Tenna is seeking an Engineering Manager to connect engineering execution with product delivery. Reporting to engineering leadership, the Engineering Manager leads multiple development teams and is responsible for the full people-management lifecycle, including hiring, performance, and staffing. This role partners with Product on priorities and trade-offs, manages schedules, dependencies, and execution risk, and holds technical leads accountable for design quality and delivery commitments. The Engineering Manager does not set product direction or perform hands-on technical work; the focus is on driving execution through the team.
The ideal candidate is an experienced people manager with the technical credibility to engage substantively with the team's work. Having begun your career as a technical contributor before moving into leadership, you bring a proven record of developing engineers and delivering product through your teams. You are technical enough to evaluate estimates, identify design risks before they escalate, and partner effectively with technical leads, while recognizing that your primary contribution is leadership rather than implementation. You understand the product well enough to make sound trade-off decisions and to identify issues early. Sounds like you? Apply now!
Your Responsibilities
- Owns the full people management lifecycle for direct reports: 1:1s, performance reviews, career development, hiring, terminations, and compensation decisions.
- Manages multiple engineering teams, owning people and delivery outcomes across scope.
- Ensures teams meet their KPIs and have the right staffing to deliver on commitments.
- Develops Tech Leads in their roles, supporting their growth in design ownership, technical mentorship, and delivery accountability.
- Owns active project management for feature development—defining scope with Product partners, scheduling delivery, identifying dependencies and complexities, managing timelines, and moving resources as necessary to protect commitments.
- Acts as the project management layer for engineering: coordinates with Product Managers to align on deadlines and priorities, surfaces risks early, and proactively resolves scheduling conflicts.
- Holds Tech Leads accountable to delivery commitments and design completion. Gut-checks estimates and engages with project designs, plans, and scope definitions to identify execution and schedule risk.
- Holds partial accountability for burn charts—does not own them outright but is responsible for ensuring they accurately reflect project health.
- Ensures deployment plans are defined and in place ahead of every feature release.
- Identifies technical and schedule risks across projects; partners with Tech Leads on mitigation strategies before issues escalate.
- Partners with Product Management to understand priorities, define features clearly, and negotiate tradeoffs between scope, time, and resources.
- Partners with Tech Leads to ensure execution proceeds correctly per process and standards. Where execution gaps exist, addresses them through coaching, resourcing, or process intervention.
- Drives process improvement initiatives to increase team efficiency, delivery predictability, and engineering quality.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong background as a hands-on technical contributor earlier in your career.
- 3+ years of experience in an engineering management role, with direct responsibility for project delivery and people management.
- Demonstrated experience managing and developing engineering talent, including performance reviews, hiring, and compensation decisions.
- Proven experience owning project management for software feature development, not just coordination, but full accountability for schedule, scope, process, and outcomes.
- Technical depth sufficient to evaluate risks in designs and plans, gut-check technical estimates, and credibly partner with Tech Leads. You don’t need to be the deepest technical expert in the room; you need to be technical enough to ask the right questions and recognize when an answer doesn’t add up.
- Strong track record of collaborating with Product Management to define features, align on priorities, and navigate tradeoffs.
- Ability to identify and manage technical and schedule risk proactively, developing mitigation strategies before issues escalate.
- Solid understanding of software delivery processes, standards, and deployment practices.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field is required, or equivalent industry experience.
Benefits, Perks, & Additional Information:
- Full-time opportunity.
- Location: Remote - nationwide.
- Travel is required, 8 - 10%.
- Opportunities for growth and personal development within a highly dynamic team.
- Robust, low-cost benefit packages offered.
- Benefit coverage begins on the first date of employment.
- Paid Time Off and Volunteer Time Off offered.
- 401k match.
- Dependent Care offered.
- Employee referral bonuses.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 3+ years of engineering management experience with direct responsibility for people and delivery
- Experience managing the full people lifecycle (1:1s, performance reviews, hiring, compensation, terminations)
- Proven ownership of project management for software feature development (schedule, scope, process, outcomes)
- Technical depth to evaluate design risks and gut-check estimates
- Experience partnering with Product Management to define features and negotiate tradeoffs
- Ability to identify and proactively manage technical and schedule risks with mitigation strategies
- Solid understanding of software delivery processes, standards, and deployment practices
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent industry experience
What We Do
Tenna is the construction technology platform that revolutionizes equipment fleet operations. We are the standard for the construction industry. Going beyond tracking, Tenna blends cutting-edge technology with more than 100 years of construction experience to help companies know more, control more and make more. Tenna lets contractors know more with reliable tracking and a unified platform for mixed fleets. Tenna lets contractors control more with visibility from the machine level to the project, all the way up to the whole company. The result is that construction businesses make more money with better own, move, buy/rent decisions, higher utilization and more predictable days. From heavy yellow iron and associated parts and attachment, to mid-sized equipment, to heavy trucks and fleet vehicles, down to small assets, tools, materials and consumable inventory, Tenna is a construction-focused total equipment management solution for contractors that own, operate and maintain a construction equipment fleet.
