Senior Engineering Manager, Distribution Platform

Upstart's Distribution Platform team is developing innovative solutions and strategies that drive efficient and scalable marketing outreach, empowering us to effectively engage with our users while having a direct impact on Upstart's mission and growth. The team is responsible for some of our highest value distribution channels including digital ads, direct mail, and partner integrations.

Our goal is to build an intelligent, unified system that learns, automates, and scales how Upstart engages with our customers on these channels.

As a Senior Engineering Manager at Upstart, you will play a crucial role in shaping how we drive user growth and outreach through intelligent targeting, 3P integrations, and data-heavy scalable infrastructure. You’ll be responsible for the tech behind some of our largest marketing channels and have a direct impact on the company’s performance.

You will work closely with cross-functional counterparts in Analytics, Marketing, Machine Learning, and Product to create a scalable marketing platform that mobilizes Upstart’s owned channels to drive users to our products efficiently.

• Define and implement an engineering roadmap that supports intelligent and scalable outreach to customers via our direct mail, digital, and partnerships platform

• Work with cross functional partners including Product Managers, Performance Marketing Managers, Analytics, and Research Scientists to make this a highly impactful program

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing engineering team directly, focused on providing high quality solutions and incrementally enhance systems with each pull request

• Leverage experimentation and data-driven insights to refine growth strategies, optimizing user outreach and conversion through continuous testing, iteration, and personalization

• Create a best-in-class direct mail and digital infrastructure that scales

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics, or a related field (or its equivalent) + 8 years of experience, including at least 3 years of direct people management experience.

• Experience leading product oriented teams with quantifiable user impact

• Ability to convey complex technical information to a variety of audiences

• Experience working on systems that integrate with 3rd parties and/or ingest, store, expose large amounts of data

• Professional experience working on either Marketing technology or Growth engineering

• Proven track record of leading and growing engineering teams

• Success in driving initiatives spanning multiple teams across organizations

• Skilled in scaling systems in both a technical and organizational capacity