Web Engineering Manager

At Sanity.io, we’re building the future of AI-powered Content Operations. Our AI Content Operating System gives teams the freedom to model, create, and automate content the way their business works, accelerating digital development and supercharging content operations efficiency. Companies like SKIMS, Figma, Riot Games, Anthropic, COMPLEX, Nordstrom, and Morningbrew are using Sanity to power and automate their content operations. In this role, you’ll own the web experience as a product at Sanity. You’ll lead a team of engineers while also scoping projects, driving the roadmap, and partnering cross-functionally to deliver high-impact initiatives. You’ll play a key role in shifting the web team from reactive execution to proactive innovation, leveraging AI to redefine how modern web experiences are built and optimized. Do you love variety? If switching between leading your team, defining the roadmap, launching experiments, and building high-impact features sounds like the perfect week, this role is for you. WHAT YOU WOULD DO: * Lead and develop the web team: manage and mentor a team of 2+ engineers, foster a high-performing culture, and ensure strong execution across projects * Own the web roadmap: define priorities, scope projects, and drive delivery aligned with company growth goals * Transform web into a product: shift the team from reactive support to proactive opportunity identification and innovation * Drive AI-native web experiences: leverage Sanity’s platform and emerging AI tools to build scalable, personalized, and dynamic web experiences * Partner cross-functionally: work closely with marketing, design, and product teams to deliver cohesive and impactful initiatives * Lead experimentation and optimization: run A/B tests, iterate on user journeys, and continuously improve conversion and engagement * Own web performance and metrics: be accountable for key KPIs such as conversion rates, engagement, and traffic quality, and build systems to track and optimize them * Balance leadership and hands-on work: contribute technically where needed while guiding the team and ensuring delivery ABOUT YOU: * Based in: San Francisco /Bay Area (preferably) or London alternatively * 8+ years of experience in web engineering, with 1–3+ years in a leadership or team lead role * Strong technical background in modern web development (frontend or full-stack) * Experience owning or contributing to high-impact marketing or product websites * Product mindset: comfortable defining problems, prioritizing work, and driving outcomes—not just executing tasks * Experience working cross-functionally with marketing, design, and product teams * Familiarity with experimentation, analytics, and growth optimization * Interest or experience in applying AI tools and workflows to web development and content * Strong communication skills and ability to align stakeholders across functions WHAT SETS YOU APART: * Experience turning a website into a measurable growth engine * Strong point of view on how AI will transform web experiences and content operations * Experience with personalization, experimentation platforms, or data-driven optimization * Background working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments where you helped define direction * Experience with headless CMS platforms, content infrastructure, or developer tools * Track record of improving key business metrics through web initiatives WHAT WE CAN OFFER: * A highly-skilled, inspiring, and supportive team * Positive, flexible, and trust-based work environment that encourages long-term professional and personal growth * A global, multi-culturally diverse group of colleagues and customers * Comprehensive health plans and perks * A healthy work-life balance that accommodates individual and family needs * Salary Range for San Francisco: $230K - $260K annually. Final compensation within this range will be determined based on the candidate’s experience and skill set. The salary range for London will be aligned with our compensation framework for London, UK, and will reflect local market rates.     WHO WE ARE: Sanity.io is a modern, flexible content operating system that replaces rigid legacy content management systems. One of our big differentiators is treating content as data so that it can be stored in a single source of truth, but seamlessly adapted and personalized for any channel without extra effort. Forward-thinking companies choose Sanity because they can create tailored content authoring experiences, customized workflows, and content models that reflect their business. Sanity recently raised a $85m Series C led by GP Bullhound and is also backed by leading investors like ICONIQ Growth, Threshold Ventures, Heavybit and Shopify, as well as founders of companies like Vercel, WPEngine, Twitter, Mux, Netlify and Heroku. This funding round has put Sanity in a strong position for accelerated growth in the coming years. You can only build a great company with a great culture. Sanity is a 250+ person company with highly committed and ambitious people. We are pioneers, we exist for our customers, we are hel ved, and we love type two fun! Read more about our values here! Sanity.io pledges to be an organization that reflects the globally diverse audience that our product serves. We believe that in addition to hiring the best talent, a diversity of perspectives, ideas, and cultures leads to the creation of better products and services. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

Are you an engineering leader who enjoys creating clarity, improving engineering effectiveness, and helping engineers deliver with confidence? Do you care about iOS, Android, and Web capability as much as you care about people leadership? If so, we’d love to hear from you. As a part of our vision to enrich people’s lives through stories, we are strengthening the engineering foundation behind listener and subscriber experience by hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our iOS, Android, and Web engineers. In this role, you will help create the clarity, capability, and delivery conditions behind high-quality user-facing product development. This is a great opportunity to increase your impact at a fast-moving audio company backed by Schibsted Media, and to work with teams that combine quality engineering, product thinking, and care for the listener experience. WHAT YOU'LL DO * Lead, support, and develop a distributed group of iOS, Android, and Web engineers through coaching, feedback, growth planning, and clear role expectations. * Foster an inclusive and accountable environment where employees and consultants across locations have context and support. * Maintain visibility of capability, ownership, staffing needs, consultant dependency, and succession risks across the client-side engineering domain. * Support engineering strategy execution by partnering with product and tech leadership. * Surface technical debt, quality risks, release risks, infrastructure constraints, and operational needs early to enable informed decisions. * Strengthen engineering standards around maintainability, observability, security, performance, and operational excellence. * Help teams balance platform-specific excellence with cross-platform alignment where it improves user experience, delivery efficiency, quality, or maintainability. WHAT YOU BRING You combine people leadership with the technical understanding needed to support iOS, Android, Web, and user-facing product trade-offs. You create clarity in complex environments and help teams improve how they work. * Experience leading, coaching, mentoring or developing engineers. * Experience working with distributed or hybrid engineering teams. Previous management experience in this setup is a plus. * Understanding of modern software delivery practices and the quality needs of user-facing products. * Understanding of mobile release processes and the quality assurance needs of mobile releases. * Ability to balance engineering standards with team autonomy. * Ability to explain engineering trade-offs, risks, and constraints clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders. * Clear communication and relationship-building skills. * Cost-conscious approach to staffing, tooling, infrastructure, and technical decisions. * Professional-level English communication skills. Swedish is beneficial. BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE * Experience leading mixed teams of employees and consultants. * Experience working with iOS, Android, Web, frontend, mobile release processes, web conversion flows, playback or listening experiences, experimentation, design systems, accessibility, or app-store release cycles. * Experience with subscription, media, audio, video, consumer products, or multi-market organisations. * Experience improving release confidence, production quality signals, test strategy, analytics instrumentation, frontend performance, or developer experience. * Experience supporting AI-assisted engineering, experimentation capability, or engineering productivity improvements. WHY JOIN PODME? At Podme, we believe in the power of audio stories to inform, entertain, and inspire. Backed by Schibsted, one of the Nordics’ leading media groups, we’re on a mission to deliver the best of podcasting and audiobooks to listeners across Sweden, Norway, and Finland. * Join a growing platform with a loyal and expanding user base. * Lead the iOS, Android, and Web engineering competence domain behind the product surfaces where listeners and subscribers experience Podme most directly. * Work closely with product, technology, and business stakeholders on problems that affect core listener and subscriber journeys. * Hybrid setup based in Krakow, with collaboration across Poland, Sweden, and Bosnia * Travel to Krakow occasionally, approximately 1-2 times per year * Great benefits through Schibsted and Podme * Free access to premium Podme content and audiobooks Help us build the engineering foundation behind the Nordic audio experience. Your next great challenge starts here. Apply now and let’s build something great together. Please note that due to the summer vacation period, we will start reviewing applications and contacting candidates from the beginning of August. Thank you for your patience. ABOUT PODME Podme is the place for premium podcasts and audiobooks. With over 350,000 paying subscribers, we’re available in Sweden, Norway, and Finland, and part of Schibsted Media since 2021. Our vision is to enrich people’s lives through stories, which embodies our core belief in the power of narratives to bring joy, meaning, and connection to individuals. We strive to create effortless and habit-forming audio and product experiences that resonate with the listener and add value in their everyday lives. We’re a friendly and passionate team of +80 people, here to make listening effortless, inspiring, and part of everyday life. Backed by Schibsted Media, the largest media group in Scandinavia, we are now on a growth journey which requires us to strengthen the engineering foundation needed to support product complexity, reliability, and sustainable delivery.