Senior Engineering Manager, Maps

About This Role

Lead the backend services within the Maps division, overseeing product development, strategy, and team management. Drive profitability and play a vital role in shaping the future of location-based services.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic direction, vision, and roadmap for the Maps engineering teams, aligning it with the company's overall goals and objectives
• Lead an organization of engineers, fostering innovation, collaboration, and excellence in engineering practices
• Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of Maps APIs, ensuring they meet customer requirements and industry standards
• Leverage user feedback and market insights for refinement of Maps APIs
• Collaborate with external engineering leaders to drive technical excellence and cultivate strategic partnerships
• Expand Mapbox's presence by enabling seamless integration of mapping solutions
• Identify new business opportunities for strategic growth
• Partner with Product and Sales team across the company to align roadmap, product launches, and customer deliverables

Requirements

• 10+ years of software development leadership experience
• Conceptualized and delivered B2B2C or consumer-facing products
• Strong leadership and communication skills
• Ability to establish a realistic yet ambitious product roadmap and effectively communicate it
• Experience in a high-accountability environment
• Ability to build, operationalize, and scale technically distributed organizations
• Demonstrated ability to drive go-to-market strategies that resulted in successful product adoption and revenue generation
• Ability to think strategically to grow the Maps business

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software development leadership experience

Nice to Have

• Architect and deliver scalable, reliable solutions on AWS
• Deep knowledge of cloud-native services to balance performance, resilience, and operational simplicity
• Drive infrastructure cost efficiency as a first-class engineering concern
• Proactively optimizing cloud spend through thoughtful architecture, right-sizing, automation, and disciplined trade-off decisions

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits