Senior Engineering Manager, Navigation SDK & Apps

Mapbox; Germany (OH); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading navigation technology company is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead their Navigation SDK & Apps team. The ideal candidate will manage daily operations and foster team growth while aligning with company priorities. This remote role requires strong leadership in mobile software design and a focus on customer needs. Join to drive innovation in mapping technology for diverse applications.

Benefits

Flexible work hours

Health care benefits

Parental leave

Qualifications

• 7+ years of people management experience in engineering teams.
• Experience with mobile software design and development.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Navigation SDK & Apps team, organizing day-to-day work.
• Provide strategic direction in mobile SDK design.
• Foster a culture of collaboration and innovation.

Skills

People management

Technical expertise

Communication

Customer focus

Tools

AWS

Job description

Location

Mapbox Helsinki, Mapbox Poland, Mapbox Germany, Mapbox UK

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Remote

Department

Navigation

Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. More than 4 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility, security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers.

What We Do

The Navigation team at Mapbox develops and operates web services powering virtually all of Mapbox’s strategic navigation initiatives in consumer, automotive, and logistics verticals. We are a highly multidisciplinary organization, with work spanning distributed systems on AWS to geospatial localization, traffic telemetry, and mapping.

Collectively, we are revolutionizing in-car experiences with technology to build fast, industry-leading maps and navigation for any vehicle. We’ve launched products such as MapGPT, Mapbox for EV, and we’re enhancing the visual experience of in-vehicle navigation with 3D styling with our new Mapbox Standard through web and mobile SDKs. Mapbox has worked with automotive partners—including BMW, Toyota, and GM—to bring the best aspects of mobile app development into in-vehicle navigation and infotainment.

• Mapbox Blog: Introducing 3D Live Navigation
• Mapbox Blog: Route Notifications Improve Driver Safety
• Mapbox Newsroom: AI Features in New Navigation SDK

What You'll Do

As a Senior Engineering Manager of our client-side Navigation products, you will lead our Navigation SDK & Apps team through an amazing period of growth. You will be responsible for organizing your team’s day-to-day work, fostering the growth and development of the people on the team, and aligning the team’s work with the company's priorities. Thousands of customers rely on Mapbox services to seamlessly handle billions of requests every day and scale in real-time to global events. You will lead the delivery of solutions that remain robust, reliable, and innovative in a fast-evolving technological landscape.

• Provide strategic direction and innovation in the design and implementation of the mobile SDK suite’s capabilities
• Manage and develop the team through hiring, retaining, mentoring, and continually building the team’s capabilities
• Drive company, product, and team objectives, carrying your team along in the decision-making process.

• Work closely with product to figure out what our customers need, and develop a strategic plan to address their pain
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, inclusion, and data-driven decisions on the team
• Help your team members and direct reports learn new skills, either through your own guidance or by proactively finding them mentors
• Develop the long-term business strategy and drive the team’s work product

What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role

• 7+ years of people management experience: Experience leading and mentoring a high-performing engineering team (preference to leading mixed teams spanning Android and iOS).
• Hire & Develop: You understand the importance of hiring the best diverse talent and creating a culture where your team members can learn & grow with the organization.
• Technical Expertise: Experience designing and developing complex mobile software with strong performance requirements.
• Operational Excellence: You drive a culture of quality and continuous improvement within your team and personally embody a passion for monitoring, metrics, triage, resolving customer issues, and iterative improvement. You help foster the end to end development of clearly designed interfaces, documentation, thorough test coverage, and effective code reviews.
• Ownership & Execution: You own the vision, lead the strategy, and guide the team to execute towards building the future of your product.
• Customer Focus: You care deeply about your customers and their problems, and you work tirelessly to innovate on their behalf.
• Strong written and verbal communication: You can talk and write about complex ideas concisely to a wide audience.

Nice to Have Traits for This Role

• Experience working with AWS (S3, ECS, CloudWatch, CloudFormation)

What We Value

In addition to our core values, which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox leaders:

• We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.
• We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work. We commit to this through supportive health care, parental leave, flexibility for the things that come up in life, and innovating on how we think about supporting our people.
• We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.
• We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.

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We are committed to a fair and equitable hiring process. We do not discriminate against any protected class.

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