Frontend Engineering Manager, Growth & Discovery

Thenewyorktimes; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401(k) with company match

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid vacation and sick days

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

The New York Times Company, via Wirecutter, is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for the Growth team in New York. You will lead five to ten front-end engineers, mentoring engineers and emerging managers, while driving execution, architecture, and a scalable hiring strategy across multiple initiatives.

You will partner with Product, Design, and Data to translate business goals into engineering outcomes, influence the roadmap, and uphold journalistic independence in your technical decisions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering management experience, including hiring, developing and retaining engineers, and building teams where people do their best work.
• Expertise in front-end web development, operating production software, and contemporary software delivery practices.
• Experience managing senior engineers and partnering with staff-level engineers and other senior technical leaders.
• Proven experience translating product and business goals into engineering outcomes and make thoughtful tradeoffs and decisions with cross-organizational impact, handling multiple stakeholders/initiatives.
• Fluency with AI-assisted software development and its use in engineering workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead five to ten front-end engineers at a range of career levels
• Coach and mentor individual contributors and emerging managers to build high-performing teams
• Motivate engineers to excel through regular feedback, recognition, career development, and an inclusive environment
• Own execution, staffing, technical health, and operational practices
• Ensure technical decisions have clear accountability and align with Wirecutter’s broader technical strategy
• Partner with Product, Design, and Data team members to shape the roadmap and translate business goals into technical strategies and measurable engineering outcomes
• Collaborate with teams across Wirecutter and The NY Times to manage dependencies and deliver shared initiatives
• Communicate plans, progress, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to technical and nontechnical partners and senior stakeholders
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world

Skills

Engineering management

Front-end development

Staff mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

AI-assisted development

Tools

Typescript

React

GraphQL

Job description

The New York Times Company, via Wirecutter, is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for the Growth team in New York. You will lead five to ten front-end engineers, mentoring engineers and emerging managers, while driving execution, architecture, and a scalable hiring strategy across multiple initiatives.

You will partner with Product, Design, and Data to translate business goals into engineering outcomes, influence the roadmap, and uphold journalistic independence in your technical decisions.