Vanta

Engineering Manager, Customer Trust

Vanta • $135K — $160K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of engineering management experience leading teams of 6-8+ engineers
  • Proven track record of disciplined delivery practices
  • Experience managing and developing senior individual contributors
  • Background in product engineering with a focus on customer-facing software
  • Comfortable in architecture discussions and making informed tradeoff decisions
  • Ability to shape product and technical strategy in partnership with a PM
  • Strong decision-making skills balancing ambiguity and quality
  • Fluency in using AI to enhance work outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Lead two squads to deliver against a clear product roadmap
  • Establish a high-accountability, high-ownership delivery culture
  • Collaborate with product and design to prioritize roadmap and make tradeoff decisions
  • Engage in technical decisions and guide the team toward sound engineering choices
  • Attract, grow, and retain strong engineering talent
  • Work cross-functionally to identify opportunities and clear blockers
  • Contribute to building processes and practices that scale the engineering culture.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with most premiums covered
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave for all new parents
  • Health & wellness stipend
  • Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
  • Commuter benefits for SF and NYC office team members
  • Family planning benefits
  • Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
  • Flexible PTO policy plus 80 hours of sick time
  • 11 company-paid holidays
  • Virtual team building activities and company-wide events
  • Offices in multiple global locations including SF, NYC, London, and more.
Full Job Description
The Customer Trust team owns the products that help organizations put security assessments on autopilot, and this Engineering Management role leads the squad building it. With 11 engineers across the Trust Center and Questionnaire product, you'll drive two of Vanta's most strategically important roadmaps: fully automating inbound customer assessments make it easy for our customers to project trust transparently to their customers

This is an execution-first role in one of Vanta's highest-visibility product areas. The roadmap is defined, product-market fit is proven, and the opportunity is in leading these squads to deliver with urgency and precision, at the intersection of agentic AI innovation and enterprise expansion.

What you'll do as a Engineering Manager at Vanta:
  • Lead two squads to deliver consistently and sustainably against a clear product roadmap
  • Set a high-accountability, high-ownership delivery culture - weekly goal tracking, tech spec reviews, and proactive project visibility
  • Partner closely with product and design to shape roadmap priorities, make tradeoff decisions, and ensure engineering is a strong voice in what gets built and why
  • Engage meaningfully in technical decisions - read specs, participate in architecture discussions, and guide your team toward sound engineering choices without needing to write all the code yourself
  • Attract, grow, and retain strong engineers; manage and uplevel senior ICs and foster an environment where your team does their best work
  • Work cross-functionally with GTM, the AI Platform team, and other partners to identify opportunities, clear blockers, and ship for the business
  • Contribute to Vanta's engineering culture by helping build the processes, norms, and practices that help the whole organization scale


How to be successful in this role:
  • 2+ years of full-time engineering management experience leading teams of 6-8+ engineers
  • Track record of running high-execution teams with disciplined delivery practices - tech spec reviews, weekly goal tracking, and strong timeline accountability
  • Experience managing and upleveling senior individual contributors
  • Product engineering background: you've led teams building customer-facing software, not primarily infrastructure or platform
  • Technically engaged and comfortable in architecture discussions, able to read specs critically and make informed tradeoff decisions
  • Proven ability to shape product and long-term technical strategy in close partnership with a PM
  • Strong decision maker who effectively balances ambiguity, available data, speed, and quality
  • Uses AI in day-to-day work to amplify your skills and strengthen your outcomes, applying it across routine workflows, actively building fluency through experimentation, and exercising sound judgment to ensure AI-assisted work meets a high quality bar.


What you can expect as a Vanta'n:
  • Industry-competitive salary and equity
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
  • 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents
  • Health & wellness stipend
  • Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
  • Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
  • Family planning benefits
  • Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
  • Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
  • 11 company-paid holidays
  • Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
  • Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors and may vary based on candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials.

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About Vanta

Vanta is a software company that provides automated security and compliance solutions for businesses. The company's platform offers a range of services, including risk assessments, compliance monitoring, and security audits. Vanta's platform is designed to help businesses manage their security and compliance needs more efficiently and effectively. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Learn more about Vanta
Size
50 employees
Industry
Founded
2017
Revenue
$1 million

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