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Technical Engineering Manager, Chronicle

The Technical Engineering Manager, Chronicle is responsible for the people, delivery, and technical direction of the chronicle engineering team at Hanzo . This is a hands-on management role for a technical leader who can create clarity, develop engineers, manage performance, and help the team deliver secure and reliable enterprise software.

The Technical Engineering Manager will work closely with Product, Technical Delivery and Support, Security, and company leadership to translate business and customer needs into realistic engineering priorities and outcomes.
About Hanzo

Hanzo helps corporate legal and compliance teams understand and manage dynamic web enterprise content. Our software supports their internal teams with SEC/FINRA, PCAOB, FTC and other compliance audits they undergo with defensible preservation, targeted collection, and efficient review of content from social media and complex websites.
The role

You will serve as both the people manager and technical leader for the Chronicle engineering team. You will translate company and product priorities into clear team goals, establish effective ways of working, and remain close enough to the technology to guide decisions and support engineers.

Your primary responsibility is working closely with Product to obtain roadmap priorities, helping them break the epics down to individual tickets and enabling the team to succeed. You will also contribute directly when appropriate by reviewing designs and code, supporting complex technical work, resolving blockers, and helping manage production incidents.

This is not intended to be a full-time manager or individual contributor role. It is a dual-role for a small team. Hands-on technical work should support the team’s effectiveness, while coaching them, keeping them accountable and supporting their career growth.
People leadership responsibilities

- Serve as the direct line manager for assigned engineers and take responsibility for their day-to-day employee experience.

- Establish clear expectations, responsibilities, objectives, and accountability.

- Hold monthly one-to-one meetings and provide timely, specific, and constructive feedback.

- Coach and develop team members through individual growth goals, stretch opportunities, and practical support.

- Set individual objectives and development plans, assess progress, address performance concerns promptly and fairly, and recognize strong contributions.

- Prepare evidence-based performance reviews and lead review conversations.

- Approve time-off requests while balancing employee wellbeing, team coverage, and delivery commitments.

- Support hiring, onboarding, career development,

- Addressing people matters in partnership with HR.

- Monitor workload, engagement, wellbeing, and team dynamics.

- Create an inclusive and respectful environment in which engineers can raise concerns, challenge ideas, learn, and do their best work.

- Lead effectively across different countries, cultures, and time zones in a remote environment.

Delivery and team leadership responsibilities

- Own the team’s delivery commitments and establish realistic plans based on Product’s list of priorities, capacity, dependencies, technical debt, and risk.

- Translate product, customer, architecture, and business priorities into clear engineering outcomes.

- Facilitate planning, prioritization, and execution while maintaining clear ownership within the team.

- Remove blockers and escalate delivery, resource, or technical risks early.

- Monitor progress and communicate status, risks, trade-offs, and changes clearly to Product and leadership..

- Work closely with Product to balance new product development, customer commitments, defects, support bugs, cloud performance and cost, technical debt, and operational improvements.

- Strengthen engineering practices related to estimation, documentation, testing, code review, release management, incident response,