Senior Engineering Manager, Planning & Tracking

Company: Github
Location: Denver
Posted on: January 16, 2022

Job Description:

Do you want to be part of the team delivering flexible, powerful, and performant project planning tools for developers?Our team enables customers to bring their ideas to life, innovate, and collaborate throughout the whole project lifecycle. GitHub Issues is a market-leading service to manage and track work right where it happens.

Learn more about GitHubs project management tools: https://github.com/features/issues

As an Engineering Manager, you will work closely with a distributed, diverse, and passionate team of engineers, designers, product managers, and user researchers to enhance the project management services that millions of developers depend on every day.

In this role, you will be responsible for guiding the team in our mission to build reliable, maintainable, and approachable services that power GitHubs project management and developer productivity tooling. You will lead a team of software engineers to design, prototype, implement, ship and support highly performant and inspiring user experiences.

Planning & Tracking is a fully distributed team reliant on asynchronous communication. We expect you to have the ability to communicate complex technical concepts, and be able to create working relationships with coworkers in locations around the globe.

We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers - people who care about culture as well as customers and features. We believe that how we do things is as important as what we do. Big vision, a common purpose, passion for quality, curiosity, dedication, and investment in fun and collaboration are what lead to great results. Great products reflect the teams that build them.

Responsibilities

• Cultivate an environment where team members are empowered through a collective sense of ownership and belonging
• Meet with team members 1-on-1 on a regular basis
• Ensure that team members learn, grow, and advance in their careers
• Create a shared understanding of decision making, direction, and progress for the team, the company, and the community
• Encourage an environment of technical excellence, and facilitate architectural discussions and decision making
• Communicate with partner teams at GitHub
  
  
  Minimum Qualifications
  
  • 2+ years experience managing engineering teams
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong attention to detail, planning, and organization
  • Worked previously with a distributed team
  • Experience with developing a strategy and roadmap for your teams
    
    
    Preferred Qualifications
    
    • Experience building highly available and scalable distributed systems
    • Developed or managed teams that focus on tooling for team collaboration
      
      
      Nothing in life is perfect, including this job description. You may be an excellent fit even if you dont meet all of these qualifications.We look forward to meeting you and hearing about your unique skills and experiences!
      
      Ability to meet GitHub, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position requires you to pass Microsoft's Cloud Screen upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter (Microsoft is GitHubs parent company).
      
      Who We Are:
      
      
      GitHub is the developer company. We make it easier for developers to be developers: to work together, to solve challenging problems, and to create the worlds most important technologies. We foster a collaborative community that can come togetheras individuals and in teamsto create the future of software and make a difference in the world.
      
      
      Leadership Principles:
      
      
      Customer Obsessed - Trust by Default - Ship to Learn - Own the Outcome - Growth Mindset - Global Product, Global Team - Anything is Possible - Practice Kindness
      
      
      Why You Should Join:
      
      
      At GitHub, we constantly strive to create an environment that allows our employees (Hubbers) to do the best work of their lives. We've designed one of the coolest workspaces in San Francisco (HQ), where many Hubbers work, snack, and create daily. The rest of our Hubbers work remotely around the globe. Check out an updated list of where we can hire here: https://github.com/about/careers/remote
      
      
      We are also committed to keeping Hubbers healthy, motivated, focused and creative. We've designed our top-notch benefits program with these goals in mind. In a nutshell, we've built a place where we truly love working, we think you will too.
      
      
      GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
      
      
      Please note that benefits vary by country. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask your Talent Partner.
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