Senior Manager Software Engineering, Core Mobile (Slack)

✅ Quick Overview

Role: Senior Manager, Software Engineering – Core Mobile

Company: Slack (Salesforce)

Location: Atlanta, GA (likely flexible hybrid or remote)

Team Focus: Leading horizontal mobile platform work across Core Product, Admin & Trust, and Growth initiatives.

Scope: Drive feature delivery, cross-team collaboration, and people leadership for a key user-facing area of the app.

🛠️ Key Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of mobile engineers across iOS & Android
• Prioritize work across 5+ stakeholder teams
• Align team goals with org-wide strategy
• Coach and mentor engineers for both technical and career growth
• Build for scale and mobile performance while staying user-obsessed
• Promote inclusive, high-performing engineering culture
• Represent team priorities and status to leadership and broader engineering org

📌 Requirements (Must-Haves)

• Strong technical leadership in mobile development, especially with both iOS & Android teams
• Experience managing complex stakeholder relationships (Product, Trust/Security, etc.)
• Highly organized and decisive, especially in dynamic, fast-paced environments
• Skilled communicator across technical and non-technical audiences
• Understanding of horizontal teams — platform services, SDKs, mobile infra
• Prior hands-on experience or understanding of mobile engineering practices (CI/CD for mobile, app store cycles, native code reviews, etc.)

🌟 Nice-to-Haves

• Experience in scaling mobile apps used by millions
• Passion for building tools and features that enhance user productivity
• Background working in consumer + enterprise hybrid app contexts
• Exposure to performance optimization or mobile observability

🔧 How to Position Yourself

If you’re planning to apply or want to tailor your resume/LinkedIn, here’s how to stand out:

• Leadership Focus: Highlight your work leading diverse, cross-functional mobile teams. If you’ve managed both Android and iOS engineers, that’s huge.
• Impact Storytelling: Detail projects where your leadership tangibly improved app performance, engagement, or release velocity.
• Process Design: Emphasize your work implementing agile processes, mobile release management, or developer experience improvements.
• Strategic Thinking: Show how you’ve balanced technical debt, feature delivery, and user experience across stakeholders.
• Mobile Platform Insight: Reference experience in building reusable components, modular architectures, or SDKs used across teams.