Senior Engineering Manager (Pear Deck)

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About Us

At GoGuardian, we’re helping share the future of digital learning by providing educators, students, and schools with tools to create engaging and equitable learning environments. Together, we build innovative solutions to empower students, deliver insights, and encourage experimentation. With employees around the globe, we’re committed to building a culture of inclusivity, curiosity, and courage. GoGuardian’s growth is fast and ever-evolving, and our teams are growing along with it — always ready to experiment and learn. 


Our Culture

We’re here for the cause, but also for the culture. We celebrate our successes and wins together, and make time to appreciate our teammates every day. Take a peek into your future at GoGuardian: our Slack channels include #gardenclub, #boardgametime, #bookrecs, and #petphotos. There’s always something fun going on, including concerts, classes, book clubs, and more! From virtual trivia to local meet-ups, Guardians are always finding ways to connect.


The Team

Pear Deck is working to make sure every teacher can give powerful learning moments to every student every day, and our software as a service has been our primary way of working towards that mission. We’re growing quickly and want to invest in an impactful, kind, and engaging Engineering Manager who can provide strong technical vision and leadership whilst strengthening the culture and values that will help drive our team and product’s mission to a higher level.


The Role

The Senior Engineering Manager will lead the Pear Deck engineering team, which will be responsible for both developing new features, ensuring quality, and operating our service. This is a leadership role that will report directly to the Director of Engineer.

What You’ll Do

  • Lead and align the Pear Deck engineering team with the GoGuardian’s mission, vision, and goals
  • Create and foster strong, respectful, inclusive, and empathetic team culture driven by truth, humility, brilliance, and determination
  • Sponsor, coach, mentor team members on how to achieve more by recognizing their strengths and working toward personal development goals
  • Hire qualified candidates to strengthen and complement the company and the team
  • Collaborate with cross-functional Product team members, peers, and leaders to deliver impactful projects according to the product roadmap
  • Partner with Product and PMO leadership to discuss roadmap and priorities; advice on teamwork capacity, outputs, and timelines
  • Ensure effective and efficient team collaboration on customer requirements, expectations, and deliverables
  • Drive high levels of service, quality, innovation, ownership, effectiveness, and efficiency
  • Retrospect and create plans/strategies to improve processes, organization, and culture within the team and with individuals

Who You Are

  • 10+ years in the tech industry or an adjacent industry; experience in a medium to large scale business shipping production SaaS 
  • 5+ years of leadership/management experience; have managed a product development team of 5-15 engineers
  • Experience hiring and managing a diverse, cross-functional staff of SWE, QA, and SRE folks; understands the specific function and needs of each group
  • Experience with the entire product development lifecycle, agile processes, and sprint cadence
  • Experience measuring and managing engineering team capacity; working with project managers to deliver
  • Experience translating business objectives and key results into team delivery tasks and targets
  • Experience performing 1:1s and mentoring engineers toward career and personal growth
  • Understanding of modern, cloud-native infrastructure and SaaS applications
  • Significant exposure to or experience with: Javascript/Typescript and Angular/React application development, AWS or GCP cloud-based infrastructure, Modern technical practices such as CI/CD, Automated testing, Infrastructure as Code, Secrets Management

What We Offer

  • A varied and challenging role in a multinational and highly innovative company
  • A robust benefits package including health insurance, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, employee stock option plan, paid parental leave, 13 paid company holidays, and much more
  • Development and further training opportunities for shaping and realizing your career goals
  • Exceptional colleagues with a passion for EdTech

  • P.S. - Share this with your friends or co-workers who may be interested in working at GoGuardian! We have multiple openings and are always looking for amazing people. 



GoGuardian is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. GoGuardian does not discriminate against employees, applicants, interns or volunteers on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, sex, age, sexual orientation, military and veteran status, registered domestic partner status, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.


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