Engineering Manager, Channels & Platform
Role Summary
Siena is seeking an Engineering Manager to oversee day-to-day engineering execution and manage a distributed team across various time zones in the UK.
About the Organisation
Our current Engineering Manager holds the full picture across Channels, Analytics, Agents, and Integrations. That context is bottlenecked in one person - and that's a problem we're close to feeling. We're scaling fast: Order Protection, Social Agent, Voice, and Shopping Agent are all spinning up in parallel. The team is distributed remotely across different timezones, making working hours and proper oversight hard to properly meet.
This role exists to close that gap. We need someone who owns engineering execution day-to-day - taking roughly 30% of what our Engineering Manager currently holds - so they can focus on strategy, customers, fundraising, and what's next.
This isn't a coordinator role. You run 1:1s, keep cycle cadence honest, write technical debt plans alongside engineers, unblock people before it becomes an escalation, and act as a genuine thought partner on the operational side. Scope changes and anything that reshapes the team are joint calls. Everything else is yours.
- Real ownership. You will own problems, not tasks, with the autonomy to solve them your way and the trust to do it without a manager in your inbox.
- Work that ships and matters. What you build reaches real consumer brands fast.
- A category we are creating. The Agent of Record is new ground, with unsolved problems and cutting-edge models, not a crowded field to compete in.
- A team that respects your judgment. Globally distributed, async-first, low bureaucracy. We hire adults and treat you like one.
- Great salary plus equity or stock grants. Own a piece of what you build.
- Learning budget. If you are growing, so are we.
- AI-fluency by default. Few places will push your work with production AI further or faster.
Eligibility Criteria
No specific eligibility requirements outlined; role may be open to various applicants.
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