Engineering Manager - Docs

Superhuman offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture.

The Opportunity

We’re hiring two Engineering Managers in Porto to lead product engineering teams within Superhuman Docs. Each manager will lead one team, partnering closely with Product and Design and taking ownership from understanding the customer problem through shipping, learning, and improving the product.

Superhuman Docs is where teams and AI get their best work done together. It brings documents, data, workflows, project management, and knowledge into one flexible collaborative surface.

One team is building new product experiences within Docs, taking ideas from early exploration through launch and iteration. The other spans three connected domains: Applied AI, bringing proactive AI collaborators into documents; Search, combining traditional and semantic search; and AI Apps, starting with AI Views , where users describe what they need and an agent builds an interactive experience on their data. In either role, you’ll help shape what we build and how people use it.

We’re looking for managers who take ownership, develop people through coaching, and stay close to the code. You’ll engage directly with implementation details, help investigate difficult problems, and contribute where it helps—without becoming a bottleneck or taking ownership away from engineers. You’ll build a feedback-driven team that learns from customers, challenges assumptions, and follows through on commitments.

We’re considering candidates through one hiring process for both opportunities. We’ll explore the best team match based on your experience, strengths, and interests.

The Opportunity

• Lead and grow a team of 5+ engineers through hiring, mentorship, career development, and clear expectations.

• Own your team’s product outcomes, from defining the problem with Product and Design to shipping, measuring impact, and iterating.

• Own delivery through planning, prioritization, and managing dependencies; surface risks early and help the team deliver reliably.

• Coach engineers through regular one-to-ones, actionable feedback, and development opportunities that strengthen their judgment and autonomy.

• Stay close to the code through code reviews, debugging, technical investigations, and targeted implementation work.

• Guide architecture and engineering tradeoffs while empowering engineers to own decisions and solutions.

• Turn complex capabilities into simple, useful product experiences, balancing experimentation with quality and reliability.

• Build a feedback-driven culture that uses customer input, product evidence, and retrospectives to improve both the product and how the team works.

• Develop an inclusive team, collaborate across boundaries, and balance delivery with the technical investments needed to sustain it.

Qualifications

• Has 3+ years of engineering management experience, with a track record of hiring, coaching, and developing engineers.

• Brings a strong software-engineering background and remains comfortable reading code, reviewing changes, debugging problems, and discussing implementation details.

• Has experience shipping and iterating on user-facing products in close partnership with Product and Design.

• Has a track record of reliable delivery through planning, prioritization, dependency management, and proactive risk resolution.

• Uses a coaching-led management style: provides context, asks useful questions, delegates meaningful responsibility, and helps engineers develop independent judgment.

• Gives timely, specific, actionable feedback; actively seeks feedback on their own management; and can demonstrate how they have changed in response.

• Can reason independently about architecture and system design, balancing experimentation and delivery with reliability, performance, and maintainability.

• Puts users at the center of decisions, cares about product craft, and uses feedback and evidence to make complex experiences simpler.

• Thinks from first principles, welcomes ideas from different perspectives, and prioritizes shared company outcomes over local team goals.

• Works independently with minimal guidance, takes ownership across organizational boundaries, and maintains clear communication and accountability as needs evolve.

We invite you to share your knowledge, experience, and goals with us to help us find the best team match for you. Tell us your superpower!

Compensation and Benefits

• Professional Growth: We believe that autonomy and trust are key to empowering our team members to do their best, most innovative work in a way that aligns with their interests, talents, and well-being

• A connected team: Superhuman builds a product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. Our remote-first, hybrid model enables a highly collaborative culture rooted in our values. We work to foster belonging among team members in a variety of ways. This includes our team member resource groups, Superhuman Circles, which promote connection among those with shared identities including BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ team members, women, and parents. We also celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific programs.

• Comprehensive benefits for candidates based in Portugal: Superhuman offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing life care (including mental health care and risk benefits) and ample and defined time off. We also offer support to set up a home office, wellness and pet care stipends, learning and development opportunities, and more.

We encourage you to apply

At Superhuman, we value our differences, and we encourage all—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations—to apply. Superhuman is an equal opportunity company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnic origin, religion or belief, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, sexual identity, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, criminal prosecution, judgment in a criminal case, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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