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Engineering Effectiveness Manager

Justworks

Skills

Required

  • removing blockers
  • program management
  • data-driven
  • defining/tracking metrics

Preferred

  • product development tools and processes
  • CI/CD
  • Jira
  • GitHub

Join Justworks as an Engineering Effectiveness Manager, where you'll drive cross-engineering program delivery, design and operationalize learning and enablement programs, coordinate engineering-wide forums and rituals, and drive process and operational improvements. You'll have the opportunity to shape how engineering executes at scale and make a significant impact on the organization.

Responsibilities

  • Lead cross-engineering program delivery, managing timelines, dependencies, stakeholder communications, and outcomes.
  • Design and operationalize learning and enablement programs, building structured programs for skill development and new-engineer onboarding.
  • Coordinate engineering-wide forums and rituals, planning and facilitating forums that keep engineering aligned and energized.
  • You are a systems thinker who owns and drives cross-functional engineering initiatives to completion

Requirements

  • You're comfortable managing ambiguity, removing blockers, and keeping distributed teams aligned on shared outcomes
  • Experience designing and implementing learning and development programs or similar enablement efforts
  • 4–7 years of experience in program management, delivery, operations, or similar role in a technical environment
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills; comfort facilitating groups and representing work to leadership
  • Experience with data-driven decision-making and defining/tracking metrics
  • Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional initiatives and drive execution in matrix environments
  • Demonstrated ability to influence and coordinate across silos without direct authority
  • Strong organizational skills; able to juggle multiple priorities and projects simultaneously
  • Ability to work in a hybrid environment with regular in-office presence (3 days/week)

Preferred

  • Familiarity with product development tools and processes (CI/CD, Jira, GitHub, etc.) preferred

Pay

USD 131,000 - 169,000