Slackforce Senior Engineering Manager
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About this role
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Slack is looking for an Engineering Manager on the Salesforce Integrations (Slackforce) engineering team. This team is focused on building new and innovative solutions within Slack focused on best in class first party integrations with the Salesforce platform. Our first product, Slack Sales Elevate, works to accelerate and optimize sales productivity to give sellers back 1 day every week.
We are an engineering team partnered with Product, Product Marketing, Design and Data Analytics and the work we do has a top-line impact on company goals.
In this role, you will need to meld creative product thinking, a thirst for understanding people from a variety of backgrounds, and thoughtful use of data in order to build the best in class enterprise solutions.
You’ll lead a hardworking team of frontend and backend engineers while growing out your team through recruiting efforts. We're looking for someone invested in their team's career development and that facilitates psychologically safe discussions around: project deliveries, process improvements, and mentorship.
You should be well-versed in full-stack design principles and be able to give advice on code architecture and implementation.
What you will be doing
- Use data to make decisions about prioritization and impact, bringing a real passion for experimentation.
- Mentor and coach engineers on the team, helping them to develop into technical leaders and guiding them through the evolving skills required in an AI-assisted engineering landscape.
- Work closely with Product, Design, Data, and Marketing to conceive features that will help our users to successfully build their teams.
- Build roadmaps and long-term team vision in partnership with the Product team.
- Be accountable for driving project execution.
- Define and fulfill the engineering hiring plan for the team, including screening and interviewing.
- Anticipate future technical needs and craft plans to realize them, identifying practical ways to leverage AI to make our product and engineering workflows more effective.
- Collaborate with other engineering leaders on priorities, processes, and policies.
What you should have
- You have 2+ years of engineering management experience leading productive, high-functioning teams.
- You have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience.
- Ability to weigh several and often conflicting constraints to make rapid decisions in a multifaceted and quickly-growing company.
- You have enough technical experience to discuss architecture and product decisions with engineers, including practical knowledge of how to apply AI tools to solve real-world problems and drive efficiency.
- You have a proven history of shipping products with consistent execution.
- You are highly organized and thrive in rapid-paced environments.
- You don’t shy away from performance conversations and you recognize the relationship between objective feedback and career growth.