Software Engineering Manager - Global UX - Applications - Platform
Manage the engineering team for Global UX, overseeing Elastic's design system and component library in a fully remote environment.
Posted by employer 19 hours ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 hour ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 hour ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Manage and grow a team of engineers
- Own the team's delivery cadence
- Run hiring and onboarding
- Build strong team culture
- Track adoption and health metrics
Must have
- Experience managing engineering teams
- Experience running delivery cadence
- Working knowledge of frontend engineering
- Experience hiring and developing engineers
- Robust stakeholder management skills
Nice to have
- Curiosity about AI in design-to-code workflows
- Experience using data and adoption metrics
Role intensity
10% coding — mostly leadership/strategy
AI in the day-to-day
Support the team's experiments with AI-assisted design-to-code workflows and developer tools.
Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Software Engineering Manager for Global UX at Elastic oversees a team dedicated to developing and maintaining the Elastic UI design system and component library. This role requires expertise in frontend technologies like React and TypeScript, along with strong leadership skills to manage team dynamics and project delivery. Ideal candidates will have experience in design systems and a collaborative approach to stakeholder management, making it suitable for those with a background in engineering management. The position emphasizes a balance between innovation and meeting the immediate needs of various internal teams.
Joblaze insights
Quick facts
- Is the Software Engineering Manager - Global UX - Applications - Platform role remote?
- Yes — Elastic lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Elastic lists €61,100–€96,600 for this role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: React, TypeScript.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Elastic targets lead candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Software Engineering Manager - Global UX - Applications - Platform role at Elastic.
From the original posting
Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.
What is The Role
What You Will Be Doing
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Manage and grow a team of engineers responsible for building and maintaining Elastic UI (EUI) and other shared design system infrastructure across Global UX.
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Own the team's delivery cadence - sprint planning, quarterly roadmap, outcomes, and status reporting to stakeholders across Elastic.
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Run hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career growth for engineers on the team.
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Build strong team culture and health in a fully distributed, async-first environment.
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Represent Global UX in cross-functional planning with other engineering, design, and product leadership across Elastic.
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Remove blockers for the team: negotiate dependencies with other teams, address organizational friction, and escalate risks early.
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Track adoption and health metrics for the design system (usage, satisfaction, migration progress) and use them to inform roadmap priorities.
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Build relationships with teams that consume the design system, gathering feedback and making sure their needs shape the roadmap.
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Support the team's experiments with AI-assisted design-to-code workflows and developer tools. Balance innovation with delivery commitments.
What You Bring
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Previous experience managing engineering teams that build and maintain design systems, component libraries, or similarly widely-consumed shared UI or platform infrastructure.
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Experience running delivery cadence - sprint planning, quarterly planning, roadmapping, and outcomes for a team that serves many internal stakeholders.
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Working knowledge of frontend engineering (React, TypeScript, component architecture) sufficient to make credible technical tradeoffs alongside your Tech Lead and engineers.
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Experience hiring, developing, and retaining engineers, with a track record of growing people into more senior roles.
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Robust stakeholder management skills. Comfortable sharing the roadmap, tradeoffs, and risks with engineering, design, and product leaders.
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A track record of balancing platform and foundational investment against the urgent feature requests of consuming teams.
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Deep written and verbal communication skills, with experience working in a distributed, async-first team.
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Experience using data and adoption metrics (usage, satisfaction, migration progress) to inform roadmap decisions.
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A collaborative leadership style that earns trust from your engineering team without needing to be the most technical person in the room.
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Curiosity about how AI is changing design-to-code workflows and developer tooling, and comfort helping a team adopt new practices responsibly.
Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.
At Elastic, our compensation philosophy aims to provide fair, competitive and transparent remuneration. Salary ranges are established based on a combination of external market benchmarks, internal pay equity considerations, and the responsibilities and complexity associated with each role. This approach helps ensure consistency across comparable roles while remaining competitive within the relevant labour markets.
The final compensation offered within the applicable range will be determined based on several objective factors, including relevant professional experience, level of skills and expertise, alignment with the role requirements, and the overall scope and complexity of the position.
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