[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Phoenix Oversight Group LLC

Role Description

The Engineering Manager is the dedicated people leader for engineers within PhoenixTeam's Chief Technology Office, initially managing seven direct reports. Reporting to the Managing Director, Chief AI Engineer, this role owns the human side of engineering:

• Regular coaching
• Performance management
• Hiring and onboarding
• Career development
• Retention
• Staffing engineers effectively across internal work and client engagements

PhoenixTeam separates engineering people leadership from technical-domain ownership. This manager owns staffing and people operations within agreed policies and headcount, and works with the Managing Director to align on compensation and career progression before carrying decisions through. Deep AI expertise or hands-on coding is not a requirement; strong engineering-management judgment is.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or technical delivery, including at least 3 years directly managing engineers with genuine responsibility for hiring, reviews, coaching, and personnel decisions.
• Demonstrated success staffing engineers across simultaneous projects or engagements and managing allocations, capacity, utilization, or comparable resource-planning measures.
• Experience leading a structured performance-review and calibration process against an established engineering career or leveling framework.
• Enough technical familiarity with modern software delivery and cloud environments to assess skills, workloads, and staffing risks credibly; specialized AI expertise is not required.
• Proven ability to develop engineers, navigate difficult performance conversations, support retention, and exercise sound judgment in sensitive personnel matters.
• Strong written communication, forecasting, organization, and ability to work effectively with distributed engineering, HR, and business stakeholders.

Requirements

• People management in technology consulting, professional services, or organizations staffing engineers across multiple client engagements.
• Experience guiding teams through organizational change, employee development, mentorship, or retention initiatives.
• Experience in mortgage, financial services, or another regulated-industry technology organization.
• Familiarity with capacity or resource-management tools such as Float, Kantata, Jira, or comparable systems.
• Formal engineering-management, coaching, or leadership-development training.

Benefits

• Employment type: Full-Time, W2 employee; not a contract or 1099 position.
• Team: Seven direct reports initially; people-management and staffing ownership, not technical-domain ownership.
• Work arrangement: Remote-first with flexible arrangements and regular collaboration across time zones.
• Travel: Up to 10% may be required based on business needs.

Company Description

PhoenixTeam partners with organizations to deliver real results across GenAI, data, product, and technology. We help clients modernize legacy systems, redesign complex workflows, and move practical AI and digital solutions into production in regulated environments.

PhoenixTeam is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.