Lead and coach a software engineering team while staying hands-on with code, guiding technical decisions, improving delivery practices, and establishing effective AI-assisted development standards.
Manager, Engineering - Sales Planning
📜 Description
- Lead and grow a distributed engineering team, fostering trust, accountability, and high-quality execution.
- Partner with Product and Design to shape the Sales Planning roadmap, scope, and product strategy.
- Deliver customer-facing quota planning, territory design, and capacity planning capabilities.
- Coach engineers across levels and create opportunities for technical leadership and growth.
- Set technical direction and architectural guardrails, balancing long-term tradeoffs with partner teams.
- Improve planning, team operating rhythms, dependency management, and outcome measurement.
🛠️ Requirements
- 8+ years of software development experience as an engineer and/or engineering manager.
- 2+ years of engineering management experience, including people management, roadmap planning, and cross-functional execution.
- Experience building and scaling early-stage or newly launched products.
- Strong product judgment and the ability to work closely with Product and Design on ambiguous, high-impact problems.
- Track record of leading teams that ship reliable customer-facing systems.
- Strong written and interpersonal communication skills.
- Comfort operating in startup environments with evolving requirements and significant ownership.
- Bias toward measuring impact and using data to inform decisions.
- Technical: Experience with Django
- Monolith Codebases: You’ve supported and scaled an engineering team using a monolithic code base.
Full job description
CaptivateIQ is transforming the way companies plan, manage, and optimize sales performance. We started by revolutionizing incentive compensation management, and now we're expanding our platform to solve broader sales planning challenges. Recognized by industry analysts like Forrester and G2 and backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia, ICONIQ, Accel, and Sapphire Ventures, we empower high-growth companies like Netflix, Figma, and Stripe with the flexibility and insights needed to drive revenue performance.
About the Role:
Behind every great software company is the team building it. We are an engineering team of multicultural, highly collaborative, fully distributed, humble learners. We pride ourselves on building best-in-class products powered by innovative technologies.
As the Engineering Manager for Sales Planning, you will lead the team responsible for a recently launched product that helps sales organizations plan quotas, territories and sales team capacity with accuracy, auditability, and scale. At a high level the product provides a user experience that feels like an super advanced spreadsheet, with the added benefit of structured objects and a data layer behind it for very large datasets, high performance and audit/compliance.
You will partner closely with Product, Design, and platform teams in an API-, platform-, and AI-first environment. This role is a strong fit if you enjoy working at the intersection of product strategy, architecture, and are excited by building deeply powerful but approachable tools for expert users with complex workflows, including thoughtful AI-enabled functionality that helps users move faster and make better decisions.
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Requirements
Bonus points:
Technical: Experience with Django
Monolith Codebases: You’ve supported and scaled an engineering team using a monolithic code base.
Experience working for SaaS companies
Experience with financial modeling products/ spreadsheets
Experience building AI-enabled features or products
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