Senior Engineering Operations Manager
GameChanger
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $160,000 - $180,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Manage and improve the engineering operating schedule, including planning cycles, leadership meetings, updates, retrospectives, and budget-related workflows, with clear standards and expectations across the organization.
- Be the operational partner to the VP of Engineering. Translate strategic priorities into clear operating rhythms, decision forums, and artifacts. Ensure follow-through without requiring daily executive involvement.
- Prepare executive- and board-facing engineering materials, ensuring narratives are consistent and supported by data.
- Be the central point of ownership for engineering operations, tracking commitments, action items, and follow-ups with appropriate context and urgency.
- Design and improve automation and AI-enabled workflows for notes, summaries, updates, and decision support to reduce manual coordination and scale operations.
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Data, and Finance to ensure alignment on planning, execution, and communication.
- Monitor organizational health, identifying patterns, risks, and bottlenecks and surfacing observations to engineering leadership.
- Quarterly travel to our New York HQ for planning, alignment, and leadership meetings.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience leading or owning operations, business operations, or program functions within an engineering, product, or technology organization.
- Experience owning or operating planning processes, operating cadence, and leadership workflows for technical teams.
- Demonstrated experience creating executive- and board-facing materials, including written updates, summaries, or operating artifacts for senior leadership.
- Experience partnering with VP- or C-level leaders, supporting prioritization and coordination across teams.
- Experience designing, improving, or scaling operational systems and workflows, including the use of automation or AI to reduce repetitive work.
- Experience translating complex technical work into clear, structured narratives for non-technical audiences.
Benefits
- Unlimited vacation policy.
- Paid volunteer opportunities.
- Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years after your start to make sure you have the latest and greatest technology.
- WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable.
- Monthly physical, mental, wellness & learning stipend offered through Holisticly.
- Monthly lifestyle stipend offered through Fringe.
- Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and coverage for family/dependents.
- Retirement savings - Traditional and Roth 401K plans are offered through Vanguard, with an immediate company match.
- Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.
- Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability.
- Company paid parental leave - up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Family building benefits offered through Progyny.
- DICK'S Sporting Goods and their family of brands teammate discount.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
operations managementprogram managementplanning processesleadership workflowsautomationAI-enabled workflowsexecutive communicationdata analysistechnical narrative translation
Soft Skills
cross-functional collaborationstrategic prioritizationorganizational health monitoringrisk identificationcommunicationleadershipdecision support