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# Software Engineering Manager at Yext

- **Company:** Yext
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $149k–$304k
- **Posted:** 2026-10-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/yext/jobs/8282372

## Job description

Yext (NYSE: YEXT) is the enterprise agentic marketing platform. Built on the world's most comprehensive structured data platform for local businesses, Yext gives brands and their partners the visibility intelligence to win every moment of discovery – across AI and traditional search. Yext's API-first architecture connects structured data to APIs, MCP servers, and generative interfaces, so partners and developers can build purpose-built experiences on the same infrastructure powering Yext's own products. Thousands of brands and digital marketing partners in financial services, healthcare, retail, hospitality, and food rely on Yext to manage, measure, and optimize visibility at scale. For more information, visit [yext.com](http://yext.com).

At Yext, Product Engineering builds and evolves the technology behind our products and services. We’re looking for engineering managers who want to lead strong teams, solve meaningful technical problems, and help shape what we build next.

We work in an agile environment with two-week sprints and regular demos that keep teams aligned and give engineers clear visibility into the impact of their work. As an engineering manager, you’ll partner closely with Product and Engineering leaders to set direction, turn broader priorities into actionable plans, and create an environment where engineers can do their best work and continue to grow.

We are looking for an engineering manager to join the Knowledge Graph team, which builds and maintains the systems that turn customer information into a connected, usable source of truth. The team develops the core infrastructure, APIs, and workflows that help brands model, manage, and connect their knowledge across products and experiences.

The work involves challenging engineering problems, including representing complex real-world entities, processing large volumes of changing data, building reliable distributed systems, and creating interfaces that allow other teams to build confidently on top of the graph. This is an opportunity for engineers who enjoy foundational technology, thoughtful data modeling and system design, and seeing their work enable a wide range of customer experiences.

This role is based in our New York City office in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, where in-person collaboration plays an important part in how our teams work, learn, and build relationships. We’re looking for people who genuinely value that environment and are comfortable coming into the office at least three days per week. At the same time, we don’t prescribe specific in-office days and want employees to have the flexibility to handle personal needs without disrupting their work or team collaboration.

## What You’ll Do

- Lead and develop a team of software engineers, providing regular coaching, actionable feedback, and support for their career growth
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to translate product priorities and longer-term goals into clear, achievable plans for the team
- Own the team’s execution and delivery, establishing priorities, breaking larger initiatives into manageable work, and maintaining a sustainable development cadence
- Create clarity for the team by resolving ambiguity, removing blockers, managing competing priorities, and protecting engineers from unnecessary organizational churn and distractions
- Maintain a strong technical understanding of the team’s systems and provide guidance on architecture, design, implementation, and technical tradeoffs
- Foster a high bar for engineering quality through thoughtful design discussions, code reviews, testing, operational readiness, and continuous improvement
- Ensure the team is prepared to respond effectively to production incidents, providing leadership and coordination during incidents and driving meaningful follow-up afterward
- Build an environment where engineers take ownership, collaborate effectively, learn from one another, and feel comfortable raising concerns and challenging assumptions
- Collaborate across Product Engineering and with partners throughout the company to coordinate dependencies, resolve issues, and deliver shared initiatives
- Recruit and hire talented engineers, actively participate in the interview process, and build an effective onboarding experience for new team members
- Identify opportunities to improve the team’s systems, processes, and ways of working, and help turn those opportunities into meaningful change
- Model thoughtful use of AI-assisted development tools and help engineers incorporate AI effectively throughout design, research, implementation, testing, debugging, and code review
- Maintain a high-quality bar for AI-assisted work by ensuring engineers understand and validate generated output and remain accountable for its correctness, security, maintainability, and alignment with engineering standards
- Encourage experimentation with new AI capabilities and workflows, share successful approaches across the team, and help identify opportunities where AI can meaningfully improve engineering effectiveness

## What You Have

- A BA/BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent college-level education
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 1+ years of team or technical leadership
- Experience coaching engineers, providing direct and constructive feedback, and supporting their professional development
- Experience translating product or business priorities into technical plans and driving a team toward successful delivery
- The ability to stay technically engaged enough to guide design decisions, evaluate tradeoffs, and help engineers work through difficult problems
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to create clarity when priorities or requirements are ambiguous
- A track record of building healthy, effective engineering teams while holding a high bar for quality and accountability
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools and the ability to evaluate their output critically as part of a responsible engineering workflow
- Sound judgment regarding data privacy, intellectual property, security, and the appropriate use of confidential information when working with AI tools
- Strong technical judgment and a foundation in software architecture, design, data structures, and algorithms
- Fluency with Java, Go, C++, Python, or a similar programming language (we code primarily in Java and Go)
- Experience recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding software engineers
- Openness to new technologies, new ways of working, and creative solutions
- Comfort working in a fast-paced environment

## #LI-JB2

Pay ranges at Yext are established based on an analysis of salaries for positions with a similar level of accountability and impact in the relevant labor market. Salary levels are expected to change to reflect an employee’s job performance (results and impact) over time. Salaries at the time of hire are typically offered in the lower to middle of the above-referenced range in order to provide the opportunity to reflect performance-based increases over time. In addition to base salaries, employees at Yext are typically eligible for a comprehensive package of benefits including medical, dental and vision benefits; life insurance; short term and long-term disability; 401(k) retirement plan; and vacation and sick leave. Successful candidates may also be eligible for variable pay programs based on performance relative to goals and targets.

Annual Base Pay Range $148,500—$303,500 USD

Yext is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a results-driven, engaging culture where every employee has the opportunity to contribute to the success of the Company, perform at the highest possible level, and grow their skills and capabilities. Yext welcomes employees and applicants of all backgrounds and demographics, and does not engage in discrimination on the basis of any protected characteristic recognized under applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. The Company believes a broad variety of life experiences across the Yext team is critical to its mission to help every business in the world be visible everywhere customers search. By seeking out fresh perspectives and fostering a positive interview experience and employee experience, Yext can remain at the forefront of innovation, and better serve its customers.

It is Yext’s policy to provide reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities as required by applicable law. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, or participating in the employee selection process, please complete [this form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSexIHU2ZCgSpcOcz5DHaL9Eyk0GIqz-AqdbgbdV8ImC74qkWA/viewform?usp=sf_link).

Security Alert

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## About Yext

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Yext provides an enterprise agentic marketing platform that helps multi-location brands manage and distribute verified business data and content across search engines, directories, social platforms, LLMs, and AI agents.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: YEXT)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2006
- **Founders**: Howard Lerman, Brian Distelburger, and Brent Metz

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Digital presence management / Enterprise marketing technology (MarTech)
- **Target customers**: Enterprise brands with multiple physical locations (e.g., retail, hospitality, healthcare, financial services) – B2B, Enterprise
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “To help brands show up accurately and confidently everywhere customers search” (paraphrased from [yext.com/about](https://www.yext.com/about))

## Products & Services
- **Yext Knowledge Graph**: A central, verified source of truth for every location’s data (hours, services, attributes) that powers all downstream distribution.  
- **Content Generation Agents**: AI-powered agents that create on-brand local pages, social posts, review responses, and email campaigns.  
- **Distribution Agents**: Syndicate content in real time to LLMs, directories, maps, social platforms, and review sites – without aggregator delays.  
- **Scout**: AI analytics that analyze over 10 billion signals monthly across four AI models to identify where and why brands are losing customers.  
- **Developer Platform**: APIs and custom workflow tools to build custom agents and integrate Yext with internal systems.  
- **Listings, Pages, Reviews, Chat, Analytics** – foundational modules for managing digital presence (legacy products now folded into the agentic platform).

All described on [yext.com/index.html](https://www.yext.com/index.html) and [yext.com/about](https://www.yext.com/about)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $922.3 million (as of mid-2025, per LinkedIn data in search results)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue $446.6 million (same source)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Yext went public in 2017 on NYSE; notable board includes Michael Walrath (Chair & CEO). No current investor list provided, but IPO was a major milestone. Partners include major brands managing over 4 million locations worldwide.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew 8.5% YoY to 1,007 employees (LinkedIn data in search results)
  - Over 20% of hires in 2024 were internal (career page)
  - Presence in 32 countries with offices in New York, Budapest, Hyderabad, London, Paris, and Washington D.C.
  - Trusted by brands managing 4M+ locations globally

## Competitive Advantages
- **Verified Data Infrastructure**: Yext’s Knowledge Graph is the single source of verified location data, eliminating aggregator delays and inaccuracies.
- **Agentic Marketing Platform**: First-mover in delivering an integrated platform that combines content generation, distribution, and AI performance analytics specifically for multi-location enterprises.
- **Direct Publisher Network**: Content is distributed directly to LLMs, maps, and social platforms without going through aggregators, ensuring speed and consistency.
- **10 Billion Signals Analyzed Monthly**: Scout’s data intelligence provides granular visibility into customer behavior across digital touchpoints.

## Strategic Focus
- **Agentic Marketing**: Yext is betting its future on “agentic” AI – building the infrastructure for brands to manage how AI models and agents discover and present their information. This is the core of the current platform rebrand.
- **Global Expansion**: Offices in EMEA, APAC, and North America; hiring in multiple regions.
- **Product Innovation**: Continued investment in AI, APIs, and custom workflow capabilities to allow enterprises to build proprietary agents on Yext’s foundation.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes Customer Centricity, One Team (collaboration), Impact-Driven, and Constructive Candor – open communication and challenging ideas are encouraged.
- **Hybrid Work Model**: Employees work in a hybrid model with offices in major global cities; flexibility to work remotely with periodic in-person connection.
- **Career Growth**: Internal mobility is a priority – over 20% of 2024 hires were from within. Upward Mobility program supports exploring new roles and skills.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision), paid parental leave, 401k with match, equity, commuter benefits. Unique perks include free Calm subscription, monthly ClassPass credits, flexible vacation, paid holidays, and sick days.
- **Transparency**: Leadership communicates through newsletters, quarterly company-wide meetings, and post-earnings breakdowns.
- **Engineering & Product Culture**: Strong emphasis on AI and platform development; roles include Platform Consultants, NetSuite Senior Developer, Product Manager, etc. (based on open positions).
- **Overall Employee Rating**: 3.7/5.0 on LinkedIn (956 reviews) – Work-Life: 4.1, Compensation: 3.8, Culture: 3.8, Career: 3.6.

## Sources
1. [yext.com/careers](https://www.yext.com/careers)
2. [yext.com/index.html](https://www.yext.com/index.html)
3. [yext.com/about](https://www.yext.com/about)
4. [linkedin.com/company/yext](https://www.linkedin.com/company/yext)
5. [yext.com/careers/open-positions](https://www.yext.com/careers/open-positions)

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