Engineering Manager: Lead Teams & Drive Change (Remote/Hybrid)

Openkrill; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Hybrid work

Remote work possible

30 days vacation

Deutschland-Ticket subsidy

Job bikes

Team events

Wellbeing benefits

Job summary

Openkrill is seeking an Engineering Manager (f/m/d) to lead software teams through rapid growth in a B2B setting. You will partner with the CPTO to translate product direction into actionable plans and shape the engineering organization across modules.

You’ll drive performance, resistance to change, and collaboration with senior stakeholders across time zones, including Europe and the US, while maintaining high technical credibility.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading software engineering teams through change.
• Excellent communicator able to tailor messages to execs and engineers.
• Experience with organizational design and capability development.
• Comfort with ambiguity and ownership, with pragmatic leadership.

Responsibilities

• Act as the engineering execution and people leadership partner to the CPTO.
• Define and align engineering org structure with product direction.
• Lead organizational change, including restructuring teams.
• Set performance standards and deliver direct feedback.
• Build trust between exec, business and engineering stakeholders.
• Identify capability gaps and plan talent changes.
• Partner with CPTO to translate decisions into paced change.

Skills

People leadership

Excellent communicator

Technical credibility

Organizational design

Ambiguity tolerance

Change leadership

Time zone alignment

Job description

Openkrill is seeking an Engineering Manager (f/m/d) to lead software teams through rapid growth in a B2B setting. You will partner with the CPTO to translate product direction into actionable plans and shape the engineering organization across modules.

You’ll drive performance, resistance to change, and collaboration with senior stakeholders across time zones, including Europe and the US, while maintaining high technical credibility.