OpenSesame

Associate Engineering Manager

OpenSesame

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $192,000 - $208,000 per year

Job Level

JuniorMid-Level

Tech Stack

Spark

About the role

  • Lead and support a team of engineers focused on Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions
  • Build trust with distributed engineering team
  • Understand team strengths/challenges, align delivery practices, system-level view
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand expectations, friction points, dependencies
  • Hire full-time employees
  • Partner with Product Manager to align on execution, drive clarity in planning, and enable continuous improvement across the IAM portfolio.
  • Work with the Senior Engineering Manager to develop a plan that strengthens the team’s delivery capability, sustainability, and technical resilience.
  • Manage backlog planning balancing time for innovation and debt
  • Shield team from interruptions
  • Set up development environment and review codebase
  • Begin applying systems thinking to understand how team outcomes are shaped by processes, culture, and environment.
  • By six months, you will be a trusted IAM team leader, delivering product outcomes, improving engineering quality, supporting engineers’ growth, and contributing to peer collaboration and company-wide improvements.
  • Build awareness of team dynamics across distributed team
  • Provide coaching, mentoring and/or mediation as needed to continuously improve your teams’ team dynamics.
  • Provide or source training, coaching, and mentoring for teams’ and team members’ weak spots.
  • Tailor your leadership approach to individuals’ learning styles and strengths.
  • Ensure the team has the context needed to make excellent decisions without your active involvement.
  • Partner closely with the Product Manager to improve grooming, planning, and prioritization workflows; track and improve delivery predictability.
  • Strike a balance between shielding the team from inappropriate stakeholder interactions and enabling the team to work directly with stakeholders to understand their needs.
  • Advocate for IAM initiatives that align with organization strategy; communicate trade-offs clearly to stakeholders and senior leadership.
  • Share transparent, realistic views of capacity and risks
  • Optimize the team’s forecasting, and definition of done to improve planning accuracy and delivery confidence
  • Remove yourself as a bottleneck to team decision making.
  • Identify paths for continuously improving developer experience, tooling and internal quality
  • Create opportunities for cross-team pollination and shared growth.
  • Build strong peer relationships with other engineering managers; understand their teams’ needs, opportunities, and points of collaboration.
  • Collaborate on improvement efforts that span beyond your own team
  • Be a resource that other managers turn to for advice and guidance.
  • In partnership with Product Management, you’ll help drive better execution on cross-team efforts.
  • As you continue to grow, you’ll contribute insights to help engineering leadership identify and address systemic challenges, particularly those impacting collaboration with internal business stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Build strong relationships with a distributed team of seven engineers across timezones and varying experience levels.
  • Conduct 1:1s to understand each team member’s career goals, motivations, frustrations, and strengths.
  • Understand your teams’ current processes.
  • Engage with stakeholders to understand expectations, friction points, and dependencies related to IAM initiatives.
  • Collaborate with the team lead on team members’ career development spreadsheets.
  • Hire full-time employees as appropriate
  • Partner effectively with the team’s Product Manager to align on execution, drive clarity in planning, and enable continuous improvement across the IAM portfolio.
  • Work with the Senior Engineering Manager to develop a plan that strengthens the team’s delivery capability, sustainability, and technical resilience.
  • Ensure there is a balanced backlog planning that includes time for innovation, experimentation, and paying down technical debt.
  • Establish yourself as the primary point of contact for Engineering stakeholders, shielding the team from unproductive interruptions and ensuring they can focus on delivery.
  • Set up your development environment and review the team’s codebase to understand architecture, technical decisions, and areas for investment.
  • Begin applying systems thinking to understand how team outcomes are shaped by processes, culture, and environment.
  • Maintain awareness of team dynamics across distributed team
  • Provide coaching, mentoring and/or mediation as needed to continuously improve your teams’ team dynamics.
  • Provide or source training, coaching, and/or mentoring for teams’ and team members’ weak spots.
  • Tailor your leadership approach to individuals’ learning styles and strengths.
  • Ensure the team has the context needed to make excellent decisions without your active involvement.
  • Partner closely with the Product Manager to improve grooming, planning, and prioritization workflows; track and improve delivery predictability.
  • Strike a balance between shielding the team from inappropriate stakeholder interactions and enabling the team to work directly with stakeholders to understand their needs.
  • Advocate for IAM initiatives that align with organization strategy; communicate trade-offs clearly to stakeholders and senior leadership.
  • Share transparent, realistic views of capacity and risks
  • Optimize the team’s forecasting, and definition of done to improve planning accuracy and delivery confidence
  • Remove yourself as a bottleneck to team decision making.
  • Identify paths for continuously improving developer experience, tooling and internal quality
  • Create opportunities for cross-team pollination and shared growth.
  • Build strong peer relationships with other engineering managers; understand their teams’ needs, opportunities, and points of collaboration.
  • Collaborate on improvement efforts that span beyond your own team
  • Be a resource that other managers turn to for advice and guidance.
  • In partnership with Product Management, you’ll help drive better execution on cross-team efforts.
  • As you continue to grow, you’ll contribute insights to help engineering leadership identify and address systemic challenges, particularly those impacting collaboration with internal business stakeholders.