Engineering Manager

Role Overview

As an Engineering Manager at Chromatic, you will lead a full-stack feature team building customer-facing capabilities for the platform. You’ll work closely with cross-functional partners to prioritize projects and mentor engineers in a distributed, asynchronous environment.

Key Missions / Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 6–10 engineers to deliver projects aligned with business objectives and maintain feature continuity between Chromatic and Storybook.
• Partner with the engineering management team to evolve company culture and engineering processes.
• Collaborate with the Product team to prioritize upcoming projects.
• Mentor and support engineers’ growth; establish onboarding procedures for new hires.
• Support team growth and hiring as needed.

Requirements

• Strong written and verbal communication; can collaborate productively in a distributed, asynchronous setting.
• Proven ability to lead across time zones with empathy and interpersonal effectiveness.
• A growth mindset; “strong opinions, weakly held” approach (pushes back constructively, handles critique well).
• Execution mindset: stays accountable, manages distractions, and ensures consistent progress.
• Genuine interest in developer experience (DX) and/or prior experience serving front-end teams’ needs.
• 3+ years of experience managing a software engineering team.
• 5+ years of professional engineering experience in web development.
• Experience working effectively in remote-first/distributed teams.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience managing engineering teams in the developer tooling space.
• Experience with Storybook or Chromatic.
• Background reflecting a non-traditional path into software (insight from experiences beyond engineering).