Engineering Manager

Sparq

$120K — $150K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2-3 years in a client-facing consulting role at a mid-size firm.
  • Ability to provide clear, constructive feedback that fosters growth.
  • Strong organizational skills to manage multiple priorities effectively.
  • Familiarity and comfort with AI tools and concepts.
  • Capability to discern between genuine technical solutions and superficial responses.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee the weekly project timeline from kickoff to demo, ensuring accountability.
  • Onboard new colleagues, cultivating team dynamics and growth through targeted projects.
  • Evaluate Friday demos, offering specific feedback on performance and improvement areas.
  • Assist team members in articulating problems to alleviate project roadblocks.
  • Promote a consulting approach by understanding business needs and identifying stakeholders.
  • Serve as the primary operational contact, maintaining knowledge of team logistics.
  • Deliver insightful feedback to practice leaders regarding team engagement and development.
  • Identify opportunities for software tools to improve operational efficiency and facilitate team tasks.

Benefits

  • Involvement in a high-impact, AI-focused work environment.
  • Opportunity to mentor and shape the growth of colleagues.
  • Collaborative culture that encourages feedback and continuous improvement.
  • Work with cutting-edge AI tools and technologies.
  • Flexible remote work options that foster a healthy work-life balance.
Full Job Description
A Day in the Life:

The Shop's leadership sets the vision and the energy. You make the work get better, week over week. You're the stage manager: you hold the runsheet, you know where everyone is supposed to be, and you give the straight feedback that turns a rough demo into a sharp one.

This is a high-coordination, high-ownership role for someone who came up in consulting, can read both a room and a build. Someone who is energized by how AI is changing the work.

  • Own the weekly rhythm (Monday kickoff to Friday demo) so nothing slips through the cracks.
  • You'll help onboard colleagues into the shop, turn them into teams, and help shape their growth with projects and problem sets.
  • Watch the Friday demos and give specific, useful feedback: what landed, what didn't, and how to make it better.
  • Help builders get unstuck - often by helping them say clearly what they're trying to build, not by writing code for them. ("You're not blocked because you don't know Python. You're blocked because we haven't defined the problem yet.")
  • Coach a consulting mindset: understand the business problem, find the champion, challenge the assumption.
  • Be the operational point of contact for The Shop: the person who knows who, what, when, and where.
  • Give clear, fair feedback to our practice leaders on how people are engaging and growing.
  • Help us decide which parts of this job should become software/tooling - and build toward that.


What it takes:

You don't need every one of these on day one. We're looking for someone who is clearly strong on the essentials and shows real promise to grow into the rest.

  • Consulting background - ideally 2-3 years client-facing at a mid-size firm. You've run projects and sat across the table from clients.
  • You give hard feedback well - direct, specific, and kind enough that people come back for more.
  • You're organized in a way that makes chaos manageable - you build structure where it's missing.
  • You're AI-forward: comfortable with AI tools, curious about how they're applied, and clear-eyed about how they change what "blocked" means.
  • You can tell when a "technical" answer is real and when it's fluff - without being a developer yourself.


Nice to Have:

  • You used to write code, or work close enough to it to direct traffic confidently.
  • Conceptual familiarity with Git and the software development lifecycle.
  • You can make a crisp short video or a clean one-pager.
  • Depth in a vertical - financial services, healthcare, supply chain, or similar.
  • AI-first culture - you'll work alongside the latest tools and help shape how we use them.

Regardless of your specific role, we seek individuals who are excited to explore, adopt, and evangelize AI tools and methodologies. If you have experience in AI or a proven track record of rapidly learning and mentoring others on emerging tech, you'll fit right in.

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