About the Senior Engineering Manager, Core Platform at Headspace:

We're looking for a Senior Manager with deep technical expertise to lead our Core Platform team - delivering common capabilities across all of our Consumer and Business customers. As a Senior Manager of Core Platform at Headspace you will have meaningful opportunities to profoundly impact the future of mental health care for our 70 million users.

The Core Platform team is the foundation every Headspace experience is built on-powering authentication, payments, entitlements, and shared services across our B2B and direct-to-consumer customers. Getting this right is essential to our mission and our ability to scale. We need an experienced leader who can drive the technical strategy, grow a high-performing engineering team, and ensure every product team at Headspace can build on a reliable, extensible platform.

The right platform investments don't just reduce toil, they directly accelerate every product team's ability to ship, and this leader will be expected to quantify and communicate that impact. A big goal needs talented people, so come join us and give your day job a sense of purpose!

What you will do:

• Lead, attract, and grow stellar technical talent
• Develop and drive strategic roadmaps for delivering rich, common capabilities to customers
• Partner closely with product and engineering leaders across B2B and direct-to-consumer offerings to identify where common platform capabilities can replace bespoke solutions, reducing maintenance overhead, and accelerating feature delivery. Translate those opportunities into a platform roadmap with clear business impact.
• Partner with Cloud/Ops, Security, and cross-functional engineering teams to ensure platform services meet availability, compliance, and operational standards, and proactively identify gaps before they become incidents
• Distill complexity for technical and non-technical audiences
• Partner with Principal Engineers to identify architectural gaps, evaluate build-vs-buy tradeoffs, and ensure platform technical direction is grounded in real engineering pain points across the org.
• Effectively prioritize tradeoffs between reducing tech debt and developing new capabilities
• Explore new technologies to support the future state of our business
• Model tenacity and resilience in the day to day

What you will bring:

Required Skills:

• 7+ years leading, building and developing top performing software development teams
• Experience delivering software within a mobile development environment
• Experience building and operating high-availability, distributed backend systems (auth, payments, identity, or similar)
• Demonstrated ability to manage platform migrations or large-scale refactors without disrupting dependent teams
• Track record of building or improving observability stacks (e.g., Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or similar) not just instrumenting systems but using data to drive engineering decisions
• Track record of technical and functional stakeholder management, including an ability to distill complexity for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience building and executing on cross-functional roadmaps, building OKRs and milestones
• BS degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other STEM major (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) or equivalent experience

Preferred Skills:

• Experience as a technical leader with a track record of delivering results and making progress in a fast changing, ambiguous problem space
• Ability to articulate, influence, and drive changes across multiple teams and levels of stakeholders
• Background working in a health tech, fintech, or similarly regulated industry where compliance and security are first-class concerns

Location: This role is open to candidates across the US, with preferred locations in San Francisco, CA (hybrid), New York City, NY (remote), and Seattle, WA (remote). Candidates must permanently reside in the US full-time.

If your primary residence is in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, this role follows our hybrid model, with 3 days per week in office to support in-person collaboration. Your recruiter will share more details.

Pay & Benefits:

The anticipated new hire base salary range for this full-time position is $162,000-$225,000 + equity + benefits.

For candidates based in San Francisco, New York City, or Seattle, a separate salary range of $207,000-$258,750 applies, consistent with our location-based compensation philosophy.

Our salary ranges are based on the job, level, and location, and reflect the lowest to highest geographic markets where we are hiring for this role within the United States. Within this range, individual compensation is determined by a candidate's location as well as a range of factors including but not limited to: unique relevant experience, job-related skills, and education or training.
Your recruiter will provide more details on the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

At Headspace, base salary is but one component of our Total Rewards package. We're proud of our robust package inclusive of: base salary, stock awards, comprehensive healthcare coverage, monthly wellness stipend, retirement savings match, lifetime Headspace membership, generous parental leave, and more. Additional details about our Total Rewards package will be provided during the recruitment process.