About the role

As an Engineering Manager at Envato, you’ll play a crucial role in developing our product capabilities while building and strengthening our organisation by guiding, coaching, and developing people and teams. Leading a team of engineers, you’ll set priorities, drive engagement in cross-team collaboration, and effectively manage both short- and long-term projects.

You'll be joining a team dedicated to enhancing the core 'Find It' experience on our flagship product, Envato Elements. As part of the Search and Content domain, your team will play a key role in creating innovative ways for customers to explore our vast catalogue of creative assets. You’ll also contribute to expanding our offering by introducing new content categories, strengthening our value proposition, and driving business growth.

What you'll be doing

- Organise workflows, set goals, and hold the team accountable to drive execution.
- Collaborate with your cross-functional trio (Product, Design), partner teams and other stakeholders, to develop and execute the team’s roadmap.
- Communicate strategy, rationale, and progress both internally and externally.
- Lead mid to large-scale projects, provide visibility on progress, and remove obstacles.
- Build an engaged, highly effective team, ensure continuous delivery of well-tested, incremental customer value.
- Operate production systems, ensuring availability, performance, security, and incident management.
- Advocate for the “you build it, you run it” approach, integrating with Envato’s technical ecosystem.
- Demonstrate mature problem-solving with sustainable approaches.
- Foster a positive work culture, promote collaboration, and support team member development.
- Guide and inspire the team, set clear expectations, provide feedback, and ensure a safe working environment.
- Build and leverage strong peer group relationships, to work together and optimise for the greater good.
- Contribute to operational or uplift activities, at a domain or organisational level. 

What you'll bring to the team

- A passion for developing engineering talent, supporting career growth, and shaping high-performing teams.
- A commitment to creating an inclusive, psychologically safe environment where engineers can take risks, share ideas, and grow.
- A deep understanding of driving effective, outcome-focused delivery, and fostering strong engineering practices in a product delivery team.
- Excellent communication, cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
- A highly self-motivated and adaptable mindset.
- An ability to navigate ambiguity, drive clarity, and lead teams through change in a fast-paced environment. 
- A bias for making things happen.
- A strong ability to prioritise, organise, and execute while ensuring technical excellence and alignment with business goals.
- Experience and intuition in balancing complex trade-offs.
- The ability to give and to receive feedback.
- Experience empowering teams, inspiring them to continuously improve.

Some of the great things we offer

• We are a remote business with full flexibility for you to manage work and life as you need - outcomes are what’s important to us. • We provide MacBook Pros or HP’s for you to do your best work, as well as all your initial and ongoing tech setup to suit your individual needs. • It’s important you love your home office so we will provide a contribution towards your set up and a monthly allowance to support work from home costs.  • Want to expand your family? We will support you! We offer 20 weeks paid primary carer leave (with super paid on top for the first 12 months); and 6 weeks paid secondary carers leave.  • Connection is so important in a remote business. That’s why we provide you with an annual allowance to meet up with colleagues and share some food and a laugh.  • Continuous improvement is encouraged and we provide an annual budget for you to put towards your learning.  • We know our product is awesome so we will provide you with a free Envato Elements subscription for your side gigs and/or personal use. • Your wellbeing is paramount and we provide access to a holistic assistance program that provides support in many areas of life and health.