Digible - Engineering Manager

Hybrid - USA *$200k - $220k4mo ago

Remote Staff NA Engineering Manager Team Lead Reporting Coaching Team Management

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of engineering experience and 1-3+ year managing engineers or equivalent team lead experience • Track record of unblocking teams. You can describe a time you stepped in to resolve a stall • Evidence of developing people. You can describe an engineer you helped grow beyond needing you • Ability to break down ambiguous work into actionable plans without waiting for perfect information • Clear communication with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders • Comfortable in a dynamic agency or digital services environment where client commitments, shifting priorities, and parallel internal and external work are the norm • Familiarity with the technical landscape of digital services platforms, including websites, APIs, data pipelines, reporting systems, and third-party integrations • Able to navigate business and technical complexity at the same time. Demonstrated experience creating clarity from ambiguity across multiple teams • What sets the best candidates apart: • Can describe a time they got in the trenches to resolve a stall, and a time they coached someone through a similar situation without being directly involved • Has built process from scratch in a smaller organization, not just applied existing process from a larger one • Has meaningfully changed their way of working because of AI, not just adopted tools but rethought what is possible • Has operated in environments where the roadmap was still forming when they started • Has owned a cross-functional program, not just a single team’s delivery • Has made cross-pod trade-off decisions independently and can describe a difficult one • Has worked on platforms where data, reporting, and integrations are owned by separate teams with different timelines, and understands the implications • Experience in marketing technology platforms is a plus • Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer. • Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times • This role is open to candidates located within the United States. • While this job description outlines the core expectations of the role, it’s not a full list of everything you’ll do at Digible. We believe in leaning in and hitting your key goals, sharing insights, and finding new ways to elevate performance, process, and client success.

Responsibilities

• Unblock and enable • Unblock and enable • When teams stall, step in and move things forward. Pair with an engineer on a technical blocker, connect directly with a dependency team, or name the trade-off others are avoiding. Do whatever is required to restore momentum • After unblocking, debrief. Understand what happened, what the team needs to develop, and how it should be handled differently next time • Break ambiguous work into actionable steps the team can execute. Do not wait for perfect requirements. Create enough clarity to move • Own the cross-pod roadmap alongside Product. Identify dependencies, gaps, and sequencing. Map dependencies proactively so teams are not surprised • Surface blockers, trade-offs, and risks early, before they turn into escalations • Own delivery • Lead the pod day to day, with accountability for delivery, team performance, and engineering health • Run Shape Up ceremonies including kickoffs, progress check-ins, retros, and demos • Ensure what the pod ships integrates cleanly with the teams that depend on it • Make cross-pod trade-off decisions independently. Keep the Director of Engineering informed rather than relying on them for decisions • Develop the team • Develop the team • Manage and coach engineers through one-on-ones, direct feedback, and career development. Growing people is the primary job • Build process discipline the team genuinely owns, including how work is planned, tracked, handed off, and shipped • Partner with Product to shape solutions that are both feasible and valuable, not just execute on specs • Coach other Engineering Managers when present, helping them build the judgment to handle situations they would otherwise escalate • Navigate the organization • Hold business context such as commercial constraints, stakeholder priorities, and client commitments alongside technical context such as architecture, dependencies, and integrations without oversimplifying either • Drive alignment across competing priorities without escalating to the Director of Engineering • Build trust with stakeholders across Product, Data, Agency Ops, and leadership by delivering consistently and communicating clearly • How success will be measured: • The team handles blockers they previously escalated. They are meaningfully more autonomous than when you arrived • Engineers feel supported, challenged, and clear on how to grow • The pod ships reliably, with predictable scope, quality, and timelines • Ambiguous work is consistently broken down into clear next steps without waiting for someone else to define the path • Product, Data, and cross-pod partners experience the pod as a reliable delivery partner • Cross-pod dependencies are tracked, sequenced, and resolved without constant escalation • Stakeholders trust your judgment and actively seek your input on cross-pod decisions • You operate with high autonomy. The Director of Engineering is informed, not consulted, on most decision

Benefits

• Salary Range: $200,000 - $220,000 • 4-Day Work Week (32 Hour Work Week) • WFA (Work From Anywhere) • Discretionary Bonus • We offer 3 weeks of PTO as well as Sick leave, and Bereavement • We offer 11 paid holidays! (not counting ones that fall on Friday!) • 75% employer paid health benefits (Medical, Dental, and Vision) • Mental and Physical Wellness Reimbursement Benefit • $1000/year travel fund for employees who have been with Digible 3+ years • Paid Parental Leave • Dog-Friendly Office • Monthly Social Events • Weekly Lunches and Snacks for in-office employees! • HEADS UP! We believe in transparency throughout our hiring process. To help us ensure a great fit, we'll ask you to share a few professional references during the hiring process who can speak to your experience and skills. We’ll also ask how you think your references will respond to our questions about your experience and skills, and then we'll close the loop by following up directly with your references to confirm the details. It’s all part of our commitment to open, honest communication and our core values: Focus, Authenticity, Humility, Curiosity, and Happiness.