Engineering Manager, Frontend Engineering

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Hiring Remotely in USA
Remote
245K-285K Annually
3-5 Years Experience
Artificial Intelligence • Computer Vision • Machine Learning • Software
We believe that deep learning techniques applied to audiovisual content will forever change art, creativity, and design.
The Role
The Engineering Manager will lead a frontend engineering team focused on building AI-driven product features. Responsibilities include mentoring team members, enhancing product performance and security, and aligning engineering activities with company leadership goals.
Summary Generated by Built In

Runway is a research company pioneering new tools for human imagination. Runway has been at the forefront of multi-modal AI systems ensuring that the future of content creation is accessible, controllable and empowering for creatives. Runway’s mission is to ensure that anyone anywhere can tell their stories. We believe that deep learning techniques applied to audiovisual content will forever change art, creativity, and design tools.

Runway is leading a shift to generative media that is unlocking an unprecedented level of creative potential. The invention of the camera 200 years ago forever changed our world –  AI is a new kind of camera that will reshape storytelling forever and lead to full feature films that are entirely generated.

About the role 🎉

We're looking for a hands on Engineering Manager who will lead our growing Frontend team. You should have experience leading high-performing and fast-paced engineering teams, and be deeply interested in building AI-driven products. We value leading by technical expertise. You’ll work closely with our research, platform, design and creative teams to build complex, interactive, and highly delightful UI’s for our products.

What you’ll do 🎨

  • Lead a talented frontend engineering team and keep pushing the boundaries of content creation at a fast speed
  • Develop and deploy state-of-the-art AI-driven product features while offering technical mentorship
  • Work weekly with leadership and the engineering team as a whole to review and set priority around goals
  • Build and grow a team of skilled engineers from diverse backgrounds
  • Engage and retain engineers and make feelings of inclusion and psychological safety a top priority
  • Improve the performance, security, reliability, and code quality of our products

What you’ll need

  • 1+ year of experience in a team lead or engineering manager role
  • 4+ years of industry experience in a frontend engineering role
  • Skills translating leadership goals into actionable tasks to be synthesized and distributed to your team
  • Empathetic and inclusive leadership style
  • Experience with Typescript and React
  • Strong interest in writing robust and maintainable client-server architectures and APIs
  • Ability to rapidly prototype solutions and iterate on them with tight product deadlines
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills


Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Salary range: $245,000-285,000

Working at Runway

Great things come from great teams. We’d love to hear from you.

We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply.

More about Runway

  • Runway Research
  • Runway's AI Film Festival
  • Creative Dialogues Series
  • Runway Studios
  • Our Behaviors and Company Mission


We're excited to be recognized as a best place to work Crain's | InHerSight | BuiltIn NYC | INC


Top Skills

React
Typescript
The Company
HQ: New York, NY
86 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

Runway is a research company pioneering new tools for human imagination. We've been at the forefront of multi-modal AI systems ensuring that the future of content creation is accessible, controllable and empowering for creatives. Our mission is to ensure that anyone anywhere can tell their stories.

Runway is leading a shift to generative media that is unlocking an unprecedented level of creative potential. The invention of the camera 200 years ago forever changed our world – AI is a new kind of camera that will reshape storytelling forever and lead to full feature films that are entirely generated.

Over the last five years, we’ve raised funding from top-tier investors and partners including Amplify, Coatue, Compound, Felicis, Google, Lux, NVIDIA, and Salesforce. Our team consists of creative, open minded, caring, and entrepreneurial individuals from all walks of life. We aspire to build incredible things which starts with building an incredible team, so we’d love to hear from you!

Why Work With Us

At Runway, we're building a unique team of people from diverse backgrounds who elevate one another.
We value non-traditional backgrounds.
We value ideas that are deemed “impossible.”
We value the small rituals that define and will continue to define our culture.
We aspire to build incredible things, which starts with building an incredible team!

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