Engineering Manager – Customer Trust

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Guide two squads to consistently and sustainably achieve a well-defined product roadmap.

• Establish a culture of high accountability and ownership in delivery through weekly goal tracking, technical specification reviews, and proactive project visibility.

• Collaborate with product and design teams to define roadmap priorities, make trade-off decisions, and ensure engineering input shapes what is developed and why.

• Participate in technical decision-making, review specifications, engage in architectural discussions, and steer sound engineering practices.

• Attract, develop, and retain top engineering talent while managing and enhancing the skills of senior individual contributors.

• Create an environment where the team can perform at its highest potential.

• Work collaboratively across functions with GTM, the AI Platform team, and other stakeholders to uncover opportunities, remove obstacles, and deliver results for the business.

• Contribute to Vanta’s engineering culture by establishing scalable processes, norms, and best practices.

• Lead the squad focused on developing Customer Trust products, such as Trust Center and Questionnaire products, with a team of 11 engineers.

• Drive roadmaps aimed at automating inbound customer assessments and empowering customers to transparently project trust.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 2 years of full-time engineering management experience leading teams of 6–8+ engineers.

• Proven history of managing high-performing teams with disciplined delivery practices, including technical specification reviews, weekly goal tracking, and strong accountability to timelines.

• Experience in managing and developing senior individual contributors.

• Background in product engineering, leading teams that develop customer-facing software rather than focusing mainly on infrastructure or platform.

• Comfort and active engagement in architectural discussions; ability to critically assess specifications and make informed trade-off decisions.

• Demonstrated ability to influence product and long-term technical strategy in close collaboration with a Product Manager.

• Strong decision-making skills that balance ambiguity, available data, speed, and quality.

• Utilizes AI in daily work to enhance skills and improve outcomes, integrating it into routine workflows and exercising sound judgment to uphold high-quality standards.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans.

• 16 weeks of paid Parental Leave for all new parents.

• Health & wellness stipend.

• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend.

• Commuter benefits for team members who work from the SF and NYC offices.

• Family planning benefits.

• Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting.

• Flexible PTO policy.

• 80 hours of Sick Time.

• 11 company-paid holidays.

• Virtual team-building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events.