Engineering manager, platform

Rocket Lab; New York (NY); On-site; USD 227,000 - 259,000; Full time

Job summary

Rocket Lab is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the platform team in New York. The role involves managing engineers, enhancing engineering practices, and collaborating across departments to drive product success in a rapidly growing environment. The ideal candidate should have a strong technical background and significant experience in team leadership.

Benefits

Unlimited paid time off

Health/dental/vision insurance

401(k) plan

Paid parental leave

Fertility programs

Mental health programs

Qualifications

• 2-5+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 8+ years of overall developer and management experience.
• Experience with B2B and enterprise SaaS preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 5-8 engineers in platform development.
• Collaborate with Product and Design teams.
• Foster a strong engineering culture in the New York office.

Skills

Leadership

Platform Engineering

Team Management

Product Sense

Job description

All open roles

Engineering manager, platform

Location

New York

Type

Full-Time

Department

Engineering

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About Watershed

Watershed is the enterprise sustainability platform. Companies like Airbnb, Carlyle Group, FedEx, Visa, and Dr. Martens use Watershed to manage climate and ESG data, produce audit-ready metrics for voluntary and regulatory reporting including CSRD, and drive real decarbonization. We are looking for team members who love product-building, want to work hard at a mission-oriented startup, and will collaborate with us in shaping the culture of a growing team.

We have offices in San Francisco, New York, London and Sydney, and remote team members across the US and Europe. We hope that you'll be interested in joining us!

The role

Do you love to build great technology and great teams? Watershed is working to scale a world-class engineering team, and we’re hiring for an experienced Engineering Manager to help lead this work. You will join a team of peer Engineering Managers and technical leads to define the culture and practice of engineering at Watershed.

We view hands-on engineering and engineering management as parallel career paths. We admire Engineering Managers who have a track-record as engineers, maybe pendulumed back and forth, and now want to grow as a technical leader focusing on people and product. Your job is to empower each engineer on the team to do the best work of their career-to-date. Each Engineering Manager is going to customize the role a bit — contributing a blend of technical, people, and product experience.

As one of the early managers in our New York office, you’re setting culture not just for your team, but for the office as a whole. You, along with the rest of Watershed’s leadership and people teams, are responsible for building a diverse, inclusive, and hard-working organization. We are excited to work on this together!

In this role, you will:

• Be a first line manager leading the Datasets and Objects team, a core platform team that owns our data lake and business intelligence tools.
• Manage a team of 5-8 engineers
• Inspire and lead the team through the next phases of growth ($100M+)
• Partner closely with Product, Design and GTM teams

You might be a good fit if:

• 2-5+ yrs of engineering team management experience
• Have 8+ years of overall developer and management experience in total
• Have grown and managed teams of 8+ engineers
• Have a strong platform engineering background: building business specific systems that all other engineering teams use in a scaling company
• Good product sense, working closely with customers
• Must have B2B experience, and big plus to have enterprise SaaS experience
• Experience developing products is a plus
• A mix of scrappy startup and big company experience is a plus

This position is required to be in person in our New York office.

At Watershed, we strive to design consistent, fair, and competitive compensation programs. The total cash compensation range may be inclusive of several levels at Watershed and final offer will be determined by a number of factors, including the candidate’s skills, capabilities, and location, as well as scope of the role.

The anticipated cash compensation range is in addition to a total rewards benefit package including equity, health/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), unlimited paid time off, paid parental leave, fertility, and mental health programs etc.

Salary Range

$227,000—$259,000 USD

FAQ

Where does Watershed work?

We have hub offices in San Francisco, New York and London, and some remote team members in the US and EU. Most of our jobs need to be in San Francisco / New York / London, but certain jobs are open to being remote and will be specifically noted on the jobs page and in the job description.

What’s the interview process like?

It starts the same for every candidate: getting to know the team members through 1 to 2 conversations about Watershed, your experience, and your interests. Next steps can vary by role, but usual next steps are a skill or experience screen (e.g. a coding interview for an engineer, a portfolio review for a designer, deeper experience call for other roles) which leads to a virtual or in person interview panel after that if the screens go well. We prioritize transparency and lack of surprise throughout the process.

Please note Watershed will only conduct interviews via official company channels (Google Workspace, Zoom). We do not use platforms such as Signal, WhatsApp, etc. to conduct official interviews nor to complete any part of our onboarding process. If you are reached out to on these platforms from anyone claiming to be from Watershed please let us know.

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