Engineering Manager - Foundations

The Role 

As an Engineering Manager at Fanatics, you will be a technical leader with the ability to grow and scale engineering teams that can deliver business results and ship high-quality software with customer-facing products and internal platforms. 

We own the Fanatics App, the brand-forward application of Fanatics that encompasses elements of all of our different brands and businesses. The Fanatics App brings together Free to Play sports games, live events, ecommerce, and new product experiences to deliver a new Sports platform. Fundamentally, we are one team in everything we do from the user experience to coding and architecture. In order to deliver on our Customer Promise, we use best in class technologies; thus allowing platforms to be as up to date as possible so that we can rapidly deliver and innovate in this exciting new market. 

 You’ll lead the Foundations team, an enablement team owning marketing-tech, our CMS that drives all of our product experiences in the Fanatics app, and other internal tools that we decide to spin up. Additionally, you’ll own the Native Platform roadmap, ensuring all of our iOS and Android developers have the right foundation and structure to be effective in their day-to-day. Through the efforts of you and your team, we’ll enable our marketing teams and our other teams to achieve their huge ambitions and build a fantastic developer experience while we’re at it. 

What You’ll Do: 

• Provide leadership and technical expertise within your engineering vertical 

• Build and lead one or more teams that will deliver software while adhering (and contributing) to engineering best practices 

• Clarify technical requirements, negotiate priorities, and manage projects to deliver on time by leading daily scrum activities 

• Clears or escalates blockers to accelerate progress of delivery 

• Work closely with your product, design and marketing partners to create an ambitious, yet achievable roadmap that can be communicated to executives and stakeholders 

• Drive reliable and predictable team execution by setting clear objectives, using data and KPIs to drive transparency, and champion continuous improvement across engineering practices and systems 

• Provide clear updates (KPIs, status, metrics) to an executive audience and key stakeholders 

• Determine where to simplify, optimize, or extend solutions for the best outcomes 

• Help to recruit, assess and onboard a diverse group of talented engineers 

• Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities 

What We’re Looking For: 

• 1+ years of experience managing an engineering team 

• 4+ years of experience building highly scalable and fault tolerant systems 

• You have knowledge of a broad range of design approaches and can deconstruct an architecture to be developed by different teams 

• Able to scope a project and with targeted dates to ensure they meet business needs 

• Knows how to discern which features are essential, can be triaged, or omitted and works to negotiate with Product Management 

• Able to effectively communicate complex technical subjects to a variety of audiences (engineers, technical leaders, marketing and operations teams, non-technical functional leaders) 

• Familiar with Agile software product delivery and SCRUM methodology 

• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills 

• Solid report writing skills with the ability to gather, evaluate and analyze relevant information while structuring material in a logical and coherent manner. 

• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, hyper-growth environment where priorities evolve regularly and decisions are made quickly 

• Team-first mentality, with a willingness to do what it takes to get the job done and a desire to strive for better 

• Able to effectively work cross-functionally within an enterprise environment 

Preferred Qualifications:  

•  Experience working in a start-up environment