[Hiring] Senior Engineering Manager @ClickUp

Role Description

Come lead the Identity & Access Management Platform team (IAM Platform) — the foundational layer that decides who can see and do what across all of ClickUp. This team owns:

• Authorization engine
• Permission and role model
• Authentication (SSO, MFA, SCIM, OIDC)
• Sharing primitives
• Audit logs
• Core data model and APIs

As we move upmarket, this is some of the most important and security-sensitive work we do. We're looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead and grow this team. Your mandate is twofold:

• Deliver an enterprise-grade access management platform — extensible, configuration-driven, correct and auditable by design.
• Build the team that will carry it, hiring and developing engineers as we invest heavily in enterprise.

Just as important: you'll run this team the way ClickUp runs — AI-native. We structure work so AI agents can read it, route it, roll it up, and report on it.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, grow, and develop the IAM Platform engineering team — own hiring, mentorship, performance, and career growth.
• Own the delivery of ClickUp's enterprise-grade access management platform.
• Set the roadmap and priorities in partnership with product, security, and engineering leadership.
• Run an AI-native team — structure the work so agents can route, scope, and report on it.
• Partner with enterprise customers, GTM, and security teams on access-control and identity requirements.
• Own operational excellence for high-blast-radius services.
• Uphold a high engineering bar — design and code review, testing, performance, and security-by-design.
• Collaborate across backend, frontend, platform, product, design, and infosec.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building production SaaS, with 3+ years managing engineering teams.
• Identity and access management experience is required.
• A proven ability to use AI tools and agentic workflows to reduce noise and streamline how a team works.
• Experience delivering enterprise-grade SaaS at scale.
• A track record of building and scaling high-performing engineering teams.
• Enough technical depth to lead architecture discussions.
• A security-conscious mindset.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Daily fluency with AI tools in your own workflow.

Requirements

• Experience owning IAM or authorization at scale.
• Experience designing configuration-driven or policy-based access models.
• Experience with SCIM provisioning, audit logging, and enterprise compliance frameworks.
• A track record of moving a product upmarket and winning demanding enterprise customers.
• Experience introducing AI-native or agent-driven operating models to an engineering team.
• Experience managing engineers across backend and frontend, or managing other leads.

Company Description

ClickUp is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

ClickUp collects and processes personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

Please note we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for roles outside of engineering and product at this time.

ClickUp Talent Acquisition will only initiate contact via an @clickup.com email or through our official careers portal on clickup.com.

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