Senior Engineering Manager

About the role

HumanSignal is a real world data partner for AI development, offering data creation, annotation, and delivery through its platform and services. This role leads a team of engineers, owns delivery, and helps engineers grow while staying hands on with code and technical decisions.

What you'll do

• Manage engineers day to day, including 1:1s, feedback, performance, and promotions.
• Own delivery planning, scoping, and shipping quality software against a roadmap you influence.
• Balance structure to enable predictable delivery without slowing a small team down.
• Help engineers unblock blockers and grow technical judgment while staying hands on.
• Challenge architectural decisions and communicate tradeoffs clearly.
• Collaborate across customer, services, and open source work to drive stable releases.

What they're looking for

• Experience managing engineers for multiple years, with hiring and performance management.
• Strong engineering background with architectural judgment beyond your own code.
• Hands on coding with the ability to explain effective use of coding agents.
• Start up experience and comfort making decisions with incomplete information.
• Clear communicators who give specific feedback and avoid avoidance management.
• Ability to balance long term product work with customer deadlines.

For applicants in Nigeria

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• Pay currency or range is not stated. The listing does not specify contractor vs employee status. Confirm during interview.
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