Senior Engineering Manager, Privacy & Data Security

Vanta · Enterprise · London, United Kingdom · Software Engineering

Senior Engineering Manager for Privacy & Data Security at Vanta, a company focused on helping businesses earn and prove trust through continuous security monitoring. The role involves leading teams to deliver results, setting strategy, growing engineers, and cultivating a healthy culture. This position will also play a key role in developing foundational processes for scaling the engineering organization and will partner with product management, design, and go-to-market teams to develop new product experiences in the data protection market. The company is growing rapidly and has found product-market fit.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive significant impact for our customers and business by leading teams to deliver results consistently and sustainably
  2. Build a best-in-class engineering team. Coach, mentor and create an environment where your team can do their best work and deliver for the business.
  3. Set direction and guide technical strategy, ensuring that your team is delivering long-term value aligned with Vanta’s business priorities
  4. Work closely with Vanta’s customers and customer-facing teammates to build and ship high-value products and infrastructure
  5. Play an integral role in laying the foundation for Vanta’s engineering culture

Skills

Required

  • Engineering management experience
  • Team leadership and development
  • Strategic planning
  • Technical strategy guidance
  • Customer collaboration
  • Product development
  • Process development for scaling engineering organizations
  • Communication and storytelling
  • Decision making under ambiguity

Nice to have

  • Experience in privacy and data security
  • Experience in the data protection market
  • Experience managing teams in Europe
  • Experience fostering collaborative culture across global teams
  • Curiosity and willingness to learn AI
  • Sound judgment in applying AI responsibly

What the JD emphasized

  • four or more years of professional experience in a full-time engineering manager role
  • participated in developing or driving engineering-wide initiatives (recruiting processes, career frameworks, etc) in a prior role
  • prior experience managing complex, long-term projects that touch multiple teams and cross-functional stakeholders