associate-engineering-manager.md

Associate Engineering Manager

👩‍👨 People

Level 2

Level 3

Demonstrate people development skills of individual contributors: motivating coaching mentoring empowering Manage performance of small number of individuals (3) 1:1 Onboarding new members, helping them to make the most of their onboarding. Career development & progression Engineering management team initiatives Participate actively departmental initiatives led by another manager Performance calibrations Read feedback for some non line managed individuals Promotions and In-band payrise Read submissions for non line managed individuals

Demonstrate people development skills of individual contributors Help individual to increase their performances Performance calibrations Read and share feedback for some non line managed individuals

🚚 Delivery

Level 2

Level 3

Delivery focus Champion the importance of delivery in their team Help to unblock obstacles Support technically their team in delivering its goals. Delivery pace Is conscious about team delivery pace Understand impact of management on it. Responsible of the allocation of work within their team Health Participate in definining key metrics for systems owned by team Ensure team monitors key metrics for systems owned by team Evaluate and decide time to spend on health each quarter Technical contribution Continue to write code most days and release features, but avoid being on the critical path Continue to reviews code and talking through problems with team members Continue to help diagnosing issue or fix some of them Context awareness Understand the constraints placed on the business. Demonstrate flexibility to adapt to those constraints.

Delivery focus Share with a wider group importance of delivery Delivery pace Identify bottleneck in delivery pace Collaborate on continuously improving pace of their team Health Demonstrate improvements on specific key metrics Context awarness Understands the capabilities of their team and communicates that clearly to stakeholders.

▶️ Leadership

Level 2	Level 3
Team Mentoring more junior people in the team Provide detailled feedback about approach or encouraging good practices Ensure there is, but don't orgnanise, demo of team work Ensure that all members of their team have a clear grasp of the KR for their products and that they arefocused on improving them.	Team Communicate progress and achievements to the department Recognise outstanding works from individuals within team Strategy Participate in defining OKR team with product manager

💷 Costs Managements

Level 2	Level 3
Health Monitor system and delivery pipeline health Participate in defining health tasks Share with stakeholders importance of health for sustainability Operating costs Understand details of costs structure Participate in costs reduction initiatives	Operating costs Ensure costs remain within allocated budget for their team