Engineering Manager (Growth Team)
Productboard.com
Office
Prague, Brno, Europe
Full Time
We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Product Growth engineering team — a group focused on helping new users discover value fast, stay engaged, and expand their usage of Productboard. Your work will drive measurable business outcomes across activation, retention, and monetization, while enabling the team to move quickly and deliver high-quality user experiences.This is a high-impact role where engineering, product, data, and design come together to improve the entire customer journey.
Why This Role Matters
Productboard helps product teams build what matters. For many customers, their first interactions with us determine whether they see the value we offer. Your leadership will directly influence how thousands of product teams discover Productboard, learn it, grow with it, and expand their use.You’ll build and support a team that ships impactful experiments, uses data to make decisions, and leverages AI to deliver personalized and intuitive user experiences.What You’ll Lead and Own
Lead and Develop a High-Performing Team
- Hire, mentor, and grow engineers at different levels.
- Build a safe, collaborative, and high-ownership culture.
- Guide career development and support engineers in doing their best work.
Drive Product-Led Growth Outcomes
- Partner with Product, Design, and Product Analyst to set strategy across activation, onboarding, monetization, retention, and expansion.
- Ensure the team delivers measurable improvements through experimentation.
- Champion strong measurement practices, instrumentation, and data-driven learning.
Enable Fast, High-Quality Delivery
- Create engineering processes that support rapid iteration while maintaining reliability.
- Improve experimentation velocity through tooling, automation, and reusable frameworks.
- Balance short-term wins with long-term technical sustainability.
Own Technical Direction
- Provide technical leadership and support engineers in architectural decisions.
- Ensure that solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with our platform vision.
- Help the team make sharp technical tradeoffs so they can iterate quickly without compromising reliability.
Guide AI-Driven Growth Initiatives
- Support engineers in integrating AI capabilities into onboarding and guidance.
- Collaborate with internal AI teams and leverage company-wide AI frameworks.
What You’ll Do Day to Day
- Run effective rituals that keep the team aligned and unblocked.
- Partner closely with PMs and Designers on experiment planning and user flows.
- Support the team in quickly scoping experiments, shipping MVPs, and iterating.
- Act as a technical leader for the team — participating in design reviews, guiding architectural decisions, and ensuring technical quality in an environment that optimizes for fast experimentation.
- Collaborate with senior engineers to define engineering strategy, improve system reliability, and unblock complex technical challenges.
- Monitor team health, delivery quality, and engineering efficiency.
Who You Are
Must-Have Qualifications
- Experience leading software engineering teams (typically 3+ years).
- Strong technical background in modern web technologies and system design.
- Ability to review design documents, assess tradeoffs, and guide the team toward sound technical decisions.
- A track record of delivering user-facing product work in a SaaS environment.
- Experience working in a cross-functional, product-led environment.
- Comfort with experimentation, A/B testing, and metrics like activation or retention.
- Ability to make technical decisions and guide engineers without micromanaging.
- Strong communication skills and ability to set clarity in ambiguous spaces.
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
(Not required — candidates can still be successful without these.)- Experience with growth engineering or product-led growth initiatives.
- Exposure to AI-powered product experiences or LLM-based tooling.
- Knowledge of our tech stack (TypeScript/React, Ruby, Kotlin, GraphQL, Kafka, AWS).
- Experience working in a fast-growing B2B SaaS company.
Our Tech Environment
Your team will work across a modern, flexible stack that includes:- Frontend: TypeScript, React
- Backend: Ruby on Rails, Kotlin/Spring Boot, GraphQL, Kafka
- Data: Postgres, Redis, OpenSearch
- Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
- Growth Tooling: LaunchDarkly, Amplitude, Frigade
Why Productboard
At Productboard, you’ll join a team that cares deeply about building products customers truly love. We believe great products come from empowered teams, fast learning cycles, and a culture where ideas can come from anywhere.What makes Productboard a great place to grow your career
- Meaningful impact: Your work will influence how thousands of product teams around the world build better products.
- Strong engineering culture: We value autonomy, craftsmanship, clear ownership, and thoughtful tradeoffs.
- Real collaboration: Product, Design, Data, and Engineering work as a true triad — not in silos.
- Focus on learning: We invest in experimentation, continuous improvement, and growing our people.
- Modern tech stack & environment: You’ll work with technologies and practices used by high-performing global SaaS companies.
- Engineering Managers at Productboard are technical leaders first. You’ll have a meaningful voice in architecture, system design, experimentation frameworks, and how we evolve the product.
- Supportive, inclusive teams: We strive to create a workplace where people feel safe to take risks, share ideas, and do their best work.
- A company shaping the future of product management: We’re on a mission to help product teams build what matters — and you’ll play a key role in making that mission real.