Senior Engineering Manager

Introduction to Demandbase: 

Demandbase is the Smarter GTM™ company for B2B brands. We help B2B companies hit their revenue goals using fewer resources. How? By aligning their sales and marketing teams around a combination of their data, our data, and artificial intelligence — what we call Account Intelligence — so they can identify, engage, and focus their time and money on the accounts most likely to buy. 

As a company, we’re as committed to growing careers as we are to building world-class technology. We invest heavily in people, our culture, and the community around us. We have offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and India, as well as a team in the UK. We have also been continuously recognized as one of the best places to work in the San Francisco Bay Area including, “Best Workplaces for Millennials” and “Best Workplaces for Parents”!

We're committed to attracting, developing, retaining, and promoting a diverse workforce. By ensuring that every Demandbase employee is able to bring a diversity of talents to work, we're increasingly capable of living out our mission to transform how B2B goes to market. We encourage people from historically underrepresented backgrounds and all walks of life to apply. Come grow with us at Demandbase!

About the Role:

Demandbase is seeking a creative, highly motivated, enthusiastic Sr. Manager of Engineering to be a part of our DB1S team. You will work in a fast paced agile environment to build and deliver key initiatives for the company. This is a great opportunity to work with a talented, high energy and creative team focused on building world-class products. We welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move securely and independently. If you have the curiosity, passion, and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s move the world forward together. We're looking for people who are excellent at fundamentals, have a willingness to learn, and have an unstoppable desire to follow through with the job.

What you'll be doing

• Lead teams to deliver key initiatives and help advance technology and product roadmaps.
• Provide deep technical leadership, responsible for technical decision making, including establishing requirements, coordinating technical interface with customers, and advising leadership and customers on all technical aspects and issues
• Be accountable for driving project execution, work cross-functionally with technology development teams and business teams to ship product on time with high quality
• Collaborate with product managers to define future products and product enhancements
• Leading, mentoring, motivating, and working with a geographically distributed team
• Effectively manage individual goals and objectives, performance, and employee development
• Ensure the right culture, processes, and technology investments are in place for future product launches
• Run and improve an agile/rapid development process
• Ensure that appropriate knowledge management is exercised to maximize the transfer of knowledge to new team members and projects.
• Provide regular communications, including KPI results, project progress, and relevant cost metrics to engineering leaders, functional leaders, and project management teams.

What we're looking for

• 12+ years of relevant experience in building large-scale enterprise solutions as a technical leader.
• 4+ years of engineering management and Agile development experience.
• Hands-on leader with experience delving into software architecture and design details.
• Strong knowledge of REST APIs and microservices architecture.
• Proficient in Java, Spring, Hibernate, and NoSQL databases.
• Familiar with observability tools and practices for monitoring products.
• Experience in building high-quality products using CI/CD practices.
• Keen interest in learning new skill sets, with the ability to quickly grasp new technologies, software, and concepts.
• Solid understanding of product development processes with proven experience in moving from strategy to execution, delivering results with minimal guidance, and effectively communicating insights and ideas across organizations.
• Good understanding of the complexities and challenges in large-scale distributed systems on AWS.
• Proven ability to inspire team confidence and performance, recruit and mentor technical talent, foster a strong engineering culture, and lead by example.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; fluent in English.
• Capable of working with both offshore and onshore teams to achieve goals.
• Experienced in collaborating with engineering teams to refine and improve development and delivery processes.
• Customer-focused, action-oriented, high energy, detail-oriented, and an analytical thinker. Comfortable managing multiple projects in parallel.
• Experience in AdTech, MarTech, SalesTech, or digital marketing is a plus

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Demandbase

At Demandbase, we believe in creating a workplace culture that values and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We recognize that everyone brings unique experiences, perspectives, and identities to the table, and we are committed to building a community where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported. Discrimination of any kind is not tolerated, and we strive to ensure that every individual has an equal opportunity to succeed and grow, regardless of their gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, race, ethnicity, background, marital status, genetic information, education level, veteran status, national origin, or any other protected status. We do not automatically disqualify applicants with criminal records and will consider each applicant on a case-by-case basis.

We recognize that not all candidates will have every skill or qualification listed in this job description. If you feel you have the level of experience to be successful in the role, we encourage you to apply!

We acknowledge that true diversity and inclusion require ongoing effort, and we are committed to doing the work required to make our workplace a safe and equitable space for all. Join us in building a community where we can learn from each other, celebrate our differences, and work together.

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