Engineering Manager, Growth

Responsibilities

• Support engineers through regular coaching, clear feedback, and career conversations
• Shape priorities with Product, Design, and Marketing grounded in customer needs and data
• Stay close to technical decisions and product details across acquisition, activation, and retention
• Connect customer insights, product changes, and measurement to judge impact
• Help shape how the team builds with AI through experiments and good judgment
• Contribute to hiring, shared practices, and improvements across Engineering

Requirements

• Experience managing engineers and addressing performance concerns
• Strong engineering background with comfort in technical details
• Care for how software feels to use and attention to usability
• Ability to use AI in engineering work and steer, check, and judge its output
• Clear written communication and work across disciplines and time zones
• Understanding of how a product drives growth and business results

Preferred Qualifications

• Growth work or experimentation experience, or growing a product as a founder or early-stage team
• Personal connection to making and sharing work, such as writing, side projects, or running a small business

Benefits

• Fully distributed team with in-person meetups once or twice per year

About the Company

Buffer builds social media and brand-building software for small businesses, creators, and individuals. The company is fully distributed and transparent, publishing its metrics openly.