Engineering Manager, Growth

• Join Buffer as Engineering Manager, Growth, working fully remotely from anywhere in the world including the UK. • Lead engineering for Growth across both product and marketing surfaces. • Cover acquisition, activation and retention, connecting how people discover Buffer, sign up and decide to stay. • Stay close to the details, from where a customer gets stuck in a flow to the technical decisions behind it. • Partner with Product, Design, Marketing and Data to shape technical direction and create space for engineers to do their best work. • Help shape how the team builds with AI through your own experiments and by developing good judgement and systems.

• Bring experience managing engineers, with concrete examples of helping people grow, giving feedback and addressing performance concerns. • Show a strong engineering background and comfort getting into technical details such as code reviews, architecture and trade-offs. • Care about how software feels to use and explain the choices and compromises behind something you helped build. • Use AI in your own engineering work to take on bigger problems, and help the engineers you lead do the same. • Communicate clearly in writing and work well with people across different disciplines and time zones. • Understand how a product helps a business grow, from how customers find it to why they pay for it and keep using it. • Share a personal connection to making and sharing things, such as a newsletter, side project or small business.

• Bring experience in growth work and experimentation. • Show experience growing a product as a founder or on an early-stage team. • Share examples of work you have put out publicly, such as a newsletter, side project or small business. • Know how to steer AI tools, check their output and make the calls that need human judgement.

• Support engineers through regular coaching, clear feedback and meaningful career conversations. • Shape priorities with Product, Design and Marketing, grounding decisions in customer needs and data. • Stay close to technical decisions and product details to help build clear, accessible, responsive experiences. • Judge when to keep refining and when to ship and learn. • Connect customer insights, product changes and measurement to understand whether the work is helping. • Help shape how the team works with AI through experiments and shared practices. • Contribute to the wider Engineering team through hiring, shared practices and improvements to how the team works.

• Earn $179,100–$235,361 per year plus equity. • Work fully remotely in a distributed team that hires from all over the world. • Meet your team in person once or twice a year at company events. • Join a transparent culture, with company metrics shared openly on a public dashboard. • Work in a diverse and inclusive environment where underrepresented groups are welcome.

Buffer creates social media and brand-building software for small businesses, creators and individuals, with a mission to give them the essential tools to get off the ground and grow. It is a fully distributed team that defaults to transparency and shares its metrics publicly.