Managing Director, Engineering Management - EAB

About EAB

At EAB, our mission is to make education smarter and our communities stronger. We work with more than 2,800 institutions to drive transformative change through data-driven insights and best-in-class capabilities. From kindergarten to college to career, EAB partners with leaders and practitioners to accelerate progress and drive results across enrollment, student success, institutional strategy, data analytics, and advancement. We work with each partner differently, tailoring our portfolio of research, technology, and marketing and enrollment solutions to meet the unique needs of every leadership team, as well as the students and employees they serve.

At EAB, we serve not only our partner institutions but each other—that's why we are always working to make sure our employees love their jobs and are invested in their communities. See how we've been recognized for this dedication to our employees by checking out our recent awards.

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The Role in Brief:

Managing Director, Engineering Management

This role may be based out of EAB’s Washington, D.C. office; Richmond, VA office; or open to remote work within the continental U.S. This role is expected to work East Coast hours. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide engineering management for multiple developers, including both contractors and employees across U.S. and international teams.  Engineering management includes coaching and process management to ensure best engineering practices are employed across the full product development and release cycle including discovery, requirement definition, coding/implementation of requirements, QA, and release deployments.
• Engage in architectural and technical design of cloud-based software applications across multiple development stacks to solve problems, deliver innovation, and ensure high quality, maintainable, and performing solutions. Development stacks include but are not limited to Python/Django and Java.
• Provide estimation, project planning, and design guidance to enable quarterly planning for product functionality.
• Implement strategies to ensure high retention of U.S. and international team members and set and maintain a high bar for performance and capability of team members.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience
• 10 - 12+ years of professional experience developing software products in a B2B or B2C setting
• 8+ years of managing and scaling engineering teams
• Experience evaluating and coordinating technical requirements, product design and architecture, and value proposition ROI analysis for technology solutions
• Successful track record of improving technical and engineering processes and driving engineering improvements, including continuous integration and continuous deployment techniques
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage multiple projects and teams against a schedule and budget
• Ability to communicate technical information to technical and non-technical audiences
• Demonstrated working knowledge of a broad set of current and emerging technologies including but not limited to (Java/J2EE, Django, Python, PostgreSQL)

Ideal Qualifications:

• Prior experience bringing SaaS-based software products to market in higher education
• Ability to establish trust, build relationships, and influence people at all levels of an organization
• Prior experience developing applications hosted on AWS (or similar cloud-based hosting environments)
• Commitment to valuing diversity, practicing inclusive behaviors, and contributing to an equitable working and continual learning environment in support of EAB’s DE&I Promise

If you’ve reached this section of the job description and are unsure of whether to apply, please do! At EAB, we welcome diversity of background and experience. We would encourage you to submit an application if this is a role you would be passionate about doing every day.

Compensation:

The anticipated starting salary (base) range for this role is $140,000 to $200,000 per year. Actual salary varies due to factors that may include but not be limited to relevant experience, skills, and location. At EAB, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the starting salary range for their role.

This hire will additionally be eligible for discretionary bonus or incentive compensation. Variable compensation may depend on various factors, such as individual and organizational performance. 

Benefits:

At EAB, we believe that to fulfill our mission to “make education smarter and our communities stronger” we need team members who bring a diversity of perspectives to the table and are committed to fostering a workplace where each team member is valued, respected and heard.

To that end, EAB is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we make employment decisions on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.