HEADS UP -- Engineering Manager

Job Title: Engineering Manager
Job ID: 84495
Location: San Francisco, California - Hybrid

Overview:
Our mission is to inspire kids to love learning. In our fast-changing world, the traditional educational system struggles to meet the diverse and evolving needs of young learners. We reimagines this system, offering flexible and engaging learning experiences as a supplement and alternative to traditional education. By connecting learners with a global community of teachers and peers through our online platform, we make learning personal, dynamic, and deeply human. We've made significant strides since launching our marketplace of live online classes in 2017. Finding initial success with secular homeschoolers, we then expanded to enrichment learning to meet the needs of a wider audience, growing our business 16x since 2019. Post-pandemic, we have evolved our platform to power academic learning, incorporated AI, and have begun to grow our international community. We're proud to have served over 1M passionate learners with more than $100M in annual bookings. Driving disruptive, positive change in education is rewarding and hard. Our team members are encouraged to challenge themselves, take risks, and grow in their careers. We look for talented people whose sense of urgency, innate curiosity, and determination to drive impact will help.  We achieve outsized results in pursuit of our mission. We invite you to be part of an ambitious team dedicated to ensuring every learner can navigate the future with curiosity, resilience, and a love of learning. Join and help redefine the future of education by leading the engineering team focused on our core initiative. As Engineering Manager, you'll play a critical role in advancing Memberships and building innovative solutions that make alternative education (Alt-Ed) more accessible and engaging for families and learners everywhere. This is a unique opportunity to bring both your technical depth and leadership acumen to a high-impact team shaping how families discover, consume, and stay engaged with learning. You’ll work at the forefront of experimentation and iteration to build engaging experiences that turn students into lifelong learners. We saw exponential growth during the pandemic, scaling 15x to meet the needs of a global community of learners. We’re now in a pivotal chapter—investing in deeper, more seamless educational pathways to serve evolving family needs. As the Engineering Manager your contributions will directly impact our mission to inspire kids to love learning by making high-quality, interest-based education more discoverable, consumable, and engaging. 


What you will be doing:

• Lead an engineering team and partner closely with cross-functional leads

• Oversee the design, development, and evolution of discovery, personalization, and classroom features, ensuring they are performant, user-centric, and aligned with our mission

• Collaborate closely with product, design, marketing, and analytics to drive forward core initiatives that lower barriers to learning and encourage continuous educational engagement

• Champion technical excellence and a culture of high ownership, providing mentorship, feedback, and support for the professional growth of engineers on your team

• Collaborate with Product & Design to scope and prioritize work across all work streams

 

What you must have:

• 7-10+ years working as a web application developer

• 5+ years of experience managing software teams of 5-10 software engineers

• Experience managing and growing senior or staff ICs and leads

• Experience in performance management, including conducting reviews and providing feedback

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal

• Demonstrated ability to oversee multiple parallel projects from planning to execution and on time delivery

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make sound technical decisions

• Ability to align team goals with business objectives and contribute to strategic planning

• Experience in recruiting, hiring, and onboarding software engineers

• You have experience as an engineering manager in a fast-paced startup or growth-stage company, and enjoy supporting teams through change and scale

• You bring strong technical judgment and a track record of leading engineering teams that ship impactful products quickly and iteratively

• You’re passionate about education, access, and user experience, and motivated by a mission-driven environment

• You demonstrate strong interest in hands-on experience with applying artificial intelligence for features like personalized learning experiences, smarter content discovery and educational recommendations

• You enjoy balancing technical decision-making with coaching, and you’re committed to building inclusive, high-performing teams

• You excel at owning and driving engineering roadmaps; collaborating with cross-functional partners to prioritize initiatives, align with business objectives, and ensure timely, high-quality execution

 

Nice to have:

• 7-10+ years working as a web application developer

• 5+ years of experience managing software teams of 5-10 software engineers

• Experience managing and growing senior or staff ICs and leads

• Experience in performance management, including conducting reviews and providing feedback

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal

• Demonstrated ability to oversee multiple parallel projects from planning to execution and on time delivery

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make sound technical decisions

• Ability to align team goals with business objectives and contribute to strategic planning

• Experience in recruiting, hiring, and onboarding software engineers

 

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:

• Practical experience applying AI to improve learning experiences, content discovery, or personalization

 

Other Information:
Benefits & Culture
We believe that taking care of one another enables us to do our best work. To us that means:

• Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options, retirement plans.

• Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance — plus fertility/family planning coverage and access to ModernHealth coaching & therapy.

• PTO & Family Benefits: Generous PTO and family leave policies.

• Hybrid & Remote-Friendly: Have a distributed team across the U.S. and Canada and a new office in San Francisco. Bay Area–based employees work in the office part of the week and receive commute-related benefits. Team members outside the Bay Area remain fully remote, with support for expensable home office setup, internet, and weekly meals to stay connected no matter where you are.

• Lifelong Learners: Annual budgets for professional development and DEI learning; budgets for children to take classes.

• Community Impact: We match employee donations to eligible charities and supports nonprofit programs.

 
Salary/Rate Range: $225,000 -$280,000 USD

An equal opportunity employer. We view diversity as a moral imperative and competitive advantage. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We plan and structure our interviews to directly assess skills and experience. 

Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. If you are selected to move forward in the process, we will contact you directly. If you do not hear from us, we encourage you to continue visiting our website for other roles that may be a good fit.


For more information about TEEMA and to consider other career opportunities, please visit our website at www.teemagroup.com