Engineering Manager, Editorial Platforms, NYT Wirecutter

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for.

About the Role

The Editorial Platforms team collaboratively builds and maintains the publishing platforms that allow our journalists to share our product research and expertise, helping our millions of readers make informed buying decisions. As the manager of this team, you will be a member of a cross-functional team that includes other engineers, a product manager, and internal users of our platforms. Our mission is to be the most trusted and helpful recommendation service, and you will play a key part in getting us there.

You will manage the software developers on the team and will be accountable for the team's roadmap and results. You will delegate, collaborate with product partners, stakeholders, and leadership to set direction, provide constraints, prioritize, and communicate progress, changes, and outcomes for the team's work. You will provide a best-in-class culture and environment to support and grow your direct reports through mentorship and advocacy.

You will report directly to the Director of Platform Engineering.

Our tech stack: WordPress, Javascript, Node.js, Express, Apollo, React.

Responsibilities:

• Recruitment, performance management, professional development, and overall health of a diverse team of 6+ platform engineers.
• Cultivate an inclusive team culture with a respectful and collaborative environment.
• Accountability and co-development of the roadmap, prioritization and re-prioritization decisions, celebrations, process, and end results of the team in collaboration with the other team leads.
• Build cross-functional relationships by communicating scope, trade-off, timing, uncertainty, and prioritization decisions to direct reports, leadership, and other partners.
• Contribute to and advocate for the team through engineering-wide projects.
• Persuasively convey information and ideas, both verbally and in writing.
• Demonstrate an understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering and infrastructure
• 2+ years of experience advocating for technical needs and team members and partnering with product teams to steer multiple stakeholders when needed
• 2+ years of experience leading and facilitating decision-making for technical teams
• 2+ years of experience solving the challenges of maintaining and extending internal platform tools relied on by different stakeholders
• 2+ years of experience experience developing a high-performance team and growing its skills over time
• 2+ years of managing or working with distributed, or hybrid, teams

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