Software Engineering Manager - Global UX - Applications - Platform

Elastic; Portugal; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Elastic in Portugal is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead Global UX. You will manage the engineering team responsible for the company UI (EUI) design system and shared infrastructure, ensuring accessibility, quality, and consistency across Elastic products.

Work closely with the Tech Lead, Design leadership and Product Management to define roadmaps, hire and grow engineers, and deliver a dependable delivery cadence in a fully distributed, async‑first environment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading design system or platform teams.
• Ability to balance long-term investments with ongoing requests.
• Ability to create a dependable delivery schedule for the organization.

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow a team of engineers responsible for building and maintaining the company UI (EUI) and other shared design system infrastructure across Global UX.
• Own the team's delivery cadence - sprint planning, quarterly roadmap, outcomes, and status reporting to stakeholders across the company.
• Run hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career growth for engineers on the team.
• Build strong team culture and health in a fully distributed, async-first environment.
• Represent Global UX in cross-functional planning with other engineering, design, and product leadership across the company.
• Remove blockers for the team: negotiate dependencies with other teams, address organizational friction, and *escalate risks early.*
• Track adoption and health metrics for the design system (usage, satisfaction, migration progress) and use them to inform

Job description

the company, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The the company Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — the company’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role

In this role, you will manage the engineering team for Global UX. This team is in charge of the company UI (EUI), which is the company's design system and React component library. They also oversee the shared patterns, tokens, and tools that ensure the company products are consistent, accessible, and high-quality.

You will work closely with the team's Tech Lead, who is in charge of the technical direction and architecture. You will oversee the people,roadmap, and delivery aspects of the team. This means hiring and developing engineers, creating a realistic roadmap, and ensuring the team aligns with Design leadership and Product Management on what gets built and when.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager with experience leading design system or platform teams. The ideal candidate knows how to balance long-term investments with ongoing requests from other teams. They should also be able to create adependable delivery schedule for the whole organization.

What You Will Be Doing

• Manage and grow a team of engineers responsible for building and maintaining the company UI (EUI) and other shared design system infrastructure across Global UX.
• Own the team's delivery cadence - sprint planning, quarterly roadmap, outcomes, and status reporting to stakeholders across the company.
• Run hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career growth for engineers on the team.
• Build strong team culture and health in a fully distributed, async-first environment.
• Represent Global UX in cross-functional planning with other engineering, design, and product leadership across the company.
• Remove blockers for the team: negotiate dependencies with other teams, address organizational friction, and *escalate risks early.*
• Track adoption and health metrics for the design system (usage, satisfaction, migration progress) and use them to inform