Development Group Manager I

The Development Group Manager I manages and mentors a team of 8-15 Developers embedded within multiple Software Engineering teams. This role sits at the dynamic intersection of technology and leadership, demanding strong technical knowledge, exceptional people management skills, and strategic oversight. The Development Group Manager I’s primary purpose is to champion the growth and development of their team members, ensuring their individual and collective success while driving the overall quality of our products. This is a full-time position with remote, hybrid and on-site opportunities available.

About the Role

The Development Group Manager I’s job skills, qualifications, and responsibilities, include but are not limited to:

Responsibilities

Optimizing Engineering Operations
• Owning and overseeing timelines, processes and implementation plans with significant input from the technical team, including milestone planning, meeting cadence, documentation updates, and ticket authorship and/or management
• Effectively, overseeing and facilitating the efficiency of the team’s technical resources
• Actively engage with the team's efforts and workloads to proactively identify and escalate issues, resolve team questions, and synthesize feedback for the Development Department Manager
• Providing clear communication on strategy, ticket ownership, and facilitate cross-team or cross-departmental coordination
• Ensuring technical accountability and output of their teams by overseeing ticket work, completed implementation plans and other measures of technical success
• Attending planning meetings to manage team pace, ensuring urgency for success while preventing burnout
• Advising teams with insights and recommendations to improve efficiency and effectiveness
Strategic Planning and Coordination
• Aligning and coordinating with the Development Department Manager to proactively identify and take initiative on cross-team and cross-departmental needs, and company wide initiatives
• Contributing to staffing decisions in service of company goals including identifying gaps, defining roles, and managing team size
Product Involvement
• Developing and maintaining a strong understanding of relevant product areas under your supervision
• Collaborating with Software Engineering Management and Product Management teams to define strategic direction and planning the product roadmap
• Reviewing and providing input on design documents as requested
• Effectively conveying product direction and priorities to individual members and overall team
Relationships, Trust and Individual and Team Performance
• Building strong, trusting relationships with direct reports through regular 1:1s, prioritizing psychological safety, mutual respect, and trust at the individual and team level
• Fostering a culture of excellence and candid communication, ensuring employees feel encouraged to share ideas and opinions, and supported by both the company and the manager
• Cultivating productive relationships with peers and superiors in order to achieve collective goals
• Providing coaching, development, and career management to employees including conducting career planning, performance evaluations, compensation reviews, and promotions
• Setting clear performance expectations, proactively identifying and managing underperformers, and facilitating terminations in coordination with Human Resources, and the Development Department manager when necessary
• Reducing the impact of interpersonal and technical conflicts within and outside the teams through efficient resolution and facilitation
• Guiding onboarding activities for new engineers to reduce startup time and ensure their success within the division