Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Engineering Manager remit sits at a familiar SaaS inflection point: taking a customer facing capability and treating it as a product line with its own roadmap, technical strategy, and operating cadence. Guides and surveys are core adoption and feedback loops inside modern product analytics, which makes the domain inherently cross functional and closely tied to measurable outcomes in SaaS.
For a SaaS career, the role builds durable experience in balancing product iteration with platform responsibilities. The scope described spans full stack delivery, high volume event pipelines, and web and mobile surfaces, which are common constraints in analytics and developer facing SaaS. Owning hiring and team development also strengthens the management toolkit needed when SaaS organisations expand product surface area without fragmenting architecture or execution.
This position is best suited to an engineering leader who stays close to product intent while making pragmatic technical calls under real scale constraints. It will fit someone who enjoys tight partnership with PM and design, can translate customer pain into prioritised engineering work, and is comfortable being accountable for both team output and the underlying systems that make the feature reliable.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About the Role
We’re looking for a sharp, product-minded Engineering Manager who’s ready to own Amplitude’s Guides & Surveys product and team. This isn’t a “keep the lights on” job. You’ll lead the charge on one of the fastest growing products at Amplitude, from roadmap to architecture to hiring. If you want to ship fast, grow a killer team, and obsess over user impact, we should talk.
What You'll Do
- Own the Guides & Surveys product, technical direction, execution, and team.
- Ship like it’s your name on the commit. Because it is.
- Work shoulder-to-shoulder with PM, Design, and Tech Lead to turn raw customer pain into product breakthroughs.
- Scale systems that capture billions of user events, without melting down.
- Push the team (and yourself) to write clean, modern, scalable code, and know when to throw perfection out the window to move.
- Hire, grow, and retain A+ engineers. No passengers.
- Build a team culture where people love coming to work, and get sh*t done.
You Might Be a Great Fit If:
- You have 5+ years of engineering experience, including some part of that experience managing teams that ship fast and learn faster.
- Shipped complex, high-impact products in fast-moving environments.
- Strong opinions on architecture, code quality, and how to balance speed with scale.
- Mastery of a modern stack (JS/TS, Python, AWS - you get it).
- Have fully embraced AI and are regularly pushing PRs.
- A sharp product sense. You ask “why?” more than “how?”
- Experience (or strong interest) in behavioral analytics.
Bonus Points
- You’ve taken 0→1 or scaled a startup product.
- You’ve led SDK teams in the past.
- You write code when it makes sense, and know when to get out of the way.
Why This Team, Why Now?
- Guides & Surveys is one of the fastest growing products at the company.
- The product is truly fullstack, from web/mobile SDKs to a beautiful and sophisticated UI to high volume backend services used by millions of people.
- You’ll have executive backing, real autonomy, and a damn good team.
Who We Are
The Company: Amplitude is filled with humble, life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset, ownership, and humility are core to the way we work: we’re tenacious in the face of challenges, we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success, and we operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.
The Product: Amplitude is a digital analytics platform—we help companies capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. This empowers teams to build better product experiences that drive business growth. We’re super proud of what we’ve built and continue to expand: a platform that empowers companies to thrive in the digital era.
We care about the well-being of our team: We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well-being of our Ampliteers.
Some of our benefit programs include:
- Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, Vision on select plans
- Flexible time off, paid holidays, and more
- Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness (monthly), commuter transit/parking (monthly), learning and development (quarterly), home office equipment (annual), and much more
- Excellent Parental benefits including: 12-20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, Back-up Child Care support
- Mental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy Sessions and high quality physician office experience via One Medical membership (select U.S. locations only)
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
Other fun facts about Amplitude:
- We were recognized in the Newsweek Excellence Index 2024.
- Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 19 quarters in a row on G2.
- We care A LOT about product innovation. Fast Company called us the #3 most innovative enterprise company in the world.
- We invest in our people. We offer mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives.
- We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off.
- We were founded in 2012, went public via a direct listing in September 2021, and are now trading under the ticker $AMPL.
- We’re a global and fast-growing team! We have employees around the world and offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.
- Our mascot is Data Monster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom.
Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.
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This role is eligible for equity, benefits and other forms of compensation.
Based on Colorado law, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Colorado. Colorado range: $227,000 - $341,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in New York City, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in New York City. New York City salary range: $254,000 - $381,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in San Francisco Bay Area of California. Salary range: $254,000 - $381,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in California outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. California salary range: $227,000 - $341,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington state. Washington salary range: $227,000 - $341,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington only: unlimited PTO, 10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary), medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans. Finally, a company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan.
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