Software Engineering Manager, Editorial Experience

At 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.

The Editorial Experience team is focused on building the tools that help content teams collaborate, refine, and finalize content before it gets published—the critical work that happens between first draft and go-live. Sanity is the most flexible way to edit, organize, and distribute content. In this team, you will work on solutions that unify our editing and collaboration capabilities into a cohesive editorial workflow. Specifically, you will own Canvas (our rich text editing experience), collaboration tools (comments, tasks, approvals, notifications), and editorial workflows that tie it all together. These products form the foundation of what we’re building as an editor-first Content Operating System - giving content teams the superpowers they need to work faster and more effectively.

Based in London, UK, or Oslo, Norway, and able to work at least 2-3 days per week in the office.

Responsibilities

• Lead an engineering team at Sanity by working with the product manager and designer to own strategy, roadmap, and execution, creating an environment where the team can shine.
• Grow a strong and engaged team to meet challenges, including helping engineers organize and prioritize work for the highest impact.
• Support the growth and development of the team and its members.
• Collaborate with the PM and Design partners to create a compelling roadmap and strategy for the team.
• Lead a team that creates market-leading visual editing experiences, leverages practical AI applications, and improves tooling for developers integrating Sanity into front-end frameworks.
• Influence the direction of Sanity and of modern web development and content operations.
• Work closely with the Head of Engineering and leadership in product management and design to facilitate teamwork and scalable processes.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Software Engineering and 1+ years of engineering leadership experience.
• Strong organizational skills and experience with project management and planning.
• Excitement about augmenting work with AI, whether using tools like Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or building custom workflows; views AI as a tool to enhance engineering velocity and creativity.
• Hands-on experience with LLM APIs or AI-powered applications, including building evaluation pipelines and designing metrics for performance testing and evaluation.
• Experience working at a product/SaaS company.
• A curious, creative problem solver who always wants to learn.
• An ability to understand software architecture design considerations and what good software looks like.
• Open-minded and collaborative with designers and other developers.
• Eager to share your thoughts on the web development ecosystem.

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with professional content production workflows.
• Experience building products with complex yet intuitive user experiences.
• Experience working with remote teams.
• Startup experience.

Benefits

• A highly-skilled, inspiring, and supportive team.
• Positive, flexible, and trust-based work environment that encourages long-term professional and personal growth.
• A global, multi-culturally diverse group of colleagues and customers.
• Comprehensive health plans and perks.
• A healthy work-life balance that accommodates individual and family needs.
• Competitive salary and stock options program.

Sanity.io is a modern, flexible content operating system that replaces rigid legacy content management systems. One of our big differentiators is treating content as data so that it can be stored in a single source of truth, but seamlessly adapted and personalized for any channel without extra effort. Forward-thinking companies choose Sanity because they can create tailored content authoring experiences, customized workflows, and content models that reflect their business.

Sanity recently raised a $85m Series C led by GP Bullhound and is backed by leading investors like ICONIQ Growth, Threshold Ventures, Heavybit and Shopify, as well as founders of companies like Vercel, WPEngine, Twitter, Mux, Netlify and Heroku. This funding round has put Sanity in a strong position for accelerated growth in the coming years.

You can only build a great company with a great culture. Sanity is a 200+ person company with highly committed and ambitious people. We are pioneers, we exist for our customers, we are hellved, and we love type two fun!

Sanity.io pledges to be an organization that reflects the globally diverse audience that our product serves. We believe that in addition to hiring the best talent, a diversity of perspectives, ideas, and cultures leads to the creation of better products and services. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or gender identity.