Engineering Manager

Polaris School of Technology; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Polaris School of Technology in Bengaluru seeks an Engineering Manager to build delivery systems for weekly program launches. You will lead a large team across hiring, coaching, and performance while ensuring sessions, content, and student experience remain stellar.

You’ll translate curriculum into sequencing and delivery formats, use attendance and outcomes to drive improvements, and collaborate with academics, admissions, student success and events for high-ownership, high-visibility impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional engineering or delivery leadership experience.
• 3+ years of people management experience.
• Experience leading teams of 10+ people.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 10+ across hiring, coaching and performance.
• Build the delivery operating system with planning, stand-ups, retrospectives and escalation rhythms.
• Own session quality, consistency and the overall student experience.
• Translate curriculum into clear sequencing, formats and delivery systems.
• Use attendance, satisfaction and student outcomes to improve every cycle.
• Work closely with Academics, Admissions, Student Success and Events.

Skills

Team management

Systems thinking

Hands-on leader

Data-driven

Cross-functional

Ambiguity tolerance

Job description

Polaris School of Technology is India’s industry-first tech college, built in collaboration with Google, AWS and Microsoft.

About the Role

Delivering our academic programs are closer to shipping a live product every week than running a traditional timetable. Sessions, people, content and student experience must come together on time and at a consistently high bar. We’re looking for an Engineering Manager who can build systems from scratch, lead a large team, solve problems in real time and continuously improve delivery. You don’t need to be an academic. You need to be exceptional at making complex things work.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 10+ people across hiring, coaching and performance
• Build the operating system for delivery, including planning, stand-ups, retrospectives and escalation rhythms
• Own session quality, consistency and the overall student experience
• Translate curriculum into clear sequencing, formats and delivery systems
• Use attendance, satisfaction and student outcomes to improve every cycle
• Work closely with Academics, Admissions, Student Success and Events

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience
• 3+ years of experience managing teams
• Experience leading teams of 10+ people

Required Skills

• A track record of owning complex, high-visibility projects end-to-end
• Strong systems thinking and comfort with ambiguity
• A hands-on approach, with the ability to move between strategy and execution
• A data-driven mindset and obsession with continuous improvement
• Ability to lead across functions, not only within a reporting line
• Genuine excitement about reimagining higher education

Preferred Skills

• Experience in EdTech, higher education or startups is helpful, but not required.

Why Polaris?

• Build the delivery engine for a new kind of tech college in India
• Work directly with the Head of Academics
• Collaborate with partners including Google, AWS and Microsoft
• Take on a high-ownership, high-visibility role with direct impact on every student