Engineering Manager, People & Growth (Remote-First)

Phoenixoutcomes; Arlington (VA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

PhoenixTeam seeks an Engineering Manager to lead engineers within the Chief Technology Office. You will coach for performance, recruit and onboard staff, and drive career growth while ensuring staffing aligns with ongoing client engagements.

The role emphasizes people operations, compensation alignment, and development of a high-performing, remote-first engineering team. Hands-on coding is not required, but strong engineering-management judgment is essential.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or technical delivery with leadership responsibility.
• Experience staffing engineers across projects and managing allocations, capacity, or utilization.
• Experience leading a structured performance-review and calibration process against a career framework.
• Sufficient technical familiarity with modern software delivery and cloud environments; AI expertise not required.
• Proven ability to develop engineers, navigate performance conversations, support retention, and exercise sound judgment.
• Strong written communication, forecasting, organization, and stakeholder management across distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Directly manage an initial team of seven engineers with regular 1:1s, goals, coaching, and development plans.
• Own performance reviews, calibration, and fair evaluation against the engineering leveling framework with HR involvement.
• Partner with the Managing Director on compensation and progression decisions, ensuring clear communication and documentation.
• Build a remote-first team culture, addressing workload, burnout, engagement, and career development risks.
• Own staffing plans across internal initiatives and client engagements, considering skills, levels, and availability.
• Balance business needs with individual growth, workload, and wellbeing; resolve staffing conflicts with leadership across teams.
• Forecast capacity needs, hiring gaps, bench time, and dependencies; surface risks early to leadership.
• Collaborate with HR and recruiting on requisitions, role definitions, interviews, hiring, and onboarding.
• Maintain accurate headcount and personnel records and report on utilization, staffing forecasts, attrition, and development activity.
• Improve repeatable people-management practices through documented workflows and tools while protecting confidential information.

Skills

People management

Staffing planning

Performance reviews

Forecasting

Communication

Hiring

Coaching

Leadership

Tools

Float

Kantata

Jira

Job description

PhoenixTeam seeks an Engineering Manager to lead engineers within the Chief Technology Office. You will coach for performance, recruit and onboard staff, and drive career growth while ensuring staffing aligns with ongoing client engagements.

The role emphasizes people operations, compensation alignment, and development of a high-performing, remote-first engineering team. Hands-on coding is not required, but strong engineering-management judgment is essential.