Engineering Manager

<div><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Join Pigment: The AI Platform Redefining Business Planning</strong></span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-size: 15px;">Pigment is the AI-powered business planning and performance management platform built for agility and scale. We connect people, data, and processes in one intuitive, feature-rich solution, empowering every team - from Finance to HR - to build, adapt, and align strategic plans in real time.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-size: 15px;">Founded in 2019, Pigment is one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies globally. Industry leaders like Unilever, Uber, Anthropic, Snowflake or Siemens, use Pigment daily to make more informed decisions and confidently navigate any scenario.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-size: 15px;">With a team of 700+ across Paris, London, New York, Toronto, San Francisco and Austin, we've raised nearly $400M from top-tier investors and were named a Visionary in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-size: 15px;">At Pigment, we take smart risks, celebrate bold ideas, and challenge the status quo - all while working as one team. If you're driven by innovation and ready to make an impact at scale, we’d love to hear from you.</span></div><div><br></div><div> <h3>The Opportunity</h3> <p>We are looking for senior software engineers who can also be people managers of other software engineers, for a share of their time (up to 50%).</p> <p>On the software engineering part:</p> <p>More than knowledge of a specific language or framework, we are looking for great software engineering skills:</p> <ul> <li>ability to translate functional requirements into an elegant and simple design, and then deliver the code.</li> </ul> <p>We are also looking for engineers who understand the product and the customer's needs in detail and can suggest innovative ideas: in the end, it's all about delivering value to end users.</p> <p>On the people management part, here is what it entails:</p> <ul> <li>coaching up to 6 direct reports (usually every 2 weeks)</li> <li>defining expectations, collecting and delivering feedback</li> <li>building career development plans (we have a skill leveling matrix)</li> <li>participating in performance-related decisions with other managers (ex: proposing and calibrating salary raises), including under-performance remediation</li> <li>(optional) leading ad hoc projects with other managers to structure engineering (ex: organize technical demos, animate an All Hands, lead evolutions to our skill leveling matrix)</li> </ul> <p>In the Pigment engineering team, people managers do not have the responsibility of a particular technical domain, as this is the role of technical leads: this way, we make sure career decisions and technical choices are independent from one another.</p> <h4>Explore Our Tech Blog:</h4> <p>If you're curious about the kind of challenges our engineering team tackles, our culture and our organization, we invite you to explore our<a href="https://engineering.pigment.com/"> Tech Blog</a>!</p> <h3>Who you are</h3> <p>In any case, you have:</p> <ul> <li>Experience as a software engineer working on a product in production - for managers specifically, this experience must be evaluated during the interview process at a “senior” level (that is, usually from 7-8 years)</li> <