# Senior Engineering Manager (Ranking & Relevance) at Headway

- Company: Headway
- What the company does: Backed by Accel, a16z and GV.
- Company website: https://headway.co/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $265K to $332K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-08
- Apply by: 2026-10-23
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/headway/8bc00fec-bfc7-47ff-bef4-2d71776a56cb
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/headway-senior-engineering-manager-ranking-and-relevance/

## About the role

We are hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Ranking & Relevance. You will lead eight engineers today - a mix of senior software and machine-learning engineers. You will partner daily with a staff product manager, two data scientists, and the payer and provider engineering organizations whose outcomes depend on your ranker.

## What they're looking for

- You have led software and ML engineers together, and you can tell which of a model's problems is a data problem
- You have owned a conversion or relevance metric end to end and can explain how you knew a win was real
- You treat reliability and instrumentation as leadership work, not platform overhead
- You want to manage. Hiring well, coaching engineers and holding a bar are the job, not the tax on the job
- You can hold a hard tradeoff with a peer organization without either capitulating or stonewalling
- You have a point of view on how AI changes the way engineering teams work, not only what they ship

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