Senior Engineering Manager

About Vanta

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it.

Our Engineering leaders develop and grow high-performing teams that deliver significant value to our customers and enable our business to scale. Our product integrates deeply with the services that present security risk to a company, pulls and analyzes data from those sources, and surfaces potential security threats to our customers in real time with guidance to remediate them.

You’ll be responsible for setting strategy, for leading your team to deliver results consistently and sustainably, for growing and developing talented engineers, and for cultivating a healthy, results-driven culture on your team.

Vanta’s business and team are growing quickly, and it’s essential that we lay the foundation for a successful organization. You’ll leverage your past experience and play a crucial role in laying the groundwork for a successful engineering organization, contributing to developing foundational processes that enable our entire team to scale — onboarding, interview loops, career frameworks, execution frameworks, and more.

Our business has found incredible product-market fit and has monetized effectively since the day we signed our first customer. We’re growing at a blistering pace, which presents career-defining opportunities for engineers to accelerate their growth and to contribute to a rapidly-scaling company.

What you’ll do as a Senior Engineering Manager at Vanta

• Drive significant impact for our customers and business by leading teams to deliver results consistently and sustainably.
• Build a best-in-class engineering team. Coach, mentor and create an environment where your team can do their best work and deliver for the business.
• Set direction and guide technical strategy, ensuring that your team is delivering long-term value aligned with Vanta’s business priorities.
• Work closely with Vanta’s customers and customer-facing teammates to build and ship high-value products and infrastructure.
• Play an integral role in laying the foundation for Vanta’s engineering culture.

How to be successful in this role

• Have 5 or more years of professional experience in a full-time engineering manager role for product engineering teams.
• Experience leading team sizes of 15-20+ with managers or leads reporting into you.
• Strong decision maker who effectively balances ambiguity, available data, speed, and quality.
• Have participated in developing or driving engineering-wide initiatives (recruiting processes, career frameworks, etc.) in a prior role.
• Have prior experience managing complex, long-term projects that touch multiple teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Effective communicator and story-teller. Able to influence cross-functional stakeholders and adjacent teams.
• Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact.

What you can expect as a Vanta'n in the US

• Industry-competitive salary and equity.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans.
• 16 weeks fully-paid Parental Leave for all new parents.
• Health & wellness stipend.
• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend.
• Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office.
• Family planning benefits.
• Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting.
• Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time.
• 11 company-paid holidays.
• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
• Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney.

Key skills/competency

• Engineering Leadership
• Team Management
• Technical Strategy
• Product Delivery
• Talent Development
• Scaling Organizations
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Project Management
• Culture Building
• Security Compliance (inferred)