Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Campaign Creation Experience)

Want to help us help others? We’re hiring! GoFundMe is the world’s most powerful community for good, dedicated to helping people help each other. By uniting individuals and nonprofits in one place, GoFundMe makes it easy and safe for people to ask for help and support causes—for themselves and each other. Together, our community has raised more than $40 billion since 2010. Join us! The GoFundMe team is searching for our next Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead the team behind GoFundMe Pro's campaign-creation experience. The Create squad exists to make powerful fundraising accessible to every nonprofit, so organizations can express their mission freely while the platform handles the complexity of turning that intent into optimized, launch-ready campaigns. You'll lead the engineers who build Studio, our campaign builder, along with creation tools, templates, brand kits, guided workflows, AI-assisted content, and the preview-to-publish flow. This is a hands-on leadership role that blends people leadership, product-minded engineering, and a data-driven, experiment-first culture. This squad is recognized across GoFundMe as the trailblazer for AI-accelerated development, setting the best practices other teams follow. Candidates considered for this role will be located in the San Francisco Bay Area. There will be an in-office requirement of 3x a week. The Job Lead, coach, and grow the Create squad (~8 engineers across frontend, fullstack, and backend), acting as a servant-leader who removes blockers, fills gaps, and fosters a high-performing, inclusive culture. Own engineering delivery for the campaign-creation experience: the Studio builder framework, creation tools, optimized templates, brand kits, guided workflows, AI-assisted text and content, and the preview → save → publish flow. Operate in a tight triad with Product and Design, engaging early on problem framing, scope, and tradeoffs, and anchoring every initiative on a clear outcome and success metric before building begins. Champion an outcomes-over-output, bias-to-action culture: ship the smallest version that delivers real customer value, favoring rapid PoCs and iterative delivery over large up-front bets. Operate as a player-coach by participating in architecture and design reviews, technical decisions, code review, and incident response, and contributing hands-on where it adds the most leverage. Raise the bar on quality for a complex, interactive builder (performance, accessibility, reliability, and maintainability on a customer-facing revenue surface). Move the metrics that matter - Studio adoption, campaign-creation rate, time-to-publish, and conversion through experimentation and A/B testing. Partner cross-functionally with Product Marketing, Care/Support, Data, and adjacent squads on dependencies, GTM, and a seamless end-to-end experience. Recruit, hire, onboard, and develop engineers across a distributed team through regular 1:1s, actionable feedback, career development, and ...