Babylist
Technology
SeniorEngineeringManager
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“Senior Engineering Manager at Babylist. Skills: AI, Cross-product strategy, Team leadership. Define and drive technical direction for foundational systems. Lead, coach, and develop engineers and engineering managers”
What You'll Achieve.
Shape technical direction; Shape operating model; Create leverage for teams; Deliver meaningful customer impact; Shape company outcomes
Industry & Context.
Bring clarity to ambiguous problems; Solve high-impact challenges; Rethink the process entirely
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years experience leading engineering teams, Experience leading multiple engineering teams through ambiguity, Experience leading in cross-cutting product environments, Skilled at building partnerships with executive stakeholders, Able to grow high-performing teams, Comfortable leading development of consumer-facing products at scale, Builder-minded and resourceful
Nice to Have
Experience operating within a narrowly defined roadmap and established playbook will feel frustrating
What You'll Do.
Define and drive technical direction for foundational systems
and develop engineers and engineering managers
Collaborate with senior leaders to align technical investments
Guide teams through complex architectural choices
Lead exploratory and high-priority initiatives
Establish clear processes
communication patterns
and accountability mechanisms
Create leverage for teams across the company
Deliver meaningful customer impact
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner closely with Product; Partner closely with Design; Partner closely with Executive Leadership; Align stakeholders across the business
Communication Scope
Translate technical tradeoffs
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning
Full Job Description
Who We Are Babylist is the leading platform for expecting and new families. More than 10 million people shop with Babylist every year, making it the go-to destination for seamless purchasing, guidance, and expert recommendations. As a modern, AI-forward tech company, Babylist has expanded from a universal registry into a full ecosystem — the Babylist Shop, Babylist Health, Babylist Money, NYC and LA showrooms, branded content, and more — generating $750M in revenue in 2025. Building the generational brand in baby, Babylist is reshaping the $235B kids and baby market and helping parents feel confident, connected, and cared for at every step. Our Ways of Working Babylist is remote-first with team members across the U. S. and Canada who move fast, think smart, and use AI as part of how they work every day — not as an experiment, as an expectation. We come together twice a year to build the relationships behind the work, and we hire people who are genuinely excited about what's possible and prove it through how they show up. How We Build Babylist is in the middle of a fundamental shift in how software gets made, and we are not tiptoeing into it. We are rebuilding our engineering culture around a simple belief: AI changes everything. How teams are structured, how decisions get made, how fast ideas become working software. Our engineers own problems end to end, working directly with product, design, and business partners with short feedback loops and real stakeholder access. We ship, learn, and iterate fast. When something is not working, we throw it out and start over — project failure and personal failure are not the same thing here. AI tools are as natural to our workflow as an IDE or version control. We are not exploring this, we are living it. Our engineers use AI to explore tradeoffs, pressure-test designs, and move from problem to solution in hours instead of days. They generate code with AI so they can stay focused on the decisions that actually require human judg
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