Clair
Sr Engineering Manager
Remote - United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 91 days ago
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About the role
- As our Senior Engineering Manager, you will be the linchpin between rapid execution and sustainable scaling.
Responsibilities
- Drive Efficiency: The title line, #1 most important responsibility for a successful Engineering Manager at Clair is overseeing and driving the efficiency and output of the team.
- Even though you'll have many direct reports, you'll want to have a strong relationship with the full tech team to drive the output holistically.
- Ways you'll drive the efficiency:
- Lead & Mentor: Directly manage, coach, and grow a team of high-performing engineers. You will conduct impactful 1:1s, guide career development, and ensure your team feels valued and recognized.
- Drive Cross-Functional Alignment: Observe interactions between Engineering, Product, Design, Data, Care, and more, looking for inefficiencies and guiding the teams to be better able to align themselves.
- Tame the Chaos: Bring exceptional organizational skills to our engineering operations. You will identify bottlenecks, improve documentation standards (like PRDs), and create clear, lightweight processes that speed us up rather than slow us down.
Requirements
- Startup DNA: You have thrived in a scaling startup environment.
- Highly Organized: You are a systems thinker.
- You are diligent at tracking the ongoing work across the org and obsess over making sure stakeholders are aware of status and timelines.
- Technical Credibility: You have a strong background in software engineering.
- You know how to cultivate psychological safety and foster a culture of open, honest feedback in service of personal and professional growth.
Nice to have
- 3-5+ years of direct engineering management experience, ideally leading teams through a period of rapid growth in a series B or C startup.
Skills
- Bring exceptional organizational skills to our engineering operations.
Compensation
- The annual base salary for this role is $180,000 and $215,000.
- The base pay for this role is determined using many factors, such as education, skills and experience and is reflective of Clair Series stage and size.
- Base pay is only one part of Clair's competitive total compensation package which includes equity, benefits and additional perks.
- The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
- Unlimited vacation for salaried roles, generous PTO for hourly roles
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage, with option to extend to your family
- Fully-paid parental leave
- Company-sponsored 401k, HSA, and FSA
- Unlimited vacation for salaried roles, generous PTO for hourly roles
- Company-sponsored short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Apart from getting to work with our incredible team, here are some of the benefits you can expect when you join Clair:
- We actively seek a diverse applicant pool and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Company info
- If you can send your friends money in seconds, why does it still take your employer two weeks to send your paycheck?
- At Clair, we are on a mission to create financial freedom for America's workers by giving them a digital banking platform that allows them to get paid as soon as they clock out of work.
- But we're not just another digital bank or on-demand pay provider.
- We meet Americans at their place of work by embedding our products within the scheduling, workforce management, and payroll apps they already use every day.
- Learn more about us at getclair.com/about http://getclair.com/about
- Actively monitor team workloads to ensure we are delivering high-quality work sustainably, guarding against burnout and maintaining healthy boundaries.
- This is a hybrid position based out in New York City, you will be expected to come into the office at least three days a week (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, & Thursdays) with additional days on occasion for client meetings.
- We are also open to remote candidates for this role who are based in North America only.
- Protect the Team: Actively monitor team workloads to ensure we are delivering high-quality work sustainably, guarding against burnout and maintaining healthy boundaries.
- Champion Innovation: Encourage your team to experiment with AI and new tooling to solve complex problems more efficiently. Advocate for time to be invested into Engineer-led initiatives that may not be part of the core product roadmaps.
- Bring in Talent: You'll be a major part of hiring for the Clair Eng team.
Equal opportunity
- Clair is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company.
- For questions, please email us at careers@getclair.com
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