Software Engineering Manager - Global UX - Applications - Platform
Core
Manage the engineering team responsible for Elastic UI (EUI), the company's design system and React component library, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and high-quality delivery across products.
Role type
Engineering Manager for a Design System/Platform team
Builds
Elastic UI (EUI) design system, React component library, and shared platform infrastructure
Domain
Software Engineering / Design Systems / Frontend
Deliverable
product features
Required skills
Engineering team management, roadmap planning, hiring and performance management, stakeholder management, distributed team leadership, data-driven decision making, technical trade-off analysis
Preferred skills
Experience with AI-assisted design-to-code workflows, knowledge of frontend engineering (React, TypeScript)
Technologies
React, TypeScript
Responsibilities
Manage and grow the team of engineers building the design system; Own delivery cadence including sprint planning and quarterly roadmaps; Run hiring, onboarding, and career growth; Build team culture in a distributed environment; Represent the team in cross-functional planning; Remove blockers and negotiate dependencies; Track adoption metrics to inform priorities; Support experiments with AI tools.
Seniority
Manager, hands-on leadership
