{"id":987248,"url":"https://alion.io/job/linktree-engineering-manager-activation","title":"Engineering Manager, Activation","company":{"id":723180,"name":"Linktree","domain":"linktree.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/linktree-2","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Gem","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":80,"open_postings":11,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.818,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":56,"computed_at":"2026-11-02T06:13:15Z"}},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":220000,"max":250000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":250000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"AWS","optional":true},{"name":"Go","optional":true},{"name":"GraphQL","optional":true},{"name":"PHP","optional":true},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2025-12-10T17:18:04Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-03","last_verified_at":"2026-11-02T17:41:08Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":327,"trust":{"level":"stale","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale"],"days_open":326},"description":"The Role\nWe’re looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead our Activation team - the team focused on helping more users successfully get started with Linktree, experience value quickly, and become engaged, retained users.\nYou’ll lead a small, cross-functional engineering squad working at the heart of our growth funnel, partnering closely with Product, Design, and Data to identify opportunities, run experiments, and ship experiences that improve activation and drive meaningful user and business outcomes.\nThis is a player-coach role for someone who enjoys staying close to the work. You’ll combine strong people leadership with hands-on technical contribution - guiding architecture, prototyping solutions, reviewing critical work, and writing code when it helps the team move faster.\nWhat You’ll Do\nLead and mentor a high-performing engineering squad focused on improving activation and early user experiences.\nStay hands-on technically, contributing code, prototyping solutions, and jumping into critical technical work when it helps unblock the team or accelerate delivery.\nPartner with Product, Design, and Data to identify opportunities, shape experiments, and translate ideas into pragmatic, scalable experiences.\nConnect engineering work to measurable outcomes, using data and experimentation to understand what improves activation, engagement, retention, and conversion.\nDrive technical excellence through thoughtful architecture, code reviews, testing practices, performance, and operational reliability.\nSet clear outcomes and prioritize effectively, helping the team navigate tradeoffs and consistently ship high-impact work at speed.\nBuild for experimentation and iteration, enabling the team to test ideas quickly, learn from user behavior, and scale what works.\nEmbed AI tooling and workflows to enhance developer productivity, prototyping, and delivery.\nChampion reliability, ensuring healthy on-call practices and continuous improvement in incident response.\nWho You Are\nExperienced in modern software development and architecture, with the technical depth to contribute hands-on and guide important engineering decisions.\nProven track record leading engineers and shipping user-facing products, ideally in a consumer, product-led, growth, or highly metrics-driven environment.\nA true player-coach - you enjoy developing engineers while remaining close to the code and technical execution.\nComfortable working with experimentation, analytics, and user insights to understand whether what you ship is actually driving impact.\nStrong product instincts and a collaborative approach to working with Product, Design, Data, and Engineering partners.\nSkilled at balancing speed, quality, and scalability, with strong judgment around scope, prioritization, and technical tradeoffs.\nThoughtful and empathetic people leader who gives clear feedback, supports career development, and creates an environment where engineers can do their best work.\nComfortable navigating ambiguity and evolving priorities with a bias toward action.\nCurious and AI-forward, actively using AI and automation to improve engineering velocity and effectiveness.\nNice to Have\nFamiliarity with parts of our stack: TypeScript, React, GraphQL, AWS, and PHP.\nExperience with growth, activation, experimentation, onboarding, or conversion-focused product surfaces.\nExperience working on high-scale consumer or product-led products.\nLinktree is committed to providing a fair and competitive compensation package including cash, equity, and benefits. The base salary offered for this role is targeted at $220,000 - $250,000 for roles based in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Final offers depend on multiple factors including location, experience, expertise, and role scope, and may vary from the range listed.\nP.S. If you don’t tick every box in this listing, please don’t rule yourself out. We take pride in inclusion and hiring incredible human beings with great potential over ticking boxes - so if this role resonates with you, hit that apply button!\nOur Story\nWe’re on a mission to empower anyone to curate, grow, and monetize their digital universe. We created the “link in bio” category - and we’re just getting started. From creators, artists, and entrepreneurs to global brands, we’re redefining how people connect with their communities, showcase their content and promote products - all in one link.\nToday, a community of 70+ million use Linktree, including icons like Adidas, TikTok, the UN Environmental Program, The NFL, Manchester United, World Central Kitchen, Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Rodrigo, and Selena Gomez. With 48,000 new accounts created every day, Linktree is the fastest-growing leader in our space.\nWe’ve teamed up with some of the world’s biggest platforms including TikTok, Snap, YouTube, GoFundMe, Spotify, Google, Stripe, Reddit, Laylo, and Kajabi, to unify Linkers’ digital spaces, and we partner with retail brands Amazon, Lululemon, Nike, Target, Sephora, Lululemon, and more to share products they love.\nWe’re a tight-knit, passionate team building best-in-class tools that make online presence simple, powerful, and yours. If you're excited by the idea of shaping a new category, setting the standard, and making space for everyone to be seen and succeed, we’d love to meet you.\nWhere and How We Work\nWe're a global, diverse team spread across continents with offices in London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, and San Francisco. We work together flexibly and you can choose the setup that works best for you: fully remote or a hybrid mix of office and home.\nWe offer autonomy in how you structure your days and weeks. While we’re mindful of time zones and occasionally collaborate outside the typical 9-5, we lean into async work to keep things flowing. Our culture is family-friendly and Zoom-casual where kids, pets, and delivery drivers are welcome.\nHow we’ll help you thrive\nOur approach to benefits considers the whole person and the unique contributions they bring to Linktree. We want the experience at Linktree to be one that enables people to truly thrive so we can Go Further Together (one of our values). Some ways we support you:\nAn annual wellbeing allowance to use on things like (but not limited to) fitness memberships, development courses, childcare, travel, charitable donations, pet insurance, home office set-up - the choice is yours!\n100% coverage (and 80% for your dependents) of your monthly premiums for medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance for US-based employees.\nEmployer contribution towards your retirement.\nGenerous time off for vacation, holidays, parental leave, volunteer time, and other categories.\nEmployee stock option program - we want each and every employee to share in the company’s success.\nAt Linktree, we believe in promoting a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, talents, and experiences, and we’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are creating an inclusive workplace where every individual feels valued, respected, and has equal opportunities to thrive. We aim to foster a diverse and inclusive environment where all team members have a sense of belonging. Linktree welcomes all people regardless of sex, gender identity, race, ethnicity, disability, pregnancy, age, or other lived experience. 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