Guild is seeking a Senior Manager, Software Engineering to lead the creation of a brand-new Claims domain and drive innovation across Guild’s technical ecosystem.
Requirements
- Demonstrated history of technical leadership across both people and systems
- Leading Staff+ engineers
- Leading multiple teams
- Demonstrated history of strong partnerships with product, stakeholders, and other engineering teams to deliver impactful results for an organization
- Demonstrated history of growing individual contributors and leaders
- Organizational navigation & influence
- Managing managers - evolving how they assess and coach managers vs ICs
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and develop ICs and Engineering Managers, ensuring teams have clear growth paths, strong leadership, and alignment with business needs.
- Structure and organize teams effectively, optimizing staffing, skill distribution, and capacity planning to meet company priorities.
- Actively shape engineering culture, championing continuous improvement, diversity, and technical excellence across teams.
- Foster a culture of urgency and strategic prioritization, ensuring engineering efforts align with business goals and long-term vision.
- Meet with external partners and vendors to evaluate new technologies and ensure strategic integration into Guild’s platform.
- Oversee multiple engineering domains, driving cross-team initiatives, scalability improvements, and major technical investments.
- Partner with leadership to define technical and product roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business goals while balancing innovation and operational efficiency.
Other
- Excel at team leadership
- Collaborate across team and organizational boundaries
- Work across teams and pillars to drive multi-team objectives, ensuring clarity in planning and fostering collaboration between engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
- Influence Guild-wide initiatives, working with executive leadership to shape organizational engineering strategy and cross-functional decision-making.
- Represent engineering in high-level discussions, serving as a proxy for the Director of Engineering in key collaborations with business stakeholders.
- Build and strengthen relationships across the organization to foster a collaborative environment for addressing complex, multi-disciplinary challenges
- Must be able to live and work full-time in one of the 32 states listed above
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- Ability to travel as needed
