Senior Manager, Engineering (Nova)

Iterable is the leading AI-powered customer engagement platform that helps leading brands like Redfin SeatGeek Priceline Calm and Box create dynamic individualized experiences at scale. Our platform empowers organizations to activate customer data design seamless cross-channel interactions and optimize engagementall with enterprise-grade security and compliance. Today nearly 1200 brands across 50 countries rely on Iterable to drive growth deepen customer relationships and deliver joyful customer experiences.

Our success is powered by extraordinary people who bring our core valuesBe an Owner Growth Mindset Run as One Transparency to life. We foster a culture of innovation collaboration and inclusion where ideas are valued and individuals are empowered to do their best work. Thats why weve been recognized as one of Incs Best Workplaces and Fastest Growing Companies and were recognized on Forbes list of Americas Best Startup Employers in 2022. Notably Iterable has also been listed on Wealthfronts Career Launching Companies List and has held a top 10 ranking on the Top 25 Companies Where Women Want to Work.

With a global presenceincluding offices in San Francisco Denver London Sydney and Lisbon plus remote employees worldwidewe are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and encourage you to apply. Learn more about our story and mission on our Culture and About Us pages. Lets shape the future of customer engagement together!

Iterable is the leading AI-powered customer engagement platform that helps leading brands like Redfin SeatGeek Priceline Calm and Box create dynamic individualized experiences at scale. Our platform empowers organizations to activate customer data design seamless cross-channel interactions and optimize engagementall with enterprise-grade security and compliance. Today nearly 1200 brands across 50 countries rely on Iterable to drive growth deepen customer relationships and deliver joyful customer experiences.

Our success is powered by extraordinary people who bring our core valuesTrust Growth Mindset Balance and Humilityto life. We foster a culture of innovation collaboration and inclusion where ideas are valued and individuals are empowered to do their best work. Thats why weve been recognized as one of Incs Best Workplaces and Fastest Growing Companies and were recognized on Forbes list of Americas Best Startup Employers in 2022. Notably Iterable has also been listed on Wealthfronts Career Launching Companies List and has held a top 10 ranking on the Top 25 Companies Where Women Want to Work.

With a global presenceincluding offices in San Francisco New York Denver London and Lisbon plus remote employees worldwidewe are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and encourage you to apply. Learn more about our story and mission on our Culture and About Us pages. Lets shape the future of customer engagement together!

We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the engineering groups responsible for building agentic experiences and integrating AI-powered capabilities into the core Iterable application. This organization owns the critical application-facing development that turns emerging AI capabilities into reliable highly scalable and usable product features.

In this role you will provide strategic direction and leadership to a growing organization of frontend backend and applied engineers working on conversational workflows orchestration layers and AI-enabled product surfaces. You will balance organizational leadership with high-level technical vision helping teams deliver complex high-impact features while defining roadmaps navigating ambiguity and driving architectural standards in a fast-moving product area. This role sits within the broader Nova initiative and plays a strategic part in shaping the future of how intelligent experiences appear across the Iterable platform.

One of our core values is a growth mindset and Iterable is a company where everyone can grow. If this is a role that excites you please do apply as we value applicants for the skills they bring beyond a job description.

• Lead and scale multiple engineering teams (or a large multi-disciplinary pod) building agentic and AI-enabled product experiences.
• Act as a strategic partner to Product Design and Data Science leadership to define the technical roadmap prioritize initiatives and translate AI capabilities into scalable user-facing experiences.
• Drive the overarching technical architecture and design of agent workflows orchestration logic and application integrations.
• Establish the standards to ensure AI-powered features are reliable observable secure and ready for enterprise-scale production use.
• Spearhead execution across complex cross-functional initiatives balancing short-term product delivery with sustainable long-term technical direction.
• Champion and elevate strong engineering practices around code quality system resilience testing and iterative delivery across the broader engineering organization.
• Coach mentor and sponsor senior engineers technical leads and potentially other engineering managers actively supporting their career growth and ensuring a healthy inclusive team culture.
• Collaborate strategically with principal engineers data teams and platform architecture groups to align on system interfaces resolve organizational dependencies and achieve shared business goals.
• Drive hiring headcount planning and onboarding strategies as the AI engineering organization scales.

• Have at least 8 years of hands-on software development experience.
• Have at least 5 years of experience managing scaling and leading software engineering teams.
• Strong background in application or platform engineering with a proven track record of scaling systems in a SaaS environment.
• Experience leading teams that integrate complex AI or ML-powered capabilities into production systems.
• Demonstrated expertise in building alignment and operating seamlessly at the intersection of product platform and data science teams.
• Exceptional technical judgment across system design APIs distributed systems and developer workflows with the ability to guide teams through complex technical decisions.
• Experience overseeing engineering work across modern backend and frontend stacks.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity define strategic direction make pragmatic trade-offs and drive execution across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Excellent executive communication skills and the ability to articulate how technical work maps to overarching business and product goals.

• Experience managing engineering managers or leading multiple autonomous squads.
• Experience leading teams building agentic LLM-powered or generative AI product experiences.
• Familiarity with agent frameworks such as Mastra LangChain or similar orchestration tools.
• Prior leadership work on decisioning engines rules engines or real-time personalization systems at scale.
• Experience collaborating closely with Data Science and ML teams on complex production integrations and model deployment pipelines.
• Background in marketing technology or customer engagement platforms.
• Experience successfully scaling engineering teams and systems in a remote-first or distributed environment.

Perks & Benefits:

• Competitive salaries meaningful equity & 401(k) plan
• Medical dental vision & life insurance
• Community Impact Days (additional paid holidays)
• Fertility & Adoption Assistance
• Paid Sabbatical
• Flexible PTO
• Monthly Employee Wellness allowance
• Monthly Professional Development allowance
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Complete laptop workstation

The US base salary range for this position at the start of employment is $189500 - $290000. Within this range individual pay is determined by specific US work location as well as additional factors including job-related skills experience relevant education or training and internal equity considerations.

Please note that the range listed above reflects only base salary. The total compensation package includes variable pay (where applicable) equity plus a range of benefits including medical dental vision and addition we offer perks such as generous stipends for health & fitness and learning & development among others.

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