Engineering Manager
Remote
Senior · Full time
$165-204K
0.2-0.3%
Posted 2 years ago
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Highlight is an agile in-home product insights platform focusing on consumer product goods innovation. We send curated discovery boxes to our engaged community in exchange for feedback via our research-optimized app. Our platform boasts 90% survey completion rates, can get products in tester’s hands in days, and seamlessly collects qualitative feedback at scale. Highlight is a women-owned, minority-owned startup growing to work with innovation and insights teams at companies like P&G, Mondelez, Nestle, Purell, Mars, and more. Highlight has brought together a community of brands and consumers united in a mission to create better products for all and democratize access to data for both emerging and enterprise brands.
 
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead one of our product development teams.. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you’ll lead the team through building new applications that allow our consumer product brands to test and iterate on their products and ultimately improve how physical products are made.

Your Impact

  • Lead your team’s execution with a servant and transformational leadership style
  • Develop and grow your staff to do their best work through 1:1s, in-the-moment coaching and goal setting
  • Partner with the team’s product manager to ensure the team is working on and delivering the most impactful features
  • Foster long-term thinking and creative problem solving within your team
  • Develop efficient processes, ensuring the Engineering team operates with high velocity, ownership, and accountability
  • Grow your team and participate in the Hiring/Recruitment processes
  • Represent the engineering team in cross-functional projects and to the company at large
  • Build strong relationships with other leaders and stakeholders
  • Remain current on technology and trends in engineering
  • Help identify appropriate organizational improvements to support team effectiveness
  • Participate in training and onboarding for new employees
  • Freedom to experiment, iterate on, and improve the software development process

About You

  • You love to foster a culture of deep collaboration, open communication, respect, high expectations, and most importantly fun
  • You’re passionate about continually improving your management and leadership skills
  • You lead with a bias for action and problem solving
  • Focused on team building and collaboration over individual performance
  • Experience as an Engineering Manager or in a people leadership capacity

Engineering Values

  • We try lots of things and keep those that work
  • We don’t release code we can’t be confident in
  • We give freedom and expect accountability in return
  • We collaborate respectfully to build trust
  • We invest in each other’s growth and success
  • Read more about our Engineering Values here!

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision) with 100% premium covered
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Flexible, remote WFH culture
  • Access to Hearst Tower & its facilities in NYC (should you choose to be in person)
At Highlight, we know that diverse perspectives foster the innovation we need to succeed. We are committed to building a team that comes from a wide range of backgrounds - including but not limited to - race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression, national origin, religion, disability, and veteran status. If you’re someone who can think rigorously and isn’t afraid to challenge assumptions, join us.
Highlight
Highlight is a market research platform that facilitates efficient, agile, and scaled at-home product testing.
Size:  11-50 employees
Funding Level:  Early-stage Startup
Total Amount Raised:  $8.2 M
Year Founded:  2021
Investors
First Round Capital
Operator Partners
HearstLab
Max Mullen
Scribble Ventures
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