Engineering Manager, Product

Hiive is redefining how private companies and their shareholders access liquidity. Through its institutional-grade platform, Hiive brings together buyers, sellers, and issuers to facilitate secondary transactions in venture-backed, pre-IPO companies, introducing efficiency, transparency, and standardization to an otherwise opaque asset class.

Recognized as one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies and backed by leading U.S. investors, Hiive is profitable, well-capitalized, and building a high-performance team to meet growing demand and pursue new market opportunities.

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As an Engineering Manager, Product at Hiive, you will directly manage two product engineering teams — including the Engineering Leads and IC engineers on each. Each team runs as a triad of a PM, a Designer, and an Engineering Lead; you won't replace that structure, but you'll own the people leadership, delivery oversight, and prioritization support that today sits with the Director. This is a player-coach role: out of the critical path on roadmap, but close enough to the work to give real technical feedback and occasionally get hands-on yourself.

In this role, your responsibilities would include

• Owning people leadership for two engineering teams. Managing both Engineering Leads and IC engineers, including 1:1s, performance reviews, and helping each person take on more scope and grow their career.
• Acting as a technical leader across both teams–shaping architecture and technical direction alongside the Engineering Lead and bringing scrutiny to significant technical decisions, while the Lead retains day-to-day technical ownership, mentorship, and accountability.
• Partnering with the Director to lead and develop the broader group of Engineering Leads in the group–and, as the team grows, with a peer group of fellow Engineering Managers.
• Driving prioritization discipline alongside each team's triad, championing ruthless scoping and incremental delivery of business value.
• Continuously assessing team effectiveness–delivery, health, and growth trajectory–and translating that read into action.
• Championing the health, stability, and operational rigor of the platform across both teams, including participation in the management on-call rotation.
• Building and scaling the team through hiring as engineering grows.
• Championing AI-native engineering practices–staying personally fluent with AI coding tools and driving their adoption across the team.

Required skills

• Extensive software engineering experience, with enough depth to genuinely evaluate your teams’ technical decisions. (This typically looks like 8+ years of hands-on experience, though we care more about demonstrated depth than a specific number.)
• A proven track record managing engineers of different levels (including Staff) and different working styles. (This typically looks like 3+ years in a formal management role.)
• Strong IC experience building software at scale, preferably with Elixir, Ruby, or Typescript.
• Effective communication across both technical and business stakeholders.
• Strong track record as an engineer or manager during a period of rapid growth.
• Genuinely proficient with AI-assisted coding tools, with recent hands-on experience.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment where you define the process, not just follow it.

Preferred skills

• Experience in fintech, marketplace platforms, or other regulated software environments.
• Experience driving AI adoption as a team-wide process change, not just personal tool use

Compensation, Benefits & Perks

• Highly competitive salary commensurate with experience and contribution.
• Opportunity to participate in ownership of a rapidly growing company through our employee stock option plan.
• Comprehensive 100% employer-paid health & dental premiums and a Health/Personal Spending Account for Canadian employees. (An employer-subsidized benefits program is available for US-based team members).
• If you are based in Vancouver, enjoy a dedicated desk in our Vancouver, BC HQ, in the heart of downtown, with a fridge stocked with healthy snacks and drinks, an onsite gym, and a gorgeous rooftop amenity.
• Enjoy a $20-per-day commuter benefit for every day you work in our Vancouver HQ.
• An engaging social calendar, including bi-weekly catered lunches, bi-weekly “Friday bar,” team workouts, annual summer party, and holiday party, two “onsite” all-team retreats each year, semi-annual team-building events, and Hiive Women’s Network events.
• Significant opportunities for growth into team leadership and management roles.
• Entrepreneurial culture and a small and dynamic team.
• Sponsorship, immigration, and relocation for exceptional candidates.

Hiive is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed.