Software Engineering Manager, SDK

About the role

At Sanity.io http://Sanity.io, we're building the future of AI-powered Content Operations. Our AI Content Operating System gives teams the freedom to model, create, and automate content the way their business works, accelerating digital development and supercharging content operations efficiency. Companies like SKIMS, Figma, Riot Games, Anthropic, COMPLEX, Nordstrom, and Morningbrew are using Sanity to power and automate their content operations.

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and grow the SDK team — the team responsible primarily for building and maintaining the App SDK project https://github.com/sanity-io/sdk, our framework of typed React hooks that lets developers build focused, real-time content applications on top of Sanity.

Read more about it here: https://www.sanity.io/app-sdk

The App SDK is how developers extend Sanity beyond the Studio. Your team owns the primitives (useDocuments, useDocument, useEditDocument) along with the tooling underneath them (Groq.js, Typegen, our CLI, and HTTP client), and seamless authentication, permissions, and real-time sync. It's an open-source, MIT-licensed project, so the vast majority of your team's work happens in public.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Leading an engineering team at Sanity means owning strategy, roadmap, and execution alongside your product and design partners. You'll do that by working with excellent people and creating an environment where they can do the best work of their careers.

This is a player-coach role. You'll spend most of your time on people, priorities, and delivery — but you'll stay close enough to the code to review PRs, unblock hard problems, and guide API design.

You'll also join a growing group of engineering managers shaping the culture of our Engineering organization, working closely with Product Designers, Product Managers, Principal Engineers, and technical leaders across the company.

WHAT YOU WOULD DO

- Lead and grow a team of engineers — help them prioritize for impact, grow in their careers, and do the best work of their lives.

- Own strategy, roadmap, and execution — work closely with your product and design partners to decide what to build, and make sure it ships.

- Set technical direction — guide architecture decisions that balance velocity with maintainability across a large-scale TypeScript codebase, and know when to trade completeness for getting value to developers sooner.

- Design APIs developers actually enjoy — plan and ship beautiful, minimal APIs that let internal and external developers solve high-level problems and leave the hard implementation details to us.

- Stay hands-on — contribute through technical reviews, pairing, and code where it helps the team most.

- Build in the open — run an open-source project well: triage, contribution paths, changelogs, and a community that trusts your releases.

- Champion developer experience — automatic type generation, hot reload, one-command deploy. Your team is judged on how fast a developer gets from idea to deployed app.