Software Engineering Manager, AI Growth

sanity; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health plans and perks

Work-life balance

Job summary

Sanity.io is seeking an Engineering Manager for Growth to lead a team of engineers across TypeScript, React, Node.js, and Next.js. You will own strategy, roadmap, and execution, and work with product and design partners to ship impactful features that grow our developer ecosystem.

You will drive growth metrics, orchestrate experiments, and guide architecture decisions, balancing speed with quality. A strong cross-functional collaborator with growth experience will thrive in our fast-moving

Qualifications

• 1+ years of engineering management experience.
• Strong full-stack technical skills with TypeScript, React, Node.js, and Next.js.
• Experience with MCP and AI tools.
• Growth engineering experience with A/B testing and funnels.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers, prioritizing for impact and growth.
• Own strategy, roadmap, and execution with product/design partners.
• Drive growth metrics such as activation and signups from integrations.
• Ship fast and iterate with experiments, learning from failures.
• Build AI developer tools and platform integrations with Sanity's ecosystem.
• Set technical direction balancing velocity and maintainability across stack.
• Collaborate across engineering, marketing, and partnerships to align goals.

Skills

Engineering management

Full-stack development

TypeScript/React/Node.js/Next.js

Growth experimentation

Cross-functional collaboration

MCP and AI tooling awareness

Tools

MCP Server

Claude Code

Cursor

Lovable

Job description

At Sanity.io, we're building the future of AI-powered Content Operations. Our AI Content Operating System gives teams the freedom to model, create, and automate content the way their business works, accelerating digital development and supercharging content operations efficiency. Companies like Linear, Figma, Riot Games, Anthropic, Spotify, Arc'teryx, and Morningbrew are using Sanity to power and automate their content operations.

AI is fundamentally changing how developers build applications. Vibecoding tools are seeing hundreds of thousands of signups per month, and professional developers now use AI-powered tooling as standard. Your team will capture this wave by building native integrations with the fastest-growing developer tools, improving our MCP server (incl. MCP Apps with UIs), and creating agentic builders that let anyone set up Sanity through natural language. You'll combine Growth's experiment-driven culture with deep technical work on AI developer experience. This is Sanity's biggest acquisition opportunity for product growth, and your team owns it end-to-end.

Here's some of what the team has shipped recently:

• Sanity MCP Server – our remote MCP server, now generally available and listed as one of eight official MCP servers in Vercel's v0.

• Sanity Agent Toolkit – agent rules exposed via MCP, plus a Claude Code plugin with skills and slash commands.

• Auto-configured MCP in the CLI – the Sanity CLI automatically detects code editors and configures the MCP server for you.

What you would do:

• Lead a team of engineers – help them prioritize for impact, grow in their careers, and do the best work of their lives.

• Own strategy, roadmap, and execution – work closely with your product and design partners to decide what to build and make sure it ships.

• Drive growth metrics – activation rates, signups from integrations, developer adoption. You'll know what's working because you're measuring it.

• Ship fast and iterate – run experiments, learn from failures, and double down on wins. The vast majority of experiments fail, so we value speed and pragmatism over perfection.

• Build AI developer tools – MCP integrations, agentic builders, and partnerships with the platforms where developers are building today.

• Build platform integrations – connect Sanity to the tools teams already use, like storage providers (Google Drive, Dropbox) and analytics platforms.

• Set technical direction – guide architecture decisions that balance velocity with maintainability across TypeScript, React, and Node.js, & Go microservices

• Collaborate across the company – align with engineering leadership, marketing, and partnerships on shared growth metrics and goals.

About you:

• Based in Remote US or San Francisco / Bay Area – if you are in San Francisco/ Bay Area, you should be able to work at least 2 days a week from the office.

• 1+ years of engineering management experience – ideally in growth or experimentation-heavy environments.

• Strong full-stack technical skills – deep experience with TypeScript, React, Node.js, and Next.js. You can review code, guide architecture decisions, and jump in when needed. Not looking for managers who've drifted far from the code.

• Actively using MCP and AI tools – you've used MCP servers in your own workflow and have opinions on tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Lovable, and v0. You can articulate the differences between Claude Opus 4.5, Gemini 3, and GPT-5.2.

• Growth engineering experience – you've run A/B tests, optimized funnels, and made data-informed decisions. Familiarity with tools like GrowthBook, Amplitude, or similar.

• Strong cross-functional collaborator – you work well with product, design, marketing, and partnerships, and you're effective at managing stakeholders across the company.

• Comfortable with ambiguity – you can drive clarity when the path isn't obvious and make good decisions with incomplete information.

• Bias for action – you'd rather ship something and learn than plan forever. You know when to be scrappy and when to invest in quality.

What we can offer:

• A highly-skilled, inspiring, and supportive team

• Positive, flexible, and trust-based work environment that encourages long-term professional and personal growth

• A global, multi-culturally diverse group of colleagues and customers

• Comprehensive health plans and perks

• A healthy work-life balance that accommodates individual and family needs

• Competitive stock options program and location-based salary

Who we are:

Sanity.io is a modern, flexible content operating system that replaces rigid legacy content management systems. One of our big differentiators is treating content as data so that it can be stored in a single source of truth, but seamlessly adapted and personalized for any channel without extra effort. Forward-thinking companies choose Sanity because they can create tailored content authoring experiences, customized workflows, and content models that reflect their business.

Sanity recently raised an $85m Series C led by GP Bullhound and is also backed by leading investors like ICONIQ Growth, Threshold Ventures, Heavybit and Shopify, as well as founders of companies like Vercel, WPEngine, Twitter, Mux, Netlify and Heroku. This funding round has put Sanity in a strong position for accelerated growth in the coming years.

We can only build a great company with a great culture. Sanity is a 200+ person company with highly committed and ambitious people. We are pioneers, we exist for our customers, we hel ved, and we love type two fun! Read more about our values here!

Sanity.io pledges to be an organization that reflects the globally diverse audience that our product serves. We believe that in addition to hiring the best talent, a diversity of perspectives, ideas, and cultures leads to the creation of better products and services. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or gender identity.