Senior Engineering Manager- Design Systems & Accessibility

Salesforce; Georgia; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a technically strong, collaborative leader for Slack Kit & Accessibility Engineering. You will own Slack Kit, the design system and component library powering Slack across surfaces, and drive accessibility initiatives with design, product, and engineering teams.

You will lead a high-performing frontend team and shape the future of UI tooling and CSS modernization. You will mentor engineers, align roadmaps with multi-quarter projects, and ensure usability and accessibility

Qualifications

• 3+ years leading software engineering teams.
• Senior+ frontend software engineer experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication, organization and time management.
• Experience hiring, mentoring and leading engineers.
• Experience communicating with users, technical teams and product management to understand requirements and designs.
• Knowledge of how AI tooling can boost team impact.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Drive Slack's accessibility strategy with Product and Design partners across Slack.
• Own and evolve Slack Kit to provide a consistent UX for end users and enable rapid feature delivery by designers and engineers.
• Set technical direction and execute major frontend engineering initiatives, including CSS architecture modernization.
• Collaborate with IC leads to develop roadmaps and milestones for multi-quarter projects.
• Provide coaching and growth opportunities to team members to raise technical capabilities.
• Build a high-performing, supportive team and work environment.

Skills

Team leadership

Frontend software engineering

Communication skills

Mentoring

Requirements gathering

AI tooling knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Tools

Design systems

UI component libraries

Job description

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

About Salesforce

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Slack is looking for a technically strong, highly collaborative, and passionate leader for our Slack Kit & Accessibility engineering team! This team builds and maintains Slack's UI design system and frontend component library (Slack Kit) that powers every surface across Slack, all while championing accessibility as a first-class part of how Slack is built. The team partners closely with design and product engineering teams across the company to ensure new and existing features meet a high bar for usability, consistency, and accessibility.

What you will be doing:

With your Product and Design counterparts, drive Slack's accessibility strategy, partnering with teams across Slack to ensure new and existing UX patterns are accessible and usable by everyone, including users relying on screen readers and keyboard navigation.

Own and continually evolve Slack Kit, Slack's design system and component library, to deliver a consistent experience for end users while making it fast and easy for designers and engineers across the company to build product features.

Help set technical direction and facilitate execution for major Frontend Engineering initiatives, such as modernizing Slack's CSS architecture.

With IC leads, develop clear roadmaps and milestones to enable the team to execute on multi-quarter projects.

Provide regular feedback, coaching, and seek out growth opportunities for your team to help them continually level up technically and grow their careers.

Build a sustainable high performing team and a work environment that's both supportive and challenging.

Required Skills:

• 3+ years leading software engineering teams.
• Previous experience as a Senior+ Frontend Software Engineer.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, organizational, and time management skills.
• Experience hiring, mentoring, and leading engineers.
• Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and product management to understand requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.
• An understanding of how and where AI software development tooling can be deployed for maximum team impact.
• You have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience.

Nice to have:

• Experience with design systems and/or UI component libraries.
• Experience championing the needs of people, use cases, or initiatives outside your own lived experience or day-to-day work.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you'll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best , and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best . Together, we'll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love.

Accommodations

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