[Hiring] Engineering Manager, Growth @Buffer

Role Description

You’ll lead engineering for Growth at Buffer across both product and marketing surfaces. The work spans acquisition, activation, and retention. You’ll connect how people discover Buffer and decide to sign up and whether they stay.

We’re looking for someone who wants to stay close to the details, from where a customer gets stuck in a flow to the technical decisions that shape how it works. You’ll help the team decide which problems to solve, what to try first, and how to tell if we made things better for customers.

You'll partner closely with Product, Design, Marketing and Data to shape technical direction, create space for engineers to do their best work, and build a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

What you'll do

• Support engineers through regular coaching, clear feedback, and meaningful career conversations.
• Shape priorities with Product, Design, and Marketing, bringing your own point of view and grounding decisions in customer needs & data.
• Stay close to technical decisions and product details. Help the team build clear, accessible, responsive experiences, and help judge when to keep refining and when to ship and learn.
• Help connect customer insights, product changes, and measurement so we understand whether our work is helping.
• Contribute to the wider Engineering team through hiring, shared practices, and improvements to how we work.

Qualifications

• You've managed engineers and can talk concretely about helping people grow, giving feedback, and addressing performance concerns.
• You care about how software feels to use. You notice unnecessary steps, unclear interactions, and details that get in someone's way.
• You have a strong engineering background and remain comfortable getting into technical details.
• You’re ambitious about what you can build with AI and use it in your own engineering work.
• You communicate clearly in writing, take ownership, and work well with people across different disciplines and time zones.
• You understand how a product helps a business grow, from how customers find it to why they pay for it and keep using it.
• You have a personal connection to making and sharing things.

Our Hiring Process

• Please express your interest below by sharing your LinkedIn profile and resume, and a short note about what interests you in the role and why you think it could be a good match.
• If we'd like to explore the fit further, we'll reach out to learn more about you.
• Our interview process includes a conversation with a member of our hiring team, meeting the hiring manager for this role, getting to know some teammates and peers, and meeting our CEO.
• Our final stage is a two-day-long paid collaboration period designed to mimic a real work project.

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