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Sanity.io is building an AI-powered Content Operations platform used by companies like SKIMS, Figma, Riot Games, and Anthropic. We're seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and grow the SDK team, responsible for building and maintaining the App SDK—a framework of typed React hooks that enables developers to build real-time content applications on Sanity.
The App SDK is the primary way developers extend Sanity beyond the Studio. Your team owns core primitives (useDocuments, useDocument, useEditDocument) and underlying tooling including Groq.js, Typegen, CLI, and HTTP client, plus authentication, permissions, and real-time sync. The project is open-source (MIT-licensed) and developed publicly on GitHub.
In this player-coach role, you'll lead strategy, roadmap, and execution alongside product and design partners. You'll spend most time on people, priorities, and delivery while staying close enough to code to review PRs, unblock hard problems, and guide API design. You'll also shape the culture of the broader Engineering organization.
Key responsibilities include: leading and growing a team of engineers; owning strategy and roadmap in collaboration with product/design; setting technical direction for a large-scale TypeScript codebase; designing minimal, beautiful APIs for developers; staying hands-on through technical reviews and code contribution; running an effective open-source project; championing developer experience (type generation, hot reload, one-command deploy); measuring adoption metrics; and collaborating across engineering, product, design, DevRel, and partnerships.
You bring 3+ years of engineering leadership experience plus 5+ years as a software engineer. Deep expertise in TypeScript and React (state management, hooks, bundling, browser concepts) is essential. You've built libraries, SDKs, or developer tools that other engineers depend on and understand the difference between shipping applications versus toolkits. Experience at product/SaaS companies, working closely with PMs and designers, and communicating technical designs clearly is required. You're pragmatic, empathetic toward developers, and comfortable with remote/distributed teams.
Ideal candidates have maintained meaningful open-source projects, experience with API/SDK design at developer platforms, perspectives on AI-assisted development, automated browser testing and Node.js experience, or startup background.
