Sr. Engineering Manager, Marketplace

At Apartment List, we’re on a mission to find every renter a home they love at the value they deserve. Finding the right place to live is one of the most important, time-consuming and expensive decisions that all of us make. Getting it right matters. We’ve helped millions of families find a home they love, and we’re just getting started.

Reporting to the VP Engineering, you will primarily be responsible for charting the path for the Marketplace Pillar, maintaining the health of our marketplace, and balancing supply-demand dynamics by building innovative solutions alongside intuitive tools and integrations. Through Marketplace, we serve as the premier matchmaker and use technology to efficiently connect ready-to-move renters with compatible city properties. As the Sr. Engineering Manager, you will play a pivotal role in executing the product strategy for the Marketplace Pillar, setting an engineering vision, roadmap and delivery for our marketplace products, Apartmentlist.com and Sunny.com. Our ideal next leader brings extensive expertise in spearheading engineering advancement and harnessing AI and ML innovations, complemented by a deep grasp of user experience. This role calls for both a strong operator as well as strategic leader who champions both our internal team and external marketplace customers.

In order to be successful in this role, you will need to be comfortable working in a fast-paced and agile environment and with a team of dynamic people across the globe. Not only do you embrace the beautiful mess, but you thrive in the gray zone - it’s where you win! You excel in problem-solving and are able to lead with clarity, especially fostering stability amidst ambiguity and change.

Here’s what you’ll do as part of the team:

• Drive the strategic vision and tactical execution of the Marketplace Pillar
• Bring technical expertise and guidance to team planning efforts, and be involved in helping shape our overall product strategy
• Be a player and coach as you guide a team of engineers to build and extend our web application for renters to find their next home
• Hire great people and mentor engineers to build a high-performing engineering team
• Partner with key stakeholders (Product, Design, Data Science, Analysts, Business Owners) across the organization to build accurate estimates, plans, specs, and backlog priorities
• Drive the development of a scalable system architecture that leverages datasets using machine learning techniques to enhance the user experience in close collaboration …