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# Sr. Engineering Manager - Core Platform at CaptivateIQ

- **Company:** CaptivateIQ
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $186k–$293k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/captivateiq/f7e7fa1b-2024-4423-81d5-1b061101e4ee

## Job description

## About the Role

You’ll lead engineering for some of CaptivateIQ’s most important platform building blocks and use that leverage to support our journey into a multi-product company. Core Platform is the foundation the rest of our product runs on. As Senior Manager, Core Platform, you will lead a team of engineers who own our identity platform, customer job processing and design systems. These capabilities let product teams ship quickly and safely at scale, and they shape how customers experience the product every day. You will set direction, prioritize a complex portfolio, and influence technical strategy across the Foundation Pillar. You will also help define how a distributed team works across roughly 8 hours of time zone spread, with async-first habits and psychological safety at the center. If you like leading strong engineers on hard distributed-systems problems, we’d like to meet you. Location:  Preferred East Coast or Central US or Canada

## Responsibilities

- Hire, inspire, and grow software engineers at every level — from junior to staff — creating a culture of growth that keeps strong engineers doing their best work and builds the next layer of engineering leadership.

- Partner with Product, Design, Customer Success, Support, Sales, and other cross-functional teams to set a clear vision, prioritize roadmaps, and shape a long-term strategy that creates value for customers and aligns with the broader organization.

- Own delivery, operational excellence, and outcomes of your team's portfolio, ensuring the critical systems you're responsible for remain performant, reliable, and secure at scale.

- Provide technical leadership by setting architectural guardrails and guiding major technical decisions, without being a hands-on contributor.

- Manage processes to help engineers work efficiently, effectively,  and interface well with the rest of the company.

- Lead by example in demonstrating and upholding Captivate's core values.

- Contribute to the broader engineering leadership team, partnering with peer EMs on org-wide initiatives beyond your own team.

## Requirements

- 5+ years of experience managing software engineers, preferably in a remote-first B2B SaaS or startup environment.

- 8+ years of full-time software development experience, preferably in product engineering or full stack roles.

- A demonstrated track record of hiring and developing talent, with real investment in helping engineers grow their careers.

- Strong customer-focus with a track record of delivering high quality, impactful features across the full product lifecycle.

- Demonstrated technical depth: Comfortable diving into complex architectural problems and guiding senior engineers toward sound decisions

- Exceptional interpersonal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to build trust with cross-functional partners in a remote-first environment.

- High ownership and a growth mindset — collaborative, humble, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.

## Benefits

- Comprehensive Healthcare: 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision for all FTEs, with roughly 75% coverage for dependents.
- Flexible Time Off: Flexible vacation days plus quarterly mental health days to ensure you have the space to recharge.
- Annual Stipends: Dedicated funds for your professional development and caretaking needs.
- Work Anniversary Bonuses: Annual bonuses to celebrate your milestones and contributions to the CaptivateIQ team that grow as your tenure does.
- Retirement Savings (US-Only): A 401(k) plan to help you invest in and secure your future.
- Premium Tools: The latest Apple hardware to empower you to do your best work.
- Inclusive Community: Active Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that celebrate shared identities and support our DEI goals by fostering an environment where diverse talent thrives.

Notice to Prospective Candidates

- Only emails from @captivateiq.com should be trusted.
- We are aware of active recruitment scams using the CaptivateIQ name, in which individuals pose as our recruiters and post fake remote job openings and make fake job offers on the Internet. Please note, we will never do the following:
- Attempt to correspond with a candidate using a free web-based account, such as an email address that ends in @gmail.com, @yahoo.com, @hotmail.com, etc.
- Make an offer of employment without conducting multiple rounds of interviews face-to-face using secure video-conferencing technology.
- Ask candidates to cash checks to buy equipment on behalf of CaptivateIQ.
- Ask candidates to make a payment in order to be considered for a position.
- Make early requests for candidates' personal information such as date of birth, passport details, credit card numbers, bank details and social security number, etc.
- Please note that we’ll only ask for more sensitive personal information in connection with background checks after an offer is made.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to provide after-hours support, ensuring timely resolution of critical issues and maintaining system uptime.

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## About CaptivateIQ

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: CaptivateIQ provides a modern, AI-infused commission management platform that automates incentive compensation, quota planning, and sales performance analytics.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C; $164.6M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (also has an office in Salt Lake City, Utah)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Mark Schopmeyer, Conway Teng, Hubert Wong

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Sales Performance Management (Incentive Compensation)
- **Target customers**: B2B; revenue teams including sales operations, finance, and compensation administrators at mid-market and enterprise companies (1,000+ customers worldwide)
- **Mission**: To enable every company to take control of sales performance management, making commission administration transparent, accurate, and motivating for all stakeholders.

## Products & Services
- **Incentive Compensation Management**: Automates commission calculations with a no-code, logic-based engine (SmartGrid ELT). Supports any compensation plan and provides real-time visibility for payees.
- **Sales Capacity and Quota Planning**: Build and manage territories, assign accounts, and optimize opportunities with automated boundary adjustments.
- **Reporting & Analytics**: Real-time dashboards tracking performance trends, top performers, and drivers of results.
- **Predictive Modeling**: ML-powered models to score accounts, predict quota attainment, and identify payout anomalies.
- **Assist AI**: Generative AI assistant that helps troubleshoot formulas, search documentation, and optimize plans via natural language queries.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: $164.6M in total venture funding (led by ICONIQ Growth, Accel, Sequoia, Sapphire, Workday Ventures, Bessemer, Foundation Capital, Y Combinator)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia, Accel, ICONIQ Growth, Sapphire, Bessemer, Foundation Capital, Workday Ventures, Y Combinator
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 1,000+ customers globally
  - 94% customer satisfaction (CSAT) from over 2,500 G2 reviews
  - Named a Leader in “The Forrester Wave™: Sales Performance Management Solutions For Incentive Compensation, Q1 2025”
  - Strategic investment from Workday Ventures and partnership with Workday Software Partner Program
  - Recent product launches: SmartGrid ELT, Assist AI, Payee Lifecycle Management, Custom Workflow Builder

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-infused platform** that integrates compensation, planning, and predictive modeling in a single system – unlike legacy tools that require services or IT.
- **No-code calculation engine (SmartGrid ELT)** enables commission plan creation and iteration without developer or consultant support.
- **Single source of truth** for incentives and planning data, with real-time synchronization from CRM/ERP systems (Salesforce, HubSpot, NetSuite, Workday).
- **SOC 1 & SOC 2 compliance** ensures enterprise-grade data security.
- **Real-time payee visibility** increases rep trust and motivation.

## Strategic Focus
- **Modernize incentive compensation** by replacing manual spreadsheets and inflexible legacy software with an adaptable, cloud-native platform.
- **Expand AI capabilities** – Assist AI and predictive modeling to further automate plan building, anomaly detection, and forecasting.
- **Deepen ecosystem integrations** (e.g., Workday Ventures partnership) and continue building out planning, capacity management, and reporting modules.
- **Scale global presence** with a distributed remote workforce and a second office in Salt Lake City.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: CaptivateIQ is a 100% remote company with flexible work from anywhere; also maintains physical offices in San Francisco and Salt Lake City for in-person events.
- **Competitive compensation** including equity, bonuses, and anniversary bonuses.
- **Comprehensive healthcare**: 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision for employees and 75% for dependents.
- **Time off**: Flexible PTO plus quarterly mental health days.
- **Parental support**: Parental leave and an annual $1,000 caretaker stipend.
- **Professional development**: $500 annual stipend for learning and development.
- **401k retirement plan**.
- **Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)** that support diverse identities and experiences.
- **High ratings**: 94% CSAT on G2 and consistently positive employee reviews on Built In (35+ total employees, 2 offices).
- **Recent engineering focus**: Roles like Software Engineer – AI Platform signal investment in cutting-edge technology.

## Sources
1. [captivateiq.com – About Us](https://www.captivateiq.com/about-us)
2. [captivateiq.com – Careers](https://www.captivateiq.com/careers)
3. [captivateiq.com – Main Site](https://www.captivateiq.com/)
4. [jobs.lever.co/captivateiq](https://jobs.lever.co/captivateiq)
5. [builtin.com – CaptivateIQ Profile](https://builtin.com/company/captivateiq)

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