Sr. Engineering Manager - Consumer Software North America

General Information

Job Name

Sr. Engineering Manager - Consumer Software North America

Country/Region

United States of America

State

California

City

Milpitas

Work Location

Milpitas Office

Work Mode

Employees work in a hybrid mode

Salary Range

$179,700.00 - $305,500.00

Exemption Status

Exempt

Business Function

Software Engineering

Employment Type

Full-time

Sandisk understands how people and businesses consume data and we relentlessly innovate to deliver solutions that enable today’s needs and tomorrow’s next big ideas. With a rich history of groundbreaking innovations in Flash and advanced memory technologies, our solutions have become the beating heart of the digital world we’re living in and that we have the power to shape.

Sandisk meets people and businesses at the intersection of their aspirations and the moment, enabling them to keep moving and pushing possibility forward. We do this through the balance of our powerhouse manufacturing capabilities and our industry-leading portfolio of products that are recognized globally for innovation, performance and quality.

Sandisk has two facilities recognized by the World Economic Forum as part of the Global Lighthouse Network for advanced 4IR innovations. These facilities were also recognized as Sustainability Lighthouses for breakthroughs in efficient operations. With our global reach, we ensure the global supply chain has access to the Flash memory it needs to keep our world moving forward.

Description

Overview

Sandisk builds the storage that creators, gamers, and everyday people rely on, and our software is what turns that hardware into something better than a commodity drive. You will lead the North American engineering team behind the Sandisk App on desktop and mobile: a group of senior and staff engineers split across two areas, Architecture and AI Enablement & Cloud, distributed across the US and Mexico.

Two things define the first year. The first is foundational: our apps need a real core and system layer, a shared foundation on desktop and mobile that every future feature is built on top of rather than around. You will define it, staff it, build parts of it yourself, and get feature teams to adopt it. The second is about how the work gets done: we believe engineering output is no longer limited by how fast people can write code, and we intend to operate that way. You will own making AI a productive, measured, everyday part of how this organization ships.

This is a player-coach role. You will manage a small team of very senior engineers, which means your credibility comes from technical judgment and the ability to make hard calls with them, not from process. You will also hire for several open positions.

This job suits someone who takes genuine ownership: who decides rather than escalates, who creates urgency where it is missing, and who brings order and rhythm to a fast-moving environment without slowing it down. The scope here grows with the person in it.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the North American consumer software engineering team as a hands-on first-line manager: hire, develop, and hold a high bar for a group of senior, staff, and senior staff engineers across Architecture and AI Enablement & Cloud.
• Own the core and system layer for the Sandisk App on desktop and mobile, the shared foundation beneath features: data and sync, device communication, background work, storage and state, error handling, update and release plumbing. Define it, sequence it, contribute to it directly, and drive adoption by the feature teams.
• Drive productive AI adoption across the software organization. Own the tooling, patterns, enablement, and measurement that make AI a normal part of how engineers, and their partners in product, design, and QA, do their work, and be honest about where it does not yet help.
• Run the cloud services (PAAS) that back the app and the on-device and cloud AI work for Smart Storage, Edge AI, and Wireless, in partnership with the engineers who own them today.
• Hire. Fill the open positions on the team with people who had other options, set the technical bar in the loop, and build a bench that does not depend on any one person.
• Own delivery for your team: predictability, engineering health, quality, and the stability and security of the system layer in consumers' hands.
• Make decisions and own outcomes in your areas of responsibility. Set priorities, resolve trade-offs with incomplete information, and be accountable for the result.
• Establish the operating rhythm for the team: planning cadence, technical decision-making, design review, escalation paths, and the reporting that keeps leadership informed without ceremony.
• Partner across organizational and geographic lines: with the India-based engineering and QA organization, with product and design, with program management, and with firmware and hardware teams, to ship integrated products on a shared roadmap.
• Develop the people on your team: career growth, technical depth, and a culture people want to stay in.

Qualifications

Required:

• 10+ years building and shipping software, including 5+ years managing software engineers directly, with senior and staff-level engineers among your reports.
• Still technical. You read and review code every week, you can prototype and ship a component yourself when the team needs it, and you can hold your own in a design review and tell a good architectural argument from a confident one.
• Track record shipping consumer-facing applications on mobile and/or desktop at meaningful scale, with real instincts for quality, performance, and consumer experience.
• Demonstrated ownership of a shared platform, core layer, or internal framework that other teams built on, including the harder half, which is getting feature teams to adopt it instead of routing around it.
• Proven ability to hire and retain senior and staff-level engineers in a competitive market. You have personally sourced, interviewed, and closed people who had other options.
• A record of bringing order to fast-moving environments: installing cadence, prioritization, and decision hygiene without introducing bureaucracy.
• Working fluency with AI-assisted software development, and a substantiated point of view on how it changes team throughput and where it does not.
• Experience leading a distributed team across time zones and working day to day with an engineering organization in another region as a peer rather than a vendor.
• Clear written and verbal communication, and credibility with senior leadership and cross-functional peers.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred:

• Hardware-adjacent software experience: device or controller communication, firmware update distribution, embedded or systems-level work, storage or peripheral integration. You do not need to have written firmware, but you should be comfortable owning the software that talks to hardware.
• Native desktop development on macOS and Windows, and cross-platform mobile with Flutter or similar.
• Cloud services experience: owning or operating backend services that a consumer app depends on.
• Experience running a developer productivity, tooling, or platform-adoption program for an engineering organization.
• Experience in both startup and large-company environments, and the judgment to know which corporate process to adopt and which to work around.
• Consumer electronics, storage, or another hardware-led business where software is the differentiator.

Compensation & Benefits

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.
• You will be eligible to participate in Sandisk's Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance. Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Sandisk's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program, employee stock purchase plan, and the Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Additional Information

Sandisk is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12.pdf) poster.

Sandisk thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

Sandisk is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at jobs.accommodations@sandisk.com to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.