Engineering Manager, Growth & AI

Buffer; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Buffer is seeking a Growth Engineering Lead to steer the end-to-end technical direction for growth across product and marketing surfaces. You’ll influence acquisition, activation, and retention, partnering with Product, Design, Marketing and Data to ship impactful experiences.

You’ll be close to the code, guide engineers, mentor teams, and shape how we apply AI to improve customer outcomes, while fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement across a fully distributed workforce.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineers and growing teams.
• Strong written communication and cross-functional collaboration.
• Ability to translate customer needs into technical direction.
• Experience applying AI to product engineering is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide coaching, feedback, and career conversations.
• Shape priorities with Product, Design, and Marketing based on customer needs and data.
• Stay close to technical decisions and help ship and learn.
• Connect customer insights, product changes, and metrics to measure impact.
• Help shape AI with experiments and building systems to work with AI effectively.
• Contribute to wider Engineering through hiring and best practices.

Skills

People management

Engineering leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Written communication

AI familiarity

Job description

Buffer is seeking a Growth Engineering Lead to steer the end-to-end technical direction for growth across product and marketing surfaces. You’ll influence acquisition, activation, and retention, partnering with Product, Design, Marketing and Data to ship impactful experiences.

You’ll be close to the code, guide engineers, mentor teams, and shape how we apply AI to improve customer outcomes, while fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement across a fully distributed workforce.