Engineering Manager, Starter Kit (Publishing)

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for. 

About the Role, Mission or Department Overview

The New York Times is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Publishing group's Starter Kit team.

The Publishing group at The New York Times is responsible for content management across all of the NY Times and bundled brands. It empowers development teams to build and evolve experiences with speed. It provides editors and creators with a unified and interconnected suite of tools, which they can use with confidence to make the world's best journalism.

Within Publishing, the Starter Kit team develops the foundational shared libraries and UI components that provide leverage to teams building applications on Scoop, our CMS and publishing platform.

As an Engineering Manager, you will be a key technical and operational leader, working with product, design, and newsroom partners to build solutions for a variety of editorial and internal customer workflows. You will lead a team of 5-6 engineers and report to a Senior Engineering Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Manage, coach, and mentor a team of 5-6 mid- to staff level engineers; create career development plans, provide feedback, and identify growth opportunities.

• Guide the technical strategy with a tech lead and work with partners to plan the product roadmap.

• Oversee team processes, measurement, and delivery; help engineers break down work into small chunks, identify dependencies and tradeoffs, and remove roadblocks. Advocate for AI and Agentic development.

• Hold a high technical bar, guiding the team to decisions that ensure the product is performant, secure, observable, and high quality.

• Be the bridge between the engineering team, partners, and stakeholders. Help the team understand the business context and editorial goals for the work. Advocate for technical maintenance.

• Cultivate a team culture built on trust, collaboration and psychological safety

• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Basic Qualifications:

• 1+ years as an Engineering Manager with people management responsibilities

• 5+ years of hands-on experience as a software engineer with expertise in the modern frontend ecosystem (TypeScript/ES6+, HTML, and CSS)

• Experience with building applications on cloud computing platforms like AWS or GCP

• Experience planning a roadmap with cross-functional peers and managing execution and delivery

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with GraphQL APIs, Apollo Client or collaborative rich text editing software

• Experience working on design systems and shared libraries for frontend software

• Interest in or prior experience leading teams to develop productive AI and agentic workflows

• Interest in or prior experience with digital journalism or content management

Compensation and Benefits For This Role:

In addition to base salary, this role is also eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock. Benefits include medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.

The annual base pay range for this role is between:

$152,000—$190,000 USD

Candidate Use of GenAI Tools:

We’re excited to learn more about you and your experience. To keep our hiring process as fair and authentic as possible, we ask that you submit your own work and not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process.

If you’re an engineering candidate, we’ll let you know what specific GenAI tools you are permitted to use for your technical assessment.

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