About the Role
<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>About Mixpanel</strong></p> <p>Mixpanel is the leading product intelligence and analytics platform, trusted by more than 29,000 companies to help understand how people use the products they build. By combining powerful analytics with AI that knows your business, Mixpanel helps teams see what’s working, diagnose what’s not, and decide what to build next. Learn more at <a href="https://mixpanel.com/home/">mixpanel.com</a>.</p></div><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>About the Team</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Mixpanel Engineering is a small, fast-moving team focused on delivering real value to customers. We build powerful AI-powered product analytics while obsessing over clarity, simplicity, and delight. Engineers here own problems end to end. You can move across the stack to ship impact without being blocked by silos or heavy process. Product innovation drives our business, and product engineering teams own that responsibility.</span></p> <div>The Query Serving team owns the entrypoint to Mixpanel's analytics capabilities. They're responsible for our Query API as well as the infrastructure for planning queries and protecting our systems at scale. They work on initiatives like defining the APIs for enabling agentic workflows, hardening our query infrastructure in preparation for significantly increased AI query volume, and establishing our strategy for warehouse interoperability.</div> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>About the Role</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join this organization.</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Teams operate as autonomous pods, with engineering, product, and design working side by side on clear strategic goals. Teams have direct access to customer feedback, product usage data, business metrics, and design context.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We start with customer problems. We reason from first principles. We challenge assumptions. We aim for simple solutions to complex problems and avoid unnecessary abstraction.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Engineering owns execution, quality, and operations. There are no project managers, QA teams, or separate SREs. Ownership stays with the people building the product.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We value written thinking, dashboards, and demos over slide decks. We work openly using tools like Slack, GitHub, Mixpanel, Notion, Figma, and Zoom.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Our team is distributed across North America, with strong clusters in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and Austin.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Responsibilities</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Lead an engineering team and grow its scope over time. This role is for someone who loves developing people and unlocking their potential.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Build an exceptional team by hiring well, coaching deeply, and creating a culture where engineers feel ownership and pride in what they ship.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Shape direction alongside Product, turning big ideas into focused execution and helping teams move fast without losing quality.</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Set the technical bar and protect the system. Dependi