Technical Engagement Lead - Manager | Growth and Transformation

Location: Charlotte, NC; New York, NY

Department: Growth & Transformation

This role is not open to visa sponsorship or transfer of visa sponsorship including those on H1-B, F-1, OPT, STEM-OPT, or TN visa, nor is it available to work corp-to-corp.

This role requires a hybrid schedule and will be based in our South Charlotte, NC or New York, NY office (Tuesday through Thursday) and optional remote days on Mondays and Fridays each week.

Red Ventures Growth and Transformation partners with financial institutions to build digital products, customer platforms, and marketing technology solutions that drive acquisition, deepening, and retention. 

As a Technical Engagement Lead - Manager, you will serve as the hands-on technical leader for client engagements, guiding architecture, delivery, and engineering execution while managing a team of engineers. You will stay close to the code, partner with client technology stakeholders, and translate business priorities into scalable, secure, production-ready solutions in regulated environments. This role blends engineering leadership, solution architecture, and delivery ownership, requiring someone who can move fluidly between technical design, client communication, and day-to-day execution. 

Travel to partner locations is an expected component of this role to support relationship management and business objectives.

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What You'll Do:

• Manage and develop a team of 3-6 engineers, providing day-to-day technical leadership, coaching, and performance feedback on a client engagement. 
• Lead technical discovery, solution design, and architecture decisions from kickoff through launch and optimization. 
• Own technical execution for the engagement — staying close to the code through PR reviews, implementation guidance, and deployment oversight while setting engineering standards, code quality gates, and production support practices. 
• Translate business goals and product requirements into technical plans with clear scope, estimates, milestones, dependencies, and tradeoffs. 
• Partner with project or program leadership to manage staffing plans, delivery risk, timelines, and technical forecasting, maintaining a predictable delivery cadence. 
• Serve as the primary technical counterpart to client engineering, architecture, security, and platform stakeholders. 
• Guide integrations across internal and client systems, including APIs, shared services, third-party platforms, customer data flows, and enterprise tooling. 
• Ensure solutions meet security, privacy, compliance, and governance requirements appropriate for regulated financial-services environments. 
• Present architecture decisions, progress, risks, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior client audiences. 
• Identify technical debt, platform risk, and reliability gaps, and advocate for the right balance between feature velocity and long-term platform health. 

What We're Looking For:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years managing or tech-leading engineering teams in client-facing or cross-functional delivery environments. 
• Demonstrated hands-on experience building and delivering modern web applications and services using technologies such as React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, or similar frameworks. 
• Experience with martech and customer platforms such as CMS, CRM, CDP, analytics, experimentation, personalization, and tag management systems. 
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms and modern engineering practices, including CI/CD, observability, automated testing, and infrastructure-aware application design. 
• Experience designing and delivering integrations across APIs, third-party platforms, customer data systems, and enterprise applications. 
• Track record of scoping and estimating technical work from business requirements. 
• Clear client-facing communication skills, with the ability to explain tradeoffs, risks, and technical decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. 
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments with cross-functional partners across product, program management, data, design, and business teams. 
• Experience operating in environments with strong security, privacy, compliance, or governance requirements; financial-services or other regulated-industry experience preferred. 
• Strong judgment in balancing speed, scalability, maintainability, and delivery risk. 
• Personal commitment to being a reliable, collaborative, and high-trust teammate and manager. 

Even Better:

• Experience in consulting, agency, or embedded delivery models serving financial-services clients. 
• Familiarity with customer data, identity, consent, privacy, and secure data-handling patterns in regulated environments. 
• Familiarity with data pipelines, warehouse technologies, ETL workflows, or event-driven architectures. 
• Experience contributing to statements of work, technical solutioning, estimation, or pre-sales support for follow-on phases of work. 
• Contributions to developer tooling, internal platforms, or engineering process improvements. 
• Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering workflows or practical applications of generative AI in delivery, automation, or personalization. 

Compensation: 

This range reflects total cash compensation, which may include base salary only or base salary plus target bonus, depending on the role. Where eligible, equity may also be offered separately and not included below. Actual compensation varies based on location, experience, and qualifications.

• Total Cash Compensation Range
  • Charlotte, NC Hybrid Compensation Range: $130,000 - $210,000 per year 
  • New York, NY Hybrid Compensation Range: $162,500- $262,500 per year  

Additionally, the following benefits are provided by Red Ventures, subject to eligibility requirements.

• Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
• Life Insurance
• Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off
• Holiday Pay
• 401(k) with match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): We believe time to rest and recharge is essential.  That’s why we offer a generous and flexible PTO policy.  Full-time employees accrue 20 days of PTO for a full calendar year annually, with an increase to 25 days after five years of service.

Who We Are:

Red Ventures is a global portfolio of high-growth companies — spanning several U.S. businesses, a joint venture in the health services industry, and strategic investments in Europe and Puerto Rico. Their businesses include The Points Guy, Lonely Planet, Bankrate, the Allconnect Platform, RV Home Client Growth, RV Growth & Transformation, Sage Home Loans Corporation, RV Education and more. Across the portfolio, Red Ventures businesses deliver seamless digital experiences for consumers, help Fortune 100 clients solve large-scale digital growth challenges, and create world-class experiences and opportunities for employees. Learn more at redventures.com and follow @RedVentures on LinkedIn and Instagram.

At Red Ventures, we believe diverse, inclusive teams are better. To help you better understand our core values and beliefs, we encourage you to watch this brief YouTube video: Our Belief Statements. This will give you insight into the principles that guide our work and our commitment to fostering an inclusive environment.

 We offer competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits program for full-time employees, including medical, dental and vision coverage, paid time off, life insurance, disability coverage, employee assistance program, 401(k) plan and a paid parental leave program.

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