Senior Engineering Manager

Company Description

Wiser Solutions is a suite of in-store and eCommerce intelligence and execution tools. We're on a mission to enable brands, retailers, and retail channel partners to gather intelligence and automate actions to optimize pricing, marketing, and operations initiatives, both in-store and online. Our Commerce Execution Suite is available globally.  

Job Description

Location of Job: Remote- Canada 

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Engineering Manager to drive execution and innovation within our online/in-store brand execution suite of products. If you love working on complex problems, building a culture of execution and innovation, and mentoring sharp leaders and engineers then you will love this role.

What You Will Do

As a Senior Engineering Manager you will lead multiple delivery teams focused on solutions for brand manufacturers. You will partner with the product leader of this portfolio on both strategy and execution. Within your teams you will drive understanding of business value, balance near term roadmap needs against long term technical vision and ensure disciplined engineering practices are followed. Within the broader organization you will be a force multiplier that make the entire engineering team better. You will contribute to the development of people and process best practices and influence other managers to improve their practices.

Technical Excellence

• Instill engineering best practices in team members
• Motivate team members to become constant learners and experts of their respective domains.
• Review and improve the technical discovery and design process.
• Help managers and leads identify multiple solution options with clearly articulated tradeoffs
• Guide delivery leads to ensure their designs fit the long-term business and technical vision
• Collaborate and partner effectively with Product, Architecture, Data Engineering, Data Science, and Infrastructure to deliver resilient solutions that align with our long-term technical vision
• Drive adoption of Wiser's Product Delivery organization principles across the department.

Process Excellence

• Effectively lead & balance priorities across multiple delivery teams working across multiple time zones (US, Europe and India)
• Ensure teams have a clearly established charter, mission, norms, and expectations of each other
• Foster a continuous improvement mindset
• Guide teams to set ambitious but realistic goals
• Work with Product leaders to ensure effective collaboration is happening between engineering managers, product managers, and UX designers
• Establish metrics for tracking team delivery and effectiveness
• Effectively track, mitigate, and communicate risks and issues
• Collaborate and partner effectively with Product and UX leads to set goals, discover, and deliver value for our customers and business …