Description
Benevity is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead multiple engineering teams in a fast-paced, collaborative, diverse, and inclusive environment. The ideal candidate has a robust software development background, including AI-led development, and strong experience in cloud infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Lead multiple teams in the AI-DLC process, championing AI-forward ways of working to deliver software solutions at pace across DevX/SDLC and core business work
- Own delivery outcomes for teams: set clear commitments, track them, and follow through
- Provide direct people leadership: recruiting, performance management, team culture and engagement, budget and cost control
- Develop and coach team leads and senior engineers, building leadership depth across teams
- Move people and capacity between teams as priorities shift, keeping teams correctly resourced and skilled, and flag resourcing issues to senior leadership
- Own internal adoption and enablement of releases, partnering with Product, Support, Customer Success, and other internal teams on readiness, documentation, training, and communication
- Maintain technical depth to engage credibly across domains, validate assumptions, and guide sound technology decisions that balance business, engineering, and architectural objectives and Benevity standards, governance, and controls
- Coordinate prioritization and scheduling with product management, and understand current and future business context so resourcing and cost decisions align with business needs
- Provide visibility into team execution and release adoption through regular performance measures and reporting, aligned to the Benevity Scorecard and Playbook
- Use AI tooling in work to scale impact, and coach teams to do the same
- Ensure teams commit time to engineering-led innovation and carry promising PI projects through to completion
Requirements:
- Hands-on experience with agentic and AI-assisted software development, and with using AI tooling to scale leadership work
- Successful track record leading multiple engineering teams working with cloud-based technologies
- End-to-end SaaS product development experience, at scale, in enterprise environments
- Strong delivery mindset: accountable, follow through on commitments, and get results across competing priorities
- Track record of driving internal adoption and enablement of new tools, platforms, or releases
- Comfort leading teams across DevX/SDLC and product-facing work, and shifting capacity between them
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including with non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to multitask and reprioritize without losing sight of what matters most
- Passion for developing people, building team culture and engagement, and building technology teams in high-growth companies
- Technical knowledge, including at a code level, to validate assumptions and guide sound technology decisions
- Empathy, positivity, and self-awareness, plus ability to build business context that fosters a sense of team excellence
- Passion for development methodologies, with ability to adapt approach
- Satisfaction in leaving code, processes, and people better than when started, and curiosity about latest technologies and best practices