Engineering Manager, Growth

About the role

Buffer creates social media and brand-building software for small businesses, creators and individuals. It is a fully distributed team working from all over the world. The Engineering Manager, Growth leads engineering for Growth across product and marketing surfaces, covering acquisition, activation and retention, and connects how users discover Buffer, sign up and stay. The role sits close to the details, from where a customer gets stuck to the technical decisions behind the product.

Key responsibilities

• Coach engineers regularly, give clear feedback and hold meaningful career conversations.
• Shape priorities with Product, Design and Marketing, grounded in customer needs and data.
• Stay close to technical decisions and product details, helping the team build clear, accessible, responsive experiences and decide when to refine and when to ship.
• Help connect customer insights, product changes and measurement to judge whether work is helping.
• Help shape how the team builds with AI, through your own experiments and by developing good judgment and systems around it.
• Contribute to the wider Engineering team through hiring, shared practices and improvements to how work is done.

Required profile

• Experience managing engineers, with concrete examples of helping people grow, giving feedback and addressing performance concerns.
• A strong engineering background, comfortable with technical details such as reviewing code, exploring architectures, building prototypes or resolving trade-offs.
• Clear written communication, ownership and ability to work across disciplines and time zones.
• Understanding of how a product helps a business grow, from discovery to payment and retention, gained through growth work, experimentation or founding an early-stage product.
• A personal connection to making and sharing things, such as a newsletter, side project or small business.

To apply, share your LinkedIn profile and resume with a short note about what interests you in the role and why you think you are a good match. The process includes a conversation with a hiring-team member, a meeting with the hiring manager, time with teammates and a final two-day paid collaboration period.