Manager, Engineering - Scenario Planning

The Projects & Portfolios pillar at Smartsheet is at the heart of how teams plan, execute, and deliver work at scale. As an Engineering Manager focused on resource and scenario planning, you'll lead a talented team building the features that help organizations allocate the right people to the right work and model complex planning decisions with confidence. This is a high-impact role within a collaborative engineering organization, where you'll partner closely with product, design, and cross-functional stakeholders to shape the roadmap and drive technical strategy for capabilities used by some of the world's largest enterprises.

You will report to the Senior Director of Engineering and can be based in our Bellevue, WA office or work remotely from anywhere in the US where Smartsheet is a registered employer.

You Will:

• Manage one or more related teams of 6–10+ full-stack software engineers, driving development of advanced planning capabilities within the Smartsheet product
• Lead cross-functional technical efforts spanning multiple upstream dependents, partner teams, and internal consumers, building alignment and resolving systemic dependencies across the organization
• Plan and deliver complex, end-to-end projects with high technical ambiguity, managing risks, communicating clearly to stakeholders, and building cross-team consensus
• Partner closely with product management, UX, security, and other engineering pillars to shape technical roadmaps and contribute to long-range platform strategy
• Hire exceptional engineering talent and grow your teams by attracting, developing, and advancing great engineers strategically across multiple teams
• Mentor and coach both individual contributors and managers within and beyond your teams, identifying and developing potential successors
• Own quarterly and annual technical and operational goals for your platform area, managing metrics, reporting, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Communicate effectively with executives and non-technical stakeholders, anticipating cross-team conflicts and proactively driving resolution
• Champion AI adoption in both software and platform engineering lifecycles, leveraging shared learnings to improve operational efficiency and customer experiences

You Have:

• You have 8+ years of software engineering experience and 2+ years managing software engineering teams
• You have deep software development skills in at least one systems development language such as Java, C++ or Python 
• You have experience with modern technology stacks with a bent for building scalable, highly available customer-facing cloud applications
• You have experience in a technology that you're personally excited about, such as distributed systems, systems automation, and cloud technologies
• Experience with AWS or another cloud environment (ECS, SNS, SQS, Lambda, RDS, etc)
• Proficiency with observability: metrics, distributed tracing, alerting, and SLO/SLA management at scale
• Experience with Agile/Scrum and iterative delivery on long-horizon infrastructure projects
• Ability to balance engineering excellence with operational pragmatism
• Provides direct, constructive feedback and supports engineer growth at all levels
• You like to dive in, learn new things, and want to build awesome products
• You have demonstrated experience in driving the strategic adoption of AI technologies across engineering teams
• CS/Engineering degree or equivalent practical experience
• Must be legally eligible to work in the US on an ongoing basis