At OpenSesame, we are on a mission to help develop the world's most productive and admired workforces. We are looking for an Associate Engineering Manager to lead and support a team of engineers focused on building and maintaining our Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions. You will help the team develop the context, skills, and process needed to consistently deliver valuable work with high quality, accuracy, and reliability.
What You'll Do
- Build trust with your distributed engineering team and key stakeholders.
- Build strong relationships with a distributed team of seven engineers across timezones.
- Conduct 1:1s to understand each team member’s career goals, motivations, frustrations, and strengths.
- Engage with stakeholders to understand expectations, friction points, and dependencies related to IAM initiatives.
- Collaborate with the team lead on team members’ career development and hire full-time employees as appropriate.
- Understand your team's vision, current mission, and backlog priorities, partnering effectively with the team’s Product Manager to align on execution.
- Work with the Senior Engineering Manager to develop a plan that strengthens the team’s delivery capability, sustainability, and technical resilience.
- Ensure a balanced backlog planning that includes time for innovation, experimentation, and paying down technical debt.
- Establish yourself as the primary point of contact for Engineering stakeholders, shielding the team from unproductive interruptions.
- Set up your development environment and review the team’s codebase to understand architecture and technical decisions.
- Provide coaching, mentoring and/or mediation as needed to continuously improve your team’s dynamics.
- Provide or source training, coaching, and/or mentoring for team members’ weak spots, tailoring your leadership approach to individuals.
- Ensure the team has the context needed to make excellent decisions without your active involvement.
- Partner closely with the Product Manager to improve grooming, planning, and prioritization workflows.
- Strike a balance between shielding the team and enabling them to work directly with stakeholders.
- Advocate for IAM initiatives that align with organization strategy and share transparent, realistic views of capacity and risks.
- Optimize the team’s forecasting and definition of done to improve planning accuracy and delivery confidence.
- Remove yourself as a bottleneck to team decision making.
- Identify paths for continuously improving developer experience, tooling and internal quality.
- Create opportunities for cross-team pollination and shared growth.
- Build strong peer relationships with other engineering managers, collaborating on improvement efforts that span beyond your own team.
- Be a resource that other managers turn to for advice and guidance.
- Help drive better execution on cross-team efforts in partnership with Product Management.
- Contribute insights to help engineering leadership identify and address systemic challenges.
What We're Looking For
- A track record of delivering excellent results.
Team & Environment
You will lead a team of seven engineers, a distributed team across timezones, and report to the Senior Engineering Manager.
Benefits & Compensation
- Professional development opportunities.
- ISOs (Incentive Stock Options).
- Health insurance.
- 401(k) matching.
- Paid time off.
- Compensation range: $192,000-$208,000.
Work Mode
This is a remote-first position open to candidates in the United States.
OpenSesame is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer that values and welcomes diversity. We hold ourselves accountable to create more diverse, equitable, and inclusive communities.
