As an Engineering Manager in our AI Agents organization, you will lead and grow a team of talented engineers at the forefront of shaping how clients design, onboard, and scale conversational experiences. Whether it is streamlining self-service onboarding, building intuitive tools like our Procedure Builder, creating seamless integrations into the Zendesk ecosystem, or advancing next-generation voice agents, your team will be driving the innovations that define the customer journey from presales to Go Live. Working in the fastest-growing and most strategic area of the company, you will have a unique opportunity to build high-impact products and frameworks that accelerate Time to Value, unlock automation at scale, and transform the way businesses interact with their customers
You will directly manage about 6-8 engineers from various skill sets (Frontend and Backend, AI Engineers, Researchers) and work closely with stakeholders across the department.
Lead a cross-functional team, guiding them towards achieving their full potential
Foster a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration, driving your teams to innovate and continuously discover and evaluate new technologies
Empower your team through coaching, mentorship, and skill development
Foster a culture of micro feedback, mutual accountability, shared ownership, and a bottom up culture in close collaboration with the other Engineering Managers
Enable engineers to push for best practices inside their discipline aiming at greater productivity, cleaner code and product quality
Collaborate with fellow Engineering Managers and Chapter Leads to keep our engineering group focused and effective
Facilitate communication between Engineers, Product Managers and stakeholders within the RnD department and across the business, fostering understanding and alignment
Accountability for for the delivery and product quality in your team
Enthusiastic mentor with the ability to inspire teams, fostering professional development and empowering teams to reach their full potential
Strong technical background and professional experience developing and maintaining complex architectures
Proven track record of successfully managing and motivating engineering teams, driving them towards achieving ambitious goals
Experience scaling teams and leading engineering teams through change
Understanding the value of diverse perspectives and actively seeking input from others to achieve optimal outcomes, acknowledging that your own viewpoint may not always be the best
You excel in facilitating discussions and communicating with various stakeholders, ensuring clarity and alignment across teams and departments
Experience working in collaborative teams,leveraging practices like pair programming and code reviews to promote knowledge sharing and enhance team performance
Strong expertise in iterative development and balancing risks
Commitment to Quality and a deep understanding of how to achieve and maintain it within complex architectures and software designs
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Hybrid: In this role, our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection, collaboration, learning, and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager.
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Zendesk believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working, enables us to purposefully come together in person, at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world, to connect, collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.
Zendesk is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster global diversity, equity, & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment and employees at Zendesk are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are an AA/EEO/Veterans/Disabled employer. If you are based in the United States and would like more information about your EEO rights under the law, please click here.
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