Engineering Manager, Content & Curation
Job Description
Degreed is the upskilling platform that connects learning to opportunities. We integrate everything people use to learn and build their careers—skill insights, LMSs, courses, videos, articles, and projects—and match everyone to growth opportunities that fit their unique skills, roles, and goals. Degreed exists to discover, empower and recognize the next generation of the world’s expertise.
Degreed is the upskilling platform that connects learning to opportunities. We integrate everything people use to learn and build their careers—skill insights, LMSs, courses, videos, articles, and projects—and match everyone to growth opportunities that fit their unique skills, roles, and goals. Degreed exists to discover, empower and recognize the next generation of the world’s expertise.
We’re looking for an Engineering Manager, Content & Curation specializing on a product-focused team as a manager of people. In this role, you will form a strong partnership with your Engineering Director to champion team needs, and execute on strategic initiatives. You’ll be positioned to partner with Product, to anticipate and guide product decisions and how they relate to immediate and long-term investments.
The ideal candidate for this role will be based remotely in the US and leading a distributed team.
A Day in the Life
- Collaborating with product, design, and other stakeholders to plan and execute projects and build OKRs against company objectives.
- Solving problems by combining ideas from a diverse group of individuals and digesting customer feedback to iterate on solutions.
- Coaching and advising engineers to grow their skills and experience through one-on-ones and other interactions.
- Running Agile project management processes and ceremonies.
- Fostering an empathetic and psychologically safe environment across Degreed.
- Advocating for and keeping awareness of engineering processes and best practices.
- Conducting interviews and contributing to building and retaining a diverse, well-balanced engineering team.
- Empowering your people to make informed technical decisions, making final decisions when necessary.
- Defining success for your engineering team(s) with an eye towards continuous improvement and sustained execution against our roadmap.
- Participating in production support on-call rotations to ensure Degreed meets its uptime and availability goals.
- Work closely with your team(s) to build realistic roadmaps through cross-functional collaboration
- Utilize metrics to track your teams’ productivity, identify and mitigate risks.
Who You Are
There are only a handful of folks who meet all qualifications. We care more about hiring managers that have a track record of caring deeply about people and shipping quality software than checking all of the boxes. So whether you meet all the qualifications or a partial set, we want to hear from you.
- 5 years or more experience of technical experience.
- 2 years or more experience in a leadership role.
- High degree of empathy and proficient written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with:
- Developing a strategy and roadmap in partnership with your team and other stakeholders.
- Grouping, breaking down, and editing tasks so that engineers can complete them more easily.
- Grooming the backlog in collaboration with your Product Manager.
- Establishing technical plans with your team members for more complex or unknown areas that require further definition and validation.
- Capable of:
- Communicating with high-level stakeholders and executing large initiatives in an iterative fashion.
- Working with engineering, design, and product leadership to ensure alignment and progress towards meeting milestones.
- Ensuring the team ships products, features, and bug fixes regularly with architecturally consistent, high quality software.
- Working on a distributed team with asynchronous communication in a remote work environment.
What Will Set You Apart
- Enterprise SaaS company experience.
- Experience managing a team of 4 or more individual contributors.
- Demonstrated experience working with .NET, Angular, SQL Server, Azure, and other core elements of our technology stack and/or productivity tools such as Jira and Confluence.
Total Rewards at Degreed
We believe your best work happens when you have a complete life balance, and Degreed gives you the support and flexibility to make that happen. Degreed is committed to delivering a comprehensive benefits program that provides the support you need. At the time of this posting, this role is eligible to participate in the following benefits:
- Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family (both PPO and HDHP plans available)
- Dental and vision plans for you and your family
- Employer-paid life insurance, AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability
- Company equity
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with up to 4% match
- Company funded HSA and dependent care FSA (pending eligibility)
- Generous Parental Leave
- Unlimited Paid Time Off and 5 sick days per year
- Education benefit: Up to $1,200 per year for anything you want to learn (and we mean anything)!
- One-time Home Office Stipend to make your workspace more comfortable
- Monthly internet and phone stipend
- Monthly wellness stipend through Twic
*Degreed reserves the right to modify these benefits at any time, for any reason in accordance with applicable law. Please note the offerings vary based on location.
Work Environment & Physical Demands
Degreed is a remote-first company, however our roles are open to in-office or flex work if you live in a city with a physical office location (when it is safe to return to the office). This role has the opportunity to operate 100% virtually from your home office. We primarily collaborate with our US and International colleagues through virtual meetings (Zoom), email, and Slack. In this role, you will be required to operate a laptop computer (PC or Mac available), computer software platforms, and other office productivity machinery as necessary. Due to the nature of this role, you must be able to remain stationary for extended periods, and must be able to observe and interpret written and/or verbal communication.
Additional Information
Degreed provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
We are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Degreed will provide reasonable accommodations to all qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Degreed uses the E-Verify employment verification program.
