Engineering Manager, Studio

What We Do

The Maps Studio team at Mapbox is an innovative, collaborative, and versatile group of software engineers, product designers, and cartographers. We focus on finding systematic solutions to hard problems and inventing the future of how people interact with location. Our work revolves around creating beautiful, intelligent, and well-designed maps, which are a cornerstone of what makes Mapbox maps special. The team is responsible for developing tools that facilitate this creation, including our flagship product, Mapbox Studio.

What You'll Do

As an Engineering Manager, you will join our team and work collaboratively with other product teams across the Mapbox organization to solve complex problems across the technical stack. Your technical skills and leadership will drive the feature development and operational excellence of Mapbox Studio, balancing tech debt and shipping new features. You will also bring your people management skills to ensure that the team is growing and delivering on the roadmap.

In This Role, You Will

• Deliver complex, high-impact projects while providing technical expertise and mentorship to your team.
• Operate the team day-to-day and be hands-on in project management and sprint planning.
• Manage and develop the team through hiring, retaining, mentoring, and continually building the team’s capabilities.
• Drive company, product, and team objectives, carrying your team and relevant stakeholders along in the decision-making.
• Work with Product and Engineering teams to develop the long-term business strategy driving the team’s work.
• Establish, track, and iterate on operational metrics to ensure the team is delivering products that meet or exceed customer expectations.
• Determine best engineering practices and promote them within the team and across Mapbox.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, diversity, and data-driven decisions on the team.

What We Believe Are Important Traits For This Role

• 5-8+ years of people management experience: You have managed remote engineering teams leading to product execution and business outcome while growing and developing a team of engineering talent.
• Hire & Develop: You understand the importance of hiring the best diverse talent and creating a culture where your team members can learn & grow with the organization.
• Technical Expertise: You have deep knowledge and experience with building frontend applications (React, Redux) and scalable web services (NodeJS, Express) in AWS.
• Operational Excellence: You drive a culture of quality and continuous improvement within your team and personally embody a passion for monitoring, metrics, triage, resolving customer issues, and iterative improvement.
• User experience: Proven ability to lead sophisticated customer-facing web-based applications for a global business where design and ease-of-use are fundamental to the success of the business.
• Ownership & Execution: You own the vision, lead the strategy, and guide the team to execute towards building the future of your product.
• Customer Focus: You care deeply about your customers and their problems, and you work tirelessly to innovate on their behalf.
• Strong written and verbal communication: You can talk and write about complex ideas concisely to a wide audience.