At CoLab, we want to help mechanical engineering teams bring life-changing products to market years sooner.
CoLab is a cloud based platform for engineering design review. We make it easy for subject matter experts (SMEs) across your business to access, evaluate, and comment on 2D drawings and 3D models. Our built-in AI peer checker, AutoReview, scans designs for common errors or non-compliance with your standards and guidelines. AutoReview creates markups and comments on your files, in context – just like a human checker.
With CoLab, human SMEs and AI work together to help you make better decisions and improve designs faster. We automatically capture knowledge from across your global business that would otherwise be buried in emails, spreadsheets, slide decks, and unknown locations in Sharepoint or PLM. Then, we make sure every lesson learned and every design guideline is applied exactly when it matters.
Companies like Johnson Controls, Komatsu, Schaeffler, and Polaris have launched products 40% faster, cut BOM costs by 50%, and reduced quality escapes by 15% in 1 year.
About the RoleWe’re currently on the hunt for our next Engineering Manager to own our Build Engage team. As the EM, you’ll be responsible for CoLab’s Reviews feature set, one of the most visible, heavily used, and business-critical parts of the product.
Reviews are where engineers collaborate remotely: viewing CAD models, leaving feedback, iterating together, and ultimately making better design decisions. It’s the connective tissue between collaboration, feedback, and our AI-powered review workflows.
You’ll lead a team of ~10 engineers who are ambitious, deeply engaged, and proud of what they ship. They care about craft, about each other, and about not wasting time. Your job is to help them grow, stay healthy, and continue delivering high-quality UI/UX-heavy work.
You’ll partner closely with a strong PM, design, and product leadership. You won’t be asked to blaze a brand-new frontier alone — but you will be expected to make good product calls, manage tradeoffs, and keep the team grounded when priorities shift.
What You’ll Own- The health, growth, and performance of the Build Engage engineering team
- Delivery and evolution of core reviews functionality, including feedback loops, collaboration workflows, and visibility into CAD models
- UI/UX-heavy roadmap areas like reviews, notifications, and shared ownership of navigation and related surfaces
- Clear communication up, down, and sideways — especially in a product area that’s always in the spotlight
- Engineers feel supported, challenged, and understood as individuals
- The team ships consistently, even when priorities change, without losing its sense of identity
- Stakeholders trust you to represent tradeoffs clearly and advocate realistically for capacity
- Reviews continues to feel intuitive, responsive, and essential to customers’ daily workflows
You might be a great fit if you:
- Lead with warmth, empathy, and clarity — and genuinely enjoy the people side of management
- Come from a frontend or UI-leaning background and can still dive into technical discussions when needed
- Are product-minded and pragmatic, not dogmatic
Know how to push a high-performing team to grow without pushing them over the edge - Are comfortable managing a large team (~10 direct reports) with varying strengths and needs
- Experience managing and developing engineering teams in a product-focused environment
- Strong communication skills with engineers, product managers, designers, and leadership
- Technical fluency, especially in frontend or UI-heavy systems
- Experience navigating changing priorities while protecting team health
- Full-time, permanent role with competitive compensation and equity
- Extended health benefits, unlimited paid vacation, and RRSP matching
- Remote-first across Canada, with optional hybrid work from St. John’s, NL
Frequently cited statistics show that people who identify with historically marginalized groups are likely to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to help us break that statistic and apply even if you don’t meet every single qualification—your potential is what matters most to us.
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What We Do
Engineers need better tools for working together. CAD and PLM systems aren’t built for the design conversations where collaboration truly happens. So engineers go outside of them, using emails and slideshows to get the job done. But when these critical design discussions live in siloed, manual tools, you’re missing vital insights on why engineering decisions are being made, what needs to improve, and how to steer your people in the right direction.
After struggling with the traditional email, PowerPoint, and screenshot-driven collaboration process used by over 90% of manufacturing teams today, our founders made a decision: if better tools didn’t exist, they’d build them. And so CoLab began.
CoLab is a web-based collaboration tool that lets your team share CAD, provide feedback with full mechanical context, and capture the critical design data that your other systems don’t—giving you a design review and collaboration process that’s standardized, simplified, and twice-as-fast.
Today CoLab is trusted by Fortune 500 companies like Johnson Controls and Hyundai Mobis, who use the platform to accelerate design cycles by 51%, drive continuous improvement, and reduce product costs and changes.
See how we’re changing the way engineers work together at www.colabsoftware.com
