Senior Engineering Manager - Slack Search & AI

Slack is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to join the Search and AI team. The team is responsible for building out all experiences related to AI and Search within the product. We own many marquee features like Recap, AI Answers, AI message explain, and search. We also work across all teams at Slack to help develop our overarching AI strategy. We strive to make Slack the best place to do work.

In this role, you will need to meld creative product thinking, a thirst for understanding people from a variety of backgrounds, and thoughtful use of data in order to build the best in class enterprise solutions. You'll lead a hardworking team of frontend and backend engineers while growing your team through recruiting efforts. We're looking for someone invested in their team's career development and that facilitates psychologically safe discussions around: project deliveries, process improvements, and mentorship. You should be well-versed in full-stack design principles and be able to give advice on code architecture and implementation.

What you will be doing

• Use data to make decisions about prioritization and impact
• Have a real passion for experimentation
• Mentor and coach engineers on the team, helping them to develop into technical leaders
• Work closely with Product, Design, Data, and Marketing to conceive features that will help our users to successfully build their teams
• Build roadmaps and long-term team vision in partnership with the Product team
• Be accountable for driving project execution
• Define and fulfill the engineering hiring plan for the team, including screening and interviewing
• Anticipate future technical needs and craft plans to realize them
• Collaborate with other engineering leaders on priorities, processes, and policies

What you should have

• You have 3-4+ years of engineering management experience leading productive, high-functioning teams
• You have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience
• Ability to weigh several and often conflicting constraints to make rapid decisions in a multifaceted and quickly-growing company
• You have enough technical experience to discuss architecture and product decisions with engineers
• You have a proven history of shipping products with consistent execution
• You are highly organized and thrive in rapid-paced environments
• You don't shy away from performance conversations and you recognize the relationship between objective feedback and career growth

Nice to have

• Experience in building retrieval-augmented generation based features
• Experience in building Search and AI products
• Background in Machine Learning

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you'll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we'll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future - but to redefine what's possible - for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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For New York-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $200,800 to $276,100.

For Washington-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $184,000 to $253,000.

For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $200,800 to $276,100.

Client-provided location(s): Atlanta, GA, Seattle, WA, San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Bellevue, WA

Job ID: Salesforce-JR312019

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-10-03T20:20:52