Engineering Managers and Senior Managers
Hire an Engineering Manager
First-line and second-line engineering managers who have shipped with a team, not just led one on paper.
The remit
- One to three teams, typically 5 to 25 engineers
- Delivery, hiring and performance for their teams
- Owns execution against a roadmap they did not always set
What we calibrate for
- Has actually managed, not tech-lead work relabelled as management
- Retention and internal promotion record, not just headcount grown
- Still close enough to the code to earn technical respect
- Handled a real performance case rather than avoiding one
Comp context
$190K to $240K base in most US markets
Market context for the level, not a quote for your mandate. We benchmark base and equity together against your stage before a shortlist goes out.
Where this level starts and stops
This is the level where people are still promoted into leadership, so the pool is wide and the variance is high. Screening is mostly about separating genuine management from senior-IC work with a title.
Hiring at this level? A calibrated shortlist lands in 5 business days, and the fee is 18% of first-year base, invoiced once they have started work.
Other levels we recruit
Hiring an Engineering Manager? Let’s fill it.
On the intake call you find out whether we already have strong leaders for your role. If we don’t, you hear that too.
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