Engineering Manager, Growth

About GlossGenius

GlossGenius is building an ecosystem enabling entrepreneurs to succeed. We empower small business owners to focus on being creators, not admins, by offering a range of business management tools including booking and scheduling, marketing, analytics, payment processing and much more.

Over 100,000 small business owners have chosen to rely on GlossGenius every day to run their entire set of business operations. Joining its powerful, intuitive platform with its vibrant, distinguished brand, GlossGenius is the ideal combination of a fintech, SMB software, and consumer company all in one.

About the Role

GlossGenius has been empowering independent entrepreneurs in the beauty and wellness space to pursue their dreams and successfully grow their businesses. As we continue to scale, we're strengthening our Growth Engineering team. This team is critical to our ability to acquire, activate, and retain the customers who power our platform.

As an Engineering Manager of the Growth team, you will be driving high-priority business initiatives that directly impact revenue generation, user growth, and company goals. We work across backend, frontend, and mobile stacks to optimize the full customer journey — from signup and onboarding through trial conversion and plan upgrades. Our scope includes pricing infrastructure, feature gating, referral systems, and funnel optimization, making it clear that we are building the experiences that turn prospects into loyal, growing customers. This role reinforces our mission to provide data-driven solutions that help GlossGenius move faster, convert better, and scale revenue with confidence.

You can be based remotely in the San Francisco Bay Area OR hybrid (Tuesdays & Thursdays in-office) from our NYC headquarters.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and develop a team of senior and staff engineers, understanding their skills and fostering their professional growth to achieve daily tasks and long-term career goals.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and other teams to define the long-term technical and product strategy and the necessary steps for its realization.
• Prioritize, plan, and ensure team and cross-functional alignment to execute key initiatives and achieve business results.
• Establish and implement effective engineering processes focused on quality and progress in key product initiatives.
• Collaborate with recruiting to build and retain a high-performing engineering team by attracting top talent.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years as a people manager.
• Led two or more engineering pods with a proven ability to lead teams through technical leads or people managers.
• Demonstrated success in collaborating with product/program managers, designers, and peers to develop plans, manage expectations, and deliver new products and features (0 to 1).
• Strong business acumen and customer-centric approach, supported by data analytics skills.
• Solid technical understanding, capable of guiding technical discussions despite this being a non-coding role.
• Experience in recruiting and building high-performing teams for future GlossGenius products.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Benefits & Perks

• Flexible PTO
• Competitive health & dental insurance options, with premiums partially or fully covered by GG
• In-person opportunities that are designed to help team members foster collaboration and build community (ie; working out of a co-working space, team dinners, and other team building activities)
• Fertility and adoption benefits via Carrot
• Generous, fully-paid parental leave policy
• 401k benefit - employees are eligible to contribute starting day 1 of employment
• Professional Development - employees receive a yearly stipend for approved learning and educational-related expenses
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Dependent Care FSA
• Home office support

The starting base salary for this role in New York, California, and Washington is between $193,000 - $260,000 + target equity + benefits. The base salary offered is dependent upon many factors including skills, experience, location, and education. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Additionally, this role is currently eligible to participate in GlossGenius’s equity plan as well as a range of health & wellbeing, retirement savings, and other benefits within our total rewards offering.

At GlossGenius, we celebrate our differences and are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel supported and empowered to do their best work. We believe this benefits not only our employees but our product, customers, and community as well. GlossGenius is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.

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