Manager, Engineering - Innovation Studio
$141,000–$183,000 year
On-siteWaterloo, Ontario, Canada
Job Summary
Lead a high-performing engineering team to prototype and productionize AI-powered capabilities for customer-facing innovation, fraud detection, and operational efficiency. Manage the full lifecycle of team delivery, including hiring, performance management, and culture, while maintaining a Staff-level technical bar to challenge designs and drive architectural rigor. Partner with Product and Design peers to own team OKRs and KPIs, ensuring engineers can defend business value to stakeholders. Orchestrate responses during high-pressure incidents and critical deliveries, managing on-call rotations and SLO coverage without becoming the sole point of failure. Drive the adoption of AI-assisted development standards and coach engineers toward the Agentic PDLC. This role requires 8–12 years of experience in payments or banking, with a track record of end-to-end team management. Salary ranges from $141k to $183k CAD.
Required Qualifications
- Roughly 8–12 years of relevant engineering experience
- Experience in the Payments or Banking domain
- Experience in at least one of these areas
- A track record running a team end-to-end where management was the full-time craft
- Staff-level technical depth
- Demonstrated partnership with Product and Design peers as a real trio
- Comfort and credibility leading in high-pressure moments
- A measurement mindset (delivery, quality, OKRs, KPIs)
- A track record of partnering with Staff+ engineers without overriding them
- A daily, judgment-driven AI-assisted development practice you can credibly coach toward
- Honest, direct communication
- Willingness to have the hard conversations early
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in the Payments or Banking domain is preferred
- A track record of measurably improving how engineering teams work at scale
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