**Quick take: **Axios is a growth-stage company dedicated to providing
trustworthy, award-winning news content in an audience-first format. We’re
hiring a remote Senior Engineering Manager for our media engineering team!
**Why it matters:** Our team enables our mission of delivering the cleanest,
smartest, most efficient and trustworthy content to our users. As well as
building great new products for our readers and newsroom, we’re also embarking
on an ambitious transformation strategy to modernize our tech stack and
deployment processes. We’ve approximately doubled our team in the last year
and we need another senior engineering manager to ensure our folks are
adequately supported to do their best work.
**Go deeper:** In this role, you will make an impact to Axios through the
following responsibilities:
* Directly supporting individual engineers through 1:1s, coaching, and feedback.
* Helping cross-functional teams work productively, with effective prioritization and resourcing.
* Helping to onboard and manage a diverse team of individual contributors, and actively fostering an inclusive environment.
* Creating processes that help engineers focus, rather than feel impeded.
* Helping maintain a culture that balances healthy urgency with the need for downtime and recuperation.
* Helping facilitate a large technical migration while ensuring our teams continue to deliver value to our customers.
**The details:** Ideal candidates will embody an entrepreneurial spirit and
passion for Axios’ mission and preferably have many of the following skills:
* 5+ years of experience leading engineering teams. This is not a role for a first-time manager.
* A great understanding of how software development succeeds and fails, and a willingness to experiment with your teams to do more of the former.
* A track record of treating engineers as humans, rather than fungible resources.
* Excellent listening and communication skills that translate well to a remote work environment.
**Don’t forget:**
* Competitive salary
* Health insurance (100% paid for individuals, 75% for families)
* Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave
* 401K
* Generous vacation policy, plus company holidays
* A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture
**Additional pandemic-related benefits:**
* One mental health day per quarter
* $100 monthly work-from-home stipend
* Tele-mental health services
* OneMedical membership, including tele-health services
* Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers
* Access to the Axios “Family Fund”, which was created to allow employees to request financial support when facing financial hardship or emergencies
* Virtual company-sponsored social events
_Starting salary for this role is in the range of $185,000 - $220,000 and is
dependent on numerous factors, including but not limited to location, work
experience, and skills. This range does not include other compensation
benefits._
**Equal Opportunity Employer Statement**
Axios is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and
inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any
kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, age, gender
identity, gender expression, veteran status, national origin, disability,
genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as
outlined by federal, state, or local laws.
This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization,
including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of
absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Axios makes
hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at
the time.
