Scribd Inc. is looking to solve the problem of making user acquisition, onboarding, retention, and lifecycle marketing faster, more measurable, and more scalable across their brands (Everand, Scribd, Slideshare, and Fable) by investing in a Growth Platform. The Senior Engineering Manager, Growth Platform will lead a team that builds the systems and integrations enabling efficient go-to-market execution, translating growth strategy into high-leverage technical capabilities.
Requirements
- 7+ years of engineering experience, including 3 to 5+ years in engineering management, leading high-performing teams delivering customer-facing or platform systems.
- Strong technical foundation and architecture depth: you can guide scalable system design, set quality bars, and lead teams through ambiguity and tradeoffs.
- Experience with growth and marketing systems, such as SEM, ad platform integrations, attribution/tracking, experimentation frameworks, customer engagement platforms, CDPs, CMS/landing page systems, analytics instrumentation, or marketing APIs.
- Deep familiarity with multi-channel paid acquisition, tracking/attribution challenges (web + mobile), and data quality practices.
- Hands-on experience with event tracking, experimentation platforms, segmentation systems, offer/promo tooling, or funnel optimization in subscription products.
- Experience operating platform teams that serve multiple internal customers with clear SLAs, roadmaps, and support models.
Responsibilities
- Lead the engineering strategy and execution for Scribd’s Growth Platform, spanning acquisition enablement, promotional offer support, audience segmentation, and lifecycle marketing integrations.
- Build and manage a high-performing full-stack team, developing engineers while creating a culture of accountability, inclusion, and continuous learning.
- Stay deeply technical: act as an architectural and execution partner to the Tech Lead and team, driving thoughtful system design, pragmatic tradeoffs, and sustainable delivery.
- Lead integrations with paid media platforms and third-party data exchange tooling to support conversion tracking, offline/online event feeds, audience sync, and campaign measurement.
- Own cross-channel measurement foundations: champion reliable instrumentation, telemetry, attribution quality, and data-informed decision making in partnership with Analytics.
- Drive integration and vendor decisions across the MarTech stack – evaluating tools, designing integrations, and ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and maintainable.
- Champion engineering excellence in reliability, scalability, code quality, testing, and continuous delivery, so Growth teams can move fast with confidence.
Other
- Partner closely with stakeholders to translate business goals into roadmaps, prioritize investments, and deliver high-impact initiatives across multiple brands and channels.
- Demonstrated growth impact: you’ve led teams whose work measurably improved conversion, retention, engagement, and/or LTV (ideally in subscription or consumer products).
- Cross-functional leadership strength: you can align diverse stakeholders, set clear priorities, and execute in fast-paced environments.
- People-first leadership: proven ability to coach, develop, and retain strong engineers while fostering psychological safety and high standards.
- Primary residence in or near one of the specified cities in the US, Canada, or Mexico.
