Engineering Manager - Social

Suno

$277K — $346K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years in software engineering, with 2-4 years managing engineers
  • Strong intuition for social products and understanding of network effects
  • Technical depth to guide architecture decisions and review code
  • Experience creating structure in ambiguous environments, especially in startup settings
  • Excellent asynchronous communicator who clarifies ambiguity
  • Passion for music in various forms, whether listening, creating, or exploring

Responsibilities

  • Lead a small team of fullstack engineers focused on Suno's social features
  • Recruit and develop engineers, ensuring high performance through management cycles
  • Set technical direction for social systems, focusing on scale and architecture
  • Collaborate with product, design, and data science for roadmap ideation
  • Implement retention-focused features with complete post-launch analysis
  • Contribute to Suno's mission of enhancing creative fulfillment through social music experiences

Benefits

  • Company Equity Package
  • 401(k) with 3% Employer Match and Roth 401(k) options
  • Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • 11 Paid Holidays plus Unlimited PTO and Sick Leave
  • 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
  • Creative Education Stipend
  • Generous Commuter Allowance
  • Daily In-Office Lunch
Full Job Description
About the Role

We're hiring an Engineering Manager to lead Suno's Revenue Growth engineering team: a cross-platform group of backend, web, iOS, and Android engineers who discover and deliver Suno's highest-leverage commercial opportunities. The team owns pricing and packaging, paywalls and offers, subscriber retention, experimentation infrastructure, and revenue-driving UX improvements, partnering closely with product, data science and the commerce platform team. This is a high-autonomy role that combines product, technical, and people leadership: you'll stay close enough to the code to review decisions and multiply technical ownership across your team.

Listen to the Suno version of this role! https://suno.com/s/GsrerPlrPvDQymS8

What You'll Do

  • Lead a small team of fullstack product engineers who own Suno's social layer - notifications, profiles, the follow graph, and social engagement from sharing to comments
  • Grow the team by hiring strong engineers, developing them across the stack, and holding a high bar through honest, firm performance management
  • Set technical direction for social systems at scale - guiding architecture for the follow graph, notifications, and profiles, and championing mobile-first API design
  • Partner with product, design, and data science on roadmap ideation, discovering and fostering the emergent social behaviors that deepen engagement
  • Ship retention-driving features with end-to-end rigor: metrics read-outs, logging, dogfooding, and post-launch follow-up
  • Advance Suno's mission of making creative fulfillment a daily reality by building the network that lets people create and experience music together


What You'll Need

Must-Haves
  • 5-7 years in software engineering, including 2-4 years managing engineers - hiring, developing, and running firm performance cycles
  • Genuine, demonstrable intuition for social products and network effects - you're a real user and a first-principles thinker about what makes products sticky, and you understand how to grow a network without collapsing context
  • Enough technical depth to guide architecture and stay hands-on - you can review code, weigh trade-offs, and jump into the codebase when it helps
  • A track record of creating structure in ambiguous, 01 environments, ideally shipping consumer social products at startup pace
  • Strong asynchronous, cross-functional communicator who reduces ambiguity rather than creating it
  • A love of music (listening, exploring, making - we're not picky about genre)

Nice-to-Haves
  • Experience on a growth team - social and growth are two sides of the same coin
  • Founding or 01 experience inside a larger organization (a startup within a startup)
  • Fullstack range across mobile, web, and backend
  • Familiarity with network-effects and engagement-mechanics literature


Perks & Benefits for Full-Time Employees
  • Company Equity Package
  • 401(k) with 3% Employer Match & Roth 401(k)
  • Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (PPO w/ HSA & FSA options)
  • 11 Paid Holidays + Unlimited PTO & Sick Time
  • 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
  • Creative Education Stipend
  • Generous Commuter Allowance
  • In-Office Lunch (5 days per week)


Additional Notes:
  • Applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
  • This role requires working onsite at our NYC office.


Compensation:
  • The annual salary range for this role is $277K - $346K + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision, and 401k)


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