Senior Manager, Engineering

Location: India - Trivandrum

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Own the architecture, scalability, and performance of the Liveboard platform, front-end, service layer, and query integration.

• Lead design reviews, drive engineering best practices, and ensure high-quality, maintainable code.

• Partner closely with Product to define the technical vision for Liveboard interactivity, performance optimizations, caching, personalization, and AI-driven insights.

• Guide the team through complex refactors and migrations (e.g., visualization library updates, Liveboard metadata changes, caching strategies).

• Drive observability, reliability, SLO/SLA definitions, and performance instrumentation for Liveboard usage patterns.

• Collaborate with AI/LLM teams to integrate intelligent insight generation, natural language interactions, and smart recommendations.

Execution & Delivery

• Lead a team of engineers in delivering capabilities across multiple releases with predictable, high-quality execution.

• Break down ambiguous feature requirements into technical plans, milestones, and deliverable workstreams.

• Improve iteration velocity through better tooling, CI/CD, testing automation, and standardization.

• Work closely with SRE to ensure smooth releases, on-call quality, incident analysis, and reliability improvements.
   

People Leadership

• Mentor, coach, and grow engineers; support career development through feedback, performance discussions, and empowerment.

• Create a high-performing engineering culture anchored on ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• Partner with cross-functional leaders (Product, Design, QA, SRE, Customer Success) to align priorities and remove execution blockers.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 2–4 years in a technical leadership/management role.

• Strong front-end engineering expertise: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, performance optimization, visualization frameworks.

• Solid backend/service fundamentals with experience in distributed systems, REST/GraphQL, caching, and performance patterns.

• Deep experience building complex data/analytics products or consumer-grade interactive UIs.

• Ability to lead architecture discussions, make technical decisions, and balance short-term vs. long-term trade-offs.

• Proven track record of mentoring engineers, driving execution, and leading teams through technical complexity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with analytics, BI, or data visualization products.

• Background integrating AI/LLM-based features or building intelligent UX workflows.

• Familiarity with Highcharts, D3, or custom charting libraries.

• Experience driving reliability, monitoring, and performance optimization in large-scale SaaS.

• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced product organization with cross-functional influence.

Hybrid Work at ThoughtSpot:

This office-assigned role is available as a hybrid position. Spotters assigned to an office are encouraged to experience the energy of their local office with an in-office requirement of at least three days per week. This approach balances the benefits of in-person collaboration and peer learning with the flexibility needed by individuals and teams.

Mandatory and Required Skills for All ThoughtSpot Roles

Spotters are expected to demonstrate AI literacy and workflow integration to include to ability to:

• Comfortably and confidently integrate artificial intelligence into their daily workflow to increase productivity and quality.

• Hands-on experience to leverage AI tools (industry-leading LLMs) to increase productivity, automate routine tasks, and improve work quality.

• Speak to the experience of using AI for research, content creation, and document summarization while maintaining ownership of judgment and final decisions.

• Write effective prompts to get the most accurate and creative results from AI tools.

Spotters are expected to exemplify these key traits and AI Mindset:

• Curiosity in exploring new AI tools

• Adaptability to quickly learn and implement new, emerging AI technologies

• Critical thinking to know when to identify when AI should be used versus when human judgement is necessary

This combination of curiosity, adaptability, and discernment defines the AI mindset, and it’s required for every role at ThoughtSpot.

AI Mindset for All Spotters

At ThoughtSpot, we believe AI is a necessary and essential part of how we work. Every role, across every team, is expected to be fluent and comfortable with using AI to do their best work.

All Spotters are expected to experiment with ThoughtSpot’s AI tools (like Spotter and SpotterViz) and leading industry LLMs to streamline workflows, enhance output, and uncover new insights. Whether drafting content, analyzing data, or summarizing documents, AI is a daily partner. We value curiosity, openness to learning, and thoughtful application of AI to create real value. Training and resources are provided so every Spotter can confidently create with AI.

Hybrid Work at ThoughtSpot

Spotters assigned to an office are encouraged to experience the energy of their local office with an in-office expectation of 2-3 days per week. This approach balances the benefits of in-person collaboration and peer learning with the flexibility needed by individuals and teams.

ThoughtSpot for All

At ThoughtSpot, diverse teams build better products. Complex data problems need many perspectives, not just one. We welcome different backgrounds, identities, and experiences, and we work to create a place where everyone can be themselves and do their best work. If this role excites you and you believe you’re a strong match, we encourage you to apply.

What Makes ThoughtSpot a Great Place to Work?

ThoughtSpot is the Agentic Analytics Platform that empowers every enterprise to transform insights into action, on a mission to make the world more fact driven. We hire people with unique identities, backgrounds, and perspectives - this balance-for-the-better philosophy is key to our success. When paired with our culture of Trust, Customer Obsession, Innovation and Intensity, ThoughtSpot cultivates a respectful culture that pushes norms to create world-class products. If you’re excited by the opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in the business and make your mark on a truly innovative company, we invite you to read more about our mission, and apply to the role that’s right for you.

About ThoughtSpot

The world’s most innovative companies turn to ThoughtSpot’s AI-Powered Analytics to put data in the hands of everyone, from the C-suite to the frontline. With simple, natural language search and AI, anyone can ask questions, discover insights, and act with confidence. Unlike legacy tools that sacrifice performance for complexity, ThoughtSpot is intuitively designed for every business user while being built to handle the most complex, large-scale data, wherever it resides. This unique combination of speed and simplicity is why enterprise leaders trust ThoughtSpot to transform decision-making into a truly data-driven culture.

At ThoughtSpot, we’re a curious, data-driven bunch. We believe the world works better when everyone has access to facts. That’s why we build products that make asking and answering data questions as natural as having a conversation.