Manager, Engineering

time left to apply End Date: November 30, 2024 (21 days left to apply)

job requisition id JREQ176458

Manager of Engineering – Design System
Are you passionate about platform engineering and excited by the opportunity to lead a team focused on building and scaling a global design system? Join our dynamic team of designers, architects, engineers, and specialists dedicated to creating the core components that power our company’s products.
As the Manager of Engineering on the Design System team, you will play a key leadership role in driving the technical vision, development, and growth of our design system. Your work will ensure the seamless integration of design and engineering, fostering collaboration across teams to deliver a world-class platform used across our entire organization.
About the Role:
As a Manager of Engineering, you will:

• Lead and mentor the engineering team: Guide a team of engineers focused on building and maintaining scalable, accessible, and reusable design system components. Foster an environment of collaboration, professional development, and timely delivery of high-quality features.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with designers, content strategists, accessibility specialists, and UX researchers to translate design language into functional, reusable code libraries. Ensure components are well-documented and effectively communicated with product engineering teams across the organization.
• Drive technical excellence: Advocate for engineering best practices, promote a culture of code quality, and ensure the design system is easily adoptable by product teams. Lead the team in developing features that meet the needs of both product engineering teams and end-users.
• Innovate and evolve: Stay updated on the latest frontend technologies and user experience trends. Lead the integration of cutting-edge practices and drive innovation within the design system by turning feedback into easy-to-use solutions.
• Preferred Tech Stack: React, Redux, Angular, Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS/SASS, Web Components, Webpack, FAST Web Components, Lit, Chromium, REST, GraphQL, and gRPC.

• Have leadership experience: You’ve successfully managed engineering teams and have a track record of delivering projects on time while maintaining high standards of code quality.
• Bring deep frontend expertise: You have at least 6 years of experience in frontend development, with a focus on design systems within enterprise applications. You’ve worked with frameworks like React or Angular, and have experience building or customizing design systems such as Google Material, Microsoft Fluent, or Bootstrap.
• Know design systems inside and out: You’re skilled in component design and understand principles such as atoms, molecules, and organisms. You have experience building or integrating reusable UI components that scale across large applications.
• Advocate for accessibility: You understand and implement accessibility standards and build components that are usable for everyone.
• Collaborate effectively: You work well with cross-functional teams, partnering with designers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver high-impact features.
• Have excellent communication skills: You’re able to clearly articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and are a strong advocate for the engineering perspective in cross-functional settings.
• Are solution-oriented: You bring excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to find solutions to complex technical challenges.
• Preferably hold a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

What's in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

Purpose-Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.