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Engineering Manager, Activation

Linktree

Job Location:

Los Angeles, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 220000 - 250000

Posted: 11 July 2026 (30+ days ago)

Application Deadline: 27 December 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Role

Were looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead our Activation team the team focused on helping more users successfully get started with Linktree experience value quickly and become engaged retained users.

Youll lead a small cross-functional engineering squad working at the heart of our growth funnel partnering closely with Product Design and Data to identify opportunities run experiments and ship experiences that improve activation and drive meaningful user and business outcomes.

This is a player-coach role for someone who enjoys staying close to the work. Youll combine strong people leadership with hands-on technical contribution guiding architecture prototyping solutions reviewing critical work and writing code when it helps the team move faster.

What Youll Do

Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering squad focused on improving activation and early user experiences.
Stay hands-on technically contributing code prototyping solutions and jumping into critical technical work when it helps unblock the team or accelerate delivery.
Partner with Product Design and Data to identify opportunities shape experiments and translate ideas into pragmatic scalable experiences.
Connect engineering work to measurable outcomes using data and experimentation to understand what improves activation engagement retention and conversion.
Drive technical excellence through thoughtful architecture code reviews testing practices performance and operational reliability.
Set clear outcomes and prioritize effectively helping the team navigate tradeoffs and consistently ship high-impact work at speed.
Build for experimentation and iteration enabling the team to test ideas quickly learn from user behavior and scale what works.
Embed AI tooling and workflows to enhance developer productivity prototyping and delivery.
Champion reliability ensuring healthy on-call practices and continuous improvement in incident response.

Who You Are

Experienced in modern software development and architecture with the technical depth to contribute hands-on and guide important engineering decisions.
Proven track record leading engineers and shipping user-facing products ideally in a consumer product-led growth or highly metrics-driven environment.
A true player-coach you enjoy developing engineers while remaining close to the code and technical execution.
Comfortable working with experimentation analytics and user insights to understand whether what you ship is actually driving impact.
Strong product instincts and a collaborative approach to working with Product Design Data and Engineering partners.
Skilled at balancing speed quality and scalability with strong judgment around scope prioritization and technical tradeoffs.
Thoughtful and empathetic people leader who gives clear feedback supports career development and creates an environment where engineers can do their best work.
Comfortable navigating ambiguity and evolving priorities with a bias toward action.
Curious and AI-forward actively using AI and automation to improve engineering velocity and effectiveness.

Nice to Have

Familiarity with parts of our stack: TypeScript React GraphQL AWS and PHP.
Experience with growth activation experimentation onboarding or conversion-focused product surfaces.
Experience working on high-scale consumer or product-led products.

Linktree is committed to providing a fair and competitive compensation package including cash equity and benefits. The base salary offered for this role is targeted at $220000 - $250000 for roles based in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Final offers depend on multiple factors including location experience expertise and role scope and may vary from the range listed.

P.S. If you dont tick every box in this listing please dont rule yourself out. We take pride in inclusion and hiring incredible human beings with great potential over ticking boxes so if this role resonates with you hit that apply button!

Our Story

Were on a mission to empower anyone to curate grow and monetize their digital universe. We created the link in bio category and were just getting started. From creators artists and entrepreneurs to global brands were redefining how people connect with their communities showcase their content and promote products all in one link.

Today a community of 70 million use Linktree including icons like Adidas TikTok the UN Environmental Program The NFL Manchester United World Central Kitchen Sabrina Carpenter Olivia Rodrigo and Selena Gomez. With 48000 new accounts created every day Linktree is the fastest-growing leader in our space.

Weve teamed up with some of the worlds biggest platforms including TikTok Snap YouTube GoFundMe Spotify Google Stripe Reddit Laylo and Kajabi to unify Linkers digital spaces and we partner with retail brands Amazon Lululemon Nike Target Sephora Lululemon and more to share products they love.

Were a tight-knit passionate team building best-in-class tools that make online presence simple powerful and yours. If youre excited by the idea of shaping a new category setting the standard and making space for everyone to be seen and succeed wed love to meet you.

Where and How We Work

Were a global diverse team spread across continents with offices in London Los Angeles Melbourne and San Francisco. We work together flexibly and you can choose the setup that works best for you: fully remote or a hybrid mix of office and home.

We offer autonomy in how you structure your days and weeks. While were mindful of time zones and occasionally collaborate outside the typical 95 we lean into async work to keep things flowing. Our culture is family-friendly and Zoom-casual where kids pets and delivery drivers are welcome.

How well help you thrive

Our approach to benefits considers the whole person and the unique contributions they bring to Linktree. We want the experience at Linktree to be one that enables people to truly thrive so we can Go Further Together (one of our values). Some ways we support you:

An annual wellbeing allowance to use on things like (but not limited to) fitness memberships development courses childcare travel charitable donations pet insurance home office set-up - the choice is yours!
100% coverage (and 80% for your dependents) of your monthly premiums for medical dental vision disability and life insurance for US-based employees.
Employer contribution towards your retirement.
Generous time off for vacation holidays parental leave volunteer time and other categories.
Employee stock option program - we want each and every employee to share in the companys success.

At Linktree we believe in promoting a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds talents and experiences and were proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are creating an inclusive workplace where every individual feels valued respected and has equal opportunities to thrive. We aim to foster a diverse and inclusive environment where all team members have a sense of belonging. Linktree welcomes all people regardless of sex gender identity race ethnicity disability pregnancy age or other lived experience. If you require accommodations to fully participate in our opportunities please dont hesitate to reach us at your needs are important to us.

Required Experience:

Manager

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