Senior Engineering Manager

Why join Pave?

At Pave, our vision is simple--unlock a labor market built on trust. 

How are we going to get there? By building a compensation platform powered by the largest real-time compensation dataset on earth, giving you confidence in every compensation decision.

We partner with our customers to help them build and retain world-class teams through planning, communicating and benchmarking their team’s compensation in real time.  And you don’t have to just hear it from us — you can hear it from our customers: Allbirds, Hover, Credit Karma, Grammarly, and more.

We’re growing fast, building an incredible team and product, and having plenty of fun as we do it in our San Francisco and New York City offices. 

If playing to win, building with intellectual honesty and focusing on in the Pave platinum standard sounds like fun - we highly encourage you to reach out. We’d love to partner on our journey to change the world of compensation! 

Engineering @ Pave:

Pave has significant momentum in the compensation data market, but it's still early in the journey (7500+ integrated companies, exponentially growing data-specific revenue in the millions). We are in a data race to become the dominant data provider in compensation. We are seeking a talented Senior Manager to play a critical role in the future of our data products.

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will own the execution of two high-visibility areas: Market Data and Compensation Bands. You will partner closely with cross-functional teams to ensure a scalable, reliable, and innovative product roadmap while also nurturing and growing a world-class engineering team. This role is both strategic and hands-on, demanding a balance of deep technical expertise and strong leadership.

What we’re looking for:

• Manage and grow a high-performing software engineering team focused on delivering exceptional data-enriched user experiences and APIs for all of our products.
• Partner with peers across Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) to build a product roadmap that balances immediate customer needs, future growth, and long-term technical vision.
• Develop, coach, and mentor Engineering Managers and individual contributors. Identify high-potential team members and create opportunities for their growth.
• Establish and maintain high standards for code quality, reliability, and scalability.
• Lead your team in defining a clear technical vision and partner with other engineering leaders to implement best practices and engineering-wide improvements.
• Work closely with the Data Engineering team to align on technical direction and manage benchmark data releases. Collaborate with other business and technical stakeholders to deliver the “front end” of our data experience.
• Drive the development of new features and solutions by leveraging our powerful compensation dataset. Enable other teams to integrate data-driven insights into their products.

What we're looking for:

• 8+ years of experience in engineering with at least 3 years in management. Demonstrated experience in scaling and leading engineering teams in high-growth environments.
• Solid experience in delivering data-driven and API-first products.
• Proven ability to mentor first-time managers and individual contributors, fostering a culture of growth and learning.
• Ability to balance immediate needs with long-term goals, making informed trade-offs between technical goals and business outcomes.
• Experience partnering with product and design leaders to build cohesive roadmaps and deliver excellent customer-focused solutions.
• Nice to have:
• Experience with B2B SaaS, especially at the enterprise level.
• Background in early product development and managing technical trade-offs when going from 0-1.

What you’ll get out of it:

• You will have the opportunity to shape innovative products in a domain that affects 50% of global GDP.
• Work with some of the most influential tech companies and play a critical role in solving their compensation challenges.
• Fast-paced, in-office culture (hybrid) prioritizing relationships with both team members and customers.

 

Compensation, It's What We Do.

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