Senior Engineering Manager, Platform

Senior Engineering Manager, Growth Platform

Join Scribd, Inc. for the Senior Engineering Manager, Growth Platform role. Scribd Inc. (pronounced “scribbed”) has a mission to spark human curiosity. We create four products—Everand, Scribd, Slideshare, and Fable—that democratize the exchange of ideas and empower collective expertise.

We support a culture where employees can be real, bold, debate, commit, embrace plot twists, and prioritize the customer. Flexibility is balanced with community connections via Scribd Flex, prioritizing intentional in‑person moments for collaboration and culture. Occasional in‑person attendance is required for all employees, regardless of location.

We look for team members who embody “GRIT”—goals, results, innovative ideas, and teamwork.

About The Role

As Senior Engineering Manager, Growth Platform, you’ll lead a business‑critical platform team inside Growth Engineering. Your team builds systems and integrations that enable efficient go‑to‑market execution: landing pages, campaign tooling, tracking, attribution, audience segmentation, experimentation support, and third‑party Mar Tech integrations. You’ll partner with Product, Performance Marketing, Partnerships, Data Platform, and Analytics to build reliable foundations and translate growth strategy into high‑leverage technical capabilities.

This high‑ownership role requires a people‑first, deeply technical leader who sets a vision, builds a strong team, and delivers platform improvements that measurably impact conversion, retention, and lifetime value.

• Lead the engineering strategy and execution for Scribd’s Growth Platform, spanning acquisition enablement, promotional offer support, audience segmentation, and lifecycle marketing integrations.
• Build and manage a high‑performing full‑stack team, developing engineers while fostering a culture of accountability, inclusion, and continuous learning.
• Stay deeply technical: act as an architectural and execution partner to the Tech Lead and team, driving thoughtful system design, pragmatic tradeoffs, and sustainable delivery.
• Partner closely with stakeholders to translate business goals into roadmaps, prioritize investments, and deliver high‑impact initiatives across multiple brands and channels.
• Lead integrations with paid media platforms and third‑party data exchange tooling to support conversion tracking, offline/online event feeds, audience sync, and campaign measurement.
• Own cross‑channel measurement foundations: champion reliable instrumentation, telemetry, attribution quality, and data‑informed decision making in partnership with Analytics.
• Drive integration and vendor decisions across the Mar Tech stack—evaluating tools, designing integrations, and ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and maintainable.
• Champion engineering excellence in reliability, scalability, code quality, testing, and continuous delivery, so Growth teams can move fast with confidence.

• Must‑Haves
  • 7+ years of engineering experience, including 3‑5+ years in engineering management, leading high‑performing teams delivering customer‑facing or platform systems.
  • Demonstrated growth impact: led teams whose work measurably improved conversion, retention, engagement, and/or LTV (ideally in subscription or consumer products).
  • Strong technical foundation and architecture depth: guide scalable system design, set quality bars, and lead teams through ambiguity and tradeoffs.
  • Experience with growth and marketing systems such as SEM, ad platform integrations, attribution/tracking, experimentation frameworks, customer engagement platforms, CDPs, CMS/landing page systems, analytics instrumentation, or marketing APIs.
  • Cross‑functional leadership strength: align diverse stakeholders, set clear priorities, and execute in fast‑paced environments.
  • People‑first leadership: proven ability to coach, develop, and retain strong engineers while fostering psychological safety and high standards.
• Bonus Experience
  • Deep familiarity with multi‑channel paid acquisition, tracking/attribution challenges (web + mobile), and data quality practices.
  • Hands‑on experience with event tracking, experimentation platforms,…