Mission

At the end of the day, the manager achieves goals through the work of others.

It's someone who gains energy by seeing others succeed. She/He's making its reports happy :). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk5XC6ZMsf8&t=180s

Why does this role exist

Managerial support/duties.

Responsibilities

• People
  • Hiring
    • Attract and hire great people.
    • Participate in the initial review of candidates - ‣.
  • Unleashing potential. Help the engineers grow their skills and experience.
    • Give regular and clear feedback on the individual's performance.
    • Hold regular 1:1s with all members of their team to support them.
    • Give the opportunity to each member to do their best.
  • A great work environment.
    • Ensure a sense of psychological safety on your team.
    • Make sure the team has the materials and equipment needed to do the work right.
    • Care about the people in your team as humans.
  • Act as a servant leader.
    • Ensure all your team's options are heard and taken into account.
• Processes

  • Reduces admin burden

    

    Source

  • Focuses on continuously delivering value to the customer

  • Experiments with the development process

  • Trusts the team but plays tiebreakers when necessary.

  • Improve adoption of the processes

• Technical - achieving goal
  • Support the IC team in achieving a high level of IC excellence and product quality.
  • Help drive the roadmap and priorities for your team.
  • Dive deep into technical problems to find solutions if necessary.

Team responsibilities

Product - High-level team responsibilities

Key performance indicator

TODO

• Hiring Actual vs. Plan
• Team member retention
• Diversity: seniority, gender, location, etc.
• The position in the manager track Ladders per department

Sizing

• https://ravio.com/blog/effective-management-structures-how-to-know-if-your-company-is-too-top-heavy argues for 1 manager every 5 ICs.
• Stripe: 6-8 reports but no more than 8 reports per manager https://review.firstround.com/how-to-size-and-assess-teams-from-an-eng-lead-at-stripe-uber-and-digg

Benchmarks

• https://about.gitlab.com/job-families/engineering/development/frontend/manager/
• [https://review.firstround.com/hiring-a-vp-of-engineering-use-this-framework-from-shopify's-vpe-to-get-it-right](https://review.firstround.com/hiring-a-vp-of-engineering-use-this-framework-from-shopify's-vpe-to-get-it-right)
• Project Aristotle https://rework.withgoogle.com/print/guides/5721312655835136/