Engineering Manager, Admin & Governance

Airtable; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 281,000 - 366,000; Full time

Job summary

Airtable is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Admin & Governance team within the Product Engineering pillar, focusing on AI governance for enterprise customers. This role drives governance controls, scale, and ownership of security and governance infrastructure for large deployments.

Based in San Francisco with a hybrid model requiring in-office presence ~2–3 days per week, you will mentor engineers, grow high-performing teams, and partner with product and design to execute strategy for

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience as an engineer (previously in a staff or TL level IC position) and 2+ years as a manager, or a similar combination.
• Strong customer focus and experience working closely with Product Managers to define products, manage tradeoffs, and drive adoption with customers.
• Experience with navigating large systems.
• Experience leading high performing engineering teams in a fast paced environment
• Experience in growing and mentoring engineers.
• Experience in managing, organizing, and prioritizing multiple projects and work streams.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and grow a team of high-functioning engineers that are in charge of our systems and frameworks.
• Partner with engineering leaders to drive technical decisions and initiatives to build products in a high-quality and sustainable way.
• Nurture a team of passionate and capable engineers. Partner with senior engineers to multiply their impact, and coach & grow early-career engineers.
• Partner with cross-functional peers including product and design to come up with and execute against short and long term strategy and plans for the team.
• Implement processes to help the team scale and be productive, while allowing for agility to accommodate the dynamic environment that we operate in.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Customer focus

Cross-functional collaboration

System navigation

Job description

Airtable is the no-code app platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes. More than 500,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, rely on Airtable to transform how work gets done.

Airtable is used by more than half of the Fortune 500 companies to power their mission-critical initiatives. Enterprise customers leverage Airtable to build sophisticated apps, and orchestrate deep, end-to-end workflows. As we continue to scale, our teams are building the systems to ensure the security and governance of our customer’s data – from secure handling of file attachments to enterprise key management. These are advanced systems that provide robust security measures to protect our user’s data.

We are seeking Engineering Managers to join our product engineering pillar to lead the Admin & Governance team, focused on scaling product experiences for our biggest customers. As AI becomes central to Airtable, enterprise customers need governance controls that let them adopt AI confidently, with granular feature enablement, capability-based restrictions, and full admin visibility. The Admin & Governance team is building that control plane — the AI Governance framework that gives admins those controls at every level of the enterprise. This work builds on the team’s deep ownership of Airtable’s enterprise trust infrastructure: the Admin Panel, SSO, audit systems, and User Groups that power governance for our largest customers. We’re looking for a leader who can drive the AI Governance roadmap, scale the team’s existing enterprise trust systems, and directly unblock adoption for our largest customers.

Please note: while we employ a hybrid working model at Airtable (flexible in working from the office or elsewhere), we are looking to hire candidates at this level that are based in San Francisco who are open to coming into the office at least ~2-3 times/week for team collaboration.

What you’ll do

• Lead, manage, and grow a team of high-functioning engineers that are in charge of our systems and frameworks.
• Partner with engineering leaders to drive technical decisions and initiatives to build products in a high-quality and sustainable way.
• Nurture a team of passionate and capable engineers. Partner with senior engineers to multiply their impact, and coach & grow early-career engineers.
• Partner with cross-functional peers including product and design to come up with and execute against short and long term strategy and plans for the team.
• Implement processes to help the team scale and be productive, while allowing for agility to accommodate the dynamic environment that we operate in.

Who you are

• 5+ years experience as an engineer (previously in a staff or TL level IC position) and 2+ years as a manager, or a similar combination.
• Strong customer focus and experience working closely with Product Managers to define products, manage tradeoffs, and drive adoption with customers.
• Experience with navigating large systems.
• Experience leading high performing engineering teams in a fast paced environment
• Experience in growing and mentoring engineers.
• Experience in managing, organizing, and prioritizing multiple projects and work streams.

Airtable is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and strive to create a workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any characteristic protected by applicable federal and state laws, regulations and ordinances. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.

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Compensation awarded to successful candidates will vary based on their work location, relevant skills, and experience.

Our total compensation package also includes the opportunity to receive benefits, restricted stock units, and may include incentive compensation. To learn more about our comprehensive benefit offerings, please check out Life at Airtable.
For work locations in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, New York City, and Los Angeles, the base salary range for this role is:
$281,000—$365,700 USD
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