Hybrid Manager, Engineering – Audience

at Iterable

• Job title: Manager, Engineering – Audience
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $156,000 - $242,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Distributed Systems
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Atlanta, United States

About the role

• Manager, Engineering leading the Audience team for Iterable, driving customer audience management solutions. Balancing people leadership with technical judgment in a high-scale environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support a team of backend and frontend engineers.
• Partner closely with Product and Design to evolve audience capabilities into intuitive, scalable user experiences.
• Take ownership of hard reliability and guardrail decisions, setting clear boundaries that protect platform health while enabling customer flexibility.
• Drive execution across multiple initiatives, balancing short-term delivery with sustainable technical direction.
• Foster strong engineering practices around code quality, testing, documentation, and iterative delivery.
• Coach and mentor engineers, supporting career growth and healthy team dynamics.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to align on dependencies, and shared goals.
• Contribute to hiring and onboarding as the team grows.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on software development experience.
• 3+ years of experience managing and growing software engineering teams.
• Strong background in application or platform engineering, ideally in a SaaS environment.
• Experience owning mission-critical services with strict availability and performance expectations.
• Strong technical judgment across system design, APIs, distributed systems, and developer workflows.
• Experience designing and operating large-scale, distributed document indexing and query systems.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, make pragmatic trade-offs, and drive execution across multiple initiatives.
• Experience operating production systems at scale, including on-call and incident response.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to align technical work with business and product goals.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries, meaningful equity, & 401(k) plan
• Medical, dental, vision, & life insurance
• Balance Days (additional paid holidays)
• Fertility & Adoption Assistance
• Paid Sabbatical
• Flexible PTO
• Monthly Employee Wellness allowance
• Monthly Professional Development allowance
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Complete laptop workstation