Engineering Manager

Teachable is trusted by creator-educators around the world to grow their impact and income. From online courses and communities to memberships and downloads, Teachable's digital learning products help creator-educators drive meaningful connection and sustainable revenue. With industry-best ecommerce tools, easily toggled on directly within the platform, creators can confidently maximize their earnings, while getting paid directly by their audience. Teachable's unmatched focus on the student learning experience also ensures creators can make a positive and influential impact on their communities—entirely on their own terms. Today, tens of thousands of creator-educators use Teachable to share their knowledge, reaching millions of students around the world. To learn more, visit

Are you ready to join a dynamic, cross-cultural team at an exciting turning point in our company's journey? Now part of the global Hotmart Company portfolio, whose platforms have helped creators earn more than $10 billion, Teachable continues to take the creator economy by storm as a true industry leader. Together, Teachable and Hotmart are delivering market-leading products that prioritize creator control and flexibility, alongside meaningful partnership and support from our team. If you have big ideas, relish the chance to challenge convention, and deeply believe in the power of creators to shape the future, we want you on our team

The Growth team at Teachable is responsible for helping customers discover, adopt, and succeed with our platform. We focus on optimizing the early customer journey, driving subscription conversion, and building features that unlock revenue growth for both Teachable and the businesses we serve. The team brings together a dedicated product manager, a product designer, and a group of engineers who work closely to deliver measurable business outcomes.

What is the role?

We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and grow the engineers within our Growth team. This individual will balance people management, delivery leadership, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure our team delivers high-impact projects that support Teachable's business goals.

This role reports to the Director of Engineering.

This is a hybrid role based in São Paulo, with in-office presence expected 1-2 days per week.

This role requires fluency in English as you will be working with U.S. and Brazil based teams.

This is a CLT contract paid in BRL.

In this role, you'll:

• Manage, coach, and mentor 4-8 software engineers, providing performance feedback, and helping them develop their careers.
• Establish and improve department processes in all areas including software development, operational efficiency, and delivery to achieve operational excellence.
• Partner with Engineering leadership to help determine Engineering department strategy, tackle team-wide inefficiencies, and promote a culture of continuous improvement.
• Drive management initiatives across the Engineering department and Technology organization, e.g hiring, career development, policies, budgets, etc.
• Engage in sponsorship of Engineering-wide guilds, projects, and activities
• Collaborate and communicate with other pods and functions (Product Management, Product Design, Marketing) on cross-team and cross-functional initiatives.
• Lead successful development and delivery of pod projects and operations.
• Partner with engineering leadership to help determine Engineering-wide department strategy, tackle department-wide inefficiencies.
• Upholds Teachable values, including building and growing as part of a diverse team.

What You'll Bring:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with 1-2+ years of combined tech leadership or people management.
• Fluency in English
• Proficient at project management; has a track record of making tradeoffs to deliver projects on time, with a high degree quality, and with a focus on achieving business goals.
• Experience leading technical initiatives with impact across multiple teams or domains.
• Thrives in ambiguity and can make forward progress in situations when given minimal guidance.
• The relentless drive for continuous improvement and ownership with proven ability to instill in their teams.
• Experience mentoring individual contributors of different seniority levels and specializations.
• Has effectively recruited, hired, and led diverse engineering teams.

Nice to Have:

• Prior experience working in SaaS or growth-oriented product teams.
• Experience with subscription commerce, payments, or billing systems.
• Demonstrated success recruiting and building diverse, high-performing engineering teams.
• Experience working in a remote-first environment with distributed teams.

While Teachable maintains our NY office for local employees to use, we operate as a remote-first culture in order to give our employees added flexibility. In order to maintain connection and create a community beyond the screen, Teachable holds in-person events throughout the year, where employees and teams can come together for bonding, strategic alignment, goal-setting, and celebrations

Teachable encourages individuals from a broad diversity of backgrounds to apply for positions. We are an equal opportunity employer, meaning we're committed to a fair and consistent interview process. Please tell us in your application if you require an accommodation to apply for a job or to perform your job.