Senior Engineering Manager, Navigation SDK & Apps
MapboxAbout the role
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.
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
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