Senior Engineering Manager, Core Platform

<p><strong>About the Senior Engineering Manager, Core Platform</strong><strong> at Headspace:</strong></p> <p><em>Headspace is on a mission to </em><em>provide every person access to lifelong mental health support</em><em>. We’re looking for a Senior Manager with deep technical expertise to lead our Core Platform team - delivering common capabilities across all of our Consumer and Business customers. As a Senior Manager of Core Platform at Headspace you will have meaningful opportunities to profoundly  impact the future of mental health care for our 70 million users.</em></p> <p><em>The Core Platform team is the foundation every Headspace experience is built on—powering authentication, payments, entitlements, and shared services across our B2B and direct-to-consumer customers. Getting this right is essential to our mission and our ability to scale. We need an experienced leader who can drive the technical strategy, grow a high-performing engineering team, and ensure every product team at Headspace can build on a reliable, extensible platform.  </em></p> <p><em> </em><em>The right platform investments don't just reduce toil,  they directly accelerate every product team's ability to ship, and this leader will be expected to quantify and communicate that impact. A big goal needs talented people, so come join us and give your day job a sense of purpose!</em></p> <p><strong>What you will do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead, attract, and grow stellar technical talent </li> <li>Develop and drive strategic roadmaps for delivering rich, common capabilities to customers</li> <li>Partner closely with product and engineering leaders across B2B and direct-to-consumer offerings to identify where common platform capabilities can replace bespoke solutions, reducing maintenance overhead, and accelerating feature delivery. Translate those opportunities into a platform roadmap with clear business impact.</li> <li>Partner with Cloud/Ops, Security, and cross-functional engineering teams to ensure platform services meet availability, compliance, and operational standards, and proactively identify gaps before they become incidents</li> <li>Distill complexity for technical and non-technical audiences</li> <li>Partner with Principal Engineers to identify architectural gaps, evaluate build-vs-buy tradeoffs, and ensure platform technical direction is grounded in real engineering pain points across the org.</li> <li>Effectively prioritize tradeoffs between reducing tech debt and developing new capabilities</li> <li>Explore new technologies to support the future state of our business</li> <li>Model tenacity and resilience in the day to day</li&g