Engineering Manager

Description:

Our focus is on helping people to complete their creative projects, with our author community earning every time that happens.

Envato proudly impacts the lives of creatives all over the world, every day. We believe the world is a better place when anyone can get their creative projects done, helping creators bring their ideas to life and earn a living doing what they love. It doesn’t get much better than that!

We are a global business that is scaling rapidly. As a passionate B Corp that balances purpose and profit, we're committed to making a positive impact on the communities we serve. You can read more about our purpose, mission and values here.

We've done remote flexible working for a while now - pretty much since day one! Our roles can be based anywhere in Australia or New Zealand and are continually working hard to keep our global teams connected.

What You'll Be Doing

As an Engineering Manager you will be the leader of a technical team that works collaboratively with commercial, product, and other teams to operate and evolve Envato's online businesses. Your responsibilities cover technical operations for large web platforms, people management of large teams. and delivery of large projects. You will play a key role in preserving and strengthening Envato's technical culture that emphasises taking ownership and responsibility, while acting as a trusted advisor to non-technical colleagues.

You will be able to establish and maintain great stakeholder relationships, provide coaching and mentoring to engineers reporting to you, oversee the delivery of initiatives, monitor operational performance including budgets for infrastructure and tools, manage technical risks and contribute to company wide technical discussions and initiatives. You will be able to pragmatically balance short and long term considerations as well as technical and commercial ones while strengthening our culture and keeping Envato a great place to work.

What We're Looking For

• Substantial people management, team leadership and mentoring experience of at least two years
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Highly self-motivated and directed
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment requiring adaptability
• Ability to drive execution by organising team work, setting goals, and holding the team accountable
• Ability to establish relationships and work with other business teams (support, marketing, legal, etc.)
• Ability to increase the team’s effectiveness without slipping quality
• A proven track record in driving great new functionality to market, working cross functionally and in an Agile way
• Displays integrity and ethical behaviour; interacts fairly, honestly and professionally in all business dealings in line with Envato’s Values
• Ability to receive, integrate, and provide constructive feedback
• Will promote the team within the local and global development communities

About Us

We’re B Corp certified & believe in succeeding sustainably as one global team. We provide MacBooks for you to do your best work, as well as a generous tech spend so you can set up with all the tools you need to do your role.

We support the flexibility to work from anywhere (and when we’re on the move again, the chance to combine work & travel) by supporting our people to work from almost any location in the world for up to 3 months every year and offering up to 20 days of additional purchased leave.

We removed standard hours from our employment contracts to empower our people to work in a way that makes sense to them. We’re committed to ensuring all our team feel welcome, included and respected and offer generous benefits including excellent parental leave, learning budgets, wellness programs, social connection and learning opportunities to help you grow