Senior Engineering Manager, Consumer Experience

Who We Are

Babylist is the trusted platform for millions of growing families. For over a decade, Babylist has been the technology solution for expecting parents and the community that supports them, expanding from baby registry into a full-service platform that helps parents make decisions with confidence, stay connected, and build happy and healthy families. Every year Babylist helps over 9M people make purchases through its registry, app, ecommerce shop, and comprehensive product guides. The Babylist ecosystem now includes Babylist Health, which provides access to products and services including insurance-covered breast pumps, Expectful, a new voice in health and wellness for pre-pregnancy through postpartum care, and The Push, a branded content studio that works with the biggest companies in the baby space. With over 59M monthly pageviews and 1.2M TikTok followers, Babylist is a generational brand leading the $88 billion baby product industry. To learn about Babylist’s registry options, editorial content, and more, visit www.babylist.com

Our Ways of Working

We have team members located across the United States spanning multiple time zones. This means we put in extra effort to make sure we connect and collaborate in ways that make sense for us. We know how valuable the flexibility of remote work is for our employees. 

We know that personal connection is the foundation for the great work we do together. In order to build those relationships with team members in other cities, we meet with coworkers in person two times a year at a full company offsite and a departmental offsite. These offsites are expected of employees and are great opportunities to meet the people you work with every day and to do some of the work that is much more difficult to do virtually.

Our Tech Stack

• React
• Native iOS and Android
• Ruby on Rails
• AWS
• MySQL
• Sidekiq
• Redis
• Shopify

What the Role Is

The Senior Engineering Manager, Consumer Experiences, will focus on the company's core product. You will lead the most critical initiatives to expand our current capabilities within the registry, which is already used and loved by millions of parents and gift-givers. 

This highly cross-functional and visible team will require partnerships with other teams like Growth, Shop, and Catalog. You will lead a team of experienced 6+ software engineers, including mobile, web, and backend, to deliver an aggressive roadmap. You must be an influential, experienced, and highly technical leader adept at building and maintaining a culture of excellence and engagement. You will build and maintain productive relationships with our CEO, SVP of Engineering, Product Organization, and other senior leaders across the business.  

Who You Are

• Before becoming a leader, you were a high-performing engineer with a track record of end-to-end software development of production systems. Ideally, you have done this in a Ruby on Rails environment
• You have experience building complex consumer-facing solutions
• You have experience in experimentation and a/b testing, leading to high-performing, well-loved consumer tech products
• You have led high-functioning teams and meaningfully built and maintained engineering culture 
• You’ve successfully led teams through growth and change, which means you know how to adapt and set and maintain standards for your team that scale with the business.You are a great coach of engineers with experience hiring, developing talent, and giving feedback
• You have an exceptional understanding of your team’s coding abilities and know when projects need extra support.  You have the experience to help the team make the right architectural decisions that balance business value and system stability
• You’re skilled at testing, monitoring, and running a production software system
• You have worked effectively with senior leadership in setting a strategic 6+ month direction
• You have 5 or more years of experience as an Engineering Manager

How You Will Make An Impact

• Define, build, and maintain a high-performance, results-driven, collaborative culture aligned with Babylist's core values
• Capitalize on Babylist's foundation and our highly engaged customer base to create a more impactful experience
• Own the tactical planning and execution for your team while partnering with other Engineering and Product leaders on shared goals against Babylist's strategic imperatives
• Be a thought leader and expert in understanding our users and product by prioritizing the highest value areas
• Empower and inspire your team to achieve their highest potential. Play the key role in onboarding and mentoring your team
• Serve as a thought leader for the technical roadmap. Provide guidance on processes, tooling, and systems to help the team with key technical decisions
• Be accountable for your team. Help them to ship high-quality software that meets the business needs
• Own communication across the product development team and company regarding key milestones, providing frequent, transparent updates on progress towards our goals
• Partner closely with product owners to design, implement, and deploy systems to support and scale our growing business

Why You Will Love Working At Babylist

• We invest in the infrastructure you’ll need to be supported and successful: tools, opportunities to connect with colleagues, and a stipend to help you set up your office
• We build products that have a positive impact on millions of people’s lives
• We work at a sustainable pace which means work/life balance is a real thing here
• We believe technology and data can solve hard problems 
• We believe in exceptional management 
• We are an antiracist organization and doing the work to support differences of all kinds
• We offer competitive pay and meaningful opportunities for career advancement
• We have great benefits like company paid medical, dental, and vision, a generous paid parental leave policy, and 401k with company match
• We care about employee wellbeing with perks for physical, mental and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning

Babylist takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location.

The estimated pay range for this role is $170,930.00 - $256,470.00

In addition, Babylist offers equity, bonus, and benefits, including company paid health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k) matching, flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Our company takes the security and privacy of job applicants very seriously. We will never ask for payment, bank details, or personal financial information as part of the application process. All of our legitimate job postings can be found on our official career site. Please be cautious of job offers that come from non-company email addresses (@babylist.com), instant messaging platforms or unsolicited calls.

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