Engineering Manager, Studio - Mapbox

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 3.5 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 Maps Studio team is an innovative, collaborative, and versatile group of software engineers, product designers, and cartographers. We love finding systematic solutions to hard problems, and, in the process, inventing the future of how people interact with location. Beautiful, intelligent, and well designed maps are a cornerstone of what makes Mapbox maps special, and the Maps Studio team creates tools to make that happen. Check out our Studio product!

What You'll Do

 We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join our team and work collaboratively with other product teams across the Mapbox organization to solve complex problems across the technical stack. Your technical skills and leadership will drive the feature development and operational excellence of Mapbox Studio, our flagship product, for custom map design. Studio requires careful consideration in balancing between addressing tech debt and shipping new features. You’ll also bring your people management skills to ensure that the team is growing, while delivering on the roadmap.

In this role, you will:

• Deliver complex, high-impact projects while providing technical expertise and mentorship to your team.

• Operate the team day-to-day and be hands-on in project management and sprint planning.

• 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 and relevant stakeholders along in the decision-making.

• Work with Product and Engineering teams to develop the long-term business strategy driving the team’s work.

• Establish, track, and iterate on operational metrics to ensure the team is delivering products that meet or exceed customer expectations.

• Determine best engineering practices and promote them within the team and across Mapbox.

• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, diversity, and data-driven decisions on the team.

What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role

•  5-8+ years of people management experience: You have managed remote engineering teams leading to product execution and business outcome while growing and developing a team of engineering talent.

• 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: You have deep knowledge and experience with building frontend applications (React, Redux) and scalable web services (NodeJS, Express) in AWS. 

• 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. 

• User experience: Proven ability to lead sophisticated customer-facing web-based applications for a global business where design and ease-of-use are fundamental to the success of the business.

• Ownership & Execution: You own the vision, lead the strategy, and guide the team to execute towards building the future of your product. 

• Customer Focus: You care deeply about your customers and their problems, and you work tirelessly to innovate on their behalf. 

• Strong written and verbal communication: You can talk and write about complex ideas concisely to a wide audience.

What We Value

In addition to our core values, which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox leaders:

• We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.

• We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work. We commit to this through supportive health care, parental leave, flexibility for the things that come up in life, and innovating on how we think about supporting our people.

• We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.

• We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.

By applying for this position, you acknowledge that you have received the Mapbox Non-US Privacy Notice for applicants, which is linked here.  Completing this application requires you to provide personal data, such as your name and contact information, which is mandatory for Mapbox to process your application. 

Mapbox is an EEO Employer - Minority/Female/Veteran/Disabled/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.

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