Engineering Manager, Destinations

Hightouch — the composable customer data platform · ~580 employees · $332M raised

Remote — United States or CanadaFull-time · Remote (US or Canada)$200K – $300K USD base + $200K bonus

About the role

Hightouch offers a composable customer data platform and an agentic marketing platform: companies activate the data in their own warehouse, and AI Decisioning lets marketers set goals and guardrails for AI agents that personalize customer interactions. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, it has about 580 employees and has raised $332M from investors including Goldman Sachs, Sapphire Ventures, ICONIQ, Bain Capital Ventures, Amplify Partners and Y Combinator. Revenue and headcount have roughly doubled each year.

This is an Engineering Manager seat for the Destinations team. Hightouch wants an early manager — a team lead or early EM with one to four years of management experience — who stays a player-coach: hands-on with their engineers, energized by fast shipping cycles and small, tactile projects, and comfortable working directly with customers.

Why Hightouch: it sits at the intersection of two big tailwinds — agentic AI and cloud data warehouse adoption — and its customer list includes Spotify, Domino's, Ramp, Chime, Whoop, Grammarly and various top AI startups.

Fully remote across the US and Canada.

What you will own

Manage and hire a team of software engineers
Stay hands-on as a player-coach, working closely with your engineers rather than only managing from a distance
Build at the platform layer: API integrations, data pipelines, sync infrastructure and algorithmic optimizations
Ship quickly, in smaller, tactile projects
Work directly with customers as well as lead the team

Requirements

Must have1–4 years of management experience at most (a team lead or early Engineering Manager)

Must haveSignificant time at a top-tier venture-backed startup, joining during its growth stage (roughly Series B to E, or 20 to 1,000 people)

Must have6+ years of backend software engineering experience, with exposure to leading and mentoring teams

Must haveExperience managing and hiring a team of software engineers

Must haveDemonstrated ability building at the platform layer (API integrations, data pipelines, sync infrastructure, algorithmic optimizations and similar)

Must haveA player-coach mentality, willing to be hands-on with engineers often

Must haveEnergized by fast shipping cycles and smaller, tactile projects

Must haveA CS, math or similar degree from a top university

Must haveA strong trajectory (fast promotions, top companies, work on core products) and average tenure longer than 2 years

Nice to haveExperience with performance optimization (for example parallelism and batching)

Not a fitMore than four years of management experience

Not a fitAversion to direct customer interaction or to being a team leader

Not a fitLooking for AI/ML product work

We interview honestly against this list — if you meet most of the “Must have” rows, apply.

Compensation

Remote — United States or Canada

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