Job description
About The Role
We’re seeking a Senior Manager of Engineering to lead our consumer-facing product engineering team during a high-growth, high-impact phase. This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll rebuild and strengthen a 5-person team, while partnering closely with a dynamic product manager to deliver exceptional, high-quality user experiences.
You’ll step into a high-leverage inflection point—helping expand the team, reshape delivery practices, and set a new standard for excellence across our most important consumer surfaces. You will own consumer journeys that directly drive revenue—such as discovery, booking, personalization, and new user conversion. These flows touch millions of users annually and are central to our marketplace flywheel.
We’re building with AI at our core—from smarter booking experiences to internal tools that multiply team velocity. As part of this team, you’ll help drive how we responsibly use AI to personalize consumer journeys, enhance experimentation velocity, and streamline development workflows. You should be able to leverage AI to boost team productivity, streamline engineering workflows, and drive responsible adoption. You’ll also identify opportunities for AI integration in both internal tools and product features.
What You’ll Do
- Build and lead a high-performing team - Recruit, mentor, and retain top engineering talent while fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Partner closely with Product - Collaborate with an ambitious product manager to translate vision into realistic roadmaps and consistently deliver high-impact features.
- Drive execution excellence - Establish lightweight yet effective engineering processes that balance quality with velocity and ensure predictable, high-quality output.
- Be an advocate for your team - Create a safe and inclusive environment that supports sustainable delivery, technical growth, and strong morale.
- Raise the technical bar - Champion best practices for code quality, testing, documentation, and deployment. Coach engineers across all levels to grow in craft and impact.
- Collaborate cross-functionally - Partner deeply with a design-led product culture and a strong data team to make informed, elegant decisions that balance craft, usability, and impact.
- Contribute strategically - As a leader in a lean organization, you’ll help guide technical decisions, process improvements, and long-term planning.
What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years of engineering management experience leading product-focused teams
- Proven ability to build strong, effective teams and drive measurable performance improvement
- Experience partnering with product managers to balance ambition with feasibility
- People-first leadership style with a focus on clear communication, team health, and psychological safety
- Strong technical background with credibility in architectural and implementation discussions
- Willingness to move quickly, make decisions with imperfect information, and iterate forward in partnership with product and design.
- Experience managing cross-functional stakeholder relationships and navigating competing priorities
- A continuous improvement mindset with a track record of optimizing team efficiency and delivery processes
Why Join StyleSeat
- Immediate impact: Step into a key leadership role and start making a difference from day one
- Growth opportunity: Help define and evolve our engineering culture and practices as we scale
- Remote-first flexibility: Work from anywhere with a team that prioritizes autonomy and work-life balance
- Mission-driven work: Empower beauty professionals and make beauty services more accessible
- Collaborative environment: Join a team that values craft, ownership, and meaningful outcomes
- A culture that clears the path:
At StyleSeat, we move swiftly from ideas to impact. Our team thrives on:
- Proactive Ownership: You spot opportunities and take initiative.
- Calculated Risks: You experiment thoughtfully to accelerate growth.
- Rapid Iteration: You move fast and adapt based on real-world feedback.
- Accountability: You own outcomes—learning quickly from success and failure alike.
- Solution-Focused Collaboration: You prioritize progress over perfection and help others keep moving forward.
- Disarming Complexity: You simplify challenges into clear, actionable steps so your team doesn’t get stuck—you help them get unstuck.
Salary Range
Our job titles may span more than one career level. The career level we are targeting for this role has a base pay between$180,000 – $210,000. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. Base pay ranges are subject to change and may be modified in the future.
Who we are
StyleSeat is the premier business platform for SMBs in the beauty and wellness industry to run and grow their business; and destination for consumers to discover, book and pay. To date, StyleSeat has powered more than 200 million appointments totaling over $12 billion in revenue for small businesses. StyleSeat is a platform and marketplace designed to support and promote the beauty and personal care community.
Today, StyleSeat connects consumers with top-rated beauty professionals in their area for a variety of services, including hair styling, barbering, massage, waxing, and nail care, among others. Our platform ensures that Pros maximize their schedules and earnings by minimizing gaps and cancellations, effectively attracting and retaining clientele.
StyleSeat Culture & Values
At StyleSeat, our team is committed to fostering a positive and inclusive work environment. We respect and value the unique perspectives, experiences, and skills of our team members and work to create opportunities for all to grow and succeed.
- Diversity - We celebrate and welcome diversity in backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We believe in the importance of creating an inclusive work environment where everyone can thrive.
- Curiosity- We are committed to fostering a culture of learning and growth. We ask questions, challenge assumptions, and explore new ideas.
- Community - We are committed to making a positive impact on each, even when win-win-win scenarios are not always clear or possible in every decision. We strive to find solutions that benefit the community as a whole and drive our shared success.
- Transparency - We are committed to open, honest, and clear communication. We hold ourselves accountable for maintaining the trust of our customers and team.
- Entrepreneurship - We are self-driven big-picture thinkers - we move fast and pivot when necessary to achieve our goals.
Applicant Note:
StyleSeat is a fully remote, distributed workforce, however, we only have business entities established in the below list of states and, thus, are unable to consider candidates who live in states not on this list for the time being.
** Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
\* Arizona
\* Alabama
\* California
\* Colorado
\* Florida
\* Georgia
\* Illinois
\* Indiana
\* Massachusetts
\* Maryland
\* Michigan
\* Nebraska
\* New York
\* New Jersey
\* Ohio
\* Oregon
\* Pennsylvania
*Virginia
\* Washington
Please note: We do not accept resumes from recruiters or third-party agencies. We are only considering direct applications from candidates.
