Engineering Manager, Guides & Surveys

Amplitude Amplitude · Data AI · San Francisco, CA · Engineering : Blades

Engineering Manager for Amplitude's AI analytics platform, focusing on the Guides & Surveys product. The role involves owning the product, technical direction, execution, and team, with a strong emphasis on shipping fast, scaling systems, and growing a high-performing engineering team. Requires experience managing teams that ship complex, high-impact products in fast-moving environments and a mastery of modern tech stacks. The company is a leading AI analytics platform with embedded AI Agents.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the Guides & Surveys product, technical direction, execution, and team.
  2. Ship like it’s your name on the commit. Because it is.
  3. Work shoulder-to-shoulder with PM, Design, and Tech Lead to turn raw customer pain into product breakthroughs.
  4. Scale systems that capture billions of user events, without melting down.
  5. Push the team (and yourself) to write clean, modern, scalable code, and know when to throw perfection out the window to move.
  6. Hire, grow, and retain A+ engineers. No passengers.
  7. Build a team culture where people love coming to work, and get sh*t done.

Skills

Required

  • Engineering management
  • Product ownership
  • Technical direction
  • Execution
  • Team leadership
  • Shipping products
  • Collaboration with PM, Design, Tech Lead
  • System scaling
  • Modern code quality
  • Hiring and retention
  • Team culture building
  • Modern stack (JS/TS, Python, AWS)
  • Product sense
  • Behavioral analytics

Nice to have

  • 0→1 product development
  • Startup product scaling
  • SDK team leadership
  • Writing code when it makes sense

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of engineering experience, including some part of that experience managing teams that ship fast and learn faster
  • Shipped complex, high-impact products in fast-moving environments
  • Mastery of a modern stack (JS/TS, Python, AWS - you get it)
  • fully embraced AI and are regularly pushing PRs

Other signals

  • AI analytics platform
  • AI Agents embedded across our platform
  • product-minded Engineering Manager
  • own Amplitude’s Guides & Surveys product and team
  • fastest growing products at Amplitude
  • roadmap to architecture to hiring
  • ship fast, grow a killer team, and obsess over user impact
  • Scale systems that capture billions of user events
  • fully embraced AI and are regularly pushing PRs
  • sharp product sense
  • behavioral analytics