Senior Staff Engineering Manager

Our Senior Staff Engineering Manager for Partner Platform and Marketplace is an engineering leader who works with the engineering staff to innovate and build a new platform for seamless and efficient partner integrations. This role reports to the Head of Partner Platform and will be vital to develop a modernized developer facing platform for end-to-end partner onboarding and integration to support one of the fastest growing business areas at GEICO. A Senior Staff Manager will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new business capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise of full stack architecture design, application performance improvement, capacity benchmarking, availability and reliability improvement, building personalization, notification, event streaming, data analytics and dashboard/reports.  

Position Responsibilities: 

As a Senior Staff Manager, you will:  

• Work with your Senior Director to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time  

• Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives  

• Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas  

• Report on your team’s progress for project and other key metrics, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery  

• Initiate and support performance evaluation of team members  

• Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement   

• Build and maintain relationships with your team members to support an environment of trust  

• Influence those you motivate and coach to be receptive to feedback by cultivating a culture that acknowledges and expects individuals to grow and be accountable. 

• Identify where technical or analytical skill gaps put future team deliverables at risk and craft a plan to remediate, consistently challenge team members to share knowledge and learn new technologies  

• Proficiently execute difficult conversations on development and performance  

• Craft and deliver strategic and well-structured persuasive arguments to drive projects that drive process improvement, enhance cost leadership, and/or customer experience 

• Manage up to leadership as well as give feedback when appropriate  

• Develop the team budget and be accountable for reporting on results achieved at regular intervals  

• Significantly contribute to the team planning process to include surfacing associate level proposals  

Qualifications: 

• Fluency with at least one modern language such as Python, Java, Go and experience with open-source software is a big plus 

• Basic knowledge and experience in UI/UX and prototype desig