddies: in your first week you are paired with an experienced team member outside your team to help you settle and show you the ropes
- Lunch roulette: Every Wednesday, teams are split into random groups of two or three to grab lunch outside the office
- 401k
- Flexible parental leave
- $3000 per year towards your professional development
- Allyship education program to help build your best self
- Custom MacBook Pro
- $3000 budget for workstation setup
- All your lunches catered or expensed
- Flexible spending accounts for commuter costs, dependent care, and healthcare expenses
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Rahul Vohra
(CEO & Co-Founder)Before founding Superhuman, Rahul was a Technical Advisor for BOLDstart Ventures, which provides seed and first-round funding to early-stage internet companies. Rahul has also been an investor in Partender, sendwithus, EasyPost, Placer and YesGraph.
Conrad Irwin
(CTO & Co-Founder)After founding Rapportive, which added context and transparency to emails, Conrad worked as a Senior Software Engineer for Linkedin. Before co-founding Superhuman, they were the VP of Engineering for Bugsnag, an automatic crash detector for web and mobile apps.
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