Senior Engineering Manager, Platform

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At Scribd Inc., our mission is to spark human curiosity. We create a world of stories and knowledge, democratize the exchange of ideas, and empower collective expertise through our four products:
Everand, Scribd, Slideshare, and Fable. We foster a culture where employees can be real, bold, and customer‑centric. Flexible work benefits allow employees to choose the daily work‑style that best suits their needs while prioritizing intentional in‑person moments for collaboration and connection.

Growth across Scribd isn’t a set of campaigns; it’s a system. As Senior Engineering Manager, Growth Platform
, you’ll lead a business‑critical platform team inside Growth Engineering. Your team builds the 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 closely with Product, Performance Marketing, Partnerships, Data Platform, and Analytics to translate growth strategy into high‑leverage technical capabilities.

• 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 creating a culture of accountability, inclusion, and continuous learning.
• Act as an architectural and execution partner to the Tech Lead, driving thoughtful system design, pragmatic tradeoffs, and sustainable delivery.
• Partner 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.

• 7+ years of engineering experience, including 3 to 5+ years in engineering management, leading high‑performing teams delivering customer‑facing or platform systems.
• Demonstrated growth impact: you’ve led teams whose work measurably improved conversion, retention, engagement, and/or LTV (ideally in subscription or consumer products).
• Strong technical foundation and architecture depth: you can 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: you can 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.

• Deep familiarity with multi‑channel paid acquisition, tracking/attribution challenges (web + mobile), and data quality practices.
• Hands‑on experience with event tracking, experimentation platforms, segmentation systems, offer/promo tooling, or funnel optimization in subscription products.
• Experience operating platform teams that serve multiple internal customers with clear SLAs, roadmaps, and support models.

Growth Platform is a force multiplier: when the foundations are strong, teams across Performance Marketing, Lifecycle,…