Manager-UI

sailpoint; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

SailPoint is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a front-end team for the Identity Product. This role oversees UI and QA engineers and collaborates with Product Managers to ensure clear backlogs and timely releases across identity solutions.

The ideal candidate combines frontend architecture expertise with agile leadership and strong communication to guide teams through complex, global SaaS projects.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in a Software Engineering Management role on front-end web applications.
• 5+ years hands-on experience as a Software Engineer.
• Deep knowledge of agile processes and workflows.
• Fluency in front-end architecture enabling effective discussions with engineers.
• Experience handling multiple stakeholders in live meetings.

Responsibilities

• Lead a front-end UI team including UI and QA engineers.
• Collaborate with Product Management to maintain clear backlogs.
• Balance feature delivery with defect resolution and tech debt.
• Drive team delivery through effective project management processes.
• Recruit, coach and motivate high-performing front-end developers.

Skills

Front-end leadership

Agile processes

Communication

Stakeholder management

Team coaching

Tools

Cloudbees

Jenkins

AWS

Cypress

Jest

Selenium

Job description

About SailPoint

SailPoint is the leader in identity security for the cloud enterprise. Our identity security solutions secure and enable thousands of companies worldwide, giving our customers unmatched visibility into the entirety of their digital workforce, ensuring workers have the right access to do their job - no more, no less.

About you and the role

SailPoint is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead a front-end team for the Identity Product. This Engineering team has the responsibility and technical expertise to drive the feature development amongst the broader Identity Product Engineering team to help ensure that our customers are provided timely and high-quality releases for Identity Product.

This responsibility includes oversight a team of UI Engineers and QA Engineers. You will work with Product Managers to ensure business requirements are understood, estimated, developed, tested, and released to our customers.

To lead this team, we are looking to bring on an experienced and motivational manager who will be responsible for leading all aspects of Identity Product which relate to how our customers utilize the product to solve their complex identity and access management challenges in unique ways. A background in Agile software development environment is preferred.

This is a high-visibility leadership role with deep organization exposure, influence and ownership of mission-critical systems.

In turn, you will have the opportunity to develop and grow as a manager and leader of people. You will receive thoughtful coaching, consistent feedback, collaboration on your career path, and support to learn and pursue success for your own career. You will gain experience through shipping great software, and leading teams through a complex environment to support customers and other teams throughout the organization.

What You'll Make Happen

• Listen to what your team needs to deliver better UI software, then proactively do those things.
• Partner with Product Management to ensure your teams have clear tactical and strategic backlogs.
• Balance competing priorities to ensure we effectively ship new features while resolving defects and managing technical debt.
• Introduce, run, tweak, and optimize team project management processes, as the principal owner of your team's delivery.
• Recruit, coach, develop, and motivate high performing front-end developers.
• Proactively seek to listen and find alignment with other engineering teams and stakeholders by understanding your teams' technology, building strong relationships, and insisting on high-quality solutions that solve multiple strategic challenges at once.

You Get Excited By

• Your team achieving real business results and incremental milestones
• Delighting our customers and end users
• Coaching and developing engineers on your team along their chosen career paths
• Using data to objectively measure impact and optimize both your team's software and processes
• Meeting deadlines and coordinating with technical team members in order to deliver quality results
• Attracting and motivating excellent engineers who care about great teams and great software.

Role Requirements

• 2+ years in a Software Engineering Management role on front-end web applications
• 5+ years of hands-on experience as a Software Engineer
• Deep knowledge of and experience with agile processes and workflows
• Technical experience and fluency in front-end architecture, enabling easy discussions with engineers
• Experience handling multiple stakeholders' concerns live, in meetings, with aplomb
• Excellent communication skills.

UI tech stack

• Frameworks/Languages: Angular (13+) or React, Typescript, JavaScript, CSS, HTML , NodeJS
• Testing Frameworks: Cypress, Jest, Selenium
• CI/CD: Cloudbees, Jenkins, AWS.

Pluses (or Things You'll Learn on the Job)

• Experience tuning and optimizing team processes using qualitative & quantitative feedback
• Experience implementing & maintaining a feedback-driven culture where it is routine to ask for feedback on performance
• Experience on teams shipping SaaS products for consumers or businesses
• Experience working with a global team

What success looks like in the role

Within the first 30 days you will:

• Meet team, understand team mission and vision
• Clarity on various roles and expectation
• Development setup
• Systems, tools access
• Read guides, documentation, mandatory trainings
• Learn company processes, benefits.

60 days:

• Focus on more role specific tasks towards taking gradual responsibility and improving collaboration between existing team members
• Understand team goals and OKR's for the quarter and beyond
• Understand key dependencies, stakeholders
• Get comfortable with tools, systems and processes on a day-to-day basis

90 days:

• Focus on more role specific tasks towards taking gradual responsibility and improving collaboration between existing team members
• Understand team goals and OKR's for the quarter and beyond
• Understand key dependencies, stakeholders
• Get comfortable with tools, systems a